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Sam
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Sworn enemy of lesser-evilism.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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SORTED for E’S & WIZZ, in the same font and colour scheme as Zohran Mamdani’s campaign posters
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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MY KINGDOM for A HORSE, in the same font and colour scheme as Zohran Mamdani’s campaign posters
November 9, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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He’s FREEEE-EEEEEE!/The sandwich fella
Still from the video for The Specials’ “Free Nelson Mandela"
November 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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HIS OWN FOUNDATION literally funded research published last year projecting that climate change would drive over 120 million additional cases of malaria in Africa by 2050
www.bcg.com/publications...
To better understand how climate change will affect the burden of malaria in Africa, Boston Consulting Group and the Malaria Atlas Project, with funding from the Gates Foundation, developed a climate model to predict changes in extreme weather events and to estimate their impact on malaria deaths through 2049. (See the exhibit.) Our modeling leverages multiple scenarios and numerical models, as well as leading insurance industry data on flood risk. The climate modeling results point toward substantially larger, more frequent, and more severe floods, along with an increase in the severity of cyclones. In Africa, Extreme Weather Is Projected to Drive 554,000 Additional Malaria Deaths by 2050 [chart plotting "Malaria deaths resulting from climate change (thousands)” and "Malaria cases resulting from climate change (millions)” between 2030-2049]
October 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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A still from a video of soldiers from the Parachute Regiment using a photo of Jeremy Corbyn for target practice
October 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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A Rakestepper’s Progress
YouGov’s Keir Starmer favourability tracker showing “unfavourable” climbing to 72% by October 2025 and “favourable” falling to 21%
October 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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“On Sunday/President diarrheas on the country/He was fuckin horses by Wednesday, and on Thursday and Friday and Saturday…"
Craig David
October 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Tim Farron wrapped in the Union flag looking like he’s just emerged from Tommy Robinson’s washing machine
October 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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This seems a bit unfair (based on this speech from a few days ago at least)

www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
We are living through the largest fascist mobilisation in recent British history. This has not come out of nowhere. It has been emboldened by politicians and the media who scapegoat migrants, Muslims and minorities every single day. And Reform is their political vehicle. She added: We must challenge them in the streets as well as the ballot box. To be clear, you can’t beat far-right politicians and fascism by ignoring them or, as the Labour Party are doing, copying them. You do it by fighting them, you do it by organising, you do it by uniting the working class around a positive vision. And by building a movement that is broad and rooted in solidarity. Emphasising that “the far right thrive on a politics that is reduced to scapegoating, division and fear”, she asserted: our movement has to say with one loud voice, we will not play that game. We will fight for every single person and we will defend the most marginalised. In particular, she noted: This rise in transphobia that we are seeing is deliberate. It is being stoked as a wider culture war to divide us. And just like with migrants, just like with Muslims, just like with disabled people, the goal is always the same: ‘find a scapegoat so people don’t look upwards at who is really holding the power’.
October 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Artist's impression:
A screenshot of the 90s computer game Theme Hospital
September 30, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Side issue, obviously, but was Nick Clegg wearing a hotdog costume when he gave this speech?
“The moment our tech companies start developing any scale or ambition, they have to go to California because we don’t have the growth capital here,” he said. “It perplexes me why the British political, cultural and media establishment doesn’t worry more about the structural loss of sovereignty. This US-UK tech deal is just another version of the UK holding on to Uncle Sam’s coattails. “Imagine [the outcry] if all the tech in our phones from the cloud to the software was in the hands of the French. But we’ve defanged ourselves because of our long adherence to the Cold War transatlantic relationship with the US. “We have to be a bit firmer about what we can do ourselves rather than just taking sloppy seconds from Silicon Valley.”
September 18, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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As @gabrielwinant.bsky.social wrote of Israel after October 7, they have built “a machine for the conversion of grief into power”, and any liberals who willingly feed that machine just make them stronger

www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...
More tragically, the sentiment of those who want peace and justice for all and express this by chastising those in the West whom they see to be reacting with insufficient grief and excessive politics have only given amplification to the propaganda machine that is now openly calling for the blood of the innocent and the silence of doubters.
September 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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This is also absolutely key to why, in addition to being racist and morally repugnant, Starmer's aping of far-right rhetoric, imagery & policy will never satisfy the voters it's aimed at - because it's drab, boring, buttoned-up and self-consciously "sensible"
August 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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...it gets curioser...

jacobin.com/2025/06/star...
August 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM