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Hard to describe this as anything other than an elite-level psychosis spurred on by the collapse of mainstream support for Israel.

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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 20h

For over a decade, the firewall against the far right has held in spite of close calls in Germany. Now that the worst has come to pass, the question is: Who is to blame? dissentmagazine.org/online_articles…

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

there are really very few contexts in which "natural and national" can sensibly modify the same word, and we should probably be working to make them fewer still

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Has anyone at least considered the possibility that if the state I vicariously identify with unleashes sufficient brutality on hated outgroups then I'll feel less lonely and afraid?

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It should not be lost on anyone that Ori was not just a man with an impeccable moral compass, Ori was a brilliant, accomplished academic . His contribution to our regional scholarship was enormous. We need his acumen more than ever, his death leaves an enormous chasm, a, truly , monumental loss.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Philosopher Peter Hallward arrested for holding banner stating, “In the UK it’s a crime to say I support Palestine Action”

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Navi Pillay last year: "The commission finds it is genocide" Pillay has just won the Nobel peace prize.

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

reminder

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Without a baseline of agreement that each innocent life is invaluable, and thus that each loss is a tragedy and each murder a crime, we inhabit different moral codes and realities." eladnehorai.substack.com/p/a-life-is-...

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A Life Is a Life: Thoughts on the Anniversary of October 7th

Today has become marked by debates over whose life matters more rather than mourning the loss of innocents. And that itself is a tragedy.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Archive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

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Thatcherism via the Walkman: Stuart Hall’s British cultural studies preserved online

Project lead says it celebrates ‘incredible contributions’ Jamaica-born sociologist made to Britain’s culture

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

OK, sure, but that's absolute political despair in 6 posts, an argument that nothing will ever do anything except get worse. We can all do that. I expect a lot of us do it in our heads every day. There are 2 roads out - keep trying within the confines of peaceful democratic action. & the other one.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The 7th Oct was the biggest single-day massacre in the modern history of Palestine/Israel. It was followed by the most lethal campaign in the history of the country. In the last three years, Israel inflicted a 7 Oct on Gaza every three weeks on average (in absolute terms; more in relative terms).

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What people fail to understand is also that Zionism was not just a plan/ideology for Jews in Palestine, it was also a vision for Jewish *diasporic* identity. Much of Zionist activity has always taken place outside Palestine/Israel and was about communal identity and politics. Hence the attachment.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Edward Said's essay "Zionism From The Standpoint of its Victims" is a one of the best examples of how this issue can be discussed in a way that generates more light than heat. Characteristically for Said, it's a critique that is simultaneously compelling, principled, nuanced and empathetic.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She's a 94 year old Jewish human rights lawyer. She's been arrested under terrorism legislation for opposing genocide. The least we can do is to listen.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a dreadful argument from Burnham. Empirically false - almost 6m people were granted settled status; about 4m are currently resident. More importantly panders to racism/xenophobia, and directly contradicts argument made in his speech about migrant contributions.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

one thing worth saying here specifically: there's lots that AI can't (yet) do and there's a lot of money riding on selling a particular narrative about its future capabilities. but the existential risk of AI is not only not mere hype but it is already a present tense problem

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short

Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's a fairly local issue. We do, after all, live in Britain, the country that is aiding and abetting the genocide.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There is a genuine incomprehension amongst many journalists and politicians that anyone might care sincerely about Palestinians or seriously object to their indiscriminate slaughter. The natural human response to this genocide is something they simply cannot understand.

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Bryan Murphy @bryanmurphy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've decided that the funniest thing would be Hannah Einbinder being a huge fan and Susan Sarandon, politely, wondering who she is. "Have you seen Hacks with Jean Smart?" "No, sorry. Is that a movie?"

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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This ridiculous number of applications is, in my view, the result of 2 nightmare developments happening concurrently 1.the precariousness of the job market for young PhD graduates which then fuels further: 2.the AI tools enabling overproduction of proposals. #Research #ERC #ResearchFunding #Academia

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What an absolutely brilliant scorching indictment of Sheeran, the BBC, and all the assholes both-siding a genocide www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

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Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions

Given much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, you could be forgiven for thinking that Sheeran had...

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Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I know it’s poor form to repost an outrage artist like Ulf, but his message that we shouldn’t fear a repeat of the Nazis but rather an imminent return of the GDR (but this time with “Arab Islamofascist” characteristics) does sum up the current terror of the large swathes of the Mitte.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Knesset barred today the only two Palestinian led parties from running in the coming election. According to an overwhelming majority in the Knesset, the constitutional meaning of a Jewish State is a state where Palestinian citizens cannot run for parliament.

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Christian Helms @christianhelms.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ein Diskurs, "der wegen seiner Allianz aus rechtsradikalen Spinnern und einflussreichen Hauptstadtjournalisten durchaus gefährlich ist: Vorbereitet wird hier eine Schmierkampagne, deren Ziel nicht einmal die Linke, sondern Grüne und SPD sind, damit diese keine Koalition mit der Linken eingehen."

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Wahlsieg in Berlin: Willkommen in der islamo-sozialistischen Höllendiktatur

Der Wahlsieg der Linken löst in bürgerlichen und rechten Kreisen eine Kernschmelze aus. Doch hinter der Schmierkampagne steht ein gefährliches Kalkül.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 20/09/2026

Der Universalismus von Souleyman Bachir Diagne, Édouard Glissant oder auch Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o basiert im wesentlich auf der Idee der Übersetzung - konkret sprachlich, aber auch im übertragenen Sinn.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Concerns". In narrative and policy terms, the "legitimate concerns" paradigm must be one of the greatest political disasters of the modern era. A racism laundry run by centrist pundits and politicians, which has achieved one thing and one thing only: the mainstreaming of the far right.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

32.4% of UK employees were unionised in 1995; 22.4% were in 2025. That trend looks likely to reverse with new legislation in force this year.

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The union shock coming for UK employers

New legislation brings far more companies into contact with trade unions — but many businesses are unprepared

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yuval Abraham's excellent articles about the AI-assisted bombing of entire apartment buildings have been online since 2023. Here is one from 2024 that describes "Where's Daddy?," an algorithm designed to locate and bomb targets when they were at home.

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‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza

The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

god this is good

flight of the concords scene with murray, brit and jemaine.

"How's this, then? Ed Sheeran, beloved by all, left without an opening band at present. Enter you two."

"What if we want a free Palestine, Murray?"

"I reckon you'll get lots of things for free when you're proper rockstars. This might be your ticket."

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SMD's pension @anothersmd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

yesss hahaha yessss

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Palantir hires Tom Watson to fight left-wing campaign against US firm

[thumbnail of tom watson speaking while doing that stupid thumb gesture aggrocentrists think makes them look commanding]

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https://twitter.com/timespolitics/status/2100692993925619796

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Yes, people like the woman in that clip being insulted, bullied and pushed around by comfortable, middle aged wankers has been the entire selling point of right wing politics for *at least* two decades. “We will harm people you irrationally hate and make them cry” is most of the sales pitch.

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time. I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

If you were writing a satire about a kind of Micro-Rhodesia in an Oxfordshire village, Piddington is exactly the name you’d choose

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He’s the Keir Starmer of the music industry

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Issue for people outside Sweden to understand: if current Right-Nationalist govt bloc win by even 1 vote, they will be able form a government without major problems. But narrow Left-Green-Center bloc win does not guarantee a new coalition government. Internal conflicts could sink them.

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