One thing about the Bill tabled yesterday, is the provision that strips Commonwealth Immigrants before the 1971 Immigration Act of one of their few remaining protections.
Zero institutional shame around the Windrush Scandal.
I hate that "hot like Papa John's" line in that one Chappell Roan song. Naming a brand is a sure fire way to make your song irrelevant in 10 years. Unlike timeless classics like "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
Andy Burnham has just voted in favour of Shabana Mahmood's Immigration and Asylum Act, an Act opposed by 80 Labour MPs colleagues and slammed by refugee groups and Alf Dubs himself. It will make successful asylum seekers in this country more marginal and vulnerable. A pitiful capitulation to the moral panics of the far-right.
It doesn’t matter if the man killed by ICE in Maine was authorized to work in the United States or not. It doesn’t matter if he had a social security or not. ICE should not be killing anyone. Period.
The only reason why ICE would continue to engage in reckless car-based arrests is because they want to create incredibly dangerous situations for their own sick joy with the opportunity to murder people with impunity.
A couple of weeks back, I wrote about what the National Security Act (now rammed through Parliament and into law) represents - a deliberate attempt to intimidate and to stifle the flow of inconvenient information out of Iran, Gaza, Lebanon and elsewhere: https://t.co/LIxxzyELrh
We are in the middle of a country-wide ICE surge and this will unfortunately become a regular feature of it if some new kind of repertoire to meet it isn’t devised.
“Trans women are stealing our HRT” is such a good example of how trans exclusionary feminism reroutes cis women towards conservatism. Instead of joining the fight against the capitalist state to liberate sex alteration, they’re blaming other women.
can do is populist in nature (think there are parallels with LFI, Greens etc elsewhere). Just strikes me that if that is your assessment then things are Pretty Bad and we need to be having some other quite pessimistic conversations.
(Warning: Wading into Discourse):
On some level debates around internal democratic processes in political organisations and how they relate to #masspolitics depends on your assessment of political engagement more widely. Like I can see case for DSA jumping on board with
AOC hyperleaderism and wanting to sidestep any internal deliberative democracy if the assumption is that The American Masses are pretty disengaged beyond exercises in "we're gonna vote, vote, vote, it's our moment" and that by necessity means that the only form of politics you
“Your parents’ names are blue on Wikipedia!” Ok well if you’d actually bothered to click on them they would be purple, and you would learn they redirect to the page “Suspected Night Stalker victims”