Dimi Reider

I will never not understand how a minority of people have decided that wind farms - significantly prettier than pylons, coal power plants, nuclear power plants, and almost certainly fusion power plants - are ugly. In terms of energy generation, what else are you hoping for that is better?

This is how the book opens:

The proscription of Palestine Action: An explainer Vashti stands with PA.

The piece:
vashtimedia.com/palestine-ac...

Opening line of the month:

Coalition building is not like synchronised swimming where we have to all do exactly the same thing. It's like rugby, where we have to just keep moving forward, passing the ball.

that puts coalition-building ahead of gatekeeping & factionalism; practical organising ahead of theoretical purism; compassion for the fears that fuel reactionary politics, ahead of moralising—without ceding ground to reaction; and that cross-endorsement! So much for all of us to learn, everywhere.

Zohran Mamdani 😮😮😮😮😮This is spectacular. I can't begin to say how spectacular this is 🥹 Because it's not just a long-overdue major progressive victory in America. It's not "just" the first Muslim mayor of New York (🤞🏼). It's a whole new era of progressive campaigning....

David Hogg @davidhogg111 Follow The same establishment that is spending millions to destroy Zohran will say in a few months that we need to spend millions on polling and testing to win back young people. Open your god damn eyes- it's free. Adam Carlson @admcrlsn •3h The final three days of early voting were the youngest of the entire period. 47% of early voters are age 18-44. x.com/ gothamist/stat... Early Voting By Age Group (Raw Votes Cast) Age Group Days 1-4 Days 5-6 Days 7-9 Total (Days 1-9) 18-24 8,487 4,941 13,096 26,524 25-34 29,557 15,620 45,195 90,372 35-44 20,591 10,365 31,488 62,444 45-54 14,438 7,411 23,252 45,101 55-64 19,159 10,548 27,079 56,786 65-74 23,131 14,055 24,861 62,047 75+ 16,071 10,346 15,483 41,900 Early Voting By Age Group (Share of Early Electorate) Age Group Days 1-4 Days 5-6 Days 7-9 Total (Days 1-9) 18-24 6.5% 6.7% 7.3% 6.9% 25-34 22.5% 21.3% 25.0% 23.5% 35-44 15.7% 14.1% 17.4% 16.2%

david hogg off the top rope on the other site

Any leads on any motor or sailing vessel leaving Jaffa, Ashkelon or Ashdod for Cyprus in next 24h?

just saw a group of masked men stuffing masked ICE agents into an unmarked car, who were saying "we're ICE we're ICE!" but the abductors shouted to the crowd "no we're ICE!" no one knew who was ICE, so no one in the crowd said anything.

Because some of the bravest fighters against that genocide are of that nation; because there is no scenario in which attacks on civilians are justified; and, last but probably not least, Israel is where my family, friends and comrades are, Jewish and Palestinian. The unfollow button is right there 🤷🏼‍♀️

Sending thoughts to everyone under fire, Palestinians, Iranians and Israelis. And to those of us lucky enough to be abroad, but not knowing what news from home we might wake up to in the morning. May all of our loved ones survive tonight unscathed.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

UK ministers draw up law to fast-track removal of migrants arriving from ‘safe’ countries Disclosure comes as calm weather and fuller boats leading to more Channel arrivals, Home Office says

If you're going to reheat a Blair-era policy you probably need to explain why, last time around, it was so badly run it ended up wrongly deporting thousands of people, some very likely to their deaths, and how you might avoid that this time.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

utterly genocidal hysteria among swathes of the public, which will only escalate in pitch as the war gets on. And it can happen accidentally, on purpose, or both - with leadership authorising one level of violence and soldiers taking it to another. Riskiest flotilla ever.

the killings on the original Freedom Flotilla and the enduring legacy of Rachel Corrie's murder. But we now have a) a leadership keen to show it will abide by no rules or expectations, b) an army with a growing number of increasingly out-of-control soldiers & units, and c)

Just putting it out there: I don't think it's at all far fetched the IDF could kill Greta and/or her companions. Would have been unthinkable before the current war, because of the implicit caste system we apply even to foreign activists, and because of the backlash to...

The 'rural culture war' between rural and urban Brits, writes @jon-moses.bsky.social , is a myth.

In fact, half of Right To Roam's supporter base live in the countryside.

Absolutely guaranteed to backfire. You can't really use it against an opposition party anyway, and in his case it'll just legitimise everything Farage say and invite voters to give him a chance to try it.

What Louis Theroux gets wrong about the West Bank The settlers are engrained in Israeli society, but the BBC cast them as radical outliers.

This is excellent from @dimireider.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

"If the world missed the window to impose two states, it should start developing ... what a non-apartheid single state could look like ... Otherwise, the new reality will continue being shaped ... while the left continues to debate what might have been" - Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social

Morgan McSweeney & Keir Starmer, centrist genuises? Right. Today's PMQ exchange w Farage should put that notion to rest: Labour clearly plan to recycle their strategy from 2024—attack Tories not on politics but on efficacy—against Reform.
Do I even need to explain how monumentally suicidal this is 😱

Hashtag personal news 🐥 of the best possible kind. Born a dozen days ago, healthy, happy & wise. We are infinitely grateful to @uclh,to our doula, to our loved ones, and for the rare privilege of safety&care in our darkening world. We now have one extra reason to keep fighting for a better one.

Max Blumenthal also heckled but he wasn't pulled out. I guess Sidney's boy gets special treatment

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: ISRAEL AND HAMAS AGREE A CEASEFIRE, press conference in Qatar to commence shortly

Retraining brain to smell things again after a cold.
Me: See? This is coconut hand cream. We sniff, and we should smell coconut.
Brain: We should smell coconut?? 😮 Yethhh, mathter 🫡 Behold! Coconut coffee, coconut lemons, coconut laundry, coconut tuna, coconut weather, coconut whiskey...
🤦‍♂️

Still as true, even if it now seems like an even taller order. But what else are prayers for?

Trying to approach 2025 the way St. Margaret is approaching Beelzebub

(Self-indulgent whine: caught a cough in mid November. By Dec, it was pneumonia. Recovered from pneumonia by Christmas eve, but meanwhile wife caught the cough. So far no pneumonia🤞🏼,but after three weeks of coughing she added a cold, and passed it on to me, so now we're both ill. When will it end 😖)