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Nightmark on Elm Street @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 16h

Obviously a slip of the tongue, but I think “she champions the erosion of women’s rights” might be the first honest thing a supporter of JK Rowling has ever said about her.

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Jim Trinca @jimtrinca.bsky.social · 17h

It's insane that there are still hordes of useful idiots out there sincerely giving it "come on, you can't just call everyone you disagree with a Nazi" after a solid decade of this mask-off shit. They're trying to outlaw being anti-fascist! We're not making that up!

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 20h

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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Peter MᶜNamara @mcnanarama.bsky.social · 20h

Truly incredible messaging. Exactly the sort of thing you should be saying after governing with a huge majority for over a year

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 22h

Britain has lost control of its borders, home secretary admits on.ft.com/477w3pn

Britain has lost control of its borders, home secretary admits

Shabana Mahmood says public trust in state will be weakened unless politicians ‘bring order’ to immigration

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John Edwards @euclidianboxes.bsky.social · 20h

"I don't hear her talking about women's rights, I just hear her talking about trans people." absolutely spot on about Rowling.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21h

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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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21h

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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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d

"The book is absolutely chock full of pretty scandalous revelations"

Paul Holden on #politicslive talking about his new book 'The Fraud'

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d

Paul Holden, author of the new book 'The Fraud', asks Labour MP Emily Darlington what she knew about Labour Together & whether she cares that they broke the law for two and a half years.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

Put it this way: I am every bit as worried that Labour are threatening Reform with violence as I was concerned that e.g. Stonewall are bigots, the Labour left are Hitlerian racists or the National Trust are anti-British traitors. These are the stupid prizes we have won for playing stupid games.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

Where might the arsehole Farage have got the idea he can profit by throwing himself down in the street and rolling about gargling in fake terror, screeching about how the left are bullying him

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 3d

Men like Piers Morgan have found women in trans women who it is socially acceptable to abuse.

Every time they do this stuff they are telling you how they'd treat cis women if they could get away with it.

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Peter MᶜNamara @mcnanarama.bsky.social · 4d

is tron: ares just the movie Pixels

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Euan @euan.bsky.social · 5d

John Curtice said after the 2021 Holyrood elections that the launch of the Alba had actually helped the Scottish Greens by making people more aware of the idea of voting for a different pro-independence party on the regional ballot, and i wonder if Your Party is having a similar impact on the GPEW

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Robert Dallas Grue 🦇 @robertdallasgray.com · 5d

get someone who looks at you like
weird aggro centrist female journalists look at woody fuckin allen

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 5d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 5d

Lisa wheeling in a lifeless Bart saying MOM, DAD, BART’S DEAD!

BART popping to life and saying DEAD SERIOUS ABOUT GOING TO ITCHY AND SCRATCHYLAND

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DSM-6 Spoilers @flawedhowl.bsky.social · 5d

Really couldn't make it any clearer that liberals aren't opposed to fascism, they just don't like Trump, and they get really upset if you point this out to them

Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 5d

Bro blocked me for pointing out that she supports Trump, the strikes, and Israel’s genocide

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social • 1h
I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 5d

the final boss of "imagine if obama did it"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Naadir @randomvariable.co.uk · 5d

One more heave towards fascism will fix this

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

Starmer accused of pushing out some of last progressive allies in No 10 shake-up

Exclusive: PM is reorganising key parts of government to give chief secretary Darren Jones more Whitehall control • UK politics live – latest updates Keir Starmer has been accused of pushing some of his last remaining progressive allies out of government, as he embarks on another shake-up of his Downing Street operation designed to empower his chief secretary, Darren Jones. The prime minister is overseeing a reorganisation of several key parts of his government, including the delivery and policy units, to refocus the policy work and give Jones more direct control of the machinery of government. Continue reading...

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Peter MᶜNamara @mcnanarama.bsky.social · 5d

Michael Gove

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7d

This is maybe my least pro-market position: the good thing about drinking in a pub is there is an adult who can cut you off, something which cannot happen when you are drinking alone with the booze you bought at Tesco.

Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 7d

Should go further and tax supermarket beer at a higher rate than at the moment- raises revenue, targets the biggest source of binge drinking and might help get people back into pubs.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 7d

Omar Yaghi, the new Nobel Laureate, was born to a Palestinian refugee family.

NPR @npr.org · 7d

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share the prize. Their structures can "capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions," the committee said. n.pr/4nOvwQs

Research on metal-organic frameworks gets the chemistry Nobel Prize

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share the prize. Their structures can "capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions," the committee said.

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Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 7d

to be clear: you can drive a souped-up uninsured car with a fake numberplate at over 130mph while evading police, hit-and-run someone who later has his leg amputated, concoct an elaborate lie about it all, and be allowed to drive again in less than 6 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Merthyr Tydfil hit-and-run driver caught by Ring doorbell - BBC News

Anthony Tregonning reported his car stolen in an attempted cover-up before admitting he hit a worker.

www.bbc.co.uk

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 7d

Amazing to me that the number of people killed by cars continues to grow and you only ever hear about it if the news thinks the person driving the vehicle might be Muslim

Dan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 7d

to be clear: you can drive a souped-up uninsured car with a fake numberplate at over 130mph while evading police, hit-and-run someone who later has his leg amputated, concoct an elaborate lie about it all, and be allowed to drive again in less than 6 years www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Merthyr Tydfil hit-and-run driver caught by Ring doorbell - BBC News

Anthony Tregonning reported his car stolen in an attempted cover-up before admitting he hit a worker.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 7d

Ok. But are there any downsides?

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 8d

Robert Jenrick, who just said he doesn't want to live in a country filled with non-white faces, begins his speech with a series of jokes suggesting that David Lammy is thick

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