Joel Maddock-James
@joelmj.bsky.social
Sociology lecturer, trade unionist, broadband communist
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Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)
November 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)
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Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
June 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.
Not the priority here, but the consequences of AI slop for the xenophobic right are quite profound. Reactionaries now have a new modem for their politics: the visualisation of their deepest fears and desires that aims to articulate and concretise what previously belonged to raw libidinal energy.
The police continue to investigate the motive for last night's stabbings. Their initial statement is they don't have grounds to believe it was a terrorist motivated attack
Elected Reform Durham county councillor Darren Grimes posted this political attack on the assumption it was an Islamist attack
Elected Reform Durham county councillor Darren Grimes posted this political attack on the assumption it was an Islamist attack
November 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Not the priority here, but the consequences of AI slop for the xenophobic right are quite profound. Reactionaries now have a new modem for their politics: the visualisation of their deepest fears and desires that aims to articulate and concretise what previously belonged to raw libidinal energy.
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Welcome to America’s Turd Reich
Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America
October 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Welcome to America’s Turd Reich
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"Palestinians have very long experience not only of Israel breaking ceasefires but also of using phased agreements to entrench their expansionist agenda"
Aimee Shalan from the @britpalcommitt.bsky.social giving a history lesson on Sky News
Aimee Shalan from the @britpalcommitt.bsky.social giving a history lesson on Sky News
October 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM
"Palestinians have very long experience not only of Israel breaking ceasefires but also of using phased agreements to entrench their expansionist agenda"
Aimee Shalan from the @britpalcommitt.bsky.social giving a history lesson on Sky News
Aimee Shalan from the @britpalcommitt.bsky.social giving a history lesson on Sky News
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"they make a desert and call it peace"
October 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
"they make a desert and call it peace"
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Has there ever been a bubble with so much reflexivity regarding its status as a bubble as this one? www.ft.com/content/6cc8...
America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
www.ft.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Has there ever been a bubble with so much reflexivity regarding its status as a bubble as this one? www.ft.com/content/6cc8...
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Western ‘leaders’ once paraded Greta as a symbol of moral clarity—until she condemned Israel’s genocide. Now they don’t even care about her safety
““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+
Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Western ‘leaders’ once paraded Greta as a symbol of moral clarity—until she condemned Israel’s genocide. Now they don’t even care about her safety
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there is few (no?) more compelling cases for public control over investment than AI atm: the biggest misallocation of resources possibly in human history.
The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a recent report.
Most companies aren’t seeing a return on AI investments. This tech CEO wants to change that | CNN Business
The artificial intelligence industry has a big problem: 95% of companies that try AI aren’t making any money from it, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last month. O...
www.cnn.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
there is few (no?) more compelling cases for public control over investment than AI atm: the biggest misallocation of resources possibly in human history.
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The global sumud flotilla is now 130 miles from Gaza, the area where Israel has attacked previous boats trying to break the Israeli blockade. In 2010 the Israelis raided a flotilla of 6 ships in international waters & killed 9 people onboard.
All eyes on the flotilla.
All eyes on the flotilla.
October 1, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The global sumud flotilla is now 130 miles from Gaza, the area where Israel has attacked previous boats trying to break the Israeli blockade. In 2010 the Israelis raided a flotilla of 6 ships in international waters & killed 9 people onboard.
All eyes on the flotilla.
All eyes on the flotilla.
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This means that it is now Labour’s official position that Israel is committing genocide.
While at the same time, the Labour government continues to arm that genocide
Absolutely extraordinary!
While at the same time, the Labour government continues to arm that genocide
Absolutely extraordinary!
September 30, 2025 at 5:58 AM
This means that it is now Labour’s official position that Israel is committing genocide.
While at the same time, the Labour government continues to arm that genocide
Absolutely extraordinary!
While at the same time, the Labour government continues to arm that genocide
Absolutely extraordinary!
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"Power not protest" is a truly fatuous formulation. Would you rather be MLK or Trump? Gandhi or Stalin?
These people are so convinced of their own inherent goodness that they see their mere attainment of high office as a good thing. Even when they're using their precious power to enable a genocide
These people are so convinced of their own inherent goodness that they see their mere attainment of high office as a good thing. Even when they're using their precious power to enable a genocide
Protestor interrupts Rachel Reeve's speech
"We understand your cause and we are recognising a Palestinian state"
Reeves then mentions some of the things she's achieved and says, "That is the difference we make in power, not through protest"
"We understand your cause and we are recognising a Palestinian state"
Reeves then mentions some of the things she's achieved and says, "That is the difference we make in power, not through protest"
September 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
"Power not protest" is a truly fatuous formulation. Would you rather be MLK or Trump? Gandhi or Stalin?
These people are so convinced of their own inherent goodness that they see their mere attainment of high office as a good thing. Even when they're using their precious power to enable a genocide
These people are so convinced of their own inherent goodness that they see their mere attainment of high office as a good thing. Even when they're using their precious power to enable a genocide
His legacy will be nothing more than trying to ingratiate himself with people who will only ever see him as a metropolitan nonse, and shifting the Overton window to the right as a result.
Keir Starmer says he's known for 10 years that the left has got it wrong on immigration & wasn't listening to peoples concerns
Really? Because 5 years ago he said the left wasn't bold enough in talking up the benefits of migration.
He really is the most duplicitous politician in my lifetime
Really? Because 5 years ago he said the left wasn't bold enough in talking up the benefits of migration.
He really is the most duplicitous politician in my lifetime
September 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
His legacy will be nothing more than trying to ingratiate himself with people who will only ever see him as a metropolitan nonse, and shifting the Overton window to the right as a result.
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This Labour government seems to determined to create all the tools necessary for a future government of the far-right to control, surveille, and discipline the entire population.
Starmer to unveil digital ID cards in plan set to ignite civil liberties row
‘Brit card’ already facing opposition from privacy campaigners as government looks for ways to tackle illegal immigration
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 6:55 AM
This Labour government seems to determined to create all the tools necessary for a future government of the far-right to control, surveille, and discipline the entire population.
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This is appalling as expected from a strategically, politically and ethically bankrupt Labour leadership
All Starmer offers is a slightly less extreme version of the far right which only ends up normalising its discourse, allowing it to set the agenda
All Starmer offers is a slightly less extreme version of the far right which only ends up normalising its discourse, allowing it to set the agenda
“The belief that uncontrolled legal migration was nothing but good news for an economy should never have been accepted on the Left,” writes Starmer “fighting” populism. What does even mean “uncontrolled” in the case of legal migration? www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/f9444c6...
The Left ignored immigration fears for too long. It’s time to give communities back control
Only a plan for patriotic national renewal led by Labour will counter the rise of the populist Right
www.telegraph.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
This is appalling as expected from a strategically, politically and ethically bankrupt Labour leadership
All Starmer offers is a slightly less extreme version of the far right which only ends up normalising its discourse, allowing it to set the agenda
All Starmer offers is a slightly less extreme version of the far right which only ends up normalising its discourse, allowing it to set the agenda
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Unless the government introduces PR, there will be a far right government in power in 2029. And like the compliant liberals they always were, the Labour party are building the administrative tools to help those fascists round you and your friends up for deportation. Frightening.
Starmer to unveil plan for digital ID cards to crack down on illegal immigration
Starmer to unveil plan for digital ID cards to crack down on illegal immigration
Every adult in Britain will require a digital ID under plans to be set out by Sir Keir Starmer.
news.sky.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Unless the government introduces PR, there will be a far right government in power in 2029. And like the compliant liberals they always were, the Labour party are building the administrative tools to help those fascists round you and your friends up for deportation. Frightening.
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🇮🇹BREAKING: Italy Sees Massive General Strike in Solidarity With Gaza
Italy is seeing a powerful 24-hr general strike today, Sept. 22, as millions of workers across transport, education, logistics, and other sectors are expected to join protests for Gaza. The strike has...
@ryangrim.bsky.social
Italy is seeing a powerful 24-hr general strike today, Sept. 22, as millions of workers across transport, education, logistics, and other sectors are expected to join protests for Gaza. The strike has...
@ryangrim.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
🇮🇹BREAKING: Italy Sees Massive General Strike in Solidarity With Gaza
Italy is seeing a powerful 24-hr general strike today, Sept. 22, as millions of workers across transport, education, logistics, and other sectors are expected to join protests for Gaza. The strike has...
@ryangrim.bsky.social
Italy is seeing a powerful 24-hr general strike today, Sept. 22, as millions of workers across transport, education, logistics, and other sectors are expected to join protests for Gaza. The strike has...
@ryangrim.bsky.social
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What a deranged country. Are we gonna have this as the number one headline for each *person* we remove? A cruelty spectacle.
September 19, 2025 at 7:11 AM
What a deranged country. Are we gonna have this as the number one headline for each *person* we remove? A cruelty spectacle.
Watching the news these past few days, I’m somewhat less taken aback by how UK media has covered Trump’s visit - talking about golf and lasagna rather than domestic political repression and the Gaza genocide - and more by how they are manufacturing consent for AI and big tech’s corporate capture.
September 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Watching the news these past few days, I’m somewhat less taken aback by how UK media has covered Trump’s visit - talking about golf and lasagna rather than domestic political repression and the Gaza genocide - and more by how they are manufacturing consent for AI and big tech’s corporate capture.
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But Wes Streeting has decided that it isn’t, actually, so that’s ok
September 16, 2025 at 7:30 AM
But Wes Streeting has decided that it isn’t, actually, so that’s ok
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guys i think we all need to get good with the fact that debate culture is not and never was geared toward arriving at knowledge that is simply not one of its goals
September 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
guys i think we all need to get good with the fact that debate culture is not and never was geared toward arriving at knowledge that is simply not one of its goals
BBC News also hosted the head of turningpoint UK to talk about a few random death threats they’ve received online. Completely blind to attempts by the reactionary right to use a Christian nationalist debate bro’s death to facilitate the political repression of and violence against the Left.
September 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
BBC News also hosted the head of turningpoint UK to talk about a few random death threats they’ve received online. Completely blind to attempts by the reactionary right to use a Christian nationalist debate bro’s death to facilitate the political repression of and violence against the Left.
Labour ghoul James Frith, an “avid music listener”, tells the select committee Bob Vylan made jews feel unsafe at Glastonbury (because of their anti-military chant), that he would be discarding their Humble as the Sun album he bought, and asked what due diligence the BBC gave to anarcho-punk bands 🤡
September 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Labour ghoul James Frith, an “avid music listener”, tells the select committee Bob Vylan made jews feel unsafe at Glastonbury (because of their anti-military chant), that he would be discarding their Humble as the Sun album he bought, and asked what due diligence the BBC gave to anarcho-punk bands 🤡
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Every day, somewhere between 10 and 20 times as many Palestinians are slaughtered by Israel.
It's not just that they don't get these messages of grief and condemnation from British politicians.
British politicians continue to arm their murderers.
It's not just that they don't get these messages of grief and condemnation from British politicians.
British politicians continue to arm their murderers.
September 9, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Every day, somewhere between 10 and 20 times as many Palestinians are slaughtered by Israel.
It's not just that they don't get these messages of grief and condemnation from British politicians.
British politicians continue to arm their murderers.
It's not just that they don't get these messages of grief and condemnation from British politicians.
British politicians continue to arm their murderers.