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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17m

Richard and I share a perverse habit of bailii browsing and I appreciate that he does the civil ones.

Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 1h

One of the claimants in this case ks quite… something. Yes. Quite a few jaw-dropping bits in this where it gets even more startling

www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...

Abbotsley Ltd & Anor v Pheasantland Ltd & Ors [2025] EWHC 2640 (KB) (13 October 2025)

www.bailii.org

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 27m

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 52m

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 17h

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 26m

“Ideas have consequences” used to be a conservative maxim.

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1h

"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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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 57m

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 · 1h

"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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KINDAFREE | IRI @denofsin.bsky.social · 52m

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 8h

I've spent *weeks* working on this special report for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social on GB News co-owner Paul Marshall – and the astonishing, unprecedented influence network he's built on the UK's right. There's never been anything like it before. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...

Paul Marshall, the man who owns the right

The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s mo...

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Weedle @weedle.bsky.social · 1d

Every angry screed about how Biden blew it just does not acknowledge the whole reason Biden was unpopular was because he did the exact economic policy they claimed to want instead of pummeling the workers with austerity until Doordash servants worked for pennies and Subway footlongs were $5 again.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 59m

I had to look these people up and well, I guess the whole thing is summarized by this

On 19 February 2023, Fred Phelps Jr, pastor of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church in America, said that though he supported Burke's position, he felt he had "gone too far".

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Isobel Gray 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social · 5h

The NHS is changing trans people back to birth sex on file, meaning we will not be treated appropriately for our bodies.

This is deadly, completely unacceptable, and the result of hateful far right ideology in our politics and healthcare.

Jenn @jennralize.bsky.social · 6h

Just got a call from a lovely but very nervous Dr, who advised I wouldn't be routinely screened for breast cancer because I'm not indicated as being "biologically female" on the central NHS database and my biology wouldn't indicate I'm at risk.

My records have been altered, which is upsetting.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

This is the result of a lot of people pretending racism is one of the greatest taboos in our culture while failing to address racism substantively. People are appalled by the idea of being called racist while being totally committed to upholding racism throughout society.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 4h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

(the disappearance of Pek Koon Heng from his narrative in favor of an invented mousy New Zealand wife is fascinating)

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

just putting it into everything I write. "Xi Jinping, naked under his clothes, gave a speech at the Great Hall of the People ..."

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

MacFarlane is often a lovely writer, but he is a *terrific* subject for parody.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

another skewering in the LRB. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...

C.K. Stead · Diary: truth and autobiographies

www.lrb.co.uk

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

to be clear the events in this paragraph are not happening, he is eating outside with her and like five other people

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

there are like five paragraphs like this, including "with her big soft lips she seemed half girl, half woman"

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

English writers have different habits, as lethally skewered by Craig Brown here

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

outing yourself as a pedomorphophile.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

also the food they ate together. "To understand the issues around tiger genetics better, I met with Len Smith, professor of zoology at Hampton University, for breakfast tacos at a stand near his house. The ponytailed Smith, in the khaki shorts and shirt of a field scientist, told me ..."

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

incidentally an amusing thing once you're aware of it is that American writers, especially non-fiction writers, who *don't* want to come across as weird about other people's looks - a good thing! - usually resort to describing their hair and clothes instead.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

the thing you have to understand is that Theroux means 'has the markers of an upper-class American'

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

"a portrait of Mozart by Saleiri" is a real shiv

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2h

checking in with Thomas Chatterton Williams.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3h

a wonderful review by A.N. Wilson, himself no stranger to bile, here - www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...

A.N. Wilson · Going Native: Theroux’s Portrait of Naipaul

www.lrb.co.uk

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3h

I have offered a sliding service to remove my posts in the past.

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