Lost count of how many attacks there's been like the one in Golders Green where it was someone the police knew about beforehand. But the police never do anything to stop them because they're too busy arresting pensioners for holding up signs, children for playing or homeless people for existing.

Happy anniversary to Adolf Hitler shooting himself in a bunker. 🥳

El Nino + petrochemical-based fertilizer shortages is one of those perfect storms you read about in the history of global humanitarian crises most people have never heard of

1/8 Brendan Greeley on the development of the eurodollar. If Beijing truly wants CNY to be more widely used in international finance, the eurodollar market provides one potentially useful model to show how that might happen. www.ft.com/content/be34...

Once the British press gets the classic introspective and depressed backseat car photo of you… it is over.

Idk man we all know the solutions to the problem it’s just that you have to give up your limitless support to the Jewish supremacist state in the Middle East. How many times are people in the media going to clutch their pearls about far right Israel-washing of antisemitism?

2/2 For those who say that they aren't opposed to immigration per se, but just to illegal immigrants, this seems like a pretty good way to reduce the number of illegal immigrants. I know this is controversial, but it has to be smarter to have them inside the system than outside.

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

🚨 Record high of 40 Senators have just voted to block $300M of bulldozers to Israel. Blumenthal, Coons, Cortez Masto, Fetterman, Gillibrand, Rosen, Schumer voted w/ Republicans. Along with demolishing Palestinian homes, Israel used a bulldozer to kill 23-year-old American Rachel Corrie.

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since. But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

bebtween this and the massive warehouse fire I feel like people are starting to Not Take It Anymore

Anyway, time for Clarence Thomas and the lads to strike down another one of your hard won, fundamental political rights so him and his QAnon-addled wife can get another ride on Harlan Crow’s yacht! What a shining city on a hill! The envy of the world!

Walz: We will never leave the side of our Somali Minnesotans. Here's our pledge to you, our Somali Minnesotans, your great grandchildren will still be here when that orange clown is in the dustbin of history.

For all the talk of the left's vision of manhood (or supposed lack thereof) it's important to note that the modern right doesn't have a vision of manhood so much as a dream of perpetual adolescence.

A demented rapist has teamed up with a lunatic mass murderer to wage war on a corrupt theocracy, the result of which is that food in Bangladesh is no longer affordable. Hate this for us.

people make like this shows that a socialist approach is weak, but capitalism would have collapsed 3 years into the embargo

I finally watched Chernobyl (I'm late to a lot of TV, okay!) and the line, "Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid." will stick with me for a while, because holy hell is it more relevant now than ever before.

He started a war, didn’t know how to win it, was immediately over his head, became quickly overpowered by an enemy he vastly underestimated, and now is trying to sue for peace and then convince you that this was a victory. Dying empires produce leaders like this

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Man kan si mye om Orban. Udemokratisk, autoritær, ytre høyre osv. Men når han tilsynelatende får hjelp fra Kreml og Maga *mot eget folk*, finnes det jo enda en beskrivelse: Landsforræder.

I’ve been saying this! Malm has penetrated the highest echelons of the White House

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

I do not see how European democracies can survive being complicit in the war on Iran plus the escalation of the cost of living crisis this war causes. This is the perfect storm to bring the far right into power.

Pakistan was the case study of the knock on effect of the EU writing blank cheques for LNG imports in the dark days of 2022. Completely ripped market access out the hands of less able (economically speaking) market actors. Well, well, well. Look how quickly the substitution effect can rage.

So let me get this straight ... 1. US bombs Iran 2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate 3. Russia gives Iran targeting info 4. Oil price shoots WAY up 5. US unsanctions Russian oil

5/5 In that case the US doesn't run a trade deficit because it saves too little, as most academic economists insist. Instead it runs a trade deficit because net capital inflows fund a rise in US debt needed to support domestic consumption.

He was on parental leave.

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

literally dismantling our international security umbrella so Israel can make the broader middle east into a parking lot for its settler strip malls. Incredible stuff.

"Bomb stuff until they give up or we run out of useful targets" is the theory of victory here, and no one has thought about what happens if they don't give up

It’s ironic that the Islamic republic adopted an imperial logic of power only to find that—surprise, surprise—state power doesn’t stem from dominating other countries.

The acts of defiance can be big or small. Painting over a bigoted piece of graffiti. Running a youth club for refugees in an area that mostly loathes them. Wearing a rainbow flag in an anti-queer neighbourhood. These acts all accumulate towards something better, I have seen that in action.

Libya surrendered its nuclear weapons program. Gaddafi died in a ditch. Ukraine surrendered its nuclear weapons stockpile. It was invaded, twice. Iran signed away its nuclear program. It still gets bombed. North Korea obtained nuclear weapons and Kim Jong Un continues to deprive his people.

The precise relationship btw US imperial interests and Israeli territorial expansion and regional hegemony is often complex and then, sometimes it’s v clear

Israel should not exist. The whole country is not redeemable. There needs to be serious discussion about dissolving the country and returning the stolen land

Ah yes the 10-day war package. Excellent choice. Some people are fond of the 21 day package but I personally think it gets a bit drab after 10.

The bombing is happening after we learned of progress in the nuclear talks. The lesson continues to be that you can never trust Americans. Any state threatened by the Americans will have concluded by now that their only safety is to develop nukes asap, surely?

The US and Israel are bombing Iran. Anyone reporting it as “preventive” is engaging in propaganda, by definition. There is no interpretation of what’s happening as anything else than a crime. You don’t have to like the Iranian regime to understand why this is bad.

it's the same thing everywhere. "if i don't win, the election wasn't legitimate."

Given that we're told that Muslims as a bloc are communalist, anti-Semitic, misogynist homophobes, you might assume voting for a non-religious white woman, standing for a LGBT friendly party, led by a gay Jewish man, might lead you to stand down all those sectarianism headlines.

Minor thing, given how much political discourse uses "authenticity" and "out-of-touch politicians who know nothing about real life" as essentially a metaphor for not being anti-immigrant, it's notable the two nativist parties stood an ex-academic turned race hate pundit and a management consultant

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital halts mass eviction after London Centric uncovered what was going on. Hundreds of Londoners now receiving bizarre door-to-door visits blaming misinformation and being asked to record videos saying they don't want to be evicted. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Two truths here: 1) successful actors, artists, and such should do this more often 2) the U.S. healthcare system is immoral, and in a just world, an actor shouldn’t have to do this. People shouldnt require a go fund me to pay off their medical bills www.ign.com/articles/the...

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

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