Notices by Police State UK (policestateuk@mastodon.me.uk), page 3

"What we got was the propaganda equivalent of an air ball, as the two men’s combined presence somehow managed to be even less than the sum of its parts..."

#USpol #Trump #MAGA #ElonMusk

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-elon-musk-rally-weird-butler-republicans-assassination-tim-walz-b2624632.html

@johnlogic Isn't the point that the tea in China is valuable though?

"As homes were smashed, trucks swept down roads that had turned into rivers and residents were killed [by #HurricaneHelene], in the placid setting of Southwark crown court two young women from #JustStopOil, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland, were sentenced to two years and 20 months, respectively, for throwing tomato soup at the glass protecting Van Gogh’s Sunflowers."

#UKpolitics #Climate #Protest

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/01/prison-uk-justice-system-fossil-fuel-industry

"We’re seeing in real-time what settler-colonialism is and what it does. In the past, people didn’t witness the process on live-stream, so they had the excuse of ignorance. Today, we have no such excuse."

#Israel #Lebanon #Gaza

https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/today-is-not-a-day-for-satire-its

"A heckler is removed from the #Labour conference hall" - while being quite deliberately throttled, from the look of it. 😮

#UKpolitics

https://news.sky.com/story/hecklers-interrupt-chancellor-rachel-reeves-speech-at-labour-conference-13220723

"The Israeli military has said there is a “high probability” that three hostages found dead in a tunnel at the end of last year were mistakenly killed in a strike by the Israeli military."

#Israel #Palestine

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/15/israeli-military-admits-high-probability-it-mistakenly-killed-hostages

"Some in #Labour make fun of the idea that #Corbyn supporters treat the 2017 general election like a victory when, in fact, it was a loss. But in reality, the Labour leader had defied his detractors who were expecting a repeat of Michael Foot’s 1983 election drubbing and instead watched Corbyn strip Theresa May of her parliamentary majority. Corbyn had won 40% of the national vote, more than the 35% that handed Tony Blair a significant majority in 2005."

#UKpolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/14/corbyn-had-flown-too-close-to-the-sun-how-labour-insiders-battled-the-left-and-plotted-the-partys-path-back-to-power

@pedestrians1st Also https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2024/07/06/starmer-new-cabinet/ 😆

"A teacher who held a placard at a pro-Palestinian protest depicting Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman as coconuts has been found not guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence."

#UKpolitics #Palestine #Protest #Justice

https://news.sky.com/story/teacher-cleared-over-coconut-placard-of-sunak-and-braverman-at-protest-13214107

"Although Musk describes himself as a “free speech absolutist”, a gussied-up term that supposes some deeper philosophical thinking behind his actions, this isn’t ideology, it’s grift."

#FreeSpeech #Censorship #Twitter #X #Xitter #Telegram

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/31/elon-musk-x-brazil-telegram-pavel-durov

“I sent emails. I made phone calls. I met with the representatives, and it felt like nothing was getting through. They didn’t show the humanity needed. They didn’t show the courage to say, ‘Hey, we are not OK with our American taxpayer money going to killing Palestinian children.’

#USpolitics #Israel #Palestine #Gaza

https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/uncommitted-dnc-harris-biden-trump/

"Among Telegram's investors were Russians David Yakobashvili and Roman Abramovich. The former is under Ukrainian sanctions, while Abramovich is on the sanctions lists of the European Union, the United States, Switzerland, Canada, Ukraine and other countries. They are both believed to have close ties to the Kremlin."

#Russia #Ukraine

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles/2023/10/1/7422200/

"If you counted "Did not vote" as a cast ballot, that would have won in 606 out of 650 constituencies."

#UKpolitics #GE2024

https://digg.com/data-viz/link/uk-election-not-voting-parliment

"The Israeli occupation of Palestine has been a breeding ground for technologies like #Drones, #FacialRecognition, and #AI-operated weapons — technologies that are exported and repurposed around the world."

#Israel #Palestine #Surveillance

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/palestine-surviving-migration-artificial-intelligence/

"Hamas’s massacre of about 1,200 people last October was appalling, criminal and unforgivable – and must and will be punished. It does not justify Israel’s disproportionate, illegal and indiscriminately lethal response in Gaza."

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/25/call-to-prosecute-netanyahu-for-war-crimes-exposes-the-wests-moral-doublethink