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'After Savagery' by Hamid Dabashi detonates the West's moral alibi on Gaza The Columbia professor's new book argues that Gaza is the measure by which any moral framework must be judged

After Savagery refuses euphemism, demolishes the polite fictions that anesthetize Western consciences, and insists on a simple thesis: Gaza is the ethical ground zero of our time.

“For the unaware, nothing was amiss.”–– Cedric Robinson

the far right is raging because kirk was so effective at forcing white nationalist extremist politics into the mainstream. he built a $92M empire off of forcing schools to host fascists, teaching people debatelord whataboutisms in defense of bigotry & thrashing at anyone who dares to push back.

Many aspects of the 'terrorism' ban on Palestine Action are ludicrous. Nevertheless, terrorism powers are sweeping and we feel obliged to point out that, no matter what a bizzie told a Liverpool councillor, putting up a poster in support of the group in your window carries a high risk of arrest

Experiencing Canadian Wildfire Smoke in a Michigan Prison June 3, 2025. I can’t breathe. I wake up in an eight-man cube at JCS Correctional Facility in Jackson, Michigan. I pull the air inside my lungs and heave. “You OK?” An inmate says in the cube, holding...

For The Media Co-op, Demetrius Buckley writes about experiencing wildfires from Canada at his Michigan prison.

"June 3, 2025. I can’t breathe. I wake up in an eight-man cube at JCS Correctional Facility in Jackson, Michigan. I pull the air inside my lungs and heave."

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I have zero compunction about people making jokes about Kirk's death but in all seriousness I don't think that murdering people is good or righteous and I can't find any way to view a 22 year old memelord facing the death penalty as a worthwhile contribution to the politics I care about.

We are going to punish somebody for this attack, but just who or what will be blown to smithereens for it is hard to say. Maybe Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan or Iraq, or possibly all three at once. Who knows? Not even the Generals in what remains of the Pentagon or the New York papers calling for WAR seem to know who did it or where to look for them. This is going to be a very expensive war, and Victory is not guaranteed -- for anyone, and certainly not for anyone as baffled as George W. Bush. All he knows is that his father started the war a long time ago, and that he, the goofy child-President, has been chosen by Fate and the global Oil industry to finish it Now. He will declare a National Security Emergency and clamp down Hard on Everybody, no matter where they live or why. If the guilty won't hold up their hands and confess, he and the Generals will ferret them out by force. Good luck. He is in for a profoundly difficult job -- armed as he is with no credible Military Intelligence, no witnesses and only the ghost of Bin Laden to blame for the tragedy. OK. It is 24 hours later now, and we are not getting much information about the Five Ws of this thing. The numbers out of the Pentagon are baffling, as if Military Censorship has already been imposed on the media. It is ominous. The only news on TV comes from weeping victims and ignorant speculators. The lid is on. Loose Lips Sink Ships. Don't say anything that might give aid to The Enemy.

No better time to post Hunter S. Thompson on 9/12/2001.

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Yeah even without the transphobia, the idea John Boyne is comparable to Joyce takes the piss tbqh

Sitting here, with world’s tiniest violin, playing a dirge.

Kudos to a UCD student society, the L&H, for being silly to nominate him, & then wise to withdraw him, for consideration. Don’t ever change L&H, you were always plonkers!

John Boyne ‘disappointed’ at withdrawal of UCD James Joyce award

A screenshot of a NYT headline and dek that reads: 'Mamdani Says He Will Apologize for Calling the N.Y.P.D. Racist in 2020 --- Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist who won the mayoral primary, said the department was racist and homophobic in a social media post.'

Mamdani apologizing to NYPD and distancing himself from defunding the police shows why electoral politics risk burning people out. So much labor, emotional investment, and sacrifice go into politicians who deliver business as usual when the time comes.

Charlie Kirk was a bad person and a fascist.

Dozens of Killings Inside Mississippi Prisons Rarely Get Justice At least 42 incarcerated people have been killed in the last decade. Just six people have been convicted in their deaths.

At least 42 incarcerated people have been killed in the last decade. Just six people have been convicted in their deaths.

Political violence is bad but me and my mates need to set fire to this hotel because it contains people I don’t know personally but don’t like the idea of. Political violence is bad but I support the right of a country to kill hundreds of thousands of civilians because I’ve deemed them terrorists

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

The orgy of liberal pundits tripping over each other to praise Charlie Kirk—when he caused so much violence to the lives of Black and LGBTQ people (including me specifically)—is telling about why the Dems can’t build an antifascist coalition.

Truly bizarre to see people attacked, shamed, and disciplined for saying things about Charlie Kirk that are 1000x less offensive than what Charlie Kirk said about people

people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics

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the overall reaction to charlie kirk’s demise (online and in the media) treating him as a tragic loss when he was a repugnant white supremacist — and the pearlclutching over anyone who says as much — shows how and why this country is so much further to the right than we’re made to believe it is

If you’re going to share ‘Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism’ you should at least be clear that Trotsky’s objection was a strategic rather than moral disagreement

The City, 1961, painting by Manchester-born William Ralph Turner (1920-2013). #NorthernArt

HitlerSuckfest1488: "This has radicalized me."

The Dems can “condemn” violence all they want. The right-wing establishment is still going to target them any opportunity they get. Any liberal condemnations just expedite the process of justifying their own destruction.

I'm saying that Dem politicians' performative rush to condemn violence only reinforces the entitlement that the right-wing feels to a monopoly over it. Those same right-wing forces will target Dems, liberal constituents, and whoever they want by exploiting false equivalency.

On Tuesday a far right mob calling themselves "Portsmouth Patriots" tried to force their way into a community centre in Fratton where organisers of a public meeting for the new Corbyn/Sultana 'Your Party' had to barricade the doors shut. The police turned up but did nothing

I am hearing that on his deathbed Charlie Kirk received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet!

Would really appreciate if people read and shared this one. If you want to know more about Kevan, you can check out the link below:

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Incompetence and Corruption Cause England’s Torture Units to Degrade Further By Kevan Thakrar

New substack post 'Incompetence and Corruption Cause England’s Torture Units to Degrade Further' is up.

This article has been guest written by Kevan Thakrar, a prisoner at HMP Whitemoor who has been detained in the Close Supervision Centre system.

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The Adventures of Team Normal: This time we're supposed to overthrow the government YouTube video by SKTheCrusader

We're live with some D&D featuring @johntheduncan.bsky.social @brigitteempire.bsky.social @nogenius.bsky.social and @ballistari.bsky.social. It's been ages since the last one, but I think they need to overthrow a government? Let's figure it out youtube.com/live/qnrmV3t...