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How popular are post-capitalist/socialist ideas and policies?
Here's a list of studies and surveys with some striking results...
Every word of this is agony to read. What Israel is doing to Palestinians is pure barbarism... by far the greatest single crime of the 21st century. Every sane person must oppose this evil.
08.08.2025 02:03 — 👍 209 🔁 92 💬 2 📌 5
“The studies imply estimated [Gaza] life expectancy has fallen by more than 35 years, to ~ half the pre-war figure. In percentage terms…bigger than…during China’s Great Leap Forward; in absolute terms it is similar to the one in the Rwanda genocide” www.economist.com/interactive/...
07.08.2025 11:42 — 👍 416 🔁 269 💬 7 📌 11
a far right protestor vs Antifa in Portland, Oregon, 2019
Nine times out of ten, it’s a waste of time arguing with someone from the other side of the political spectrum. You’d be better off making them a cup of tea.
Here’s why that might actually work - and why your childhood determined your politics.🧵
”It is without a doubt that we are witnessing a genocide now in Gaza, and state parties to the Genocide Convention are failing in their obligation to prevent and punish genocide.”
Melanie O’Brien,
President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars
opiniojuris.org/2025/08/04/i...
Ur the Guardian 4/8 2025 The UN expert who first warned that Israel was orchestrating a campaign of deliberate mass starvation in Gaza more than 500 days ago, has said that governments and corporations cannot claim to be surprised at the horror now unfolding. "Israel has built the most efficient starvation machine you can imagine. So while it's always shocking to see people being starved, no one should act surprised. All the information has been out in the open since early 2024," Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, told the Guardian. "Israel is starving Gaza. It's genocide. It's a crime against humanity. It's a war crime. I have been repeating it and repeating it and repeating it, I feel like Cassandra," said Fakhri, referring to the Greek mythological figure whose warnings and predictions were ignored.
”Israel has built the most efficient starvation machine you can imagine”
Michael Fakhri UN special rapporteur on the right to food 4/8 2025
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.
By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
Who is drawing parallels between the Holocaust and the Palestinian genocide now? Moshe Feiglin is: “Just as Hitler vowed to eliminate every Jew and said he couldn’t live as long as one Jew remained, I say:...They must be eliminated.” www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...
05.08.2025 02:39 — 👍 328 🔁 211 💬 17 📌 36
chart: capital expenditures, quarterly shows hockey-stick like growth in the capex expenditures of Amazon, Microsoft, Google and meta, almost entirely on data centers in the most recent quarter it was nearly $100 billion, collectively
The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/
The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone*
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/sili...
This clip...I have no words.
Gaza Humanitarian Fund whistleblower Anthony Aguilar describes ordering pizzas for their site while Palestinians starve.
60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children.
These are their names.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
Right then...
A quick review of the DOE's new 'critical review' of climate science. Whether it's worth a formal community response - I'm still not sure, but here's my first thoughts
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Kusinerna överlevde Utøya tillsammans. Efter det hamnade de på olika sidor av kampen om jordens framtid, och den norska oljan. Den ena blev klimatminister, den andra, Vebjørn Bjelland Eriksen, blev klimataktivist.
Nu inför valet i Stortinget har Vebjørn inlett en livsfarlig protest.
Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza.
It said it was starving Gaza over and over again.
It has done so systematically - with the full complicity of the West.
My column on a crime committed in plain sight 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"He walked 8 km to get there. No shoes. Probably hadn't eaten in days... he set down his bags and he put his hands on my face and he kissed me... he left and the IDF opened up with machine gun fire... There were dead Palestinians. He was one of them."
A five-year-old child.
The WaPa headline says: 60,000 Gazans were killed. 18,500 of them were children. These are some of their names. Then follows an enormous list of small print names
Thousands of small print names interspersed with some photos of some of the child victims
NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.
The Washington Post has just published every single known name.
A seminal moment.
🚨NEW: The Israeli government banned journalists on their PR aid flight from filming Gaza from above.
They told journalists the air drops would be cancelled if they broadcast any footage of the destruction below.
A rogue state trying to hide its genocide. Israel won’t ever come back from all this.
Stå på Vebjørn 💚❤️
www.nrk.no/rogaland/sul...
Norway just shattered heat records.
For the first time ever, temps topped 30°C for 13 straight days — 8°C to 10°C above normal for July.
Climate change had a strong to exceptional fingerprint on this unprecedented heat wave.
🧵/1
Two panel comic. Panel 1: A man in a suit points to the Venus de Milo, and says: "This is obscene, it has no place in a god-fearing society. We're gonna make it more appropriate." Panel 2: The Venus de Milo's breasts are covered by a Fanduel t-shirt
this is a comic about obscenity
09.07.2025 00:32 — 👍 5106 🔁 1850 💬 17 📌 15
Think of all those pro-Israel pundits you saw on your television screens this past year trying to sociopathically justify the mass starvation of Gaza by robotically claiming Hamas steals the aid. They were all lying. Shamelessly. Even the Israeli military confirms it now.
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Today’s front page of The National, a Scottish newspaper.
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The @LemkinInstitute is calling on every leader in the world to step in immediately with measures that ensure food and water gets into Gaza right now. No more discussions, meetings, reports, sessions, summits. GET FOOD AND WATER INTO GAZA NOW. IF YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU MUST USE IT.
You might think I am hyperbolical and overly profane in my rhetoric… but this is the fucking Lemkin Institute for Genocide Studies.
This is how desperate the circumstances are.
Every day, Israel deliberately massacres unarmed civilians it has deliberately starved.
How is this possible?
Because instead of framing Israel’s atrocities as obscene outrages demanding urgent action, the Western media has normalised Israel’s atrocities.
The Israeli Authorities are starving civilians in #Gaza.
Among them are 1 million children.
Lift the siege: allow UNRWA to bring in food and medicines.
Just hours before we were set to depart for Gaza, the 'Handala' was subjected to two dangerous incidents that may have been deliberate attempts to derail our mission and endanger lives. A full investigation is needed, but the circumstances are deeply troubling. In the early morning of July 20, a rope was discovered tightly wrapped around the boat's propeller. This likely would not have happened through normal operation or by accident, and raises serious concerns about interference with the vessel.
We sail for the children of Gaza - for families who are enduring siege, starvation, and slaughter while governments of the world participate or do nothing. We sail to break Israel's illegal blockade and deliver life-saving aid, solidarity, and hope to a people abandoned by our governments but never forgotten by us, the people, who believe in justice and will never stop fighting for it. We call on the international community, human rights organizations, and people of conscience everywhere to condemn these acts, demand accountability, and ensure safe passage for the 'Handala' - a civilian boat carrying medicine, baby formula, and stuffed animals for the children of Gaza.
We have reason to believe these were calculated attempts to harm our crew and obstruct our mission, though we await the outcome of a full investigation. We remain undeterred. We will not be intimidated. We will not be silenced. And we will not stop.
Also on the morning of July 20, a truck arrived to deliver fresh water to the boat. However, the container was labeled sulfuric acid and in fact contained a corrosive chemical substance. A crew member was splashed on the leg and sustained chemical burns. Another crew member, upon detecting a strong chemical odour, opened the container and suffered burns to his hand.
🚨 SUSPECTED SABOTAGE OF THE HANDALA HOURS BEFORE LAUNCH TO GAZA
Urgent Call for Accountability and Safe Passage
Just hours before departure, the #Handala faced two alarming incidents: a rope wrapped around the propeller and
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It's utterly mad.
These people are the opposite of terrorists.
THEY WANT PEACE.
The police know they're not terrorists.
The government knows they're not terrorists.
Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Police in Canterbury today informed a protestor that the phrase "Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" could be considered a declaration of support for Palestine Action and therefore a terrorism offence.
15.07.2025 21:18 — 👍 2504 🔁 1144 💬 358 📌 5901. Yesterday, 86 people were arrested in the UK under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."
They are the opposite of terrorists. They were protesting *against* terrorism. 🧵
