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Out of work copywriter, now a self-employed gardener. Woke, Antifa, RLS, etc. Love books, history, music, politics, old maps, geography, trees, sci-fi, cats…. Based in Bexhill, UK. #NoPasaran

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Military Leaders See Iran War as “God’s Divine Plan” — a Chilling Turn for Trump’s Fascism A military watchdog has been “inundated” with complaints that officials are using end-times Christian rhetoric to justify war.

This is chilling. But political and military leaders do not need to share eschatological commitments to enact End Times. The U.S. and its allies have also unleashed apocalyptic destruction without a driving religious belief in Jesus’s return @theintercept.com. theintercept.com/2026/03/05/i...

05.03.2026 22:46 👍 80 🔁 40 💬 5 📌 0

It’s shameful, it really is.

06.03.2026 07:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Ouch! 😂

05.03.2026 21:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This appears to be genuine. The Iranian ship was taking part in Indian naval exercises 2000 miles away and had no reason to be attacked. It was not a direct threat and was given no warning. Then the survivors were left to die. Surely this is a war crime?

05.03.2026 19:35 👍 36 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 10
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DOJ admits 47,635 Epstein files — including Trump allegations — were removed (The Independent) The Department of Justice has withheld from the public nearly 48,000 files stemming from investigations into Jeffrey Epstein,after publishing more than 2 mil...

47,635 Epstein files, including allegations against Trump, were removed. Why? This is corruption at the highest level. How is this even allowed?

www.smartnews.com/en-us/articl...

05.03.2026 16:47 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

On the button as usual!

05.03.2026 07:36 👍 24 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Socially Conscious United Majority | Official Status I've officially joined the Socially Conscious United Majority. Join the ranks and get your official card.

I've officially joined #RadicalLeftistScum. Member #1316. Join us!
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04.03.2026 21:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What we are witnessing is a national obscenity.

02.03.2026 16:51 👍 158 🔁 37 💬 12 📌 0
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Siri, show me how to end the war in Iran immediately

02.03.2026 18:41 👍 1479 🔁 447 💬 99 📌 28

We are thinking of the people of Iran right now. The Islamic Republic has been a brutal theocratic dictatorship, but Iran is a society of extraordinary depth, culture & resilience. Although we feel powerless right now, we can hold onto hope for a better future this remarkable society and its people.

02.03.2026 15:54 👍 48 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Christopher who?

In May, a party founded eight years ago, with no record in national government and only eight MPs, will fight elections in Wales and Scotland, and for control of councils across England, with every chance of winning many of them. British politics is being reshaped by Reform UK. This is a result of Nigel Farage's personality and of Christopher Harborne's money - £9m, from a fortune amassed largely through cryptocurrency investments. The party would not be able to field candidates, run social media operations or door-to-door campaigns if it weren't for the Harborne war chest. There is a template for crypto-funded campaigning - in the US, where it is viewed as having led to securing crypto-friendly legislation and sweetheart deals to enrich crypto charlatans and undermine transparency and accountability in politics.

Reform threatens to destroy the Conservatives as a party of government and divide communities, increasingly along ethnic lines and with overtly racist arguments. It also poses the most serious threat to Keir Starmer's government, Harborne lives in Thailand and owns a 12% stake in the Tether stablecoin. Little else is known about this intensely private man. Yet he can influence the course of politics, seemingly without either much of a business or life in the UK. It's a lot like overseas interference in British democracy.

Didn't someone once say: "Take back control"?

Christopher who? In May, a party founded eight years ago, with no record in national government and only eight MPs, will fight elections in Wales and Scotland, and for control of councils across England, with every chance of winning many of them. British politics is being reshaped by Reform UK. This is a result of Nigel Farage's personality and of Christopher Harborne's money - £9m, from a fortune amassed largely through cryptocurrency investments. The party would not be able to field candidates, run social media operations or door-to-door campaigns if it weren't for the Harborne war chest. There is a template for crypto-funded campaigning - in the US, where it is viewed as having led to securing crypto-friendly legislation and sweetheart deals to enrich crypto charlatans and undermine transparency and accountability in politics. Reform threatens to destroy the Conservatives as a party of government and divide communities, increasingly along ethnic lines and with overtly racist arguments. It also poses the most serious threat to Keir Starmer's government, Harborne lives in Thailand and owns a 12% stake in the Tether stablecoin. Little else is known about this intensely private man. Yet he can influence the course of politics, seemingly without either much of a business or life in the UK. It's a lot like overseas interference in British democracy. Didn't someone once say: "Take back control"?

From yesterday's Observer.

02.03.2026 08:26 👍 547 🔁 216 💬 12 📌 11
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a slurring Trump in new video on American troops killed by Iran: “Sadly, there will likely be more before it ends. That's the way it is. Likely be more.“

01.03.2026 21:29 👍 5610 🔁 1740 💬 1578 📌 1144

True, but it’s not very professional as a supposedly unbiased news organisation to give oxygen to someone who is blatantly trying to undermine our social fabric.

01.03.2026 16:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yup.

01.03.2026 11:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If they’d all voted Reform it would’t have been an issue for them.

01.03.2026 11:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don’t understand why he’s given so much oxygen by the media. The Daily Hate I can understand, but the BBC seem quote him at every opportunity, which is wrong.

01.03.2026 11:25 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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What an utterly disgusting and dangerous front page from the Mail today. Surely by now everyone can see that Reform is a party that thrives on division, fuels anger, and uses the scapegoating of minorities and migrants to gain support. Everyone it seems except the Mail

01.03.2026 08:28 👍 1712 🔁 399 💬 191 📌 35
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An excellent explanation of the current situation in Iran (by an Iranian).

28.02.2026 23:01 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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Hmmmm.

28.02.2026 19:31 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Matt Goodwin in typical desperation claims he's been robbed, drops a final bit of bare-faced racism, and slithers back down the M6, never to be seen in Manchester again.

27.02.2026 08:11 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Sophie’s last words:

“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause. Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?”

22.02.2026 12:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Remembering Sophie and Hans Scholl and their friend Christoph Probst today. They were executed on 22 February 1943 for distributing leaflets against the Nazis.

At a time when the USA has a blatantly fascist President and the UK has a far right party leading the polls now is the time to be vigilant.

22.02.2026 10:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I wish they were too. I’ve just re-posted something from them on Threads.

21.02.2026 23:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Disappearing Bodies: Epstein, ICE, and the Hidden Architecture of Gangster Capitalism Disappearance under neoliberal fascism does not operate through a single institutional or aesthetic form. Alongside the spectacular violence of ICE raids,

“Any viable form of resistance must therefore aim not to humanize this system, but to dismantle and overthrow it before disappearance becomes the final, normalized condition of political life.”

www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/20/d...

20.02.2026 08:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We’re about to go to war with Iran without any political consensus or even a stated goal. We’re doing it because a criminal in the White House feels like it and must think he can profit from it.
This is madness. Every Republican who has made our Congress meaningless will have blood on their hands.

19.02.2026 21:24 👍 245 🔁 93 💬 11 📌 8
Tweet from CNN Reporter: "New banner went up at DOJ headquarters this afternoon"

Tweet from CNN Reporter: "New banner went up at DOJ headquarters this afternoon"

Beyond parody.

How many dictatorship-style monuments, building name changes, and fake awards do Americans have to endure?

19.02.2026 20:47 👍 5050 🔁 1413 💬 626 📌 133
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"It is difficult to comprehend the level of state-sponsored criminality we are witnessing because our country has never experienced anything like it."- #NYDailyNews

(wait'll ya experience the midterms...)

#AccountabilityIsComing ⚖️

19.02.2026 20:37 👍 15927 🔁 4834 💬 582 📌 175

If a Prince can be held accountable, so can a President.

19.02.2026 12:45 👍 5694 🔁 1234 💬 212 📌 65
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Rep Ted Lieu, "in the Epstein files there's highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children"

18.02.2026 17:47 👍 377 🔁 172 💬 20 📌 14
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“If this guy isn’t impeached and removed, what’s the point to the whole Constitution? You can’t have a fucking criminal running the government for his own benefit screwing the people. And that’s what we have.”

17.02.2026 20:57 👍 9563 🔁 3221 💬 457 📌 193