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The GOP’s Hypocrisy on States’ Rights Exposes Old Confederacy Lies

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SJ Thompson 🍁🇨🇦 @sjsthompson.bsky.social · 1h

The GOP’s Hypocrisy on States’ Rights Exposes Old Confederacy Lies
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States’ rights have always meant one thing: protecting white power while suppressing Black, women and marginalized people’s freedom.

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 3h

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

‘War is a business’: the Colombian mercenaries training Sudan’s child fighters to ‘go and get killed’

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 3h

"according to UN officials: 150,000 people have been killed, women and girls have been abducted and raped and nearly 13 million have been forced to flee their homes, in the world’s worst displacement crisis."

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A soldier of fortune tells of lucrative contracts, the siege of El Fasher and training child fighters to ‘go and get killed’

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 4h

Arrested for holding up a copy of The New World. How bloody un-British

This government’s stupid criminalisation of peaceful protestors is a hole they keep on digging

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 4h

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When ‘Socialist’ States Suppress National Liberation: A Trotskyist Analysis of Soviet Imperialism in Eastern Europe

The debate over whether Russia’s invasion of Ukraine represents imperialism has fractured the left.

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 8h

A Bitter Account, Two Years into the Catastrophe | Gilbert Achcar / جلبير الأشقر

An account of two years of genocidal war and its potential outcome.

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 8h

You probably seen footage of people in Chicago stopping an ICE agent from kidnapping a man based on his appearance. This is the latest escalation.

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Texas national guard troops arrive in Chicago amid Trump’s crackdown

Military presence comes after judge declined to block troops from entering, following lawsuit filed by city and state

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 8h

Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says

Research finds it would take average worker saving all their earnings for 52 years to match wealth of richest 10th of society

Pressed on Justice Dept. Politicization, Bondi Goes on Attack

Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 9h

The nazification of the Presidential office continues at pace, with the ignoring of questions

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 9h

The nazification of the Presidential office continues at pace, with the ignoring of questions

Pressed on Justice Dept. Politicization, Bondi Goes on Attack

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 9h

The Tories love a poverty safari. Today it’s “integration”; yesterday it was a street on benefits, the day before a parade of single mums. The quarry changes, but the hunt never does!

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17h

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

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The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 9h

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Ella Baron on the 7 October pro-Palestine protests – cartoon

Keir Starmer has called the student demonstrations on the second anniversary of the Hamas-led attacks ‘un-British’

Is This the Spark That Ignites the Slow Civil War?

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Goff @themightygoff.bsky.social · 20h

A lot to digest. All of it true.

Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 22h

Latest from the #Trumpocene

Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act has moved from rhetoric to rehearsal. The empire’s legions have come home, and the republic now governs itself as colony.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

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Michael McKay @87mck.bsky.social · 13h

I maintain Douglas Murray is Tommy Robinson with a posh accent. Both racists, both zionists and both fascists.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13h

According to hacked emails obtained by @dropsitenews.com, 'journalist' Douglas Murray was allegedly writing secret draft speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN while also pretending to be an independent 'journalist'.

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

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The Breaking of the Bipartisan Military Consensus

Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 16h

Texas in an Outrage

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Simon Pearson @anticapitalistmusings.com · 21h

Expert in a Dying Field