I do find it worrying how many people seem to think that the pager detonation atrocity story reveals that phones are potential bombs in and of themselves - rather than that Israel inserted explosives into a whole shipment. I keep seeing examples of credulousness like this

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Ukraine abstained.

Given the absolute bottomless evil of the Gaza genocide I’ve been thinking through why the mass Israeli terrorist attack in Lebanon feels particularly horrible and revolting in the ways that it does. A few ideas: The media framing of the attack as “tech savvy, interesting!”; 1/2

1/ Loads of Pundits genuinely shocked the Starmer & co are making themselves hated with obvious arrogant grasping behaviour while imposing cuts - why risk so much for so little? Why the lack of political nous from supposed 'grown ups' ? A lot of the answer is...

"What we see is a genocidal state that is completely out of control and supported by a Western world that is, in large measure, too racist and Islamophobic to care."

This is an especially foolhardy line when the only prominent thing delivered so far is... taking away money from pensioners.

Solomon Hughes Team Starmer's mission statement is "It's Our Turn"

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Yes: the hacks convinced themselves *yet again* a new government would be smarter, less bent and more capable, when there was never any reason to believe that was true. And yet again, their latest heroes are burping, filling their boots with freebies and being rude to the staff.

We’ve never heard so much rubbish! It’s the hunts that aren’t properly dealt with, not the saboteurs!

"Significant?" Jo Coburn asks Taj Ali about Rachel Reeves replacing paintings at 11 Downing Street with artwork by women. Taj's answer is spot on as usual #PoliticsLive

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🚨 BREAKING: Company run by 3 retired police officers EXPOSED promoting torture equipment in Birmingham. Along with Omega Research Foundation, we’ve obtained footage of Squad Group Limited promoting torture equipment yesterday. No one should be allowed to profit from torture. It's that simple.

Looking glorious today

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Oh just fuck off, man

This is INSANE

During Azerbarjan’s ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh, it issued maps renaming streets after the main instigators of the 1915 Armenian genocide. David Lammy calls this liberation.

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