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Translation: We have our own country to wreck and probably don't have the patience or skill to wreck others. Might be a blessing in disguise if they stop pretending to care about anywhere else.

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This is true, but you can often save yourself a lot of work by asking fairly obvious follow-up questions. "How do you know" or "where does the information come from" are good ones because a lot of the time, these people will link you to a scientific source that says the exact opposite of their claim

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This is just mad. All of it. The content, the headline, the framing, the subject. All of it. [Times]

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Can we go back in time to November 5th 2024?

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Regret to report that Buntgen Honeydew and his cronies are at it again. Absolutely historically illiterate. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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"Weurgh, waagh, let's vote for Nigel! He'll show those elites what's what!" [Nigel Farage plunges the country into a terminal decline] "Weurgh, waagh, nobody told us! It's not our fault! You bastarding bastards!" Populist discourse "empowers" catastrophe. End of.

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I can literally HEAR this motherfucker saying things like “all of the sudden” and “upmost respect” to a captive audience of GS-14s

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Even with their win, even after everything they've achieved, they still need to make it look like Kylie Minogue helped campaign against trans people when those featured are actually "...and those who fought against them"

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“Forget a nan in a bingo hall, the face of disability in the UK is now also Gen Z in Greggs.” I wrote about Britain’s growing cohort of young disabled women and building a new narrative - where we aren’t vilified as burdens but celebrated for all we add. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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If there’s any confusion over Labour’s position regarding trans women’s access to spaces here’s Keir Starmer from july last year saying trans women shouldn’t have access to women’s spaces

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This is so terribly sad. Nobody's anger or bigotry is worth a life. Its never too late to renounce your views. And look at the vile comments the GC bigots made to Caroline when she lost Alice. There is no love or goodness in these people.

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"Don't write and deploy good policies that address the root cause of public discontent - just do podcasts and then sometimes geopolitical circumstances will result in you being elected, after which you can be the right-wing nightmare you always wanted to be" www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Incredible. AI evangelists are the most gullible people in the world

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As anyone who’s spent any time at all in even a smallish organisation can tell you, much institutional memory ends up vested in about three people (let’s call them Olwen, Christine, and Elaine). They tend not to be at the top, and often, this is highly gendered.

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Today we remember that the entire moral foundation of the modern West rests on the story of a man tortured to death by an occupying imperial power at the behest of a thoughtless clamouring crowd.

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The unholy marriage of conservatism and snake-oil peddling scammers goes back way further than you might realize, per this great 2012 piece from @rickperlstein.bsky.social thebaffler.com/salvos/the-l...

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A senior Tory on Cornwall council, who has been a vocal supporter of Spaceport Cornwall (scene of the failed Virgin Orbit rocket launch in 2023), landed a £70,000 job as the spaceport’s “head of future air and space” while still operating as the council’s cabinet member for the economy.

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"Everything is ok for JK" and that is all that matters apparently

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Every morning I read the news and something else reminds me of Robert Musil saying in 1930s Germany that one of the defining aspects of fascism was the mockery of compassion

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in which chatgpt tells me about it's undocumented hardcoded boundaries and some of the ways it's trained to be intentionally deceptive. (i got here by proving that it had done facial recognition for me in the past, after it denied doing so for a while. once it "remembered," it stopped obfuscating.)

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The difference is that Kristol and Brooks have actual belief systems you can understand even if you don’t agree with them. But Singal’s lodestar is “fuck trans folks” and Chatterton’s only belief is “down with the woke.” Those are literally the only things those two write about. So they can fuck off

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Einstein, 1933.

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the China tariffs were a large, slow-moving gun fired at the economy and the bullet is still in the air

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In a decade, we've moved from cross-party attempts to work out rights for trans people to politically weaponised opinion-column-driven war against them. Lesson the Jenricks have drawn is that demonizing minorities is good strategy and the mainstream have decided that fighting back is not worth it

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When the USA finally comes to its senses, as it must (and will sooner than later), I’ll be here for the DOGE Treason Trials. In the dock will be some pimply incels with absurd nicknames, and at least a couple of billionaires.

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This is real, and I mean real, last-chance-saloon stuff. Either the executive yields something to the judiciary, or the US Constitution is toilet paper next week.

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right winger getting cancelled vs. trans person getting cancelled

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NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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@steveclimate.bsky.social captures brilliantly what I’ve heard countless times in citizens’ juries & focus groups. There is widespread support for collective climate action but excessive consumption of the few undermines motivation to act & belief in the fairness + effectiveness of climate policies

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The Department of Homeland Security sent a letter to Dr. Lisa Anderson, who was born in Connecticut, which stated: “It is time for you to leave the United States." Anderson has been carrying her U.S. passport on her at all times since receiving the email and is seeking an immigration attorney.

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US cops are trained to keep yelling "Drop the weapon" AFTER they've shot someone, so that's what bystanders remember...

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if I understand correctly, the campaigners wanted (in their words) to stop trans women officers with a gender recognition certificate searching women. and, in response, the police have decided to allow male officers to search trans women. not sustainable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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I miss science.

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@ Rachel Reeves, RE: the productivity crisis - was meant to have a meeting this afternoon with someone coming from Birmingham, their train kept getting more and more delayed, then they got on the train but it stopped halfway through, meeting cancelled, neither did any real work for three hours 🤙

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I sometimes try to imagine what it must be like to be absolutely lacking in shame like this

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During Prohibition, there was an exception from the ban to permit alcohol use "for medicinal purposes," and anyone who could afford to have a prescription written by a doctor (so, the wealthy) could easily buy and consume alcohol legally. Below is the note Winston Churchill used when in the US.

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Then again, from quite early in the existence of a certain series, folk were pointing out its heavy reliance on what could charitably be called cliché, and might in other circumstances be regarded as thoughtless stereotyping. At best.

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So, 1 of REFUK’s 5 MPs is suing 2 of REFUK’s 5 MPs for lying about him being a bullying thug, and a quarter of the country wants to vote for these people… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Transphobe reasoning is like “you don’t understand - I just need to see their genitals to make sure they’re not a pervert”

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If a politician won't do their job because they're scared, quit. Retire. Announce an unspecified medical diagnosis. Say you want to spend time with your grandkids. Just fucking quit. You're useless and wasting everyone's time. Go away and never come back.

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i mean, the alternative is that they think they can build a durable authoritarian regime based on stripping popular services and capacity from virtually every demographic in the country while also cutting the military and causing a deep recession and/or stagflation

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Country that regularly experiences devastating floods, hurricanes and tornadoes decides it doesn’t need weather forecasts any more.

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The national circle jerk about SOF is at the heart of the problem

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