“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated.”
—Justice Robert H. Jackson, Chief American Prosecutor, Nuremberg, 1946
Faiza Shaheen: "This just sends a message.. that this is a group of elites that support each other, that help each other regardless of the types of behaviour.. this really stinks & I think many people wont understand the particulars but what they will hear is this is corruption"
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois
Brutal.
Donald Trump is a terrorist…
When white men perpetrate it, it’s described as air strikes on strategic targets.
The Roman Empire had the largest most expensive army in the world, but it had bad generals and insane moron emperors that fought stupid wars and it died.
Anyone getting Déjà vu?
“If tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” -Thomas Jefferson #NoKings
#bbclaurak: "Isn't it time for a vote in parliament on what the UK is doing?"
Steve Reed says a vote would be unprecedented.
LK points out Starmer promised there would always be a vote on any military action
Perfect
Those who have never been on the receiving end, still believe the US to be doing what they do, for the greater good. Those who have always been on the receiving end, know different
Labour: suffers a historic by-election defeat to the left
Labour: proceeds with plans to cut jury trials
@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social : "Every euro, dollar or pound that is spent on buying more weapons.. that will end up killing people all around the world, is a dollar, euro or pound not spent on health, not spent on education, not spent on housing" 🎯
Westminster Voting Intention:
RFM: 23% (-1)
GRN: 21% (+4)
LAB: 16% (-2)
CON: 16% (-2)
LDM: 14% (=)
Via YouGov, 1-2 Mar.
Changes w/ 22-23 Feb.
Even further and faster than I expected. news.sky.com/story/greens...
Currently trending on X.
Eisenhower
Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran.
Iraq lessons must be learned.
Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe.
Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "This was the 127th target seat for the Green party. There is now no no-go areas for the Green party, theres no such thing as a wasted vote.. you can't underestimate how transformational this is for British politics"
Defend Our Juries spokesperson Zoe Cohen told us how she felt as a Jewish woman upon hearing the news that the proscription of Palestine Action was ruled unlawful by High Court judges.
“We’re in such a time of darkness but today we have a moment of joy and truth and justice.”
Poster with the cookie monster and the quote "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters."
You know a quote has really been used/abused too often if you find something like this hanging in a Think Tank office. I guess we are all Gramscian now 🍪
Britain's political apparatus has a culture of never learning from the lessons. This country needs parliamentary, electoral and legislative reforms. Part of that reform must see a clear separation between politics and the following, big business, finance, media, constabulary and judiciary.
You know, it’s just possible to feel really bad about the violent deaths of Israeli Jews, the genocide in Palestine and the deaths of Australian Jews all while being neither anti-Semitic or Islamophobic.
Somehow that has become impossible for the political class.
What is the best place to find links to prints of the art you post?
Would be super helpful (both for the artist and audience) if you could add links to the artist’s website!
One thing the Mandelson affair shows is that it is good for politicians to have a moral compass that exists outside of polls and media cycles. Because the latter changes on a dime and suddenly something that was ok becomes the reason for a major political crisis
“Democracy dies in oligarchy”
New in PN: Inside the resistance with @whstancil.bsky.social
"They seem to have thought they could come in here with big guns and intimidate everyone, then we would all just sort of run away. That didn’t happen. Ultimately, I don’t see a way out for them that isn’t some kind of defeat or retreat."
The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
The first time a city's population has ever been nominated.
www.newsweek.com/minneapolis-...
Epstein, Brexit, Trump, Putin, Tech-bro-oligarchy, manosphere descent, Rise of rightwing parties, vaccination collapse...
...aren't seperate problems.
They are all the same thing.
