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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · Nov 20

“Rape culture is a society that condones male aggression both emotionally and physically towards women. It’s a society that has made sexual remarks, sexual touching, to rape itself, a norm for all members of the community & inflicts fear into the hearts of all women everywhere they may go.” #r4today

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 1d

“France has an incredibly generous welfare state.”

Of course a British journalist wld say that - she’s used to a political culture where both major parties think a strong economy isn’t possible w/o robbing the poor of their dignity.

The French welfare system is humane, not “generous”.

#r4today

Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 2d

Why didn’t Nick Robinson challenge Yvette “let me be clear” Cooper on this?

She falsely claimed that the intelligence services backed the proscription of Palestine Action. That wasn’t true - so why isn’t the Home Secretary being held accountable for lying to the public?

#r4today

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 2d

Nick to the father of a hostage:

“You’re in a rage with your leader. I’m struck by how political you’re being this morning - but your thoughts are clearly with your son.”

The personal is always political. Especially when a corrupt government puts its agenda above the life of your child. #r4today

Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 2d

Haskell is deeply worried abt Hamas members rejoining society - no concern, though, abt IOF soldiers returning back to Western countries after two years of conducting a campaign of mass extermination & turning Gaza into a blood-soaked graveyard.

Funny how that’s never the worry, isn’t it? #r4today

Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 3d

Your job isn’t to “understand” Sharon Haskell’s position, Amol. Your job is to INTERROGATE it. Stop stenographing Israeli government propaganda.

If you believe whatever the Israelis tell you, you're not a journalist, just a hasbara volunteer.

Do your effing job. #r4today

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 3d

“We are told that the essay was the princess taking the lead, with some help from a Harvard professor.”

LOL. And #r4today expects us to believe everything we’re spoon-fed about the royals. Did Catherine take the lead on this essay the same way she ‘took the lead’ on her wedding makeup?

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 4d

In the current climate of far right hostility, Jenrick is actively inciting violence against these judges with this. Badenoch may have defended his explicit racism yesterday, but this alone should see him lose both his position as shadow justice secretary and the whip immediately.

#r4today

Robert Jenrick names judges he would sack for ‘pro-migrant bias'

The shadow justice secretary has accused 'activists' within the judiciary of having links to political causes that compromise their independence

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Jane G @janeger.bsky.social · 5d

For the benefit of Starmer, Barnett and all the other pro-genocide voices. Isaeli violence in Palestine has been on going for over 70 years. It did not start on the 7 October 2023.
#r4today

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 4d

It’s not a war, it’s a genocide. “Israel was founded on the war crime of ethnic cleansing, it sustains itself by the crime of genocide.”

Stop normalising this criminal regime. #r4today

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 5d

Someone needs to remind our Prime Minister that dissent is democratic and genocide is particularly worthy of protest.

People protesting Israel’s genocide understand the magnitude of American imperialism and its intrinsic link to broader patterns of systemic violence and oppression.

#r4today

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 5d

“Keir Starmer writes that the UK has, for too long, been too indifferent to anti-Semitism.”

Why does our Prime Minister keep framing support for British Jews and solidarity w/ Palestinians as mutually exclusive?

Bec dehumanising Palestinians is the apparently acceptable anti-Semitism.

#r4today

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 5d

Robert Jenrick makes an undeniably racist remark, and Kemi Badenoch rushes to “contextualise it”.

This is exactly why she was elevated to leader of the Tory party — to serve as the Black face of Conservative bigotry, sanitising their racism and upholding white supremacy.

#r4today

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 5d

Notice that the Rabbi didn’t say anything about dead Palestinians? She spoke about the victims of October 7 and the Manchester terrorist attack - but nothing about dead Palestinians because they don’t matter.

Their lives are considered disposable because of Hamas.

Colonial logic. #r4today

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 5d

Anna Foster is still referring to the Gaza genocide as a “war”. Two years of our government arming an openly genocidal, right-wing regime engaging in an unhinged, vindictive killing frenzy and #r4today continues to justify this annihilatory violence.

How is this not disinformation from the BBC?

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 6d

The genocidal Labour Party’s efforts to silence Pro-Palestine demonstrations reveal the establishment's fear of the moral bankruptcy of its system being challenged by citizens willing to speak out against their leaders’ normalisation of apartheid and genocide.

#r4today

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 7d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 7d

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 7d

“Mark Rowley has said there’s no power in law to ban protest. Do you think there should be?”

Seriously, Amol - are you okay? This is not bloody America where the president can curbing civil liberties on a whim. The logic you’re pushing is straight out of the authoritarian playbook.

#r4today

Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 9d

If the sole responsibility for yesterday’s attack lies with the attacker, why is the Chief Rabbi allowed to claim a direct link between the terrorist attack and Pro-Palestine rallies?

Casting the movement as menacing is really a refusal to try to understand what is going on. #r4today

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 9d

Why is Justin telling Zack Polanski, a Jewish man, how to feel about Israel’s genocide in Gaza?

It’s actually anti-semitic to conflate Jews with Israel. It was refreshing to hear a party leader bring some much-needed nuance to a conversation with one of #r4today’s most consistently biased voices.

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 9d

Lmao.😭😭😭

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 9d

“She was the first person to witness an animal using a tool.”

Bec, of course, in all of Tanzania, not a single person had ever seen a wild chimp do this. Where would we be without Europeans to explain the mysteries of our own continent back to us? Thank goodness for their unmatched wisdom. #r4today

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 10d

Justin Webb pronounces ‘Hamas’ two different ways - classic colonial energy. He chats with Jeremy Bowen often enough to know the correct pronunciation, but how else is he supposed to signal his disdain and impress his pal Emma Barnett?

#r4today

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Sika @sikadm.bsky.social · 10d

Of course, Keir Starmer hasn’t watched the footage exposing the Met’s routine racism and misogyny - he’s got more pressing priorities, like scapegoating migrants to mask his political shortcomings.

It’s not like the footage reveals anything we didn’t already know about the Met.

#r4today

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