Andy Fleming
@slackbastard.bsky.social
Anarchist, cat-lover, & avid reader /// No dms b/c STRAYA : write slackbastard at protonmail dot com or comment on blog https://slackbastard.anarchobase.com /// https://www.patreon.com/slackbastard.
I've written about Neets for the LRB. It is odd listening to recent debates about this completely ignore the overwhelming fact of this current crisis, that it is one of inactivity, disability, mental ill-health and neurodevelopmental disorders (as I discuss) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
William Davies · Young People Are Different: What do Neets need?
The majority of Neets are not looking for work, but living outside of the labour market and the education system,...
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The Wikimedia Foundation is acing the test. Unfortunately it's for doing the wrong thing every step of the way. medium.com/regarding-wi... @wikipedia.org #Wikipedia
How the Wikimedia Foundation’s Union Busting Is Textbook
The word “textbook” usually gets used loosely. Here it applies literally. There is an actual scholarly literature on how American employers…
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In NLR 159: Manufacturing Impunity Tom Mertes on Richard Beck’s account of the origins and afterlives of America’s War on Terror. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...
Spanish far-right figure sparks outrage with Nazi salute outside Morocco embassy The protest over the deadly Ceuta migration incident comes days after a court upheld neo-Nazi activist Isabel Peralta to a one-year hate-speech conviction www.newarab.com/news/spain-f...
Spain far-right figure performs Nazi salute near Morocco embassy
The protest over the deadly Ceuta migration incident comes days after a court upheld neo-Nazi activist Isabel Peralta to a one-year hate-speech conviction
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Irish News covers our FOI on this extraordinary meeting. This far-right group is comprised largely of National Front & neo-nazi linked individuals and target migrant properties on the North Coast. A recent human rights report highlighted the targeting an immigration law practice in Coleraine.. [1/n]
Northern Ireland council kept no record of chief executive’s meeting with far-right group
A council chief executive held a meeting with representatives of a far-right anti-immigration group without any agenda, terms of reference or minutes being produced, it has emerged.
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This is Elon Musk, a techno-oligarch with 241 million followers on TwitterX, spreading and amplifying Ceuta-linked right-wing disinformation, with one message reaching 9.9 million views and the other 7.9 million as of right now. 1/4
Judge grants DoJ bid to dismiss January 6 cases against rightwing Oath Keepers Ruling vacates convictions of founder Stewart Rhodes and other militia members who took part in 2021 Capitol attack www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Judge grants DoJ bid to dismiss January 6 cases against rightwing Oath Keepers
Ruling vacates convictions of founder Stewart Rhodes and other militia members who took part in 2021 Capitol attack
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i think that everyone should know about the ways this government is trying to criminalize dissent and protest -- not because it should scare us into inaction, but because understanding how it works is how we stop it from working. wrote about it for @thenation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Chilling Trump Order Threatening All Americans
Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.
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It was a tragedy Chan joined the 27 club that fateful night in 1999 but also surprising she made it that far and at least she left a perfect unblemished legacy of four excellent recordings and zero highly odd things to say
kate bush’s husband@airbagged.bsky.social · yesterdayCat Power is antivax
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
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It keeps getting hotter. Forest fires are spreading, people are dying in heat waves, but the millionaires and billionaires who control most of the wealth in our society keep digging us deeper into this disaster. They are murdering the future. It's time to fight back. crimethinc.com/posters/merc...
The Rod Liddle biography suggests a certain post-1968 'type' who was just idiotically drawn to norm-breaching, moving via adolescent rebellion, punk, revolutionary socialism, and eventually ending up at racism, because by the 21st century that was the most efficient transgression still on offer
#OtD 5 Aug 1936 James Colton (b 1860), a South Wales anarchist miner, who married exiled Lithuanian-American Jewish anarchist Emma Goldman to give her British citizenship, died of cancer. This is his short biography: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1049...
These people will all be dead in 50 years. The damage they inflict on your children and grandchildren will exist for geological time. Are you going to let them get away with it? www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.
'Debate over a new fishing and hunting “super agency” in Victoria has highlighted the intersection between the gun lobby, union leaders and the Labor Party.' @mitropoulos.bsky.social Calling the shots Katherine Wilson The Monthly August 2026 www.themonthly.com.au/august-2026/...
Australia's No.1 Nazi propaganda site has been temporarily suspended on X, The Everything App. (The Good News is that it remains Zucc-approved.)
What’s Really Behind the Far Right’s Obsession with South Africa? A new book looks at the roots of far-right obsessions with South Africa — and how they might be countered. inkstickmedia.com/trumps-south...
What's Really Behind the Far Right's Obsession with South Africa?
Trump's obsession with attacking South Africa stems from long-held far-right conspiracy theories about the country.
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Butterflies around the world are changing habitats - and experts say it’s ‘signalling a warning’
Butterflies around the world are changing habitats - and experts say it’s ‘signalling a warning’
New research shows early-warning species is on the move, expanding or contracting geographic range and changing altitude * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Butterflies, often considered a “sentinel of change”, are on the move across every continent they inhabit, shifting to survive as global heating reshapes their environment. About one in 10 species have already expanded or contracted their geographic range, or shifted in altitude, according to a global study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Continue reading...
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Hearing Block 8 will examine: • Key drivers of antisemitism in Australia ... • The means by which individuals become radicalised or are otherwise driven towards antisemitic views ... • The responses of governments to combatting radicalisation ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lJ3...
Hearing Block 8 Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion 5 August 2026
YouTube video by Royal Commission on Antisemitism & Social Cohesion
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🚨Networks of bogus “news” pages are being used to spread vast amounts of pro-Hanson and One Nation propaganda on social media — as Hanson bans actual media. Pages aggressively spreading calculated disinformation in mass MAGA attack. Investigation 👇 theklaxon.com.au/i7z3
Sham pro-Hanson "news" pages flood social media – as One Nation bans actual news - The Klaxon
Networks of sham “news” pages on social media are being used to spread vast amounts of pro-Pauline Hanson and pro-One Nation propaganda — as Hanson bans actual media.
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#OtD 5 Aug 1939 56 socialists, including 13 women and girls, known as the 13 Roses, were executed en masse by the right-wing regime of general Francisco Franco. Commemorated here by a shirt made by a workers' co-op supporting grassroots unions in Asia: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/t-s...
El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year
El Niño could push 50m people into acute hunger before end of next year
UN forecasters warn of worsening conditions in 45 countries currently experiencing severe food insecurity About 50 million people are likely to be pushed into acute hunger before the end of next year by the rapidly developing El Niño weather system, according to forecasting. This is in addition to the hundreds of millions of people already facing dangerous levels of hunger, owing to years of drought in parts of Africa and pressure on food prices from the war in Iran. Continue reading...
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The goal was to plant 1.5 billion trees on 1.5 million hectares of degraded land in the Philippines, promising sustainable livelihoods and environmental stability. But our investigation found it failed to deliver on almost every target. aje.news/forest
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