Also the literal Nazis who had been welcome on the demo apparently decided that the possibility of accidentally hanging out with a Jew was too much for them and bailed.
So it’s only due to the principles of the Nazis that they weren’t on the multi faith demo!
bsky.app/profile/bris...
It’s an advert for their demo. It’s got a cross, Star of David, Hindu Om and a Sikh Khanda. It calls itself a march for unity.
Bristol Patriots’ march was a bizarre attempt to spin their racism as some sort of multi faith celebration (notice which faith is mysteriously missed out).
This was a total failure and the demo noticeably failed to attract anyone apart from the usual reprobates.
40 far right with union flags surrounded by cops on every side boxes into a small huddle
Bristol Patriots having a shit day out today. All 40 of them, totally boxed in by hundreds of antifascists.
Police turned them around and marched them back the way they came.
Despite using batons and horses against antifascists, people held their ground and the fascists did not pass.
And what have all those countries mentioned got in common? Oh yes, horrific civil wars.
So they *know* that these people are legitimate refugees and that’s why they’re trying to stop them!
What a world of Orwellian bullshit we inhabit.
We’ve been told for years that it was only the “illegals” that people objected to and of course they had nothing against the good ones who come legally
Turns out - no we just don’t want brown people.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
And to the Charities Commission:
www.middleeasteye.net/news/charity...
UKLFI operate as a law firm without being regulated as such and also operate as a charity while being overtly highly political.
People have started to take them on and fight them at their own game, reporting them to the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority:
www.declassifieduk.org/landmark-com...
UKLFI’s whole modus operandi is to fire off scary sounding letters threatening people with the law and with accusations of antisemitism. People regularly fold on receipt of the letters and so UKLFI are rarely tested
On the occasions when people have stood up to them, their threats often evaporate
There is a petition to the BM to reverse their decision and maybe not take curatorial decisions on the say-so of political lobbying groups:
www.change.org/p/erasing-a-...
So the British Museum has removed the word “Palestine” from some of its exhibits after a complaint from UK Lawyers for Israel.
Who out of the British Museum and a tiny pro-Israel lawfare group would we imagine to be the expert on ancient history?
And yet…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/british...
It’s permanently hard to determine if this is a clever ploy and ultimately Trump Always Chickens Out or if he actually might be crazy enough to do it.
Which is why it works I guess.
Was Trump’s whole seizing Greenland plan, like the tariffs, an attempt to extract concessions by going in hard with an insane threat?
This strategy relies on people thinking he just might be crazy enough to do it
Then ppl scrabble around to placate him and he walks away with most of what he wants
That 2016 White House correspondents dinner is going to be the Gavrilo Princip’s choice of lunch spot of this century.
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Of course there’s more to it than that - there’s geopolitical grand strategy, resources etc
But with Trump we should never underestimate sheer petty vanity and resentment as motivators of the most consequential decisions.
![Tweet from @nickschifrin
NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
"Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a "right of ownership" anyway? There are no written documents, it's only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President
DJT"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dxtom37oimj75ojtbpjstelx/bafkreideinemdh5ibtvgxlmjw6r7ifdq5rvobtc6apqeekmpc7ie3ao4we@jpeg)
Tweet from @nickschifrin NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials: Dear Ambassador: President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state] "Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a "right of ownership" anyway? There are no written documents, it's only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT"
Jesus Christ. The world is actually being run by a toddler.
He wants a Nobel Peace Prize because Obama got one and Obama made fun of him in front of everyone at the White House Correspondents dinner in 2016.
So good on him.
Although it’s all an indication of exactly how bad things have got
And he calls for resolutely peaceful protest and puts a lot of faith in the courts and the voting booth
But what happens when the fascists hollow out or capture the courts and the voting booth?
Kind of insane that this is where we are.
Democrat governors calling for civil resistance and mutual aid against immigration raids
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2Z3...
How much are EU member states spending on defence? Taken from the European council In 2024, member states' defence expenditure reached €343 billion, rising for the 10th consecutive year. In 2025, it is expected to reach an estimated €381 billion. Defence expenditure in 2025 increased by 11% compared to the previous year and by 62.87% compared to 2020.
We are *heavily* militarised countries
It’s only the insanity of the US war machine and Trumpist aggression that makes European states seem like pacifists or something.
Graph of defence spending by country 2024 taken from Statistica.com modified to show collective EU and UK plus EU numbers United States 997bn UK + EU 424bn EU TOTAL 343bn China* 314bn Russia* 149bn Germany 88.5bn India 86.1bn United Kingdom 81.8bn Saudi Arabia* 80.3bn Ukraine 64.7bn France 64.7bn
Worth reflecting in current fuss about defence spending numbers - Trump whinging about how Europe doesn’t pay its way blah blah…
… that EU defence spending is greater than China.
And if you include the UK in European defence, it’s even more.
Ramsay Bolton
Tywin Lannister
He’s Ramsay Bolton, not Tywin Lannister, if you want to put it in those terms.
Anyone smart knows who’s more dangerous.
Trump is dumb enough that he thinks being a psychopath who will fuck over your allies makes you more of a tough guy.
Smarter imperialists than him kept the mask there for good reasons.
Because if you dispense with it, and if you have proved yourself volatile, governed by no rules, and if your international allies and your domestic population are only kept in line by fear, that actually makes you weaker.
He thinks that dispensing with the mask of law, democracy, rules, norms, allies and coalitions that the USA has traditionally worn is ‘tough’ and he sees maintaining this ideology as weakness.
But this is not necessarily smart.
Helicopters and explosions from bombing over Caracas during the recent illegal abduction of Maduro.
Internationally, he has launched a foreign policy of pure aggression and colonialism. Just - we want it, we’ll take it, who’s going to stop us?
The keynote of both is white supremacy and reliance on naked force.
Masked ICE agents take away a handcuffed person in Minneapolis.
Trump’s fascist domestic policy and his fascist foreign policy are joining up.
Domestically, he has a private army of immigration goons invading cities with large non-white populations and rounding people up and kidnapping them
And of course now murdering them if they get in the way.
Not to mention…
Are we *trying* to start a war with Russia? Sending British troops to Ukraine and then helping seize their ships in international waters?
Remember when the fear of nuclear annihilation meant that we avoided direct war for 45 years?
UK confirms support to US seizure of Russian flagged oil tanker The UK Ministry of Defence has just confirmed the UK has provided "enabling support" to the US during its operation to seize the Bella 1 / Marinera vessel. Its statement said: "UK Armed Forces provided pre-planned operational support, including basing, to U.S. military assets interdicting the Bella 1 in the UK-Iceland-Greenland gap following a U.S. request for assistance. RFA Tideforce provided support for U.S. forces pursuing and interdicting the Bella 1, while the RAF provided surveillance support from the air. The UK and U.S. defence and security relationship is the deepest in the world and the UK provided enabling support in full compliance with international law."
Is there an illegal US-backed war we won’t rush to join?
Apparently the UK is now joining in with the illegal overthrow of a foreign head of state and the imposition of sanctions to pressure them to hand over all their oil to Trump.
“Thus I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests... I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street”
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Original 1935 edition of War is a Racket. Slim volume, red hardback with the title in bold black
“I spent 33 years and 4 months in active service… I served in all commissioned ranks from a second lieutenant to Major-General.”
“And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street... In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.”
Black and white photo of Butler In uniform
This is Smedley Butler
At the time of his death he was the highest decorated US marine in history. He served in the military for 34 years. He also single handily saved the US from a fascist coup in the 1930s (long story).
Anyway, for no particular reason he came to mind today…
Highlighted section: When dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez was overthrown in 1958, Venezuela was one huge oil well, surrounded by jails and torture chambers and importing everything from the United States: cars, refrigerators, condensed milk, eggs, lettuce, laws, and decrees.
America had no problem with dictators when the dictators made sure the oil money flowed to the USA…
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