Tommaso Caprotti

The "Board of Peace" started its first war within a week

This "scandal" comes on the back of the recent demonisation of LFI after the death of the fascist activist in Lyon. As argued by de Villepin a few days ago, this coordinated attack against LFI serves of course to normalise the far right.

Clear now that the entire parliamentary arc in France to the right of LFI has unanimously decided that the left are the main enemy, and they will do anything in their power to present the RN as a perfectly "moderate" party ready to assume the Presidency.

Philip Cunliffe of Bungacast fame is now functionally indistinguishable from your average Qanon conspiracist. Still amazes me how well-meaning leftists entertain contacts with these circles, seemingly unaware that many of them are basically far right trolls at this point.

Hear me out -- what if we ban social media for everyone *over* 16?

Literally endorsing great replacement theory.

Cunliffe‘s brain was completely cooked by covid lockdowns and BLM twitter discourse and he now openly aligns with ”remigration“ partisans like Martin Sellner, so no wonder he has no idea what he’s talking about.

Poisoned Work Environment is an environment created by an activity or behaviour, not necessarily directed at any one person, that creates a hostile or offensive environment. A poisoned work environment can be created by (i) managers or supervisors to their subordinates, (ii) subordinates to their managers or supervisors, (iii) employees amongst themselves who may or may not have a reporting relationship with each other, (iv) employees towards students, (v) students to each other or towards employees, or (vi) any combination of them. Examples of a poisoned work environment include but are not limited to: bullying, graffiti, sexual, racial or religious insults or jokes, abusive treatment of an employee or student, alienation, isolation, and the display of pornographic or other offensive material.

Amazing to see that our new HR policy on discrimination and harassment concedes that "alienation, isolation" do in fact constitute a "poisoned work environment."

Unclear how any work can now be done without the abolition of capitalism.

Unfortunately this is ai

A hilarious chart - AI could take us to heaven, keep us in purgatory, or pitch us into hell.

Telling contradiction in Cheney's FT obituary. Otoh, he was instrumental in laying the foundations for Trump's assault on US institutions (see "unitary executive" etc.). Oto, he perfectly distills the liberal phantasy of the conservative "man of principle" who stood up to Trumpism. Good riddance!

A review of Matthew Watson's book (False Prophets of Economics Imperialism: The Limits of Mathematical Market Models), by Danielle Guizzo
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Right to protest under ‘sustained attack’ across the west, report finds Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says FIDH The right to protest has come under “sustained attack” across the west , according to a report highlighting the growing criminalisation of pro-Palestinian demonstrations. The study by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) pays particular attention to the UK, the US, France and Germany, where it says governments have “weaponised” counter-terrorism legislation as well as the fight against antisemitism to suppress dissent and support for Palestinian rights in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Continue reading...

Right to protest under ‘sustained attack’ across the west, report finds

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

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