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merlinslaugh.bsky.social
Right?😂 it’s just grown and grown
merlinslaugh.bsky.social
Where’s this argument when they’re banning books in school libraries?
theferocity.bsky.social
…”Grow up”???????
merlinslaugh.bsky.social
It’s the embodiment of the quote from L B Johnson in 1960. Decades later and nothing has changed. Racism is their drug and they’re addicts.
The Lyndon B Johnson quote “if you can convince the lowest white man that he’s better than the best coloured man he won’t notice you picking his pocket. Hell, give him someone to look down on and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
merlinslaugh.bsky.social
This is why confrontation, withdrawal and distance work as tactics. This is why you confront your racist uncle at the Xmas table. Their need to be liked may well be a huge factor in their ultimate downfall.
merlinslaugh.bsky.social
Anyone wanting to understand how bad it was should read the increasingly desperate letters, begging the UK govt for the lives of his kids, from Anita Lasker Wallfisch’s father that are copied in her book.
FYI Mr Lasker and his wife died shot to death on a mass grave they themselves had to dig.
ottoenglish.bsky.social
Wilfred refers back to the prewar refugees to UK and kindertransport and says, "Back then, it was different."

It wasn't. It was the very definition of a hostile environment for refugees.

The reason it was "kinder" transport was because hate was whipped up against adults fleeing Nazi Germany. 1/2
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joshuaholland.bsky.social
That young Republican group chat reminds me of every single police group chat that’s ever been leaked.
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
GOP’s labor market policy is market protectionism for white men.
joshsternberg.com
"For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row...with women earning 80.9 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2024. That compares to women earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2022."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office
Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.
www.washingtonpost.com
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tomtomorrow.bsky.social
this man's marriage would not exist if not for a previous generation of people marching for their rights.
atrupar.com
Bessent: "This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is a big title. No Kings equals no paychecks."
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andrewkarre.bsky.social
I am begging people outside the book industry to understand that what we’re experiencing is not merely a surge in book banning but a coordinated effort to end libraries and librarianship in America. 4/4
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elmcitytree.blacksky.app
White people’s insistence that other white people—especially the ones exhibiting morally questionable behavior—deserve the benefit of the doubt is going to kill us all.
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jensfoell.de
Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.
hypervisible.blacksky.app
“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”
AI is changing how we quantify pain
Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.
www.technologyreview.com
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karnythia.bsky.social
I'm not slut shaming Olivia Nuzzi, I'm just saying that if you find a Nazi Cryptkeeper hot we don't need to understand each other
merlinslaugh.bsky.social
I could help them out with that no problem.
celebitchy.bsky.social
Buckingham Palace doesn’t know what else to do about Prince Andrew www.celebitchy.com/945102/
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rincewind.run
"republican staffers are all literal nazis" is less of a groupchat thing and more of a posting on main thing at this point
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toddstein.bsky.social
It's not amazing. It's their business model.
jodyavirgan.com
Kind of amazing that the photo Politico used of one of these folks -- the one who made a joke about gas chambers -- is from an event that Politico sponsored last summer.
Peter Giunta participates in a CNN-POLITICO Grill discussion at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, July 16, 2024. | Rod Lamkey Jr. for POLITICO
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goodlawproject.org
Tl;Dr: lots of supposed free speech, anti cancel culture, activists are travelling to Oxford to try and cancel George Abaraonye for exercising his free speech.
merlinslaugh.bsky.social
Keir needs to be gone.
cityhobo61.bsky.social
'That means abandoning its race to keep up with the economy-sapping immigration policies of the man who brought us Brexit in the first place. Until the Government takes that step, the “severe and long-lasting” impact of leaving the EU...will just keep on getting worse.'
bylinetimes.bsky.social
🔴Keir Starmer’s ‘Brexit Is Bad, Let’s Make It a Bit Worse’ Strategy

The Chancellor just admitted that Brexit has been an economic disaster. It’s time the Government stopped making it even worse by imitating Nigel Farage’s damaging anti-migration agenda, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
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kendrawrites.com
A very simple thing would be to make it illegal to use the image of anyone who hasn't opted in to their image being used in AI.
merlinslaugh.bsky.social
This woman who rose above really shitty circumstances and died a lonely death, left a trove of movies and pictures and it’s still not enough.
jimmytwohands.bsky.social
It would be less disrespectful to dig up her bones and make them dance on marionette wires
sciam.bsky.social
Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies