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If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer.
This thread explains why.
1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power.
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Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations Graeber seems to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist...

‘A persistent challenge​ to anarchism is that it can’t work because human nature “isn’t like that”. People are too selfish. David Graeber responds by casting doubt on the idea that human nature is so simple.’

Richard Seymour reads David Graeber:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.

I will not vote for any party that doesn’t firmly and unequivocally commit to building universal social housing by a state agency. If your party’s housing plan involves tinkering around the edges of planning/incentives/regulations or relies on developers or “the market”, you won’t get a vote from me

A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over a month.

-Credits: NASA

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

The web of life, evolved over countless aeons, being torn apart in our time.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Real change is coming.

Wrong T-shirt son? You’re nicked The act which came into force this week could make terrorists of us all

In 2001, as the Terrorism Act 2000 came into force, I warned that it could be used to ban non-violent protest groups and imprison those who support them. Government spokespeople and cheerleaders told me I was talking rubbish.
And here we are.
#PalestineAction
www.monbiot.com/2001/02/22/w...

Remember how the BBC platformed & normalised far right extremists from Tufton St, never once asking them who pays them or where the supposed ‘institutes’ & ‘alliances’ members were? That wasn’t ‘free speech’, that was the platforming & legitimising of criminality*

Holding up a copy of ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS by Omar El Akkad

One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad is very much worth your time.

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

"Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity."

89 years later, the fight still goes on.

What I find insane is there wasn't nearly this much pushback when a Tory doner called for the murder of Labour MPs

The BBC has chosen censorship over art. It is not a public service, it is State TV for the UK govt. Kneecap, as artists, are being censored for their agitprop. If you believe in freedom of speech, then a band, fully aware of the violence of the Union Jack & flags must be allowed raise this debate.

Completely supported by Von der Lyon and her vice president , the usual suspects Germany , France and of course the Uk Italy Greece Hungary et al. Some reckoning awaits.

Photographs of The Romanovs' Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903 - Flashbak These portrait photographs of Russia’s ruling Romanovs were taken in 1903 at the Winter Palace in majestic. St. Petersburg. Knowing what was to follow, the venue was apposite. St Petersburg is the cit...

Neither they or their ostentatious and out of touch lifestyle were to last much longer - something today's massively rich should take note of. Photographs of The Romanovs' Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903 - flashbak.com/photographs-...

Allanis Morisette @glastonbury.bsky.social wow just brilliant. ✊🏼🙏🏼❤️

We have learned nothing.

Vast cost overruns are not due to good design. They are due to no design.

Also, why is our political system so aggressively mediocre?

This #GenerationRestoration Flagship is combating desertification in Africa.

With over 300,000 hectares restored and reaching 600,000 households, the impact of “Regreening Africa” is undeniable.

Find out more about this and other restoration flagships: www.decadeonrestoration.org/world-restor...

Edward Burtynsky: ‘My photographs are like Rorschach tests’ The photographer’s images of environmental degradation are both stunning and haunting, and make up a captivating new survey

Edward Burtynsky: ‘My photographs are like Rorschach tests
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Cats can be considered a category of invasive species: collectively, the latter are second from the top as a driver of biodiversity loss globally.

Keeping pet cats indoors solves the problem.

‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future Carlos Nobre, who has fought for decades to save the rainforest, says up to 70% of it could be lost if a tipping point is reached

The Amazon is being destroyed by a most deadly trio:

• Livestock farming
• Organised crime
• Climate breakdown

If the planet's biggest rainforest ecosystem is lost, we're lost too. Our fate is totally inseparable from that of the natural world.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rosalind Fox Solomon, Photographer Who Pictured Alienation and Racism, Dies at 95 Rosalind Fox Solomon, a photographer who pictured racism and alienation, has died at 95.

Rosalind Fox Solomon, Photographer Who Pictured Alienation and Racism, Dies at 95
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

This is excellent. A similar thing happened in Ireland, where extremists vandalised Pride flags. The locals went out*, bought Pride flags & hung them from their homes. Such was the demand, Ireland ran short of Pride flags. Don’t let the bigots win.

The government should have listened to disabled people a long time ago: stop these disgraceful cuts and drop the Bill.

It's time for Democrats to oust the corrupt, dynastic, conservative clique controlling their party for the benefit of multimillionaire donors, in favour of a new generation that actually wants to improve people's lives. If the Democratic Party has a future, it lies with people like Zohran Mamdani.