reminder that this funds a raging bigot who is actively contributing to the deaths of trans people, and a cumulatively horrific sociopolitical atmosphere for gender non-conforming people in her home country and if you aren't from the UK, trust me when I say this is not an exaggeration

1/7 Why I think things have got MUCH worse for Russia in the last week or so... A short thread. Many are pointing at the rise in the price of oil, and saying that things are getting better for Russia. I disagree strongly.

Never underestimate the insanity of Peter Thiel. Mad as a bucket of glittering ballsacks. Thinks ppl who lobby for tech regulation are "harbingers of the antichrist", an antichrist is enroute, that *he's* been sent by God to save us. Now he's out here challenging the Pope 😆

1/5 The Russian Paradox: Most people both underestimate and overestimate Russia. The country is weaker and has far less potential than before the full-scale war began, yet it has become a far greater threat to Europe

Please just storm the White House already.

Fuck this disgusting ‘sport’ and fuck anyone who watches and supports it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Water is the new oil. Nations will soon be going to war for it. Underground aquifers that took millions of years to fill are running dry. It takes 50,000 litres of water to produce one kilo of beef.” - Philip Wollen Given that humans are morally bankrupt, odds are they won’t take action in time.

If Palestinians had set fire to a synagogue in Israel you can bet news channels here in the UK would cover the story. But a mosque in the occupied West Bank set on fire by Israeli settlers? Nah.

Starmerphiles are odd. Not unpleasant. Odd. They list Labour policies that almost any plausible Labour leader would have delivered & present them as proof that Starmer must remain. At the same time, they excuse a string of daft decisions that most alternative leaders would never have made. 1/

These are the people who decide for governments whose door gets kicked down and which children get dragged off to camps.

A bit of joy in a sea of cack.

Trans rights are human rights. Thank you, Wembley. 🏳️‍⚧️

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

I generally assume that political parties know what their constituencies think better than the rest of us do: they spend so much money on polling and focus groups. But I would be *amazed* if they understood how viscerally they are loathed by young progressives for pushing trans people under a bus.

“Trans Mission is about joy and positivity – it’s an opportunity to send a bold and loud message that we stand with the trans community, we are stronger together and we won’t be silenced.” – @ollyalexander.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4rjs3u5

AN IDIOT'S GUIDE TO BRITAIN'S MIDDLE EAST POLICY🧵 Q: Why does Britain support authoritarian regimes in the Middle East? A: Stability. 1/22

I've been fortunate enough to meet many formidably smart, fully committed, & thoroughly decent people who, for years, have strived to try to avert dangerous climate change. They failed. Saying that does not lessen my gratitude to them, 1/11 www.technosphere.earth/yes-we-can-n...

A reminder. Israel currently stands accused of a genocide in Gaza, an illegal war in Iran, mass displacement in Lebanon and attacking Syrian sovereignty. Is this designed to be the new norm? Shifting focus away from Gaza into more widespread chaos and instability?

They fund it in Gaza. They're doing it to Venezuelan fisherman. They're doing it in Iran. They're doing it in the streets and in concentration camps to immigrants in the US. They've done it to US citizen protestors on the streets in Minnesota. There are no limits to what they are capable of.

If Muslims do this we call them radical terrorists and drop bombs on them. ...

If you use generative AI willingly, if you engage in cryptocurrencies willingly, if you need ChatGPT to type out your emails and live your simulation of an actual life then you have compromised your soul unblinkingly and are someone who simply chooses to feed the beast for your own convenience.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

In a country that babbles to the almighty before meals and games of NFL, this seems par for the course.

So according to Starmer the attack on Iran is illegal but the genocide of Palestine is absolutely fine. It beggars belief. Our taxes are paying for these f’ing loonies to play war for political purpose while they do nothing about the climate emergency except exacerbate it! It’s so massively f’d up.

This is nothing. Just send Mahmood out again to announce some more anti-refugee policies and you can easily find your way to fifth place.

Not a single US newspaper will publish this photo. No news channel will broadcast it. The graves are being prepared for more than 80 young children killed in the US/Israeli strike on the school in Minab, Iran on Saturday. (📸 Middle East Observer)

1/11 Trump’s operation in Iran is not just reshaping the Middle East. It is dramatically altering the geopolitical calculus for Ukraine. For Kyiv, this new conflict is a massive double-edged sword. Here is a breakdown of the very real upsides and downsides 🧵

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license. They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

ZELENSKY: “I hope to come here with Trump one day, so he can see what this war is really about… Putin is this war — the cause of its beginning and the obstacle to its end.” Powerful message to the resilient 🇺🇦 people from their president. Full: x.com/zelenskyyua/...

It is four years ago today that the Russians launched their full scale invasion of Ukraine. Many in the west wrote Ukraine off and prophesied a “shock and awe” Russian victory. Instead Ukraine defied its attacker and their fight for freedom became decisive for the future of European freedom.

4 years ago, Russia launched the largest land war in Europe since 1945 It was supposed to last 72 hours. Ukraine had other plans Four years of buried soldiers, dark winters, and cities turned to rubble — and Ukraine is still here, still holding the line that matters for all of us. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

1/6🧵 Excerpts from OBrien's weekly👇 We need to keep repeating the truth, people, in order for the narrative to change in the legacy media; #Trump regime is trying to force #Ukraine into a bad deal, on behalf of #Russia.

Better get dick.

He brought me unbridled joy as a wee lad. I shall look forward to this.

We have found our spine for at least a day.

I mean that was one hell of a TV show.

Only once people admit that the entire Ukraine-Russia negotiations process being orchestrated by the USA/Trump is first and last a sham designed to help Putin as much as possible (and provide massive payoffs to the administration), will people be able to discuss it honestly.

Exactly.

Any establishment found to be not serving fish and or chips in real newspaper will henceforth be declared enemies of the crown.

Service to us all would have included making Andrew go to trial rather than settling out of court.

Humans, your media are wilfully hiding a grubby little climate secret i.e. the extent to which greenhouse gas emissions are caused by meat & dairy🐮🐷🐏🐔🌎🥵 And at the same time their 'Food' sections continue to promote meat & dairy ingredients. #plantbased #vegan www.theguardian.com/environment/...

sales of tofu and other plant-based protein are up 12 per cent in the last year, says Tesco www.tescoplc.com/plant-based-...

Way too few know about this

The number of people who think this is "sensible" politics and don't understand why it's a massive uncrossable red line for millions of Labour's supposed core constituency continues to blow my mind. All the minor percentage shifts in NHS waiting lists will never make up for this nativist cruelty.

We are fooked.

Too few know about this