Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 1hDid anyone actually get elected over it though? Like, I know antivaxxers have always been insane, but was it as much of a *political* force in the 30s as post-Covid? 000
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 2hIt wasn't political back then. Plus, Roosevelt was president - it would have been harder to pretend that a Polio vaccine would have been worse than what he did suffer. 100
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 2hI'm currently listening to "It Can't Happen Here", & as prophetic as Sinclair Lewis was on many subjects, he couldn't have envisaged deliberately withholding effective life-saving treatment from children in order to shore up a twisted ideology. 120
Reposted by MarinaWilliam Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 6hThe deeper history of literally everything can be assumed to have been like this, can it not? 1522940
Reposted by MarinaJames O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 22hThe Green Party need to kick out the antisemites and get back to what the party was supposed to be all about: Opposing solar farms and high speed rail. 1417937
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 18hA reminder that if the Green Party finds itself in court for violating equalities law with its anti-Zionism motion, it won't be the first time.share.googleEx-Green deputy leader launches new legal action against partyShahrar Ali, who won his last case against the Greens, has accused the party of continuing to discriminate against him for his gender critical beliefs. 021
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 19hHow fucking pathetic is that. Duck your responsibility to actually lead, then retrofit your opinion once it turns out the crazies fucked your party.bbc.co.ukI would not have voted for Zionism motion, Zack Polanski saysA motion declaring Zionism a form of racism was passed by Green Party members on Sunday. 172
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 19hInstead of imposing uncomfortable discipline on their insane membership, the Greens retreat behind "democracy" & then bleat about their sadness & regret. Well guess what, collective responsibility will bite you on the ass whether you believe in it or not. 140
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 19hWhen four of my colleagues dejected to the Greens in 2025 they made a big song & dance about how they were silenced & told not to campaign on (unspecified) issues in the Labour party. What they were really mad about was strong leadership, a party line & collective responsibility. 140
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 19hAnyone who paid attention to the gender wars in the Green Party knows that it's a poorly disguised puritan mob. It's convenient for a lot of people to talk about enteryism right now, but the tendency to converge on the most extreme opinion & then purge dissenters is in the Greens' DNA. 160
Reposted by MarinaDaniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 23h"On the [Zionism is Racism] motion, I voted and argued against it...but the clash of conference with an exciting and mobilising by-election campaign meant many of us were persuaded not to campaign publicly for these ends". Do you not see how absolutely damning that admission is? 66723
Reposted by MarinaJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 22h"Many of us were persuaded not to campaign publicly for these ends" feels like an extremely significant phrase here. 66216
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 23hIt's the story of the frog and the scorpion, but in this version the frog doesn't event get a say on whether the scorpion can get on its back. 010
Reposted by MarinaGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 23hBritain's ultra-Far Left have always been, and will always be, only that which they are: 811819
Reposted by MarinaDaniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Anyway, happy anniversary to this tweet: 412033
Reposted by MarinaRachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Isn't it the case that the best local candidate won in Holborn and St Pancras, despite several high-profile men trying to make it All About Them, which is great for local residents? www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...standard.co.ukWho is Sagal Abdi-Wali? New London MP who escaped civil war in Somalia as a childWho is Sagal Abdi-Wali? Leader of Camden Council comfortably wins north London by-election 315919
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Not that I doubted Sagal can see off that gurning charlatan, but this is nice to wake up to. 0130
Reposted by Marinaike, son of mike @i-bresnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"Peaceful status quo" is your spin on what you think people who disagree with you believe. Anyone who can't see that things are markedly different and markedly worse for both Israelis and Palestinians than they were on October 6th simply doesn't want to see it. 1181
Reposted by Marina(Un)Dead Carl 🎃 @deadcarl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This doesn’t bear scrutiny. The status quo was not peaceful, but 10/7 was a sharp discontinuity from the level of violence. Even looking extremely broadly, we’re talking about the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. That discontinuity matters! 510113
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Well, I didn't turn the heating on, but I did succumb to a hot water bottle. 010
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 08/10/2026JFC. What a thing to do when the candidate is a Muslim woman. 1170
Reposted by MarinaEmmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 08/10/2026🔴 This morning, Russia has killed 12 people who were travelling by bus in Kramatorsk. Another 14 were injured. Vadim Filashkin, head of Donetsk military administration: "Russia comes to Ukrainian land bringing death. It strikes our cities, kills our people, and multiplies its crimes every day." 02315
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It's fatty & the butter would completely overwhelm the other filings. Just eat bread & butter if that's what you like! 010
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It starts with euphoria - we, the righteous, have inflicted & will continue to inflict gleefully lurid blows on the hated enemy. But when the repercussions hit - when/if Speitan is arrested - the story will be one of pure, blameless victimhood. Of "suppression of free speech" & "Zionist propaganda." 010
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I'm very struck by how closely this follows the pattern of "Ecstasy and Amnesia" identified by Shani Mor as the quintessential dynamic of the Palestinian story. A repeated pattern of triumphant attack followed by grievance. 120
Reposted by MarinaHughstergeist @hughster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Full Lubna Speitan clip from OP. Transcript: "We will continue until we dismantle Zionism, from every country, from every place, they will be shunned. And inshallah that time will come…when they are hunted in the same way as the Nazi[s] were … We will obtain freedom. It won't happen without force" 113120
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026You are a deeply damaged human being whose capacity for empathy has been pulverised by social media. I feel very sorry for you. 100
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If you leave the country while in receipt of Job Seeker's Allowance, your claim is cancelled. But standing for the Parliament that legislated that rule while abroad is apparently fine and dandy. 011
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I was wondering the same thing this morning. I mean my friend was. 050
Reposted by MarinaJack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Hard to explain what the last three years have been like. The friends who celebrated atrocities (and were then outraged not to be invited to your wedding). The isolation and lack of empathy. The sudden acceptance that, you know, maybe Jews don't need to go to city centres on weekends? 110015
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I started wearing my Magen David on that morning. I'd never felt the need to be visibly Jewish before, but after October 7th it felt like not doing so was craven. It wasn't the day I became Jewish, but it was the day on which I became A Jew. 040
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I couldn't have been more wrong, of course. October 7th became the only atrocity I can think of that acted as a mobilising force for solidarity with the perpetrators rather than the victims. In that sense it was a day that changed everything, not just for Jews, but for everyone. 281
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My only other really clear memory of that day of shock is the NYC demo where activists celebrated this "glorious act of resistance." I wasn't surprised by it, but I do remember thinking, my god, they're so stupid, don't they realise they will alienate everyone from the Palestinian cause like this? 160
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I don't know what happened to the mother & the two kids, but the dad was taken into Gaza & was confirmed dead many many months later. 150
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The first video I remember watching was of a family being held in their kitchen for many hours. The mom was trying to keep the children silent. The dad kept putting himself between them & the guns. The daughter was crying & asking "why did they kill my sister? Why did they kill her, mom?" 150
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026By evening I knew something horrific had happened. Some of the videos were already circulating, but we didn't fully know about Nova or Be'ery yet. Casualty numbers weren't known & some terrorists were still inside the country, battling IDF forces who themselves didn't know the full picture. 150
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My dominant memory of October 7th is confusion: I woke up to tweets about some kind of incursion early on the morning of Simchat Tora. We didn't know which places were being attacked or how, we just knew it was big & aimed at civilians. I had a Labour selection meeting that morning, as a candidate. 1111
Reposted by MarinaUNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 07/10/2026🚨 BREAKING: Russia launched a massive combined attack on Kremenchuk, inflicting widespread damage on multiple apartment buildings. Regional officials described it as one of the heaviest strikes on the city's residential area since the full-scale war started. 27840
Reposted by MarinaDavid Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A free 2000 word post on the sad irrelevant history of the 'Zionism is racism' debate davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/the-anti-z...davidaaronovitch.substack.comThe anti-Zionism of foolsOn the Corbynising of the Green party 77433
Reposted by MarinaElizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026never the wrong time for this classic 56120113571
Marina @marstrina.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Of course there is. It's a red letter day for them - the last time they felt as if Israel was defeatable. 020
