jodie c

former historian of interwar communism and fascism, now I work with books n that. (@jodeshoots on insta for change of pace)

[Horace Goodwill, tonicke purveyor 🇵🇸 @eff_hey]

the 21st century in Britain has been a more or less continuous series of exposés of grotesque police incompetence, brutality and bigotry, but the absolute refusal of the press or (most of) the left to reckon with this as inherent to the nature of policing as currently constituted

[Horace Goodwill, tonicke purveyor 🇵🇸 @eff_hey]

aside from the sheer gratuitousness of the Sarah Everard case, which for all the (justified) outrage has led to zero meaningful change, we've had *11 years* of the spycops inquiry, whose main throughline is "undercover cops both genuinely hate the left and love abusing women"

[finlay @finnrzzz]

I know it has been said much before, but I find it genuinely hilarious how academia is framed as being full of and run-by Marxists, when in reality the academy writ large is fairly hostile to substantive class-based Marxist analysis and research

[Shanice 😈 🇯🇲 🇵🇸 @Shanice_OM]

This is what is so perverse about the right wing narrative on Henry Nowak's awful killing: our movement has been doing this work for *decades*. Ian Thomlinson, Henry Hicks, Tom Orchard. We've been here. The right only cares when they can politically capitalise to spread racism.

[Shanice 😈 🇯🇲 🇵🇸 @Shanice_OM]

The United Families & Friends Campaign that fights for justice for those killed & died in police custody supports *all* families and victims. BLMUK donated a significant portion of funds from 2020 protests to campaigns that work with Black and non-Black victims of state violence.

[dezza ♊️ @misanthropicc92]

When Black people told everyone the police are very often incompetent and often only end up exacerbating situations rather than actually helping, we were told to shut the fuck up and stop lying by these very people. So I’ll be so real, I’m not trying to hear all of this. At all.

[Tionne @tionneparris]

Call me a luddite but I truly cannot understand how humanities departments are shutting down left right and centre, and this kind of talk is prevailing? How could AI do my job, for example, when the whole point is that the information I find often *isn't* digitally available?

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

It’s unfortunate these guys keep having their phones stolen, apparently out of sight of CCTV in one of the most heavily surveilled cities on the planet

[Ethan Shone @EJShone93]

And seems Mandelson attended this event with Louis Mosley, boss of Palantir UK and his client at Global Counsel. Noteworthy as we were told that mitigations on Mandelson’s appointment included no one-on-one meetings with former clients.

[Amogh Dhar Sharma @AmoghDS]

No point hand-wringing about an impending Reform government if you can’t see that the real democratic clampdown has already begun under a Labour government.

Can’t bear the idea of three more years of this pro-Zionist shit-show that Shabana Mahmood is running in the Home Office.

[jodie c @jodcoll]

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[jodie c @jodcoll]

can’t believe this clown is writing a ‘Global History of Communism’. he is genuinely one of the most bafflingly stupid people on here and that’s saying something

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

Nope. We're becoming a #MilitantDemocracy - no reason to let foreign cognitive warfare effects take place here free of charge. Expressing support for designated terrorist groups is not on, is it Jeremy?

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

Non-Brits don't appreciate that the UK is fundamentally authoritarian. No written constitution, all judges are political appointees, government censorship blocks public interest stories (D-notices), rule of law is weak. For centuries an Oxbridge clique has run the whole country

[Jonathan @jabberwock951]

Let's be clear, this isn't intended to help young people.

Big companies will be paid public money to take people on, make them do grunt work for little/no pay, then kick them out after a year or two with zero prospects.

[Ethan Shone @EJShone93]

Looks like Mandelson tried to connect Starmer and Peter Thiel last July — no record of the meeting actually taking place (which doesn’t necessarily mean it didn’t happen, ofc)

[C @Obseyxx]

Look, I get the context re: Reform, but there should be no Labour MPs at any Pride unless they are at war with their own pary. It's that simple. I can't see that Foy has uttered a peep about the EHRC guidance.

[Tigof @Tigof_]

dont fall for this bullshit. disabled artists have always existed and so have session musicians who need work.

[Dimi Reider | dimireider.substack.com @reider]

Much like the crushing of student protests under Biden, the Starmer government is creating the mechanisms, precedent and, worst of all, legitimacy for the authoritarian Reform government they keep warning us about. They're paving the way.

[Tom Nicholas | Watch SLOW NEWS DAY on Nebula! @Tom_Nicholas]

Deeply anti-British of the Home Office to ban both Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur, upholders of our nation's most fundamental belief that everyone in the media should be related.

[ontologoff 🛜 @ontologoff]

It's wild that the govt has deemed him an extremist when SXSW and Oxford Union have invited him to speak. They've shifted the goalposts and have set a very dangerous precedent. How is he a serious risk to public order? And the ban comes mere days after a Labour MP called for it..