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Aged Brit, I worked in the Armed Forces, police, Prison Service and as a teacher , but still surprisingly liberal.
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It’s ridiculous to think Musk is a Nazi, he’s just an everyday, drug addicted futurist who uses Nazi fonts, does Nazi salutes, endorsed a party of neo-Nazi in Germany, said Germans should move on from guilt, let neo-Nazis back on Twitter, and endorses the neo-Nazi Great Replacement Theory.

What’s really sad is that Sagan has been dead for nearly 30 years, and everything he says here is now 100x more true and more problematic than it was then, and thousands of online goons have devoted themselves to insisting it isn’t.

www.thetimes.com/article/33f2...

It's like a stag party playing Call of Duty.

2016 Hegseth would be calling for the impeachment and imprisonment of 2025 Hegseth.

One of my kids has dyslexia. After a lot of effort, she can and does read every day. It isn't just the ignorance of this claim that is offensive; it's the arrogance in the face of evidence to the contrary.

I agree, it's one of his best and I miss him too.

I used to teach in Further Education. Every year there would be at least one clever committed kid who had slipped through the entire school system with undiagnosed dyslexia, life chances stunted, opportunities closed off.

Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...

In vast areas of the US, the sentiments expressed in this wonderful letter from a British man about why it's a privilege to pay tax to enable the National Health Service to run would see him probably certified as insane and labelled a "socialist".

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

"The president of the United States is a coward who is Vladimir Putin's puppet. The vice president of the United States is a pogue and a coward who is Donald Trump's puppet” 👏 www.rawstory.com/trump-zelens...

London bus stop. #Swasticar

America is rock bottom.

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

Knowledge is power…

He boasts about being a sexual predator, he's been accused by 25 women of rape, harassment or assault, a jury found he "forcibly and non consensually penetrated Carroll's vagina with his fingers," he supports banning abortion. But he hates trans people and so the Times calls him "a feminist hero."

Incredible from Bishop Budde: "We don't have to go to the highest extremes of contempt when we are in a position of disagreement. I think if we could get that back as a country, we would go a long way in being able to work together to address the many problems that we face." ~AA @maddow.msnbc.com

not just republicans, literally everybody.

One of the reasons Tory politics is not serious is the quality of the leaders they have foisted upon us since Cameron. Who can look at Boris, Theresa May, and Truss and think that the Tories take politics seriously?

I suspect this is also what’s at play in Scotland. Notice how quiet they are on the constitutional question. Trying to be all things to all people to maximise support won’t hold once they have seats.

Brilliant, as expected. I watch the RI Christmas lectures every year . This was one of the best I can remember.

Guess who wants this photo banned from the internet? Please like and repost! 😉😘

Clean Up Politics. Public funding of all elections and no foreign money. I’ll be the Donor calling for an end to Donors - similar to the millionaire calling for more tax…:)

This is a person who Kemi Badenoch thinks should sit in the House of Lords. The tweets start in 2009 - Young was 45 at the time. Appalling misogyny, casual homophobia... the lot