Bronterre O'Brien

Chillaxing in the Post-Democracy

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In an age dominated by technology, in which efficiency and profit often take precedence, it is so important that we continue to cultivate a spirit of contemplation and allow time and space for beauty. Such an attitude will greatly help humanity, especially young people, to discover the ability of art to uplift and reveal the depths of the human spirit and our openness to the divine. Contemplation presents a marvelous opportunity to encounter the God who is Beauty.

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

As voting begins today, the world needs to know what Silicon Valley billionaires are doing to sabotage the billionaire tax now on the ballot in California.

This is shocking. 🧵

[BenAris @bneeditor]

Wasn’t I saying just last month that the real opposition party in Russia - the one with the power to actually bring putin down - is the kprf??

They just need to get rid of Zyuganov

It has real power. Grassroots country wide network. Young people with fresh ideas. And won a quarter of the vote in untampered results.

When Putin dies & in the chaos that follows kprf could be a contender to take over. Or at least return Russia to parliamentary politics.

[molecular vernacular @vikkink]

Morozov’s current whereabouts are unknown. During a search of his home, his relatives were told that the activist had been taken to a FSB office

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

This photo says everything about the explosion of extreme wealth and its influence on society.

Such a concentration of wealth and power in a few hands is unprecedented and dangerous. 🧵

[الكسندرا ميراي @LexiAIexander]

Those Irish players watched that entire Macklemore debacle and then voted to be Ed Sheeran a week later

[TheJournal.ie @thejournal_ie]

Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan is rallying EU politicians to attend the German trial of Irish man Daniel Tatlow-Devally, as she wants the defendant to know he hasn’t been forgotten.

She’s also calling on the Irish government to send an independent observer.
https://t.co/SwEmpeg90Y

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

This shouldn't be behind a paywall because it should be covered by every national media outlet.

Govt approved exports of dual-use goods to Israel at the height of the genocide despite officials raising serious concerns over military diversion.

https://t.co/Svw0EjvgfI

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Bualadh bos to Beoga, Aaron Rowe and Finneas 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

https://t.co/s6QmVhmKP2

[Clémence Guetté @Clemence_Guette]

Cette séquence a été censurée par France Télévision.

La raison ? Les derniers mots, contre le génocide, pour la Palestine. Merci Adèle Haenel.

Elle a été simplement effacée du replay. Répondez-leur. Diffusez-la.

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

Burnham said 'we got Gaza wrong' - yet the policy shift is focused on the West Bank. However, the big test remains Gaza, where a genocide of attrition continues.
The UK is a permanent member of the Security Council and Miliband says he is going there to talk about Gaza. Not enough - complicity is embedded in the UK's military relationship, which Labour should end before he goes to New York.

[Shrill by Mouth @Iskesullas]

Whatever 'citizen tests' you introduce will never be enough for the far-right. At the end of the day, they are racists who see having black or brown skin or being Muslim as incompatible with Irishness. As long as there's a single brown face or Muslim in the country, they will 1/2

[Seth Harp @sethharpesq]

No one was there taking pictures for the cover of Time Magazine when my army engineering unit was digging mass graves outside Fallujah for all the men and boys the marines killed after refusing to let any males leave the city, then treating everyone who remained as a combatant.

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

GAZA: ‘Winter is getting very close. More than 170,000 tents across Gaza are torn and worn out tents that have endured more than three years of displacement, extreme summer heat, strong winds, and heavy rain. These tents are no longer fit to protect a human being, so how can they possibly protect children and families through another winter?’

[Bronterre O'Brien @AnBrianach]

"The Islamic Republic is defending Iran from aggression, but it also a chronic, brutal oppressor of its own people. Freedom and resistance are not divisible. This is a binary that we must indeed reject."

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

My reflections on the controversial Open Letter to Iranian political prisoners.
No Binary between Freedom and Resistance

https://t.co/UBYVVQwhCQ

[Communist Party Irl @irelandcp]

https://t.co/zhu3yUUSzo

Urgent Request to Halt Deportation of Sami Kupiszeski. Add your signature? ✍️
https://t.co/zhu3yUUSzo

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

"Last year, the British Insurance Industry produced a special report on the climate crisis. It predicted that at 3°C of global heating, possible by 2050, at least 4 billion people will die. That is half the world's population.

We have known this reality is coming for decades. Now it has arrived.

@RogerHallamCS21 runs a talk each month on the latest science and pathways to effective action — start joining them for more information.

Tuesday 18th August 2026, 7pm BST, with climate scientist and communicator Dr Ella Gilbert.

Sign up here:
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[الكسندرا ميراي @LexiAIexander]

Every time I see this video I think about what strange & dark times we live in. German kids on trial for trying to stop a genocide. A small group of family & friends supporting them. The rest of the country disinterested as the government is trying to put them away for terrorism