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When your hear Rishi Sunak, Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman, Priti Patel , James Cleverly & Kemi Badenoch call for calm over the coming days, just remember they helped light the touch-paper for these race riots by allowing the spread of disinformation like this from Tory HQ:

It blows my mind that people on the left think *voters* need to change how committed they are to ending genocide, rather than demanding an end to genocide by *our incumbent leaders* through making our votes contingent on them *not supporting genocide*.

Wow, ‘of Turkish origin’ doing a lot of work here

while haiti is in the news so much this week maybe we should all take a moment to discuss the fact that their economic destitution is entirely due to being forced to spend ~80% of their federal budget every year for 150 years on reparations to france for freeing the slaves

Another night of horror in the #Gaza Strip. A strike hit a hospital courtyard, burning the tents where people were sleeping. Just before this, an UNRWA school sheltering families was hit in Nuseirat. That same school was going to be used as a #polio vaccination site today.

The owners want their tax cuts but they’re too embarrassed to endorse Trump.

Sexual selection at work.

We've finally arrived at the ultimate contradiction of the US's "rules-based order": where the "rule" now is that you're forbidden to follow the rules.

Winning an election is easier than it looks: all you have to do is convince a bunch of different groups that you will use power to achieve their desires. 1/

🚨Haaretz now confirms what we've been warning about for months: Israel is planning to cram Palestinians in northern Gaza into flimsy tents in CONCENTRATION CAMPS run by the IDF In Southern Gaza, Israel will put CRIMINAL GANGS in charge Our report: ecfr.eu/publication/de…

🚨As we show here, Israel has been establishing the "Five Fingers" strategy to turn Gaza into smaller disconnected uninhabitable concentration camps. The IDF's "buffer zones" (fully wiped out) take up more than a third of Gaza's entire area. Read: ecfr.eu/publication/de…

For those hoping that the LA fires will lead to a climate reckoning, I have bad news. There's no robust link between climate disasters and low-carbon policymaking. *Weather can't do the work of politics.* If anything, tendency is toward a defensive "fortress of solitude." 1/2

Gulp

If Elon Musk wants to cut $2t from the US federal budget, there's a pretty straightforward way to get there - just eliminate all the beltway bandits who overcharge Uncle Sucker for everything from pharma to roads to (of course) rockets, and make the rich pay their taxes. 1/

In preview of my Monday morning piece, I'm going to say a little bit about why this is so concerning. This is not some "economy" thing.Its first & foremost the possibility that our legal order is modified so the law of the land is defined by DOGE plumbing the guts of the Treasury

Netanyahu gifted Trump with a gaudy golden pager mounted on a slice of felled ancient olive tree. The settler colonial psyche is a cesspit.

In Bev Rayburn’s recent post about Poilievre’s views on pensions she points out that he favours a policy of destroying the public system and replacing it with an individual private investment accounts system - something like the Reform Party’s regressive “super-RRSP proposal in

“National Socialist Germany exhibits a peculiar ‘primacy of politics’ in which ideological goals determine the performance of the economic sphere so radically that the whole system cuts loose from any rationality of self-reproduction.”

Trump's budget spends $25 billion on a fantasy missile shield — likely contracted out to Musk/SpaceX — and cuts $27 billion in housing assistance. Why are you hearing this from me and not the Democratic Party