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This kind of protest is just as much free speech as Confas being allowed to speak. (It’s also a lot more clever)
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 21h agoThe statue of Cecil Rhodes on Oriel College has been decorated with a Ku Klux Klan hood and the sign ‘Racists Welcome Here’, in protest against the upcoming visit of self-styled “race realist” Nathan Cofnas to address the university’s Reform UK society.
One reason wealth inequality is bad is it’s potentially a significant geopolitical turning point whether Jensen Huang’s wife is normal like McKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezo’s ex, and gives to inoffensive charities, or is like Sergey Brin’s ex who funded half of US anti-vax activism and propped up RFK Jr.
Others will rightfully take their victory laps tonight. I'll allow myself this one: Running vocally-religious Dems & appealing to religious voters was NEVER about abandoning progressive policies or moving to the right. Dems have leveled the praying field w/o sacrificing vulnerable populations.
The absolute shellacking Republicans are taking makes the prior two years of capitulation by so many powerful people and organizations look even more pathetic
I know I'm pissing in the wind, but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. LINKS. LINKS. DON'T DO SCREENSHOTS. SHOW YOUR SOURCES. YOUR "INFORMATION" IS LIES WITHOUT SOURCES. LINKS. LINKS.
GB News' conspiracy theorist-in-chief during the COVID - is still a proud Brand supporter
But you know who embraced him from this point onwards? Musk, Tucker Carlson, Andrew Tate, Katie Hopkins, Tommy Robinson, and on and on it goes. He was "their guy" AFTER all the credible abuse allegations came out searchlightmagazine.com/2026/11/the...
Sen. Warnock was just asked on CNN if Dems will focus on costs *or* corruption, and he responded "We can walk & chew gum at the same time." Hell yes, that is the message.
Yup. I edited the screenshot of my post below for this because I was dragging someone very specific and I don’t feel the need to do that again at this moment. It’s not important to the message at hand. RFK Jr. doesn’t have any ideas at all that are useful to humanity.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is a pet peeve of mine because it's like 80% of centrist commentary on RFK Jr.: "You might not agree with what he has to say, but you gotta admire that he truly believes it." No I don't, what he believes sucks ass.
The midterm result I want to see most of all is Amy Acton beating Vivek Ramaswamy. I want his political career to be destroyed so thoroughly that no one will dare shame a survivor of child abuse again.
worth remembering that a large part of the black voting electorate is what you might call the first VRA generation — people who would have been the first in their families to turn 18 with the actual right to vote — and that their parents/grandparents lived through jim crow
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2w agoyeah, so, i think Bluesky may be kind of structurally blind to exactly how mad the organs of Black politics in the South are right now
Most of the Americans I know this week youtu.be/OdNNjCHGixE?...
Midterm Ad - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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Late to this, but @samfr.bsky.social is spot on that the centre-left can be too pessimistic about the inevitability of the rise of the populist right. Their governments face the same deep problems as everyone else, but have less realistic solutions which don't work. samf.substack.com/p/the-strait...
The straitjacket of power
What happens when the radical right wins
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Gotta admit I'm getting a lot of schadenfreude from the freakouts about Claude's watermarks and the horrifying idea you might actually have to do your own work to get credit for the work.
Does it not seem insane and also symbolic of the irrationality of American bigotry that Trump, who is *responsible for the last act of political violence on the Senate* is calling someone else a terrorist because he’s Muslim. The only one with a record of inciting terrorism here is the president
The new Chair of OfCom has rather oddly suggested I should set up a left wing version of GB News. This suggests he doesn’t quite know what his job is. But I have taken him at his word. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75420/...
GB News is allowed to promote Reform, so I’m setting up Woke TV
Ofcom appears perfectly happy with a channel pumping out right-wing propaganda. It may be time to take the watchdog’s advice and create an alternative
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you see, people tend to be very creative about making their products and services safe and reliable when they think they might go to jail if they do not
The fetishisation of "debate" as some sort of grand public good that everyone should do is so thoughtless and jarring to me because the more you actually do it the more it becomes apparent that genuinely constructive debate is actually a pretty niche thing.
How was the leader of a party of bigots supposed to know there'd be so many around him who lacked integrity?
Marcus Leroux@marcusleroux.bsky.social · 3w agoThis is mad. Farage's right-hand-man George Cottrell is linked to a gambling company called Tether.Bet. It turns out that the company used a fake document to secure a licence. By @petergeoghegan.bsky.social @georgegreenwood.bsky.social and @coramazov.bsky.social 1/3 www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Turns out the “censorship industrial complex” was less a criticism than an aspiration
Cruel, pointless, impractical, and ultimately dangerous. The rooms in hospitals which will now be used to offload trans people are often required for clinical reasons ie to treat the immuno-compromised. This is the product of a country that has gone insane. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trans people should use hospital spaces according to biological sex, NHS England says
New guidance says trans patients should be cared for on single-sex hospital wards or bays that align with their biological sex.
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So they're at it again 🙄 Torturing valid HMRC data to create wildly misleading headlines, designed to invoke fear and anger about immigrants. Same old, same old... (and you'll see just how old shortly!) 🧵1/28
Ian Dunt put it better than I could. "Feel a lot of pride about the way Britain has responded to Trump's attacks on Ukraine, repeatedly launching big symbolic demonstrations of solidarity when things are at their most tenuous."
Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4w agoHonour guard at Downing Street ahead of Zelenskyy’s arrival.
Democratic Failure to Prevent Conservatives From Lying Raises Ethical Questions About Talarico bsky.app/profile/shoe...
Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · last mo.James "Tricky" Talarico tricksed us!
The Social Reckoning is really good. Some people say “we knew this stuff already” but I think that assumes most people read the WSJ & understand algorithms. I was surprised by how much I didn’t know about Facebook’s algorithms and how they affect us. I definitely recommend it
