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 · yesterday

Leaders 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.

lololol

Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 3h ago

This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.

Kirsten Han 韩俐颖@kirstenhan.com · 5d ago

Massive Attack has been banned from Singapore after they held up a Palestinian flag during their concert here last week. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Democrats (especielly in the past few years) have really molded into their DNA that if they simply "get rid of the bad guy, everything will be okay and be good again", whether it's in reference to Trump or Netenyahu. They cannot comprehend that an entire system might just be broken beyond repair.

Also, it's difficult to place all the blame on Netanyahu when every single time I hear about the "opposition" party in Israel, they're basically like, "Yeah, we believe the same stuff he does."

U N L I M I T E D P O W E R

DVD - The Duke of Palettes 🎨🌠@darkvampiredee.bsky.social · 16h ago

I have 8 of them, you can definitely borrow them on the weekends

It’s the 50th anniversary of the time Eric Clapton went onstage and told everyone who wasn’t British to leave the room and the country, and was the impetus for Rock Against Racism

Meta has made it repeatedly clear that one of their growth strategies is sexualizing kids. Mark Zuckerberg and his leadership team deserve to face personal liability for this, and the company deserves sanctions up to and including corporate dissolution

WIRED@wired.com · 5h ago

Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.

"here is what hormone replacement therapy actually does to the human body" vs "male testosterone is magic man juice that makes me into ZEUS"

Burning fossil fuels makes wildfires more frequent and more intense. Of course those who have made record profits causing the problem should pick up the bill.

Abdul El-Sayed will present an excellent test for the Vote Blue No Matter Who people

The controversial new EHRC Code of Practice comes into force today. Feminist Greens remain firmly opposed to this discriminatory guidance that will further marginalise trans, non-binary, and intersex people, as well as harming all women and girls. Read our full statement:

I know she's incapable of ever admitting she's wrong about anything, but even I'm surprised that Kemi Badenoch has chosen this particular hill to die on

“I can call [the climate crisis] out as a political leader, but you [the media] also has a role to play... the contrast between how much we hear about whatever Nigel Farage or Reform want to talk about versus how little we hear about the climate and nature crisis is pretty glaring.” Quite.

Burnham failing public over heat threats, says Green leader

Zack Polanski has accused ministers of a "dereliction of duty" in response to this summer's heatwaves.

bbc.co.uk

You may mock British journalists for claiming to be brave, but Rafael Behr fully believes Jeremy Corbyn has the ability to give him heart attacks at will and he still shit talks him on the regular. That takes some bottle 👏

Elon Musk is going to genocide the Clangers and declare it Manifest Destiny.

Zack Polanski delivers ‘reality check’ to Burnham over ‘biggest crisis since WWII’ after summer of extreme heat

Yo, where's Rod at?

Live your life in such a way that newspaper hacks don't quote entirely accurate descriptions of your appalling behaviour and views in their posthumous defence of you.

If you can’t think of anything nice to say, I believe there’s a vacancy at The Spectator.

I have never once promised to be kind, especially not to cunts. It's all from the Corbyn kinder, gentler politica thing that was clearly about social murder, not being rude to the upper classes.

Remember during the 10s we'd have occasional columns bemoaning the Labour leadership being a boys club, until in 2020 it was decided that SKS was The Most Feminist Candidate?

"Do they lose their shit when a trans woman contradicts them" remains a rock solid test of who someone actually is.

That Bloodless Quant cartoon wasn't mean enough.

We think this challenge is incredibly important – it goes to the very heart of whether trans inclusion is still lawful. But it is impossible without your support.

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 12h ago

🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇

One of the interesting hallmarks of the whole "antisemitism crisis" of 2015-2019 is that a lot of it relied on basically agreeing with Nazis. Why change the habit that coincided with the best time of their lives?

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11h ago

Me: (a smart columnist, looking at claims made by an ex-Tory neo-Nazi booted out of the party for crimes, now standing as a Tory councillor whole doing a rehabilitation tour parroting the agreed media line in his new “anti-extremism” gig) This is extremely convincing stuff, and very worrying.