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So our First Minister ripped up the power sharing agreement he had with the greens, aka the thing actually propping up his government, in order to backtrack on the net zero targets his party had agreed to. Pissing off the one group of people who are propping up your party in a parliament that's otherwise entirely hostile to your leadership turns out to be, in a surprise to nobody, political suicide. I've never seen a politician self-sabotage so spectacularly fast. What a fucking idiot

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While police around the country are raiding campuses and brutalizing student protesters, the authorities are once again trotting out narratives about "outside agitators."

They do this whenever a movement gets out of their control. It is one of the most basic tactics in their playbook, and they employ it indiscriminately.

As we wrote in 2014, during the demonstrations in Ferguson in response to the murder of Michael Brown,

"Rhetoric about 'outside agitators' is a military operation intended to isolate and target an enemy: divide and conquer. The enemy that the authorities are aiming at is predominantly black and brown, but it is not just a specific social body; it is also an aspect of our humanity, a part of all of us. The ultimate goal of the police is not so much to brutalize and pacify specific individuals as it is to extract rebelliousness itself from the social fabric. They seek to externalize agitation, so anyone who stands up for herself will be seen as an outsider."

http://crimethinc.com/texts/agitators

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The moment jesus was caught by Roman guards and taken to the cross

His crime? Descaling his kettle

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Sticker spotted in West Norwood, Lambeth, London

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On April 12, 1918, the newly-formed Cheka raided 26 anarchist centers in Moscow, murdering dozens and arresting hundreds. The Bolsheviks aimed to consolidate power over the revolution, and the anarchists represented the most radical force within it.

The Bolshevik authorities used reactionary rhetoric to justify this attack, accusing the anarchists of being “bandits” and “criminals” for taking over property belonging to the ruling class and turning it into social centers and collective housing. The Bolsheviks were seeking alliances with the privileged classes: on the day of the raids, wealthy homeowners came along with the Cheka to recover their properties and abuse the arrested revolutionaries.

The Cheka began to execute arrestees without trials; they organized the Gulag system that devoured millions, the vast majority of them peasants and workers.

When the Bolsheviks usurped the Russian Revolution, it was a disaster for anti-capitalist movements everywhere.

https://crimethinc.com/Counterrevolution

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having sex with your friends is so very normal please stop poisoning the youths minds with shame surrounding hooking up with your friends. especially if you’re gay

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Rabbis from the US and Israel marched towards the Erez crossing carrying symbolic aid for Gaza and calling to end the war. The police blocked them a few hundred meters from the border, and arrested 7 protesters. source

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Acab frog spotted in Exeter, UK

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Mario Savio giving a speech at Berkeley in 1964 during an occupation of the university against the Vietnam war.

There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!

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April 26, 2024 - Protesters in Sana'a, Yemen, show their solidarity with US pro-Palestine student occupations during another enormous protest in solidarity with Palestine. [link]

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In 2015, Nicol killed himself in prison. He was 37. It was only then that Mooney discovered he had been right all along. Nicol had a four-year tariff (the minimum amount of time he could serve in jail) and an indeterminate sentence, known as imprisonment for public protection. IPP is also called a 99-year sentence because people serving one can, technically, be jailed for 99 years. When they are released, it is on a 99-year licence, which means they can be recalled to prison at any time in their life for even minor breaches, such as being late for a probation appointment (although the Parole Board will consider whether to terminate the licence 10 years after first release)...

#UK pol #prison abolition #fire to the prisons

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