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FAU International Committee supports the feminist revolt in Iran

What does Spinoza mean when he invites us to take the body as a model? It is a matter of showing that the body surpasses the knowledge that we have of it, ‘and that thought likewise surpasses the consciousness we have of it’.

"With this latest announcement the government is just fiddling while Rome burns, or more accurately fiddling while England drowns in raw sewage", says @weownit.org.uk director @cathobbs.bsky.social on the water company bonus ban

“What I liked about the rainbow is that it fits all of us. It’s all the colors. It represents all the genders. It represents all the races. It’s the rainbow of humanity.” — Gilbert Baker

'Despite the damning evidence the government is clinging on to private ownership of water, which has fleeced customers for 36 years', writes Labour peer @premnsikka.bsky.social

It really makes us angry that ANY parent or guardian could do this to their child. This is very obviously harming children and the parents should be charged with child endangerment, with the child removed from the home. We need better laws regarding giving medical advice by unqualified people. 😡

Partisans of italy in north-east syria

🤯 Labour are said to considering a plan for yet more cuts dubbed "Project Chainsaw". 🤔 Didn't Keir Starmer promise 'no more austerity'? 💚 The Green Party is clear - we can't afford more cuts. We would tax the super-rich fairly to help fund public services.

“Make no mistake, this rise in dental charges is, in effect, a cut in services” says Green co-leader @adrianramsay.bsky.social Spot on. This hike isn’t a ‘contribution’ towards the costs of care. It’s a substitute for needed investment. Sign if you agree 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sc...

#AusterityProject

Hundreds protest NYU hospital for obeying Trump order in advance & ending trans care

This messaging just tells people that immigration is the Big Issue so they’re right to vote for Reform. It’s moronic if Labour are even trying to win. I’m not sure they are. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Both morally bankrupt and politically stupid. If you concede the political ground, this is just saying "vote for Reform" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Keir Starmer must speak out. David Lammy must speak out. Another red line crossed - they must condemn Donald Trump's plans.

🤦‍♂️ So Labour are making ads boasting about deportations, with Reform-style branding. Why are Labour trying to be like Farage and his mates? If only the Government put as much effort into creating a fast, fair and dignified asylum system.

No One is Illegal! Solidarity Across Borders Denounces State Violence against Migrants and Calls for Solidarity

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

Spinning a Hard Black Song – Against Nazis in Ohio: Nazis Chased out of Black Cincy Suburb

A massive thanks to @bylinetimes.bsky.social for this write up following the escalation of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric on GB News - and to everyone who's taken action over the past 24 hours: bylinetimes.com/2025/01/31/g...

The positive side...?... Well, eventually all this ends with some nasty fucker in a suit hanging upside down in Piazzale Loreto in Milan.

Trump's threats of ethnic cleansing in Gaza are abhorrent and the UK government must stand firmly against them

Over 5 million people have had their elections cancelled in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Thurrock, Surrey, East and West Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The Green Party is urging the government to protect democracy and allow these long-planned elections to take place.

Against the Ongoing Genocide in Gaza

Free online seminar with Brian Massumi! The Personality of Power: A theory of Fascism for non-Fascist Life. March 1st, 17:00-19:00 GMT. culturepowerpolitics.org/from-marx-to... @jasonread.bsky.social

Abolish Transport Fares

Any attempts to ethnically cleanse Gaza and the West Bank must be fiercely opposed. We must keep speaking up for a free and independent Palestine.

Language is a system of instructions rather than a means of conveying information. TV tells us: "Now we'll have a bit of entertainment, then the news..." We ought in fact to invert the scheme of information theory. The theory assumes a theoretical maximum of information,

What better demonstrates that ‘biological sex’ is but a social construct than the u.s. president needing to declare it to be binary by political fiat in order to uphold its legitimacy.

Let’s abolish armies. Let’s stop wars. Let’s expose nationalisms

Israeli settlers are attacking Palestinians and burning down homes in the West Bank as Israel launches a new military assault on Jenin, another densely populated urban area. This ongoing campaign of violence & ethnic cleansing shows complete disregard for the peace process.

Muskian Capitalism and its Space Odyssey

I think Félix Guattari and I have remained Marxists, in our two different ways, perhaps, but both of us. You see, we think any political philosophy must turn on the analysis of capitalism and the ways it has developed.

The chief competition regulator has been forced out by the government because he was too interested in regulating. He's been replaced with a former Amazon Exec who they hope will make "pro-business decisions" to "supercharge the economy" 😨 www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...

There are multiple facets, but in terms of the problem of desire, really psychoanalysts speak of desire exactly like priests talk about it – this is not the only comparison — they are psychoanalyst-priests. And they talk about it under the guise of the great wailing about castration –

The BBC is in civil war over Israel and Palestine. BBC journalists are in revolt over what they call "systematic Israeli propaganda" churned out by the Corporation. My exclusive investigative piece for @dropsitenews.com 👇 www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-...