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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 1d

a 10/10 movie. astonishingly good.

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Harry Stopes @harrystopes.bsky.social · 7h

Fucking hell what a 🔔🔚

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d

Finally saw it and yeah it rules:

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Harry Stopes @harrystopes.bsky.social · 23h

The half-arsed nature of the Germany section of this article very much reinforces my low opinion of their Berlin correspondent www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

The Gaza effect: how a global pro-Palestine protest movement met repression and resistance

Across the west, solidarity marches are testing governments’ tolerance for dissent. From arrests to bans, free-speech boundaries are shifting

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Harry Stopes @harrystopes.bsky.social · 1d

nearly half said they were unsafe at the time of inspection. violence in british prisons makes the rehabilitation of prisoners which is their (purported) aim much more difficult to achieve.

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Harry Stopes @harrystopes.bsky.social · 1d

that somebody, even someone who committed the most depraved, unspeakable crimes, can be murdered in prison, is a problem. The last inspection of HMP Wakefield found that violent incidents had increased, and that 3 quarters of prisoners reported feeling unsafe at some point of their time there

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Harry Stopes @harrystopes.bsky.social · 1d

Und, es gab viel weniger als 150 leute bei sein Gegendemo

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 2d

An diesem intellektuell unredlichen Artikel stimmt nur eins: Wer heute von „Antideutschen“ spricht, verkennt die Historie… „Ultradeutsche“ wäre viel passender.
Trauriger Tiefpunkt: die Diffamierung der „All Eyes on Gaza“-Demo, inkl. Falschinformation

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Debatte um „Antideutsche“: Kampf gegen Gespenster

Wer heute von „Antideutschen“ spricht, verkennt die Historie hinter dieser Zuschreibung. Eine Antwort auf einen Debattentext an dieser Stelle.

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Harry Stopes @harrystopes.bsky.social · 2d

from where I was standing as we shuffled past them in our tens of thousands it was something along the lines of “we want the killing to continue!”

Harry Stopes @harrystopes.bsky.social · 2d

The death rattle of an intellectually impoverished faction of self-important hatemongering ghouls, raging against their increasing irrelevance since the German right wing has taken up their pet cause with gusto, putting behind it all the force of the rabid nationalism they always claimed to despise.

Debatte um „Antideutsche“: Kampf gegen Gespenster

Wer heute von „Antideutschen“ spricht, verkennt die Historie hinter dieser Zuschreibung. Eine Antwort auf einen Debattentext an dieser Stelle.

taz.de

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 2d

Their example of @eliferalp.bsky.social being "polarizing" is a quote with which we already know a supermajority of Berliners agree. So.

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Harry Stopes @harrystopes.bsky.social · 2d

to be fair this doesn’t sound very different from any other big US tv channel

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 3d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Emily Dische-Becker @emilydische.bsky.social · 2d

Reminds me of a volunteer fire fighter in East Germany who set fire to a refugee home, then reported for duty to put the fire out.

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Harry Stopes @harrystopes.bsky.social · 3d

Sie weigern sich also, sich Protesten gegen einen anhaltenden Genozid anzuschließen, weil Ihnen die Slogans einiger Demonstranten nicht gefallen (oder missverstehen)? Sad.

Harry Stopes @harrystopes.bsky.social · 3d

Can you post the abstract?

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Barry Glendenning @barryglendenning.bsky.social · 5d

Simon Jordan on TalkSport, unchallenged yet again.

As a Talksport employee, I am embarrassed by this rebuttal of what Neville said. This moron pontificates without question. It is bonkers.

And yeah, i'll probably be sacked. Fuck it.

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"APPALLING STANCE!" Simon Jordan rages at "COWARD" Gary Neville after Union Jack REMOVAL admission!

YouTube video by talkSPORT

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 3d

If Trump, who has put in zero effort and done it through hacks, can get here simply by yelling and being impatient, it's yet another reminder that Biden's steadfast support for the first 16 months of killing was a choice he made to disastrous consequences abroad and at home.

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Harry Stopes @harrystopes.bsky.social · 4d

Across Europe, the centre right is preparing the ground for coalition with the far right

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 4d

Jörgen Warborn, lead EPP negotiator on the file, repeated that if the Socialists and liberals don’t play ball, “then there is also another majority to build with.”

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 4d

🚨 BREAKING: Europe’s main political parties have agreed to roll back green rules for businesses after a whirlwind day of political negotiations that nearly collapsed the centrist ruling consensus.

Full story: www.politico.eu/article/soci...

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Harry Stopes @harrystopes.bsky.social · 4d

Give it Big Sam, he’s a wine man

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 6d

the extremely boring and simple and “we told you so” explanation is the post financial crisis austerity binge in which european institutions declared fiscal ‘discipline’ more important than democracy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 6d

If politics are going crazy in several European countries one after the other, I think it is time to go past blaming the failures of individual political actors (and there are quite a few, both in the UK and France) to looking at the systemic pressures our political systems are failing to deal with.

Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 6d

If you are overly focused on the admittedly increasingly batsh*t character of British politics, don‘t neglect the batsh*t character of French politics.

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 5d

Perhaps I just don't respect people who try to triangulate liberal values with supporting a state that can only function through means of exclusion. If SB thought about this for a few more steps, perhaps he'd realise at best, he's calling for a 'non violent' form of exclusionary ethno politics

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 5d

No interest really beefing with the guy, but have the people who are praising this piece actually read it ?https://www.ft.com/content/14d49f44-b8ed-40f0-8bc0-6aa233a48c3b

Israel seems more important — and less desirable — than ever for British Jews

Amid rising antisemitism at home, our lifeboat abroad seems less attractive

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Harry Stopes @harrystopes.bsky.social · 5d

Precision is an interesting choice of word

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Harry Stopes @harrystopes.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t think you get to call something an “insurance policy” if you demand that someone else pay the, apparently limitless, bloody price for it. What you have then is something much much uglier

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