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Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 7h

“a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely”. Or Trump’s America for short.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 8h

To be clear: these are the exact same folks who have been doxxing & putting people on must-fire lists for simply posting innocuous Charlie Kirk comments…

“the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 1d

Concerns about free speech being used to roll back rights. Well I never….

The “debate” on abortion should be simple. You get to choose not to have one. You don’t get to choose what anyone else does. The end.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Hugh x

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Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 3d

Unsolicited dik-dik pic

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Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 3d

I wouldn’t mind the flags if accompanied by signs like this ❤️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Signs of kindness put up along Nottingham road in place of flags

It is not clear who put up the signs, which have appeared on lamp-posts along a road in Nottingham.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Graham Caswell @grahamcaswell.bsky.social · 4d

We killed them all. Every last one of them. And now they will never be again.

They lived their Curlew lives, migrated, cared for their young, and had every right to be here - as much as ourselves. And they did us no harm.

And we killed them all.

International Wader Study Group @waderstudy.bsky.social · 4d

Today IUCN has officially declared the Slender-billed Curlew extinct, marking the first known global extinction of a formerly widespread migratory bird species whose range included mainland Europe, North Africa, and West Asia.

Read more here ⬇️
www.unep-aewa.org/fr/node/6632

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Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 3d

A 77 year old woman for God’s sake. If proven to be the motivation, yet more evidence of geriatric radicalisation that we absolutely should talk about.

Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 3d

Religious hate crimes continue to rise as a result of Farage, Jenrick and Robinson’s evil, racist rhetoric that clearly aims to divide racially integrated communities.

Man and child sprayed with substance in racist Worcester attack - BBC News

The victims "suffered minor irritation injuries" and a 77-year-old woman has been arrested.

www.bbc.com

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Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 3d

About bloody time. The persistent failure to recognise the stupidity of Brexit destroyed the Tories & would destroy Labour too, so they need to switch tack.

There is an apt Indian saying for this: they may arrive late, they may take the long road, but even idiots find their way home eventually.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 4d

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

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Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 4d

Lecornu

Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 4d

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

a woman says i am as shocked as you are in front of a #schittscreek logo

ALT: a woman says i am as shocked as you are in front of a #schittscreek logo

media.tenor.com

Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 5d

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 7d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 7d

Are you effing kidding me. Truly we are through the looking glass x

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 7d

Despicable and pathetic.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 7d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 7d

Birmingham, my home city, is a fantastic city, with fantastic people- a success story. It has its problems, like anywhere. But the obsession the online right has with it is as transparent as it gets.

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Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 8d

My head remains of the view that I should ignore the flags that are now all over where I live. But my heart contracts with fear and sadness every time I see one. They are doing exactly what those flying them want: making people like me feel unwelcome and miserable.

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Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah keep going Labour it’s totally working 🙄

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 10d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 34% (+2)
LAB: 21% (-1)
CON: 16% (-1)
LDM: 12% (-2)
GRN: 10% (+3)
SNP: 2% (-1)

Via @opiniumresearch.bsky.social, 1-3 Oct.
Changes w/ 24-26 Sep.

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Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 9d

Genius. Up there with the Michael Gove one IMHO

Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 11d

[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking]

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SOCRATES:
Plato..

PLATO:
Yes Socrates?

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SOCRATES:
Can you tell me, are you human?

PLATO:
Why… yes, Socrates

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SOCRATES:
And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is?

PLATO:
Um, yep

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SOCRATES:
So you can tell me, then

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[Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel]

SOCRATES:
*Is that a chariot*?

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PLATO:
Well
that’s more just a bit of wheel

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SOCRATES:
So not a *chariot*.

PLATO:
No.

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SOCRATES:
[Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes]

So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*?

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PLATO:
Well you can’t tap any of them really

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SOCRATES:
So are we not human?

PLATO:
‘Spose not.

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[Bleak pause]

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PLATO:
I’ll get the hemlock

SOCRATES:
Yeah

[ends]

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 11d

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Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 11d

Good points here as always by @jimdickinson.bsky.social. But I have a fundamental objection to having to parse regulatory expectations by listening to podcasts or reading comments in press articles. If the OfS wants to give this level of guidance, it should do so formally.

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 11d

'The impression is of a regulator telling each audience what it wants to hear by pointing at one end of the see-saw, rather than grappling with the hard edges of the case law in ways that may temper expectations rather than raise them.'
Very good piece on OfS & free speech wonkhe.com/blogs/ofs-re...

OfS rebalances the free speech/harassment see-saw on antisemitism

A probing exchange with OfS director Arif Ahmed exposes the legal and practical tensions at the heart of campus free speech guidance. Jim Dickinson looks at when happens when promises to Jewish studen...

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · Aug 20

100 Women's Rights Organisations, including
@rapecrisis.bsky.social, @refugecharity.bsky.social, & @evawuk.bsky.social have signed a letter warning that attempts to link rape & violence against women & girls to immigration is a racist distraction.

They urge the govt to address dangerous narrative

screen shot from Mirror story covering the letter

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Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 12d

“Golden ticket”?!! JFC what a disgusting way to describe it. By granting asylum we accept that the person has been persecuted or threatened to the point of having to flee their home. Having something approximating a normal life isn’t a sodding golden ticket. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Starmer to end asylum ‘golden ticket’ of resettlement and family reunion rights

People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call ‘straight from populist playbook’

www.theguardian.com

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Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 13d

But of course!

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Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 13d

I for one am finding the proposition that America is just like Saudi Arabia increasingly easy to accept but possibly not for the same reasons as Billy Boy here. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

Bill Burr Defends Performing at Controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival: “They’re Just Like Us”

The actor-comedian details his experience at the event: "Definitely one of the top three experiences I've ever had ... I think it's going to lead to a lot of positive things."

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Smita Jamdar 🇺🇦 @smitajamdar.bsky.social · 15d

🤔

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15d

Supporting Reform’s ‘racist policy’ does not make voters racist, says Rachel Reeves – UK politics live

Chancellor backs Keir Starmer’s statement that policy to end indefinite leave to remain is racist, but says many Reform supporters would be ‘horrified’ by it

www.theguardian.com

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