Andy Birss
@andybirss.bsky.social
Retired lab tech and four times Covid champion-Don't get the bug-Get vaccinated!
I like the way #Americast has normalised the corruption, lawbreaking and amorality of the Trump administration and the GOP. None of that 'journalism' nonsense on the show anymore or 'speaking truth to power' rubbish. It's now just giggling while the apparatus of the state is turned on the people.
He has been saying this for over two years and NOT A SINGLE CORPORATE JOURNALIST IN AMERICA has gotten him to explain what it means Which makes me wonder how they walk the streets of D.C. looking at anything but their own shoes in disgrace
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoTrump on the Biden years: "We had transgender for everybody"
But they seemed like such nice, patriotic, community-minded chaps. (Except the ones currently facing murder, child abuse & assault charges, obviously.)
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2d agoLeaders 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.
SCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:
😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮
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El-Sayed on Islamophobia: "That's the only play they got. They're gonna point at me, they're gonna point at my name, like, 'Wow, he's different.' That's the best you got? You can't actually talk about what you want to do? My name is not raising your gas prices. My name is now taking us to war."
This is *such* a revealing line about Kemi's world view and contempt for those who do the day to day work of keeping our society functioning
Does Ms Badenoch approve this to be sung at the opening of local Conservative council meetings? www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDuH...
Tomorrow belongs to me - Cabaret
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Tories next local elections leaflet ‘We want Nazis putting out your bins’
James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 19h agoThis is *such* a revealing line about Kemi's world view and contempt for those who do the day to day work of keeping our society functioning
If you normalise poverty, ignore the need for food banks to feed the working poor and have no interest in the climate emergency then what journalistic role is open to you? Apparently that makes you perfect for the job that Justin Webb occupies on #r4today
The presenters and editors of #r4today increasingly resemble those who chose to stay in Omelas-Normalising the poverty and suffering necessary for them to have their very pleasant lifestyle. shsdavisapes.pbworks.com/f/Omelas.pdf
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Presenters on #r4today have no apparent interest in the hundreds of thousands of people in the UK who died prematurely due to austerity www.theguardian.com/business/202... Making a single death part of a right-wing campaign-Well that's a different story isn't it?
Over 330,000 excess deaths in Great Britain linked to austerity, finds study
Research comes as government signals fresh round of public spending cuts
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I suppose Justin Webb will only put the climate emergency front and centre once the lives of his family and friends are threatened. As long as the victims are poor and outside his social circle we can expect major political interviews to not include a question about the issue of the age. #r4today
A scientifically aware presenter would have quizzed Ms Badenoch on Conservative policies regarding climate change. Someone without a science background who worked in a hot environment over the past few weeks would have done so. But of course Mr Webb didn't-He gets paid money for old rope. #r4today
Most of the people who have died due to the climate emergency so far are part of the group who were hammered by austerity-Outside the social circle of #r4today of editors and presenters. I know it might shock Justin Webb et al but when it gets worse he and his friends will also suffer that fate.
Justin Webb had the leader of the Conservative Party on just now and didn't ask her a single question about the issue of the age-The climate emergency. He doesn't seem to understand the magnitude of what that involves or how it will change just about everything on the planet. #r4today
When Justin Webb or one of the other presenters (in relation to climate change) say 'This might go on for some years' they show their ignorance of basic science and physics. Sea level rise will continue for hundreds of years if we are lucky-They fail to grasp the inevitability of it all. #r4today
You can understand why Justin Webb doesn't point out that thirty years of propaganda from Rupert Murdoch's Fox News has had malign results in America and beyond-If he did so then he might not get paid to write rubbish like this www.thetimes.com/us/american-... #r4today
Beyond the bluster, Trump may be making America normal again
To many in the US, it’s the Democrats who are the extremists, not the new president. While his style is to keep ’em guessing, don’t ignore the political substance
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Your groceries need a hazmat team, but sure, let’s hold another hearing about masks.
Justin Webb, discussing climate change leading to food shortage: Do we all of us have to take this a bit more seriously? Er... yes. #R4Today
The editors and presenters of #r4today need to be cleared out for a group of people who actually understand and take seriously the climate emergency. The current crop are well-versed in political gossip and right-wing talking points but are scientifically ignorant.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Why aren’t Beltway reporters asking him any questions about this? It seems important. open.substack.com/pub/crooksan...
Trump Cried Witchhunt, Capital One Cried Money Laundering
For the first time, Donald Trump has now been formally tied to an alleged money laundering scheme as part of Capital One's efforts to dismiss his lawsuit against them.
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The U.S. states with the most wind turbines: Texas Iowa Oklahoma Losers, right?
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2d agoTrump: Any country with windmills is a loser, OK?
📌 ICYMI — Talk TV Presenter Dragged Climate Activist Into Room and Assaulted Him During Pro-Trump Dinner, Court Told — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social André Walker denies assault by beating over incident at Republicans Overseas gala dinner during Trump's state visit to the UK
Talk TV Presenter Dragged Climate Activist Into Room and Assaulted Him During Pro-Trump Dinner…
André Walker denies assault by beating over incident at Republicans Overseas gala dinner during Trump's state visit to the UK
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Solidarity everlasting with my friend Luciana Berger. HOW can she still have to explaining and fighting this bullshit?! What is wrong with the Tory party?!
Ex-MP urges Tories to drop candidate jailed for campaign of antisemitic abuse against her
Luciana Berger says Joshua Bonehill-Paine should have no role in public life because of ‘his racism and his view of women’
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The modern Conservative Party, where Net Zero gets you out and Neo Nazism gets you in
