Stringwraith, commander of the Ska armies of the North. I have an inspirational back story.. @b0mbskare
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Scott McCafferty retweeted
The clearest admittance I've ever read that our economies are built upon and rely upon the extraction of surplus value from workers. In 2026 basic Marxist precepts remain unquestionable.
'Quiet quitting' could be hitting the economy - here's why bbc.in/4ijTORZ
Scott McCafferty retweeted
If you’re just waking up, the blue tsunami is real and Donald Trump is not taking it at all well.
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EXCLUSIVE: A debunked far-right conspiracy theory campaign has been linked to Israel. Political reporter Adonis Storr explains 👆
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oh no me and the rest of gen z are going to lose the savings we dont have and the houses they wont sell us and our investments which we dont make. all the stuff we dont have is going to be repossessed! we have to move back into our parents house that we never moved out of!
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okay Monday morning, US election week.
Let me get this straight:
- grocery stores throughout Europe have had their fridges turned up to 100+ degrees by unknown hackers
- aka exactly what a sophisticated actor would do if they wanted to disrupt US east coast food supply next week
- US military bases already had essentially the same thing happen last week
- founder of Shopify tweets there’s a TCP vulnerability that basically makes every server on earth that’s not a managed service completely remotely controllable
- a nontechnical 26 year old hacked several major banks using only chatbots
- billions of dollars successfully stolen from different exchanges in several countries, notably most of that was $6.3b from binance in just 20 minutes. They’re “fine” per the CEO. Okay lol
- random civilian private jet crashes a few miles outside trumps house yesterday, right as Tucker Carlson of all people warns us Trump might be considering using nukes
- US Senator who warned about the same thing recently “had a stroke” over the weekend, alright sure
- bibi lost his majority so his only chance to stay in power is for a new war to begin
- Poland currently in constitutional crisis/coup, both it and Lithuania just sent troops to the border w/Russia. NATO did the same in Latvia. Turkey moved fighter jets to the border too.
- Germany’s leaders phones all hacked
- openai and Anthropic are going to release gpt-6.2 and fable 5.5 after elections this week because somehow more capable models will help? lol no
- many streets in downtown DC is shut down right now for a speech today outside the Lincoln memorial?
- DOJ trying to pull ballots in California
- documentaries openly critical of Elon & Zuck are BOTH pulled from theaters in just weeks because nobody knew about them and went to saw them. Not suspicious at all.
- oh and Russia and Ukraine both had their nuclear alerts hacked and sent false alerts of “impending air raids, chemical, and nuclear attacks” what could go wrong!
Unbelievably, there is not a hint of any of this on my Facebook, insta, tiktok, reddit, threads, blue sky, or LinkedIn feeds. You can ask any ai except chat about it and it goes, no yeah that’s about right. ChatGPT goes “you’re not allowed to ask about this”
I can’t decide if that’s a very good thing and we finally figured out the emotional and psychological dangers of social media algorithms (except elon 🙄) OR it’s actually really bad people are voting in the dark
What a strange moment in time. And I’m supposed to send emails today?! For sure
Scott McCafferty retweeted
Today, the long hand of the Labour Together Project will make the UK a crueller, less fair and less equal place, while also undermining worker's rights.
This afternoon Shabana Mahmood, one of Labour Toether's most prominent "brave eight" MPs, will present her immigration proposals. They are the most likely going to be the most hardline immigration reforms in a generation.
The Labour Party's leadership will likely try and spin the minor concessions they may have extracted to signal a welcome shift under Burnham. But it really is just that - spin. The totality of the package will mean legal immigrants to this country will be cast into greater insecurity by forcing them to wait much - much longer - for settled status in conditions of worsening insecurity.
These proposals are nearly universally opposed by unions, and for good reason. The reforms will help create a labouring underclass living in conditions of unjust precarity. It binds immigrant workers to bad employees who can exploit them for longer, and pay them less.
They particularly target low-paid but socially necessary workers like carers, who get tied into long-term contracts under awful conditions, often based on broken promises. This precariariat then undermines ALL workers, who must compete in the same workforce as exploited, vulnerable, low-paid employees who can't fight for fair pay and acceptable working conditions.
Mahmood's reforms will be championed by the right-wing press as tough and fair, and she will be celebrated for taking hard decisions. But doing exactly what the right-wing press and bad employers want is actually the path of least resistance. Standing up for all workers, regardless are where they from, is the real hard work, and the essence of solidarity. This should be non-negotiable for a Party born from the trade union movement.
I expect the Green Party will oppose these reforms, but this is also the time for the Labour left to stand up. The Labour left has survived the Starmer/McSweeney years - now they must use that survival to push back against the regressive politics pushed by Mahmood, one of the key architects of the Labour Together project.
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Gentle reminder that the £10 Billion of your money that Burnham is giving Ukraine, is actually going to Nazis who do this to their own men and children.
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What if stopping fascism were actually pretty simple?
newrepublic.com/article/2171…
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Put that on the fucking #BBC
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The entire point of Star Wars was that Anakin got manipulated into serving an authoritarian. You really thought this was a flex? The irony of identifying with a character who fell for every lie a powerful politician told him is absolutely incredible.
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“Britain bears massive historical responsibility for the situation of the Palestinian people. In 1917, after the Balfour Declaration, it enabled the settler colonial movement of Zionism to begin a project of state building in Palestine.”
On the 109th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, revisit this analysis by Ilan Pappé from the Declassified archive.
declassifieduk.org/britain-i…
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In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran.
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"Palestine Action must be the only “terrorist” group in the world who acted solely to prevent death, not cause it."
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj0y…
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“I don't feel defensive. I feel offensive,” Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Benjamin Moser, author of Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History, tells Palestine Deep Dive. “I have nothing but loathing and contempt for the people and the institutions that have allowed a genocide to happen in my name, with my money,” he continues.
Discussing the Green Party of England and Wales' approach to shifting the conversation around Israel and Palestine, following the adoption of its motion declaring Zionism to be racism, Irish journalist and commentator Barry Malone observes: “The Greens were bumping the Overton window… I think they're through it now.”
"I very much hope that they won't backtrack," Moser adds. "I think it would be really devastating if they did. But again, I don't think they need to dig their heels in with this. If I were the Green Party, I would just say, yeah, next question, because, yeah, of course Zionism is racism. Moving along, what's your next question? Because otherwise, you get stuck in this rhetorical quicksand where you're always defensive."
@BenMoser123 | @malonebarry | @AlnaouqA
Scott McCafferty retweeted
in the uk you have to declare unwavering support for israel or you dont get your bins collected
🚨 NEW: Labour has pulled out of 11 council coalition agreements with the Green Party after they refused to condemn the "Zionism is racism" policy
Coventry City Council
West Suffolk Council
Derbyshire Dales District Council
Sheffield City Council
Warwick District Council
West Devon Borough Council
Arun District Council
Havant Borough Council
Lewes District Council
Stafford Borough Council
Wealden District Council
