@holdenmiguel.bsky.social
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Starmer urges EU to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right. Because as we know, the way you beat the far right is to accede to all their demands and adopt racism as your central principle.
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Starmer urges EU to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right. Because as we know, the way you beat the far right is to accede to all their demands and adopt racism as your central principle.
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There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing.
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing.
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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I live in ’rural Ireland’. I hate this tradition. Hunting an animal with a crowd of people on horses and a pack of dogs is a cruel farce. If someone tried to start it today, the law would consider it straight up animal abuse. Please sign the petition: my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe... @uplift.ie
Ban the hunting of foxes with packs of dogs on horseback in Ireland
Can you support this campaign to bring in legislation banning the hunting of foxes using packs of dogs and horses?
my.uplift.ie
December 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
I live in ’rural Ireland’. I hate this tradition. Hunting an animal with a crowd of people on horses and a pack of dogs is a cruel farce. If someone tried to start it today, the law would consider it straight up animal abuse. Please sign the petition: my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe... @uplift.ie
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one thing I think we shouldn't lose sight of: these people are stupid, their ideas are bad, they are always wrong about everything. there is no mea culpa big enough to erase the fact that they have a child's understanding of the world and their vision for the future is not worth taking seriously
Since tariffs, I noticed a surprising trend: elite Trump supporters saying they might have made a mistake. So I asked them what they were thinking, both in November and today.
One big takeaway: they thought Elon was actually competent. That error proved catastrophic.
www.vox.com/on-the-right...
One big takeaway: they thought Elon was actually competent. That error proved catastrophic.
www.vox.com/on-the-right...
Some elite Trump supporters are having regrets. We asked them why.
After the tariffs, they’re worried they made a MAGA mistake.
www.vox.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
one thing I think we shouldn't lose sight of: these people are stupid, their ideas are bad, they are always wrong about everything. there is no mea culpa big enough to erase the fact that they have a child's understanding of the world and their vision for the future is not worth taking seriously
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Trump makes it worryingly clear in his National Security Strategy: he wants to take down the EU, destroy the European Green Deal and allow unfettered EU access to US tech, oil and gas companies. This must be resisted.
December 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Trump makes it worryingly clear in his National Security Strategy: he wants to take down the EU, destroy the European Green Deal and allow unfettered EU access to US tech, oil and gas companies. This must be resisted.
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The fact that Netflix could afford to buy warner brothers means they could've afforded to let us share passwords.
December 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The fact that Netflix could afford to buy warner brothers means they could've afforded to let us share passwords.
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It's very obvious that if any other prominent politician had been so racist in school that it's haunted 20+ former classmates ever since, it would be treated like a bigger deal. We should examine how and why "still being very racist four decades later" is acting as Farage's protective shield.
December 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
It's very obvious that if any other prominent politician had been so racist in school that it's haunted 20+ former classmates ever since, it would be treated like a bigger deal. We should examine how and why "still being very racist four decades later" is acting as Farage's protective shield.
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Israeli settlers uprooted about 850 olive and grape trees owned by Palestinians on Monday. These trees are Palestinian families’ livelihoods.
Israeli settlers are making the West Bank unlivable for Palestinians by depriving them of their income.
Israeli settlers are making the West Bank unlivable for Palestinians by depriving them of their income.
Israeli settlers uproot hundreds of trees belonging to Palestinian in West Bank
Settlers from the Susya settlement bulldoze and destroy large parts of agricultural land southeast of Massafer Yatta
ow.ly
December 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Israeli settlers uprooted about 850 olive and grape trees owned by Palestinians on Monday. These trees are Palestinian families’ livelihoods.
Israeli settlers are making the West Bank unlivable for Palestinians by depriving them of their income.
Israeli settlers are making the West Bank unlivable for Palestinians by depriving them of their income.
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Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
December 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.
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German students of Cologne University of Music and Dance protest for Palestine and an end to the genocide.
They’ve been facing repressions by their university for taking a stand.
Let them and us not just be a drop in the bucket, please share.
#hfmt #köln #palästina
They’ve been facing repressions by their university for taking a stand.
Let them and us not just be a drop in the bucket, please share.
#hfmt #köln #palästina
December 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
German students of Cologne University of Music and Dance protest for Palestine and an end to the genocide.
They’ve been facing repressions by their university for taking a stand.
Let them and us not just be a drop in the bucket, please share.
#hfmt #köln #palästina
They’ve been facing repressions by their university for taking a stand.
Let them and us not just be a drop in the bucket, please share.
#hfmt #köln #palästina
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First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
December 3, 2025 at 10:05 AM
First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints
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It's a yearly scandal, now decades long.
Nearly €100 million to prop up the horse and greyhound racing industries.
More than 3 times the amount of core funding given to the 87 different sports bodies.
We need rid of these cruel industries that only exist to profit the wealthy few.
Do you agree?
Nearly €100 million to prop up the horse and greyhound racing industries.
More than 3 times the amount of core funding given to the 87 different sports bodies.
We need rid of these cruel industries that only exist to profit the wealthy few.
Do you agree?
December 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It's a yearly scandal, now decades long.
Nearly €100 million to prop up the horse and greyhound racing industries.
More than 3 times the amount of core funding given to the 87 different sports bodies.
We need rid of these cruel industries that only exist to profit the wealthy few.
Do you agree?
Nearly €100 million to prop up the horse and greyhound racing industries.
More than 3 times the amount of core funding given to the 87 different sports bodies.
We need rid of these cruel industries that only exist to profit the wealthy few.
Do you agree?
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It's become normal now for high-level political figures to argue that an entire generation was brainwashed through fake videos into mass anti-Israel political mobilization by TikTok. Complete conspiracy thinking, rooted in zero evidence, based on nothing
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
It's become normal now for high-level political figures to argue that an entire generation was brainwashed through fake videos into mass anti-Israel political mobilization by TikTok. Complete conspiracy thinking, rooted in zero evidence, based on nothing
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The USA has gone rogue 🤬
“My medical insurance refused to reimburse me. I have a private medical insurance and they refused to reimburse me because I'm sanctioned by the US”
Francesca Albanese speaks to mathildamall on Middle East Eye Live about the severe implications of
“My medical insurance refused to reimburse me. I have a private medical insurance and they refused to reimburse me because I'm sanctioned by the US”
Francesca Albanese speaks to mathildamall on Middle East Eye Live about the severe implications of
December 3, 2025 at 5:19 AM
The USA has gone rogue 🤬
“My medical insurance refused to reimburse me. I have a private medical insurance and they refused to reimburse me because I'm sanctioned by the US”
Francesca Albanese speaks to mathildamall on Middle East Eye Live about the severe implications of
“My medical insurance refused to reimburse me. I have a private medical insurance and they refused to reimburse me because I'm sanctioned by the US”
Francesca Albanese speaks to mathildamall on Middle East Eye Live about the severe implications of
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For two years officials and media in Germany dismissed Gaza’s death toll as propaganda. Now the Max Planck Institute released estimates that point to the same patterns seen in past genocides. Latest on my Substack
hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/gaza-genoc...
hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/gaza-genoc...
Germany’s Top Research Institute Confirms What Critics Said All Along About Gaza
For two years officials in Germany dismissed Gaza’s death toll as propaganda. Now the Max Planck Institute released estimates that make such denial impossible – and echo the patterns of past genocides
hannohauenstein.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
For two years officials and media in Germany dismissed Gaza’s death toll as propaganda. Now the Max Planck Institute released estimates that point to the same patterns seen in past genocides. Latest on my Substack
hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/gaza-genoc...
hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/gaza-genoc...
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Stefan Benarroch, two years below Farage at school, has told the Guardian that Ettedgui "was such a gentle soul and Farage – Farage made his life a fucking nightmare." He has also alleged Farage would hang outside where a Jewish service was held to identify and taunt other Jewish boys.
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Stefan Benarroch, two years below Farage at school, has told the Guardian that Ettedgui "was such a gentle soul and Farage – Farage made his life a fucking nightmare." He has also alleged Farage would hang outside where a Jewish service was held to identify and taunt other Jewish boys.
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When anyone objects to describing the US as having & enforcing a global empire, show them this.
November 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
When anyone objects to describing the US as having & enforcing a global empire, show them this.
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I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.”
If they support them they will too.
If they support them they will too.
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I hope every Labour MP considering whether to support Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans remembers Nigel Farage's assessment that the “Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter.”
If they support them they will too.
If they support them they will too.
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Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
usa.streetsblog.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
ALL ROAD USERS.
And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.
For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.
Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
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Is this what NatureScot mean by "make space for nature"? Allow a bunch of blokes to go to a remote Scottish island to slaughter hundreds of Gannet chicks for "tradition". Shameful. Utterly shameful.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Is this what NatureScot mean by "make space for nature"? Allow a bunch of blokes to go to a remote Scottish island to slaughter hundreds of Gannet chicks for "tradition". Shameful. Utterly shameful.
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"..the net worth of the 10 richest US billionaires grew by $698bn in the past year. That money alone, the increment in the wealth of 10 people, is almost 10 times the annual amount required to end extreme poverty worldwide."
Think of how totally grotesque that is.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Think of how totally grotesque that is.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t | George Monbiot
Money talks – and his essay denouncing ‘near-term emissions goals’ at Cop30 mostly argues the case for letting the ultra-rich off the hook
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
"..the net worth of the 10 richest US billionaires grew by $698bn in the past year. That money alone, the increment in the wealth of 10 people, is almost 10 times the annual amount required to end extreme poverty worldwide."
Think of how totally grotesque that is.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Think of how totally grotesque that is.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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and honestly im sick of not pushing back on this specifically
you want to advance human civilization?
- universal health care
- ubi
- green energy
- high speed rail and public transportation
- free education through college
you want to advance human civilization?
- universal health care
- ubi
- green energy
- high speed rail and public transportation
- free education through college
November 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
and honestly im sick of not pushing back on this specifically
you want to advance human civilization?
- universal health care
- ubi
- green energy
- high speed rail and public transportation
- free education through college
you want to advance human civilization?
- universal health care
- ubi
- green energy
- high speed rail and public transportation
- free education through college
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This is a good article, worth reading.
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.
Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.
Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-tobacco playbook could help turn the US public against their beloved oversized cars.
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This is a good article, worth reading.
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.
Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat
Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?
The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.
Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat