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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13h

Nothing is real to MAGA, that's what you need to understand. Everything can be true or false at any time, or even the same time, depending on what they need to believe in order to feel catharsis. They have created vast, insular social environments for the purpose of endless emotional indulgence.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 1d

Reading this is very frustrating and not just because of Brexit. It is all about the political risk to discuss questions people do not want to hear. How is that kind of political debate going to lead to effective decision-making?
www.ft.com/content/3806...

Brexit blame game returns ahead of Budget

UK fiscal watchdog to link next month’s productivity downgrade to EU exit and Covid-19

www.ft.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

I was looking at Reform's policy again the other day. They're proposing a £60k salary for people on ILR keeping their visa. Which means pretty much every nurse on ILR would be a risk. It's insane.

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 2d

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 1d

I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org.

Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

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Nash0rn @nash0rn.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe I can also add a note to say that I'm finding it extremely sad and disappointing that British politics is so messed up these days.

There's a lot of work that needs picking up after the destruction caused by austerity and Brexit but no-one seems to want to talk about things that really matter.

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 2d

For no reason at all I thought this quote from Katie Lam MP would work in a different font. I thought I’d add a headline too.

Apropos of nothing in particular. Really, no reason at all.

Quote from Katie Lam, Conservative MP, on a worn parchment background in the gothic font Fraktur, famous for being used in Germany before 1945.

“There are also a lot of people in this country who came here legally, but in effect shouldn’t have been able to do so. It’s not the fault of the individuals who came here, they just shouldn’t have been able to do so.

They will also need to go home.

What that will leave is a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people.”

There is also a headline, added by me and not part of the original quote or article, that reads:
“Declaration by Katie Lam
on
The Problem of the Immigrants”

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Nash0rn @nash0rn.bsky.social · 1d

I thought I'd translate this into contemporary German c1932, when the party was in opposition.

Quote from Katie Lam, Conservative MP, on a worn parchment background in the gothic font Fraktur, translated into German.

"Es gibt auch viele Menschen in diesem Lande, die legal eingereist sind, doch deren Einreise niemals hätte zugelassen werden dürfen. Es ist nicht die Schuld derjenigen, die hier hergekommen sind, doch sie hätten es einfach nicht dürfen.

Auch sie werden nach Hause gehen müssen. Zurück bleiben wird eine Gruppe von Menschen, die größtenteils, wenn auch nicht vollständig kulturell kohärent ist.“

There is also a headline, not part of the original quote or article, that reads: “Erklärung von Katie Lam über Das Problem der Einwanderer"

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Nash0rn @nash0rn.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you - to be completely fair, in the 1930s the last paragraph would have been even more aggressive, with more really vile language added to it.

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Nash0rn @nash0rn.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine this being barked at you in a screaming voice that is nearly breaking up.

For a moment I was tempted to add some party symbols to it to improve the illustration, but then thought better of it.

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Nash0rn @nash0rn.bsky.social · 1d

I thought I'd translate this into contemporary German c1932, when the party was in opposition.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 2d

If there is any sanity left in America then Donald Trump leaning in to the No Kings accusations with these dire AI videos should make the #NoKings movement even stronger.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2d

It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.

And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 2d

If the administration has such great evidence that these targets are narcoterrorists who pose an imminent threat to the national security of the United States, why are they not being tried in our criminal courts? 🤔

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Breaking news: The United States plans to repatriate two alleged drug traffickers to Colombia and Ecuador after military forces attacked their vessel in the Caribbean on Thursday.

U.S. to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Colombia, Ecuador

It is unclear if the two surviving alleged drug smugglers have any links to Venezuelan criminal organizations.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 2d

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

"The New York Police Department said Saturday afternoon that it had not made any protest-related arrests. The D.C. police also said Saturday afternoon that it had made no protest-related arrests."

Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 2d

“A street carnival atmosphere took hold in many places and the mass gatherings remained largely peaceful through midafternoon Saturday.”

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No Kings protests against Trump draw huge crowds across the country

Gatherings had a street carnival atmosphere as demonstrators packed Times Square in New York and lined Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington on Saturday

www.washingtonpost.com

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 2d

"I hear very few people are gonna be there" -- Donald Trump, 10/15/25

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress nearly a month ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in. Why the delay? Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

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Nash0rn @nash0rn.bsky.social · 3d

And we thought that a Tory leader who is confusing Villa with West Ham was bad enough — remember that it can always get worse, much, much worse….

Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 3d

If Robert Jenrick thinks the story of 1980s football hooliganism is ‘The police put a quick but firm end to it’, I’ve a big bag of magic beans that he’s gonna *love*

Nash0rn @nash0rn.bsky.social · 3d

Baked beans can be greatly enhanced with slices of Frankfurter sausages - a game changer from unacceptable to quite delicious, especially if you put some parsley on top.

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zatapatique @zatapatique.bsky.social · 4d

Even in this place, I feel the sheer scale of foreign aid being demolished isn't fully appreciated. As it stands, it is perhaps *the* most catastrophic change to preventable deaths in our lifetimes, and the salience - even in presumably friendly spaces - is basically zero

apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Nash0rn @nash0rn.bsky.social · 6d

It’s really hard to see how this can end well given Trump’s history on the peaceful transfer of power and the number of people in his camp including himself being at risk of prosecution once they relinquish their powerful positions.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 7d

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information

Defense department policy requires outlets to vow not to obtain unauthorized files and restricts access to some areas

www.theguardian.com

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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 7d

file under: the subtle humour of a homepage editor.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8d

👇🎯 Unbelievable chutzpah

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 8d

This is a logic of a 5 yo. A lower court HAS issued a long opinion resolving the issue. If you can't resolve the issue differently, don't issue an unexplained opinion that, for all functional purposes, resolve the issue in the exact opposite way.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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