Scott MacEachern

Here’s the truth about Britain’s immigration hysteria: Starmer and co have whipped it up to get cheap votes | Nesrine Malik He is part of a political establishment that is fuelling a crisis way beyond the point that they can ever be seen to solve it. It’s a cynical, idiotic doom loop, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded in Zamzam As the UK prepared to host a global summit on bringing peace to Sudan, the RSF paramilitary began a ‘genocidal’ massacre in Zamzam refugee camp. But when reports emerged of the killings, London held i...

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Opinion | Behind Trump and Vance Is This Man’s Movement

Yearning for that moment in the far future when White NYT editorialists deign to interview a Black person.

In today’s episode though, @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social rather cringingly fanboys Yoram Hazony, and they extensively discuss an American Civil War in which, apparently, Black people didn’t exist

According to Ezra Klein, influence from Jane Jacobs practically makes you a Communist. Not sure about Ernie and Bert.

Opinion | You Can’t Quit America

Extraordinary how a few months of brutalizing migrants, fascist oratory and starving Gazans has reassured Ross Douthat that his earlier worries about American decadence were overblown.

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That government has been saying, if you are Black or Palestinian, prejudice against you is less important than prejudice directed against Jewish people. You support a hierarchy of discrimination, one that is becoming less and less supportable over time.

And beyond that… you’re supporting a government that has systematically being criminalizing protest against this particular genocide. That has been saying, particular forms of suffering are less important than others.

Go after those avocados! That’ll teach ‘em! What a hero!

‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly

Pictures of skeletal Gazans, to be shot if they try to get food . But Starmer and his government won’t do anything, since it only involves Palestinians.
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You care about racism in the abstract, just not dead Palestinians. Got it.

(Shrug) She’s a politician and she had to. Why does Starmer pretend he has any respect for her?

Well, someone has to care about racism directed at Black people and Palestinians. Starner’s Blue Labour doesn’t give a damn about them.

And the reaction from the Labour government only underlines the degree to which antisemitism - or at least the accusation thereof - has been accorded an unprecedented privilege as racism that the government will crack down upon.

Whereas racism directed at Black or Palestinian people? Who cares?

Utter nonsense. Abbott’s comment on the distinction between the kind of everyday racism that she encountered as a Black woman - including from Labourites, as she has documented - and that encountered by people whose difference is less visible, is entirely accurate.

One thing Labour has never been able to stand is an uppity Black woman.

Commons at pompous worst as Afghan data breach proves too much bother for Badenoch | John Crace No one had anything to say about a cover-up kept secret from parliament, the public and the people whose data was leaked

“Starmer was like a rabbit in the headlights. …You can imagine him standing by an aid truck doing nothing while the IDF take pot shots at children, tears in his eyes as he says how appalled he is.”

The Pogues as well

Not sure why this came up in my feed, but the contrast between people who are showing some empathy for the situation and those who are engaged in some kind of obscure score-settling is really marked.

“The children in Gaza have brought this upon themselves.”

“They [the children] are our enemies.”

“The Gaza Strip should be flattened, and for all of them there is but one sentence, and that is death.”

“I’m not sure you’re speaking for us when you say we want to treat every child and every woman. …When fighting a group like this, the distinctions that exist in a normal world don’t exist.”

“To wipe out Gaza. … Don’t leave a single child there, expel all the remaining ones in the end, so they have no chance of recovery.”

“The children and women must be separated and the adults in Gaza must be eliminated. We are being too considerate.”

“We will eliminate everything.”

‘Gaza must be eliminated’: Israel’s airwaves are filled with pro-genocide propaganda | Arwa Mahdawi Here is a collection of 20 of the more outrageous statements by Israeli lawmakers or public figures since 7 October 2023

“The war is not against Hamas but against the state of Gaza”

“Flatten everything [in Gaza] just like it is today in Auschwitz”

“Now we all have one common goal – erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the Earth”

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Thiel: I think the word “nature” does not occur once in the Old Testament.

Douthat: Heavvyyyyy.

In 2000, when Thornhill and Palmer wrote A Natural History of Rape, arguing that rape was an effect of adaptive traits like aggressiveness, they were criticized by feminists for being reductionist and patriarchal.

25 years later, it’s weird to see TERFs making exactly the same argument.

These two are idiots.

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Mamdani’s Shock Win Has Wall Street Fretting Over ‘Hot Commie Summer’ Even Zohran Mamdani’s detractors recognize that the vibes are with the 33-year-old democratic socialist.

The theme of this article seems to be that New York has “…a universally acknowledged affordability crisis…”, but that trying to do anything about it is Communism.

It’s definitely the first time I’ve heard ‘he owns four acres in Jinja!’ as part of an attempted takedown of a political candidate.

Opinion | Democrats Don’t Know Which End Is Up

Thomas Edsall only ever writes two articles. One, with copious quotes from experts, describes the breakdown of democracy in the USA.

The other, with copious quotes from experts, excoriates Democrats for not reaching out to the right-wingers who are supporting the breakdown of democracy in the USA

Israel’s Crimes of the Century How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law.

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Israel’s Crimes of the Century How Israel, with the help of the U.S., broke not only Gaza but the foundations of humanitarian law.

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