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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · Aug 21

I have something else out in @novaramedia.com about Jenrick and the far right migrant hotels crisis.

Britain’s Elites Care Much More About Migrant Hotels Than the Public Does | Novara Media

The race rioters who burned out a car at the end of my street in Middlesbrough last summer were outnumbered the very next day by locals who came out to sweep up the glass, writes Phil McDuff.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 11d

here's a question: if twitter never had group chats, would jd vance be vice president? the answer is "not a chance"

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Ernest Penfold @penfoldsfiv.bsky.social · 1h

10 years ago, Amanda Marcotte was calling Bernie supporters a bunch of racist, sexist, spoiled rich kids and now she's trying to launder the history of the Young Republicans. el oh fucking el.

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 2h

They have 100% always been this way, though notably the transition from helicopter rides and referencing crushing minorities abroad humorlessly transitioned to nazi shit, but like that's basically a new layer of paint instead of a new perspective.

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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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onion person @junlper.beer · 1h

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 53m

You need to be isolated from society and studied so we can work out what the fuck is wrong with your brain.

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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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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1h

few things wrong with this: (a) there's zero evidence that any of these guys have changed or wish to change; (b) indeed, senior regime officials have rushed to ratify this behavior; and (c) unless this kind of thing is "frowned upon" or meets with general disapproval, why would anyone change

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 5h

I know people are eager to claim they were born perfect and never had to learn and change, unlike losers like me.

So congrats! You were born knowing conservatives are inherently racist. Eat your cookie rewards.

But remember: Telling people they aren't allowed to grow and change hurts us.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

With open threats of “breaking” the coalition if you push back on their characterization of conservative racism.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

None of this is new to me. The thinking, the self-justification, the tendency to find any and every perceived disadvantage as a shield, etc.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

I think this is the difference in understanding racism as an organizing principle in society vs understanding racism as the use of a few particular slurs.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

I don’t know how to approach “Republicans weren’t racist in the early aughts” as someone who went to Texas during the early aughts and had to debate whether or not Black students were “stealing” people’s spots in class.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1h

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 13h

I love how analysts and governments are beginning to ring an alarm bell of economic crisis 4 times the size of the subprime collapse and Sam Altman is like “who else is horny for computer?”

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 13h

I've been quietly suffering ever since I saw Sam Altman use the word 'erotica' this morning.

I've just been occasionally making the kinds of faces he makes naturally.

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Addy Berry, PhD @addyberry.bsky.social · 18h

So I guess sex work is only ok if just tech oligarchs are profiting off it and not marginalized women or minorities who depend on it to survive?

The Verge @theverge.com · 22h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1h

If your descendants view you as a hero, as an impossible ideal to live up to, that means society has gone backwards.

That John Brown is still an aspirational goal and not the reality for most of us white people is an indictment, not praise.

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Em Bee @emleebeebee.bsky.social · 3h

a reminder that tear gas is an abortificant

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 3h

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 2h

and, even more controversially, that good things are good! and should be done! however this whole thing goes, it is hugely gratifying to see, in a landscape where so many people are paid huge amounts of money to make you feel like an insane freak for thinking things could be better

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 2h

I struggle to fully allow myself to be politically hopeful on account of being burned over and over again for my entire adult life, but god it does feel good to see Zack Polanski on all the horrible shows calmly and articulately telling the horrible presenters that bad things are actually bad

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2h

what is it with these guys and blue hair? the last time i even saw blue hair with any kind of frequency was like a decade ago lol

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Rep. Pat Harrigan: "This No Kings rally -- that's the blue hair, anthropomorphic experiment that's gonna happen up here in Washington DC."

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 2h

no one is buying your clintonism anymore. it's DOA. time to wander in the wilderness or go MAGA or join the greens or whatever. you're dead but your brain just hasn't caught up to that just yet

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 2h

you've lost the "ive had it" wine moms. you've lost msnbc. youve lost the bulwark guys. you've lost bill kristol. you're finished

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 2h

a growing block of our already wildly disaffected voters are stupid, ugly, and nihilistic. i enjoy hectoring and marginalizing them before and after every "the most important election in history"

Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 23h

Leftists are just wreckers. They are a huge part of why we currently have no bench.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 2h

Hold up. Who is the "they" who realised they had no shot? Because the right, radicalised by Obama, are victorious and ascendant while the democrats stand around confused and bewildered, right? Like that's the current lay of the land?

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leona lurid, transgender extremist @leonalurid.bsky.social · 2h

yeah like i may not have understood Critical Race Theory at twelve years of age but i knew my grandma was full of shit when she said Black people liked being called “negroes” in her day

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Weird Al Jazeera @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 2h

this is unbelievably stupid lol. they didnt hide it, you just didnt pay attention!!! i guarantee every poc on earth saw your nazi parents and crossed the fucking street

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 6h

My parents' generation was super racist, but they took pains to hide it from us. So a lot of young conservatives in the 90s and early aughts were earnest small government and/or evangelical types.

As I said, the overt racists and radicals had to form their own orgs.

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