“There's an old saying in Clausewitz—I know it's in Jomini, probably in Clausewitz—that strategy is the use of battles for... for... battles get you the thing you want.”

James@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's like what that German guy always used to say. Sustained kinetic strikes in lieu of a cessation in hostilities are negotiations by other means

Reminder that the Tories believe any non-British person who commits more than a minor parking or traffic offence should be automatically deported. They “believe in second chances”, apparently, but only for literal Nazis.

Kemi Badenoch defends selection of man jailed for harassing Jewish MP in council election – as it happened

Conservative leader tells press she stands by decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a candidate for local election in Somerset

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MacIntyre again

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 5d ago

looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy

shoutout to muslim fish, i didnt know animals without lungs could become mu'minun since it complicates reciting the shahada but maybe they've just really clamped down on fish charity to make up for it with zakat

"What world lies beyond this sea I do not know, but every sea has another shore and I will arrive." - seen in a cemetery on Italian island Lampedusa, where people who die at sea are buried.

Really something when you see how many people with all the right opinions are not interested in giving even 3 hours a week of their time to some kind of practical endeavor that improves the world.

I got hit (as a pedestrian) by a car in Westchester County when I was a college student. I woke up to three or four worried strangers putting a jacket under my head and telling me the ambulance was coming!

☀️@stel.energy · 4d ago

quote this with a time a bystander helped you out

These third country deportations are among the most evil acts of the Trump administration. They're trying to extrajudicially punish people for seeking asylum, up to and including with death.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 4d ago

Great reporting from @emilybregel.bsky.social about a gay man who’s been in the US since he was four, imprisoned in a “hotel” in Equatorial Guinea since April. He says he’s being denied soap and toilet paper in retaliation for filing a complaint w African Commission. 1/ tucson.com/news/local/b...

Constantly left astonished at Western reporting on people seeking asylum. 54 HUMAN BEINGS dead in an unbelievable tragedy at Ceuta and the media insist on leading with 'MIGRANT INVASION'. You inhumane bastards. What if they were your loved ones? When empathy gives way to hate, we're all doomed.

Chips designed to jumpscare Eve Barlow

we need a The Sea People of the left

things are kinda dour today, so let’s get a singalong going! repeat after me: KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQATSI KOYAANISQA

This is an amazing foreword. Morgan Ortagus is directly saying Arabs don't need sovereignty. She really views the region as one large group of tribal confederations to be managed by the US. As American empire gets dumber and more insular, it also becomes more racist.

Laleh Khalili@lalehkhalili.bsky.social · last wk.

Worth noting about Ortagus. And Sahnawi is a crook and an embezzler who owns a tonne of media outlets in Lebanon.

Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests

Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests

Upper tribunal unable to find document cited in case and claims it is ‘analogous to relying on bogus evidence’ * UK politics live – latest updates A senior judge has accused the Home Office of relying on “AI hallucinated” information to refuse an asylum claim. The case relates to a Moroccan woman and her child who fled her country after experiencing forced underage marriage and extreme violence, including rape. The woman claimed asylum on the basis of fears that she would be killed by her husband: a powerful, previously convicted criminal. Continue reading...

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We should be livid. The article says students are asked to do everything with originals via post (no email when there's no functioning post service?!) and failed for "insufficient evidence of strong obligations to return to your home country". What would that case look like in Gaza right now?!

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · last wk.

Sources within the universities say the refusal rate this year is in marked contrast to last year, when more than 80 Gazan students left Gaza in an evacuation organised by the Irish Government.

My asylum case was an affirmative asylum case in 2017. If I were applying today, I honestly don’t know whether I would have had the same chance. I’m thinking about the hundreds of thousands of people currently seeking protection in the United States.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: The Trump admin just published a new regulation allowing asylum officers at USCIS to deny hundreds of thousands of “affirmative asylum” applications without an interview, sending applicants directly to deportation proceedings. This means many people will never get a chance to argue their case.

Why is it considered normal to just issue death threats against Arab Americans?

worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · last wk.

we got self-described "Hardcore Democrats" out here making genocide jokes (This account in on here too)

When Elon Musk says "zero" children died in Africa from his DOGE cuts, he really means zero children died who are *worthy of any concern.* It's vile coded signaling to his global fascist audience. From me and @polphilpod.bsky.social, a deep dive into Musk's fascism: newrepublic.com/article/2135...

The Real Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed “Zero” Kids

In his explosive interview with The Economist, the SpaceX billionaire inadvertently revealed something darker about his true vision for the future—and about his affinities with global fascism.

newrepublic.com

throwback to the time I went to the Tate Modern and the words “Piet Mondrian’s ‘loss’” washed over me like a vision of God in all Their glory

People embracing a racist who trashes US democracy because she also now supports Ukraine need to understand what they are supporting. You must own this as well. There is one side in support of freedom and the rule of law, and this is not on that side.

NBC's kristen welker was caught laughing it up with Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller who architected the family separation policy. Stephen Miller who pushed the Muslim travel ban. Stephen Miller who oversaw the killing of Americans by ICE agents. This is why independent media is crucial.

I don't accept the argument that if you build a wall with bricks and mortar to seal Fortunato behind it, you're responsible for him starving to death bsky.app/profile/fain...

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fuck you, Ian Bremmer, you abject ghoul.

A frat boy from the university I used to teach at got deported this past week, and the frat set up a GoFundMe but the university hasn’t even sent out an email about it.

the concept of migration control is incredibly historically new and when it is abolished - and it will be abolished, like all unjust laws are - we will look back on it as if it was a complete insanity. what lunatic would say that your life should be restricted to a territory you were born in

This triggered me for a hot second. 10/10

“Two courses for the fall of 2026 were canceled outright, while several more had to alter their syllabi to comply. Professors teaching those courses told The Chronicle they weren’t provided with any rationale for why their “exception requests” were partially or fully denied.”

What Texas A&M Will — and Won’t — Let You Teach

Newly obtained records reveal that two courses for the fall were canceled outright, while administrators demanded changes to others. Instructors say the deliberative process is a black box.

chronicle.com

Nothing will radicalize you on borders faster than going through university acceptances with a bunch of Afghan girls who have won full scholarships but literally can’t get to the university because of border imperialism.

She is unequivocally an evil person. She chose to prevent Afghan girls from having the opportunity to pursue education in the United Kingdom. Think about that for a second.

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 2w ago

And yes Mahmood stays at Home Office.

An account with this avatar was just blocked.