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Nelson Stanley
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the defining characteristic of white supremacists is they think you're as stupid as they are
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A British spin-doctor working for Israeli firm Elbit, whose UK factories have been arming the genocide in Gaza, boasted she planted an evidence-free story in the Times about Palestine Action being funded by Iran, a witness tells Private Eye.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/pr-firm...
PR firm 'planted story' about Iran funding Palestine Action in media, report says
Head of CMS Strategic, which works for Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems, was allegedly heard by witness saying she placed story in The Times before group's proscription
www.middleeasteye.net
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Rachel Reeves implies that everyone should pay more tax.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says 10% of the UK population owns 57% of wealth, while 50% own less than 5%.

Inequality is fuelled by a tax system stacked in favour of the ultra-rich.

Here's how things could be fairer.

bit.ly/47C9462
How to raise £60 billion for public services: our ten tax reforms
The UK’s super-rich have accumulated record levels of wealth in recent years, while our public services have been decimated and inequality has soared.
taxjustice.uk
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In Memoriam:

Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War
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I’m Proud Veteran, and I agree with this message
The person in there attacking the article 'cos it uses the word "Islamophobia", & they appear to mostly have a problem with employing the suffix "-phobia" in general English language usage, is one for the Louvre.
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He also said in the post Oct 7 world borders are no longer sacred so you can stay stationed across them.

I think people need to realise this sets precedence beyond Lebanon & Gaza and that other illiberal forces/actors will take this as a model.
Amit Segal, the de facto spokesman of Netanyahu, was interviewed by Ezra Klein a few days ago.

Here is how he describes the "ceasefire" with Lebanon, which he views as the model for Gaza.
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November submissions are OPEN!

The theme for the November submission period is REVOLUTIONS!

We pay $0.10/word! More info on how to submit is on our website: www.khoreomag.com/submissions-...
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my new movie
I Love Boosters

starring
Keke Palmer, Demi Moore, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Lakeith Stanfield, Will Poulter, Eiza Gonzalez, and Poppy Liu

will be in theaters May 22nd (Memorial Day Weekend)

Distributed in the US by Neon
Distributed internationally by Focus/Universal.
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This fanatical commitment to portraying racialised Others as inherently bestial is an unmistakable characteristic of a very specific kind of politics.
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
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There is ample evidence that privatized public services are strangling households and extracting obscene profits off citizens. And there's shit in your water.
There is zero evidence that nationalising public services would lower bills. Detail on exactly how this would work, and exactly what this wealth tax would look like, are also terribly thin on the ground. I rather suspect that, dear heart, is why people are calling you "vibes".
Greens - Lower bills through nationalising our public services, wealth tax on assets and huge increase in investment in our public services.

Labour - ID Cards, random statements about flags and Austerity 2.0.

But apparently the Green Party are the "vibes era?"

Make it make sense!
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"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.
Did the rail companies not spend most of the last 3 years lobbying to sack everyone at ticket stations...? Did I imagine this?
anyone calling for "airport style security" at railway stations is invited to go to Peterborough railway station and point out where you would put such a thing that can handle that many passengers?
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Such a perfect example of what we all give up when we refuse to address basic inequalities. I don't want to live in a country where all the public space is militarized to keep hungry people from stealing food, just give them money to buy food!
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
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I recall around 1990 an elderly supply teacher explaining to my class what war is actually like, macho mythology aside. The sound bullets make. Men crying for their mummys as they die on the battlefield. It's haunted me ever since, and certainly played a role in politicising me.
As a teen or young adult in the 1990s you had constant encounters with people in their 50s-80s who were combatants, victims or perpetrators during catastrophes of the mid-20th century

That direct link to realities of Nazism and other forms of oppression such as Stalinism or colonialism is now gone
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Yeah, it should have taken most people about five minutes back in 2015-16 to see that it was mostly just dumb assholes looking for excuses to be their worst selves.

Everything after that has been the professional class trying to chase their dollars.
bsky.app/profile/mich...
I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.

We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
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Did nobody ask why a bunch of squillionaires who are not particularly smart and instead earned their fortunes in what is basically a casino for rich people, might want to create a machine that makes stupid people sound clever, and also generates fake footage of whatever wacko bullshit they want.
So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!

This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...
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“At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending…”

archive.ph/2TI8J
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Horrific reports of RSF militia massacring hundreds of civilians in El Fasher, Sudan.

It is an open secret that the RSF is being financed and armed by the UAE.

Why on earth has our government continued to allow arms sales to the UAE during this conflict?
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Russian bots been sneaking newspapers into the Tesco my entire life
Was it Russian bots that made Nigel Farage a household name? Was it Russian bots that spent the last fifteen years furiously telling the public e.g. liberals who refuse to be racist are helping minority group criminals to commit horrendous sex crimes. And so on, and on, and on.