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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1h

It feels very weird to have such an absolute lad as Pontiff. Like a Pope you know has gone to town on a big thing of wings.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 2h

left side: how it starts
right side: how it goes

The Sun webpage for articles by their Home Affairs correspondent Julia Atherley.

on the left-hand side is an article with the headline: "DEPARTURE SCROUNGE: Fury as migrants facing deportation given 'luxuries' in £260m splurge"

On the right-hand side is a column of four articles, the bottom one of which has the headline: "SHOCK STATS: Hate crimes soar with religious & racially motivated attacks up, stats reveal"

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2h

Israel sent back Greta Thunberg’s luggage scrawled with “Whore Greta”, an Israeli flag, and a penis.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 2h

Really concerned to see Tommy Robinson launching a vile personal attack on the brilliant Daisy Cooper for asking about an important national security issue at PMQs. Very low.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 5h

A much needed corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "welfare is out of control" narrative, drawing on research by my colleague @benbgeiger.bsky.social

www.ft.com/content/ee67...

No need for a moral panic about the welfare system

It’s far from perfect, but the UK’s spending is broadly controlled and employment is high

www.ft.com

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Politico @politico.com · 2h

Two more members of a Young Republican group chat strewn with racist epithets and hateful jokes stepped down from their jobs Tuesday after we published an exclusive report on the Telegram exchanges.

‘It’s revolting’: More Young Republican chat members out of jobs as condemnation intensifies

POLITICO report on private Telegram chat filled with racist slurs and tropes ignites debate from New York to Washington.

www.politico.com

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 2h

posh radicals: still dickheads www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oxford student arrested after chanting about putting Zionists 'in the ground'

Video appears to show Samuel Williams allegedly leading the chant at a pro-Palestinian march in London.

www.bbc.co.uk

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h

Nelson back for final rebuttal. She's going back to Milligan. I mean, Roberts and Kav are fully prepared to ignore that but, what else can she say other than "we JUST decided this guys!"

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3h

Ooh, Roberts question: he's asking Mooppan to help him distinguish Milligan from this case.

Again, Roberts thing is that Milligan is right because Alabama made stupid arguments and he can ignore Milligan now because Louisiana is making better arguments in favor of racism.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3h

No doubt this de-banking will also be splashed across the front pages of every single newspaper in the country and lead BBC bulletins for weeks on end too? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation

John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

www.theguardian.com

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 8h

Carole Malone, "Youu can't say what women's rights are because you're not a woman"

Zack Polanski, "You're not trans are you. We can all say you're not that thing so you can't have an opinion" 🔥

"You can still have an opinion from listening to people"

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 3h

Bari Weiss launched her own path to stardom with the argument "it is oppression to dislike me for being bad" and now we will get to see what an entire media ecosystem built with that philosophy looks like

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 3h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3h

But that means he was there when Kagan was a professor, just before she became Dean. So it's *possible* he had her for a class. I choose to believe that she's embarassed this man before, and now it's just more public.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3h

Kagan is going back to the difference between Section 2 and Section 5. This would work if Roberts was an intellectually honest person. Unfortunately, Roberts hates Black people voting as much as any Klansman ever did.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3h

One of my only remaining joys is that every single time Amy Coney Barrett makes a stupid argument, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets a chance to follow up and illustrate her stupidity.
And this will happen again, and again, for the rest of Barrett's life.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3h

Haaahahaha. Kagan says "in Milligan, we rejected a number of arguments. It seems to me that you just made every one of them." Then she started to list them.
... she's still listing them. :)

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 4h

The Louisiana argument is essentially that you CAN use race to be racist but you CAN'T use race to ameliorate racism.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 4h

Sotomayor: "race is *always* a part of redistricting efforts."

Thank you. See, the Republicans are trying to gaslight people by suggesting they're for "no race in gerrymandering." That's just not true. Race is ALWAYS a factor when you're drawing a map.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 4h

Kagan: "It's not about intentional discrimination because Section 2 isn't about intentional discrimination, it's about effectual discrimination."

Again, this should be the winning argument. It won't be.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 4h

Supreme Court: "We have to give black people a sandwich"
Louisiana: "Fine. What about a Po Boy?"
Supreme Court: "Or, you know, we could drown black folks in the river."
Louisiana: "WE ARE ALL FOUR DROWNING BLACK FOLKS IN THE RIVER!"

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 4h

Nelson: "Section 2 requires neither a confession, nor an accusation of racism. It looks only at results."

This should be the winning point, but it won't, because Republicans.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 4h

There's a fun little colliquay where Alito is flatly mischaracterizing what happened at the lower court and Nelson and now Sotomayor or trying to correct him. But Sam is resistant to facts that show he's wrong so, for the second time this morning, he's just ignoring the facts.

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Chelsea Pride @chelseapride.bsky.social · 4h

It’s Hate Crime Awareness week.

We stand united against all forms of discrimination and Hate.

No exceptions.
No excuses.
No silence.

If you see hate ⬇️
Report it:

report-it.org.uk
kickitout.org/report

#NoToHate | #NHCAW2025 | #WhoeverYouMayBe

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 4h

guess which of these things happened first

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 4h

KBJ is doing her best to explain HOW LAW WORKS to Brett and Amy but those two have long decided not to care about that.

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