It is IMO important to recognise that Labour were *cheered to the rafters* by the national press and by their politician colleagues for telling their own supporters to fuck off. Probably worth bearing in mind, as we watch the same people scratch their heads and now ask: where did it all go wrong?

chiikawa-ification for @awibee.bsky.social (transp. in replies)! Thanku so much for ur support, darlin~!

the ratfucking the media will do to mamdani is going to be unreal but the right wing cope might just make it all worthwhile

oh christ

Since the Gaza ceasefire, Israel has intensified its operations against Palestinians in the West Bank, conducting military raids in the north and increasing settler attacks on Palestinians harvesting olive groves. Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.

Can anyone explain how exactly a tiny clique of wankers that nobody likes managed to not only seize power within their own party, but won a national election

This will be remembered as the most shameful period in UK history. A 🧵

the thing that makes this story so extremely awful is that Brianna had a supportive and loving community online even though she struggled with anxiety in her day to day life. Her mother is looking at an unspeakable crime in Brianna's in-person school and blaming it on Brianna having online friends

From Geoffrey Macnab for The Independent, and who seemingly has never read a fucking book in his life.

DWP quietly replacing new-style ESA with "Unemployment Insurance" Buried in recent DWP legislation was the proposal to do away with ESA for disabled people and replace it with a new time-limited benefit www.thecanary.co/long-read/20...

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy

Meanwhile another team is playing in the UEFA qualifiers despite not being in Europe. But football isn't political...

Do NOT talk about how sad it is that 🇵🇸children are starving without talking about WHY! This is NOT "a humanitarian crisis": it's DELIBERATE, CALCULATED GENOCIDE... ORCHESTRATED with the FULL backing of imperialist western countries. 🇮🇱, 🇺🇸, 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪, 🇦🇺, & 🇨🇦 are ALL Fascist States... and there are more.

Big Issue is outside Westminster Magistrates Court this morning as @kneecapceol.bsky.social’s Mo Chara (Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh) is set to return for a second appearance. John Finucane, Sinn Féin MP for Belfast North, spoke to crowds outside the court. 🚨Stay tuned for updates on this thread.

🚨How Britain privatised itself into failure.🚨 Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. 
In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.

"...despite the clear unacceptable behaviour of the students, The Telegraph still ran the story with the headline: 'Jewish schoolchildren kicked off plane after ‘singing Hebrew songs.’ So Tory, so Telegraph. www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

NEW: The Scottish community-owned island of Eigg has announced a boycott of Israel The island of 120 people has backed BDS and its sole shop will stop stocking goods from Israeli firms www.thenational.scot/news/2533509...

I joined @greenparty.org.uk recently for the exact reasons that @zackpolanski.bsky.social talks about in this video. This is a fight for nature, but as nature defending itself. We need to come together to defend our common interests and protect our communities against those who would oppress us.

I think this pretty much destroys the "no experience" narrative

"why are millennials so left leaning compared to every other generation" idk dude maybe it's because every single formative event in our lives has been a disaster directly caused by capitalism and american imperialism but nah it's probably the computer games

Trump wants you to believe that this is about Iran signing a nuclear deal - one he tore up in 2018! - but Israel just killed Iran’s lead nuclear negotiator who was telling US television just two weeks ago that Iran was open to a deal.

A queen

As Margaret Thatcher forced the sale of Public Assets at about 20% of their value, we should force their renationalisation at 20% of their value. Fair is fair.

bringing this over

This Atlanta suburb tried to stop pro-Palestine protesters by making it illegal to protest within 8 ft. of someone without their consent 😒 Read more: interc.pt/4k3EabI ✍️ @ajajeanarnold.bsky.social 📹 @jordanuhl.com

Miss Rachel isn’t on Bluesky, but her posts about Gaza should be. I wish this wasn’t so unusual to see from people with big platforms.

Police Scotland have the capacity to allow 80+ orange marches to harass our city for a month but can't deal with one band standing up for Palestine at a music festival.

And also... NO, MOST PEOPLE CAN SEE IT. This is not just an exercise is creating a false equivalence between genocide and two murders, it's also about smearing the entire pro-Palestine movement as being as morally deranged as the pro-genocide crowd.

I mean, come on lads. How are you going to have a genuine crusade to fight prejudice about one week after you were all forced to come out and defend the government over Sir Keir’s National Front migration speech, amid all these Blue Labour thinkpieces? You can’t.

That sounds great but it’s going to go the same way as the lads’ Great Crusade Against Fake News did in 2016: they will declare war upon prejudice and charge, and then instantly realise they’re fighting the Sun, the Mail and the Times, then retreat and bitch about Russian Facebook and The Canary.

happy birthday to this king

I will never forget the Gaza holocaust. I will never let anyone else forget about the Gaza holocaust.

A good example here of how helpful it can be for understanding, if someone occasionally stops and asks “Wait: is all this stuff everyone has been agreeing about and repeating for years actually true”

UK drops six more places on the ILGA-Europe #RainbowMap to now lie at 22nd, an outlier in Western Europe. The only country to fall further is Orbán's Hungary. Ten years ago the UK was first on this list. Only six years ago it was third. "A co-ordinated global backlash aimed at erasing LGBTI rights."

#HarmerStarmer #KiddyStarver

Stormont taking the approach that Holyrood could and should have taken www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politic...

How long did Sir Keir Starmer wait following VE Day before invoking the spirit of fascism in his speech? 4 days.

Anyway, to raise money for trans charities, I’m auctioning off having your name as a character in the new Chaos Walking book. It’s gotten quite high, but if you can, it’s for a great cause. And check out all the other amazing things to bid on. www.32auctions.com/organization...

Israel has prevented aid getting into Gaza for more than two months. Keir Starmer is still selling weapons to Israel.

What’s the hurry Mr Starmer? Does the possibility of bereaved, tortured and seriously injured Palestinians arriving on British shores terrify you?

Keir Starmer hates immigrants. He'll happily help genocidal regimes steal people's homes, land and lives, but they'd better not think about asking for help...

Another reason non Natives have vocalized that removing mascots is a "slippery slope" is because of how influential divesting "cowboys and Indians" imagery would have on folk culture.

After due consideration, having weighed up the relevant evidence, assessed the balance of arguments and gamed the likely implications, I have reached the conclusion that Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height.

The great @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social is so damn right about this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Civ VII Disables Warmonger Penalties When Playing as Israel hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...