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Most Reform members believe non-white UK citizens born abroad should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll finds Nigel Farage’s attempts to appeal to centre-ground voters may cause tension in his party, according to Hope Not Hate

But you mustn't call them racist, apparently...
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The case against war in Iran | Patrick Porter | The Critic Magazine The United States, in combination with Israel, is bombing Iran from the sea and air, while inciting rebels to rise and overthrow the regime in Tehran. Tehran retaliates with missile volleys far and…

My piece in @TheCriticMag offering a prudential case against Operation Epic Fury. As ever, in wars there are many unknowns. We argue in the dark. That is also why the threshold for military action should be high, especially action to topple states.
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A party that is resolutely anti-bourgeois while being staffed and supported by the bourgeoisie is an intriguing and inevitably impossible strategy.

Anyway good luck attracting those Reform voters who hate you.

'The voters have spoken, and now we must stereotype wildly inaccurately'!

An Unpopular, Doomed, Bloody War People will die and nothing will be accomplished

My thoughts

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A lot of my academic focuses on public attitudes about foreign policy and the use of force. The just initiated bombing of Iran lacks many of the components that build and sustain domestic support for military action.

Trump might start a war with Iran. Can anyone stop him? Trump might start a war with Iran. Can anyone stop him? Congress, public opinion, and administration insiders aren’t reliable constraints on Trump’s foreign policy decisions.

Quick reactions after learning that no, nobody could stop him. 1/ goodauthority.org/news/trump-m... 1/

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I went down this same route six months or so ago. Can’t remember now which straw broke the camel’s back, but it reached the point of feeling that if Starmer and his cohort want to keep punching the things I believe in, I may as well punch back.

‘ICE will comply’: Top Minnesota judge threatens criminal contempt for continued defiance Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz wrote that Justice officials were continuing to violate court orders at a historic clip amid President Donald Trump’s mass deportation push.

"The Court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt — again and again and again — to force the United States government to comply with court orders."

Source: Politico
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Yes! Been thinking about this one a lot today - Labour not averse to a bit of sectarian campaigning.

This also captures the response of the Labour Party itself this evening, which has essentially been:

Labour have alienated the voters they had on the left, and failed to win over any of the voters they have courted on the right. Now their core appeal is all but gone and ever growing numbers of voters have exit options on the left, right and in the centre.

Welcome to the Valley of Electoral Death.

“Rather than make peace with an urban voting base of younger graduates in professional jobs, poorer service sector workers and minority ethnic communities, Labour seems to have been pining for the demographic that voted for it in the 1970s – older, manual workers in small towns.”

Who could have predicted this?!

True!

I first thought "there aren't words" when I first saw this story. but there are

I can't deny that I'm also enjoying how angry Labour party officials (especially McSweeney's acolytes) are going to be - sure, they may dislike the Tories and Reform, but in my experience they really despise the Greens.

This is a massive shift which would upend the lives of millions - not just the nearly half million directly threatened but their families. It would abandon a basic principle of law that changes are not retrospectively applied.

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

"The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Again, the unifying 🧵 about this WH’s foreign policy is not realism or neo-royalism. It’s the extension of sexual assault/predation to IR. If they think you’re their macho pal, they’ll respect your sovereignty. If they don’t, they’ll try to violate you & humiliate you. Epstein-ism, if you like.

The interesting thing is that this sentiment also very much applies to the Labour Party in the UK - even though its in government, it is terrified of public opinion and lacks the courage to try to change it.

Latest in the series of “literally every poll question you can think of shows how dumb and fatally flawed the strategy that the McSweeneyites have pursued is”.

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

It would be good if Europe chastised back once in a while with its own diagnosis of US civilizational decline - e.g. democratic backsliding, increasingly authoritarian use of state power, and behaving like a rogue state.

High court rules ban on Palestine Action is unlawful – live Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

Well what a fucking surprise. Another reason why Starmer should be packing his bags at Number 10 and, frankly, Yvette Cooper should be joining him.

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Wow, they still *really* don't like Liz Kendall do they? Is that a McSweeney association thing?