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Spencer Ackerman joining the dots and sounding the alarm, as ever @foreverwars.bsky.social This is a terrifying new development but it has deep and twisted roots.

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BBC News have taken a deep dive into the case against Jagtar Singh Johal. Spoiler alert: there isn't one, that's why he was found not guilty. But Indian authorities are keeping him locked up. Time for the UK Govt to bring him home #FreeJaggiNow

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'No-one is talking about young men' increasingly occupies the same space as 'we need an honest conversation about immigration'. We never shut up about young men. It's one of the only things we ever talk about, although admittedly only ever to say 'we need to be more reactionary'.

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When ruled by the stupidest, most detestable people on earth, what else to but point and laugh? This piece is lacerating and very funny.

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Journalist Calum McKay has been following Jagtar Singh Johal's story for many years. Now Jagtar has been acquitted in the first case he can finally get stuck into the evidence. Here, in typically balanced and controlled BBC fashion, he absolutely dismantles the prosecution case #FreeJaggiNow

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'Orwellian' is overused, but this is some proper 1984 "he who controls the past" shit, worthy of Stalin's USSR.

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My experience of reporting on welfare cuts over the last 12 years is that they result in very high levels of human misery and don't save anything like as much as they were intended to - especially when other costs are factored in. I don't expect Reeves' to be much different

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🚨 Jagtar Singh Johal ACQUITTED in Punjab court. But the British blogger won't walk free as he faces eight almost identical cases - based on the same torture 'confession' as this trial. It's down to the UK Govt to bring him home 🧵

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There is nothing crazy about this. This horrific video epitomizes the logic of current meme-fascism: it's a colonization of the imagination that precedes and aestheticizes real neo-imperialist violence, dressed up in the glossy looks of stock imagery, influencer content and online scamming 1/

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London bus stop. #Swasticar

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Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left at even higher rates.

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Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

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it'd be nice for one mainstream and prominent centrist/centre-left/left-wing party somewhere in the western world to actually try and consistently and vocally make the positive case for immigration for an entire term and see what happens - it may not work! but it'd be nice for one party to try it

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Very similar pattern in France too. Older voters stick with the established parties that protect their pensions and tenured jobs. Younger voters vote for anti-system parties because they get nothing from this system

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"Democracy will not go down without a fight" @kimlanelaw.bsky.social explains Trump’s power grab and what can be done to stop the destruction of American democracy in latest Democracy for Sale Highly recommended reading this in full democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-poster...

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We are in a dangerous time but here are two important facts: 1. Trump's base of support is a minority. 2. That base is going to shrink as his agenda is enacted. The opposition is the majority. No moping allowed. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

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You’re a top Indian diplomat. You studied at the country’s elite universities. You spent years rising to the pinnacle of your profession in a country of more than a billion people. You are invited to accompany the Prime Minister at a meeting with the world’s richest man. This is what you see.

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As it happens, I'm reading this extraordinary book on the anniversary of the Munich air disaster. The contrast between the proud club at the heart of a community and the soulless global brand Man United has become is painful.

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But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

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Social media Dry January, starting a few days early.

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There are more than 10m children in school in the UK…but, per Times, 3,000 might move to state sector because of VAT rise…so Whitehall is “braced” 😲😲😲 Says a lot about UK media bubble, the way this story is reported. You pay VAT on luxuries. Private schooling is that.

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Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored, harbourless immensities.

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This is so grim. Media manipulation is easy if the story being pitched suits a hateful (in this case, misogynist) narrative, and there is an endless supply of soul-dead grifters with the skills to do it, eager to get rich by spreading poison www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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This guy just got 2.5 years in prison for his part in the riots. A good excuse to watch the clip a few more times. Merry Christmas! www.dailymail.co.uk/video/crime/...

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This mess is entirely of Labour’s own making In opposition they promised to end sleaze and tighten money in politics. They could have laid out plans for this as soon as they got into office Instead they prevaricated. And this is the outcome. So depressing www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Labour is being wilfully stupid about this. The best arguments do not prevail regardless of the information environment or big money. Get smart or get trampled.

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This is making me way too hopeful. Please let it be true.

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🧵 This last week, I was part of Amnesty International’s first official mission to #SaudiArabia (perhaps ever), as a group of colleagues and I attended the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Riyadh. This is how it went ⬇️

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In a year of great podcasts this is my favourite. Short of a seance with Thatcher and Tam Dalyell they've spoken to all the key people, and it's a story of great intrigue, told with great flair by Andrew O'Hagan and the @londonreview.bsky.social team podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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A well-deserved happy Christmas to whoever did the lawyering on this piece. Awesome work. www.theguardian.com/news/2024/de...

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This is what I needed to read today: a moving personal account of mental illness, love and renewal by @bigissue.com editor Paul McNamee. But don't read it here: buy a copy! www.bigissue.com/opinion/chri...

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"In plain terms, everybody is being fucked with constantly in tiny little ways by most apps and services, and I believe that billions of people being fucked with at once has profound psychological and social consequences that we’re not meaningfully discussing." www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...

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I don’t think I can think of anything as repulsive as this. Spineless, fawning arseholes. Remember when these grubbers used to harp on about utopia? Give me strength.

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J. F. C. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Just the President and his deputy signalling that choking a Black man to death makes you a hero.

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This article is full of wonders. It's structured as a mystery revealed and the ending is immensely satisfying. The best piece I've read for quite some time - can't recommend it enough www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Are there accounts here that mostly post dynamite old soul records? I would follow instantly. This swings so hard @birmingham81.bsky.social youtu.be/VTtvQZrwXyk?...

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I didn't see the pageant of an inclusive and welcoming #SaudiArabia earlier, but I do know they've executed 300 people this year (and there are men who could be executed any day now for being caught with cannabis for personal use) #FIFA #WorldCup2034

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Today’s monologue

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background

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Having lived in the US and experienced the insanity and greed of its private healthcare system first hand, I can understand the reaction to this murder but that makes it no less wild. This piece argues the rage is an inevitable consequence of soaring inequality. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...

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