Luke Fernandes retweetledi
This photo from @ForensicArchi showing Israel building a new military base over the ruins of Khan Younis is like nothing I’ve ever seen
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Luke Fernandes
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Luke Fernandes
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Left Graeber reader 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🍉
Hammersmith, London Katılım Mart 2018
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@emma49609 @GhostStoriesEnd Too many weird abbreviations :/
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@GhostStoriesEnd I agree that it=largely 'racist pensioners' ( either always or more recently 'petit-bouged' by property ownership), or ex-Tory twats (Restore now lrgly have ethnts]. But there's been research on Green-curious Reform votrs. Maybe 10% gettable for Left via 'Natnlztn+Grn Jobs' deal
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Feels like quite a few people on my team aren’t taking Reform and their base seriously as cunts who pose an actual threat
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Luke Fernandes retweetledi
Let's not forget that not only do these people do these things but there are people 1000s of miles away who justify these things.
Parody Jeff@Parodyjeffx
Imagine this. You’re Palestinian in the West Bank, standing outside your home in the night. Waiting through the silence because you know Israeli settlers could come at any moment. And when they come, they show no mercy.
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Luke Fernandes retweetledi
Genuine question: has anyone ever heard a single actual argument for the idea that David Miliband was/is some great political heavyweight who could have led Labour to great success? I've been hearing it asserted for most of my adult life but literally never with any rationale.
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Luke Fernandes retweetledi
The New York Times is effectively arguing that a Palestinian discussing the Nakba requires extensive contextual framing about Israeli history, the Holocaust, Arab armies, and 1948…
yet mainstream coverage rarely demands equivalent historical framing when Palestinians are killed, displaced, occupied, blockaded, or bombed.
Nobody says every report on Palestinian deaths must first provide mandatory context about decades of dispossession, military occupation, settlement expansion, or statelessness before Palestinian suffering can be morally legible.
That asymmetry is exactly what people notice.
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The New York Times criticized Zohran Mamdani’s Nakba Day video, suggesting it lacked sufficient historical context by focusing on the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians without including what the paper indicates is necessary context about the Holocaust, the 1948 war, and the attacks surrounding Israel’s creation — a level of historical framing rarely seen in mainstream reporting on Palestinian attacks against Israel.
Waleed Shahid 🪬@_waleedshahid
There is something worth sitting with here. A Palestinian woman shared the story of losing her home, and the newspaper of record could not find a way to let that loss simply be. It had to be weighed, qualified, contested. What does it do to a people when even their grief cannot enter a room without first being searched? Few ever question what the annual Israel Day Parade leaves out.
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Luke Fernandes retweetledi
he is actually just an empty suit isn't he. you could hardly get a more perfect "has zero convictions and just wants to sound reasonable & avoid anything challenging or controversial" answer lol
Geri Scott@Geri_E_L_Scott
New: Andy Burnham has backed the EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces and said the Supreme Court ruling on biological sex must be implemented. Burnham told journalists at his campaign launch in Makerfield that his views had changed since previous comments made in 2022, and he said: "I think the time has come to take the Supreme Court ruling and the guidance and implement it. But to do it in a way, obviously, that protects those spaces, but does not marginalise already marginalised communities." He said: "Let's implement the guidance, but to do it in the fairest and most compassionate way possible." "We've got to move into the next phase and not constantly re-running the arguments. I think Britain has done this too much in recent times, you know, with Brexit and other things. We've got to stop arguing with each other."
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Luke Fernandes retweetledi
🚨BREAKING | Burnham has abandoned his support for trans rights in his latest u-turn, backing EHRC guidance and the 2025 Supreme Court ruling.
At a campaign launch, he said: "The time has come to take the Supreme Court ruling and the guidance and implement it"
(Via @Telegraph)
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@knowncougar You’ll just blame this on “muh men” instead of pointing out that it’s immigrants from a country where rape is actually cool
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@novaramedia @AaronBastani This isn’t a case of someone changing their mind, it’s just someone staying quiet about a grave crime because the media environment allows it.
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@novaramedia @AaronBastani Why are you running cover for Burnham? He hasn’t apologised for his votes (for the war and against its investigation) to my knowledge, nor has he acknowledged it as a crime of aggression, nor has he called for trials of those who directed it.
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Progressive voters are unhappy that Andy Burnham voted for the Iraq war – but few remember that leftwing icon Tony Benn prepared to use troops to break a strike whilst he was a minister.
“If that kind of archive existed in the late 70s, early 80s,” says @AaronBastani on Downstream, “I doubt [Benn] would have been the standard bearer of the Labour left. But people didn’t know about things that happened 20 years earlier in the way they now do.”
James Butler (@piercepenniless) says that it’s “democratic” that politicians should be held accountable for their past choices – but it also feels like “people can’t change positions” anymore.
“The whole communicative regime has changed, and I don’t think politics has caught up with it at all,” he adds.
Watch the full episode of Downstream on our YouTube channel.
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Luke Fernandes retweetledi
Grotesque tweet from someone who is platformed and presents himself as an anti racist. Nakba denial is rooted in ignorance or racism. Rich is not ignorant. He knows these" facts" are not true. He knows for example that Palestinian citizens of Israel have never been treated as equal. For 18 years after 1948 they lived under martial law. He is an apologist for colonisation, apartheid and ethnic cleansing and now for genocide.
Dave Rich@daverich1
Some welcome facts, nuance and context that you won’t get from the political mobilisation of the Naqba story.
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Luke Fernandes retweetledi
If this crime had been committed by a Western enemy, it would be all you'd hear about.
It'd be held up as evidence of their utter evil.
But the US slaughtered 120 Iranian kids and 30 adults in a strike on a school.
The outrage, therefore, is nonexistent.
Sky News@SkyNews
More than 150 people, including 120 children, were killed in Iran when an airstrike hit a school in Minab. Although a preliminary US military investigation determined Washington was responsible, the Trump administration is yet to formally accept responsibility. Sky's ＠DominicWaghorn is the first international journalist to visit Minab. Warning: contains distressing content.
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Luke Fernandes retweetledi
Richard Bennett says the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan is “extremely alarming” and may amount to crimes against humanity. He described it as “gender apartheid,” calling for stronger accountability and recognition of the term in international law.
TAWAZON - توازن@tawazon_media
توازن: د افغانستان بشري حقونو لپاره د ملګرو ملتونو ځانګړي راپور ورکوونکي ریچارډ بېنیټ په خپلو تازه څرګندونو کې په افغانستان کې د ښځو او نجونو وضعیت خورا بوږنوونکی بللی او ټینګار یې کړی، چې دا سیستماتیک ځپنه د «بشریت پر وړاندې جنایت» ګڼل کېږي. نور دلته ولولئ: tawazon.media/pa/archives/22…
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@helensclegel I think it’s (rightly) the local party’s decision & as I understand they probably will. I don’t really think we should throw any greater resources at it though, because we can’t win, and we’ll need every penny & every ounce of energy for the Mayoralty, which we could win.
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Why is everyone calling for the Greens to stand down in the by-election but not the Lib Dems nor the Tories? Why shouldn't they be asked to put country before party by helping a two time reject for Labour leader get another shot at the role?
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Luke Fernandes retweetledi
🚨 An urgent plea to Green members... 👇👇
Don't fall for Burnham's last-minute pledges. We've been here before with Starmer. He is not the answer.
We must seek Labour's destruction, not its friendship.
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@DEHEdgerton It looks very interesting but I’m not subscribing just to read it. Not v interested in the rest of the New Statesman’s output
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I wrote something on the not so strange death of Labour.
The New Statesman@NewStatesman
"The question is not whether Labour values have been usurped by Starmer’s faction. It is what kind of party could be built out of the corpse of Starmer’s party. One option is clearly a more Blairite party: pro-tech giants, the US, and privatisation. But are there any serious options to create a progressive party, one that dares speak out on the issues of the day, that actually communicates with a progressive electorate? It is hard to see at the moment whether the ambition or capacity exists within it. It is worth noting that Starmer’s Party is only barely the official party of the organised working class. Whereas Labour had affiliated to it nearly every major trade union, today only just over half of union members are in party-affiliated unions. And even then some may leave. This is hardly surprising: as it stands its policies, Starmer’s Party’s political instincts, are far closer to those of the Tories and Reform than to the progressive parties that are eating it up. And that is not accidental, or the result of a lack of vision. It was the whole point." Read @DEHEdgerton's obituary for Starmerism newstatesman.com/politics/labou…
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@PhilipProudfoot @AndyBurnhamGM He’s not even an MP yet. Why would he answer them?
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Questions for @AndyBurnhamGM
1. Will you remove the proscription of Palestine Action?
2. Will you end the abuse of counter-terrorism legislation against activists
3. Will you recognise that Israel has committed genocide?
4. Will you end all UK military engagement with Israel?
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Luke Fernandes retweetledi
All of the people in this picture are Christians.
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@AllyFogg @robjeffecology A Burnham win will lead to months and years of soft left and centrist gaslighting, confusing and disorientating the Greens, while Burnham remains staunchly Atlanticist and pro-Israel. No thanks.
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@robjeffecology I think most probably Josh Simons saw his entire project crash into a wall a couple of months ago, could not give a shit about Makerfield or even the Labour Party and wanted to get the hell out of fucking Wigan as fast as possible to go get a proper job at Palantir or Blackrock.
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To add to everything I have been saying all day, I wholeheartedly agree with this.
James Mackenzie@mrjamesmack
the fact that the Green decision about whether and who to stand in Makersfield will be made locally, not by Zack, is a feature, not a bug - genuinely trusting the members gets the best results, they know the national context as well as anyone and the local context far better
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