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A whistleblower at ICE today exposed that mass hysterectomies are being performed on detained immigrants. If it sounds like a horror show, that's because it is. Gender oppression has a direct correlation with authoritarianism. This is beyond. The vicious cruelty is staggering.

After the defeat of Corbyn and Sanders, where next for Anglo-American socialism: opendemocracy.net/en/we-lost-bec… - by @jemgilbert

Californian wildfires now. Just a reminder this year has seen 38 degrees in Siberia, record ice melt in the Canadian Arctic, successive days above 40 in Japan, 52 degrees in Baghdad & wildfires killing 3 billion animals in Australia. Climate change isn't the future, it's here.

*western scientists literally can't fathom African people effectively governing themselves

Best people/texts to read for #DefundThePolice arguments?

My film about the life and death of Breonna Taylor will be premiering on FX and streaming on HULU starting Friday, September 4th. Produced by @nytimes Please spread the word!

@rafkhach A certain level of Marxist analysis perhaps. But once you come up against the concept of class struggle as an antagonism inherent to a system, the two surely have to part ways?

Can one be a "liberal Marxist"? Norberto Bobbio, Habermas, Michael Harrington, Agnes Heller and the Praxis School? Feels like there was a brief moment in the 1970s-80s where that label made some sense.

▶️ Government Awards £8.4 Million in PPE Procurement Contracts to Dormant Firm Details of questionable contracts continue to seep out from the Government machine... Exclusive report by @WritesBright 👇 bylinetimes.com/2020/08/25/gov…

The obsession with "balance" as opposed to factual accuracy has absolutely damned political discourse in the UK (and several other places, to be honest).

Message to Keir Starmer from Labour stalwart in a 'Red Wall' seat: 'For God's sake, bloody start leading and then we might be able to unite.' See 'Can Labour be a broad church' here👇 youtu.be/fw8bCd3r4QU

It's happening. British Airways asked for it. So, now they're going to get it. Today, ground service & cargo workers voted unanimously to ballot for strike action. BA were warned. We won't allow you to fire & rehire our workers on poorer terms. Workers didn't cause the pandemic

To achieve the aims on which almost everyone agrees - a habitable planet, universal wellbeing, good public health, housing and diets for all - we have to fight almost everyone in power.

INTERGENERATIONAL REGRESSION: Young People Really Deserve to be Given a Break – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2020/08/13/int…

MPs should not be allowed to have second jobs.

@HilaryMatfess "Change appartments from time to time" is presumably a precaution to escape some of the random strangers you've attracted with your hatboxes and fishing tackle demonstrations.

The A-Level thing sounds bad when you first hear about it but it’s only when you get into the details that it becomes clear how totally fucked it is. Just an awful combination of dogshit policymaking, with absolutely horrendous immediate consequences for the people involved

Why anyone would write an article to appear in The Daily Mail, a paper that has spread such racist, hateful bullshit for such a long time is seriously beyond me. It’s not going to change. It’s not going to start wanting the left to win. It’ll smash us to bits at every opportunity

Just for the avoidance of any doubt I believe with every fibre in my soul that any member of the Labour Movement should never write in or seek the patronage of the S*n. #JFT96 #DontBuyTheSun