BREAKING: Judge in judicial review over proscription of Palestine Action claims the statement "Palestine Action are not terrorists" would be deemed support for the group.

Pretty sure this is because Ankara is delusional about this, and honestly about the whole "peace process". Ocalan loves Rojava/DAANES, I'll eat my hat if he gives ground on it.

Wider political consequences aside, I think it's really good that SDF fighters saw a regime fighter wearing an ISIS patch and immediately went "let's kill that guy".

I hate when people say "we should respect and learn from the martyrs", and then look at them and go "oh no, these people were a bit messy, let's rewrite history to make them into my idealised fantasy of who I wish they'd been, and then respect and learn from that".

Sabs all over the country are getting ready to save lives 👊 Good luck to each and every hunt sab going out there today to protect local wildlife from the sadistic criminal hunts. Stay safe and thank you.

Regular reminder that I absolutely love talking about Rojava/North & East Syria, and will be extremely happy to answer any questions that I can, so long as they don't affect anyone's operational security.

The reason the fash have been so uniquely unable to achieve anything in Bristol since the Mercure last year is that the cops *have* to keep them in tightly controlled little pens and kettles *for their own safety*. This *in and of itself* keeps the residents of the hotels safer.

This is why, no matter what the cops do to us, none of us will ever stop.

Well done to everyone who came out yesterday to oppose Bristol Patriots, Nick Tenconi and UKIP 500+ Bristolians including 100+ black bloc stood strong despite cops dishing out beatings causing head injuries and hospitalisations to defend our refugee neighbours. 1312. Refugees are welcome here.

About 50 antiasylum protesters led by far right UKIP leader Nick Tenconi were outnumbered by over 400 anti fascists in Bristol today. Lots of refugees waved at the crowd protecting the Mercure Hotel, with one girl making a silver heart and holding up against the window.

pretty much giving the game away about how the discourse of mandatory forgiveness and redemption is about protecting specifically cis men from consequences

Every "we shouldn't be excluding people from our groups because we need everyone on board to build a better world" strategy is like this - noticing that your racist campaign hasn't convinced non white people, shrugging, and deciding to publicly work with Nazis.

"What about [form of abuse that is mostly de facto decriminalised right now anyway]?" I didn't say abolish bullets, did I?

FAI must be absolutely over the moon about being designated as an FTO. Doing donuts on their vespas, firing pistols in the air, writing lengthy screeds condemning everyone who hasn't been proscribed as a liberal, that sort of thing.

seeing a lot of of "technically it's ephebophilia" so i remind you that sexology is a pseudoscience akin to evopsych or phrenology. the "science" of "male chronophilias" from which this distinction is derived, is total nonsense. it's a pseudoscientific medicalized naturalization of *SOCIAL* violence

i wish people would stop calling it a "big conspiracy." there is no conspiracy, it's just the ordinary mundane workings of a patriarchal society. this is what that ordinary thing looks like among wealthy men; among non-billionaires, we all know someone who's a survivor. men catcall 12yos every day.

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I hate when reports on the civil war in Turkey use the "40 000 people have been killed since the start of the war" line without mentioning that this figure is a decade out of date and is mostly Kurdish civilians murdered by the Turkish state as part of the ongoing genocide that caused the civil war.

Jolani is presumably the highest ranking member of Al Qaeda to ever meet the US president during an official visit to the White House.

Oh no, rich countries had enthusiasm for tackling the climate crisis, and I completely missed it?

Sorry, but "fascists are bad at logistics" is just cope when talking about the US military. Their logistics are incredible, and a theoretical deployment against unrest at home would only improve them.

I've read a lot of war diaries, spoken to a lot of veterans, and have my own experiences as well. And I feel confident in saying that if your response to being at war is sadism and violence to civilians and animals, that's not war changing you. That's just you. That's who you always were.

I really wish I had a way to make people understand how beautiful Northeast Syria is.

Has the organisation formerly known as the PKK made any recent public statements about how and when they will be reforming? I've been away from the media for a couple of months, so I might have missed something.

keep an eye out for my upcoming hot NYT article: Did Men Ruin Everything? Not Exaggerating Literally Everything For The Past 5000 Years

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Westerners homogenize non-Western cultures and cast them as either "benevolent" or "evil". When discussing these cultures, the reality of life for any non-Western person is not centered at all. Westerners are performing for each other, showing off how knowledgeable and cultured thery are.

These problems come up time and again in western discussions about Kurdistan, including within the solidarity movements.

Whenever a sex creep pops up in leftist circles I feel obliged to mention that if you haven’t read “misogynists make great informants” you should here’s a copy of it: ia601609.us.archive.org/17/items/Why...

The Pentagon says they'll treat drug smugglers "exactly like we treated Al Qaeda", presumably by losing at least one extended war against them, murdering millions of civilians in the process, giving up and letting them have a couple of countries, and then agreeing to fund their militaries.

Saturday morning timeline cleanser: It looks like the Elbit Systems Aztec West facility in Bristol has closed down permanently www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

"Peace process" update: five people sent to prison for doing a traditional dance, and police deploying armoured vehicles to stop a funeral. anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/fi...

This might be important to some people

One of the most important things to learn from the Rojava revolution is that you don't have to do everything perfectly the first time, so long as you build systems that can adapt and improve.

One of the most important things to learn from the Rojava revolution is that you don't have to do everything perfectly the first time, so long as you build systems that can adapt and improve.

Our full statement on our action against Sodexo Leeds

This is something that got lost a little in the wider Itch wildness but Itch has banned almost all queer content from the UK citing the OSA, even though that isn't what the OSA requires and almost certainly nobody asked them to. They are a wildly incompetent company, regardless of wider issues.

Can someone who understands the war explain to me why Turkey is drone striking Tel SyriaTel? As far as I'm aware, it's on the other side of the river and therefore held by Turkish proxies.

This week has seen sabs across the country out in force while most people are still asleep. For many hunts, the cubbing season has now started. “𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮’𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙪𝙗𝙨 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩.” 👀 ⬇️ www.huntsabs.org.uk/cubbing-take...

Things you should bring to Rojava: insect repellent. Things you shouldn't bring to Rojava: anything that takes up space in your bag which could otherwise be used for insect repellent.

Anarchists in Rojava love saying things like "I think it's bad that the youth attacked the security forces."

Peace process update: nobody is allowed to speak Kurdish at the parliamentary commission about it.

My initial analysis of the internal violence between PUK factions in Slemani is that I'm deeply embarrassed for everyone involved.

One thing I love about social media is getting a notification that someone has replied to my post, but having no idea which post it is, and getting to imagine it as a possible reply to everything I've posted recently.

Nothing that is happening with PalAction is new. All of this happens to other proscribed groups. But suddenly it's happening to white people and other white people are up in arms because they thought those laws didn't bind them.

Look, everyone knows I fully support Palestine and also a wide range of criminal activity. But people need to be smart. If someone says "any money you give me for this will go to a designated terrorist group", and you give them money, you've funded a designated terrorist group.

I think we should be putting refugees up in 4 star accommodation. Do you have any idea how hard the journey here is without papers? They deserve a break after that.

Me, this morning: I finally feel a bit healthier! Time to get out of bed and be productive! Me, two hours later: why don't my limbs work?

The integration of the Kurdish neighbourhoods in Aleppo into the new regime is now going so well that the regime is besieging them and stopping supplies from entering. The old regime used to do this too, and then we'd besiege their enclaves in our cities. But the new regime doesn't have those.

When I was in YPG the cigarettes we got from logistics were Arden's, which were universally regarded as terrible. But unlike the fancy skinny Gauloise the friends get these days, they were thicker than 7.62mm, so you could put the end of one in the end of your barrel to keep the dust out.