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7 Stories From Incarcerated Writers for Juneteenth

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

The problem with this ‘let’s weaken our commitment to the ECHR so as to fend off Farage’ plan is that when it doesn’t work, we end up with Farage and a weakened commitment to the ECHR at exactly the moment we need the ECHR the most.

submitted 12 hours ago • 57 comments

Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied

submitted 12 hours ago • 78 comments

Ah yes, if there's one thing about humanitarian law and the laws of war, it's that they are not at all universal and don't apply when you're fighting "bad guys"

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

I want to add to this here. This mfer has a god damn Confederate marker on his house in Cork. If any enterprising folks with a pry bar want to do god's work... www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=85650

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Pot vows to hold kettle accountable for being black

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

An eagerly awaited review of the EU-Israel trade agreement is expected to find that Israel has violated the agreement's human rights and international law clauses in the conduct of its war in Gaza, RTÉ News understands.

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

“In the US, diplomatic agreements are scrutinized. The weaknesses that inevitably result from compromise are highlighted, debated and assessed — and rightly so. But as its decisions to go to war in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq attest, military options are routinely held to a much lower standard.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

submitted 23 hours ago • 255 comments

Is anyone or does anyone know an expert on Australian defense policy? I have a question I need some help with #nukesky

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

Merz's 'dirty work' remark is appalling (as is the apparent quiet approval by other Europeans). It's like people openly admit that this whole 'rules-based thing' is just a pretense.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I thought after Zaporizhzha we all agreed that bombing operational nuclear reactors was, like, bad

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Dropping a nuclear weapon from a strategic bomber against a strategic target is not very "tactical."

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

Shortly after Oct. 7th I was invited to this museum for a new exhibit about resistance against the nazis in Denmark and I wrote a piece saying it reminded why we need to brave and stand up for the people of Gaza. I sent them the link and they never replied and I was never invited again lol

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

At a board member's behest, New York City’s Museum of Jewish Heritage removed images of Trump from an exhibit on hate speech—a move critics say exemplifies how museum leadership has increasingly catered to the right. Alex Kane reports:

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

These are amazing protests. Basically, activists are going to hotels where ICE (immigration) agents are staying, and if they can't get the hotel to force the agents to leave, the activists disrupt their sleep.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Once a guy at my airport gate was bragging about being at January 6th and then I passed him sitting in first class when I boarded and whenever I read stuff like this I think about how his life doesn’t get any better or worse in any way if a trans teenager kills themselves. Evil for the sake of evil.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

44% of Americans overall. Christ

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

BREAKING @prri.org poll. My disturbing take: It’s virtually impossible to write a survey question about the treatment of immigrants that is too brutal for Republicans to support. 1) 8 in 10 Republicans support renditions of immigrants to foreign prisons without due process. prri.org/spotlight/ne...

submitted 6 days ago • 65 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 531 comments

Polish general Tadeusz Tuczapski discussing the division of labour between Warsaw Pact members (in the event of war) in the 60s and dunking on the smaller members of NATO in the process

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.

submitted 1 day ago • 164 comments

EU leaders should be ashamed of themselves Israel is committing genocide against the people of Palestine, and the EU abandons its first steps towards even 'reviewing' its trade deal with them because they chose to bomb Iran too

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"Not for you." Palestinian citizens of Israel--21% of the population--are being excluded from bomb shelters on the basis of their ethnicity. This is the society the West will defend at all costs. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

I like the way the Guardian felt the need to clarify "which was false" here.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Bill it's okay that women know stuff. Bill it is okay for women to have not just options but informed expert opinions. Bill it is okay to listen to women when they say things. It'll be okay Bill.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

Why are men

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

Banning smartphones in schools has little or no impact on the wellbeing of students or their education or on the prevalence of online bullying, research by the Anti-Bullying Centre at Dublin City University has found

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

After all, the recent history of regime change wars in the Middle East is so encouraging.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

submitted 2 days ago • 735 comments

two oil tankers caught fire after colliding in the golf of oman near the strait of hormuz maritime officials warning that navigational systems being jammed in the middle east bc of israel/iran

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

anyone who's gonna go "it sucks but you gotta win over people first, slowly build the case for rights" for trans people should tell me, without looking it up, when they think interracial marriage reached majority approval in america

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

Would be amazing to get a single piece of media on this topic centered on the right's firehose of bigotry and misinformation rather than "the trans rights movement's shortcomings" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 83 comments

A Muslim candidate for mayor of the nation's largest city, defending the rights of a Jewish candidate for mayor, who was arrested for defending the rights of immigrants not to face detention without warrants. This is the kind of solidarity Trump and his goons fear.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

seen some people complaining that this is a political stunt and lemme say if this was the kind of political stunt more politicians were doing on a regular basis we wouldn't be where we are today dude is actually putting himself on the line here, fuck off with that shit

submitted 2 days ago • 333 comments

“In New York today, masked secret police acting on behalf of the ruling regime arrested a political candidate from the opposition party.”

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

For about the third time this week (and the ~70th such week in a row) I see the German government sanctioning gross, obvious, indisputable violations of international law (let alone the ethics of just war) "excellent memory culture", "learned from the past" etc etc

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This photo. ICE is a gang.

submitted 2 days ago • 703 comments

"Politicians from the opposition party being detained" has become a thing that happens on a regular basis.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments