Musa Okwonga

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Author and co-host of the Stadio football podcast.

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One of the more baffling aspects of centrist UK political discourse is the number of commentators and analysts who still struggle to get their heads around the possibility that racist worldviews may still shape voting behaviour among a swathe of voters on the Right.

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Maybe I just have an overly sensitive ear on this stuff, but feels to me that UK political commentatory is lousy with euphemisms about Sunak’s shortcomings as a “message-carrier” (not wrongly).

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I remember flying to Beirut last Sept thinking that the days of Lebanon being an international story might be over. I was looking forward to dive into local human rights-based issues & struggles. I guess I was very wrong

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For some reason Kardashev never envisioned a civilization that could harness all of the sunlight that falls on their planet but uses most of it to create pictures of extremely busty ladies with three knees and fourteen fingers.

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Reminded this morning of Nate Silver's line about "They’re trying to cover [politics] like sports, but not in an intelligent way" in a lot of the "we need to trade Biden for Governor Guaranteed Winner (D-Somewhere?)" takes, including, it must be said, from Nate Silver.

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In a week’s time 14 yrs of Tory rule may have ended. There’s a view that Sunak could have done nothing to stop it, post Johnson/Truss. Wrong. Sunak is as responsible as they are. From No11 on, his strategic incompetence damned his party. Me for the i. inews.co.uk/opinion/rish...

Rishi Sunak is as much to blame for Tory debacle as Boris Johnson and Liz Trussinews.co.uk His inheritance was dire, but he was key in creating that inheritance

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This is my reading as well. This escalation is happening in parallel with negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza & along Lebanon's border. If those issues are not settled, we may see a devastating war for Lebanon & more damage than Israel is used to.

"A large-scale confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah is likely to break out in the next several weeks. The U.S. offers a slightly more conservative assessment than those coming from parts of Europe. Some European countries calculate that a war between Israel and Hezbollah could happen in days."

US intel indicates war between Israel and Hezbollah inching closerwww.politico.com The State Department urged U.S. citizens Thursday to “strongly reconsider” travel to Lebanon.

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Rereading Vonnegut and damn he’s good. Random sentence: “His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on the subject of human liberty.”

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"You cannot bring people back from the dead and believe that they would stand for that,” Sheryl Crow protests. “I’m sure Drake thought, ‘Yeah, I shouldn't do it, but I'll say sorry later’. But it’s already done...and “It's hateful. It is antithetical to the life force that exists in all of us.”

Sheryl Crow: 'Resurrecting Tupac with AI is hateful'www.bbc.com The singer on the threat of AI-generated music, and why she missed her chance to join Fleetwood Mac.

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Sunak’s most significant political legacy is that he has brought a form of climate denial politics firmly into the mainstream of British politics, to the point that “a bland statement about a ‘cost’ both parties are committed to” is being written up like this in the Times.

Sometimes does my head in that political ‘debate’ in UK is so brainless Net Zero cost hundreds of billions. But COMPARED TO WHAT???? New fired power stations are currently subsidised, for example, and gas price crisis has cost UK hundreds of billions www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Labour say net zero by 2050 will cost ‘hundreds of billions’www.thetimes.com Darren Jones, shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, described the original £28 billion pledge as a ‘tiny amount’

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If Israel decides to widen the war on Hezbollah in Lebanon, more actors in the so-called Axis of Resistance will escalate their attacks on Israeli & American interests. My latest for Al Jazeera English www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/...

Hezbollah’s ‘axis of resistance’ allies waiting in reserve to fight Israelwww.aljazeera.com Analysts believe that an expanded conflict could encourage foreign fighters to support Hezbollah and fight Israel.

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What records they will have will have been pirated by people who wanted to have copies of their own and couldn't get them any other way. But even those will have storage issues. Not just long term storage issues. There are formats from a decade ago that are hard to access now.

One of the interesting things about the Internet is that we’re actually living through a dark age. Future historians are unlikely to have records of this period. Paper and ink last. Digital storage, less so. variety.com/2024/tv/news...

Comedy Central’s Website Purges 25 Years of Video Clips and Other Contentvariety.com The vast repository of content on Comedy Central's website has been removed by Paramount Global, in a move to push fans to Paramount+.

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Thoroughly, thoroughly depressing and frightening on.ft.com/45HfWO4

Swastikas and jackboots: an emboldened far right visits Buchenwaldon.ft.com [FREE TO READ] Holocaust deniers and conspiracy theorists are stepping up attacks on a potent symbol of remembrance

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These people have an impoverished idea of what dignity means. For a start, if you’re incapable of work because of disability, are you leading an undignified life? We all rely on other human beings. We’re a social species. It’s just the bonds of reliance look different at different times of life.

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22 backers until we hit 900 on our beautiful art book! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kat...

The Wicked + The Divine: THE COVERS VERSIONwww.kickstarter.com A hardcover art book collecting every cover ever made for the comic book The Wicked + The Divine.

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Social media in a nutshell..

Germany really catches you off guard because it can go from idyllic to terrifying in the space of an afternoon. There aren’t many other places like that.

On a train through the beautiful German countryside, having a great time with passengers who were strangers till ten minutes ago, and thinking: this is the best company you could want, and how weird it is that this country also poses so much danger. This is a nation of such extremes, it’s wild.

What a legacy for the Tories if the Conservatives collapse and give way to an even more vicious alternative, which Reform absolutely will be. An AfD in English form.

Tories taking a huge hit from the cumulative scandals, particularly the betting thing I think. Labour levelling off as a result, Farage absolutely cleaning up. If the Sunak campaign isn’t careful this could really tip reform over the tipping point to getting a significant result.

This. And because many of us now have most of our interactions online, it means we are often - mostly? - dealing with each other at our worst. I constantly wonder and worry about the cumulative effect of all that scorn and hate on society.

It's interesting how people think they can just get online and become the worst version of themselves. This dickhead would never come up to me in a pub and say that, but he will come to my work and do it because it's online.

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As strange as this may seem, this now creates the only meaningful chance to stop the war.

Breaking News: Israel’s Supreme Court ruled the military must draft ultra-Orthodox Jews, a decision that could split Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government.

Middle East Crisis: Israel’s Supreme Court Says Ultra-Orthodox Jews Must Be Drafted Into Militarywww.nytimes.com The justices said there was no legal basis for the longstanding exemption from military service. The decision threatens to shake Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government.

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this also hits deeper as I read Ashis Nandy. I've heard many in Lebanon and the wider region say we need dictators to come in and sort us out. We've been conditioned to think Dubai and KSA are the future, that MBZ & MBS are what is needed and not a plague on our democratic development

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Found this sick burn on Mastodon:

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Here's a list of abortion funds that can use and always need funds: abortionfunds.org/find-a-fund/

Find an Abortion Fund - National Network of Abortion Fundsabortionfunds.org Abortion funds provide various kinds of support. Use our search feature. Find an abortion fund that can help you or the folks in your community.

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I helped raise tens of thousands of dollars to help Partners in Abortion Care open their clinic and they need ongoing and more funding: partnersclinic.com

Partners in Abortion Care is the only women-owned and operated abortion clinic providing abortions in all trimesters and co-founded by a certified nurse midwife and physician partnership.partnersclinic.com Partners in Abortion Care is the only women-owned and operated abortion clinic providing abortions in all trimesters and co-founded by a certified nurse midwife and physician partnership.

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Live in TWO HOURS on Backerkit. The very first Iron Circus games. EVER. www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Get Ready for Iron Circus x INDIEPOCALYPSE : Say Hello to Iron Circus Games!www.backerkit.com From Iron Circus Comics - Get Ready for Iron Circus x INDIEPOCALYPSE : Say Hello to Iron Circus Games!

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Always happy to make this offer: if you are or you know someone who’d like to work in journalism and comes from a background underrepresented in the media, feel free to email me for a coffee at FT HQ/online chat: [email protected]. Please reskeet (or whatever it is we do here)

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UK ‘tried to suppress criticism’ of alleged UAE role in arming Sudan’s RSF militia www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

UK ‘tried to suppress criticism’ of alleged UAE role in arming Sudan’s RSF militiawww.theguardian.com Exclusive UK accused of trying to head off condemnation of Gulf ally over alleged aid to forces accused of genocide in Darfur

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Amid ongoing civil war Sudan is facing the largest famine the world has seen for at least forty years / searing by Joshua Kraze, Kholood Khair and Raga Makawi www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

Sudan Starves | Joshua Craze, Kholood Khair, Raga Makawiwww.nybooks.com Ninety-five percent of Sudan’s total grain production occurs in November and December. It should be a time of plenty. In the southeastern state of Blue

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People I see posting about the famine and atrocities in Sudan: people who also post about Palestine People I see posting "why do you talk about Palestine and not about Sudan": people who never post about Sudan