:D

[Megan Amram @meganamram]

Today was the day Donald trump finally became president

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The government has until December to decide whether to pull the NHS out of its £330m contract with Palantir - a US spy-tech firm that has facilitated genocide in Gaza.

Andy Burnham needs to pick a side. We have picked ours.

[D r e a m k i d @dreamkid83]

‘Technological’ is out now! 💾👾

#80s #synth

[D r e a m k i d @dreamkid83]

Check out the lyric video for my latest single ‘Technological’ 💾👾

https://t.co/KowJCJx1gK

[D r e a m k i d @dreamkid83]

PS my new single ‘Technological’ drops this Friday 👾💾

[:D @BlueBobsled]

A rare double eclipse was spied over Washington. Some astronomers remain sceptical.

[LukHash @lukhash]

My new track - Timeless - link in comments 🎵

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

In 2019, I warned that the NHS was being sold off to private U.S companies.

The media's response? I was peddling Russian propaganda.

One of those companies is Palantir, a company that has enabled genocide in Gaza. We were right then — and we are right now: Kick Palantir out.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

If Evil could tweet, this is what it would!

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Proud to sign this letter. We cannot let Keir Starmer drag this country into yet another illegal war.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 CONFIRMED: Footage reviewed and geolocated by Bellingcat confirms US tomahawk missiles hit the girls’ primary school in southern Iran that killed 180 people, most of them children.

Researcher Trevor Ball notes Israel does not possess Tomahawk missiles. United States does.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥@grahamformaine: “Watching people who have no idea what any of this looks like or feels like disgusts me… saying we just need to be prepared for more casualties because ‘that’s what happens’ — it’s not what fucking happens to THEM, it’s what happens to US.”

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The Prime Minister is dragging the UK into an illegal war - and the consequences will be catastrophic.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

The attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States are illegal, unprovoked and unjustifiable.

Peace and diplomacy was possible. Instead, Israel and the United States chose war.

This is the behaviour of rogue states — and they have jeopardised the safety of humankind around the world with this catastrophic act of aggression.

Our government must condemn this flagrant breach of international law, and urgently pursue a foreign policy based on justice, sovereignty and peace.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Updated:

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

@deborahlipstadt @UNWatch I may be a "horrible horrible person", but I am neither accused of war crimes/crimes against humanity before the @IntlCrimCourt, nor paid to defend a state accused of Genocide before the @CIJ_ICJ.
I can live with that.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

This is an enormous victory for the Palestinian solidarity movement, for civil liberties and for our common humanity.

The real crime is this government’s complicity in genocide - and we will not rest until we have justice for the Palestinian people.

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

Since so many of you responded to my thread about surveillance pricing—here's a full breakdown, with visuals, on how companies use your personal data to manipulate prices in real-time:

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

My feeling is that now it is "safe" to release the info that Epstein was really a sex trafficker as a side gig and was mainly an intelligence asset of Israel and the US, a big-time financial criminal on behalf of transnational capital (i would argue transnational organized crime disguised as transnational capital), and an arms trader because the people he was helping have stolen so much of America's wealth and have taken control over so much of the government.

That is why even admitting the true breadth of the scandal and operation doesn't even seem to move the needle. Criminals are in charge and they run both parties, they have created the infrastructure for neo-feudalism enforced by technology and are herding us into the corral.

Opt out of AI, digital ID and the surveillance state that Epstein associates built now because we still can.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It’s not even making them happy. All that exploitation and extraction, all that parasiting and hoarding and manipulating politics and inserting themselves into governments, and it’s not even making them happy.

It would be terrible if these obscenely wealthy oligarchs were robbing everyone else of happiness in order to make themselves exponentially happier than all of us. But they’re not even making themselves happy. They’re fucking miserable. Everyone involved in this abusive dynamic is suffering from it — even the abusers.

And really, how could they not be?

Can you think of anyone less likely to be happy than someone who can’t be content simply retiring with a house and maybe twenty million dollars in the bank, ensuring that all their material needs will be cared for for the rest of their lives? Someone who must instead press on until they have obtained more money than they could reasonably spend in a thousand lifetimes?

Can you think of anything less conducive to happiness than becoming so much wealthier than everyone else that you have to isolate yourself from normal society, eventually surrounded only by people who are in your life because of your wealth? Never knowing how they truly feel about you or what they’d be doing with their lives if not for your vast fortune?

Can you think of a more surefire path to a lifetime of dissatisfaction than spending your years storing away wealth like some kind of fantasy dragon creature hoarding gold in a mountain, while people panicking over paying their bills look upon you with disdain?

Can you imagine a more miserable way to spend your days on this planet than becoming an oligarch and manipulating state power to ensure that your unfathomable wealth will never be redistributed to the needful and the struggling, and that ordinary people will forever remain trapped as powerless gear-turners whose labor exists solely to turn billionaires into trillionaires?

I know I can’t.

The plutocrats who control our society are not sincerely dedicated to the pursuit of happiness; if they were, they wouldn’t be plutocrats, and they wouldn’t be controlling our society. Happiness comes from contentment with one’s present experience, and those who keep compulsively amassing wealth for its own sake can never experience that contentment.

As Kurt Vonnegut wrote in his poem “Joe Heller”:

True story, Word of Honor:
Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer
now dead,
and I were at a party given by a billionaire
on Shelter Island.

I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel
to know that our host only yesterday
may have made more money
than your novel ‘Catch-22’
has earned in its entire history?”
And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”
And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”
And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”
Not bad! Rest in peace!

The Elon Musks of our world can never have the experience of having enough. They exist in a permanent state of lack. They’ve got a giant hole inside themselves that can never be filled, no matter how much money they throw into it, no matter how many private jets and private islands and media outlets and bought politicians they try to fill it with.

We are ruled by deeply wounded and dysfunctional emotional infants. The people who control our society are whipped about by primitive forces within themselves that they don’t understand. Their actions are motivated not by the pursuit of the common good, nor even their own good, but by psychological disorder and unconscious compulsion.

And yet we are assured this is the best possible way to run a society.

I kind of doubt that. I really don’t think that’s true.