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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2h

The rank obliviousness to the inherent paradox in his abject fucking stupidity is so next level as to be almost a thing of wonder.

will be first in the queue
Matt Goodwin twitter
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Trump could offer refugee
status to Europeans who
oppose migration
US president advised to prioritise those
who have been *targeted for peaceful
expression of views online'

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 1h

[Also damn but it's so nice here without trash adverts & promoted nonsense every 4 posts]

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 2h

Though I don't post there, I didn't delete my twitter acc, and when occasionally checking something, it's a big shock to see many people active in archaeology/human origins/history/sci comm STILL treating it as their main platform.
It is such a shame that the splintering hasn't healed.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 1h

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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 8h

Yes let’s trust idiots instead. That should work.

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 15h

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 8h

Of all the stupid things they’ve said, this is the stupidest. And the most dangerous.

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 15h

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 8h

Letter to the editor:
In 2018 alone, the EU gave £5.9bn to help deprived UK regions.

Now the government calls £5bn over ten years “ambitious.”

Brexit really did take from the poor to give to a slogan.

Letter to the editor: £5bn over ten years isn’t ‘ambitious’ – it’s a fraction of what the EU once gave

Letter to the editor

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Joanna Pegum @londoner007.bsky.social · 2h

Hope we see more of this. And #respect, Cardiff

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 8h

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 7h

"expert" is just a word for someone who knows what they are talking about.

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 15h

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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K9Woof @k9wag.bsky.social · 3h

Not only the perpetrators but the men who know & don’t report their colleagues and speak out. They have a power to do this with less doubt being cast on their claims & less risk of career backlash than female colleagues & students of all genders.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 7h

I'm not a keen follower of the Epstein case. Maybe this is something everyone knows.

But I'm shocked and revolted by the male academics who one after another raped trafficked children. My god I hope you are all found and punished.

Solidarity with the survivors.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Snippet from the linked Guardian article beginning "The second person I was lent out to was a psychology professor"

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Joanna Pegum @londoner007.bsky.social · 2h

Gosh, no one tell @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social

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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 8h

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 8h

They lie about the ECHR.
Just like they lied about Brexit. Claiming if we just got rid of that ‘European’ thing, we’d be free, we’d have control, all our problems solved…
It’s NOT TRUE.
We’d inflict more chaos on ourselves and torch our own human rights framework for NOTHING.
For liars.
Again.

Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 1d

The European Convention on Human Rights is being misrepresented in the UK, says former Supreme Court President Lady Hale👇

🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com

“It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.”

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 2h

The government can launch inquiries into grooming gangs with full political force, rightly so.

Yet it turns a blind eye to domestic abuse in family courts, where survivors and children are trapped with abusers.

My piece for @theleaduk.bsky.social

national.thelead.uk/p/the-family...

The family courts are complicit in abuse - and the government looks away

How can a government that pledges to halve violence against women and girls ignore the state-sanctioned arm of that violence?

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GraemeHill.bsky.social @graemehill.bsky.social · 3h

"Exit, pursued by a Dalek"

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Paulie @gibbspaulus.bsky.social · 3h

“Doth thine box rolleth on wheels?”
“It doth not, good sir!”

( Original screengrab by @stevewriteswords.bsky.social )

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Severin Carrell @severincarrell.bsky.social · 3h

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules - @washingtonpost.com #Pentagon #Hesketh #DoD

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules

After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out of the Pentagon rather than comply with its restrictive policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.bsky.social · 3h

Chikungunya is a really, really nasty disease, much-feared in Asia for its 'break bone' pain and haemorrhagic aspects.

To be avoided.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

New York health officials have confirmed the first locally transmitted case of the chikungunya virus which causes high fever, joint pain and fatigue.

It’s usually a tropical virus, but there are now infected mosquitoes spreading in New York. (NYT)

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3h

Reform candidate visibly squirms as he's confronted by a local family in Caerphilly.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 4h

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 3h

18yo is encountering AI interview HR processes. Unfortunately he’s not in a position to tell these processes to go and fuck themselves.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 4h

So often I am writing about the far right, young men, extremist misogyny - but I rarely get to write about solutions and how we tackle this issue. So meet the Warren - a remarkable youth centre in Hull tackling radicalisation

www.opendemocracy.net/en/youth-wor...

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The former fire station fighting far-right radicalisation

Hull, a once busy port city in northern England that now faces high unemployment, is a key target for the far right

www.opendemocracy.net

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 4h

If this is how Israel treats its best known prisoners...

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