matt
@kermithall.bsky.social
i have a heart that whistles everywhere
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No one who has seen the Epstein case unfold should have any doubt left about why victims don’t report. When reporting means facing more abuse, more exploitation, and more betrayal at the institutional level, while the perpetrators are the leaders of the very systems of “justice” supposed to help you
February 2, 2026 at 5:15 PM
No one who has seen the Epstein case unfold should have any doubt left about why victims don’t report. When reporting means facing more abuse, more exploitation, and more betrayal at the institutional level, while the perpetrators are the leaders of the very systems of “justice” supposed to help you
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This is like Sooty saying he shouldn’t have hired Matthew www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
PM: I would never have appointed Mandelson had I known full Epstein links
The PM says a due diligence process was gone through before Lord Mandelson was appointed US ambassador.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 10:05 AM
This is like Sooty saying he shouldn’t have hired Matthew www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Keir Starmer made a huge show of purging the Labour Party of a bunch of nobodies making Facebook posts for the national press, but he let this triple-scandal embroiled mentor of his right-hand man Morgan McSweeney see himself out after fraternising with and taking bungs from a child sex trafficker.
February 2, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Keir Starmer made a huge show of purging the Labour Party of a bunch of nobodies making Facebook posts for the national press, but he let this triple-scandal embroiled mentor of his right-hand man Morgan McSweeney see himself out after fraternising with and taking bungs from a child sex trafficker.
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The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it
January 31, 2026 at 9:20 AM
The funny thing about a certain type of angry conspiracy guy is that they’re literally being confronted with an elite paedophile ring and a tyrannical government at the same time right now, and because it isn't being done by the people they wanted it to be done by they’re all being pussies about it
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If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week
January 24, 2026 at 4:14 PM
If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week
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From *the moment* the genocide began, although we couldn't say precisely what form it would take, this was *always* its locked-on final destination: total expropriation of Gaza from the Gazans & international gangster capitalism's accumulation by dispossession
Trump makes concluding remarks. He says Gaza ceasefire push began because he is “a real estate person at heart, and it’s all about location, and I said, ‘look at this location, on the sea, look at this beautiful piece of property’”.
January 22, 2026 at 12:17 PM
From *the moment* the genocide began, although we couldn't say precisely what form it would take, this was *always* its locked-on final destination: total expropriation of Gaza from the Gazans & international gangster capitalism's accumulation by dispossession
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From the @equatormag.bsky.social mission statement and damn, was that ever proven 100% correct in short order.
January 21, 2026 at 9:21 AM
From the @equatormag.bsky.social mission statement and damn, was that ever proven 100% correct in short order.
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"I agree that there is a compelling reason for this difference between how American college students are reacting to Palestine and to Iran, but I don't like that difference, so I am going to dismiss it anyway."
January 16, 2026 at 5:13 PM
"I agree that there is a compelling reason for this difference between how American college students are reacting to Palestine and to Iran, but I don't like that difference, so I am going to dismiss it anyway."
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I'm 40 years old and as far back as I can remember, Israel has always done shit like this and everyone just treats it as if it's normal.
Israel limits the ability of teachers from the West Bank to travel to occupied East Jerusalem.
Palestinian students strike as Israel bans access to West Bank teachers
Israel limits the ability of teachers from the West Bank to travel to occupied East Jerusalem.
www.aljazeera.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:10 PM
I'm 40 years old and as far back as I can remember, Israel has always done shit like this and everyone just treats it as if it's normal.
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The problem is that the child porn website is owned by the richest man in the world, who no one wants to pick a fight with, and even less so now that he's aligned with the president of the U.S., himself a maniacal sex criminal. Nothing gets fixed without breaking the political power of big money
I am once again reminding you all that the UK government introduced an Online Safety Act that is effectively a porn ban on most adult porn websites, but is dithering over banning a website that is actually creating child porn.
January 13, 2026 at 2:21 PM
The problem is that the child porn website is owned by the richest man in the world, who no one wants to pick a fight with, and even less so now that he's aligned with the president of the U.S., himself a maniacal sex criminal. Nothing gets fixed without breaking the political power of big money
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"He can be sacked, humiliated, live (temporarily) in disgrace. But it doesn't matter. If the wealthy or the powerful need him, he'll still be their best pal."
Their Best Pal
What happens when a useful hanger-on of the well-heeled has to resign in disgrace? They get rehabilitated. Again, and again, and again. How ...
averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com
January 12, 2026 at 9:27 AM
"He can be sacked, humiliated, live (temporarily) in disgrace. But it doesn't matter. If the wealthy or the powerful need him, he'll still be their best pal."
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Amongst everything else, I'm thinking about how eager the UK press were initially to swallow the Met's lie that Jean Charles de Menezes was a terrorist after they executed him in a tube station
January 8, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Amongst everything else, I'm thinking about how eager the UK press were initially to swallow the Met's lie that Jean Charles de Menezes was a terrorist after they executed him in a tube station
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This should give anyone who hasn't already been doing so cause to think seriously about the actual, real world, political use-function of the word "terrorist". What and who is this word really for? Who uses it, where and why, and to what ends?
I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance".
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder".
The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.
January 8, 2026 at 10:59 AM
This should give anyone who hasn't already been doing so cause to think seriously about the actual, real world, political use-function of the word "terrorist". What and who is this word really for? Who uses it, where and why, and to what ends?
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There has been a huge push in the last few years towards the normalization of extrajudicial killing — from Palestine to the United States and beyond. The directive comes from the very top of society and it is being dutifully disseminated by the media.
January 7, 2026 at 11:32 PM
There has been a huge push in the last few years towards the normalization of extrajudicial killing — from Palestine to the United States and beyond. The directive comes from the very top of society and it is being dutifully disseminated by the media.
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Britain in particular could stop helping America to fly a million tons of crowd-splattering weaponry into Israel every week via our RAF base on Cyprus, but that might be awkward, because acknowledging that’s what’s been happening being so deeply incriminating.
January 7, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Britain in particular could stop helping America to fly a million tons of crowd-splattering weaponry into Israel every week via our RAF base on Cyprus, but that might be awkward, because acknowledging that’s what’s been happening being so deeply incriminating.
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amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
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A robber is robbing his victim, renewed focus on the victim's wallet.
The U.S. strike on Venezuela has renewed focus on the country's oil sector, which includes some of the richest crude reserves in the world.
U.S. seeks to tap Venezuela's vast oil reserves after military strikes. Here's what to know.
President Trump said "we're going to get the oil flowing the way it should be" after the surprise U.S. attack. Here's what to know about Venezuela's oil sector.
cbsn.ws
January 4, 2026 at 1:47 PM
A robber is robbing his victim, renewed focus on the victim's wallet.
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So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.
January 3, 2026 at 7:22 PM
So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.
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The official positon of the EU on invading a sovereign state is that it is very bad when Putin does it but fine, maybe even good, when Trump does it.
I have spoken with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and our Ambassador in Caracas. The EU is closely monitoring the situation in Venezuela.
The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition. (1/2)
The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr Maduro lacks legitimacy and has defended a peaceful transition. (1/2)
January 3, 2026 at 11:46 AM
The official positon of the EU on invading a sovereign state is that it is very bad when Putin does it but fine, maybe even good, when Trump does it.
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What they didn't do beforehand was lie to people correctly to justify the war. They didn't spend the requisite points in the game of civilisation to create a cassus belli: they just killed a load of fishermen and said they were terrorist drug dealers.
January 3, 2026 at 12:14 PM
What they didn't do beforehand was lie to people correctly to justify the war. They didn't spend the requisite points in the game of civilisation to create a cassus belli: they just killed a load of fishermen and said they were terrorist drug dealers.
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America might be a dying empire led by openly evil men, but we are their simpering servants and we have been since the end of World War II. This is what that looks like, in practice. It’s ugly as fuck, isn’t it? Well, the time to do something about this was the 2000s. We are now co-conspirators.
January 3, 2026 at 11:55 AM
America might be a dying empire led by openly evil men, but we are their simpering servants and we have been since the end of World War II. This is what that looks like, in practice. It’s ugly as fuck, isn’t it? Well, the time to do something about this was the 2000s. We are now co-conspirators.
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The US unilaterally and illegally using state violence in South America to achieve the goals of capital is a long-standing tradition
January 3, 2026 at 12:21 PM
The US unilaterally and illegally using state violence in South America to achieve the goals of capital is a long-standing tradition