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Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 12h ago

In the 25 years since 9/11, the United States has spent $8 trillion+ on wars that have taken millions of lives in the name of fighting "terror." Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds here on climate, health care, housing, and education?

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4d ago

An RNLI lifeboat guy here, and as I’ve been saying for many years now: why is it that the public have been subjected to hate campaigns against hated enemies including rescue services, Stonewall, Amnesty International, the left of the Labour Party, the National Trust, the Proms and Match of the Day?

Fr Paul @revpaulwhite • 1h Let me tell you about the Overton window: A white, middle-aged, middle-class, clergyman in the Church of England, who volunteers with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is a radical leftist seeking to bring down Western society. That is how far it has shifted.
Anna Orridge@anna-orridge.bsky.social · 4d ago

Based on stats from similar 'protests' in the past, around half of those oh-so-polite men will have convictions for domestic violence or CSA. But yes, I suppose you might well be safe providing you're white and you don't happen to be with them behind closed doors.

We were on a day out. Then masked protestors got on our trian. Activists who brought Dover to a halt on Saturday refused to remove their balaclavas but were 'very polite', say fellow travellers. A headline accompanied by a picture of grinning white women, with masked men giving thumbs up in the background.
Jasmin Mujanović@jasminmuj.bsky.social · 2w ago

Serbia’s Justice Minister announces that genocidaire Ratko Mladic will be buried in the country with the highest state honors. It’s good that the Serbian government is doing this, so everyone can finally see the true, monstrous face of the Vucic regime. No illusions. www.klix.ba/vijesti/bih/...

Sramota koja se nikada neće oprati: Srbija će sahraniti zločinca Mladića uz najviše državne počasti

Ministar pravde Srbije Nenad Vujić rekao je da će presuđeni ratni zločinac Ratko Mladić biti sahranjen u Srbiji uz najviše državni počasti.

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Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 2w ago

Another London dispatch: If any of you know any Broadway producers or investors, I am begging you to convince them to transfer "My Neighbor Totoro" to NYC when it closes in London in January. It is one of most enchanting, moving, heartwarming shows I've seen & I want audiences here to experience it🙏

Photo from London production of My Neighbor Totoro, with Satsuke & Totoro standing in the rain
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2w ago

I note: Britain went along with the war on terror, we have supported the destruction of Gaza and given the US use of our airbases for the clown war fucking the world; we gave them a squillion pounds for bullshit AI drivel and we’re giving them the same for a shit-ton of missiles. What did this earn?

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2w ago

And there it is, the one thing that Britain’s Israel/Palestine policy always been about. Britain does what it’s told to by Washington, Or Else.

Steven Swinford Y @Steven_Swinford X.com Exclusive from @breeallegretti Andy Burnham has been warned he risks igniting a trade war with President Trump by pushing ahead with plans to impose sanctions on Israeli settlements The prime minister was told by Labour MPs that Britain could face retaliation from the White House for imposing a trade ban over plans for 1,200 settler homes in the West Bank The US last month criticised Ireland for passing similar legislation, warning of the "unintended consequences" for hundreds of businesses and calling the move "unhelpful" Trump has also threatened a full trade embargo with Spain, which last year banned goods being imported from Israeli settlements, amid a wider row over the country's decision not to let the US use its military bases for operations in Iran
Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dolly Parton was great. She was a brilliant songwriter, an amazing performer, and she used the wealth that came from that to materially make the world better. It’s the very definition of a life well lived.

Tony - Pod Guy - Groves@tonygroves.bsky.social · 3w ago

BBC invited Palestinian writer, researcher and analyst Muhammad Shehada on to talk about Israel’s decision to investigate the killing of Hind Rajab. Below is Muhammad’s account of what happened next. Full disclosure: I know him years and he’s a regular on the pod. So naturally I believe him 100%.

@muhammadshehad2 Disappointed the BBC cancelled my interview on Israel's killing of Hind Rajab 2 producers eagerly reached out. They confirmed the time & one called to prepare a brief for the anchor She asked me whether Israel's announcement is positive, I explained in detail it was a cover up. The IDF is blaming the killing of Hind, her uncle, aunt & 4 cousins on the family itself for trying to flee by car & on the ambulance sent to rescue her for "failures in the co-ordination of the movement." None of this is remotely true! The Red Cross immediately informed the IDF about 5-year-old Hind who was hiding in that motionless car, & they requested permission from Israel to allow an ambulance to rescue them. After multiple long hours, Israel granted greenlight to the ambulance & provided them with a designated route on a GPS to drive on.soon as the ambulance reached Hind's car, the IDF ambushed & bombed them immediately with an American made anti-tank missile then opened fire on Hind's car. The car was hit with 355 bullets. Israel then kept that area under lockdown for 12 days, & prevented anyone from approaching. Hind's mom went daily to the Ahli baptist hospital hoping to find her daughter, until her lifeless body was brought in along with the charred remains of the ambulance men. Israel then claimed after an "initial investigation" that its troops were NEVER in that area to begin with. They maintained that claim for 2 years despite ample recordings & satellite images debunking this lie. The only reason Israel is now making this new announcement of a deeper investigation is to shield its soldiers & generals from the International Criminal Court by invoking the principle of "complementarity;" that the ICC cannot investigate a state that is already investigating itself in good faith.I told the BBC producer Israel today also quietly shut down the investigation into the triple tap killing of American, Canadian, British, Australian & Polish citizens in the WCK massacre. Israel blamed the massacre on the aid workers themselves for "deviating from the predesignated route" & for hiring an armed security guard "without informing the IDF" (both claims where debunked by WCK themselves, who had coordinates their every step with the IDF). I told the producer the Israeli commander responsible for this massacre, Nochi Mendel, is a fanatical settler who had signed a petition calling for starving Gaza & that he was celebrated by settler leaders & supported by Israeli government leaders after what he did. Mendel even received a box of chocolate from the settler council's leader & a letter of support for what he did. Mendel was initially dismissed by the IDF & blamed for the massacre, but was quickly & quietly reinstated & promoted in the Defence Ministry as the head of the settlements and notionol infroctrunturo unitIt's abundantly clear Israel is NOT serious about prosecuting any of the atrocities committed in Gaza. Since the genocide began, only two soldiers were punished by the IDF; one for microwaving a living frog & another for cooking sausages in the army kitchen on Shabbat. The producer asked me: What about the 150 cases the IDF said are pending review? I answered: it's just a number designed to give the appearance of seriousness, but it's essentially meaningless. If it took the IDF two whole years to admit the simplest of facts that the entire world had already known, which is that their troops were the ones who fired on Hind Rajab's car, how do you expect them to do with the remaining cases that are not as high profile? Five minutes after the call, the producer wrote me that they decided to cancel the interview & will not even host anyone else to comment on the issue, & instead they'll play archival footage!
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 4w ago

Impressive chutzpah from JWS here: 4000 words on the spread of the "Great Replacement" theory in the UK without a single mention of his columnist/friend Douglas Murray, who wrote a whole book endorsing it...

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Terence Eden@edent.tel · 4w ago

I know you all hate the emergency alert about disposable barbeques. But yesterday I watched a man at our hotel breakfast set fire to a toaster by trying to toast a croissant - despite multiple signs telling him not to. Today he tried again. So, you know, calibrate for the average person.

Nicholas Pegg@nicholaspegg.bsky.social · last mo.

This is remarkable. The same government that’s committed to sending trans women to men’s prisons is now proposing to send cis men to women’s prisons. And from the usual suspects who drape their obsessive transphobia in the cloak of “women’s rights”, the silence is so far deafening. Quelle surprise.

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Sian Berry MP@sianberry.bsky.social · last mo.

John Bird is absolutely right - we cannot rely on council house building alone. I have written to Andy Burnham calling for a national ‘Buy the Supply’ fund for councils to buy existing properties and rapidly turn them into affordable homes. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

Fund Councils to Buy the Supply of Council Homes

We urgently need to replenish our decimated council housing stock, and part of the answer is real funding for councils to Buy the Supply. Over 169,000 children are homeless and living in overcrowded ...

you.38degrees.org.uk

Common Wealth@cmmonwealth.bsky.social · last mo.

This is right. Local government needs stronger powers to buy homes to rebuild the council housing stock.   This needn't just apply to empty homes, former social homes should be bought back too.   www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/andy-burnham-housing-empty-buy-37449776

Phil McDuff@mcduff.bsky.social · last mo.

A reminder that the same little group of sneering cunts who are currently praising Rod Liddle also went on the TV explaining that this was sensible normal British patriotism.

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · last mo.

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Flags on the Abingdon Road