The bizarre and disturbing thing is that Joshua Bonehill-Paine is one of the few figures on the right to be loudly and clearly called out for anti-semitism. Is that because it doesn't happen much on the right? You have to be kidding. So why the double standards? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

No one should get a free pass on antisemitism – so why does the right?

There is legitimate scrutiny of antisemitism on the left, but at the same time, rightwing media outlets offend with impunity. That makes no sense, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Drone strike targets a cemetery prayer hall in Tebnine, southern Lebanon.

Isn't lovely how little has changed?! Notice in the bottom right corner the makeup "compact" with six pigments and a protective lid! Above it the funny thing like a thumb is the pestle of a mortar for grinding fine powders. BM 1861,0523.2

.... is... is Hodges position that it woulda been better if Labour had just outright employed known Nazi trolls and said "yes we are aware this person was a neo-Nazi for a while, don't worry he's just organising the bins tho"? He can't actually be that stupid, or expect us to believe that, can he!?

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 6h ago

Hodges is an occasionally useful guy to keep an eye on, mainly because he’ll say things that his less stupid colleagues are smart enough to keep to themselves.

Members of the public are fully entitled to ask why the entire national press - who went into an 18-month terrifying panic about racism and bigotry, squealing in pant-soiling terror that even a trace of prejudice in public life was utterly intolerable - can talk about this calmly like it’s no biggie

This is one of the better, more helpful newspaper podcasts and it’s striking they - like all of the lads - talk about Farage and Lowe without any squealing and writhing about the cancerous virus of race hate that must be ruthlessly eradicated, or about the legion of evil scum who support them.

i've found many cis people either: ▪️ don't know anything about this at all ▪️ or imagine it *allows* service providers to be trans-exclusionary, rather than *mandates* that & are only now catching up

Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 7h ago

This is what we need to hear more of. And we need to forgive people when they say this. Better late than never - we need more people to speak up and speak louder however late they join the fight.

in the spirit of "miniscule wins we'll take where we can get them" in a related way, I was pleased Today this morning didn't: 1) let Justin Webb lead with this; 2) didn't make it the main 8:10 issue; and 3) Nick Robinson's questioning was mainly "how the fuck is this supposed to work in practice?"

This is what we need to hear more of. And we need to forgive people when they say this. Better late than never - we need more people to speak up and speak louder however late they join the fight.

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 7h ago

Turned it back on an he seemed to be wrapping up the segment by saying sorry for not speaking out louder against this guidance before now 👀

Kafka had absolutely no idea of our gloriously enshittified AI bot future ...

The remains of the C13th Château of Saint-Barthélémy near Durban-sur-Arize, Ariège, France. Built on top of a 2nd century BC Gallic oppidum. #HillfortsWednesday View from a footpath near a gite we're staying in and the destination for today's walk.

@rafaelbehr.bsky.social Joshua Bonehill-Paine was at no point even remotely left-wing, so your alignment of him with Corbyn's Labour is quite stretch, to put it mildly. As a journalist on a major paper, you have a responsibility here. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_...

Corbyn was and still is the Manchurian Candidate phrase for the centrist press. Even the tories employing a nazi can be Corbyn's fault

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 7h ago

Me: (a smart columnist, looking at claims made by an ex-Tory neo-Nazi booted out of the party for crimes, now standing as a Tory councillor whole doing a rehabilitation tour parroting the agreed media line in his new “anti-extremism” gig) This is extremely convincing stuff, and very worrying.

Me: (a smart columnist, looking at claims made by an ex-Tory neo-Nazi booted out of the party for crimes, now standing as a Tory councillor whole doing a rehabilitation tour parroting the agreed media line in his new “anti-extremism” gig) This is extremely convincing stuff, and very worrying.

It's never been so obvious that the Scriveners Guild has their own NATO Article 5—an attack against one is an attack against all. In this case, the response entails forming square around the cadaver of a bloke who repeatedly questioned the illegality of pædophilia & committed domestic violence 🙃.

An Osprey over the Clyde this afternoon. I looked upriver from Parklea and saw a guy fishing at the Finlaystone burn and assumed that meant there would be no birds around there. When i looked again I realised the Osprey was sitting very near him on top of a post. #birds

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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"History is like a trillion-piece jigsaw puzzle and if you use computers to do it you get an A+ and you become The Knower Of Historical Truth and I don't understand why it took historians so long to figure this out. What were you all doing all this time?"

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

At same time Burnham is prepared to jail more and more Genocide or Climate protesters, whatever their age! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Prisoner early release scheme gives Burnham his first taste of unpopularity

After a blitz of small wins, PM is finding that like Keir Starmer there is only so much he can control on the big calls

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From a leading British lawyer, for Zeteo UK today: zeteonews.co.uk/p/filton-4-p...

Climate change has consequences

Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · yesterday

MIDDLE EAST HEAT WAVE Brutal conditions with over 50C daytime and over 35C nightime continues. Widespread records allover the area. Some of the most extreme MINIMUMS tonight in the EMIRATES: 38.5 Swiehan 36.8 Al Ain Next days,we might see some MINIMUMS of 40C. Absolutely brutal

Full fascism by the British state. Destroying weaponry being used to commit genocide is an act of humanity, not terrorism. All solitary with the Filton 4 and their families 🇵🇸

To commemorate today’s official book release of “The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn” I wrote the following column for @thenation.com “Liberals Are Shaming Howard Zinn’s Memory Yet Again” thenation.com/article/soci...

Liberals Are Shaming Howard Zinn’s Memory Yet Again

Zinn saw firsthand what happened when liberals did more to fight the left than the right—they sabotaged their own power.

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Do brokers know something about AI and Iran the rest of us don’t?

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‘Direct action is not terrorism’: Filton 25 on the sentencing of Palestine Action defendants

Committee representing activists sentenced for ‘terrorism’ tells openDemocracy ruling marks a dangerous escalation

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10/10, no notes

I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

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.

Always the ones that you most expect.

This is also the Ben Cullen who is due to appear in court after being accused of making indecent images of children.