The UN is hamstrung by the security council. States like Spain and Ireland should take the initiative now: send ships filled with aid to Gaza's coast and break the blockade. x.com/jasonhickel/st…

I dunno if people really understand how bad what's happened to Gaza is. So here's a collection of stats (often conservative undercounts) that make clear how much worse this is than anything we've seen in recent history.🧵 1st, the death rate & proportion of civilians killed:

July was the month when all the illusions about the EU went up in smoke. x.com/BRAVENEWEUROPE…

As a keen veggie grower, I say allotments for all! 🍅 x.com/BBCNews/status…

Uber's $20bn share buy back is a MASSIVE transfer of their wage theft from exploited workers to greedy investors. It equates to $2,400 for every rider & driver on the platform or just under the total value of fares collected from passengers in Q2 '25. ft.com/content/664343…

This is worth repeating: clear admission from Uber in today's earning call of what was long suspected but never admitted: Uber is harvesting data from their driver workforce to train autonomous vehicle AI models to replace them.

Reminder: Israel has (conservatively) dropped the equivalent of 6 Hiroshima bombs on Gaza. A perverse irony is that if Israel *had* dropped a nuke on Gaza, it would have done far less damage than its current bombing campaign has, but likely aroused far more global outrage.

Don’t appoint a landlord as Homelessness Minister. Don’t appoint someone taking thousands in donations from private health companies as Health Secretary. Dont appoint someone taking thousands from Israeli lobbyists as Home Secretary. There’s a theme here.

MP claims Surrey Care Home is a “hot bed of terrorist activity” filled with Palestine Action supporters.

Staggering numbers of Palestinians now being shot in Gaza as they try to find food at GHF sites, or along UN convoy routes. More than 4,500 people treated in a single Red Cross clinic. Almost 1,400 across two MSF clinics. Total is more than 12,000, according to health ministry.

Von Der Leyen's great rallying cry against genocide: 'Reconsider!' One of the most contemptible politician's of our time. x.com/vonderleyen/st…

The more you think about it, this inequality-fuelled racial-paranoia is a sign of a deeply sick society: the rich are even scared of the people who are serving them food. Neoliberal dystopia. x.com/Ben_Wray1989/s…