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A primary teacher for 15 years. Environment and wildlife. Manchester United. Detroit Lions.
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I sure as hell have noticed. How about you? 🤨

There's always a cartoon by @andy-singer.bsky.social that nails it.

If a magazine run and written by Muslims printed the kind of hatred and anti-democratic rants that you find in Compact, then the authorities would have banned it in a heartbeat, and you can't convince me otherwise.

He didn't just flee the country he also announced it on social media in a way I can only describe as Batmanvillainesque

Trump’s attacks on Iran are another hugely dangerous escalation. Unjustified, illegal, provocative; they make the world less safe, not more. The UK must condemn these attacks and make clear it will provide no support.

what stage of empire is armed standoffs between law enforcement agencies outside sporting events

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' *More of this, please*"

British decline in one story. Any state which finds itself incapable of managing a project as basic as rolling out a 20th century tech between its biggest cities needs to ask itself some profound questions about what hope it has of managing the technologies of the 21st.

What a contrast: On the one hand, one grandiose spectacle in the nation's capital, a panorama of propaganda put on by an aspiring autocrat. On the other hand, thousands of assemblies of free citizens across the nation, authentic celebrations of the proposition that here the people rule.

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

Yesterday was Lou Macari’s 76th birthday. With the rumours of Becks getting a knighthood I hope that Lou also finally gets the recognition he deserves. For nearly a decade he’s been providing emergency accommodation for the homeless & continues to do so.

United are making all the right decisions in resetting our finances but please go and get Osimhen.

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

Next season, unless we go after another CB, I feel both Heaven and Yoro need to start. They are the best at ball progressing and without that we will become unstuck. The issue is they both young and lack experience. It could be even worse with a new gk.

White Americans preferred to shut municipal swimming pools post-segregation than share them with PoC. Lesson for today? You can't simply win over far right voters with progressive economic policies because *you can't build socialism with people who oppose equality and don't want to share*.

In the most embarrassing collection of humans alive, how did the US entrant somehow manage to be especially embarrassing

"Can you work for the BBC and outwardly express opinions?" asks Radio 4 Today whose presenter Justin Webb routinely uses his platform on Radio 4 Today to express his negative views about trans people.

2025: Keir Starmer suggests that pressure on housing and public services is because of migrants 2020: Keir Starmer, "Poor housing, poor public services are not the fault of the migrants, they're political failure"

The fascism playbook hasn't changed—only the speed we're flipping through its chapters.

Piers Morgan is a POS but man is this interview wild - based on the way her tone changes I don't think she realized the implications of what she said until after she said it. If you look closely you can see her realize she is absolutely cooked in real time.

The German office for the protection of the Constitution has, after a long period of monitoring, declared the AfD a “confirmed far-right party” — a landmark decision, meaning they’ve been declared a party that acts against the German Constitution and democratic order: www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Everyone who rants about DEI in public is saying, typing or laughing at the N-word in private and you can’t convince me otherwise.

Yesterday and today. The duplicitous, cheating, orange fuck.

Calling it "illegal DEI," Trump issues EO to shut down a program redirecting human waste away from a rural Alabama area regularly flooded with sewage during climate-change-amplified storms. The area's population is over 72% Black. www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

The period, during the pandemic, when Old Compton Street became a pedestrian zone, with tables and chairs, was a vision of what Soho *could* have been (provided that accessibility was guaranteed for wheelchair users)

Dom Lucre, known for being banned from X for posting CSAM (and being reinstated by Elon Musk), was invited to the White House for its influencer briefing, where he asked if they could investigate Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama

When folks can afford fewer things at higher prices, economists describe this as a decline in real income, and a widespread fall in real income is called a recession.

Do you want to rejoin the EU? If so fly the flag. #RejoinEU

Martin Odegaard and Gabriel Martinelli are shit enough to play for United.

This is what courage looks like. Kudos to the team at 60 Minutes.

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

Variety has a double standard problem. And we all can see exactly why. Other movies with exactly the same blockbuster opening and obvious path to profitability had no “caveat” in the headline.

"We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace." A voice for the voiceless. A champion of the poor and marginalised. An inspiration. Rest in peace, Pope Francis.

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”

I am a woman, I move through the world as a woman, every single person I know treats me as a woman, every new person I meet acknowledges me as a woman, it is ludicrous for any kind of court to pretend I’m not a woman.

Couple of lessons there from the rest of the world

The result against Newcastle was frustrating and embarrassing. I do find the overreaction a bit much as I have seen fans moan their has been no improvement. In the last month, this team has shown clear steps forward and would be further along the way if we had a proven goal scorer.

"I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda"

Onana set himself up for this result; mouthing off whe you have been poor for two years. He should be dropped, and United needs to move on. That being said, it is just a game and no need for abuse of any player and attacking their mental health.