Tariq Ali

BBC at it again.

Image of sticker on a post on street saying, 'Why be racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobix when you could just be quiet?'

Yep.

Immigrants Detained at Fort Bliss in Texas Report Abuse and Inhumane Conditions Detained people at largest immigration detention facility in the country report accounts of physical and sexual abuse.

Understand this: There are Trump regime concentration camps in America, where innocent people are being killed and tortured and sexually abused—not to mention caged indefinitely—and that includes men, women, and children. These Nazi-style camps are on military bases to keep their activities secret.

Edinburgh getting set for the New Year bells 🎇

This x 1,000!!!

Starting to suspect FIFA might not be an entirely reputable organisation.

I hadn't been watching the football and then I turned on the football to watch Denmark be handed a penalty and scored, so I genuinely thought I had cursed the nation. So I turned it back off.

What I'm saying is, you're welcome.

UK inflation rate falls to 3.6% in year to October Prices have been rising more slowly in the twelve months to October.

📊 Latest figures out from the ONS this morning showed that inflation slowed to 3.6%.

But food inflation rose to 4.9%, up from 4.5% in the previous month.

The outlook for around 7 million households going without essentials in the UK remains extremely stark.

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Scotland! I never doubted you I promise #worldcup 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿⚽

A LinkedIn ad showing Jensen Huang shaking hands with some vague fashion executive: L'OREAL 6,204,444 followers Promoted We're thrilled to announce a collaboration with NVIDIA to supercharge beauty with next-gen Al. WELCOME TO NVIDIA L'ORÉAL GROUPE

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

Oh Scotland.. 🥲 #worldcup

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Early voting in the NYC mayoral election begins TODAY.

If you're a New Yorker, I urge you to vote for Zohran Mamdani — the only candidate who will stand up to the oligarchy and fight for working people.

Listen to his inspiring words from primary night.

As Toni Morrison said, "the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work." But she also reminded us never to lose our capacity to be shocked.

Part of my conversation on @ayman.msnbc.com earlier today.

*sound on* This is Andrea Jenkyns's ACTUAL singing entrance to the Reform UK conference.

Utter crackpots. And anyone who thinks this kind of idiotic look-at-me amateurs are how this country will "rediscover its pride" needs to have a lie-down.

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.

Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.

That, right there, is the problem.

In a functioning democracy with a decent press, these would be wall-to-wall headlines:

Fury as Farage Urges U.S. to Punish Britain

Farage Accused of Undermining UK Sovereignty

But no...

"The stamp duty receipt that ended Angela Rayner’s career"

FML

They walk amongst us!

They are all awful. Special mention to Edinburgh airport though that is particularly diabolical. I worry about peoples sanity when they say they like this aspect of travel.

‘I live in Gaza. It's an open mortuary – you can smell death everywhere’ An aid worker struggling to feed his family describes conditions inside the Strip as the UN says one in three Gazans do not eat for days on end

The situation in Gaza is catastrophic. Every day is a struggle to survive. People urgently need food and water.

Your donations will help DEC charities deliver vital aid, when and where they can.

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May I never understand why someone would forcefully starve another person to death, let alone a child. No matter how bad life gets, I never want it to get to the point where I would understand why somebody could become a people starver. Ever.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Daniel Lawson @DanielLaw1998: Disabled parking should only be valid during business hours 9 to 5, Monday to Friday. I cannot see any reason why people with genuine disabilities would be out beyond these times. Jennifer Lee Rosman @JenLRossman: We’re disabled, Daniel, we’re not werewolves

7 years later and I still whisper, “We’re disabled, Daniel, not werewolves” to myself like a sacred mantra whenever I see a non-disabled person discover ableism like it’s the latest hipster indie band.

I have no words to describe the actions of the loyalists that were allowed to set this ablaze. Northern Irish police and loyalist leaders abysmal, again.

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