We need a Senator Emeritus role where they still get to go to events and feel important but that gives them a graceful retirement route

this man's name is written in the book of life

My article on the 20 point gaza "peace plan" is now out. Let me tell you why peace processes in the Israeli Palestinian conflict seem to keep failing, with a focus on Tony Blair the menace of the middle east theconversation.com/a-gaza-peace...

Can I also say I am so angry today. It's the lives lost, the cities wiped out, the time taken from us. We have been consumed with this level of unspeakable violence for 2 years. To think of all the potential futures taken away... it's unfathomable

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast. Extraordinary. Hope is returning. 💚🚀 Join.greenparty.org.uk

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Even the ADL has a section on their website about ‘moon man’ as a neo-Nazi symbol www.adl.org/resources/ha... The Trump regime is sharing the same symbol used by neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers

Mixed readings so far on viability of ceasefire. On the one hand, IDF is standing down a considerable amount of reserves, & defence officials are briefing potential hostage release timetables. On the other, IDF intensified airstrikes and artillery, and Israel Katz, an idiot...

Here’s a comprehensive list of appropriate responses upon hearing that a man murdered worshippers at a synagogue: 1- this is fucked up, fuck that guy, fuck antisemitism, solidarity with the victims 2- see above

Absolutely horrendous. A culture of bullying and repression pushed by the UK government against children.

This is pretty big if it goes through well enough. We haven’t had good regional rail in a century, literally. I hope Lebanon joins. One day, a free Palestine too. syria-report.com/syria-turkey...

1. This is as close as we have been to an end to the war, ever since October 7. 2. Close doesn't mean we'll get there. 3. Netanyahu is cornered and may well lash out in a completely apocalyptic way, including on Iran. Praying he'll be stopped.

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children. This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Two takes we can really do without: 1. Blaming the attack on pro-Palestine marches. 2. Highlighting pro-Israel positions expressed by/at the synagogue to justify the attack. Irresponsible, dangerous and vile.

It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

🚨When Reform UK took control of 10 councils in May, including Kent, Richard Tice said he’s “very confident we will do an outstanding job” in local government. But our undercover reporter at the party conference overheard how things are really going.⬇️

Watching Gaza City high rises be levelled this week while thinking of this line that I overheard an Israeli tour guide say in late July:

Catching up with a criminal barrister friend re Palestine Action:

I will never not understand how a minority of people have decided that wind farms - significantly prettier than pylons, coal power plants, nuclear power plants, and almost certainly fusion power plants - are ugly. In terms of energy generation, what else are you hoping for that is better?

This is how the book opens:

Opening line of the month:

Coalition building is not like synchronised swimming where we have to all do exactly the same thing. It's like rugby, where we have to just keep moving forward, passing the ball.

Zohran Mamdani 😮😮😮😮😮This is spectacular. I can't begin to say how spectacular this is 🥹 Because it's not just a long-overdue major progressive victory in America. It's not "just" the first Muslim mayor of New York (🤞🏼). It's a whole new era of progressive campaigning....

david hogg off the top rope on the other site

Any leads on any motor or sailing vessel leaving Jaffa, Ashkelon or Ashdod for Cyprus in next 24h?

just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.

Sending thoughts to everyone under fire, Palestinians, Iranians and Israelis. And to those of us lucky enough to be abroad, but not knowing what news from home we might wake up to in the morning. May all of our loved ones survive tonight unscathed.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

If you're going to reheat a Blair-era policy you probably need to explain why, last time around, it was so badly run it ended up wrongly deporting thousands of people, some very likely to their deaths, and how you might avoid that this time. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Just putting it out there: I don't think it's at all far fetched the IDF could kill Greta and/or her companions. Would have been unthinkable before the current war, because of the implicit caste system we apply even to foreign activists, and because of the backlash to...

The 'rural culture war' between rural and urban Brits, writes @jon-moses.bsky.social , is a myth. In fact, half of Right To Roam's supporter base live in the countryside.

This is excellent from @dimireider.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

"If the world missed the window to impose two states, it should start developing ... what a non-apartheid single state could look like ... Otherwise, the new reality will continue being shaped ... while the left continues to debate what might have been" - Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social

Morgan McSweeney & Keir Starmer, centrist genuises? Right. Today's PMQ exchange w Farage should put that notion to rest: Labour clearly plan to recycle their strategy from 2024—attack Tories not on politics but on efficacy—against Reform. Do I even need to explain how monumentally suicidal this is 😱

Hashtag personal news 🐥 of the best possible kind. Born a dozen days ago, healthy, happy & wise. We are infinitely grateful to @uclh,to our doula, to our loved ones, and for the rare privilege of safety&care in our darkening world. We now have one extra reason to keep fighting for a better one.

Max Blumenthal also heckled but he wasn't pulled out. I guess Sidney's boy gets special treatment

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL AND HAMAS AGREE A CEASEFIRE, press conference in Qatar to commence shortly

Retraining brain to smell things again after a cold. Me: See? This is coconut hand cream. We sniff, and we should smell coconut. Brain: We should smell coconut?? 😮 Yethhh, mathter 🫡 Behold! Coconut coffee, coconut lemons, coconut laundry, coconut tuna, coconut weather, coconut whiskey... 🤦‍♂️

Still as true, even if it now seems like an even taller order. But what else are prayers for?

Trying to approach 2025 the way St. Margaret is approaching Beelzebub

(Self-indulgent whine: caught a cough in mid November. By Dec, it was pneumonia. Recovered from pneumonia by Christmas eve, but meanwhile wife caught the cough. So far no pneumonia🤞🏼,but after three weeks of coughing she added a cold, and passed it on to me, so now we're both ill. When will it end 😖)

Elon Musk is a good example of how terrible people become increasingly radicalized into the far right simply because the far right is a community that accepts cruel, terrible people. It's tempting to say Elon is going "mask off", but I'd wager Elon didn't know who Tommy Robinson was 5 years ago. 1/

Michael Donaghy - Resolution

Perpetrator rationalisation (and/or perpetrator trauma) is fascinating. In Say Nothing, we see Dolours and other IRA foot soldiers lash out against the leadership's strategy to pursue reunification through politics, in part because they feel this means they've been killing people "for nothing"...

My favourite reads of 2024, most of which were published this year, for anyone with some Christmas book vouchers burning a hole in their pocket. Mix of genres and in no particular order, but Eliza Clark's collection of short stories probably comes out top overall- she's just stunningly talented.

Carter used the power of his post presidency to nearly eradicate guinea worm. There were 3.5 million cases when the Carter Center’s work began in 1986. He said in 2015 that he wanted to see “guinea worm completely eradicated before I die.” There’ve been 7 cases this year. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Vale, Jimmy Carter. I'm glad at least you won't have the indignity of Trump presiding over your funeral. Thank you for all you have done in your presidency and since. Thoughts with friends in the work for justice and peace lucky enough to have had you for a mentor.

Today's Poetry Thread: TIME I love these lines. Feel free to add poems.