Dave

(please do not talk to me about the contents of the article, I haven't read it)

Opinion: Middle East War Be glad of Starmer's caution over Iran Bellicose critics of the UK Prime Minister have learnt nothing from the recent past Janan Ganesh

The Financial Times app has developed a horrifying glitch which means that every time I open it it automatically loads up Janan Ganesh's latest Starmer apologism. This is basically my home screen now. Feels like targeted psychological persecution.

Our understanding is that the police's entire "intelligence" basis for the raid was "a social media post about targeting the rich" rather than specific plans for any protests actions.

“We want to be involved in the process of ​choosing the person who is going to lead Iran into the future, so we don’t have to go back every five years and do this again and again,” Trump told Reuters in a telephone interview on Thursday.

Insane.

Of course li'l buddy, you're twelve.

what does the violence of immigration enforcement look like with denyer at its head? why have green parties globally shifted to the right wherever they've achieved power? what does it mean that they've no class basis to their support? does it affect the structural dependence of the state on capital?

Wow, and they say protest doesn't achieve anything!

🧵There’s a very obvious problem with withdrawing support from asylum seekers: what happens next? Let’s consider some non mutually exclusive possibilities…

Cops are the thinnest-skinned little brats on the planet.

Oooh, did daddy's special little cherub feel a bit harassed, alarmed, and distressed? Poor dear.

I really wish y’all would learn the tiniest bit of Middle East history and dispense with the “Iran is all a plot to distract from the Epstein Files” thesis.

Trump fully believes, as he said, that he can “kill someone on 5th Avenue” and get away with it.

Geopolitics is more complicated, folks.

Depraved to do this while war is breaking out across multiple countries.

Incredible work.

"international law" has never not been a political mechanism through which the imperialist competition between nations is enacted.

US strikes on Iran ‘outside international law,’ says Macron Macron joins Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez in calling the legality of the strikes into question.

Macron eyes up the chaotic actions of the US and calculates there might be an opening to elevate France as a superpower.

i wind up tweeting this basically every time there's an article like this, but the fundamental thing to me: ask yourself whether you earnestly believe there's more social pressure to be trans, or more social pressure to be cis. it's actually a super easy one!

True but also they'd rather kill him as well than get a peace deal.

Asking?

“Back in the day, a lynching was called a suicide with a wink and a smile... In the present day, they’re still called suicides. But now people take that seriously.”

And here was me worried about 2010 United Kingdom!

Glanced at this and started idly doing the coalition maths and had the horrifying vision of a political scenario in which everyone is wooing the Liberal Democrats.

So funny that history has conspired to pair Starmer, a man whose highest ambition is to be a level-headed lawyerly technocrat, with Donald Trump, an impulsive fascist. A lifetime of bland adherence to rules and norms brings him to power just in time to meekly watch them get steamrollered.

Everyone needs to be integrated (but not into the career ladder).

The problem with the ephemerality of social media and the rapid news cycle is that absolute bangers like this get forgotten, not put in museums where they belong.

The process by which countries make these agreements is called "imperialism".

She's basically right about this.

Everyone is laughing at the electoral stupidity of actively insulting voters but if your party line is that the country is on the brink of being overrun by hippies and foreigners then this is surely more effective than graciously accepting defeat.

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Absolutely incredible.

“How many of these gentle people have I helped to kill just by paying my taxes?" June Jordan, 1984

“Our attack was so successful we inadvertently created a power vacuum” is a new one to me tbh