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In retaliation against the US for killing Khamenei, Iran will let Donald Trump continue to live.

01.03.2026 15:55 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

stunning!

26.02.2026 15:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

They might understand that if you could give freedom and life a more, sort of, monetary value?

26.02.2026 15:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Witness the civil war and the Gordon Riots.

26.02.2026 15:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you denounce the Iranian massacre of protesters, but not the Gaza genocide, you're wrong

If you denounce the Gaza genocide, but not the Iranian massacre of protesters, you're wrong

The very same applies to the US invasion of Iraq, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine

It's called *consistency*.

21.02.2026 11:49 👍 473 🔁 110 💬 19 📌 4

civil war?

20.02.2026 16:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Definite resonance with Berlin 1936.

18.02.2026 15:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

In terms of brutal realpolitik it would seem obvious that both America and Russia would want a weak and a divided EU.

18.02.2026 15:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

well said

16.02.2026 00:56 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Consumptive Capitalism On MAHA and Expensive Suffering -- A Guest Post by Sara Silverstein

Consumptive Capitalism
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

16.02.2026 00:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It seems strange tome now to see white swans.

09.02.2026 16:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think that he is incapable of caring.

03.02.2026 00:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thinking lots about baking lately. Wittgenstein apparently once wrote that ‘Raisins may be the best part of a cake; but a bag of raisins is not better than a cake.’ @nigelwarburton.bsky.social calls this Wittgenstein's 'critique of pure raisin', which rather made my day. @wiglet1981.bsky.social

22.12.2025 15:52 👍 96 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 5

Australians all own ostriches
Four minus one is three.
With olden royals, we're fair and loyal,
Our home is dirt by sea.
I learned to bounce on nature strips
In booties stitched with care.
In mystery's haze, let's harvest maize
And plant azaleas there.

25.01.2026 08:18 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Killed for having a gun? Where are the second amendment people?

25.01.2026 02:46 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No-one should think that the United States can legitimise anything outside of its own borders. Unless, perhaps, it gets United Nations support. Might does not make right.

19.01.2026 04:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Kharkiv today. Russia continues to destroy our critical infrastructure.

17.01.2026 21:47 👍 177 🔁 65 💬 5 📌 6

We will remember them.

17.01.2026 02:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is obviously rubbish. Blood has already, clearly, been shed - it is on the snow. I guess that what is meant is that bloodshed will only come from the right if the left does not reciprocate in kind. That the revolutions success does not depend upon the left so reciprocating. I am not so sure.

11.01.2026 10:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Could it be that the altruism of the many enables the egotism of the few?

31.12.2025 10:27 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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30.12.2025 02:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail - Abby Innes

29.12.2025 03:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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24.12.2025 18:16 👍 16 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

It is not cynicism, it is not a mistake, it is not a short term political play - he is a very unpleasant right wing nut job who wants Russia, and autocracy, to win.

22.12.2025 14:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pregnant women vaccinated against COVID-19 less likely to be hospitalized or deliver prematurely, new data show

Pregnant women who develop COVID-19 after vaccination are much less likely to be hospitalised, need intensive care, or deliver early.

A Canadian study of nearly 20,000 pregnant women found vaccination cut hospitalisation risk by 62% and critical care risk by 90% compared with unvaccinated women.

16.12.2025 01:33 👍 190 🔁 68 💬 1 📌 4
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Why is there SO MUCH APATHY about the planetary climate emergency?

#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #america #Politics-matter #PoliticsNation #Ethics #SocialJustice #Klimapolitik #ClimateActionNow #ClimateChange #BCClimateAction #FalseConsciousness

14.12.2025 21:29 👍 26 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
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#USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MidasMighty #america #Politics-matter #PoliticsNation #Ethics #SocialJustice #bcpoli #abpoli #topoli #Klimapolitik #ClimateActionNow #ClimateChange #Climate #Ecosocialism #environment #Nature #BCClimateAction #capitalism #FalseConsciousness

13.12.2025 18:04 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

This aethiest anarcho-communist does not! But... point taken.

12.12.2025 02:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If the big powers always won the USA would have had no problems in Vietnam or Afghanistan.

09.12.2025 16:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And Ukrainian journalists, civil society, and legal institutions still work.

07.12.2025 19:54 👍 1862 🔁 609 💬 23 📌 6