Investigators now say the U.S. likely bombed a girls’ school in Iran, killing over 160 people, mostly children. If confirmed, it would rank among the worst civilian massacres of America’s Middle East wars.
I really wish the media would stop normalising the behaviour of those sick bastards who are currently in charge of the USA
Ben Stiller is calling out the White House after it used a clip from Tropic Thunder in a video promoting the Iran war.
“We never gave you permission and have no interest in being part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie,” Stiller wrote.
Our journey to replace Labour continues.
For too long they've told progressive voters that they had no choice but to vote for them.
The Manchester by-election showed that for the lie it is.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Jeremy Corbyn • @jeremycorbyn • 1d $ ... We cannot let Keir Starmer drag this country into another illegal war. That's why I tabled a Bill to require Parliamentary approval for the foreign use of British bases. Today, I urged the Prime Minister to fulfill the promise he made in 2020 and pass this legalisation, now.
They were terrified of this guy because of the social forces he unlocked, quite accidentally. But he’s a letter-writing, petition collecting kind of politician, he thinks he’s there to enable others. A proper populist monster would lay waste to the British political landscape.
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An excellent, informative presentation from Professor Richard Murphy. Please watch and share. Let's bust the household budget analogy.
youtu.be/FlqoKplKNz4?...
I am surprised that more people from traditional Labour supporting backgrounds, including MPs themselves have not left today’s Labour party as it continues its move to new right leaning political pastures.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
I just left a concert fundraising for the National Immigrant Justice Center to head to Broadview.
Here’s why:
In 2008, after a deep writing drought, Def Poetry Jam made me start writing again. When I thought I had lost my voice, spoken word gave me back my voice.
Here are a few of the pieces that helped me over many very, very rough patches...
folukeafrica.com/my-favourite...
23 year old Ruben Ray Martinez’s last words? “I’m sorry sir”.
ICE shot him 3 times and killed him.
Renee Good’s last words? “It’s ok I’m not mad”.
Alex Pretti’s last words? “Are you ok?”
These are the people DHS calls domestic terrorists. Threats. Aggressors.
Abolish ICE
The Lion Nebula Sh2-132 is a faint emission nebula located in the constellation of Cepheus. It’s 10,000 light years from earth. I captured it with my Askar FRA500 telescope, ZWO AM5 mount, and ASI2600MC Duo camera. 😊
#astrophotography #astronomy #naturephotography #nature #eastcoastkin #photography
Those who have tasted the terror and shock of war
Will spend all their might to trouble it no more
While those who have never tasted its terrible night
Will crown themselves its lord and issue it a warm invite.
"A TWAIL-inspired approach to reparations... draws attention to the unjust enrichment of those responsible for colonialism and slavery, who have benefited from exploitation and victimization, to illuminate world systems and hold them accountable."
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Graham Linehan @Glinner 52m Once at Glastonbury I did a poo that broke the toilet of a camper van that Select magazine had organised. Outside the van, I got into a massive argument about it with my editor where I argued that there was no way of knowing which poo had broken the toilet. As I stormed away, I looked up and saw Mick Jones sitting in his car, looking back at me, laughing his head off.
finally we get the villain origin story.
‘May we wake one by one.’ This is how we sometimes say 'good night' in Nigeria. It is a greeting and a prayer against a sudden disaster that wakes us all at once. ‘May we wake one by one.’
folukeafrica.com/may-we-wake-...
“Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.” Arundhati Roy, War Talk
Seems Starmer is leading the Labour Party into oblivion, which to be honest is the best place for it.
Someone buy this chap a pint.
"“all anyone seemed to care about afterward was the value of the claim. I had nightmares about it. Even now, I sometimes have dreams so vivid I can hear the waves slapping against that ancient, wooden hull, the screaming of lost souls as things go horribly, irretrievably sideways… Adam Oyebanji."
"The story of the Zong is often narrated as a triumph over slavery. A triumph that took 52 years and resulted in compensation for slave owners only... 245 years after the events of the Zong, humanity is still discarding lives deemed not human enough to the open seas, to fire, to hunger, to war."
Fines for UK financial crime nosedive to ‘pitiful’ lows | TBIJ
Penalties from the FCA drop by 78% in five years as it prepares to take on a new role as 'super-regulator'
Omid Djalili's brain was eaten by the scarabs that ended him in The Mummy*
*not really, he's been an incredibly horrible cunt for some time
We are currently outside the ICE Broadview concentration camp where Sunny Naqvi’s family believes her to be held after being detained in O’Hare by federal authorities.
The first ever conference session on space archaeology was at WAC-5 in 2003. From the abstract: 'there should be international agreements in place to protect at least the more significant sites and artefacts'
🧪 🏺 🔭 #SpaceArchaeology #Heritage #PlanetSci
Random disc from my collection #4.
Gorgeous region A edition of Kore-Eda's best film. Bae Doo-na is so moving and, ironically, human here.
To quote the very wise person who once gave @kendrawrites.com advice, "would you rather be right, or effective?"
Climate and public health communicators like myself and @publichealthguy1.bsky.social understand that the knowledge deficit model (aka telling people more facts) does not change minds.
Please contribute if you're able or share the original if you're not.
Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know
