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[Nermeen from Gaza 𓂆🇵🇸🍉 @Nermeenalswaisi]

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I got accepted, but tuition fees are standing between me and campus this September. I need 3000$ to make it.
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[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Simply don’t understand those willing to deny the evidence of multiple doctors from a variety of different countries; independent investigators all with long and established careers, journalists, survivors and witnesses, a pile of visual evidence as well as their own eyes - and still attempt to discredit those who report this. - whether they’re survivors, medics, academics or journalists…

[S 🍉 @cagepatterns]

@tom_watson Hahahaha

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

As big a change to the constitution as anything Blair proposed. It would undermine parliament being sovereign.

In 1940 it also would have meant Churchill doesn’t become PM.

Tapp is a moron, so I suspect he hasn’t really thought about any of that though.

[KNEECAP @KNEECAPCEOL]

Fuck Keir Starmer

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

voting for or abstaining on an attempt to scrap right to juries needs to be automatic disqualification from defection to the greens

see also proscription of PA and 2 child benefit cap

[Ben Smoke @bencsmoke]

‘spineless’ like ignoring overwhelming calls to boycott eurovision and performing anyway because it suited your career?

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

The Greens should consider any potential defections very seriously.

There are some great backbench MPs who embody our values and would make great Green MPs.

However, we don't want to be tainted with Labour's failure by accepting people who have betrayed socialist values.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

I've just done a Google Trends search for "family voting".

Weird how this has managed to materialise as a phenomenon for this one specific by-election!

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

"Family voting" - of which police and polling station staff saw no evidence during the vote - is totally made up horseshit intended to cast suspicion on ethnic minorities for having the temerity to exercise their democratic right.

That's it.

[Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation @karaokecomputer]

If you ever feel like you’ve humiliated yourself past the point of no return look at this photo and remember there’s a bottom you haven’t touched

[Sovereign Media @sov_media]

THE BRITISH, FRENCH AND DUTCH EMPIRES WERE THE WORST!

In this exchange on Mehdi Hasan's Head to Head with Nigel Biggar, post-colonial sociologist Gurminder K Bhambra dismantles a core myth used to rehabilitate empire: the idea that all empires are essentially the same. Her intervention is historical, precise, and deeply human.

Bhambra challenges Nigel Biggar’s claim that empire is a universal and morally neutral feature of human history. She argues that this framing deliberately erases a crucial distinction between empires of incorporation and empires of extraction. The Ottoman, Mughal, and Chinese empires governed through incorporation, integrating populations into administrative, economic, and social systems. European empires, by contrast, were built around extraction; wealth was siphoned out, societies were reorganised for profit, and human life was treated as expendable.

She grounds this distinction in one of the most basic measures of governance: food and survival. Famines occurred across history, but their causes matter. Under Mughal rule, Bengal did not experience mass famine deaths over the course of four centuries. Under British control, the East India Company presided over a famine that killed more than 10 million people while continuing to extract taxes. During World War II, under direct British rule, another famine killed an additional 3 million. These were not natural disasters; they were policy outcomes.

Bhambra’s point is simple and devastating. Empire is not an abstract idea. It has material consequences. Who eats, who starves, and who profits are political decisions. To flatten all empires into a single category is not scholarly neutrality; it is moral evasion.

Her analysis exposes how colonial violence is often rewritten as inevitability, progress, or tragedy without perpetrators. By restoring historical specificity, Bhambra refuses that erasure. This is not about guilt or virtue. It is about truth, accountability, and recognising that millions died not because of scarcity, but because extraction was prioritised over human life.

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[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

When you listen to the prevarication of Keir Starmer and his ministers on a basic point of international law we need to be ruthlessly honest and recognise that effectively our country has been rendered up as a Trump colony.

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

I’m not leaving until HMP Bronzefield accept an ambulance to transfer hunger striker Qesser Zuhrah to hospital for urgent medical care that she desperately needs.

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Sick country. Sick world

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Dangerous and divisive. Whilst Tommy Robinson & Nigel Farage cheer them on.

Labour conflating migrants with rapists.

Together we can - and must - replace all of their gutter politics with people who actually believe in compassion & dignity.

https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

There's not enough words to describe the contempt we should have for a Labour Government who thinks people like this should represent them - let alone cabinet ministers.

Where are the MPs with decency and basic humanity? Where are their red lines?

Beyond time to speak up.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Insane this woman was given the Nobel Peace Prize.