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And there you have it. ICE didn't target migrant workers in Kristi Noem's farms or Sarah Huckabee Sanders' meatpacking plants because they wanted to create a riot in LA as a pretext to declaring martial law. They don't care about undocumented migrants, they only care about controlling US citizens.

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Anfield Stadium Liverpool, UK 7 June 2025 🎥 m.youtube.com/watch?v=c_yT... #brucespringsteen #paulmccartney

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Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it: "These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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'We do not find any evidence that accommodative strategies reduce radical right support. If anything, our results suggest that they lead to more voters defecting to the radical right.' Labour, are you listening?

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MPs' earnings. When they say Man of the People, do they mean he has the Common People's money?

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“The tech world is reeling from revelations that Builder.ai, once hailed as a $1.5 billion 'AI' powerhouse, now faces scrutiny as its highly promoted artificial intelligence facade crumbles, revealing a human-powered operation behind the cutting-edge AI automation.“ It was 700 Indians writing code!🤣

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A thought-provoking and deeply troubling thread. For me, it clarified that the worst concern is not that we are drifting towards fascism. But that fascism is one among many historical forms of authoritarian dictatorship. And it is authoritarianism that is again rearing its multi-faceted head.

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I recently heard a high-profile pundit argue that the Trump movement cannot be Fascistic as -its supporters don't wear uniforms; -Trump dislikes foreign wars; -he hasn't tried to amend the Constitution. It's a dangerously complacent view, that misses the sheer gravity of the current situation. 🧵

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Grim "It is the first time since 1965 that a president has activated a state’s National Guard force without a request from that state’s governor" - Trump Is Calling Up National Guard Troops Under a Rarely Used Law www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/u...

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Is it a scam? Or just DOGE monetizing citizens' private information it has stolen?

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Just wait until Trump deputizes the pardoned Jan 6 rioters.

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Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

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Reminder that this country had an insurrection on Jan 6 and Trump refused to send in the National Guard.

submitted 18 hours ago • 27 comments

Polish President Nawrocki revealing his pro-Putin stance. Backed by Trump, following Russia's orders.

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Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉

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After he set about becoming a writer in the 1960s, his father — a hidebound judge who called him a “sissy” — sent family members to remove him from a Dublin pub and then had him committed to a psychiatric hospital. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/b...

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Good thread here. I was very opposed to universal ID back in the noughties, but have since come round to it being sensible (not least, as Rob says, because we now have phones etc that document our every move).

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Happy ANTIFA Day to those who celebrate.

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Jason Isaacs is 62. Obviously, I’m going to show the greatest entrance in cinema. Love that Zhukov had even more medals in real life but Iannucci felt he better tone it down a bit.