is it Giro Day?

Huge day at the Olympics as Israel picks up gold in the starving children, massacring civilians, and playing the innocent victim categories ♥️

The people of Minneapolis are showing breathtaking courage. Facing down armed federal goons to protect their neighbors isn't just brave; it’s legendary.

Little girl has a flamethrower and underneath her it says abolish ice

Stickers seen in the wild

I wonder if even now Kuenssberg realises the extent to which she was played by Mandelson.

Nobody has ever been fooled by this guy that didn’t want to be

This was the actual crime that we all needed a damn good stomping on for, by the way: we told the public that there was a possible future in which nobody needed to ask these people’s permission any more, for anything. Unforgivable aggression, outrageous.

My favourite in so many ways

Matt Christman: "...they have nothing in terms of an argument or a coherent worldview or a useful praxis... they are speaking on behalf of a hegemonic liberalism that's going to get us all fucking killed... because they're a distraction from the real fucking problem, which is that fascism arises from the collapse of institutional legitimacy of liberal institutions. That's how we got fucking Trump, that's how we get what's coming next after him that's gonna be even worse. Because if you think there's not gonna be more ecological & economic catastrophes in the future that liberalism is wholly unequipped to deal with, & that that failure isn't gonna lead to fascism filling that fucking hole, then you've got another thing coming. & that's what these guys are, these guys that marched in Charlottesville, these are the people who are aware of the unspoken premise of this sort of zombie neoliberalism that we're living in, which is that we're coming to a point where there's gonna be ecological catastrophe, & that it's gonna require either massive redistribution of the ill-gotten gains of the first world, or genocide. These are the first people who have basically said, "Well if that's the choice, then I choose genocide", & they're getting everyone else ready, intellectually and emotionally, for why that's gonna be okay when it happens, why they're not really people. When we're putting all this money into more fucking walls & drones & bombs & guns to keep them away, so that we can watch them die with clear consciences, it's because we've been loaded with the ideology that these guys are now starting to express publicly. On the other side of them, we have people who are saying in full fucking voice, "No, we have the resources to save everybody, to give everybody a decent & worthwhile existence, & that is what we want." That is the fucking real difference between these two, & you can tell that to the next asshole who tells you that they're actually two sides of the same coin."

Truer every fucking day:

I'd like to think that chained together, breaking rocks in the baking sun day after day might elicit a murmured regret. I'm a dreamer, I know

bullshit baby bullshit

This picture's worth a thousand words. Especially if the word is twats

h/t Inshed Mahmood on FB

Very impressive interview on Novara tonight Hannah. I'm not a GP supporter but wish you all the best in the election and surviving social media!

Semper not tempur, 🙄
Losing it🤪

Thanks for the summary. I can't read the whole book, it would enrage me to ill-health.
I remember a friend - and not a naive one - returning from a solidarity trip to Palestine in 2015. In shock for months after, her summary was "It's as bad as you imagine but so much worse". 'Fraud' looks similar

Who are the UK MPs and peers who had sanctions imposed on them by China? Beijing has announced it will reverse decision taken in 2021 against British politicians critical of its actions

I'm disappointed that China has lifted sanctions on Iain Duncan Smith.
While running DWP he was only too happy to impose sanctions on benefit claimants. Increased rates of suicide and instances of malnutrition were the result.
#ToryScum
theguardian.com/politics/202...

Whenever is read or hear the phrase "Lord Whoever says..." I'm reminded of Thatcherite "Lord Young's job creation scheme". Still makes me smile 40 years later.
#Oxymoron

UK Home Office has a contract to "monitor migration" with #Palantir a tech firm notorious for working with ICE in US.
Petition here➡️ nopalantir.org.uk
Come to the #Sheffield meeting tonight⬇️

Kind Neighbors Warning their Fellow Brothers and Sisters that the
ICE Terrorists are Coming. This is where we are currently at in the United States...

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug
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A BUSY, BUSY ICE ENFORCEMENT OPERATION
with apologies to Richard Scarry
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Brought to you by the rough and ready Inner Hive, including long-time member Brady Marsh and new member SquirrelSaver7. ( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
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Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Note how there's no violence or chaos when the cops aren't rioting.

This shit will not stop until we stop it. Friday's general strike and protest was a huge step in the right direction. We need to hit them in the economy, and state governments must step in to protect their constituents

The Ukrainians - Batyar [UK; Ukrainian Folk] (1992) Smiths Cover

The Ukrainians - Batyar [UK; Ukrainian Folk] (1992) Smiths Cover
https://redd.it/ubknla
https://youtu.be/SZPtnuPKyu4

Worth every second

Clock DVA - Blue Tone [UK, Industrial] (1981) The only early Industrial band to incorporate a saxophone and flute. The effect was spectacular, but still too weird to become a hit.

Clock DVA - Blue Tone [UK, Industrial] (1981) The only early Industrial band to incorporate a saxophone and flute. The effect was spectacular, but still too weird to become a hit.
https://redd.it/6ke0o4
https://youtu.be/zK3YB9DnyGM

There's been a lot of forestry work up there the last year. I'll have a look next time I'm up there and let you know if it's still there!

I'm sure I remember seeing that tree from a distance and assuming it must be a pylon or phone mast

the democrats are right we should focus on kitchen table issues. for example there is a guy at my kitchen table who wants to shoot me in the face with a gun

And largely achieved by Kurdish men and women risking their lives

Farage paying tribute to Thatcher at her funeral