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[Eben Lazarus @EbenLazarus]

@ChrisGPackham @MeganMcCubbin @NhantsHuntsabs Amazing stuff Chris! Thank you for going along and showing what the whole thing is like. I hope this inspires more people to join the hunt sabs!!

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

I’m live now with @MeganMcCubbin investigating the Cottesmore Hunt in Leicestershire – tune in! 🦊 @NhantsHuntsabs https://t.co/LQ6m1AWuQ6

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point.

Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this.

But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned.

Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future.

Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development.

The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital.

And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.

So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

The richest 1% of Britons hold more wealth than 70% of the population, and the four richest individuals have more wealth than 20 million Britons.

Austerity is, and always has been, a political choice.

[Carol Vorderman @carolvorders]

Justice?

5 Just Stop Oil activists receive 4 and 5 year sentences for planning to block a motorway!

But Politicians “get away” with causing untold extra deaths in Covid times

Post Office Scandal. 900 Subpostmasters wrongly convicted.

And Just 2% of rapes end in conviction

[Hugh Warwick @hedgehoghugh]

here you go - have a look at this threat to society and then try and understand why she deserves 4 year prison sentence - for trying to raise awareness about climate change - when rapists and those who kill while driving get far less punishment ... https://t.co/7viGNfH0fp

[Carla Denyer @carla_denyer]

Does this seem right to you? ⚖️

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Tonight somewhere out there are five cells with sleepless people in them . Elsewhere there are empty beds , empty homes and broken hearts . Fear and tears . Anger and confusion . A bunch of good people whose lives have just been smashed by injustice . We hold you in our dreams .

[Media Tell The Truth XR @TTTMediaXR]

This is a thread looking at sentences handed down by Judge Christopher Hehir. 🧵

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Today's decision emanating from Southwark Crown Court is an outrage . It is an attack on our civil liberties , we must defend our right to peaceful protest .

@AttorneyGeneral , please meet with us urgently . This grotesque miscarriage of justice must be fixed .

#WholeTruthFive

[Ashley James @ashleyljames]

Oh wow I’ve just seen my mentions and this has blown up. thanks everyone. It’s such a huge privilege to get to talk about these topics on @thismorning ❤️🙏

[Tobi @TobiFrenzen]

What has the #ECHR ever done for us anyway?

[Youth Demand @youth_demand]

🚨 BREAKING: Youth Demand Pay @Keir_Starmer a Visit

Whilst 12,000 children in Gaza are slaughtered, @UKLabour continue to allow the selling of arms to Israel. We are calling on their humanity.

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[Youth Demand @youth_demand]

🚨 11 Young People Arrested at Labour HQ

📢 We will not be silenced, we refuse to inherit a world of suffering, so Youth Demand are standing up to the system and the people who run it.

➡️ There is no option but to resist, join us at https://t.co/rqU3Oswm2K

[Just Stop Oil @JustStop_Oil]

🔥 BREAKING: Just Stop Oil Supporters Acquitted

⚖️ Four supporters appeared in court for slow marching in Parliament Square on October 30th. They were acquitted in Stratford Magistrates Court before the trial could begin as the prosecution failed to present evidence.

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[Just Stop Oil @JustStop_Oil]

Someone tell Sir Mark Rowley there's a new head of the MET Police. It's non-dom tax dodging billionaire, Daily Mail owner Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere.

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Brutal new animation from @protectthewild_ @firelilystudio . . . a must watch for everyone– it's time for a real ban . Pls RT

[Rich Felgate @richfelgate]

Phoebe Plummer from @JustStop_Oil arrested delivering a letter to @EmilyThornberry MP's house, demanding a Labour gov reverse Tory oil and gas.

See the truth about Just Stop Oil by supporting a new film, EVERYTHING IS FINE, crowdfunding now⬇️
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[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

This is the most concise and comprehensive essay on the messaging from mainstream climate science I have read. A+++++

"the vast majority of people still haven’t a clue about what’s going on – and what this means for them and everything they hold dear..."

https://t.co/WSajb3Qd3z

[Just Stop Oil @JustStop_Oil]

📺 WATCH: Sean Irish on GBNews discussing our plan to take action at airports this summer.

💬 "Don’t you think it’s terrifying? A democracy of the people can’t do anything?”

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