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Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 20h

But do they have the concept of a plan?

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Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 2d

Oops, I meant repeating the same Russian talking points as Nathan Gill

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Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 2d

Farage repeating the same Russian talking points, making the same connections and moving in the same circles isn't proof that Farage is also a traitor but you'd think the UK media might ask a few questions about it.
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Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 3d

The super rich are so detached from ordinary people they may as well live in bunkers,metaphorical jewel-encrusted-gold-plated-bunkers but bunkers but bunkers nonetheless

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Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 6d

In the Ludlow Massacre (1914) The National Guard troops and company guards attacked a colony striking coal miners at Ludlow. They fired machine guns into the camp and set the tents on fire.

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Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 6d

In 1894 workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company, who lived in a company-controlled town near Chicago, went on strike to protest severe wage cuts. President Grover Cleveland, against the objections of the Illinois governor, sent 12,000 U.S. Army troops to Chicago. Dozens of strikers were killed.

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Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 9d

Badenouch wants to copy Milei's economic policy, and Trump's home policy... which populist will she copy next?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Kemi Badenoch: Argentinian president Javier Milei would be ‘template’ for my government

Tory leader says she can fulfil same role as Milei, a far-right leader promising big cuts to public spending

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 10d

Thing with the piggies with their snouts in the trough - they see all the other piggies slaking their greed, and this one is squealing

Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 10d

I've long thought Trump hates America. Donald called Boris Johnson "Britain Trump", that accolade better fits Farage.

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Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 10d

1. £1m - really?
2. How much of that is security for trips to the US (presumably not eligible for public funding)?
3. Doesn't the private security have to coordinate with police when in public spaces? Can't be much good if they can't work with regular security services.

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Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 11d

Does Mone think noone was upset with her before the Chancellor spoke?

Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 11d

It's almost as if people like Reform's policies... until they find out what they are.

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Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 11d

I don't remember this song version in the Sound of Music

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Edelweiss for Today: Epstein Files; A Sound of Music Challenge for Trump

YouTube video by Shirley Șerban

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Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 11d

But... but... but... Kemi doesn't make mistakes.

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Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 11d

"It's Thatcherism on steroids" said an approving Nigel Farage.
He also said the Liz Truss budget was the best since Thatcher's time.
Plus he's a big fan of Trump and Putin - both currently wrecking their economies.
And people want NF to be next PM?

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12d

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.

Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."

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Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 12d

You're right. Starmer should have waited for The Mail, The Telegraph and Chris Mason to call out Farage & Reform

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Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 16d

Steady on, didn't Kuenssberg ask exactly the same questions when Boris Johnson was embroiled in scandal after scandal... oh no that's righ, Laura fan-girled Boris for the entirety of his Premiership

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Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 17d

Trenchant critique of news media today*l

Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 18d

Apologies

Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 18d

Is it just me, or is the BBC very GB News-ish lately?

Can't think why...

Headline: Former GB News 'anti-woke' boss named new BBC News director.

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Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 19d

From Private Eye

Headline: Latest 'Big Beast' Defects To Reform
Picture: Chris Mason, senior BBC political correspondent

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Zach Rosenthal @zachrosenthal.bsky.social · 19d

Super proud of this collaboration with rockstar Ryan Raut - born out of playing in the sandbox in our last year of grad school! Multi-scale brain activity can be predicted from a simple measure of arousal like pupil diameter. Out with linear causality, in with dynamic systems to explain neurobiology

Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics - Nature

Reframing of arousal as a latent dynamical system can reconstruct multidimensional measurements of large-scale spatiotemporal brain dynamics on the timescale of seconds in mice.

www.nature.com

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Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 19d

Umm, sorry to break it to you but I don't think your President or the people around him will care about that distinction.

Remember the Trans Mice thing...

Headline: Transgender vs Transgenic Mice: Row Over Trump's Animal Experiments ClaimDonald Trump addressed a joint session of Congress this week and said the Biden administration spent $8 million on "making mice transgender".

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Richard Chin @richardchin.bsky.social · 19d

I would think polling voting intention this far ahead of a likely election is inherently unreliable, and almost certainly going to understate the incumbent party's support.

It will give the BBC a headache with their justification for saturation Reform coverage if Labour overtake Reform.

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