Dylan Kerrigan
@rumagin.bsky.social
Anthropologist, Caribbeanist, Sociologist. Peacebuilding
www.dylankerrigan.com
(every so often i delete all my replies)
www.dylankerrigan.com
(every so often i delete all my replies)
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I like (hate) that she can't bring herself to call malnourished Palestinians "emaciated" like she did with the Jews and just says "skinny"
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 AM
I like (hate) that she can't bring herself to call malnourished Palestinians "emaciated" like she did with the Jews and just says "skinny"
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"Emaciated Jews" compared to "Skinny Palestinians" is such a tell that she doesn't regard the victims of Israels Genocide as worthy of compassion.
Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
November 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
"Emaciated Jews" compared to "Skinny Palestinians" is such a tell that she doesn't regard the victims of Israels Genocide as worthy of compassion.
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How on earth is the lesson of the holocaust anything But "powerful fascist nation systematically murdering innocents". The Holocaust is a genocide. Almost every genocide follows the same pattern of dehumanization. She's so far down the dehumanization of Palestinians train she cant hear herself.
Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
November 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
How on earth is the lesson of the holocaust anything But "powerful fascist nation systematically murdering innocents". The Holocaust is a genocide. Almost every genocide follows the same pattern of dehumanization. She's so far down the dehumanization of Palestinians train she cant hear herself.
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One of the many administration nutshells.
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 PM
One of the many administration nutshells.
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Behr et al didn't just support Starmer because he wasn't Corbyn, but because he appeared to match their ideal politician: a business-like administrator who mouthed conventional platitudes and had no interest in challenging the neoliberal orthodoxy. It is that worldview that has failed, not one man.
November 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Behr et al didn't just support Starmer because he wasn't Corbyn, but because he appeared to match their ideal politician: a business-like administrator who mouthed conventional platitudes and had no interest in challenging the neoliberal orthodoxy. It is that worldview that has failed, not one man.
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These are the fruitcakes who make up Starmer's inner circle. Meanwhile, in the West Bank, Glasman's favourite people, the settlers, continue their campaigns of terror against Palestinian civilians.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘They have total impunity’: West Bank settler violence surges after Gaza ceasefire
UN logs 260 attacks in October alone, its highest monthly tally, as settlers attack farmers and burn olive trees
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
These are the fruitcakes who make up Starmer's inner circle. Meanwhile, in the West Bank, Glasman's favourite people, the settlers, continue their campaigns of terror against Palestinian civilians.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Everything that Rafel Behr complains about - Starmer's lack of principle, his inauthenticity - was known from day one, but he, like the rest of the commentariat, insisted this empty suit was uniquely qualified. They will never admit fault.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer’s squandering of a historic election victory is a tragedy nearing its finale | Rafael Behr
The tactics that gave Labour its huge majority in 2024 were no preparation for government – and the prime minister has proved he has nothing more to offer, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Everything that Rafel Behr complains about - Starmer's lack of principle, his inauthenticity - was known from day one, but he, like the rest of the commentariat, insisted this empty suit was uniquely qualified. They will never admit fault.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A reminder that this is genocide.
“Soldiers testify that they have been told to burn down houses they have stayed in by pouring oil on curtains, books and mattresses.”
Read @aloner.bsky.social’s report on the destruction of Gaza’s cities.
Read @aloner.bsky.social’s report on the destruction of Gaza’s cities.
‘The directive was nothing left’: How Gaza’s cities were destroyed
Israel has razed large parts of the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023. The evidence points to systemic destruction
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
A reminder that this is genocide.
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My longread from the latest edition of our mag about the razing of Gaza in this war. One man who grew up in Rafah, the city in southern Gaza that has been largely destroyed, told me this: “you can say you miss your city if it still exists. It’s gone, you know”
“Soldiers testify that they have been told to burn down houses they have stayed in by pouring oil on curtains, books and mattresses.”
Read @aloner.bsky.social’s report on the destruction of Gaza’s cities.
Read @aloner.bsky.social’s report on the destruction of Gaza’s cities.
‘The directive was nothing left’: How Gaza’s cities were destroyed
Israel has razed large parts of the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023. The evidence points to systemic destruction
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
My longread from the latest edition of our mag about the razing of Gaza in this war. One man who grew up in Rafah, the city in southern Gaza that has been largely destroyed, told me this: “you can say you miss your city if it still exists. It’s gone, you know”
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Peter Thiel sold his Nvidia holdings. Now Nvidia and Microsoft rush in to prop up Anthropic, which has to pay out massive compensation to authors whose work it stole. The techbros are coming together to protect their investment - their future, not yours.
www.axios.com/2025/11/18/a...
www.axios.com/2025/11/18/a...
Anthropic lands $15 billion investment from Microsoft, Nvidia
The move is the latest in a series of deals that have all the big players partnering with one another.
www.axios.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Peter Thiel sold his Nvidia holdings. Now Nvidia and Microsoft rush in to prop up Anthropic, which has to pay out massive compensation to authors whose work it stole. The techbros are coming together to protect their investment - their future, not yours.
www.axios.com/2025/11/18/a...
www.axios.com/2025/11/18/a...
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*sad trombone noise*
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
*sad trombone noise*
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If you have to admit that Farage is a racist then you have to admit that a bunch of other people who shove his opinions onto the front pages every day are racist. And then you have to ask: "why did we let these people screech about the Hitlerian menace of the anti-racist left for 5 years?"
On Nigel Farage's racism, of course it is possible that someone can believe one thing when they're a teenager and something completely different when they're an adult.
But where is the evidence that has happened in this case?
Instead all of the evidence points in the complete opposite direction
But where is the evidence that has happened in this case?
Instead all of the evidence points in the complete opposite direction
Nigel Farage Is a Racist
The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
If you have to admit that Farage is a racist then you have to admit that a bunch of other people who shove his opinions onto the front pages every day are racist. And then you have to ask: "why did we let these people screech about the Hitlerian menace of the anti-racist left for 5 years?"
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An Israeli airstrike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed 13 people and wounded several others, state media and government officials said. n.pr/4r39Phv
Israeli airstrike on a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon kills 13 people
An Israeli airstrike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed 13 people and wounded several others, state media and government officials said.
n.pr
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
An Israeli airstrike on a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed 13 people and wounded several others, state media and government officials said. n.pr/4r39Phv
A academic claiming he knows exactly why every one of 257,000 people left the UK. I know many who have left and none are for the racist reasons he has lost his mind and academic career pursuing
November 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
A academic claiming he knows exactly why every one of 257,000 people left the UK. I know many who have left and none are for the racist reasons he has lost his mind and academic career pursuing
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There are people there I've had a lot of time for in the past, like Nadia Whittome & Clive Lewis, but all they're doing is helping prop up a very right-wing government.
If they're going to sit in that racist, transphobic, ableist, pro-genocide, anti-poor gang, nothing they say needs to be heard.
If they're going to sit in that racist, transphobic, ableist, pro-genocide, anti-poor gang, nothing they say needs to be heard.
November 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
There are people there I've had a lot of time for in the past, like Nadia Whittome & Clive Lewis, but all they're doing is helping prop up a very right-wing government.
If they're going to sit in that racist, transphobic, ableist, pro-genocide, anti-poor gang, nothing they say needs to be heard.
If they're going to sit in that racist, transphobic, ableist, pro-genocide, anti-poor gang, nothing they say needs to be heard.
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I'm sorry, but we're well past the point now where an MP gets to remain in the Labour Party and claim they're one of the good ones trying to turn the tide.
It's not possible. They know it's not possible. We know it's not possible. It's pathetic.
It's not possible. They know it's not possible. We know it's not possible. It's pathetic.
November 19, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I'm sorry, but we're well past the point now where an MP gets to remain in the Labour Party and claim they're one of the good ones trying to turn the tide.
It's not possible. They know it's not possible. We know it's not possible. It's pathetic.
It's not possible. They know it's not possible. We know it's not possible. It's pathetic.
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This is what happens when the Centre Left follow far right policies on immigration. Is Labour watching? Those Danish immigration policies still looking attractive?
Danish Social democrats suffered a massive defeat in Copenhagen last night. They incurred similar defeats across the country and there will be a general election in the next year. In Copenhagen the far-left Enhedslisten (the unity list) won the most mandates followed by the socialist people's party.
November 19, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This is what happens when the Centre Left follow far right policies on immigration. Is Labour watching? Those Danish immigration policies still looking attractive?
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Email just went out on my campus that the Immigration Goons ("federal immigration agents") will be in town (Raleigh).
Inter alia, it says,"International students, faculty and staff should carry evidence of their immigration status with them at all times."
The fuck kind of country are we living in?
Inter alia, it says,"International students, faculty and staff should carry evidence of their immigration status with them at all times."
The fuck kind of country are we living in?
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Email just went out on my campus that the Immigration Goons ("federal immigration agents") will be in town (Raleigh).
Inter alia, it says,"International students, faculty and staff should carry evidence of their immigration status with them at all times."
The fuck kind of country are we living in?
Inter alia, it says,"International students, faculty and staff should carry evidence of their immigration status with them at all times."
The fuck kind of country are we living in?
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Sometimes, a front page can sum up quite a lot that’s wrong with the world. Including the paper itself which has been so complicit in getting us to a place where children born to refugees could be deported, Trump celebrates despotic wealth and Boris Johnson’s sister moans about not being rich. Ugh.
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Sometimes, a front page can sum up quite a lot that’s wrong with the world. Including the paper itself which has been so complicit in getting us to a place where children born to refugees could be deported, Trump celebrates despotic wealth and Boris Johnson’s sister moans about not being rich. Ugh.
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Julia Hartley-Brewer: Why is colonialism bad?
Me: “When Britain arrived in 1700s, India had 27% of global GDP. After 200 years of theft and millions starved to death, by 1947 India had 3% of global GDP, 90% living below the poverty line, a literacy rate of 17% and life expectancy of 27”
Me: “When Britain arrived in 1700s, India had 27% of global GDP. After 200 years of theft and millions starved to death, by 1947 India had 3% of global GDP, 90% living below the poverty line, a literacy rate of 17% and life expectancy of 27”
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Julia Hartley-Brewer: Why is colonialism bad?
Me: “When Britain arrived in 1700s, India had 27% of global GDP. After 200 years of theft and millions starved to death, by 1947 India had 3% of global GDP, 90% living below the poverty line, a literacy rate of 17% and life expectancy of 27”
Me: “When Britain arrived in 1700s, India had 27% of global GDP. After 200 years of theft and millions starved to death, by 1947 India had 3% of global GDP, 90% living below the poverty line, a literacy rate of 17% and life expectancy of 27”
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"Only insane people would seek out the counsel of a man who relies on Jeffrey Epstein for dating advice and Milton Friedman for economic inspiration.”
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
Epstein Confidant Larry Summers Guiding CAP’s ‘Project 2029’ - The American Prospect
Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show him in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein.
prospect.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM
"Only insane people would seek out the counsel of a man who relies on Jeffrey Epstein for dating advice and Milton Friedman for economic inspiration.”
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
prospect.org/2025/11/14/e...
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To put it into perspective, Priti Patel wanted her 10 year rules to only apply to new arrivals as she thought it was unfair on people already here. Labour are also going further by not exempting people who claim asylum while here on a visa.
November 19, 2025 at 8:14 AM
To put it into perspective, Priti Patel wanted her 10 year rules to only apply to new arrivals as she thought it was unfair on people already here. Labour are also going further by not exempting people who claim asylum while here on a visa.
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'Many of the campaigners and organisers giving speeches at the march said they felt the recent rise of the far right had led to people feeling “more confident” in racially abusing women – and men – on the streets.'
West Midlands attacks have left Sikh women fearing for their safety | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
'Many of the campaigners and organisers giving speeches at the march said they felt the recent rise of the far right had led to people feeling “more confident” in racially abusing women – and men – on the streets.'
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People have spent so long reciting the mantra ‘we’re not racist, these are legitimate concerns’ that they’ve forgotten that they are, in fact, quite racist. They know it’s unacceptable, even to themselves, so it’s layer upon layer of fake justification, which fully preoccupies politics.
November 19, 2025 at 9:27 AM
People have spent so long reciting the mantra ‘we’re not racist, these are legitimate concerns’ that they’ve forgotten that they are, in fact, quite racist. They know it’s unacceptable, even to themselves, so it’s layer upon layer of fake justification, which fully preoccupies politics.