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Phil McDuff

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · Aug 21

I have something else out in @novaramedia.com about Jenrick and the far right migrant hotels crisis.

Britain’s Elites Care Much More About Migrant Hotels Than the Public Does | Novara Media

The race rioters who burned out a car at the end of my street in Middlesbrough last summer were outnumbered the very next day by locals who came out to sweep up the glass, writes Phil McDuff.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 9m

This is so dangerous

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 17h

Generative video is going to destroy the world. Here I am, at a protest I never went to in a city that doesn’t exist being arrested by cops I’ve never met

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noted bones haver @noted.bones.haver.maia.cash · 3d

become the Roko's Basilisk you would like to see in the world

Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · Aug 14

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 47m

if i'm correct, it seems like the Israelis have killed more Israelis than Hamas have

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.bsky.social · 21h

one thing i will never forget and forever be sickened by was that the leader of the SNP's, the First Minister's, in-laws were literally being bombed in an active genocide and the press and most of the political establishment just didn't care

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 21h

Husam Zomlot thanked the people of Scotland in a rousing speech to SNP conference

🗣️ 'The Palestinian people will never forget the support of the people of Scotland when we needed it most'

Husam Zomlot thanks people of Scotland in rousing speech to SNP conference

www.thenational.scot

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21h

BBC News explain that because of Brexit, Brits will be photographed and have their fingerprints taken when going into the EU, as the UK now is a third country

BBC News forget to explain that the UK helped create these rules when we were part of the EU because we wanted stronger border control

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Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 1h

“Its lawyers are eager to point to supporters it has recruited from different political and religious areas — like Claire Fox” 🤔

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2h

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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Your Party 2: 🎃Season Of Dead Terfs🎃 @fasterfizzier.bsky.social · 1h

- Tony Blair fans, on days that end with a Y.

morrowind.txt @morrowind-txt.bsky.social · 1h

Let's not bring that one up again.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1h

The irony here is that everyone who wilfully collaborated in turning politics into this disastrous, idiotic shitshow really does deserve to be clamped into stocks and pelted with rotten fruit.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1h

Put it this way: I am every bit as worried that Labour are threatening Reform with violence as I was concerned that e.g. Stonewall are bigots, the Labour left are Hitlerian racists or the National Trust are anti-British traitors. These are the stupid prizes we have won for playing stupid games.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1h

Where might the arsehole Farage have got the idea he can profit by throwing himself down in the street and rolling about gargling in fake terror, screeching about how the left are bullying him

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 1h

It's going to be far less official state Gestapo and far more vigilante violence here.

Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 3h

Might just break out illustrator...

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Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 3h

i need a 'magneto was right' t-shirt but i can never find one satisfying enough

sexy ludovician @beardynoise.bsky.social · Aug 24

Not gay as in "I empathise with the plight of the X-men" but queer as in "Magneto was right"

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3h

Faith in the system depends upon people believing it is basically legit, and it has been impossible to believe that ever since we watched all of these clowns indulging that oaf, then ridding themselves of him when he became too embarrassing to tolerate.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3h

Bluntly, you cannot have senior political correspondents reading out obvious bullshit they’ve been sent by Dominic Cummings live on the ten o’clock news, and maintain the pretence that Britain is a functional democracy. It breaks the whole thing, makes it plain what it is and always was.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3h

In Britain specifically, “Prime Minister Boris Johnson” was the moment it was made very clear that everyone was lying and the whole system is a fraud, and what followed is not better, but somehow even worse. All of this stuff is also very bad, but right there is the core issue.

Alex von Tunzelmann
@alexvont.bsky.social
I bang on about this a lot: I think the combination of a global pandemic, underregulated internet/SM, collapse/ corruption of trustworthy media, plus now unregulated genAl, is a wildly toxic environment for radicalisation & mental health. We see the results of that in our politics & lives every day

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 4h

However you're now at the stage where the rich are so rich they believe themselves to be untouchable god kings who ought to own the sky and sea by right, and even the share they previously disbursed to the middle class feels intolerable to them.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 4h

Basically the point was, if the middle class identify with the rich, they won't organise to unionise and demand the rich reduce their share of the productive output of society, so we can still make money hand over fist.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 4h

The American middle class has basically been able to purchase whatever it wants whenever it wants for a whole generation. The American political project used to be geared towards maintaining that, and now it isn't.

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stuart @stuartp.bsky.social · 4h

the worst thing about protests is you're reminded of this guy's existence as he torturously tries to categorise a Big Bird costume as a dastardly antifa weapon

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 13h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 4h

The problem is Americans have been basically running on a massive surplus from dollar hegemony and imperial plunder for 60 years, and President Deals looks set to accidentally dismantle that because he doesn't understand the economy.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 4h

Ok but the USA has functionally been the consumer of last resort for the global capitalist production glut so this is even more absurdly simplified than you think. People who are paid good wages can buy more things than people who are paid low wages.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5h

A new week - and a new huge milestone!

@greenparty.org.uk now have 100,000 members!!!

We are absolutely on track to next overtake the Tories - let's make hope normal again!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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