NEW: A former neo-Nazi who was selected to stand for the Conservative Party has withdrawn his candidacy and will instead become a party adviser 🚨

Former neo-Nazi resigns as Tory candidate to instead become party adviser

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Palestine Action, the direct-action protest group, was granted permission on July 30 to appeal its terrorist designation at the United Kingdom Supreme Court. Since the group was designated as terrorist, more than 3,000 peaceful protesters have been arrested for showing support for it.

The Tories have selected a convicted former Neo-Nazi as a councillor. Here's why that reflects very poorly on Jeremy Corbyn.

Happy to see this has already been acted upon by @goodlawproject.org issuing a challenge. For all trans people in GB, just know - today is hard to process - that we see you, and that we are not a minority. The minority is currently legislating, which is horrific enough. But you’re not alone.

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 7h ago

We have also written a detailed legal explainer about why we think the code of practice gets the law wrong.

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.

If there are three things that trans people need to remember if they’re using toilets in pubs, restaurants etc., it is these:

Guidance is guidance, it is not legally binding requirements and it is up to individuals and businesses and services to decide how they interpret it and they can use that as a reason to vocally and visibly fight back against transphobia.

Just like an MP, once elected, is *supposed* to faithfully serve all of their constituents, everyone who lives in a given ward has to feel comfortable going to their councillor(s). Badenoch is fully showing her arse now, telling us what she thinks she knows about the folk of Crewkerne.

Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 8h ago

It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.

A Nazi entering government by the small door is just as bad as a Nazi entering government by the revolving front door

Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 8h ago

It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.

We should be outraged not only about Ceuta and the cynical reactions of European governments, but even more so in the face of the tens of thousands who have died in the Mediterranean, most of them without a trace. AI #Slop, however, only serves those who want to make their suffering invisible 4/

This image has been widely shared on social media as a document of the human tragedy that has unfolded in Ceuta and an indictment of the EU's murderous border regime in the Mediterranean. The problem is: It's AI-generated. It has a SynthID watermark, as can be checked with OpenAI's Verify tool 1/

Reminder that the Tories believe any non-British person who commits more than a minor parking or traffic offence should be automatically deported. They “believe in second chances”, apparently, but only for literal Nazis.

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

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Good morning, there's a new Bobby Fingers www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGt7...

Johnny Depp's Bed

YouTube video by Bobby Fingers

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I am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.

I'm An ICU Doctor. I’m Haunted By What I’ve Seen During The Recent COVID-19 Surge.

“I can’t stop thinking about the 40-something man who told me, ‘I can’t die like this. I just got engaged and have a 6-month-old baby.’ I encouraged him to be positive, but that didn’t stop him from d...

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TODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social celebrates a high point of cinema, that Orson Welles frozen peas commercial. Welles has "no cause to give even a microscopic fraction of a fuck about how the finished product will turn out. He insists on integrity anyway." flaminghydra.com/a-celebratio...

A Celebration of Orson Welles’s Frozen Pea Commercial Outtakes

I never let a July pass me by without revisiting the infamous 1970 bootleg audio of Orson Welles attempting to record voiceover narration for advertisements for various foods, beginning with frozen pe...

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Fascism wants us to be cut off from one another. The first thing Trump did in his first term was to attack the postal service. Brexit was about isolation and making it harder to know our neighbours and live well.

Roll Gothica (that emo dice shi)@rollgothica.bsky.social · 24h ago

No small business can do this. No small business can afford this. This was no longer a choice, or an option. The latest PPWR is the final nail in the coffin. Here you can see a breakdown of the unreasonable bureaucracy expected of us. We'll miss you, Europe.

Content warnings begin inserting images of that transphobic lamprey Stuart Campbell into my TL, please.

We all know there are certain crimes that disqualify the convicted from specific jobs forever, regardless of quality of behaviour while serving sentence, likelihood to reoffend, or evidence of contrition and rehabilitation. Gonna humbly suggest “Nazi” & “public office” fit that rubric.

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · yesterday

A former neo-Nazi with convictions for harassing a Jewish MP and assaulting a police officer has been selected as a Conservative candidate in upcoming local elections, it has emerged

My entire life these days.

THE NORMAL VICTIM@nightmaremodego.bsky.social · yesterday

Gettin' awfa tired of going "We don't fuckin' use that shit", and getting "I was just using it for this" back.

Even if - EVEN IF - he has actually repented and is working to make amends for his past, HAVING a nazi past disqualifies you from public office. Good, go be a better person. You're not owed this career.

Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · yesterday

Absolutely crackers, extremely self serving as a defence as there is absolutely no chance she'd extend this same benefit of the doubt elsewhere, which becomes obvious in the, factually incorrect, statement on early release she can't resist tagging on at the end.

Small town terrorized by shark. Media starts giving a lot of airtime to the shark, allowing the shark to explain the logic behind its attacks. Shark becomes popular, and successfully runs for mayor on a platform of "sticking it to the woke anti-shark elite".

weinberg@weinbergs.bsky.social · 7mo ago

let's pretend: Universal announces a screenwriting contest for Jaws 5. What's your pitch?

Just a reminder of what “mass deportation” actually entails – manslaughter at best – and what dull, plodding racists like Rupert Lowe really want to say, but haven’t quite the courage yet, is “we’d like license to kill some brown people so all the rest are sufficiently terrorised to fuck off.”

Luca Migo@victinibcn.bsky.social · 2d ago

Breaking: Another victim, Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo, has died in ICE custody at Delaney Hall prison after being denied vital medication and family visits. Depriving sick detainees of care until they die is murder by neglect. We demand complete transparency and justice for Edwin! 🎥 Statuscoup

Incredible shit here: the guy Badenoch is defending was sent to prison for sending racist abuse to the MP Luciana Berger. Who then did a whole series of interviews and columns talking about her criminal harassment by Nazis, in a manner intended to make listeners believe it was done by Labour members

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · yesterday

Even I am taken aback at the new and surprising ways these people find to insult the public’s intelligence and make it more clear the only operative professional standard in force is “LOL fuck you”

"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care

EXCLUSIVE: A group of students in Gaza have appealed to the University of Glasgow not to 'deprive us of our dreams' after securing unconditional offers to study in Scotland but being left without a way to take up their places

Gazan students plead with Glasgow University after securing offers

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Parents! What's the WORST swearword you'd be comfortable with your 8-12 year old reading in a story? Where do we stand on "arse"? (please be as prissy as you like, I'm trying to balance "word I want to use" with "can I be arsed with the complaints"?)

Rosie Duffield and co.

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

The recent, noir-inflected Batman cartoon has cigarettes in it and I nearly fell off my chair.

Darren Ewing@sadknob.bsky.social · yesterday

if you're creating a noir private investigator character from the 1940's or 1950's, he has to smoke. they all smoked—nuns, doctors, commies, dames, galoots... they all smoked. i don't care if yer man is radioactive spider powered or gets his magic from chewing bazooka joe. he smokes.

When someone is described as "often controversial, never boring" in 2026 it just means: full nazi but also part of the establishment.