Clint Edwards

comedian // writer (QI, Mock the Week, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, HIGNFY, etc) // constant crow valet

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@SummerRay see the curvature on this bit of string? it gives me the fuckin’ horn

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@TomLondon6 And he was certainly a prince when he committed the crimes

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@kennardmatt @medialens Similar to the mistake Nixon made with Watergate. It’s the Queensberry Rules of power structures

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@nikadubrovsky When I read his piece on Chomsky my first thought was ‘Et tu, Hedges’

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@flying_rodent 🎯🤣

[Jose M. Santana @JoseMSantana10]

Justice Privatized: The Protection of a Monster

To describe the Jeffrey Epstein saga as a mere failure of justice is to grant the system a benevolence it does not deserve. We are witnessing something far more sinister: the active, functional protection of private power by public institutions.

The trajectory is undeniable. We have an individual with a fortune of mysterious origin, wealth that would have triggered immediate forensic audits for anyone outside the elite class, being shielded by the very structures designed to prosecute criminality. The 2008 non-prosecution agreement engineered by Alexander Acosta was not a mistake; it was a state-sanctioned cover-up. It was a constitutional abomination that effectively privatized the justice system, creating a two-tiered legal reality: one for the general population, and another for the ultra-wealthy.

By sealing the records and granting immunity in secret, the U.S. Judicial System became an accomplice to every crime Epstein committed thereafter. The state did not just let a monster go free; it camouflaged him. It allowed him to move through high society with a clean ledger, endangering countless women and deceiving associates who were left in the dark regarding his true nature.

The inconsistencies, from the sweetheart deal to the convenient timing of his death, demonstrate a judiciary primarily concerned with preserving the stability of elite networks rather than exposing the truth. The blood is on the hands of the U.S. courts. They manufactured the impunity that allowed this predation to endure, up to today.

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@ChrisCWright1 @JenniferLoewe10 😊

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@NathanJRobinson @MattPolProf The interviewer has an entire bookshelf dedicated to Ayn Rand 😆

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

Michael Parenti (1933-2026) died today. He has, as his son Christian said, 'gone to the Great Lecture Hall in the Sky'. A socialist from early into his life till the very end, Michael Parenti wrote in a feisty way and spoke bluntly the truths that were not always easy to digest in a wretched capitalist system. He was a fierce critic of imperialist wars and suffered the consequences of this because he could keep and then hold academic jobs even in liberal states such as Vermont.

The toughest test for all of us came when the USSR collapsed, and it was in this period that Michael Parenti played an important role in the Battle of Ideas, fighting the reactionary Western media and the intellectual cowardice of his peers. His books on Yugoslavia's destruction earned him terrible attacks, which he brushed off as the necessary price you pay in this struggle. In the midst of it all, Michael wrote 'Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism' (1997), a rebuttal to the anti-Marxist and anti-Communist blather that had begun to infect the world. The book remains an essential tool to fight against the ridiculous anti-communist historiography that demeans the great achievements of the workers' movements.

He spent the last period of his life within himself, which was a loss to the rest of us, and now his departure leaves us without that anchor which he provided.

Michael Parenti. Comrade. Our Red Flag dips in your honour.

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Ah fuck, Michael Parenti has died 😔💔

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@luftwagun @General_Oluchi @mehdirhasan I didn’t claim it was fake, I said I wasn’t sure about the authenticity because AI is everywhere right now and there’s a giant fucking T-Rex on the lawn. Also you need to look up the word parasite as you clearly don’t understand what it means.

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@captianAK @mehdirhasan I genuinely didn’t know it was a real piece of art 🫣 My bad

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@General_Oluchi @mehdirhasan Well today I learned… 🦖🤯
What a tragic way to discover something so amazing. Thank you for the reply 🙏

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@Christinethequ2 @aaronjmate @GregGrandin You’ve now had three opportunities to prove your point about Chomsky and you’ve failed each time. You’re either an idiot or arguing in bad faith and I’m not interested to find out which

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@Christinethequ2 @aaronjmate @GregGrandin The video you’ve linked does not show Chomsky saying anything like what you claimed he said.

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@Christinethequ2 @aaronjmate @GregGrandin Source?

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@MichaelRosenYes @DavidDferreira Wild to think that a ‘failure to grasp the definition of irony’ means one would be more suitable to teach children’s literature. What a failure to grasp the importance of that

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@PoliticsScot @Jonathan_K_Cook @CraigMurrayOrg I did not say that, so the “as if” inference is entirely your own making.

And you’re not rebutting my assertion, because I didn’t make one.

@CraigMurrayOrg however, did. He said “…the murder of McRae by the British state…”

I then asked on what evidence does this belief rest

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@MandyEire @Jonathan_K_Cook @CraigMurrayOrg Unfortunately, the reporting is very inconsistent across outlets. Some say gunshot wound was behind his ear, some say temple, an interview with a nurse who claims she was on duty that night says it was in the back of his neck… the publicly available details are a mess