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"We've all got opinions Where do they come from? Each day seems like a natural fact And what we think changes how we act." He/they Moving from Twitter. Check here sporadically. Substack available at: https://substack.com/@weirdleftramblings
Nobody ever appointed Mandelson on moral or ideological grounds. They did so because he had more cunning and Machiavellian nous than they did, and if that was true even for Tony Blair, it’s certainly true for Keir Starmer.
I know ousting sitting prime ministers is very much not the historic culture of the Parliamentary Labour Party, but I don't really understand how this can be the case and they're all still prevaricating about a leadership challenge
Sometimes people wonder why I hate/left Florida….
Essay came out today - apparently Bluesky thinks is it “adult content”
And unless it's a cost-free government ID, it's a POLL TAX. If you have to pay the government for a document that you must have to vote, that is a POLL TAX.
The SNP have reported Peter Mandelson to the police amid the latest revelations over his links to Jeffrey Epstein
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...
Question: how did Mandelson forward government emails from a personal email account within four minutes of receiving them?
Surely he wasn’t permitted a blackberry with both personal and government email access?
NEW: Previously unreported Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson discussing a Panama-linked tax avoidance structure for a £750k Rio apartment - with Epstein as his "chief life adviser".
Exclusive Tax Policy Associates report:
the mad thing is that when Mandelson went on the BBC earlier this month for a grand Sunday geopolitical interview, he knew that the FT knew about the Epstein payments to his husband, and that they were about to come out
I recall Martin Pugh making a point towards the end of his history of the Labour Party book from 2010 when trying to work out what Blair actually believed that Blair was ultimately really impressed by other powerful figures and therefore quite accommodating to conservative figures like Bush Junior.
We or people with money need to very quickly get people in archives and talking to people who research the Underground Railroad .
there is not a vast conspiracy by pedophile billionaires. capitalists naturally operate outside legality and naturally look out for and protect each other. that's why they use their main email accounts and barely even try to hide it
Yesterday evening, Peter Mandelson told me "I've never owned property in Brazil and never will".
Then we discovered the Brazilian company he incorporated, "for the purpose of purchasing and selling real estate".
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A reminder that Reform's candidate for Gorton and Denton, Matt Goodwin, has still not explained what he meant by this claim that developments in genetic science will make younger generations more right wing as they understand the "inherent differences" between different groups
DeKeseredy & Schwartz (2016) argue that perpetrators can be motivated by male bonding: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
(This article is specifically about image-based abuse, but DeKeseredy’s earlier work on male support theory is cited and built upon within it)
The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn't exactly women's credibility, as the "believe women" slogan suggested, but rather with rape's moral status. It's not that people think it doesn't happen. They think it doesn't matter. Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanba... • 2d It's disturbing to see many of the the major figures in moral cognition all over the Epstein files He was friendly with a huge number of the leading figures in the field, including giving millions to their labs, long after he pled guilty to sexually abusing young girls
even more bleak than that: there are *people* who matter, most of them very rich men, and then there is an enormous class of people who don’t matter at all, to whom those men can say and do anything. When the latter class sought justice against the former, the rich guys went *absolutely apeshit*.
My latest: Conservative “womanosphere” influencers are panicking as their female audiences turn against ICE.
Riley Gaines: ““I encourage you, actually, like, I am begging you, I am pleading – think critically, think independently, think for yourself.”
open.substack.com/pub/numbertw...
If this is supposed to be some consession to public outrage may I remind you of who Tom Homan is: www.mediamatters.org/tom-homan/he...
"Maine’s surge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement action is entering its second week ...
"Federal officials have said they have arrested more than 200 people in Maine."
Not just Minnesota. Not acceptable anywhere.
let’s get the occupation armies out of Maine, California, Illinois, and the District of Columbia!
no rest until we’re all free
Mainers are being kidnapped by ICE. Mainers rights are being violated. #IceOutOfME
ICE is escalating in Maine & folks’ efforts there should be followed and boosted! wgme.com/news/local/m...
The Portland Press Herald is on the ground covering the ICE surge in Maine without a paywall as a public service.
Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
Other Maine news organizations:
@mainepublic.org
@pressherald.com
@mainemorningstar.com
ICE operations are spinning up in Maine. @themainemonitor.org is looking to help report on ICE activity there and has set up a page to report what you're seeing. Also includes Signal and encrypted Protonmail options for secure communications.
