I do think some people should be pushed out of public life permanently
Andy Burnham Accepter@jorisbinned.bsky.social · 3h agoHello I'm an idiot
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Woke British nause. Anti Fascist, no Nazis.
Andy Burnham Accepter@jorisbinned.bsky.social · 3h ago
Schrodinger’s racists: how the ‘colour blind’ approach to racial differences has failed Britain Why do Reform UK voters feel justified in rejecting accusations of racism? westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/equ...
Schrodinger’s racists: how the ‘colour blind’ approach to racial differences has failed Britain
Why do Reform UK voters feel justified in rejecting accusations of racism?
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I regularly think back to @okwonga.bsky.social's posts which (to paraphrase) highlighted one of Germany's biggest political challenges being an older middle-class which is well off, comfortable as a result, and in turn bored; so they ended up essentially radicalising themselves at dinner parties.
Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 8h agoA writer goes in search of her most vicious online troll and finds a middle-class 74-year-old woman who has made more than 120,000 trolling comments on the Daily Mail alone, but sure, it's teenagers who need their online experiences surveilled and censored. Archive link. archive.ph/pPrha
Always finding creative new ways to be cruel and make people wish they’d never bet on America.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4h agoPresident Donald Trump’s administration has detained more than 50 spouses and parents of U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families, an AP investigation has found.
A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.
Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers
The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”
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My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon
War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon
Mission accomplished
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The Boys recording one of the greatest albums of all time — REVOLVER — at Abbey Road in 1966. This seminal album was released 60yrs ago today.
spider-noir was fucking brilliant, awesome theme tune too
This Thursday, SpaceX insiders will be released from their first post-IPO stock lockup and can cash out early. As I've been saying, this has all the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme.
Sunday: I’ll do a quick fact check of this insane RFK Jr interview Monday: Up to 40 lies & it was only a 3 min clip! Tuesday: Ready to defend my 2nd PhD thesis on fascist quackery That's why @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social & I are holding him accountable rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-is-...
RFK Jr is Asking to Be Proven Wrong Again So Here Are 40 Examples From Just One CNN Interview
He's just creating work for us at this point
rasmussenretorts.substack.com
🚨BREAKING: Kyiv comes under heavy air assault as Russia launches over 30 ballistic missiles. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...
Kyiv Under Heavy Air Assault Following Launch of Over 30 Ballistic Missiles
Kyiv came under a massive ballistic strike as over 30 missiles were launched. Emergency teams responded to a hit in the Obolonskyi district.
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The US military while conducting a GPS jamming exercise could have caused a civilian aircraft to crash into the side of a mountain, killing everyone on board.
A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
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I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
There are alarming reports that the DOD has tried to cover up the human cost of Trump’s war with Iran, removing American servicemembers from casualty counts.
At this moment, more than 400 Ukrainian kamikaze drones are reportedly heading toward terrorist Russia's regions and occupied Crimea to strike military and economic/energy infrastructure.
NEW: Israel has imprisoned an American teen. Soldiers raided Adam's West Bank home right before his sister’s grad party. They ignored his US passport. As they took him, they blew kisses at his mom. Adam is now the second American in Israeli prison. Trump just hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.
Israel Has Imprisoned a 16-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy for Two Weeks
Adam Karakrah is one of at least two Americans in Israeli prison – both held while Trump hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.
zeteo.com
Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."
Sean Wiswesser, former CIA officer: Russians believe in the stick, terror, and intimidation. That's practiced both domestically and bleeds into their foreign intelligence work. Russians tend to want to use compromising material in their operations. What I mean is sexpionage.
@markfollman.bsky.social investigated a mass shooter’s 6,600-plus conversations with ChatGPT—enough content to fill about 10 books—and uncovered shocking evidence.
Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT
A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.
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Absolutely no idea why this could be happening.
Sky News@news.sky.com · 2d agoNHS staff experiencing 'unconscionable' levels of racist abuse, survey finds
When scientists say it’s not too late to address the climate crisis, we really mean it. Resources to work through your climate emotions and then get involved in activism are always linked in my bio.
Nigel Farage Exposed: 18 years of infamy as leader of the UK Independence Party, the Brexit Party and Reform UK.
Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social · yesterdayThe Nigel Farage Controversies. It’s not just the £5m and Cottrell, his whole career has been scandal ridden.
Appreciate this is 'make it make sense' howling into the void, but the failure (with some exceptions) of government, politicians, media, and business to point at the heatwaves and fires and state 'this is why climate action matters' is a serious problem. www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/45...
Summertime silence
The right of British politics has stepped up its attacks on climate action in recent weeks, so why has the rest of the political spectrum largely failed to seize the 'teachable moment' presented by cr...
businessgreen.com