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my overwhelming feeling this morning is one of deep shame and embarrassment. i feel mortified at what my jewishness is used for in this society. i feel ashamed of how

dude has done more than any individual to intensify the already inherent violence of the US settler-colonial empire in the last decade. he has superintended state violence & incited increased

wild to me what journalists and some leftists are able to cram into the "culture war" formulation. this shit is reframing what we're living through in the most bullshit ways.

seeing pics from "anti-lockdown" demo at Trafalgar Sq today, you can see how mobilisations cohered around conspiracy theory communities & discourses are able to bring convergence to seemingly far-flung constituencies:

the story of the killings of Black sisters Nicole Smallman & Bibaa Henry is so horrendous. the Met Police refused to take seriously the fact of them being missing, then

so i've been reading about rent strikes and tenant movements in NYC before, during and after World War One. tweeting about it for interest and inspiration. Obviously conditions are different

this picture is the entire history of the NHS. an organisation for "the nation", staffed disproportionately by migrants/ppl of colour who have never fully counted as British or human, and

everyone's doing corbyn retrospectives & i don't have any provocative takes. felt in a weird position all along as my family & several comrades were corbynites while i wasn't. i