Dimi Reider

starmer now confronted with difficult questions such as: “what do I think?”, “what do I do?” and “wait so how DOES the dlr work?”

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.

He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.

Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

Second-best scenario: Wes/Shabana get in now, take the blame for May, get replaced by Rayner or Burnham with 3 years to turn party around.

Right that the prime minister has resigned. His successor, Keir Starmer, has a very difficult inheritance.

Best, unlikely scenario: Rayner gets in, builds a strong leftish cabinet, averts May disaster, comes in strong to '29.
Likely scenario: Rayner gets in, attempts conciliating Labour Right, doesn't pivot enough to survive May, is knifed in the back and replaced by Wes / Shabana.

Today my students learned about asylum & the principle of non refoulement, read the 1951 refugee convention, and saw videos of the camps created by countries in violation of their obligations under international law. You know, apropos of nothing

Just imagine reading this headline in 2012

IDK who needs to hear this, but Polanski's position is obviously "replace NATO" rather than "abolish NATO" or "leave NATO". Very different positions, and his doesn't lend itself to lazy caricatures.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

This is the correct read. Most European leaders have a 'white knuckle it until Governor Fungible (D-Nonsuch) gets 270 electoral votes in 2029' approach. Not a good idea IMV.

Wait, all the people who said it was outrageous that a British riot-supporter was jailed for a tweet are now saying it's outrageous that a British person was released from an Egyptian prison, given his tweets?

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

By the way Noam shuster's doc "coexistence my ass" is so fucking good. You can rent and stream it off kinema now

Which I just did, fwiw (used Deepl)
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I'd like to point out that palestinians are having this debate. Something youre apparently not allowed to say in pro palestine spaces in the US 🙄

youtu.be/gbG2HxwLHgk?...

This reminds me! Five years ago I had a chat with the local council official who created “Winterval” in 1998. A real canary in the coal mine of future British culture wars. TBH the real story is that councils used to have money to spend on cultural events. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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If there only was a word for a governing system in which one set of laws applied to people of a specific race, and a completely different and much harsher set of laws applied to those of another race...

www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

The Hunger Strikers

On the From The Periphery Podcast, we spoke about the prisoners on hunger strike in the UK whose lives are at risk. This is an extremely urgent situation.

With @aymanmak.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/7oIo...

More here: prisonersforpalestine.org

“It is in this space between Jewish gradualism, Palestinian urgency, and the movement’s strategic ambiguity that both the promise and limitations of Standing Together come into clear focus. “

The horns and whistles work What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.

ICE whistles work.

It's remarkable how persistently Labour figures use this line. Goes all the way back to 2010's concerns about "populsim" as a single issue, whether from the left or from the right...

Can Standing Together bear the weight of its contradictions? The Jewish-Arab movement is celebrating its 10th anniversary after a period of rapid expansion. But as it grows, so do questions about its political stances, its electoral ambitions, and the limits of...

A super interesting, complex profile of Standing Together & how it fits in Israel's political landscapes: nationally, within the Left, among Israeli Jews, Palestinians & shared struggle groups. Recommended, whether you're instinctively a critic or a fan.
www.972mag.com/standing-tog...

Ten years of fortress Europe has served only cruelty, profiteers and racists. The next decade is up to us | Maurice Stierl The hard right and far right are the political winners from the migration ‘crisis’, but only because centrist parties keep legitimising them, says migration and border researcher Maurice Stierl

Wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian: "Since migration has become the cornerstone of the current authoritarian turn, it is precisely around migration that resistance needs to form."
www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

FWIW: You can't argue both "Bondi wasn't to do with Palestine or Globalize the Intifada" AND ALSO "should we really be surprised that after two years of genocide... etc".
It's either/or.
(The former, obviously, is correct: As far as is known rn, Bondi wasn't about Gaza.)

Extract from Rob Reiner's Wikipedia Filmography 1986 - Stand By zme 1987 - The Princess Bride 1989 - When Harry Met Sally 1990 - Misery 1992 - A Few Good Men

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.

Us: Across your entire career?

Reiner: In a 6 year period.

Us: That sounds-

Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

Zack Polanski grilled over Calais trip

GB News grilled me apparently?

Only problem with this is I've never been on their nonsense channel.

They lie - obsessively.

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If Europe is serious about Russia being an existential threat then maybe Europe shouldn’t be propping up regimes like Saudi Arabia

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves

Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars

Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.