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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 6h

Moreover - young men are not moving en masse to the far right any more than they are to the far left. Citing the empty-headed Yarvin and « pre-civilisational masculinity » as if they were of any merit whatsoever is just embarrassing for all concerned

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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 6h

This is absolute nonsense. Today’s far right are distinguished for how few ideas they have, compared to say Italian fascism 100 years ago. It’s 100% retread - kirche küche kinder and retargeted anti-Semitism. Even the slogans are backward looking - great AGAIN, take BACK.

David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 9h

But, grumpy old man that I am, I do think "intellectual energy" and "a fresh fizz of ideas" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, although I accept that many of the ideas of the '60s were throwbacks to earlier times (such as the Levellers and Diggers).

In the panic about young people flirting with fascism, this difference is important. Because one of the main reasons the young are drifting not just to the right, but to the radical or even far right, is its intellectual energy a fresh fizz of ideas about the ways in which we organise society. That appeals to young people looking for something to get excited about, and something that feels like a departure from a rebellion against - what their stodgy liberal parents believe.

And while there are plenty of prominent theorists on the right offering radical ideas Yarvin himself argues that democracy should be replaced with monarchy - there is a distinct deficit of such thinkers, or even of new ideas, on the left. The young men who might once have been excited about Noam Chomsky's arguments about the media manufacturing consent are now immersing themselves in the pseudonymous rightwing writer Bronze Age Pervert's Nietzschean critiques of modernity, and his enthusiasm for pre-civilisational masculinity.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

"Send them back where they came from" not good enough when they have embarrassed the administration. They must be deported to a place where he might be tortured.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 7h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 7h

12 October 1940 | Dutch Jew, David Costima, was born in Amsterdam.

In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork. He was murdered in a gas chamber with his elder brother Isaäc.
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The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

Photo of two boys. Elder is sitting and wearing a dark suit. His baby brother in white clothes is sitting in front of him.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

Good for them: it is a violation of the Hatch Act that limits the use of public assets for partisan messaging. Orgeon has its own version of that law, and covers those who run the airport. Other airport administrators should look to see if they are in the same position.

Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 7h

PDX continuing to show why it's the best airport in the country.

PDX chooses not to air video of Sec. Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown

The Port of Portland is choosing not to broadcast a new video that shows DHS Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the federal government shutdown."Democr

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KS_1968 @karenroberts.bsky.social · 6h

Its not unusual. We have an estate village near us. All doors and windows have to be the estate colour as its a conservation area. Does look nice though.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 7h

I would pilgrimage to Boris Johnson's 40 new hospitals. (It would be a short trip.)

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 7h

What policy themed visitor trail would you do upon retirement? I would pilgrimage to visit the 100 Rishi Sunak outdoor chess sets around the country. I genuinely think it would be one of those fun random things that would take me to places I’d never otherwise go to

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7h

Trump ‘looking at all options’ amid threats to invoke Insurrection Act, Vance says

Vice-president calls crime ‘out of control’ in US cities as Trump faces legal battles for use of federal forces The White House is talking about invoking the Insurrection Act that would allow the deployment of military troops on US soil to quell domestic unrest amid legal challenges over the moves, JD Vance confirmed on Sunday. Vance was asked on NBC News’s Meet the Press whether Donald Trump was seriously considering invoking the emergency power to deploy national guard forces and even the US military in domestic settings. Continue reading...

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 7h

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 7h

Anyone writing about the influence of these thinkers really needs to provide detail on what they have actually written. Most of it is incoherent, lacking any substance and often downright weird.

Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 7h

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

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KS_1968 @karenroberts.bsky.social · 6h

🤣 I do love a wiki rabbit hole.

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Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 7h

Entertaining life.
As long as you're not on the receiving end of his hitmen, I am sure he was great fun...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B...

World War II
In 1936, Berman and his crew had violently disrupted meetings of the Silver Shirts, an American fascist and pro-Nazi organization, at a Minneapolis Elks Club and elsewhere.[11] Susan Berman later learned that the Nuremberg Laws and the Holocaust enraged her father so intensely that he enlisted in the Canadian Army. Berman had, in fact, previously been turned away by the United States military for being a convicted felon. In addition, the attack on Pearl Harbor had not yet brought the United States into World War II.

Berman and his Minnesota friend Nathan Gittlewich both fought in the European Theater as soldiers with the 18th Armoured Car Regiment, 12th Manitoba Dragoons, II Canadian Corps, which first experienced combat during the Normandy Landings. Berman was well-liked, and his fellow soldiers did not know that he was a major figure in Jewish-American organized crime. After being severely wounded by enemy fire, briefly presumed dead, and declared unfit for further active service, Berman returned to the Twin Cities.

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KS_1968 @karenroberts.bsky.social · 6h

That wiki entry led to read abt the leader of the Silver Shirts. 😱😱

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 7h

Thank you to everyone who came to my final preview tonight at @poodleclub.bsky.social! A really lovely crowd and a great way to finish my preparations for my tour. I'm really excited about taking the show on the road from next week!

www.livenation.co.uk/matt-green-t...

Matt Green Tickets, Tour and Concert Dates – www.livenation.co.uk

www.livenation.co.uk

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 6h

“Irrelevant”? The Power Trip at Durham County Council

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“Irrelevant”? The Power Trip at Durham County Council

When elected representatives start calling other elected representatives “irrelevant,” democracy begins to erode from within.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 6h

They do have a perfectly plausible* “growth was starting to return, then we left the EU by mistake”
argument available to them.
*note: this isn’t the same as “I agree with it”, just “I think it fits the available facts”.

Yuriy Akopov @yakopov.me · 7h

I sometimes think how frustrating it probably was for Cameron and Osborne. They did everything by the book, and the book says that when you cut the fat and weather the immediate storm, you then get growth and dynamism in response... and that part simply never happened!

Marwood @marwoodlennox.bsky.social · 8h

For the past 40 days reactionary assaults on the welfare state have been part premised on the idea that welfare is a corrupting force that erodes values and then they cut it, everything gets a bit worse and values don't change.

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KS_1968 @karenroberts.bsky.social · 7h

news.sky.com/story/woman-...

Woman arrested on suspicion of murder after death of two children in Stafford

The next of kin of the two children, named as two-year-old Meraj Ul Zahra, and three-year-old Abdul Momin Alfaateh, have been informed and are being supported by specially-trained officers, police sai...

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Jacob Redman @jacob-redman.bsky.social · 7h

🗃️ FLASHBACK: Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy addresses his views on the separation of church and state on CBS’ Face the Nation. October 1960.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 8h

This is simply the EU enforcing its existing border controls by means of a new system, not a "threat to throw out second home owners". Again Brexiters believe that the UK should have border controls as regards the EU, but not the other way around.

Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 2d

Entirely unsurprising that the Holiday Villa 'Ndrangheta have found politcal allies at last in the shape of Reform UK.

Reform really do hypocrisy very well.

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H/T @goodclimate.bsky.social & @rolandmcs.bsky.social

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 2d

They are *very* opposed to overstayers in the UK, but want Britons - because they're British - to be given a bye in Spain and elsewhere in Europe.

This fits with the exceptionalists who argue that Britons should have special treatment and not have to follow the European border code.

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 2d

Entirely unsurprising that the Holiday Villa 'Ndrangheta have found politcal allies at last in the shape of Reform UK.

Reform really do hypocrisy very well.

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H/T @goodclimate.bsky.social & @rolandmcs.bsky.social

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James Tarry @northamptonian.bsky.social · 1d

Off to watch a play I’ve never seen before, in one of the 4 remaining medieval round churches. Should be a good experience.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13h

China warns US of retaliation over Trump’s 100% tariffs threat

Investors brace for another bout of trade war turmoil as Beijing says it will act if US president fails to back down Beijing has told the US it will retaliate if Donald Trump fails to back down on his threat to impose 100% tariffs on Chinese imports as investors brace for another bout of trade war turmoil. China’s commerce ministry blamed Washington for raising trade tensions between the two countries after Trump announced on Friday that he would impose the additional tariffs on China’s exports to the US, along with new controls on critical software, by 1 November. Continue reading...

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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 13h

You know where I stand on child poverty.

Give me a mandate to do more, so I can act as members’ voice at the Cabinet table arguing for good, Labour policies.

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 13h

President Zelenskyy spoke with President Trump for the second time in two days, discussing protection of lives in Ukraine, strengthening air defense, long-range capabilities and energy sector details, Zelenskyy said.

WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 1d

President Zelenskyy has been speaking with President Trump over the past half hour, Office Head Yermak reported.

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