What a shame. Players from the “world’s game,” many who came from very little, yet remained dead silent when the oppressed needed their voices the most.

In a crowded and overheated bar towards the end of the evening a few months ago, I received some strange parenting advice from one of those “Labour strategist” types. We were discussing – maybe arguing – over the government’s position on Gaza. Eventually I asked if he could provide me with a decent explanation to give my son who had shown me stuff on his phone a couple of days earlier about how Israeli army officers were still being trained by Britain’s military. “Here’s what you say to your son,” began his reply, followed by a portentous pause that made me lean in closer. “You should tell him to fuck off.”

Tom Baldwin in the Guardian:

On Jan 6 in DC, ~2500 MAGAs violently protested. DC police reported 174 police injuries, 9 deaths, & 1500+ criminal convictions.

On Oct 18 in NYC, ~100K Americans peacefully protested. NYPD reports 0 injuries, 0 deaths, & 0 arrests.

FACT—Right wing violence remains America’s biggest terror threat.

BEFG 💛

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Free Palestine forever 🇵🇸

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Can you pick a perfect Premier League XI who might fit his system?

A colorful collage about Trump’s science cuts, with the title “Bill Nye would be disappointed.”

I led a “punk science” activity for our incoming freshman biology majors at our orientation event. They made zines and fliers on any topic they chose. Here’s a sample:

‘Operation Raise the Colours’ Organised by Well-Known Far-Right Extremists – HOPE not hate Union Jacks and the crosses of St George have begun to appear on lampposts up and down the UK in recent days. Much of the...

To be clear: there is nothing wrong with flying the Union Jack or St George’s cross.

But when convicted criminals, Britain First and Tommy Robinson’s allies are the organisers, we should all question what this wave of activism is really about.

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Any standouts from gw1 for a free hit gw2? (who maybe you weren’t considering beforehand?)

a sign of just how far the UK press has sunk that the Telegraph and the Spectator are *still* publishing Nina Power a year after comments like this were exposed

Huffpost story "The former editor of the Sun has been convicted of breaching the Sexual Offences Act after the paper printed a photograph of Adam Johnson's teenage victim, who should have been granted anonymity. The Sun published a photograph of the girl following the former Sunderland and England player's arrest in March last year."

press reporting that Starmer is to appoint ex Sun editor David Dinsmore as his new permanent comms secretary. He has a conviction for doxxing the teenage victim of sexual abuse by a famous footballer. For most people this would be a new low but here it depends on exactly what Mandelson's role was

Look, this Labour government is against burglary, but arresting burglars is out of the question, and now is not the time to stop supplying burglars with burglary equipment. We must also continue to buy stolen goods from the burglars. And anyone who tries to stop a burglary will be deemed a terrorist

1. One thing you need to realise about the British Establishment is that it uses clowns to express its deepest desires. People like Rod Liddle offer a kind of deniability - "lighten up, he's just having a laugh". But they deliver a closer representation of its truths than any sober editorial.

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It won’t be easy but you have to keep going A yellow cat sits on a skull surrounded by stars and flowers. The cat looks concerned

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Do good stuff, don’t get caught. Nobody needs to know it was you A purple cat spray paints the words “don’t get caught”. A yellow spotlight is on the cat and the darkness has creepy eyes watching

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