Like, Kemi really has got the right idea here: “pal up with fash cranks then scream abuse at the left for not liking them, and use that insulting vexatious drivel to secure your position ” really has been the core of British politics since at least 2019. But she’s so awesomely stupid and bad at it.

It’s wild how Kemi is just this funhouse mirror of ten years of horrible UK politics and media, showing the rest of them their reflections with deeply unsettling and embarrassing distortion. What she’s doing is IMO little different to what they’ve done, it’s just more ham-fisted, crass and idiotic.

I don’t think Badenoch’s plainly unreformed neo-Nazi adviser is any sillier or more insulting than anything else her cohort have to say about destabilisation, anti-racism and anti-extremism. She’s just too stupid to realise you can’t do this with someone jailed for quite horrifically abusing an MP.

Exactly! Schengen was not.the problem.

These folks are the worst. But keep it up, AIPAC. Every time you speak out, you alienate more American voters.

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3h ago

⚠️ AIPAC out with a statement: “Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November.”

Incorrect, Zack. In-fucking-correct.

Lot of cis people still dont see trans people being forced out of public spaces as segregation and i urge them to wake the fuck up and read a history book as well as a dictionary Its *literally* segregation If you think even saying it is bad, you should be angry its actually happening

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

A terrible day for trans people in Britain and a shameful one for the EHRC and government

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 11h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

Absolutely astonishing Samantha Jones is the top health official and she is DIRECTLY benefiting from NHS and local authority ££££ That is WRONG - she must resign, this is called corruption @chpithinktank.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/ea8c...

Companies linked to top health official and husband received £2bn in public contracts

Samantha Jones or spouse held financial interests in G Square Capital private-equity business

ft.com

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

Bluesky is not a "liberal bubble". It's just one of increasingly few public spaces where Nazis get called out, and if that makes you uncomfortable, you need to think about that.

There is no requirement to be nice about anyone who dies. That is up to family, friends etc. Other haters think it doesn't matter how much of a hateful person you are, that praise in death is a given. Those who disrespect in life have not earned a lovely eulogy from those they have targeted.

BP's quarterly profits more than doubled to £4.2 billion in the three months to the end of June. These are the profits of war and climate chaos. It's time to make the biggest polluters pay.

Britain, where the national equality body is a boobyhatch jam-packed with wingnut cranks who fervently believe their job is creating weapons for police to hammer minorities that the press hates and wants to harm.

Absolute state of Falkner and Reindorf in the Times today

wow, i was not expecting to be blocked by @kenjennings.bsky.social over this. We’ve previously interacted in friendly ways, so i reached out in good faith & not trying to drag him. I was giving the benefit of the doubt that maybe his transphobic behavior was unintended. really disappointing.

Every so often that polite mask slips, offering more context for the "confusing" choice of defenses for the indefensible.

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.

Also totally not weirdly suggestive for a literal professor of evidence based medicine who once posted that trans sex workers "molest" him at the corner store to reflexively jump to defend the memory of an extreme transphobe while having ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to say about the Cass Review...

Sure, Jan. (Brady Bunch Meme)

Alt: Classic Brady Bunch Meme: Sure, Jan.

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Every single one of these privileged commentators crying woe about how mean people are being when some outright evil fuck dies has tipped their hand like this at some point. Y'all know how middle and upclass society are with the "politeness". Don't join in their pretend.

“Rod Liddle Has Died. Here He Is in His Own Words” The prolific journalist, who passed away on Sunday, urged Muslims to ‘blow themselves up’, joked about ‘trying to shag’ children and mocked an MP who spoke about being a victim of domestic violence.

Rod Liddle Has Died. Here He Is in His Own Words

The prolific journalist, who passed away on Sunday, urged Muslims to ‘blow themselves up’, joked about ‘trying to shag’ children and mocked an MP who spoke about being a victim of domestic violence.

zeteo.uk

It’s horrible and bleak but it’s also grimly funny that, even as the press have decisively chosen to reimpose Labour vs the Tories as a more manageable system, the Tory leader is underlining that she is so disastrously stupid, she’s incapable of being normal and not embarrassing everybody involved.

Kemi Badenoch defends selection of man jailed for harassing Jewish MP in council election – as it happened

Conservative leader tells press she stands by decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a candidate for local election in Somerset

theguardian.com

Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · yesterday

BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Do we experience racism at work in the NHS? Yes. Increasingly so. Do we deny these people the care that they need? Very very rarely. At this point, frankly, if you don’t want the care we provide because we’re not white, go find it somewhere else.

There's lots of dumb people. So let me explain. Forest fires start all the time. But Climate Change has made the weather hotter and drier so the fires spread faster and are much harder to put out. So ends today's lesson on the obvious.

I see that Sandie Peggie has been given leave to appeal her employment tribunal ruling in NHS Fife & Dr Beth Upton because of course she has. That’s just how things are in the UK, when a terf is unhappy then unlimited appearances in Court are allowed until they get the result they wanted all along!

@bsky.app stop banning trans people when you are allowing cis men to openly defend pedophiles. Thanks.

"Sir your website has a reputation for having normal people who don't think race science is Good, Actually. Do you have any plans to change that?" "Good question. We're actually going to incentivize and boost phrenologists in the algo"

This fucking dumbass doesn't seem to realize that plenty of right wing agitators have tried and failed to propogate here. And it's because the devs gifted us with the nuclear block. So they got bored and left. But sure, try and get more fash and reactionaries over here I guess.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

“For 30 years, we've been paying the price of failure. Burnham must put the public first and fix this broken industry, so that companies stop spilling sewage and ripping off customers.” https://goodlaw.social/86ys