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Manu Ekanayake

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Oh God, this is just what we do now, isn't it? Just go from platform to platform like some kind of ongoing Littlest Hobo scenario

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Manu Ekanayake @manueky.bsky.social · Apr 8

I handed in the first draft of this chapter just as Covid was hitting in 2020 but now, after delays of every conceivable type and that were mainly nothing to do with me, I'm happy to announce that I'm now a published academic author for the Oxford University Press:

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The Battle for London Nightlife

AbstractLondon is a central city in matters of nightlife, as they pertain to the four-decades-old culture of electronic dance music. The road to this promi

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, good luck with Digital ID Cards…

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 1d

Spooks on the BBC: “We have to climb onto the roof, through a skylight and plug this thumb drive into the Chinese server.”

Spooks on Chinese TV: “We’ve just bought the British data centre. Job done.”

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Manu Ekanayake @manueky.bsky.social · 1d

I can only see it as fundamental insecurity. A scarcity mindset that means that for them to have something, others cannot have it. Or if others have it, there's not enough for them. Rights, love, money, power - they always think there's not enough. Why? God only knows...

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Manu Ekanayake @manueky.bsky.social · 1d

I do understand and agree that his kind of radicalisation should be written about.

Manu Ekanayake @manueky.bsky.social · 1d

Damn, that is some heavy going. Rarely have I been so conflicted about whether a piece should exist - it's obviously incredible writing and clearly the fruit of gruelling research, but part of me feels that by delving into Roof's life he's being given a significance that he does not deserve, though

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 1d

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

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harpy halloween @harpy.party · May 24

more mayors should be cheeseburgers

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 8d

our values haven't changed. we still focus on marginalized communities, on young people and their priorities, on covering what mainstream media won't, even under hostile circumstances. people say that's what they want — so read us!

come hang @teenvogue.com

Politics

www.teenvogue.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 8d

"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?"

lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth

📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics

Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World"
"Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”
By Lex McMenamin

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Assata Shakur Was a Black Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom Even in Exile
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
By Marian Jones

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Inside Gen Z Candidate Kat Abughazaleh's Viral ICE Rally Tear-Gassing: "Fascism 101"
“If they are willing to do this to a congressional candidate in front of a bunch of press, imagine what they're doing behind boarded-up windows.”
By Maia McDonald

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Hurricane Helene Devastated Asheville. A Local LGBTQ+ Organization Is Supporting Youth — With Cash
“We know that [direct cash transfers] are the number one support for preventing youth homelessness.”
By Colleen Hamilton

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7d

"Garbage" is far too kind a description of what the Washington Post's ed page has become.

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The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 7d

“In Manchester, no-one can hear you clap.”

Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 7d

“I have in my hand something we should all respect and revere.”

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 13d

look at the map here -- more than 2000 protests planned already...

www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Manu Ekanayake @manueky.bsky.social · 7d

This a good summing up of why the Riyadh Comedy Festival and who played it - and who didn't - matters. And of the crimes of the Saudi regime against comedians, which you'd think would be of at least passing interest to dedicated free speech warriors like Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr & Whitney Cummings

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punitive amputation, jail for satirists … these are the human rights abuses fuelling the fury now being directed at the likes of Louis CK and Dave Chappelle. How have they reacted?

www.theguardian.com

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Bryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social · 7d

I mean, I'm no Public Relations expert, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that becoming renowned as "The Legalise Incest Guy" might be an almost entirely non-recoverable situation.

LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 7d

Charles Amos is the legalise incest guy. Insane they didn't do due diligence. www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 8d

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 8d

Kendrick should release another song about Drake just for the fuck of it.

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Manu Ekanayake @manueky.bsky.social · 8d

Absolutely. A pointless display of force. It looked like an episode of SWAT but with less guns. They were all jawing off too, like they were speeding. All it would have taken was to send a few undercovers for a meal to know the place weren't dangerous to anything apart from people's waistlines

Manu Ekanayake @manueky.bsky.social · 8d

It was the Mezbaan on Stroud Green Road. It never reopened :(

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 8d

This is the thing which leaps out about these people - their solution to things they don't like about the UK is to *explicitly borrow* from the model that produces more of it, by design!

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 8d

This piece literally refers to “British banlieus” though so he seems to believe France practices… the same integration policies as the UK?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 8d

If you want to read an actually good piece about integration in the United Kingdom, try @samfr.bsky.social:

The Truth About Integration

I have been challenged by readers to write something less depressing about the state of the country.

samf.substack.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 8d

The invective that Daisley hurls at Muslims he would have hurled at my great-grandparents when they came here and indeed much of it is still true of the ethnic group he slobbers over. 'Aggressive integration policies' do not work in France and would diminish Jewish life here in the UK.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 8d

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across 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.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 8d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Manu Ekanayake @manueky.bsky.social · 8d

Thinking "Knew I shouldn't have stayed for a late drink"

Manu Ekanayake @manueky.bsky.social · 8d

Gonna have our own ICE now are we? We already have the Border Force, whom I have never forgiven for busting my favourite Indian restaurant in Finsbury Park like they were raiding a crack factory, not rounding up some middle-aged blokes who seemed thoroughly confused and me, who felt much the same

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 8d

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 8d

Me ban English? That's unpossible

Kemi Badenoch holding the chocolate bar that the Tories handed out saying "Britian loses" plus some spelling mistakes added to the podium slogans.

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