Maria Gee
@maria-goretti.bsky.social
Active optimist because the alternative is hopeless.
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This US administration is now completely losing any semblance of sanity in sanctioning "censorship masterminds". There's no other way to put it, this is tin pot dictatorship territory and must be called out as such. Including in the US.
Definite upsurge in Trump administration attacks on the EU / Europe in the last week, and I think of it rather as a cross between a toddler tantrum and an arsonist where the key fact is the project to reshape the world and even the US is failing.
December 24, 2025 at 7:23 AM
This US administration is now completely losing any semblance of sanity in sanctioning "censorship masterminds". There's no other way to put it, this is tin pot dictatorship territory and must be called out as such. Including in the US.
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This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.
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Just like ICE.
December 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Just like ICE.
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Goodness me, these judicial comments are astonishingly damming of the Campaign Against Antisemitism. news.sky.com/story/regina...
Reginald D Hunter: Summons against comic by Campaign Against Antisemitism quashed for seeking to have him 'cancelled'
The judge said the CAA "misled" him over comments Hunter made to Heidi Bachram on X, and failed to inform him of a previous compliance probe.
news.sky.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Goodness me, these judicial comments are astonishingly damming of the Campaign Against Antisemitism. news.sky.com/story/regina...
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Remember when every leader wanted their picture taken with Greta? She is still that truth teller, they just can't face the truth of their crimes.
Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'
December 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Remember when every leader wanted their picture taken with Greta? She is still that truth teller, they just can't face the truth of their crimes.
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Bet365 CEO collects £280m (£104m salary + £176m dividend), pre-tax profits down from £627m to £349m.
CEO collected around £2.67bn over the last decade.
Gambling industry recently opposed increase in tax.
Public purse bears the cost of gambling addiction.
CEO collected around £2.67bn over the last decade.
Gambling industry recently opposed increase in tax.
Public purse bears the cost of gambling addiction.
Bet365 boss receives at least £280m in pay and dividends despite profit slump
Denise Coates’s gambling empire reports turnover of £4bn in year to March 2025, up from £3.7bn
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Bet365 CEO collects £280m (£104m salary + £176m dividend), pre-tax profits down from £627m to £349m.
CEO collected around £2.67bn over the last decade.
Gambling industry recently opposed increase in tax.
Public purse bears the cost of gambling addiction.
CEO collected around £2.67bn over the last decade.
Gambling industry recently opposed increase in tax.
Public purse bears the cost of gambling addiction.
Might well be the most useful thing you can do over the next few days 😉
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December 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Might well be the most useful thing you can do over the next few days 😉
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"Our President also shares our love of young, nubile girls."
Written by Epstein, just before he died.
Written by Epstein, just before he died.
Wow! Letter from Epstein to a convicted sex offender Larry Nassar right before Epstein’s death.
This was in the files the DOJ released last night and then removed from their site.
This was in the files the DOJ released last night and then removed from their site.
December 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
"Our President also shares our love of young, nubile girls."
Written by Epstein, just before he died.
Written by Epstein, just before he died.
More lawlessness geothermal the consent of the Israeli state
Life under occupation & apartheid.
Israeli forces are demolishing a residential building in occupied East Jerusalem that was home to around 100 Palestinians. The Palestinians were attacked by Israeli settlers as they were forced from their homes.
Israeli forces are demolishing a residential building in occupied East Jerusalem that was home to around 100 Palestinians. The Palestinians were attacked by Israeli settlers as they were forced from their homes.
December 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
More lawlessness geothermal the consent of the Israeli state
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December 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
University threatened with legal action after protest at event
Prof Alice Sullivan says her talk at the University of Bristol became like a
www.bbc.co.uk
December 22, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.
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December 21, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Keir Starmer’s Lab gott has clearly seen itself as a taker rather than a maker of immigration attitudes. In practice, it has by both acts and omissions added to salience & public misperceptions. It needed more comtrol of boats to do better but in 2025 fuelled misperception that numbers still rising
December 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Keir Starmer’s Lab gott has clearly seen itself as a taker rather than a maker of immigration attitudes. In practice, it has by both acts and omissions added to salience & public misperceptions. It needed more comtrol of boats to do better but in 2025 fuelled misperception that numbers still rising
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In case you were wondering how that ceasefire was going…
Israel bombed a wedding in Gaza today
We will never forget.
Israel bombed a wedding in Gaza today
We will never forget.
December 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
In case you were wondering how that ceasefire was going…
Israel bombed a wedding in Gaza today
We will never forget.
Israel bombed a wedding in Gaza today
We will never forget.
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Now there is an effective metaphor.
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
December 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Now there is an effective metaphor.
“The UK has been planning without the tools to test against worst-case scenarios. We’ve now given decision-makers what they need to prepare for climate outcomes they hope never happen, but can’t afford to ignore.”
https://bit.ly/4s7BkqG
https://bit.ly/4s7BkqG
‘Massive disruption’: UK’s worst-case climate crisis scenarios revealed by scientists
Scientists say government must prepare for unlikely but ‘plausible’ 4C rise in temperature and a 2-metre rise in sea levels
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
The same Chris Parry whose party leader admires & echoes Putin & whinged about the UK to Trump. So much for loyalty - for Parry it’s only a question if your skin is black or brown.
Reform’s Chris Parry doubts the Britishness of Sir Lenny Henry too
December 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The same Chris Parry whose party leader admires & echoes Putin & whinged about the UK to Trump. So much for loyalty - for Parry it’s only a question if your skin is black or brown.
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Utterly ridiculous to compare a far right racist with a Green Party leader who is currently demonstrating better socialist credentials than the so-called Labour party. If Labour doesn't realise soon that it's the progressive voters it needs to appeal to, not the Reform ones, it's game over.
December 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Utterly ridiculous to compare a far right racist with a Green Party leader who is currently demonstrating better socialist credentials than the so-called Labour party. If Labour doesn't realise soon that it's the progressive voters it needs to appeal to, not the Reform ones, it's game over.
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2025 has been a speed competition in normalising racism. And as Toni Morrison said, the serious function of racism is distraction. So 2025 has topped the charts in distraction from the real work to achieve societal progress.
Wishing you a less distracted 2026.
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
Wishing you a less distracted 2026.
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
The normalisation of far-right rhetoric on immigration
People who have escaped the unimaginable horror of torture are increasingly being targeted by far-right violence in the UK
northeastbylines.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
2025 has been a speed competition in normalising racism. And as Toni Morrison said, the serious function of racism is distraction. So 2025 has topped the charts in distraction from the real work to achieve societal progress.
Wishing you a less distracted 2026.
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
Wishing you a less distracted 2026.
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
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