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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 8h

The consensus grown-up position is that drug misuse is a health issue, and so I’m not sure you can really write off *doctors* as “just one stakeholder group”. I mean, you *can*, but not if you’re having a pop at someone *else* for being unserious.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 8h

He’s certifiable

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump to Milei: "Do you need any Tomahawks in Argentina? You need them for your opposition, I guess, because in this country they use Tomahawks on the opposition. I don't do that. I'm much nicer. The Democrats would use them if they had the chance. They're sick people."

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

The man who bribed Gill - Oleh Voloshyn - is part of a much wider network of pro-Russian actors.

He worked with this guy, an FSB agent, who I've been fascinated by for years,

My investigation for @thenerve.news shows how Gill was a pawn in a Kremlin operation that spanned both Europe & US
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 9h

And another one gone!

Reform suspends a council in Kent following unofficial complaints from several female members of staff.

How many more of the May intake of Reform councillors will be gone by the end of the year?

Reform UK suspend Kent county councillor after complaint - BBC News

An investigation is pending into a complaint made by some women into the behaviour of Robert Ford.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 8h

centrist commentators who expect their own class’s drug use to go unpunished, enthusiastically stirring the pot for a “war on drugs” culture war, just to see off a surging party with some left aspirations, is it? 🤔

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 13h

Madagascar is in turmoil as a military faction stands by the recent youth-led anti-government protests.

Malagasy authorities need to undertake immediate and impartial investigations into the alleged killings and injuries to ensure accountability.

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Ian Boucher @desolationrow5.bsky.social · 13h

It’s infuriating. Building houses especially ‘affordable ones’ - which they are failing at - is the most obvious case for linking labour and skills to economic and social outcomes. Yet somehow they have a target with no plan and are making it harder to build houses and harder to make ‘affordable’!

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Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · 4d

MP defends government plans to restrict repeated protests.

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 17h

And, like we are, he is calling for policies that make it clear how trans inclusion is possible, and for trans exclusion to remain the exception.
Template MP letter here!

actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

Scrap the Bathroom Ban

🚨This is urgent🚨 Bridget Phillipson, the Minister for Women and Equalities, has a decision to make. The EHRC, a regulator mired in controversy over anti-trans views, has sent a new draft Code of Prac...

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Jennie Coughlin @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 15h

His father’s reply changed his perspective. “I was an Indian in Uganda. I was a Muslim in India. And I was all of these things in New York City,” Mahmood Mamdani explained to his son. And “to be a minority is also to see the truth of the place amidst the promise of it.”

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 13h

i had forgotten this moment

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 13h

Blaming immigrants is the far right’s favourite distraction. The real problem? Billionaires hoarding wealth and dodging taxes.

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Momentum @peoplesmomentum.bsky.social · 13h

Price controls could help tackle inflation.

But just like with wealth taxes, public ownership and reversing austerity, the Government is failing to act.

This is not the change voters voted for.

Sky News @news.sky.com · 14h

UK to have highest inflation in G7, IMF says

Price rises in the UK are to be the highest among the G7 club of industrialised nations, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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Sue Lukes @suelukes.bsky.social · 13h

one feels obliged to repost because then his views get aired. Is this a lobbyist version of the Streisand effect?

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 13h

Read this sorry story about how an academic was axed from conference panels because he was deemed too interesting.

He was told no one on the panel was expected to air difficult opinions in front of MPs that could damage the oil and gas sector

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Academic axed from Labour conference panel for criticising energy policy

Sustainability expert was told panellists discussing North Sea oil and gas were meant to ‘agree entirely’ with each other

www.theguardian.com

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 13h

Read this sorry story about how an academic was axed from conference panels because he was deemed too interesting.

He was told no one on the panel was expected to air difficult opinions in front of MPs that could damage the oil and gas sector

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Academic axed from Labour conference panel for criticising energy policy

Sustainability expert was told panellists discussing North Sea oil and gas were meant to ‘agree entirely’ with each other

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 13h

Not me.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 13h

This is absolutely nuts. As well as racist, xenophobic, deeply offensive and entirely ineffective.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 16h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1d

Bari’s billionaire sponsors are about to buy HBO. So especially brave and reminiscent of the anti-Ellison commentary Colbert gave before he was fired.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

This is such a thorough take down of Bari Weiss and the vapid shill she is for oligarch billionaires. He especially shreds the Free Press over it's coverage of trans issues and the so called whistleblower Jamie Reed.

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Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 1d

✉️ We've joined Equally Ours and more than 160 civil society leaders in calling on the Prime Minister to provide consistent leadership to advance inclusion, equality and anti-racism, in the face of the increasing far-right activity in the UK.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UK charities say toxic immigration rhetoric leading to threats against staff

Voluntary organisations forced to introduce extensive security measures to protect staff and property

www.theguardian.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

This took bloody ages to research - I don't think anyone has brought all this together in one place before - so please do take a look.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

A key point is that the relationship runs both ways. Russia has provided support to radical right parties but Putin's rhetoric and views have also been affected by radical right narratives.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

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Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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