Tommaso Caprotti

All right everybody, time to read (or reread) The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon. Ground rules: we are not reading for the history of 1848-1852 France, but we're also not looking for direct parallels to the contemporary US. We are looking for broad lessons on politics and just generally good lines.

The opening paragraphs - it's like, I don't know, Shakespeare, or Beethoven. You know it's great. Everyone knows it's great. But then you encounter it directly, in its own context, and you can only say, man this is so great.

Charlie Kirk, Not In His Own Words: We Honor The Right-Wing Activist By Making Up Quotes That Sound Much Better, Given The Moment

This Week's Onion Magazine:

Headline: Scale of ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march shows free speech ‘alive and well’ in UK, says minister – UK politics live Peter Kyle said he was not ‘disturbed’ by huge Tommy Robinson-organised far-right protest but condemns violence against the police

Whether it is out of sheer incompetence or ideological alignment, this government is doing the far right's work

The only consistent thing they have done since getting in power is echo reactionary talking points. There is not one bad faith reactionary tirade they won't lap up and recite.

Largest far right march in recent history, Robinson and Musk calling for political violence and the overthrow of the government.

UK Government: That’s salutary free speech actually! ☺️ (Not like those pesky Palestine grannies, those are clearly terrorists)

Israel is deliberately depriving people of water in #Gaza.

The amount of water available for Palestinians is incredibly insufficient.

This is unacceptable: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-is...

They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems. A Free Press investigation found that the viral photos lacked important context: The subjects have cystic fibrosis, rickets, or other serious ailments. By Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova 08.17.25 -Israel and Antisemitism

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

two in three Keir Starmer tweets are dog whistling about migration.

A government out of ideas, adopting far right messages for no political gain, while imprisoning grannies for denouncing genocide.

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.

#JournalismIsNotACrime

Rest in peace, absolute heroes. Meanwhile in the UK grannies are being arrested en masse for holding scary placards.

Diana Magnay: "It was a direct hit on their broadcast tent outside al Shifa hospital.. the whole journalistic community are outraged.. his death & that of his colleagues adds to the huge number of journalists killed.."

He posted 45 minutes ago and now he’s dead.

Kinetic strike. Most likely keyed off his cell phone signal, which the IDF tracks.

To the “journalists” in the West who toe the line with the NYT editorial board. Any words for your colleague?

This is genuinely western liberalism summed up in a 30 second video. Incredible. Put it in an art gallery.

Mouin Rabbani on Israels plan to militarily occupy the whole of the Gaza strip & concentrate the entire population in camps in the south (before expelling them)

Life expectancy at birth declined in Gaza by approximately 35 years in 2024.

watching you dildo brain cock suckers play w/ AI shit is like watching a dog paw at one of those puzzle boxes that you put treats inside of

At least 90 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action Police in London detain dozens of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000

The crackdown on civil liberties continue in the UK with at least 90 people arrested in London for opposing the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Courtesy of Labour

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG Former UK prime minister’s institute participated in meetings on plan to turn shattered enclave into trading hub

Outfit of criminal who should be in the Hague making ethnic cleansing plans with genocidial regime shock.

on.ft.com/404IEXK

one of the ways you know this is a genocide is that the news is never "IDF wins a battle" or "IDF secures new territory"

it's just about dead Palestinians, all the time, every day

In just 48 hours, Israel committed 26 massacres across Gaza, killing over 300 Palestinians — including 33 humanitarian aid workers.

(Source: Gaza Government Media Office, via local authorities and Al Jazeera reporting, July 3, 2025)

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza.

Truly an atrocity built on atrocity.

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Matthew says he’s sad and dispirited to see that Musk’s DOGE idea has turned out to be a big pile of steaming dogeshit (I paraphrase) but does not ask himself whether anyone could ever have expected it would be otherwise, if they weren’t suffering from some kind of exotic inflammation of the brain.

The irrepressible lascivious excitation of the british liberal media as they rush to publish the opinions of as many Israeli war criminals as they possibly can.

Is the AI Bubble About to Burst? In the years since Automation and the Future of Work first appeared, a new wave of technological enthusiasm has swept across the popular imagination. The catalyst this time has been the rapid advances...

Balanced and thoughtful critique of the AI deluge that won't be.

www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

This appears to be a sign that Stephen Miller is moderating on immigration. After all, his phrase 'society of strangers' is scarcely different from Keir Starmer's 'island of strangers' remark, which was established to be a perfectly normal, reasonable thing to say.

If you think you’re a leftist and are still appearing on/listening to Bungacast you’ve lost the plot, sorry

What are the odds on Philip Cunliffe co-hosting a show on GBNews alongside Matt Goodwin before the end of the month?

“… the people had forfeited the confidence of the government and could win it back only by redoubled efforts.
Would it not be easier for the government to dissolve the people and elect another?”

Bunch of cardinals locked in rawdogging together

It’s still absolutely astounding to me how professional reporters continually “realise”, or start to “suspect”, that everything Israel said plainly it was gonna do from day one might in fact be what they were doing all along.