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The TESCREAL Bundle The array of utopian ideologies that power Silicon Valley's elite is ultimately bleakly eugenicist.

for those of you who are serious about understanding the eugenic lineage of the whole AGI movement, on the other hand, you can peruse some of the resources at www.dair-institute.org/projects/tes...

ICE will reportedly hire contractors to surveil social media platforms 24/7 to target people for deportations.

The information would then be funneled into an existing ICE database built by Palantir (founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel).

"The party of small government,” folks.

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

Attacks on migrants will not return Tories to power, Lord Heseltine warns Badenoch Lord Heseltine warning comes as Robert Jenrick is caught up in a racism row

The tide is turning. Just 13 per cent of young people think Brexit was right - and fewer than one in five under 50 agree. A clear majority of Britons now believe leaving the EU was a mistake.

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

I don't want to get all Chesterton's Fence here, but if you don't understand that a "microscopic snail" is an indicator species that's protected for the health of the entire ecosystem, you probably shouldn't be forming "good relationships" with developers
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'm increasingly convinced this is a huge driver of dissatisfaction with govt

Council tax is one of the most visible taxes that people pay, it goes directly out of their bank account and they get a letter about it going up every year

Yet bin collection frequency falls and libraries close

Pesticide link to prostate cancer

Statement from Lujayn on learning tatreez (Palestinian embroidery) and witnessing the destruction of Gaza City.

"I have always walked through my small town, Gaza City, as if it belonged to me. As if its streets knew my name and its sidewalks awaited my passing."
palestineiseverywhere.tba21.org

Breaking | According to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, Palestinian detainee Ahmed Hatem Khdeirat has died in Israeli prisons.

Held under administrative detention since May 23, 2025, Khdeirat suffered from chronic diabetes and scabies, severe health deterioration, extreme hunger.

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

Just some light reading for today... www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

@citizensforethics.org

On the Reform problem, Labour faces a serious strategic dilemma Labour has long been divided. But these are not normal times, and arguments between factions may hand power to Farage

Reform UK’s rise isn’t just bad news for the right.

It’s an existential test for Labour – and they’re failing it.

Analysis by Dr Seth Thévoz

ICC convicts former Sudan militia leader for war crimes in Darfur Janjaweed commander Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman, known as Ali Kushayb, found guilty over atrocities

A victory for humanity that the world has the ICC. Justice done in this case. Now let’s ensure that all those charged by the ICC face trial there, wherever they are from.
“ICC convicts former Sudan militia leader for war crimes in Darfur” | The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Great to see some of the hostages taken from the flotilla have been released. This includes my friend Margaret Pacetta from Glasgow who organises the Palestine stall in Buchanan St. She is a constant inspiration to my activism.💚
#SolidarityWithPalestine
#GlobalHumanitarians
#PeaceInTheMiddleEast

THIS IS SAD ❗❗ "That prison was awful. No food, no water. My broken leg, the girl said to me, "Ah, what happened to your leg?" I said, "it's broke." She slammed the metal door on it and went, "Oh, sorry" Margaret Pacetta, 70, from Glasgow, Scotland, is one of four Scots who participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla. Pacetta arrived in Istanbul Airport on Saturday afternoon along with 136 other activists.

An Israeli prison guard deliberately slammed a metal door on the already broken leg of a 70-year-old Scottish woman who was abducted from the flotilla.

Torture.

Scottish Flotilla activist Margaret Pacetta has arrived back in Glasgow after being detained in Israel

She describes the 'awful' conditions she was subjected to

"a rabble of American mercenaries, aided by British Special Forces in disguise and funded by the Republican evangelical right. And for good measure, the whole thing masterminded by a shady defence contractor in cahoots with a leftover group of fire-breathing neocons from our fast-dissolving New Labour leadership. And the dividend? The mangled corpse of an innocent Muslim woman and her baby daughter." p.275

#Review
Le Carre, A Delicate Truth

On the one hand, a rollicking yarn, a pacy page-turner (JLC would hate that description).

On the other, it rings all too painfully true - the corruption of high political and civil office by wealth and elitism.

He gives his own plot synopsis on p.275, here:

The thing about good fiction is that life keeps on imitating it.

bsky.app/profile/carn...

It’s perhaps no surprise that the disgusting Blair has been advising the grotesque Israeli/US plan to send mercenaries to provide food in #Gaza, forcing Palestinians south. Now he is collaborating in ethnic cleansing. Prosecutions please.

The 22 year old intern put in charge of counter-terrorism at the Dept of Homeland Security

www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...

This is a hollow, performative gesture that will do nothing to stop Israel’s colonial project to erase the Palestinian presence in Gaza and the WB. Only sanctions might, and only might.

YouTube video by Carne Ross Career advice: how to get ahead in international relations (not your usual advice...)

A former diplomat: how to get ahead in international relations (not your typical advice...) - youtu.be/xK27WfvmC5M

One form of dehumanisation is deciding who’s allowed to grief and who isn’t, whose grief matters and whose doesn’t.

What makes Starmer think parts of the Jewish community and many other communities haven’t been grieving for 24 months about the genocide his government is supporting?

Conflating Jews with Zionism (what people protest against) is not only anti-Semitic even according to IHRA, but is probably what went through the head of the attacker from Manchester as he stabbed Jews to death on Som Kippur. Congratulations Keir Starmer for the dumbest tweet.

Just read a post by our local alliance against rightwing extremism which managed to both describe October 7 as an antisemitic attack comparable to synagogue shootings and to not even mention the genocide in the slightest. Not even as a "war". So not only is the second still ongoing, but also denied.

"This study examines how scholars in Germany .. have experienced the discussion of Israel and Palestine in research, teaching, and public debate since October 7, 2023 ...

Self-censorship and experiences of threat are widespread"

#1930s

#NeverAgain is now.

#Gaza2025

New INTERACT study: German Academia after October 7

Given broad interest we gave our best to speed up the translation of our study of self-censorship and perceptions of academic freedom infringements in Germany since 7 October 2023!

An english version of our report and codebook are now available on our website: interact.fu-berlin.de/en/News/Grim...

"these pictures prove the exact opposite. They show a market where the last remaining food items are becoming luxury goods that the majority can only dream of. Whoever controls the border with Gaza also controls this market. Starvation is no accident."

#Gaza2025

Starvation is no accident Anyone talking about Gaza cannot ignore Israel’s intentions. Human suffering is part of their war strategy

Just realised that my article on Israel's starvation policy in Gaza was translated by IPS and published in English too!
www.ips-journal.eu/topics/forei...

Russian newspaper head mysteriously falls 70ft to his death from a window The veteran publisher died on Saturday. Police are investigating the 'strange death'.

Russian newspaper head mysteriously falls 70ft to his death from a window | News World | Metro News metro.co.uk/2025/10/06/r...