On the barbarity of the Israeli regime
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Alarming. Gorka is leading this.

“The Trump administration aims to deploy counterterrorism tools against far-left groups, even as it has offered little evidence they present a dire threat.”

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A medium shot of Nigel Farage wearing a blue suit and a pink patterned tie. He is gesturing with his right hand open toward the viewer. A white text box at the top reads: "Men make sacrifices many women don't for top jobs, Farage says".

A close-up, low-angle shot of Nigel Farage speaking into a microphone. A white text box at the bottom contains the following text: "Nigel Farage has praised the misogynist influencer Andrew Tate for being an “important voice” for the “emasculated” and giving boys “perhaps a bit of confidence at school” in online interviews that appear to be aimed at young men over the past year. The Reform UK leader spoke in favour of Tate for defending “male culture” in a Strike It Big podcast that aired in February, while acknowledging that the influencer had gone “over the top” and elsewhere that he had said some “pretty horrible” things."

Nigel Farage and another man are walking outdoors, surrounded by people holding light blue "I'm voting REFORM UK" signs. Farage is on the left in a green jacket and red tie; the other man is on the right in a dark suit and light blue tie. A black text box at the bottom reads: "Reform’s by-election candidate suggested people who don’t have children should pay more tax".

A head-and-shoulders portrait of Nigel Farage wearing a blue suit, pink shirt, and patterned tie with a red poppy pin on his lapel. A white text box at the bottom reads: "Nigel Farage has previously taken aim at UK abortion laws, saying they are “totally out of date”, arguing it is “ludicrous we allow abortion up to 24 weeks”."

PSA: the far right don’t like women.

We’re not going to stand by while any man tries to make misogyny normalised in this country.

Wake up, Nigel – it’s 2026, not 1956.

March with us on 28 March if you agree.

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Love this
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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.

Agree or disagree with the merits of the operation, you can't help but be in awe of the audacious Al Qaeda operation that brought down two towers in Lower Manhattan.

Happy new year to all of my friends on bsky!

#Israel's political leaders go in for an exceptionally forthright brand of criminality.

Minns’ protest ban: breathtakingly racist, authoritarian, and must be resisted - Michael West Chris Minns’ protest ban is not just authoritarian: it is breathtakingly racist and must be resisted, writes Nick Riemer.

'Minns proposes to ban protest marches for up to three months across whole tracts of NSW. The premise of the ban is the scurrilous claim that public opposition to the genocide of #Palestinians is intrinsically a threat to Jewish safety...'
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Epstein files appear to show Andrew asking Ghislaine Maxwell for ‘inappropriate friends’ Documents give further insight into former royal’s ties to sex offender and raise fresh questions for Donald Trump Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor asked Jeffrey Epstein’s fixer Ghislaine Maxwell to arrange meetings with “inappropriate friends” while she sought “friendly and discreet and fun” girls on his behalf, the latest documents from the Epstein files appear to show. The largest release yet of files concerning the financier and convicted child sex offender – which also raise fresh questions for the US president, Donald Trump – include emails in the name of “A” exchanging detailed messages with Maxwell that appeared to identify the author as Andrew. Emails recording that Britain’s Metropolitan police contacted the FBI last month to inquire whether there were any ongoing investigations related to the disgraced former prince’s association with Epstein. Emails showing US lawyers claiming “various factual inaccuracies” in a statement provided on Andrew’s behalf during their investigation of Epstein. Multiple references to Donald Trump, including a claim by a senior US attorney that Trump was on a flight in the 1990s with Epstein and a 20-year-old woman. There is no indication of whether the woman was a victim of any crime, and Trump has consistently denied wrongdoing. Files featuring redactions that were found to be removable through Photoshop techniques or simply highlighting text to paste into a word processing file. Continue reading...

Epstein files appear to show Andrew asking Ghislaine Maxwell for ‘inappropriate friends’

Every society that has ever existed has had views that are mainstream and views that are fringe. The free-speech frauds who captured the discourse over the past decade understood this, but their true objection was that they did not unilaterally have the power to define which was which. For example, in a 2018 Times column, Weiss complained that “leftists” were engaged in a “concerted attempt to significantly redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” This was meant to sound sinister, menacing. In fact, this is politics. Every faction is always trying to “redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” In a free society, the government allows people to have those arguments. Such disputes are not a threat to free speech; they are free speech.

When I say that CBS News’s Bari Weiss understood this, you needn’t take my word for it. In November, shortly after being given the reins to one of the oldest broadcast-news organizations in the country, Weiss used identical language to describe her own project: “I think it’s about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40-yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture,” Weiss said at the Jewish Leadership Conference. “And I don’t mean that in, like, a censorious, gatekeeping way.” What’s the difference between her “redrawing the lines” of acceptable speech and other people doing it? What makes one “censorious” and “gatekeeping” and the other not? Well, because she gets to decide. That’s what so much of the free-speech panic was ever about: making sure the right people were in charge of what you see, hear, and read. Notably, this has very little to do with reporting the news, which is supposed to be what CBS News does. But if the point of installing Weiss was to ensure that she would gatekeep on behalf of right-wing interests, that is precisely what she appears to be doing.

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

New report from Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem:
'Since October 2023, the Israeli regime has been carrying out genocide in the Gaza Strip. It has killed tens of thousands of people, injured hundreds of thousands more, destroyed homes and... ' www.btselem.org/gaza_strip/2...

Not just the lies but the continuous demonising of asylum seekers and Muslims that accompanied the war - demonising the people they were slaughtering in an attempt to justify the racist mass murder they were carrying out.

Bought myself a couple of early Christmas presents

The general strike in Portugal yesterday was massive. Not only was it supported by the majority of people in Portugal, it seems that the majority of workers were actually involved in striking. The Metro in Lisbon was completely shut down, schools, universities, Super Bock in Porto!

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The video for the Lullaby single is now out. Beautiful song! - With Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Dan Smith (Bastille) -- all profits to the Together for Palestine fund, which is held by Choose Love. Get it to number 1!
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Let's make this Christmas number 1

Love > Hate

Next year, thousands of us will come together in London to prove it.

#Together we can show the far right has no place here.

Save the date & join us: togetheralliance.org.uk

Delighted to be supporting the launch of @togetheralliance.bsky.social

Together we need to take on the far right.

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Green background. We are together aganist the far right.

Love is greater than hate ❤️
Unity is stronger than division. 
Hope is more powerful than fear.

Let's stand #together to show what this country is really about. Get ready and join us ⏩ togetheralliance.org.uk
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Ro Khanna to Hillary Clinton: Don't ‘Disparage the Intelligence of Young People’ on Israel Khanna pushed back on Clinton’s claims that Israel’s critics 'don’t know the history' while speaking with three American humanitarians abducted by Israel.

Hillary Clinton headlined an event run by Trump donor Miriam Adelson's newspaper. There, she blamed TikTok for young people’s "misinformed" views on Israel.

The next day, Ro Khanna met US veterans — mobilized in part by social media — who were abducted by Israel as they tried to bring aid to Gaza.

Current reading. Fascinating and very relevant today!

#OtD 13 Nov 1938 American screen icon and Black Panther supporter Jean Seberg, who was hounded to death by the FBI, was born. She was targeted by COINTELPRO, which planted fake stories leading to the death of her premature baby and then her suicide stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8516...

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

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You will not see anything better today. Perhaps ever
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Israel’s war on Palestinians in the West Bank intensifies after Gaza ceasefire Since the Gaza ceasefire, Israel has intensified its operations against Palestinians in the West Bank, conducting military raids in the north and increasing settler attacks on Palestinians harvesting…

Since the Gaza ceasefire, Israel has intensified its operations against Palestinians in the West Bank, conducting military raids in the north and increasing settler attacks on Palestinians harvesting olive groves. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/isra...

The overwhelming vote against the US blockade of #Cuba at the UN General Assembly that takes place every year is a reminder that Washington was taking a highly selective approach to the 'rules based' international order long before Trump came along.

#Israel's #genocide in #Gaza has not simply been focused on the immediate goal of mass killing and destruction but has involved a more systematic effort to eradicate the means of supporting life for years to come.