Collins wrote a world where children are killed on live TV and the audience reaches for their drink.
El Akkad wrote about the real world where that's already happening.
I paired the two books and analysed fiction vs non-fiction. You can read me here👇🏽
#Gaza #TheHungerGames #Palestine
Serious question: 👇
Since Trump is a convicted felon, how was he allowed to vote?
How?!
Mahmood's changes to both the immigration and asylum systems are already harming individuals and families, even before being fully implemented. The fear and anxiety these inhumane policies takes a toll. It's beyond time to scrap them all
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Remember when his Sieg Heil was just a gesture of heartfelt joy?
I think most people are seriously underestimating how serious things are right now.
We’re talking about an economic crash that would make 1929 look like a field day. Or a nuclear hecatombe.
This is where we’re at.
Trump has done double digit totally insane impeachable crimes and people are just pretending he didn't and not talking about it. I'm losing my fucking mind over here.
Blue Labour in a panicked retreat. Let’s keep the pressure up until this iniquitous policy is buried five miles underground.
Two things need to happen at this point:
1) Scrap proposals and pull a mea culpa for ever suggesting them
2) Fire Mahmood as Home Secretary and get someone in who isn't chasing soundbites.
You can't "water down" proposals which are so obviously inhumane, hostile, unworkable and ignorant of reality.
A catastrophic war with #Iran which will change the course of #history.
My latest #Substack article addresses the historical juncture in which we find ourselves👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
open.substack.com/pub/omargabr...
The rent you can't afford and the missile that hit a school in Minab are products of the same machine.
New essay on my #Substack connecting the war on #Iran to the system that produces it.
open.substack.com/pub/omargabr...
Love it when our nation’s defense contractors all spend their Friday nights subtweeting each other about killing everyone in the world
En mi última “Cápsula de Gozo” en mi #Substack les cuento sobre mi visita al Palacio de Hampton Court y mi experiencia con las grietas de la #historia.
Pásenle a leerme por acá abajo 👇🏽
open.substack.com/pub/omargabr...
The #EpsteinFiles show the depravity. But don't miss the larger point: their private sins fuel our public suffering.
Realising no one is coming to save us isn't the end. It's the beginning.
We must save each other.
My new essay on my #Substack 👇🏽
open.substack.com/pub/omargabr...
En este artículo les cuento un poco sobre Judith, La Mazzafirra, y cómo trato de mantener la cordura en medio de tanta barbarie. Me pueden leer acá:
open.substack.com/pub/omargabr...
nursesonja • 7h & Threads Let us not forget, it was the same administration that reduced us to wearing trash bags as protective gear while we watched the hospital go up in flames around us during the pandemic that just murdered one of our own on the streets in broad daylight. As a nurse & as a person, I will never forgive. I will never forget. I will never back down. This was never about border control. This is about total control. O240 Q5 G34 → 21
The nurses are pissed
JFC
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers.
I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide.
Let’s talk about #Trump, #Greenland, and how #Europe helped build a world in which all of this is possible.
My opinion right here on my #Substack
open.substack.com/pub/omargabr...
I’m giving it a go at starting my own #Substack.
Let’s see where this leads us.
You can read me here: open.substack.com/pub/omargabr...
who could have predicted that stopping international students, care workers and nurses from coming to the UK would damage the economy/public finances while yielding precisely no political benefits?
Oh. Me.
[& lots of others obviously]
Fascism is swallowing the planet.
And we are all UNDER-REACTING.
Keir Starmer is under fire for failing to condemn the United States for its 'illegal' bombing of Venezuela, with Zack Polanski claiming that Donald Trump believes he can act with impunity
Overthrowing the government of Iran and installing the shah led to the Iranian revolution and the Ayatollah. Funding the Mujahideen in Afghanistan led to the taliban and Al queda. These unlawful actions could have destabilizing consequences for decades and this will haunt the US for generations.
Fascism always turns to war because of its inability to manage domestic contradictions. Watch for the other shoe to drop; a widening crackdown on domestic political dissent in the United States. What a terrifying time to be alive.
We’re back in the 1930s, but now with even deadlier technology.
Do people really think that the same guy who tried to overthrow American democracy when he lost an election is going to bring democracy to #Venezuela?
International law died in the rubble of #Gaza and we’re now seeing the consequences.
Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
