#Roman Emperor Claudius died #OnThisDay in AD 54. He was poisoned under mysterious circumstances and succeeded by his adoptive son, Nero. 1/2

📷 Marie-Lan Nguyen, Naples National Archaeological Museum / CC BY 2.5

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It actually doesn't matter too much if Starmer is going to be able to pull off some grand coalition against fascism if he's not willing to arrest Elon for openly funding and preaching a violent overthrow of your government.

Just as a pro tip from the US, if the election is going to be existential, then your country already lost it.

You need to start figuring out who is funding the nazis, call for the UK's laws to be enforced and make sure that they are.

It seems pretty clear to me now: Keir Starmer would rather lose to Reform than to the Labour left, which is his real enemy. Any policy that might recover lost ground with voters has to be struck down, as it looks like a concession to the Labour left. And he and his team cannot contemplate that.

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

This is something that, when I finally got around to reading it, I meant to just skim, and ended up reading all the way through. I would put this up with Adam Serwer's "The Cruelty Is the Point" article (archive.ph/NjiSx) as one of the key explainers of why things are so bad today.

‘Why did he/Tories Tories sign them?’

Because they are incompetent and corrupt charlatans?

My “No Threat to Financial Condition or Momentum from Investment Losses” shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.

Iggy Pop is mother nature: best podcasts of the week

Directly, or on the cave wall?

"'Gently admonishes algae' kills wildlife en masse"

---ya know Jim, I don't think this is working"

“We’re cold, but not as cold as ICE,” said a sign on one rider’s back.

This is a really excellent piece and, I think, deeply insightful of our current moment’s predicament.

Sikh man with tumour held by US immigration denied medical care - family

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Absolutely superb effort by all those who voted for this, many of whom are now dead.

"Keane and Riemer...have argued that criticizing Zionism or Israel is not racist hate speech."

It is ludicrous that this commonsense position should have to be defended in court.

And shows just how far the Israel lobby will go to silence their critics. #auspol
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Israel's apartheid regime is a cancer on the face of global democracy.

Appalling and sloppy... but EVEN more so when you consider the show's subject matter...

Why is the gas industry notorious for paying so little tax, despite making billions in revenue?

Santos has made it 10 years in a row paying no tax!

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#auspol

Santos bought - and buys - Australian pols: criminals of a feather do bribing together.

And this is why us leftist Christians keep talking about how it feels like two different religions: because when it comes down to it, they do not think WE are real Christians and will treat us accordingly when we follow Christ to stand up for the marginalized and oppressed.

It’s time that Russia’s malign influence on British politics was properly investigated.

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'Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

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Not just elections. I still think back on doing traffic safety for a small march in a northern suburb of Denver and having the cops literally redirecting traffic back at us. When one of us went to ask them to stop actively endangering ppl, the cop said "can't, we've been defunded."