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Founded in 2022. Addressing biopolitical emergency & climate justice through art-critique-experiment. Building a new society in the shell of the old.

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Putin's failure to subjugate Ukraine is measured in shocking Russian casualty figures: one million killed or injured. How much longer will the Russian people tolerate their mass-murderer dictator-president, the Salisbury poisoner, the indicted war criminal?

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Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall | Simon Tisdall
The war against Ukraine has hit ordinary Russians hard, and the deteriorating situation is likely to inflame tensions, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
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December 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“Our country is crumbling before our eyes. We've homeless people dying on the streets that King Charles passed on his way to the coronation, whilst there are more empty homes than unhoused people in this country. It’s time the ultra rich pay their fair share.”

Faultless logic.

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Moment activists throw food at the crown jewels display case in the Tower of London
YouTube video by Guardian News
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December 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
To be clear: BP reported a rise in profits to $2.35bn (£1.77bn) between April and June this year.

Biocidal and sickeningly greedy.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff
Exclusive: Plans to offset increase in minimum ‘fair pay’ set by Living Wage Foundation will affect 5,400 employees
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December 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
"This is not so much a failure of circumstance as a triumph of structure. The system working as it was intended to work. Who gets to complain about housing policy in this country? Depends where you live, and how much your house is worth."

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Won’t somebody please think of Britain’s poor £2m homeowners? Oh, wait – everyone already is | Jonathan Liew
Contrast the furious reaction to Rachel Reeves’s ‘mansion tax’ to the response offered to those living with real housing injustice: indifference, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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December 3, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Olly Wainwright's searing demolition of Norman Foster's newest affront to urban taste & intelligence is a masterpiece. For this lashed-together lump is all the destructiveness, violence & contempt of its banker-tenant, JP Morgan, given material form.

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An eco obscenity: Norman Foster’s steroidal new skyscraper is an affront to the New York skyline
It contains enough steel to go round the world twice – and even has a fake breeze to flutter the stars-and-stripes flag in its lobby. If this colossus is just the first of a new breed of bulky superta...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Squalid, treacherous lawyers, Tory MP Geoffrey Cox & Cherie Blair are representing fossil fuel & Russian oligarch law-suits against the UK Gvmt. They seek billions in investor-state dispute settlements: the most egregious form of racketeering on earth.

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Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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December 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
'Sold as an origin story from within an immigrant and racialised experience, the purpose is to imbue [Mahmood's] politics with sacred authenticity – the credibility of the first person. It is clever and effective. It is cynical and disgraceful.'

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Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Will the impartial corporate media ask the salivating Badenoch, Farage & Tice for their responses to this news in light of their Net Zero weaponisation?

Perhaps the subject could be configured via the prism of immigration.

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UK wildfires devastated more areas in 2025 than at any time since records began, figures show
Firefighters call for long-term investment and say UK is dangerously underprepared as climate crisis worsens
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November 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Signs of a shift in the tectonic plates. The world turns towards sanity and we glimpse the shape of a coming community . . .
👏 Congratulations to @sissemariewe.bsky.social who was just elected as the new mayor of Copenhagen.

💚Congratulations to all of the SF members re-elected or newly elected and for the incredible 17.9% of votes across the country.

🌻Denmark’s people and nature will have a Greener future.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Johnson willfully ignored warnings &, instead, brazenly served his appetites.

Johnson is guilty of Misconduct in Public Office, which can attract a sentence of life imprisonment.

#ProsecuteJohnson

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’
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November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Field notes on the third October gathering of the ISSA tribe, similiarly building a new society in the shell of the old.

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Reimagining…. – ISSA- Island School of Social Autonomy
School of Autonomy at Vis; Year Three Article by  Mira Oklobdzija , Photos by Metod Blejec / ISSA School (CC 4.0 BY-NC-SA) See im a ge gallery .First published
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November 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
A stirring piece. Ayisha and Juan-Carlos are voicing our future, not the fossilised petrochemical shills enforcing their murderous interests.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The two extraordinary young activists making me feel optimistic at Cop30
In today’s newsletter: Despite valid criticisms, the summits are filled with smart, passionate people dedicating their lives to fighting the climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Johnson, Cummings, Sunak & Hancock served their raging masculinist egos rather than the British public & 23,000 people died as a consequence.

Will these repellent narcissists face trial? Of course not. The UK establishment knows how to look after its wealthy chaps.

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Covid inquiry finds UK inaction cost thousands of lives
About 23,000 deaths could have been prevented in England if the first Covid-19 lockdown had been introduced sooner at the start of the pandemic, a UK public inquiry found Thursday, also slamming a "to...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
'More universities use AI tools to teach students, generate course materials & give personalised feedback. A Dept of Education policy paper hailed this development, saying generative AI “has the power to transform education.”'

Into an accreditational dystopia.
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‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
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November 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The fearlessness of Mary Bruce before these murderous autocrats.

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Trump Berates Reporter Who Asked About Journalist Killed by Saudis
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November 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
"In the aftermath of Jamal’s murder, Trump officials worked to launder Saudi Arabia’s bloody image. Jared Kushner was advising Prince Mohammed on how to “weather the storm”. Last year, Kushner’s equity firm received $2bn from Saudi Arabia’s private equity firm."

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The Saudification of America is under way | Karen Attiah
Jamal Khashoggi’s plight and murder was a warning sign for the US, of the impending loss of freedom and censorship that would sweep the country
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November 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
As with Badenoch, Patel, Braverman, Kwarteng, Yusuf & Habib, Shabana Mahmood is a child of immigrants. If their cruel, ignorant & extremist migration policies were voiced by a white male, he'd be justly denounced as racist.

Sickening hypocrisy & opportunism.
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Labour MPs hit out at ‘performative cruelty’ of asylum crackdown - live updates
Labour backbenchers accuse government of ‘chasing Reform’ with new measures
www.independent.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
32 million tons of C02 have been unleashed by the IDF through its barbarism in Gaza.

Genocide augmented by biocide.
November 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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More than 200 boats and 5,000 people sailed through Belém in a powerful Flotilla of Hope.

Indigenous leaders like Marcos Xukuru (Brazil) and Rukka Sombolinggi (Indonesia) reminded the world that real climate solutions are rooted in ancestral knowledge.

#COP30 #IndigenousRights
November 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The levels of sheer entitlement, corruption & contempt of Trump's squalid ecosystem is unprecedented in recent history.

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Steve Bannon advised Jeffrey Epstein for years on how to rehab his reputation, texts show
Pair devised responses to public outrage about Epstein’s criminal history, his treatment by the justice system, and his friendships with powerful people
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November 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
All power to the Munduruku people. They have dignity, courage & soul--unlike the machine-species in the corporate compound.

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Protesters blockade Cop30 summit over plight of Indigenous peoples
Munduruku people demand to speak to Brazil’s president, saying they are never listened to
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November 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM