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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d

Yesterday, Trump awarded Charlie Kirk a Medal of Freedom and named 10/14 a National Day of Remembrance for an unabashed advocate for white supremacy and fascism.

Shame has lost its meaning and power. And so has liberalism. My new essay for The New Republic:
newrepublic.com/article/2015...

Why Shame No Longer Works in American Politics

While it once played a role in binding society, shame has lost its power—and so have the liberal tools that depend on it.

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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 8d

If you reduce taxation on property, the 'saving' will be capitalised in to house prices, enriching existing owners whilst not increasing homeownership. Property tax needs reform not lowering. Abolish stamp duty & replace with annual proportional property tax.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tories will scrap stamp duty on primary residences, Kemi Badenoch tells conference

Leader announces tax cut plan for England and Northern Ireland in speech aimed at boosting fiscal credibility

www.theguardian.com

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 13d

The anti-genocide protests are not made against the Jewish community. They're not even made against Israel per se. They are primarily against *our own government*, and it's complicity in the genocide being carried out by the Israeli state. The home secretary's remarks should be seen in that context.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 13d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked about the Home Secretarys comments that yesterdays protests about Israels actions were dishonourable (she also said they were unBritish).

Zack is spot on.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 21d

Exclusive: Reform's plan, which it claims would net huge savings over the coming decades, would actually cost the UK about £70-90bn over the next ten years alone, new analysis suggests

Farage's Trillion Pound Black Hole: The Real Cost of Reform UK's Mass Deportation Plan

www.bylinesupplement.com

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isabella pojuner @ipojuner.bsky.social · 27d

thank you!

isabella pojuner @ipojuner.bsky.social · 28d

this hybrid event is part of perpetual stew, an annual series platforming peer-to-peer education around land and knowledge justice. londoners, join in person at the house of annetta from tomorrow to next wednesday! full details and programme can be found here: www.instagram.com/p/DOizpRrjKz...

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isabella pojuner @ipojuner.bsky.social · 28d

it's 100 years since the land registry (and therefore the modern property market) was established in england and wales. next tuesday i'll be talking with @sarahkeenan.bsky.social, lorna fox o'mahony and lucy finchett-maddock about the politics of registration. join: www.eventbrite.ca/e/perpetual-...

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · Sep 16

"Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds"

The UN joins other experts including the International Association of Genocide Scholars, Holocaust historians, and multitudes of lawyers in concluding this is genocide.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds

GENEVA – Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, a...

www.ohchr.org

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Aug 29

The first large-scale Nazi book burning was on 6 May 1933, when Magnus Hirschfeld's Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was attacked by Nazi students. It would take decades for science to recover the knowledge about trans-affirming healthcare that was destroyed that day.

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isabella pojuner @ipojuner.bsky.social · Jun 23

sweet! take care n speak soon

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isabella pojuner @ipojuner.bsky.social · Jun 23

thank you for this analysis alex!!

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isabella pojuner @ipojuner.bsky.social · Jun 23

vital links between food production and fascism in britain made in @vittles.bsky.social this morning — including labour's renewal of the seasonal worker scheme which could be in violation of intl. human rights law. food sovereignty and land justice now!

Alex Heffron @alexheffron.bsky.social · Jun 23

“Given that the majority of the general population supports British farmers, the vision of the farmer that Clarkson wants to paint – as a hard-grafting, common-sense, anti-woke Volk – could lay some of the groundwork to enable a home-grown British fascism to take root.”

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Blood, soil, and Jeremy Clarkson

Does Clarkson’s emergence as an unlikely symbol of the farmer protests reflect a worrying rise in far-right agrarian populism? Words by Alex Heffron. Illustration by Alex Brenchley.

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isabella pojuner @ipojuner.bsky.social · Apr 24

a really exciting time for the english land question, as guy shrubsole outlines here, + context and some key cleavages

Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · Apr 24

Land reform once united Orwell and Churchill - but then disappeared from our politics.

Now, at last, land reform in England is back on the political agenda.

My new piece for @unherd.com:

unherd.com/2025/04/can-...

Will Starmer take on landowners?

unherd.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Apr 11

I would say more broadly that as policy you really shouldn’t allow government officials to accuse people of *terrorism* anonymously.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · Apr 10

You’re not supposed to grant anonymity to liars. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The White House official — who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the new program — said those who were moved into the Social Security database this week all have ties to terrorist activity or criminal records. The official did not provide evidence of the alleged crimes or terrorist ties but said some are included on the FBI’s terror watch list.

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isabella pojuner @ipojuner.bsky.social · Mar 27

truly an honour to hear the #AAG2025 honorary geographer gwendolyn warren give an oral history of the context and formation of the detroit geographical expedition and institute (DGEI) today. so many critical lessons for geographers working on political education projects @geographers.bsky.social

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isabella pojuner @ipojuner.bsky.social · Mar 26

at #AAG2025 this week! on friday at 12.50, i'll be presenting on research conducted with @samburgum.bsky.social on how those criminalised under laws of trespass negotiate spaces of discretion. will be focusing on our work with gypsies and travellers in west yorkshire @geographers.bsky.social

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isabella pojuner @ipojuner.bsky.social · Mar 19

SFU and UBC! nick blomley, brenna bhandar and more … many critical property scholars all shaped by the unique legal context of interactions between so called british columbia and first nations here

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Andy Wightman @andywightman.scot · Mar 17

BLOG - Who Owns Scotland 2024. My annual analysis of who owns Scotland which reveals a growing concentration in the pattern of privately-owned rural landownership since 2012. andywightman.scot/2025/03/who-...

Who Owns Scotlands 2024 - Land Matters

Today I have published what I plan to be an annual analysis of who owns Scotland. The Who Owns Scotland 2024 report is based on an analysis of data from the Who Owns Scotland website as at 31 January ...

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Jon Moses @jon-moses.bsky.social · Mar 11

This isn't a 'scheme' it's a business arrangement. Nor is it offering 'unprecedented access': it's just charging people for a campsite with no actual facilities. Why is the @theguardian.com publishing commercial advertising as news?

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

New scheme to offer campers unprecedented access to wild spaces across Britain

A new partnership will give campers exclusive access to rewilding sites and a chance to join in with conservation efforts

www.theguardian.com

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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · Mar 6

Shaina Potts has written a brilliant & incredibly timely book about law, capital, and American empire.

I tried to do justice to it in this review essay (which hopefully will lead you to the book itself):

How the US Courts Rewrote the Rules of International Trade

Shaina Potts’s Judicial Territory examines how the American legal system created an economic environment that subordinated the entire world to domestic business interests.

www.thenation.com

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · Mar 6

Huge win! Government announces plans to open up the Land Registry.

If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales.

Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens:

whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h...

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Huge win! Government announces plan to open up Land Registry

This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Today the UK Government has announced plans to open up the Land Registry – which, if delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wale…

whoownsengland.org

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isabella pojuner @ipojuner.bsky.social · Mar 6

congratulations guy! grateful for your relentless work and campaigning

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isabella pojuner @ipojuner.bsky.social · Mar 6

excited to be facilitating this workshop with my fellow folk and miknaf ha'aretz, next tuesday 19:30-21:00 GMT / 11:30-13:00 PT. join us for an introduction to this new project on land dispossession in england, and its international implications. tickets here: www.miknafhaaretz.co.uk/events

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · Mar 4

imagine lecturing people on free speech and then doing this

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Jake Romm @jakeromm.bsky.social · Feb 27

For Parapraxis Magazine, I wrote about Zionist Holocaust trauma and ideological dynamics that have moved Zionism towards the present genocide

parapraxismagazine.com/articles/ide...

Idée Fixe — Parapraxis

Holocaust trauma and Zionist exterminationism Jake Romm

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