John Merfold

#France — A photo from the high school students’ protest in Grenoble.

Post something random or you'll have an AWFUL November!

🇫🇷 👮‍♀️ FLASH | Paris : un policier « EN FEU » après un jet de COCKTAIL MOLOTOV. Un MANIFESTANT vient l'aider à ÉTEINDRE les flammes… et se fait aussitôt MALMENER! (@tvyefr)

Uk "violent" porn ban is literally just gonna be one of those things where if the government hates you and takes your devices they will assign anything they can manage into a banned category to get you in more shit. Protesting is almost always a crime now btw.

Soy comunista y no creo en la posibilidad la emancipación humana ni siquiera en una revolución socialista en el futuro. Creo qe la clase obrera ha sido irremediablemente absorbida por el capitalismo y solo le queda vivir una muerte lenta y violenta. Eso no me hace menos comunista

🚨 NEW: The age-check methods for Brits to access social media from March have been announced 1. Photo ID matching (passport against a live photo) 2. Banking checks 3. Digital ID services 4. Facial age estimation (additional check if needed)

I’ve asked this before but is there any historical event that is like the Opposite of 9/11. Like something so good that happened that it changed the world forever

Let me make it harder for you, the exact words he used were "Only the communists could deliver such terror that my anger would relish"

BRITAIN ON THE BRINK: If you could go back in time and change British history, would you? When Jack Campbell's mysteriously transported back to precious England as she once was, he's soon meeting with historical figures like Enoch Powell & playing games w the space-time continuum

Now the real poll: Who would bring back to today's world?

🇫🇷 Administração Macron afirma que a esquerda radical está planejando uma insurreição total para derrubar o governo francês com gigantescos protestos marcados para o dia 24 de outubro de 2026, o que se configuraria como uma revolução popular, caso se concretize.

🚨 NEW: The Government has accepted all 27 recommendations from the report to end antisemitism in schools and colleges 1. Recognise antisemitism as a distinct form of hatred, not just general racism 2. Strengthen political impartiality guidance, including limits on teachers wearing pro-Palestine badges 3. Establish a national hotline for school leaders dealing with antisemitism 4. Improve teaching about contemporary antisemitism and modern Jewish life 5. Teach pupils to recognise and challenge antisemitic conspiracy theories 6. Include antisemitism explicitly in school safeguarding policies 7. Train teachers to recognise and tackle antisemitism 8. Work with the Home Office and the Prevent programme to help schools identify when antisemitism may be linked to radicalisation 9. Encourage schools to adopt the IHRA working definition of antisemitism 10. Improve procedures for reporting antisemitic incidents, including signposting 11. Ensure antisemitic bullying and complaints are investigated and acted on consistently 12. Make clear in staff conduct policies that antisemitism is unacceptable 13. Strengthen Holocaust education, including antisemitism's role in the Holocaust, and encourage schools to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 14. Create more opportunities for pupils to engage with Jewish communities, including visits to synagogues 15. Make sure Judaism and modern Jewish life are properly represented in religious education 16. Improve media literacy so pupils can also identify online antisemitism 17. Provide better resources for teaching the Israel-Palestine conflict fairly and sensitively 18. Ensure schools have clear policies for dealing with antisemitism involving external speakers 19. Ensure education unions have clear antisemitism policies 20. Establish a dedicated support service to help schools, colleges and councils deal with antisemitism 21. Use some of the Government's security funding to help Jewish schools and colleges undertake educational visits safely 22. Run a campaign to tackle antisemitic behaviour at transport hubs near Jewish schools and colleges 23. Provide Jewish school and college leaders with mentoring and more security advice 24. Strengthen accountability for schools that fail to deal properly with antisemitism 25. Enable Ofsted and the Independent Schools Inspectorate to assess how schools tackle antisemitism 26. Make local councils identify local patterns of antisemitism and help schools respond 27. Share effective practice and guidance between schools and colleges

If it keeps going at this rate, we might, for (I think) the first time in history, be about to witness the first continent-wide youth revolt in Europe - a "European spring" of sorts. The sheer number of countries where it's **already** happening is pretty overwhelming. I count 8, including 4 with violent clashes: - France, famously - Albania (see below) with daily clashes in Tirana and a government building set alight - Belgium: the French movement spilled over, including riots in Liège - Italy: "No Meloni Day" student protests since 16 October, turning into riots in Milan, Turin and Bologna - Greece: students camping in Athens' Syntagma Square over housing and education costs, explicitly inspired by France - Germany: pupils blockading schools in Berlin and Hamburg in solidarity with France - Spain: an indefinite education strike in Madrid, with students marching alongside teachers and families - Serbia: the student movement born from the 2024 Novi Sad station collapse is now running its own list in the 25 October election And, by the way, the fact it's also happening in countries with close to no immigration - like Albania - goes to show how reductive it is to label these movements, like JD Vance and Trump did with France, as the fruit of "the migrants hav[ing] taken over." As is often the case, it's much more a story of "it's the economy, stupid." As such, Trump with his war on Iran, has ironically done much more to fuel this (pun intended) than any migrant.

🔴BORDEAUX | Historique ! Plus de 1 000 étudiant·es réuni·es en AG ont voté le blocage de la fac Montesquieu (droit et économie). La répression féroce de l’État n'intimide pas la jeunesse qui refuse de se taire et de reprendre les cours comme si de rien n’était.

🔴 BORDEAUX | À la fac de sciences, plus de 800 étudiants votent le blocage de l’université pour empêcher les examens. Ils emboîtent le pas au campus droit et économie, dans une journée inédite dans les facultés bordelaises.