I think the moral content of a protest matters, I think it’s the single most important thing actually, and the elaborate media pseudo debates about tactics, electoral impact etc—where we discuss everything but the moral content—is because the righteousness of the cause is obvious

'If they are trying to quell any future expanse of vigilante violence they have done a terrible job of that tonight, because it seems to be fully endorsed by the school at this point...'

Joey Scott reporting on a violent mob of pro Israel thugs attacking students in LA

Do you fools listen to music or do you just skim through it?

Kendrick Lamar for 6 minutes straight:

me: i need to stop trying to force current affairs into the shape of football analogies.

me, five minutes later: humza yousaf is the david moyes of politics.

Firstly, I feel deeply sorry for anyone who reads a thread about mass graves in Gaza and immediately goes 'ooh, I must own somebody on Twitter'. I don't think that's healthy behaviour.

And secondly, there's nothing in that thread which debunks anything in my original tweet,

Kim McGuinness, Labour’s candidate for North East mayor, apologised over what she admits was an “offensive” remark made on Twitter 13 years ago.

She wrote “f*** off! I am not a gypsy!” in a since-deleted tweet from February 2011. thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/24123356.…

This stream of messaging attributing protest motivation to everything but distress about the mass killing in Gaza is so dehumanizing to Palestinians

The SNP now need to somehow choose a leader who doesn't appear to be an appeasement to either the Greens or Alba, from a group that is fairly easily divisible into 'people who are a bit like the Greens' and 'people who are a bit like Alba'

For a special edition of Downstream IRL, Ash Sarkar is joined by philosopher, author, and one of the world’s most cited academics, Judith Butler. novaramedia.com/2024/03/31/thi…

Ash Sarkar So exciting! Please share + contribute to our fighting fund for Jamie’s campaign if you can, we need to do everything we can to escalate the ground campaign in the last few days! 💥

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 politics heads – what was the likelihood of Scottish Greens members voting to end the Bute House Agreement at the proposed EGM?

The gang develops new synonyms for 'women and ethnics'.

The Jamie Driscoll campaign is, genuinely, very interesting. There's the obvious stuff for a left-wing, climate-focused candidate to do, such as partnering with young climate activists to try and drive up turnout from the two big university cities.

But there's also this:

We also find a statistical tie in the race to be the new Mayor of the North East. Labour’s Kim McGuinness leads Independent Jamie Driscoll by 2. The poll indicates higher propensity to vote by Driscoll supporters is what is keeping this race close and a squeeze of Tory voters.

Polling released today from More in Common shows just how tight the mayoral race in the North-East is.

Jamie Driscoll, the ex-Labour independent candidate, is nearly neck and neck with Labour. It's the kind of margin, in a low-turnout election, where last minute targeted ads,