Grand Theft Artaud (mx)

Martial law, authoritarian policing, mass displacement, and genocide, are being actively pursued and normalised.

If you are not part of the 1 percent and think you or your kids have a future, think again. You may not be in the cross hairs yet, but your time will come.

Since the police have discretion about which crimes they'll investigate, they must be at liberty to ignore harmless 'offences' such as peaceful protest.

Indeed. Here is Richard Murphy on this subject today..

bsky.app/profile/rich...

The economic crisis they'd unleash by adopting send em home policies from the NF playbook.

I'g go further and say they'd hope to exploit the crisis to consolidate wealth and power in even fewer hands. They operate not on ignorance but malice.

Too many people who are paying attention aren't terrified enough, and far too many more are mostly unaware.

Meanwhile, those of us who *are* justifiably terrified, still have to work, pay bills, buy groceries, and function.

It's incredibly disorientating.

I have paused, and am just imagining telling 1995 Me that President Donald Trump (yes, that Donald Trump) is preparing to invade Chicago with Texan troops in order to declare martial law.

It's not going well so far.

I mean Joanne Harris has sold more books than God she probably knows something about the subject area.

There is btw a tiny avant garde sub genre of modernist artists who have riffed off Riders.

I once did a performance art piece with a mic'd up large pink dildo, while cutting and splicing Riders with the works of Derrida and Baudrillard.

I hope she would have howled with laughter and approved.

My psych asked me, a non binary person, how often I fully present, and I was like, you can count it on fingers per year.

Certain safe rave spaces, certain kink spaces, parties of trusted people. There are soooooo many reasons not to.

And this is my lived experience as someone out everywhere.

A fact that the Global Sumud Flotilla kidnapping should have unveiled but hasn't, until now, is that Gaza has been under military blockade since 2008.

Those weren't Israel's waters they were 'defending', they are Palestine's, that they have been illegally besieging for 17 years

Leaving the ECHR would allow the State Pension, the Minimum Wage, Sick Pay, Maternity Pay, Paid Holiday and working hour limits to all be abolished.

They would make hundreds of billions from this.

That is what they want.

Spain is demanding a complete EU trade blockade with Israel.

Even in Germany one of Israel's biggest supporters, 55% of Germans support sanctions.

The people of Europe support it.

that is not diplomacy they describe either, but propaganda.

Pro-Palestine marches have become ‘carnivals of hatred’, Badenoch tells Tory conference.

yes, all those frail OAPs sitting silently with placards, are apparently "carnivals of hatred."

unlike those lovely peaceful far-right Tommy Robinson supporters we saw recently, actually attacking the police..

that is not alliterative. All cars (and vans) have alliterative names...

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

They're destroying the right to protest - to shut down opposition to Israel's genocide.

Discussing that on @lbc.co.uk with @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social at 1pm.

Rest in eternal peace and hope. 💚🌎🌍💚

Freedom of speech is dying, and the future, unless we continue to resist, utterly terrifying.

The ratio of arrests in comparison with the Tommy Robinson protests is absolutely wild. People peacefully holding a sign vs people violently attacking the police and the public.

Capitalism is dying and the choices are fascism or countries and economies built around the people, the vulnerable and not the rich and powerful. That's why all this is happening. The click is ticking before the rich and powerful are neither. They are scared.

Gotta say, writing the true statement "the near 20 years since 2008" did not feel good lol. Fuck did we get our arses well and truly kicked.

Many pundits today are pushing the line that everyone who protests the genocide in Gaza is basically either antisemitic or tolerant of antisemitism. But isn't that precisely the conflation of the actions of the Israeli gov't with all Jewish people, which is at the heart of this wave of antisemitism?

Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.

Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens

Blind man with a walking stick being led off by a police man in a yellow vest.

Two seniors in motorized wheelchairs and holding Palestine flags being loaded up into a police van by several agents.

Not sure you’ve seen these images here, but in the UK they’re arresting dangerous anti genocide protestors for “supporting terrorism”. You can sleep easier knowing these thugs are off the streets.

again, for clarity and bcos i ran out of characters: this government is using jews to push an authoritarian agenda. none of this is the fault of jewish ppl.

a massive far right demonstration in our capital city smearing brown ppl as rapists is fine and dandy.

ppl protesting peacefully against a foreign government engaged in a genocide is making the jewish community fearful and therefore protest must be banned by law.

this government is disgusting.

I can’t believe that as recently as a few months ago, the consensus Democratic Party position, even on the left, was that you couldn’t call to ‘abolish ICE.’

Good luck to the Democratic candidates who run in 2028 while opposing the abolition of ICE.

A rogue fascist agency.