Whoever makes excuses for this is obviously very much willing to tolerate genocide, regardless of how loudly they condemn other states for doing it. Hypocrisy goes both ways.

I do not think anyone is ready for how turbo antisemitic the GOP is going to be post-Trump

Glad to see that Megaphone News is finally on Bluesky! Most of the video reports you’ve seen me share from Lebanon have been by them. If you want solid, independent and leftwing news and analysis from Lebanon, give them a follow. @megaphonenews.bsky.social

she was introducing genocidal legislation against the trans community *six months ago*

Why is anyone debating whether or not to “let Marjorie Taylor Greene into the tent”? She has not asked to be in a tent with you. Nothing indicates that she wants to be in it. She is positioning herself to appeal to people who hate your tent, and possibly to peel off a few people at the edges of it.

I wonder what he thinks the word credibility means

One weird discourse I’ve been mildly obsessed with lately is how some hanfu influencers get real mad if you call Qing dynasty garments “hanfu” as they see it as a form of “Han cultural erasure” and I honestly thought China had moved past anti-Manchu resentment sometime around a century ago but well

As revealing a clip on the current Russian memory regime, state mythology and necropolitics as you could get.

So unexpected how Ukraine gaining long range strike capability forces Russia to start negotiations, as opposed to triggering nuclear war. Who coulda guessed

For once I want a politician to say, "We should all talk like we're in a college seminar. College seminars are good. We should aspire to lift the level of the discourse."

Elliot Rodger killed more men than women, but nobody doubts that he was motivated by misogyny. Equally, the fact that the London attacker stabbed a Muslim acquaintance first doesn't make his principle motivation not anti-Semitic, given that he was *actively looking for Jewish people to kill.*.

What China and Zambia did to RightsCon, and to all the human rights advocates scheduled to convene there, is outrageous. www.rightscon.org/rc26-stateme...

Unreal. I was a panelist at RightsCon in Toronto in 2018, when many people were denied visas and Access Now was criticized for not hosting in the global south. How has the world changed. We've gone from arguing about inclusion to wondering if these gatherings can happen safely at all.

Ukraine imposing sanctions on Israel before the EU does, congrats to everyone involved.

I promise you don’t have to be a doctrinaire Trotskyist to relish this evisceration of Gabriel Rockhill and his brand of “phantasmagorical Stalinism” (which runs through Losurdo, Parenti, Furr and, increasingly, far-right grifters like Nick Fuentes) www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/theo...

Good.

🇵🇸+🇺🇦 has been a very reliable test of principle vs. campism for the past 12 years, and it may be unsurprising, but it's still galling how many people manage to proudly fail it.

map of europe according to western europeans

Look, here's the thing. In my experience a sizable chunk of the population of the UK - not a majority by any means, but a sizable chunk - suffers from America Disease, i.e. the war on the other end of the continent is basically semi-mythical to them.

get in loser we’re being prosocial we’re paying our taxes we are NOT stealing from whole foods

This is peak countryball ♥️😭

The paradox for Japanese pacificists is that keeping their US-written constitution intact is also “sucking up to America.” Like Europe, Japan can only reject military power because it sits under the US security umbrella. What happens when Americans decide they no longer want to foot the bill?

The Japanese scientist who painstakingly reconstructed 1,200 years of data on peak cherry blossom blooms in Kyoto to show the effects of climate change has passed away; fortunately, another scientist has volunteered to continue his project.

AI photo, bot account, fake anecdote, thousands of likes. The odds of Iran, a Russian ally, lecturing the US about the Budapest Memorandum, best known for being blown up by Russia, is zero. Fun to watch this website become as infested with slop as the other one.

Thanks indeed to @financialtimes.com for publishing me on the anti-US turn of the European right. From moderate conservatives to nationalist radicals, it is nimbly shifting towards a politics of autonomy. The centre and left must move fast - or risk being outflanked. www.ft.com/content/cba2...

Israel's hegemonic ideology is Kahanism: pursuing a Jewish non-democratic one state where Palestinians are subjugated, expelled or dead. Some say this is an inevitable continuation of Zionism, others that it is a corruption of Zionism. I disagree with both accounts, but don't mind either. 1/

Impressive investigation.

This exactly.

Genuinely baffled that there are people who did not understand contra's post but I tend to have high expectations of people

Lmao she's still got it for sure (and the more her former fans disown her the more I like her)

kdramas/korea are to weirdo reactionary femmes the way anime/japan is to weirdo reactionary mascs needless to say, neither group actually understands the culture/place/media they exotify

the thing that annoys me most about tankies thinking that the US destroyed the Soviet Union is not even that they think that's somehow a bad thing. it's that they won't give us, the people subjugated by that fucked up empire, the credit we deserve

The heavens are testing me again to not spew venom at Americans who say the most psychotic things about Eastern Europe you've ever seen.

Another win for the 🇺🇦🇵🇸 crowd

"multipolar world"

Post-modern Pu Yi.

I post about Israel killing over 2,000 people in Lebanon Dutch person responds: “What about Iran??” Here’s a recent article in which I am very obviously anti-Ayatollah www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr... As a general rule, people who say “but what about X?” have never done anything about X

I think a lot of the people defending this whole thing are doing so because they feel like they purchased indulgences and they really don't want to grapple with the idea that they may have purchased them from the wrong place

Yes.

Wait so if Orbán loses is it a Western-backed colour revolution or not

💥🗳️ I’m speechless. Hungary’s parliamentary election turnout is 66,01% already at 3pm (2022: 52,72%). Budapest and other opposition-leaning cities lead the way. Final turnout in 2022 and 2018 were 70,21% and 70,22%. Polls close at 7pm. It could go well above 80% this time. Bad news for Orbán.

"It's not Yemen". Ah, yes, Yemen. A country definitely not know for its 3,000-year-old civilisations.

It's so good how Grim has so totally cooked his brain on Ukrainophobia that he is literally incapable of regarding anything except as evidence that the West should stop helping them

Very much looking forward to spending the weekend watching footage like this

I admit this dragged me back to bsky as I cannot possibly pass the chance to publicly laugh at VP getting outed as an AI slopper

South Asia once again proving itself to be the most terminally online region www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

Lol I wasn't aware of this but gamergater to Assadist pipeline is indeed completely logical

If you haven’t yet figured out yet that Russia is at the leading edge of a global far right movement and their failures in Ukraine are one of very few serious set backs that movement is facing, you don’t have a lot of time to do so