Socialist. Perhaps there is no better way to understand society than historical materialism. I host 'Beyond the Ballot Box' on @bfmradio. Podcast 👇🏾
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Decades of ethnic cleansing have led to the displacement of millions of Palestinians. Many seek refuge around the world, including Malaysia.
But are we doing enough?
I spoke to Heba Shehab, Palestinian Student in 🇲🇾 & Lubna Ghazali, Asylum Access.
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With their clear majority, @TheDemocrats must clean house. I call on @ZohranKMamdani @DarializaforNY @AOC and all others “progressives” to use all their power and influence to remove genocidal @aipac puppet @RepJeffries and work to elect a speaker who represents the party’s base.
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The problem with the Malaysian political space, as others have pointed out, is that we often falsely associate conservatism with being Muslim, but in reality the vast majority of Malaysians are politically conservative & are against feminism. Hence why we don't really have a left
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Omg. Eman is Abdul's sister.
Both are legends.
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I do not trust @AbdulElSayed, especially after his warm embrace of genocidal Palestinian-exterminators @KamalaHarris and @BarackObama, but his victory is important in one respect: It was a clear defeat for the Zionism-inspired campaign of extreme Islamophobia and anti-Arab racial and ethnic hatred. That this failed is good.
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The World is in Motion (2/4). The defeat of Trump in the US midterm elections dents the ambitions of US imperialism by the lack of unanimity in the institutions of US power, not by any expectation that the Democrats will want to adopt an anti-war position. Although I am looking forward to seeing what the @DemSocialists representatives do in Congress!
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Hasan Piker realized that 235,000 people were watching him live. Everything that the Republican Party and mainstream media hurled at him over the past year and a half did not pay off in the way that THEY expected. Hasan has had an incredible year. He deserves his flowers.
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Congratulations to Abdul El-Sayed on a stunning victory in Michigan.
You stood up against corporate greed, against racism and against genocide.
Your incredible campaign shows that there’s something more powerful than big money, hatred and lies: hope.
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Haha babi geli dowh tgk puak konservatif kat Malaysia menyorak kekalahan parti Republican kat sana seolah2 diorg bukan versi Republican yg sama kat sini.
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Congratulations Abdul El-Sayed. Congratulations to everyone celebrating victories across the United States.
These are victories for communities standing up to billionaires & the media empires they own.
Around the world, we've all got a lot of work to do. Let's go! ✊🏽
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“While history shows that societies can move towards intolerance, it also shows that people can push back and make different choices. The pendulum does not swing by itself. People move it. And perhaps that is where hope lies.” - from an unpublished manuscript of mine.
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An alliance of leftwing European political parties co-founded by former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has lost access to its bank account.
The Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) said on Tuesday that its account was “closed suddenly and without warning” on 8 October, and the group has lost access to tens of thousands of euros.
The organisation has not named the bank, citing legal reasons, but spokesperson Erik Edman said the account was held in Belgium.
“We asked the bank for an explanation and requested an extension,” he told Novara Media. “It declined to explain its decision and refused the extension.”
He said DiEM25 was unable to confirm “whether its decision was politically motivated”.
However, he added, “through conversations with other organisations in Belgium, we have heard accounts suggesting a worrying pattern in which progressive political organisations appear to have been disproportionately affected by debanking.”
The bank account was where DiEM25 supporters had been sending small monthly donations. Edman said it has two staff members and an office in Belgium and is at risk of being unable to pay salaries, social security contributions and rent there.
The group has started an emergency fundraiser to cover its immediate costs and says it is looking for a new bank in Belgium.
“Why did they do it?” Varoufakis, who is also DiEM25’s secretary general, said in a video statement. “You may say [it’s because] we are insufficiently supportive of the oligarchy, of genocide… but of course we couldn’t possibly comment.”
Varoufakis served as an MP for DiEM25’s Greek offshoot, Mera25, between 2019 and 2023. He founded DiEM25 with Croatian philosopher and political activist Srećko Horvat in 2016. The 192,000-member organisation also has parties in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.
In February, Varoufakis was indicted in Greece after saying on a podcast that he had taken ecstasy over 36 years ago in Australia. Mera25 described the prosecution as politically motivated, saying Greece's judiciary was going after “whoever refuses to bend the knee”.
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i wrote about Taika Waititi's delusional and embarrassing Instagram post, and how it reflects a deeper problem about the impacts of social media on the entire artistic ecosystem:
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The Poisons Board has approved Health Minister Dzulkefly Ahmad’s proposal to exempt liquid nicotine from the Poisons List, paving the way to once again legalise nicotine vape via a minister’s order, even as Dr Dzul previously claimed he wanted to ban vape.
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Irish friends...you need to stop debating with hasbara accounts. It was fun for a couple of weeks...but three months later...at this point you're providing a platform for them. Take this advice from the guy who helped Lula win
🚨 ATTENTION! People are mistranslating what I said!
I NEVER said people should block far-right accounts. I said they should IGNORE THEIR POSTS!
Blocking actually works against this strategy because the algorithm will understand that you didn’t see the content simply because you blocked the account.
However, when a post appears in your feed and you ignore it, you don’t read it, don’t like it, don’t comment on it, or engage with it in any way , the algorithm will interpret that content as irrelevant because it was shown to you and you chose not to engage with it!
THERE IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BLOCKING CONTENT AND IGNORING IT!