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Patrick Osgood
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.
As a fascist trend, the anti-gender movement supports ever strengthening forms of authoritarianism. Its tactics encourage state powers to intervene in university programs, to censor art and television programming, to forbid trans people their legal rights, to ban LGBTQI people from public spaces, to undermine reproductive freedom and the struggle against violence directed at women, children, and LGBTQI people. It threatens violence against those, including migrants, who have become cast as demonic forces and whose suppression or expulsion promises to restore a national order under duress.
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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mjrobbins.com
ICYMI, why the ‘rubbish mountain’ will likely be there for years.
mjrobbins.com Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com · 1d
My latest: in which I visit Oxfordshire's 'Rubbish Mountain', buy a Twirl in the country's most violent Sainsbury's, and explore the absolutely dismal response of the Environment Agency.
Rubbish Mountain
A gigantic pile of rubbish was dumped in a field in Oxfordshire. The response sums up everything wrong with British bureaucracy.
martinrobbins.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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profsob.bsky.social
If it were steel works we would have a government bailout plan, yet losing thousands of jobs at unis is met with a shrug. & unlike steelworks universities were profitable when they had foreign students.
You are killing the golden goose… one of our best exports…

HOW IS THIS HELPING GROWTH?!
andywestwood.bsky.social Andy Westwood @andywestwood.bsky.social · 4h
Every sympathy for University of Essex (and pressures facing them) but this is very bad news for Southend.

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
Essex university to cut 400 jobs as overseas student numbers plummet
Roles to be lost are part of wave of redundancy programmes across UK’s higher education sector
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December 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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drewharwell.com
It's become normal now for high-level political figures to argue that an entire generation was brainwashed through fake videos into mass anti-Israel political mobilization by TikTok. Complete conspiracy thinking, rooted in zero evidence, based on nothing
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14h
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.

She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Trump has now pardoned a murderous drug lord who smuggled 400 tons of cocaine into the country, AND the guy who ran the Dark Web's biggest drug marketplace.
December 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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bubbaprog.xyz
NYT headline: Hillary Clinton Calls Many Trump Backers ‚Deplorables, and G.O.P. Pounces
December 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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zachsdorfman.bsky.social
A major drug trafficker who bragged about “stuffing drugs up gringos’s noses,” walked out of prison a free man *today*, pardoned by POTUS. We are beyond logic, beyond policy, beyond coherence, amid the vapors of animal spirits, desperately in need of a new political grammar to understand our world
shipwreck75.bsky.social Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 17h
Trump says any country involved in drug trafficking to the U.S. is “subject to attack.” -Reuters
December 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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atrupar.com
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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akivamcohen.bsky.social
Note: He is expressly saying "the murders we are doing are with the President's express approval" and the President is nodding along as he says it; this is not going to be a complicated war crimes trial if the Hague ever gets its hands on either of them
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h
Hegseth: "We've only just begun striking narco boats and putting narcoterrorists at the bottom of the ocean"
December 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
my god this is hilarious. "Yes, thank you for taking my question. What do you think is currently the best way to show our loyalty to Maximum Leader Donald Trump?"
brendannyhan.bsky.social Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18h
North Korean-style. A Potemkin village of fake journalists.
December 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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gregk.co.uk
Every single time I catch the radio now it’s just asylum seekers, demographics debates and wailing and gnashing. The whole British media is going to keep baiting this bear and it feels so hopeless.
December 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
patrickosgood.bsky.social
Christ. You are not serious people etc
jamesomalley.co.uk James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 20h
Pinched this video from @cjsnowdon.bsky.social on Twitter because Bluesky has to see it.

Nothing can prepare you for the punchline here.
December 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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cnlester.bsky.social
It was only 12 years ago that the coroner at Lucy Meadows' inquest blamed the media for playing a part in her death, hounding her for daring to be a trans woman who was also a teacher. Making trans lives unliveable - making us unhirable - is recent history.

www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/may/...
December 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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ulycia.bsky.social
i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry

girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
This update includes information you may find upsetting. Please take care when reading. From today, it is with a heavy heart that we announce trans girls will no longer be able to join Girlguiding. This is a decision we would have preferred not to make, and we know that this may be upsetting for members of our community. There will be no immediate changes for current young members, but more information will be shared soon. Most adult roles - including unit helpers, district helpers and administrative support - are already open to all, so we are confident that no volunteers will have to leave the organisation. Girlguiding believes strongly in inclusion, and we will continue to support young people and adults in marginalised groups. Over the next few months, we will explore opportunities to champion this value and actively support young people who need us. We stand in solidarity with trans girls and women.
December 2, 2025 at 2:33 PM
patrickosgood.bsky.social
Iraq-ification of America, everywhere
peark.es George Pearkes @peark.es · 20h
Chris Wright is just hilariously bad at all this.

*US PLANS TO TAP UNUSED DIESEL GENERATORS FOR MORE POWER: WRIGHT
December 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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abrightgreencity.bsky.social
Three panels Panel one: A dog holding a Frisbee Caption: Pls spend boost economy Panel two: Someone reaching for the Frisbee, the dog is angry. NO WAGE! Panel three: Close up on the angry dog. ONLY SPEND!
December 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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jennycohn.bsky.social
Prospera Honduras is a Zone for Employment & Economic Development (ZEDE) backed by Peter Thiel. Trump plans to pardon the former Honduran president who championed ZEDES b4 his drug trafficking conviction. Honduras current outgoing president has tried to eliminate ZEDES, an obstacle for Prospera.
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Prospera: Honduras' Bitcoin City Project
Prospera is Honduras' Bitcoin City project. Located on the island of Roatan in the Caribbean Sea, it faces several challenges.
colombiaone.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
"Prosecute ICE" should be a basic position for Democrats at this point.
" The abuses of ICE need to be prosecuted," he said. "Yes. Not just defunded — prosecuted. They need to be held accountable to the law that they claim to enforce."
December 2, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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sodrock.bsky.social
They deserve the backlash for being stupid enough to think the drunk Fox News host and co. weren’t going to throw them under the bus
December 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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joshgondelman.bsky.social
Pretty impressive that through this entire scandal and press blitz, RFK Jr. hasn't lost focus on his life's work of shortening the life expectancy of the average American and endangering the lives of children.
December 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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theonion.com
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market
BOSTON—Stressing that the move would help keep digital currencies liquid through the coming year, crypto leaders called for an infusion of 20 million dopes Thursday to stabilize the market. “We’re cal...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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cyberotters.bsky.social
Wait, so it's all legal and above board but also not ordered by the SECDEF? That's contradictory for two reasons: 1) SOCOM does things because the SECDEF tells them to. 2) Why would SECDEF not take credit for a totally legal thing that's also his job?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
REPORTER: Does the administration deny that that second strike happened, or did it happen and the administration denies that Hegseth gave the order?

LEAVITT: The latter. Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes. He worked well within his authority and the law.
December 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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gregk.co.uk
It's taken ~10-15 years for this information to come out via a whistleblower and UK government consistently demurs on prosecuting British soldiers for war crimes so, again, what are we to make of these statements
N1466 said the killings were a “stain” on the reputation of the special forces and sacrifice of others. He told the inquiry: “We didn’t join UKSF for this sort of behaviour – toddlers to get shot in their beds or random killing. It’s not special, it’s not elite, it’s not what we stand for and most of us, I don’t believe, would either wish to condone it or to cover it up.” A Ministry of Defence spokesperson said: “The government is fully committed to supporting the independent inquiry relating to Afghanistan as it continues its work, and we are hugely grateful to all former and current defence employees who have so far given evidence. “We also remain committed to providing the support that our special forces deserve, whilst maintaining the transparency and accountability that the British people rightly expect from their armed forces. It is appropriate that we await the outcome of the inquiry’s work before commenting further.”
December 1, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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gregk.co.uk
What are we to make of a military unit which conducts itself in this manner
He told the inquiry the director ordered a review of tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) as a way of avoiding external scrutiny. He said: “It was blatantly clear from the statistics and the patterns that there was something wrong here … I believe he knew it wasn’t … a problem with the TTP.” He added: “The root problem was the intent [to kill].” After leaving the special forces for a period, N1466 returned in 2014 to find evidence that killings had continued. A summary of his evidence said: “It was apparent when he came back to UK special forces in 2014 that it had not stopped at all. In fact, it had carried on at least into 2013. He found that quite shocking.” When he reported concerns to the military police in 2015, N1466 complained he was “part of an organisation which allowed rogue elements to act as they did outside the law”. Citing one raid, he told the military police that special forces shot at a mosquito net until there was no movement. He said: “When the net was uncovered it was women and children. The incident was covered up and the individual who did the shooting was given some form of award to make it look legitimate.” When reviewing accounts of SAS raids, N1466 was alarmed to notice a sharp rise in the ratio of killings to recovered weapons in SAS raids. In one raid nine Afghans were killed and only three rifles recovered. There were also repeated examples of detainees being taken along to raids and then shot dead. He said: “We are talking about war crimes … taking detainees back on target and executing them, with the pretence being that they conducted violence against the forces … As detainees, UKSF owed a duty of care to them under the Geneva conventions. To have repeated breaches of the Geneva conventions was clearly not acceptable.” N1466 also cited suspicion that weapons were being planted on the victims. And he pointed to photographic evidence suggesting that victims were shot in the head at close range, including as they slept.
December 1, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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sifill.bsky.social
We have a cabinet level Secretary of State, a diplomatic corps, Special Envoys, and Defense team to do this work.

“Son-in-law” is not a government job. Kushner does not represent us.
November 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM