ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel's show off the air. This is the last thing he said.

Are you ready to fight fascism? It's here.

Insane

Always remember Umberto Eco's 8th characteristic of Fascism:

It's why Joe Biden was both "a sleepy old man" and "head of a crime family"

They don't just do it because it's rhetorically convenient. They do it because holding two contradictory ideas in their head makes it difficult for their followers to form a coherent worldview, and makes them more reliant on what the leaders say to make "sense" of the world.

Bob Vylan Dropped from Radar Festival After Pressure from Lawyers for Israel — Why Every Music Fan and Artist Needs To Pay Attention

Bob Vylan have been removed from Radar Festival. The festival themselves have alluded that it wasn’t their decision, and the UK Lawyers for Israel have publicly spoken about their part in the decision. And honestly? We should all be fucking horrified.

This is how fascism has always worked. Artists are bullied, blacklisted, and erased in desperate attempts to rewrite public memory and keep us complicit in atrocity. It’s happening right now. And if we don’t fight back, we’re fucked.

Unsurprisingly, UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) pressured the Academy Music Group, owners of the O2 Victoria Warehouse in Manchester, to cancel Bob Vylan’s performance. They wrote to the venue, warning that Bob Vylan’s appearance might carry legal risks and citing the possibility that the artist would repeat chants they allege to be antisemitic. They listed potential legal breaches if Bob Vylan were allowed to play.

Apolitical bands and music industry folk may see this as a problem that doesn’t concern them — but simply put, a group of lawyers acting on behalf of a foreign government should not be deciding who gets to hold a microphone in the UK. It’s not up to lawyers to decide what shows can go ahead. That choice belongs to promoters, to venues, and to the people in the room. It’s up to us whether we choose to support artists or not — but this? This is nothing short of the tactics used by fascists.

You might disagree with what Bob Vylan said. That’s not the point. This opens the gateway for any promoter — small or big — to face threatening legal pressure when putting on an artist that challenges a government-endorsed framing of events. And that affects all of us.

If we allow this, where does it end?

Our music venues are dying as it is. Promoters are struggling. Artists are losing the spaces where they learn their craft, where they find their audience, where they build community. Radar Festival is a small, independent festival run by a handful of people. They don’t have the manpower or the resources to take on these kinds of legal threats — especially when the language used is so dense, so intimidating, that the average person would feel terrified of standing their ground.

Music is the cultural backbone of the UK. And in every era of speech oppression, music has stood as an outlier — a place where dissent survives.

This is not cancel culture. This is the systematic, orchestrated silencing of pro-Palestinian voices — and it is decimating our music scene as collateral damage. Don’t let them.

These are not isolated incidents. This is a systematic silencing of pro-Palestinian voices under the guise of defending Jewish safety – but make no mistake, this is not about protecting Jewish people. It’s about protecting the Israeli state from criticism. They tried to do the same to Kneecap, only Glastonbury has the means to fight for itself.

Allowing external bodies like UKLFI to dictate who can and cannot perform in our venues is far more damaging to Jewish people than chants against a military body responsible for the murder of 300,000+ Palestinians. This isn’t about Jewish safety. It’s about shutting people up. About rewriting the reality of the Israeli government and its ongoing atrocities.

The British government will do nothing about this attack on free speech and our cultural spaces. UKLFI will continue to roam unchecked, dismantling our scene from the inside while preaching the language of safety. It will not make Jewish people safer. And it will fail at changing the truth.

If jobsworths could get their fucking hands off our music scene, that would be brilliant. And to every so-called "apolitical" gig-goer: you don’t get to enjoy the fruits of a hard-fought, diverse, politically radical live music scene while staying silent when the people who built it are being erased. Now is the time to turn your backwards cap around and get fucking angry.

If a promoter decides to pull an artist? It can be morally stinky, but that’s a promoter’s decision. When an external body of lawyers, openly working to protect the interests of the Israeli state, decides what music can and cannot be played? That should horrify every single one of us.

Get angry. Don’t shut up. Be a jobsworth for this scene. Because if we don’t protect it, they will dismantle it, one show at a time.

Music is our stomping ground. Fight for it.

"Wealth isn't "stuff", its the social relationship of command."

Oh fuck thats an amazing point.

hilarious that the headline isn't "israel breaks terms" but at this point what else do you expect

Here's a list of violations [of the ceasefire] by the Zionists

Hamas' supposed violation of the ceasefire was due to technical issues that were resolved. They have otherwise honoured the ceasefire deal.

Hamas has every right to protest.

from shon faye, author of the transgender issue

Almost 200 killed and over 700 injured today after Israel’s attacks in Lebanon. Nearly 400 air strikes in only a few hours with more expected to come.

It has risen to almost 300 killed now, 60 of which are women and children

Over 350 killed, over 1,200 injured and Israel is continuing to plan in the next phases of “targeting Hezbollah”

500 killed, 1,700 injured. Women and children account for close to 1/5 of those killed

Israel is a vile, sadistic, cruel, immeasurably pathetic country that will go down in history as one of the most despotic regimes of all time. An entire nation of settlers and colonizers so drunk on their own ethnonationalist wet dreams they can’t see how utterly fucked they are. Not even with their billions of dollars of military gear and the unyielding patronage of the greatest empire on Earth have they been able to crush the Palestinian people. Palestine will be free again in our lifetimes and Israel will only be remembered as the insane orgy of cruelty it has always been. Deal with it Zionists.

Images from the craters left behind after the Mawasi camp massacre:

Again, these bombs were supplied by the Biden-Harris admin.

But they're working 'tirelessly' for a ceasefire, right?

Areas bombed in Gaza by the Israeli occupation government

Oct 2023

Jan 2024

July 2024

There is no safe zone in Gaza

Israel’s military dropped 75,000 tonnes of explosives by April 2024. Since the invasion of Rafah in May, Palestinians have said the bombings have gotten considerably worse, most recently the strike against Al Tabin school where over 100 were killed during morning prayers

it’s so funny to me when terfs and other transphobes talk about “biological pronouns”

you realise there is nothing about a vulva that means you have to call someone who has one “she”, right? and nothing about a penis that means you have to call someone who has one “he”? like that is literally a socially constructed idea based on the perceived gender of a person with a certain set of genitals.

you cannot be actually critical of gender if you are not critical of the ideas about it that society has created, you fucking clowns 💀

Honestly. If pronouns were biological then why are they different in every single language?

^^^^^^^

My second language is German, where “she” and “they” are literally the same word.

And I swear there are languages where there is literally no gendered pronouns at all.

Just shows how UK and US centric TERFs are that they say this shit 💀

iirc there’s an african language that has no gendered pronouns, which is why people who speak it as a first language will sometimes use gendered pronouns interchangeably when speaking english bc to them they all mean the same thing. i think there’s a scandinavian language that does this too.

i had to pull this out of the tags bc this is so interesting! this makes me wonder how a language not having gendered pronouns affects the way gender is seen sociologically.

This is a manipulative abuse tactic called Leveling. In which the abusive individual equates their behavior to that of their victim.

A common form of Leveling is claiming that calling out abuse is the same or as bad as being abusive. This is exactly what Musk is doing here by equating the calling out of bigotry with bigotry.

Edit: This isn't Musk's doing, though it is similar to things he said in the past. Still an example of Leveling tho.

also at the end when they ask you "any questions?" and you can't think of anything: ask about parking. even if you don't have a car.

I have an interview today in a couple hours, how did the algorithm know I needed this

Btw when they ask if you have questions some actual good options are stuff like “what’s a typical day like in this role” or “is this job open because someone is leaving or is this a new position”

I cannot believe there's absolutely no way to watch free shows and movies anymore, there are too many paid streaming platforms and pirating websites have viruses and ads preventing you from watching it uninterrupted((.)) id rather follow the rules and purchase media moving forward because it is too inconvenient. Seriously, free and no ads or viruses with 1080p streaming is DEAD.

Exactly! It's freaking annoying when I want to watch movies but I would have to subscribe to like 24 different services . Just to watch the shows that I like.

Same with Anime, it's too difficult to find decent streaming platforms nowadays. It's like having to Wave goodbye to an era where you can find shows on yt (.) to enjoy.

Anime used to be all over the place, subscription services are kind of a pain to get (.) just to watch shows.

Manga as well, they've all been thrown into the fire (.) to be paywalled.

Manga as well, they’ve

all been thrown into the fire

(.) to be paywalled.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Norman Gary Finkelstein, for those asking.

Sometimes the media says “there are no words” to describe or justify horrific attacks on hospitals. Other times, the media has countless words to describe and justify horrific attacks on hospitals.