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If you were wondering how DOJ civil rights investigations get started these days: www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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These people never realise that coming from a wealthy family gives them both confidence and choices to follow their dreams. www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

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Wine that makes the night more boring, the more you drink

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

Again. If they’re using DEI as an insult in public they’re saying the N-word in private.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

While Stephen Miller publishes the faces of the judges that struck down Trump’s unlawful tariffs, his own goons in ICE refuse to show theirs out of fear of being publicly identified. If our judges are brave enough to face MAGA threats with their faces showing, ICE should not hide behind masks.

submitted 8 hours ago • 203 comments

Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."

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Now, more than ever, it’s vital to stand together against transphobia and anti-LGBTQ+ hate. So ahead of Pride month, Stop Funding Hate is joining forces with Good Law Project to urge advertisers to do the right thing: goodlaw.social/sfh

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SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

submitted 11 hours ago • 375 comments

Telling how when the attacker is a middle class, white company director who "lives in a cul-de-sac" it's automatically framed as an "out of character" moment of madness

submitted 22 hours ago • 149 comments

BREAKING: We're now describing the Liverpool driver as a "lovely man" with a "nice family" after discovering he is white British ♥️

submitted 21 hours ago • 84 comments

1/2 Just listening to this episode in the marvellous @empirepoduk.bsky.social series on the Opium Wars, and can’t help adding a quick note. Not only was the pretext for the 2nd Opium War - the taking down of a British flag on a Chinese boat - absurd; podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

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Just received this: a great new resource for teaching the history of slavery and antislavery based on Liverpool’s past. Based on current research presented accessibly. Well done @colinmccormick.bsky.social & team! www.waterstones.com/book/transat...

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1/7 Oh dear. Where to begin? Mauritius is not a ‘staunch ally of China’. It is aligned with India. Independent Mauritius never ‘owned’ the Chagos Islands because it didn’t exist until the moment they were removed from the jurisdiction of the colonial government. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

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Why the terms ‘balance’ and ‘legacies’ should both be avoided when teaching the British Empire: alanlester.co.uk/blog/we-need...

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One issue is obvious. Since Brexit the Tory Party has purged moderates & turned into a culture war - fighting party of White nationalism. Now I wonder who racists would choose from two leaders sharing the same pitch, a Black Woman or a posh racist White bloke? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The podcast of David Olusoga and I discussing Empire & the rewriting of history: howtoacademy.com/podcasts/dav...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

'I do not want art for a few, any more than I want education for a few, or freedom for a few'. William Morris (1834-1896) Poet, Artist, Writer, Textile Designer, Socialist. Morris' words are as true today, as they were, when first spoken in 1877. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Suddenly, powerful and influential people are condemning Israel. It's taken them 19 months of daily genocidal depravity. But Israel's genocide was obvious from the start - and I warned you then what the cheerleaders and the silent would do.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Israel has been on the path of fascism for some time now, why our governments in the west continue to support these genocidal psychopaths is the greatest question and disgusting shame. #GazaGenocide

submitted 71 days ago • 12 comments

USA taco and U.K. lettuce.😂😂😂

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The lower they go in the polls, the deeper into the gutter they crawl

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Margaret Thatcher. RT if you still do too.

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Well said

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The UN's damning verdict on UK poverty must inspire us to force change The United Nations criticised the UK government’s record on poverty and human rights and called for benefit reforms including scrapping the two-child limit. www.bigissue.com/opinion/unit...