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Nate O
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An ‘academic’ per Daily Mail ✡️ 🏳️‍🌈 (he/him)
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I'm old enough to remember (I'm over one year old) when we were all told to shut up about labour's left wing credentials because the renters rights and employment rights bills were on the way. how are those going lxds? how are my rights looking?
NEW: The UK Government have abandoned plans to give workers day-one protection against unfair dismissal in a bid to ensure it’s Employment Rights Bill makes it through Parliament 👇
Labour scrap day-one protection from unfair dismissal manifesto pledge in U-turn
www.thenational.scot
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Not sure the consent-manufacturing machine will work smoothly churning out this slop, but gird your loins for far more of this as America's economy collapses!
November 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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First they set up an arduous trial to try to justify more restrictions on puberty blockers for trans kids. Then they demand the trial be stopped because there is no such thing as a trans kid.
November 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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There is talk going around that DHS is now arresting people who fly *domestically* if they have final orders of removal.

Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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in case you missed it, the latest political philosophy podcast
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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It says everything that the CST, CAA, the JC, the board of deputies, Stop the Hate etc have said basically nothing about this clear antisemitism www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Don’t believe Nigel Farage’s denials. He targeted me for being Jewish – and it hurt | Peter Ettedgui
Now that my former classmate has finally spoken about the allegations of his behaviour at school, I feel compelled to address his points directly, says Peter Ettedgui, a film director and producer
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
Native American actress gave ICE agents her tribal ID. They called it 'fake,' she says
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Also remember that the average monthly rent payment will be more than the average mortage payment for the same property. I pay £200 more a month to rent a terraced house than my friends pay to own a semi-detatched, yet I'd never be given a mortage because I can't save because I'm paying so much rent
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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“Also for legal reasons, we’re not able to tell you what that line is.”

From a media law perspective: BS.

There is no "legal" reason for not publishing that line.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.

She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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There’s a reason Caesar was forbidden to cross the Rubicon and return to Rome with his army. It’s what separates a relatively free society from a fascist one.
Pirro: "These Guardsmen and all who are here to protect the District are the line that separates a civilized society from a barbaric one."
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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The old American saying "if you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" has it exactly wrong, as we see vividly illustrated by the wealthy, malevolent actors hell-bent on destroying every public good that has made the US prosperous...they're rich, but only "smart" in a reptilian, predatory way.
November 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Institutions are tools, like hammers or cars or dishwashers. They have no humanity and they have no rights.
November 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Yes I know I talk about this a lot but it bothers me. I've never seen an institution made homeless, an institution starve to death, or an institution put in a cage. No institution has ever been assaulted or killed. I've never gotten a call from a crying institution in the middle of the night.
November 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Noah Smith, the fool that could not follow the clear signs to make his connecting flight at Heathrow?
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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(This is why I am always singularly unconvinced by defenses of conservatives and bigots that hinge on their "compassion" or "concern" or "kindness" or "sympathy" or "wanting what's best for you".)
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Treating “Britain is too difficult, expensive and shit to live in” as a win is incredible
I'm not sure how much it is appreciated that there will be significant emigration coming. Those here on graduate visas coming to an end, the toughening up of skilled worker rules re. salaries/sponsorable roles and the 'earned settlement' changes to come. Lots of people are going to leave.
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Look, once a society decides some people need to be forcibly warehoused, there's gonna be a pile of bodies.

When Christians do this to you, they just tell themselves it's because they love you so much that they value your salvation more than your freedom or your survival.
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Real big "modus ponens or modus tollens?" here: "[This pile of dead children] is WORTH IT.... It must be, else 2 millennia of Christian civilization, in which oceans have been bridged, wars waged, continents conquered, & the lives of a million [martyrs] given in service ... all has been for nought."
November 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer

CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Christian colonizers famously never produced piles of dead children in the name of their God.
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM