Starmerphiles are odd.
Not unpleasant. Odd.
They list Labour policies that almost any plausible Labour leader would have delivered & present them as proof that Starmer must remain.
At the same time, they excuse a string of daft decisions that most alternative leaders would never have made.
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These are the people who decide for governments whose door gets kicked down and which children get dragged off to camps.
A bit of joy in a sea of cack.
Zack on stage at wembley.
Trans rights are human rights.
Thank you, Wembley.
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It’s a piece of sodding polymer.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
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I generally assume that political parties know what their constituencies think better than the rest of us do: they spend so much money on polling and focus groups.
But I would be *amazed* if they understood how viscerally they are loathed by young progressives for pushing trans people under a bus.
“Trans Mission is about joy and positivity – it’s an opportunity to send a bold and loud message that we stand with the trans community, we are stronger together and we won’t be silenced.” – @ollyalexander.bsky.social
https://bit.ly/4rjs3u5
AN IDIOT'S GUIDE TO BRITAIN'S MIDDLE EAST POLICY🧵
Q: Why does Britain support authoritarian regimes in the Middle East?
A: Stability.
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I've been fortunate enough to meet many formidably smart, fully committed, & thoroughly decent people who, for years, have strived to try to avert dangerous climate change.
They failed.
Saying that does not lessen my gratitude to them, 1/11
www.technosphere.earth/yes-we-can-n...
A reminder. Israel currently stands accused of a genocide in Gaza, an illegal war in Iran, mass displacement in Lebanon and attacking Syrian sovereignty. Is this designed to be the new norm? Shifting focus away from Gaza into more widespread chaos and instability?
What a duck head.
They fund it in Gaza. They're doing it to Venezuelan fisherman. They're doing it in Iran. They're doing it in the streets and in concentration camps to immigrants in the US. They've done it to US citizen protestors on the streets in Minnesota.
There are no limits to what they are capable of.
If Muslims do this we call them radical terrorists and drop bombs on them.
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Money for nothing? Really?
If you use generative AI willingly, if you engage in cryptocurrencies willingly, if you need ChatGPT to type out your emails and live your simulation of an actual life then you have compromised your soul unblinkingly and are someone who simply chooses to feed the beast for your own convenience.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
In a country that babbles to the almighty before meals and games of NFL, this seems par for the course.
So according to Starmer the attack on Iran is illegal but the genocide of Palestine is absolutely fine. It beggars belief. Our taxes are paying for these f’ing loonies to play war for political purpose while they do nothing about the climate emergency except exacerbate it! It’s so massively f’d up.
This is nothing. Just send Mahmood out again to announce some more anti-refugee policies and you can easily find your way to fifth place.
An aerial photo shows three diggers excavating the ground for graves. More than 65 graves are already dug. Those not yet dug are marked out by chalk.
Not a single US newspaper will publish this photo. No news channel will broadcast it.
The graves are being prepared for more than 80 young children killed in the US/Israeli strike on the school in Minab, Iran on Saturday.
(📸 Middle East Observer)
1/11 Trump’s operation in Iran is not just reshaping the Middle East.
It is dramatically altering the geopolitical calculus for Ukraine.
For Kyiv, this new conflict is a massive double-edged sword.
Here is a breakdown of the very real upsides and downsides 🧵
This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.
Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.
They can't even escape this by moving to another state.
ZELENSKY: “I hope to come here with Trump one day, so he can see what this war is really about… Putin is this war — the cause of its beginning and the obstacle to its end.”
Powerful message to the resilient 🇺🇦 people from their president.
Full: x.com/zelenskyyua/...
It is four years ago today that the Russians launched their full scale invasion of Ukraine. Many in the west wrote Ukraine off and prophesied a “shock and awe” Russian victory. Instead Ukraine defied its attacker and their fight for freedom became decisive for the future of European freedom.
4 years ago, Russia launched the largest land war in Europe since 1945
It was supposed to last 72 hours. Ukraine had other plans
Four years of buried soldiers, dark winters, and cities turned to rubble — and Ukraine is still here, still holding the line that matters for all of us.
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
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Excerpts from OBrien's weekly👇
We need to keep repeating the truth, people, in order for the narrative to change in the legacy media;
#Trump regime is trying to force #Ukraine into a bad deal, on behalf of #Russia.
