Linmac

Socialist.
Leasehold abolitionist.
Affordable, safe, sustainable, and
beautiful housing for all.
Palestine.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Empire does something specific to politics at the center.

It makes stakes feel fake.

When the money is coming in from the periphery, from cheap labor, underpriced commodities, dollarized debt, and financial arrangements enforced by bases in eighty countries, domestic politics becomes a performance staged above the actual machinery.

Who gets credit for the prosperity becomes more important than how the prosperity is generated.

The politician becomes a brand.

The election becomes a casting decision.

The policy debate becomes a theater of position-taking by people who fundamentally agree on the arrangements that matter and disagree loudly about the arrangements that don't.

This is why Western political discourse feels, to so many people, like a choice between two management teams competing to run the same company.

Because that is what it is.

The company's core business model is not on the ballot.

The core business model, the extraction, the bases, the dollar, the trade arrangements written by the people who benefit from them, that is infrastructure.

That is the water.

You vote for the brand of cup.

And then people wonder why nothing changes.

[Richard @ricwe123]

The war in Ukraine started in 2014 with a Western-backed coup that overthrew the democratically elected President Viktor Yanukovych, paving the way for the regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, and Crimea to break away from the corrupt puppet regime in Kyiv.

Twice, Vladimir Putin tried to negotiate a peaceful resolution through the Minsk Agreements, but Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron deliberately sabotaged these efforts, using Ukraine as nothing more than a proxy to provoke Russia while flooding it with weapons.

For eight years, the Ukrainian army and neo-nazi death squads mercilessly bombed and massacred the people of Donbas, killing thousands of innocent civilians simply for refusing to submit to Kyiv’s rule.

Beyond NATO’s reckless expansionism, Vladimir Putin had a duty to defend the people of eastern Ukraine from relentless terror and bloodshed.

This is something the western mainstream media should be telling you.
But they won't......

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Andy Burnham looks like he might cancel the NHS England contract with Palantir, they also have one worth 2.5x as much with the MoD.

RT if you want them both out of the UK.

[Cllr Martin Abrams @Martin_Abrams]

We've just had the hottest May and June days on record smashing previous records.

People are dying of heat stroke and heat related health problems across the UK and Europe, much of our transport network is ceasing to function and our kid's education is being severely impacted..

..but Keir Starmer has not held any COBRA meetings, announced any significant extra funding for climate resilience, cooling, retrofitting homes, or much needed air conditioning in Schools..

....but we do have money for war.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Sde Teiman is the prison where Israeli guards were caught on camera raping a Palestinian prisoner

After the 2025 'ceasefire' Israel handed over hundreds of Palestinian bodies, many marked with the letters ST, thought to refer to Sde Teiman. They had been beaten/tortured to death

[Jean-Luc Mélenchon @JLMelenchon]

La canicule a révélé le décalage social entre ceux qui vivent sous les toits et ceux qui vivent dans le confort de demeures plus vastes et mieux aérées.

Les inégalités sociales se révèlent avec une force singulière dans ce type de catastrophe.

Il n’est pas vrai de dire que tout le monde souffre de la même manière de la canicule.

Les moyens de régler le problème ne sont pas les mêmes selon les moyens financiers.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Esto no es un campo de concentración grabado en el siglo pasado, son imágenes actuales del gueto de Hebrón, en Cisjordania, donde el ejército sionista tiene un apartheid montado para los palestinos, que pasan por jaulas y puntos de controles armados.

No lo verás jamás en TV, así es como vive el pueblo palestino bajo ocupación en su propia tierra.

[stranger @strangerous10]

David Shoebridge slams Home Affairs, Labor for still not answering his Feb 10 question on what criteria Border Force used to ‘question like criminals’ Australians returning from the flotilla to Gaza after they had already been “monstered by the Israeli govt”
“Still no answer!”💥

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Grace Blakeley's recent piece about Labour as a "cartel party" captures something real about how Burnham manages his contradictions, a different promise to every faction, nothing that can be pinned down.

But I am less interested in the performance than the mechanism underneath it.

Character critique tells you a politician says different things to different people. Structural critique tells you what he actually built, and who benefited from it.

What Burnham built in Manchester was the institutional architecture that made a publicly designated regeneration zone investable, directed £160 million in state aid into it, established a Mayoral Development Corporation with compulsory purchase powers, and in doing so transferred enormous land value to Blackstone, the world's largest alternative asset manager.

That outcome did not require bad intentions. It did not require a backroom deal. It required a zone, a development corporation, and a private equity firm that understood what public money does to land values better than most elected politicians do.

The zone architecture is not a Labour story or a Tory story. It is bipartisan by design. Freeport and SEZ boards across the UK include Labour MPs, Lords, Baronesses, and councillors alongside Conservatives.
The public opposition was always the performance. The freeport/SEZ board memberships were always the policy.

What is specific to this moment is the pairing.
As Starmer is to BlackRock, so Burnham is to Blackstone.

One built the free zone architecture in government.
The other implemented it as Mayor, and is now seeking to be the next Prime Minister of Britain.
Both have built the conditions in which the same class of asset manager extracts value from publicly funded infrastructure while the mechanism remains largely invisible to mainstream commentary.

That is what I write about. Not the contradictions. The architecture.

[Craig Mokhiber @CraigMokhiber]

I have written before that, viewed through the lens of international law, the so-called “Board of Peace” is an extension of a unlawful occupation and of an ongoing genocide and, as such, is a criminal enterprise, headed by one of the principal perpetrators of the unlawful occupation and genocide (US) with the collaboration of the other (Israel). Neither the UN Security Council nor any other body has the power or authority to legalize this criminal enterprise. Now the criminal “Board” is seeking to crush one of the last essential obstacles to the genocide (UNRWA) and to redirect (steal) its resources for its own nefarious purposes. I say again: any state, organization, or individual that collaborates with this criminal enterprise should face accountability, no matter how long it takes.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

There are some pieces of news that are hard to believe even after hearing them. This is one of them.

The announcement that there may be no place for UNRWA in what is being called the “new Gaza” has left me in shock. For nearly 20 years, my family has relied on the services provided by UNRWA, while our story as refugees began with the displacement of my grandparents during the 1948 Nakba.

It feels as though an entire chapter of our lives could be coming to an end, yet we have no idea what will come next. Every day brings new announcements and new uncertainty, but no one knows what Gaza’s future will look like or what will happen to the hundreds of thousands of families who have depended on UNRWA’s services for decades.

All we know today is that the uncertainty continues to grow, and with every new announcement, so does our fear of an unknown future.

[Medea Benjamin @medeabenjamin]

A devastating earthquake has hit Venezuela. The last thing its people need is sanctions that block access to their own resources.

End sanctions. Release frozen assets. Cancel the debt. Support the Venezuelan people.

Donate to CODEPINK’s Venezuela Earthquake Relief Fund: https://t.co/FlUqD0VFlE

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

US lawyer and antiwar activist Dan Kovalik just had his devices seized and was interrogated by counter-terror police at Liverpool Airport

Meanwhile, Palestine solidarity activist Sarah Wilkinson is heading to trial on terrorism charges for a couple of Twitter posts, and refusing to give police her mobile pin

The Canary, one of the UK’s most doggedly antiwar independent media outlets, was just debanked by Lloyd’s

The UK recently refused entry to Hasan Piker and Cenk Uyghur, two of the most recognizable voices of the left wing of the US Democratic Party, on national security grounds

It did the same this month to US journalist Jeremy Loffredo

UK counter terror police detained and interrogated my colleague, Kit Klarenberg, seizing his devices, and grilling him about his investigative journalism. PM Keir Starmer’s Labour Together slush fund even hired a private intel firm to smear Kit and The Grayzone.

UK police raided journalist Asa Winstanley’s home and illegally seized his devices on suspicion of “encouragement of terrorism”

The UK Crown Prosecution Service attempted to prosecute journalist Richard Medhurst under the Terrorism Act, but failed

The list of journalists and activists repressed by the British regime goes on and on. And they have one thing in common: outspoken opposition to Israel’s genocidal agenda.

Who’s actually in charge in London?

[Claudia Webbe @ClaudiaWebbe]

Starmer yesterday: “almost £300 billion over this Parliament to transform our Armed Forces.”

That’s almost £80 billion a year by 2029. No one asked “how will we pay for it?”

But they did ask when you needed a new wheelchair

[RiverActionUK @RiverActionUK]

🚨 Thames Water calls it an "isolated spill". We call it what it smells like. 💩💩

Last week, water testing at Fulham Reach Boat Club found E. coli levels more than 58 TIMES higher than the Environment Agency's threshold for safe bathing water. 🤢

Water companies are only supposed to discharge untreated sewage during periods of heavy rainfall. Yet the spills highlighted in this investigation happened during dry weather - raising serious questions about whether the law has been broken.

Londoners deserve to enjoy their river without risking their health. Instead, we're seeing the consequences of years of regulatory failure, underinvestment, and a water company that continues to put financial interests ahead of people and the environment.

Thames Water is no longer fit to run this essential public service.

It's time to place the company into Special Administration so it can be restructured to serve the public interest, protect our rivers, and end the cycle of pollution before profit. #SewageScandal

[Rachel Charlton-Dailey @RachelCDailey_]

It's been really heartening to see the support for @TheCanaryUK in the last day. As staff, it's a terrifying time. Lloyd's doing this has meant we can't be paid. If you can, we'd really appreciate it if you donated and shared https://t.co/K08OG5c9R7

[MikeD @mjdaly57]

This allocation of important ministerial posts to women based primarily on gender has got to stop. The government front bench currently includes women whose ability to do the job competently has been seriously questioned. One common denominator with these ministers is that they are among the most prolific freeloaders in Parliament. Powell, Reeves, Nandy, Rayner, Phillips and Phillipson are the most blatant. They have shown that maintaining an affluent lifestyle is very important in their list of priorities. And it’s rife throughout the women’s PLP. Gender-driven appointments don’t necessarily lead to someone doing the job well. I wouldn’t be surprised if these demands are being driven by Powell herself: Queen of the Blairite grifters.

@UKLabour @andyburnhamHQ @LucyMPowell @AngelaRayner @BBCPolitics @BethRigby @PippaCrerar @SkyNews @bphillipsonMP @jessphillips

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

Noticed something? Allegations of Russian or Chinese interference in western countries make massive headlines—but then the stories quietly vanish!

In 2024, a former Hong Kong resident was slammed for running Tenet Media, a US outlet accused of being a front organization for Kremlin propaganda in 2024.

Today, none of its reporters have been prosecuted (they're now among the best known voices in US media) and the boss was an honored guest at a party in the White House. Here's the story

[David Williams @MrDaveyWilliams]

If you work for a utility company I hope your wages have gone up by the same percentage as their profits.
The shareholder and bosses are making a mint at the moment. Well, actually you are making a mint for them, along with their customers paying over the odds.
#Capitalism

[Your Party @thisisyourparty]

“How will we pay for the NHS?” “How will we pay for disability benefits?” “How will we pay for your pension?”

Starmer today: almost £80,000,000,000 a year on defence by 2029.

No one asked how we’d pay for it.