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Gotta love an 86-year-old woman with the heart of a poster

You will have to excuse me for not been very enthused that the the U.K. has sanctioned literally the worst Israeli knesset members, when there are loads of other really bad ones, who just hide it a bit better

well, it turns out that 16 weeks of getting the dogshit hazed out of you and jumped into a gang where the most important thing is Do What You Are Told and Never Betray The Gang is more powerful than my fantasy version of American values! back to the ol' drawing board, I guess 😅

Never in my entire life have I ever thought, “I wonder what Tom Cotton has to say about this?”

part of the problem is that even if dems win in 2028, a program of reconstruction 2.0 basically ends up running into the problem reconstruction 1.0 did: the fact that no one has the will to make the structural reforms required

tappers coworker was detained by ice in the middle of a live hit last night and this is what hes concerned with

Any other nation state's assets posing as a political party would be twenty points ahead

Quite a few liberals accused me of hysterical hyperbole when I made this poster, because *of course* Labour would be less genocidal than the Tories. In reality, Labour ministers have massively ramped up arms sales to Israel and are backing the genocide to the hilt

Consistent at least: if you are an annoying whiner, why don’t you just go away, resign, leave us alone or die? It’s always “Oooh, you’ve cut off my disability payments, I’m starving, I don’t want to get suffocated in a burning high rise, please stop facilitating genocide”. Student politics nonsense.

America is ruled by weird fucking losers who are extremely desperate to find people to bully.

Ten years and counting of this ideology posing as the pinnacle of liberal intellectualism in Britain...

Perfect moment. Listening to @trashfuture.bsky.social discuss Tesla crashing and burning as a Tesla jumps the lights whilst me and others are crossing it.

BBC to announce new BBC sketch show featuring David Baddiel and Simon Brodkin doing blackface and brownface respectively

Oh autonomous car you’ve mastered California have you? Well TRY THIS

"Trump's 'flood the zone' tactics...are new and shocking to most people in the United States. To those with histories, families, and familiarity with dynamics in most Latin American countries, however, they are old hat. They haven’t only seen these tactics before, they have beaten them."

helen lewis' position is it's nasty when the trump admin do it over there but totally fine when labour do it here

Uh, Republicans control the house and senate, do you expect Democrats can just wave a magic wand and not praise ICE and advise people to help them

Correct. It was literally never about illegal immigration.

Democratic elected officials should be out leading protests against Trump's authoritarianism. They need to start acting like our freedom, lives, and way of life is on the line. They are.

In which West Point's John Spencer, who claims to hate radical Islam & terrorism, defends & promotes Israel working with ISIS affiliates in Gaza because it worked so well in... *checks notes*... Iraq (!) Never take this Israel shill seriously on anything ever again.

Absolute fucking joke

This story has been up seven hours and not a single other news organisation has reported it: www.middleeasteye.net/news/david-c...

[Hadley Freeman voice] But then again, what would you do in Israel's place? Let a boat just arrive in Gaza with food?

Meanwhile if a counter protestor is waving an Israeli flag it's because they have legitimate concerns about antisemitism and not because the blue and white Magen David has become an international symbol of white supremacy.

if Thunberg is brave enough to repeatedly put herself directly in harm’s way, then journalists can be brave enough to say that a civilian vessel was illegally seized in international waters, and its crew abducted

All I’m saying is, if any other country in that region had intercepted a UK flagged ship, there’d be demands we be preparing for full scale war.

I see the government’s roaring far right crank terrorism advisor has got an interview in the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/w...

It's funny, if you'd said that the BBC's news output was unduly influenced by political allegiance to the right wing at any point between 2015-2019 you'd be denounced as a communist conspiracy theorist and a racist. Now it's all out in the open.

May all on board be safe. Liam Cunningham said the Madleen was "loaded with the stuff the Tel Aviv regime will not allow into Gaza. So, it's got crutches, it's got antibiotics, baby formula, it's even got a 3D-printed prosthetic baby's arm." www.rte.ie/news/ireland... #SpeirGorm #SpéirGhorm

Wasn't expecting the George Galloway jump scare

They detained Greta Thunberg for standing with Gaza. They seized the Freedom Flotilla—carrying food, not weapons. They arrested peaceful ICE protesters in LA. None of this is normal. All of it is authoritarianism in plain sight.

I'm a scholar of four major world religions: Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Danish

This government really is looking at the global soft power vacuum the US is leaving and going "oh phew, they've quit this, so now we can to", huh. 🤡

I'm now cancelling @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for calling Sainsbury's a high end supermarket.

We are just ONE more peaceful protest away from ICE disarming، dissolving themselves، and bringing everyone deported back home guys

Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it: "These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"hundreds of those imprisoned for arriving in the UK on small boats since 2022 were refugees and victims of trafficking and torture, in breach of international law. It said at least 17 children had been arrested and charged with “facilitation”, for having their hand on the tiller of a dinghy."

They were terrorists too, were they?

I don't think any pundit actually knows what growth is. Every time I watch a new show, everybody thinks growth comes from more of the things they like and getting rid of the things they don't like. It's fucking absurd.

What Hadley means here is that she is aware the genocide is making her previous wingnut enthusiasm for it look very bad, and she’d like it to wind down now while she can still retain 99% of her crankery archive.ph/E1vxH

Feels like this FT article on UK tax is a bit too vibes-based. UK taxes are unremarkable in European context. Our tax wedge is in the lower third of OECD countries. Our 24% higher CGT rate is lower than many European countries. Where the UK does stand out is the cost of housing and childcare.

Israeli Telegram has some comments about the latest massacre: “A blessed meal is not required to start the morning of Shabbat.” “Start bombing Nazi population centers in Gaza, killing as many as possible … until the total destruction of the entire Nazi population in Gaza.” t.me/firstreports...

Right now, Muslims in Gaza are supposed to be celebrating Eid al-Adha. Instead of feasting, they are starving. Instead of gathering with their loved ones, they are burying their children. Netanyahu and the IDF can end this misery ANY time by agreeing to a ceasefire and allowing aid into Gaza.

was it his own podcast where he appeared as host