Michael McKay
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Italian parliament unanimously votes to make femicide a crime
The gender-motivated murder of a woman will now be covered by a distinct clause in Italian law - punishable by a life sentence.
www.bbc.co.uk
"Introduced by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the law was backed by her own hard-right government, as well as opposition MPs. From now on, Italy will record every murder of a woman that is motivated by her gender as femicide."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Foreign interference or opportunistic grifting: why are so many pro-Trump X accounts based in Asia?
Foreign interference or opportunistic grifting: why are so many pro-Trump X accounts based in Asia?
A new feature on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter allows users to see the location of other accounts. It has resulted in a firestorm of recriminations
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Foreign interference or opportunistic grifting: why are so many pro-Trump X accounts based in Asia?
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Some interesting perspectives on origins of the US empire.
Also about us - colonialists.
Also about us - colonialists.
The Pilgrims Were Doomsday Cultists
The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Some interesting perspectives on origins of the US empire.
Also about us - colonialists.
Also about us - colonialists.
What's interesting is the left campist understanding of Ukraine and Russia is normalising far-right arguments about the conflict and concealing the wider issue of Russia's geopolitical project.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
What's interesting is the left campist understanding of Ukraine and Russia is normalising far-right arguments about the conflict and concealing the wider issue of Russia's geopolitical project.
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Given the way the far-right has taken feminist talking points and used them for white nationalism ends, I'm interested to see how this law plays out in practice. 👇
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"Introduced by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the law was backed by her own hard-right government, as well as opposition MPs. From now on, Italy will record every murder of a woman that is motivated by her gender as femicide."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Italian parliament unanimously votes to make femicide a crime
The gender-motivated murder of a woman will now be covered by a distinct clause in Italian law - punishable by a life sentence.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Given the way the far-right has taken feminist talking points and used them for white nationalism ends, I'm interested to see how this law plays out in practice. 👇
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‘No topic is too difficult’: children’s series on life in communist East Germany wins an Emmy
‘No topic is too difficult’: children’s series on life in communist East Germany wins an Emmy
In Fritzi’s Footsteps tells story of a girl growing up in Leipzig who witnesses the fall of the Berlin Wall
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:17 AM
‘No topic is too difficult’: children’s series on life in communist East Germany wins an Emmy
"Introduced by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the law was backed by her own hard-right government, as well as opposition MPs. From now on, Italy will record every murder of a woman that is motivated by her gender as femicide."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Italian parliament unanimously votes to make femicide a crime
The gender-motivated murder of a woman will now be covered by a distinct clause in Italian law - punishable by a life sentence.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM
"Introduced by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, the law was backed by her own hard-right government, as well as opposition MPs. From now on, Italy will record every murder of a woman that is motivated by her gender as femicide."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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We Asked Post-Soviet Leftists What the Western Left Is Getting Wrong on Ukraine | Novara Media
Leftist narratives of the war in Ukraine have occasionally fallen prey to over-simplification and self-centrism. Four regional activists share their frustrations with Diyora Shadijanova.
novaramedia.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Are UK politics going to be influenced by US-style right-wing Christianity? A politics of identity which at its core is anti-Christian. It is "a reminder that anti-trans, anti-queer and Islamophobic positions do not spring from nowhere." www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
Is British politics immune to US-style rightwing Christianity? We’re about to find out | Lamorna Ash
Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson are increasingly espousing Christian ‘values’, and a wealthy US legal group is becoming influential – this could have dire consequences, says author Lamorna Ash
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Are UK politics going to be influenced by US-style right-wing Christianity? A politics of identity which at its core is anti-Christian. It is "a reminder that anti-trans, anti-queer and Islamophobic positions do not spring from nowhere." www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
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Inverness primary school nativity axed following 'racist' online abuse
Staff and pupils are being offered support after some branded the alternative show plans as “indoctrination.”
www.pressandjournal.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
María Corina Machado, the person Trump wants to replace Maduro with openly supports MAGA. So I imagine the real reason, alongside oil, is to have somewhere else to send Americans kidnapped by ICE too besides El Salvador.
Why is America going to war with Venezuela?
Maduro ain't it!
Maduro ain't it!
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
María Corina Machado, the person Trump wants to replace Maduro with openly supports MAGA. So I imagine the real reason, alongside oil, is to have somewhere else to send Americans kidnapped by ICE too besides El Salvador.
Channel 4 wrote a really good piece on this. The USA has a long history of interfering in elections and toppling democracies.
www.channel4.com/news/factche...
www.channel4.com/news/factche...
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Channel 4 wrote a really good piece on this. The USA has a long history of interfering in elections and toppling democracies.
www.channel4.com/news/factche...
www.channel4.com/news/factche...
In 1922, Stalin accused Lenin of "national liberalism" for arguing that Georgia should have full national sovereignty. Lenin responded by accusing Stalin of being a "Great Russian chauvinist" because he argued Georgia should be denied sovereignty and ruled directly from Moscow. 👇
November 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM
In 1922, Stalin accused Lenin of "national liberalism" for arguing that Georgia should have full national sovereignty. Lenin responded by accusing Stalin of being a "Great Russian chauvinist" because he argued Georgia should be denied sovereignty and ruled directly from Moscow. 👇
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 AM
In 1922, Stalin accused Lenin of "national liberalism" for arguing that Georgia should have full national sovereignty. Lenin responded by accusing Stalin of being a "Great Russian chauvinist" because he argued Georgia should be denied sovereignty and ruled directly from Moscow. 👇
Seeing Priti Patel, Suella Braverman and now Shabana Mahmood having the views on immigration and asylum seekers they do reminds me of the James Baldwin quote about Black policemen and their hatred of people of the same colour.
November 25, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Seeing Priti Patel, Suella Braverman and now Shabana Mahmood having the views on immigration and asylum seekers they do reminds me of the James Baldwin quote about Black policemen and their hatred of people of the same colour.
Still armed a genocide in Gaza and caused a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan where 95 percent of households couldn't afford to feed their children resulting in mass deaths. Today, Afghanistan is so crippled by this (and Trump policy) parents are selling their children to survive.
Biden is alert and energetic—two things Trump hasn’t managed that well.
He is at Dick Cheney’s funeral greeting people before the service began.
He is at Dick Cheney’s funeral greeting people before the service began.
November 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Still armed a genocide in Gaza and caused a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan where 95 percent of households couldn't afford to feed their children resulting in mass deaths. Today, Afghanistan is so crippled by this (and Trump policy) parents are selling their children to survive.
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'Gender non-conforming cis women are forced to change their appearance to avoid harassment. To my mind, these effects on cis women undermine For Women Scotland's claim to be campaigning to protect women'' || @rebeccadonkennedy.bsky.social, Chief Executive Officer of @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social 👇
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
'Gender non-conforming cis women are forced to change their appearance to avoid harassment. To my mind, these effects on cis women undermine For Women Scotland's claim to be campaigning to protect women'' || @rebeccadonkennedy.bsky.social, Chief Executive Officer of @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social 👇
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#OtD 24 Nov 1942 Scottish comedian and former shipyard apprentice, Billy Connolly, was born. He was involved in the Clyde shipyards apprentices strikes of the 1960s, striking alongside future Manchester United manager, Alex Ferguson, among others stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9685...
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
#OtD 24 Nov 1942 Scottish comedian and former shipyard apprentice, Billy Connolly, was born. He was involved in the Clyde shipyards apprentices strikes of the 1960s, striking alongside future Manchester United manager, Alex Ferguson, among others stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9685...
It's amazing watching American liberals criticising Trump when their number one gripe is he's making American imperialism "look bad". They are even praising "deporter in chief" Obama while saying Trump is racist for hating illegal immigrants.
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What Malcolm X thought about liberals
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November 24, 2025 at 10:19 AM
It's amazing watching American liberals criticising Trump when their number one gripe is he's making American imperialism "look bad". They are even praising "deporter in chief" Obama while saying Trump is racist for hating illegal immigrants.
youtu.be/E55kQfachBQ?...
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Because the domestic racism and xenophobia is linked to the racism of our foreign policy and they don't want a national discussion about how political discourse frames people, in this case Muslim arabs, during imperialist invasions of their land.
"In her telling, racism and xenophobia seem not themselves objectively bad things that must be combatted, but a natural outcome that occurs when too many rights are given to immigrants and asylum seekers." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Because the domestic racism and xenophobia is linked to the racism of our foreign policy and they don't want a national discussion about how political discourse frames people, in this case Muslim arabs, during imperialist invasions of their land.
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I wrote this for @scotnational.bsky.social
Scotland has an opportunity to fix our abortion laws. I petitioned Westminster for decriminalisation and I’ve heard all the wild racist and misogynistic disinformation before 👇🏻
www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
Scotland has an opportunity to fix our abortion laws. I petitioned Westminster for decriminalisation and I’ve heard all the wild racist and misogynistic disinformation before 👇🏻
www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
Gemma Clark: Disinformation around Scotland's abortion law is insulting to women
Disinformation around reasonable, recommended changes to Scotland’s abortion laws is as exhausting as it is predictable
www.thenational.scot
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
I wrote this for @scotnational.bsky.social
Scotland has an opportunity to fix our abortion laws. I petitioned Westminster for decriminalisation and I’ve heard all the wild racist and misogynistic disinformation before 👇🏻
www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
Scotland has an opportunity to fix our abortion laws. I petitioned Westminster for decriminalisation and I’ve heard all the wild racist and misogynistic disinformation before 👇🏻
www.thenational.scot/politics/256...
"South Africa experiences some of the world's highest levels of gender-based violence (GBV), with the rate at which women are killed five times higher than the global average, according to UN Women."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
South Africa declares gender violence a national disaster after protests
Fifteen women are killed every day in a country with one of the highest rates of gender violence in the world.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 AM
"South Africa experiences some of the world's highest levels of gender-based violence (GBV), with the rate at which women are killed five times higher than the global average, according to UN Women."
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The mistake some of the left make regarding Ukraine is they don't think about what would happen if Russia actually conquered Ukraine. Needless to say you'd have a Ukrainian liberation movement (supported by the west). What then? Free Palestine but not Free Ukraine?
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November 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
The mistake some of the left make regarding Ukraine is they don't think about what would happen if Russia actually conquered Ukraine. Needless to say you'd have a Ukrainian liberation movement (supported by the west). What then? Free Palestine but not Free Ukraine?
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November 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
The mistake some of the left make regarding Ukraine is they don't think about what would happen if Russia actually conquered Ukraine. Needless to say you'd have a Ukrainian liberation movement (supported by the west). What then? Free Palestine but not Free Ukraine?
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