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Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 2h

Not for the purposes of reporting and commentary restrictions. The cut-off is when someone is formally charged, and the case becomes a criminal court case.

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Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 2h

*the dwarfs arrive
Bilbo: "Hey, I'm eatin a bagel here, I'M EATIN HERE!"

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A Spooky Goose @anarchygoose.bsky.social · 23h

Funny how all the 'big tent' talk is actually about which minorities it is good to shove out into the night to die of exposure.

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Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 2h

I might be an elderly 30 year-old, but back when I was growing up videoing everyone was considered a weird thing to do.

Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 3h

It never reached the courts. AFAIK the cops have discretion on whether or not to charge someone based on the evidence, so it any legal challenge would need proof that they believed sufficient evidence exists and chose not to proceed, but given they actually arrested him, that's probably the case.

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Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 15h

There's someone next to where he tripped the first time with a bike, and they're closer to where he yelled the slur.

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Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 21h

What if we transvestigate them first? This means it's cool to call for Rowling to be kicked in the balls, right?

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Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 21h

The UK government decides whether the police charge someone or not. Labour are literally running a police state.

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Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 23h

"We did everything we could to help fascism. If you want to stop fascism, you're going to need a big tent movement with us in charge!"

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Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 23h

I think asking the deputy FBI director (a political appointee) about governors telling federal agents not to enter certain cities is reasonable, actually. His response was actually fairly professional and explained the FBI position. It was the hosts engaging in unprofessional shit-talking.

Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 1d

Why don't they just do what they always do; invest some money in OpenAI, then have OpenAI immediately spend that money with Microsoft and claim they're making a profit on computing services? It's not fraud if you're rich and USAmerican!

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Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 1d

The thing people ignore about Green membership compared to Labour in 2017 is that Labour were already one of the default choices in 2017, so a huge jump in membership just meant enthusiasm rather than an increased vote share. The Greens aren't, so this member increase could actually mean new votes!

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Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 1d

I think something else that helped was the fact that most of the earlier left-wing critics were responding to some pretty minor stuff and made it clear they never believed in elections. It came across more as doomerism than political critique, and made people more skeptical of left-wing criticism.

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Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing to see here, just pro-capitalist voices bantering like accountants at brunch.

Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 1d

Shout out to the guy with a scooter who also tried to trip him. It was a valiant effort!

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Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone is talking about the guy in the Bernie shirt de-escalating, but the woman in blue also tried to de-escalate and these dirty old men tried to drag her away. He only managed to de-escalate because these pervs are cowards who were scared of someone bigger than themselves.

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Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 1d

They won't stand for the economic hit either. Politicians in basically every EU country are bought and paid for, just like the UK. And that's before factoring in the far-right governments (eg Hungary) that would love to see a precedent against free movement in any form.

Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 1d

Forming a big tent movement with people who created a political environment for fascist re-emergence, constantly try to compromise with fascists, and who decided letting fascism win was better than not committing genocide in the Middle East, will not produce an antifascist movement.

Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 1d

Folks demanding political / ideological purity fail to see that this is no longer a movement belonging to the left / liberals. This is an opposition against fascism. By definition it must be big tent. Failure to grasp this: see divided oppositions in Eastern Europe as your failed examples.

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 1d

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Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 1d

Glad I'm not the only one!

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Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 1d

Adult Swim infomercials are the new Onion, thanks to tech bros.
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Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats have aggressively refused to learn why they lost the last election.

Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 2d

Well said

Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 1d

Centrists saw normal people holding "death to ICE" signs and panicked because that probably means the Democrats who expanded ICE while in power are fucked regardless of what happens next.

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Ivy, Queen Lady of Pigeons (she/her) 🕊💠 @ivyweber95.bsky.social · 1d

I heard a socialist wore a bland T-shirt near a middle-aged woman and it ended communism, is this true?

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Slice of Fox @michaelwi.bsky.social · 6d

I personally find it a massive red flag that it’s not a red line already before conference.

They wouldn’t have a vote on whether to be racist or not so it communicates they consider trans people as potential targets and less worthy of respect than other groups.

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