Forgot about this app again lmao

Answering questions from Police Federation members, the Home Secretary rejected claims that police forces are “institutionally racist”. That's what Braverman means by a "“campaign against political correctness” - the same as always, cover for state racism www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

putting together the bibliography for PART ONE of For Land lmao this ain't even all of it (articles goes on for a few more pages)

So, I just did some reading on this and, yeah, looks like alluvial gold mining gangs in the Amazon used fucking jetpacks and dressed up as aliens to attack indigenous people this year.

this came to me in a dream and idk what to do with the idea so you all have to suffer with me

Deforestation in the Amazon is threatening South American monsoon patterns. If this study is correct, we are on the verge of a *rapid* decline in rainfall, of up to 30% present rates. This is the rainforest's death knell.

This is the whole point of AI. It’s not to actually replace humans. It’s to change your title from “head writer” to “assistant AI technician,” not credit you, and pay you half of what you were paid before

The Tory Party conference this year has been a circus of absurdity and reaction on a scale eclipsing any of their prior efforts. They have nothing but PR massaged violence to offer. An opposition in waiting, preparing to consolidate the far-right around it for the long haul.

This is chilling.

Economic terrorism.

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As we said last year: "Capitalism is not only destroying its own capacity to create food... It is ending the environmental conditions which have allowed for agricultural production per se." The food crisis is just starting.

Refugee campaigner Tony Pierre is demanding an explanation from the Home Office and Northumbria Police after immigration enforcement officers raided his home without a warrant www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...

To be clear: this is the first time since February 2022 that British troops will be deployed in Ukraine *openly*. That is a major escalation, verging on catastrophic. Whether or not the troops are there for training (doubt), the potential for open direct conflict is huge.

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Let’s be real the lack of solidarity with disabled people across the British left is fucking appalling. Even the bare basics are lacking. We’re still being told things like: “sorry we haven’t got the budget for it”. (I don't think it's just a British thing but it is very bad here)

The second volume of Capital is absolutely fucking insufferable to try and translate into supplementary study aids and pedagogic materials.

Canada research chair of water resources and climate change: “The low streamflows in rivers across Alberta this year are unprecedented. In Calgary, he said the Bow River is at about half its normal level.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It feels futile to say that to not be beaten by the culture war shit, the left needs to stop biting at this point. Focus on signifiers and individuals above conditions, policy and class throughout the online left seems pretty ubiquitous, to the point of compulsivity.

The UK 📉

The neoliberal climate consensus, insufficient and tentative as it was, has collapsed.

Presenting a reluctance to accept the importance of accountability for using lethal force as some kind of wellbeing issue is a new low for Rowley. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023...

oh boy, full fash from Braverman "She said multiculturalism “has failed because it allowed people to come to our society and live parallel lives in it", and even "pursue lives aimed at undermining the stability and threatening the security of our society"."

Getting my head around the extent of plastic pollution has been fucking terrifying. It's everywhere, in the water and the air. It's estimated that the average person now consumes 5 grams of plastic a week, the equivalent of a credit card, through water, food and air intake.

"Every morning, news reaches us from around the globe. And yet we lack remarkable stories." Nothing to see here; just Walter Benjamin being so prophetic it's actually frightening.

The UK is a nightmare for trans people. Attitudes are not just becoming more reactionary, but are moving from a laissez-faire ignorance to hardened hate. There is no previously existing model of solidarity, but there is an increasingly entrenched cult of anti-trans violence and dehumanisation.

This is chosen very specifically. It is vile in every conceivable way. Join any migrant support group in your area. If there isn't one, start one. This cannot stand.

There's a difference between understanding how institutions utilise history for ideological reproduction and "the sins of the father pass unto the son". The latter is a-historical moralising and, regrettably, seems to be the dominant view among the popular anglophone left.

Slogan politics must die

As reporting makes clear, it was the Home Office that asked for this: a Military Aid to the Civil Authorities (MACA) request to heighten the sense of a crisis. It is actively seeking to undermine the prosecution of Chris Kaba's killer www.bbc.com/news/uk-6690...

Britain's media has been played like a fiddle by the government. "Army stood down as enough Met Police armed officers return to duty" www.bbc.com/news/uk-6690...

explaining Malthus lmao

Thank you to @timescarcass.bsky.social @smenor.com and @glumbird.bsky.social for your responses to this. It was genuinely helpful today. Solidarity to you all, and I would recommend the replies to the post below for anyone grappling with the extent of the current crisis.

In light of the Canadian Parliament's applause for the Waffen SS, it's worth again reminding ourselves of what fascism is as a political and economic structure.

Important report here

Jesus fucking Christ. He's just taking a sledgehammer to all legislation that will better anyone's life.

"You've got nothing to worry about. It's only working out as a dry run for martial law." www.lbc.co.uk/news/londone...

Rickets and scurvy. A four-fold increase in hospital admittance for malnutrition since 2008. www.thetimes.co.uk/article/time...

Making everything dependent on industrial technology couldn't possibly deepen any problem whatsoever. Life support for permanent use is, as all doctors know, the best medicine. www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines...

Here is the write-up that goes with the CNN story on the chances of resumed nuclear explosive testing. www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/1218...

In the seventh episode (and the second seriesish - new aesthetic), we discuss debates between the first and second waves of ecosocialism on Marx's view of nature, and the importance of understanding this today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qwt...

In the sixth episode, we discuss the revisionist controversy in the German social democrat party. We then offer the lessons of this as a way to begin discussing problems in the contemporary communist movement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8_j...

In the fifth episode, we discuss how to approach Marx's life and work, the danger and necessity of canonisation, and the importance of developing both analytical and popular Marxist approaches. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFzo...

In the fourth episode, we take a look at the concept of class in Marxism. We begin by highlighting that Marx never gave a definition of the concept, but only of concrete classes, then work backward to illustrate some elements of his view. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN68...

Episode three looks at the "base-superstructure" framework used by Marx in his famous "Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy". It looks at many vulgar applications of this, and a recent intervention which outlines its limits. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkjR...

The second episode looks at the concept of a mode of production in Marx's work and Marxism more broadly. It gives an overview of the concept and a critique of common reductionist errors in its application. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBxV...

The first episode of the series gives an introduction to its overall purpose and the need for more detailed introductory materials within Marxism. This one is a very short primer on the general problems the series is intended to address! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV-c...

Approaching Marxism is an educational series providing introductions to core Marxist concepts, their ambiguities and development, and the debates that they have spawned since. Episode guide - a thread

Literally "if I can't murder black men I quit" www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...