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rajtham.bsky.social
Formerly a sustainable finance guy who's also not fond of pandemics or genocides or fascists. On here for as long as it helps us organise a centre left response to the polycrisis. If we have something in common, feel free to send me a DM.
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So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president. And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict. This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

Gift link. Watch the video in the lede: This Is How the Protests Could Break Trump’s Deportation Machine www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/o...

Remarkable: Vulnerable House Republicans are quietly urging Trump to refocus deportations away from noncriminal migrants and only target criminals. With Trump admitted deportations hurt farmers, Rs know this is becoming a big problem for them. 1/ (link) newrepublic.com/article/1968...

It appears that we are actively and directly involved in a major conflict between Israel and Iran which is rapidly escalating and the only thing we have heard from the admin is an obviously false denial from the Sec of State and a Truth Social post from the president about peace talks.

UN spokesman says Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is not delivering supplies safely to those in need.

250 years ago, Americans rejected the rule of a mad king. TOMORROW, we’re taking to the streets again to say #NOKINGS 2,000 peaceful protests are planned in small towns and major cities across the country. Join your community and find your event at nokings.org

As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

Wondering what international law says about Israel's attack on Iran? "Israel’s use of force against Iran is, on the facts as we know them, almost certainly illegal." - Marko Milanovic for EJIL:Talk! www.ejiltalk.org/is-israels-u...

“‘People should know there are steps they can take to uphold democracy’ said Erica Chenoweth. This is a core tenet of civil-resistance theory, also known as people power—that citizens, working in concert, have more agency than they are led to believe.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Obama, Trump and Biden grew US oil/gas exports, concentrating wealth and power in fossil-fuel billionaires' hands. Now here we are: "Petrostates tend to have more autocratic governments, more belligerent foreign policies, and higher levels of corruption—trends that now apply to the United States."

🚨 BREAKING: Trump admin refuses to release Mahmoud Khalil, despite judge's order

Seven partners at Willkie Farr & Gallagher — a prominent law firm that cut a deal with President Trump to avoid a potentially punishing executive order — announced that they were departing to join a firm that helped successfully challenge one of Trump’s orders in court.

This guy is just posted up outside of Congress and I’m honestly not sure what his political views are but I agree

So… does Iran have a right to defend itself?

What happened yesterday was part of a much bigger effort to try and silence anyone who dares to question what the Trump administration is doing.  But we will not be intimidated and we will not be deterred. We must hold this administration accountable.

@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have been encouraging people to read chapter six of our book, Let This Radicalize You, which deals with the question of "violence" in social movements. We have decided to share the chapter publicly, to offer some context and grounding for the current conversation.

We got word from our distributor: Amazon has refused to stream THE INVISIBLE DOCTRINE w/ @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 🤔 We take it as a compliment. You can however watch it on: • Apple TV • Google Play • YouTube Movies • Vimeo

🚨🚨California national guards troops & marines deployed to #LA to help restore order after days of protest against the Trump admin have told friends and family members that their only meaningful role will be as pawns in a political battle they do not want to join.🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What we saw today is what we see in dictatorships. And if they can do this to @padilla.senate.gov, imagine how vulnerable others in this country are to this kind of tyranny and abuse. This is a moment for every American to STAND UP for freedom and for our Constitution.

fascists will try and seed fear, uncertainty and doubt, as well as high levels of despair in their populations to try and break them I would assume we are going to see a massive influx in despair posting and nihilist doom posting from suspect accounts as things really continued to amp up.

2025: Zia Yusuf says it's not true that Nigel Farage is on the record saying to scrap the NHS #BBCQT 2012: Nigel Farage on the record saying he'd scrap the NHS and replace it with an insurance-based privatised health care system

Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.

How the Daily Mail responded to Liz Truss' economy-crashing tax cuts for the wealthiest, vs how they responded to Rachel Reeves spending a few per cent more on hospitals

Another example of the normalisation of ethnic cleansing

These ICE protests aren't just protests. They are direct actions, with strategy behind them calculated to protect our neighbors and loved ones from kidnapping and torture. Activists are debating and experimenting with and fine-tuning tactics with the goal of disrupting and delaying ICE trafficking.

The world isn't silent on Gaza - this is by far the most vocal I have seen the general public on a political issue in my lifetime. I have also never seen a bigger difference between the anger of the public and the inaction of specific institutions and governments. That's the crucial disconnect.

The Elders urge Starmer, Macron & @mark-carney.bsky.social: recognise Palestine, uphold international law. Are any listening—or brave enough to defy their pro-Israel lobbies? Every MP who backs them & every person of conscience in 🇨🇦🇫🇷🇬🇧 must demand it. Now. #Palestine #Peace #Justice

It’s Getting Hot in Here: Climate Change as a Catalyst for Nuclear Proliferation

What has concerned me greatly for years is the suspicion that as the world overheats and resources get scarce, humanity will attempt to solve the problem with technology - culminating in an attempt to rearrange access to resources with modern weapons. THAT could end civilization, even our species.

"We all know it: the situation is profoundly scary, out of control. It demands an effective response." It's you. It's me. It's all of us. Time for Strategic Adaptation For Emergency Resilience (SAFER). Read now 👇 #climate #climatenews www.resilience.org/stories/2025...

Hmm some said Greta & crew weren’t kidnapped to Israel on 6/9. Greta was returned to Paris today with crew members still held in Israel Arriving in Paris she commented on TACO describing her as an angry person “I think the world needs a lot more angry young women”

Robert F Kennedy Jr has dismissed every member of the United States’ national vaccine committee, sparking alarm from leading medical and public health associations www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Israel has long used undercover forces posing as Palestinians to sow strife. Today, it is using this strategy again in Gaza in the form of the gangs taking control over humanitarian aid. The goal is to fragment and dismember Palestinian society. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/isra... #Palestine #Israel

there really seems to be a strange “green lantern theory of fascism” that some people on this website have internalized, in which the white house’s desire for martial law — it’s desire for organized repression — is tantamount to a guarantee that it will happen

Antivaxxers own this. Infectious disease minimizers own this. Public health officials and media who keep promoting "immunity debt" and "natural immunity" own this. www.cp24.com/news/canada/...

F**k

Latinas For Trump co-founder says Trump's immigration policies are "unacceptable and inhumane," and "not what we voted for." 😐 www.huffpost.com/entry/ileana...

Be warned: attacking unions is a hallmark of fascism. https://www.commondreams.org/news/david-huerta-arrested

Trump has federalized at least 2,000 National Guard forces and reportedly plans to deploy troops to Los Angeles over Governor Newsom’s objections. If that happens, it will be the first time since 1965 that a president has sent troops into a state without a state request. 1/19

Stephen Miller got caught repeatedly trafficking in white nationalist rhetoric and conspiracy theories and an ABC News reporter got suspended for calling Miller hateful

Don't listen to the people bleating on social media that "no one is doing anything." What they are actually saying is that THEY aren't doing anything. The reality is that folks are working in every corner of the world, doing so much to keep themselves and others alive, while building the future.

the white house thinks brute force is, no pun intended, a trump card. they don’t anticipate pushback and they don’t know how to handle it with anything other than escalation. the issue is that each escalation is itself a gamble. if protesters refuse to back down, you’ve lost face. (1/?)

People trying to protect their neighbors are not the problem. The fact that some of you are thinking that way reflects a level of psychological capture & submission to fascism that you should interrogate. If they want an "excuse" to do something, they'll create one. The good guys aren't the problem.

The deployment of federalized National Guard troops to California, without consent from local or state officials, is deeply troubling. These are tactics seen in authoritarian regimes, not in America. We want to be clear, the military should not be used to police civilians.

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”