“All political commentary this decade” has been about ignoring this, pretending that the system is delivering and this isn’t happening while creating a whole series of terrifying hobgoblins and bugbears for the public to fear and hate.

In Gaza, "surveillance is constant," says Palestinian writer Mohammed Mhawish. This omnipresent sense of being watched and tracked — through checkpoints, social media, drones, AI and more — creates an "enormous psychological burden" on the civilian population.

British Member of Parliament and former Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Theresa May there, circling around a mass casualty event like a vulture to exploit it in service of a rancid reactionary culture war, in case anybody is still wondering how we got here.

7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed A 43 year old married father of two He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland No experience with guns He was walking past He has two bullets in his arm

Nigel Farage is probably delighted today that Reform have the most members of a political party. It doesn't have to be this way. 180,000 and rising. Hope ready to overtake hate. Stand and be counted. Join.greenparty.org.uk

An error in a way, but only an error that could be made in a society that had turned systematically against cultural and linguistic pluralism

Inoffensive? This man said Israel had the right to cut water and power from Gaza. Fuck off Lewis.

it turns out this was ai generated, but this is concerning to me and ruins how my family and i view the disney brand

“Yes. Israel has succeeded to stop the war on television, you know, on social media, on the media platforms. But the bombardment and the war is still ongoing on the city. We can hear the strikes every day. … People have nothing, they just wait. They expected something after the announcement of...

these sorts of lies are still quite amazing to me. this was posted in response to a tweet on the idf twitter account and a times of israel article, both of which are very real, takes 10 seconds to check. but zionists will just deny reality outright

People clown on it for being Space Pocahontas but Avatar 2 is genuinely the most clear eyed non indie release about how colonialism actually works as a money making enterprise.

🔴 Top Israeli Ministers Proudly Adorn a Global Symbol of Racial Terror Israeli Nat'l Security Min. Itamar Ben-Gvir & allies were photographed wearing gold noose pins in public to signal support for executing Palestinian detainees. Also visible in the image is Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu...

Want a new profile photo but I only use pictures from the Palestinian Museum Digital Archive so if you find something neat on there comment below with photo + link

The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’ Since the US-brokered ceasefire was announced on 10 October, Israeli forces have killed more than 360 Palestinians in Gaza; according to a UN official, at least 70 are children www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

WE DID IT!! Together, with your incredible donations and bids, we successfully raised £19,000 GBP ($25,330 USD) through the Creatives4Sudan Fundraising Auction. Alhamdulilah!!!

Al Jazeera correspondent in Ramallah reports hearing sounds of Israeli explosions taking place in Gaza today. On the 56th day of the “ceasefire.”

one of my fav vids I've done in a while! About the surreal and vaguely evil children's book, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas youtu.be/JNhuqRbahBY?...

this is unrelated but i really did laugh a lot seeing his big collection of DC comics in the background. Another reminder that the best way to understand politics right now is recognising that the most influential talking heads are resentful nerds and gamers

On Saturday December 13th, I will be hosting: “The Worst Charity Stream” For every 1000 dollars we raise, I will play Shenmue 3: Enhanced Edition for an additional hour There will be guests. There Will be a punishment wheel. Money raised will be in aid of Palestine www.twitch.tv/supereyepatc...

It’s wild how there’s several different videos of several different establishment democrats giving public talks where they say “it’s a shame young people can see videos of war crimes online because they’re missing the context behind the war crimes”

It's not just Gaza. From the West Bank to Syria and Lebanon, Israel's onslaught continues | Nesrine Malik

The IDF blew the head off a guy in the street who had been talking to an ITV camera crew, the moment they stopped filming, very obviously just as a fuck you. Calling for them to investigate themselves is just saying Oh no, this looks bad, then doing nothing.

"My illegal occupation has made the locals angry, and then I shot the locals, and now the locals are angrier, and now I will expand my illegal occupation, and for some reason they're even angrier!"

They frame it as asylum seekers living high on the hog, but you click through and it turns out the people in question got arbitrarily moved to the other side of the country and the home office didn’t update their GP so they had to drive back. Layers & layers of cruelty and incompetence

We need to understand the 21st century as a window of atrocity. The right vastly expands what is permissible, and the centrists lock it in and legitimise it so that the right can expand the window ever further. I don’t see how any reasonable person can deny this is what has happened.

I can’t wait for PEN to comment on the Israeli intelligence forces storming the Palestinian National Theatre in Jerusalem and threatening the whole cast of the children’s performance and the audience if they didn’t leave in five minutes. Because they won’t.

Despite hundreds and thousands of Sudanese people being slaughtered and we know this is happening, and yet there is no action, it begs the Q: have we really moved on from the colonial era of the 19th/20th centuries? @yassmin.bsky.social shares a powerful call to action for Sudan. Watch & share 👇

The important context left out of most western reporting on the region is that in Israel, "terrorist" is a racial slur

This one really is useful because you won’t see a more clear demonstration of one of the most damaging political phenomena of the era: the reactionary professional mind rejecting unacceptable reality, only able to process and comprehend it via something close to conspiracy theory.

Israeli attacks target Palestinians in their cars, shelters and homes in latest violation of the US-brokered truce.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social on the importance of spending multipliers & borrowing to invest Zack is, without doubt, a great communicator. And on him talking about democracy & the bond markets I'm reminded of Eddie Dempsey at the Durham Miners Gala when he asked "who elected the bond market?"

My longread from the latest edition of our mag about the razing of Gaza in this war. One man who grew up in Rafah, the city in southern Gaza that has been largely destroyed, told me this: “you can say you miss your city if it still exists. It’s gone, you know”

A Government of cowards. Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution. They can't get away with this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

do not give labour a single vote under any circumstances

don't give labour a single vote under any circumstances

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture join.greenparty.org.uk

I also haven't been able to get this bizarre quote out of my head. "If you don't like this, you won't like what follows me." I know what she means to say but it's phrased like an admission that they know this will just bring on Reform but they're going to do it anyway. Paging Dr Freud!

The UK cannot claim ignorance. British-made arms are being found in Sudan, where mass atrocities are unfolding. I’ve written to the Foreign Secretary urging an immediate suspension of all arms exports to the UAE and urgent diplomatic action to stop the violence:

People in the UK aren't getting transphobia from weird niche online communities. They're getting it from the prime minister, the BBC, politicians and the newspapers in every newsagents in the country.

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