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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 6h

They have to be able to write 1000 words on how The Tempest is a critique of Colonialism?

Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 17h

Got you - yes agreed, kind of what I was getting at in the original post, it just comes across as transparently insincere and cynical

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 18h

Not sure I'm catching your drift as regards the conspiracy theory aspect?

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 18h

Maybe openly communicating that you see it as a matter of domestic political voter management is part of the problem

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 23h

Labour MPs reckon that if the ceasefire holds it will be harder for opponents to mobilize against them over the Israel-Palestine issue in the next election. There are concerns though about whether the fragile agreement will hold. More in London Playbook PM.

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 19h

Surprise!

Politico @politico.com · 22h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 19h

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 1d

Funny how one of the best pro-natalist policies in the Polish context would be... abortion liberalisation

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 1d

On a related note, striking how many of the big names in conservative aligned journalism have migrated to the US...

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 1d

Introspection is not very zeigeisty

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 6d

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 7d

There was certainly something recently which monopolised all public debate and paralysed all policy initiative in the UK for the better part of a decade, and I dont think it was trans rights.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 7d

"While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors," says Kemi Badenoch.

I cannot be the only person curious about how these two things are related

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 6d

Need more processing power on my laptop, mine struggles as it is

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 6d

What can I say, I have ADHD

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 6d

50-60 usually

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 6d

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 6d

The whole piece is just hackneyed bigotry which doesn't stand up to scrutiny, only someone with no experience of dealing with the HO could claim 'the governing class insists on uncontrolled immigration', as if Windrush never happened. Likewise the assertion that only certain minorities practice VAWG

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 6d

Its all those DEI officers

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Dmytro Spivakov @dmytro-spivakov.bsky.social · 9d

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 10d

Yes, as was pointed out in the US context and we're seeing the effects of this as repressive policies have been scaled up

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 10d

I agree on this point, you can see it in the way she just copy and pastes stuff from the US without bothering to customise it for the UK context first which she absolutely could do while maintaining the core essence

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 10d

A while back, somone (@jonnelledge.bsky.social maybe?) listed some of the reasons asylum seekers win on appeal and it's like 'HO official confused two different African countries'

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 10d

Citizens and long-term legal residents. Windrush on crack

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 10d

Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.

Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 10d

My estimations of the current Tory leadership were already pretty low but I did think they might baulk at this kind of stuff - this is just one example of the kind of stuff I've seen on my TL every day for past 9 months

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10d

Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!

Petitioner’s counsel has requested documentation of a judicial warrant for his arrest, any charging documents, or other authority supporting his detention. See Santiago Decl. ¶¶ 18–20. ICE has provided no response. Id. To date, ICE has not placed Petitioner in removal proceedings, charged him with violating immigration law, set bond, issued a Notice to Appear, or otherwise processed him. See Pet. ¶¶ 16, 49. In Respondent’s Opposition brief, the government states “ICE intends to take further action consistent with the laws prescribed under the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) once Petitioner is released from medical care and it can conduct the examination as [prescribed] in 8 C.F.R § 287.3.” Opp. at 4. Neither Petitioner nor Respondents have provided the Court with information about Petitioner’s citizenship, whether he has violated any law or regulation, or any information that would suggest that Petitioner is a flight risk.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 10d

Just not sure, really not sure, that I'd follow Kemi Badenoch as an example of the USA as a country that is protecting human rights without being in the ECHR.

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 10d

I'd say we've already had that, people have been shot and killed by ICE, but I take the wider point about greater public awareness. I would also add that it wasn't that long ago that it was broadly accepted that the 'hostile environment' had resulted in grave injustices to the Windrush generation

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 11d

There are some in the Tory party whose priority appears to be making sure that the corpse is at least nicely turned out for the occasion

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