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@jwmason.bsky.social wondering if this is worth commenting on? I default to crypto is bs but wonder if this is an actual use and how it could go wrong. kdwalmsley.substack.com/p/the-brics-...

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

One way to think of Briefcase Labour is that they are like American adult converts to Catholicism (conservatism), from which they pick the bits that they think justify their cruelty and sense of personal importance, while rejecting even the slimmest application of rules and tradition to themselves

drives me fucking batty that elected Democrats to a man did not see coming the extremely obvious effects of local nightly news segments about ICE trying to kidnap first graders on public sentiment re: immigration enforcement

Bless. Such memories.

The UK govt’s decades-long efforts to keep details of its intelligence agencies’ involvement in CIA’s post-9/11 torture programme hidden will face an “unprecedented” challenge this week as two cases are brought before the investigatory powers tribunal www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

the hard times doesn't miss @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social

Israeli forces have boarded Madleen - the volunteer-crewed ship trying to break siege to deliver aid to starving people in Gaza - and abducted the crew. If you are a citizen of any country whose citizens are on board (France/Germany/Brazil/Sweden), please watch this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjMd...

MAGA Republicans are keen on the use of military force against citizens & the deployment of big tech for mass surveillance. This is a violent, authoritarian movement legitimised by anti-migrant rhetoric. If you don't want that here, we have to stand up before it's too late.

Jeffrey Sachs went to Moscow first as shock therapist, second as Putin's guest. Kind of consistent if you think about the economic conditions that gave rise to Putin.

psa: ohio state university is a bullshit factory

Periodic reminder that there is nothing you can give the far right that will satisfy them. Remove a right, they’ll go after another. Attack a minority, they’ll want worse attacks and find new groups to attack. There’s no end to the authoritarianism. Just more, and worse, until everyone’s crushed.

remember when Cuomo sent thousands of active Covid cases back to nursing homes, causing the deaths of like 6k people, and then covered it up?

Why it's almost as if "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.".

If you stop thinking that Germany's response to anything Israel is about Holocaust guilt and instead about rewriting German history, you'd understand German politics better. 🧵

"Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers," says Trump, who four months ago pardoned people who beat police officers with pipes, flagpoles, baseball bats and 2-by-4s at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Which is more fantastical: the idea that Farage has spent any time seriously thinking about industrialisation, or that seven million people are going to get brilliant careers in fannying about with ChatGTP? Is there a meaningful difference between these things, if neither is real?

New: theonion.com/protesters-u...

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

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards

i know everybody is focused on the Epstein files but THIS is the one we should be focused on...rigging an election. Rigging *THE* election.

Do I have any comment on the Parthenon Marbles? Well, it's a big relief!

the sooner everyone is prevented from going to America the better

Irish Government Minister crowing, in Trumpian fashion, about deporting people, including children, while their classmates in D8 are traumatised to lose their friends so suddenly.What a nasty man he is! #speirgorm school 'devastated' to lose children who were deported, principal says jrnl.ie/6724513

ICE agents are chased and forced to leave their neighborhood by LA residents

I talked to a colleague who worked with UNRWA in Gaza for 6 months. She casually mentioned that all the IDF checkpoints through the Netzarim corridor were ringed by rotting bodies of men, women, and children shot for sport by IDF soldiers as they attempted to pass through.

Fifteen years solid of roaring Islamist sex criminal migrant liberal-treason terror and screaming in fear about the Wokes trying to blackify Oxbridge later: There’s something a bit iffy about that Nigel chap, now that he’s no longer useful and is making us all look like exactly what we are.

"if Farage lets others reach for the dog whistle, he may find he has lost control of the tune" Don't need to be a psychologist to know this column has little to do with Farage/Reform -its Fraser's apologia for his promotion of racism & fascism as Spectator editor www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...