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I know she’s only talking like this because she’s not seeking reelection but I think it would be good if the entire senate considered there might not be another election and behaved accordingly

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Imagine how much effort you have to put into looking at the terrible state of the arts in Britain and then deciding that it must be protests and boycotts that are responsible rather than wilful neglect and underfunding.

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

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If you support this, you’re an awful human being

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If true then the US is now a genuine Russia-style mafia state. Russia extorts with energy-, the US with tech-dependence. I trust the conclusions we draw from this will also turn into a semblance of policy.

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The law will not save you.

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Lawyers at Twitter are reportedly threatening advertisers to spend more money on the platform “or else” Elon Musk will use his connections with Trump to hurt their companies.

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Trump claims to want to end the 'weaponisation' of the FBI but he only means against people like him. Progressives should prepare for the worst as a new director takes over an agency steeped in the politics of J Edgar Hoover - but with hi-tech tools and more staff. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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How was this outrage allowed to happen? www.normalisland.co.uk/p/bbc-pulls-...

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Have a wee vote, folks! Be assured it's not me, Liz Lochhead and Jackie Kay in competition with each other - god forbid! It's you choosing a line by each of us to be carved on the Parliament Wall. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2025/02/publ...

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Basic biology eludes her.

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It's no coincidence that Musk's companies are soaring in value as the regulatory agencies that were investigating or suing them are being gutted. The DOGE agenda isn't about "efficiency" — it's about Musk freeing himself from any accountability so he can line his pockets.

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Scenes of the occupation forces expelling young men and preventing them from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque during Friday prayers #Gaza

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#ScotLab25 is here. For attendees wanting to show their support for trans and LGBT+ rights and their opposition to the anti-trans stance adopted by the Scottish Labour leadership, might we suggest a progress flag lanyard, badge or sticker? And maybe a conference selfie that we can all share? 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

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The Kinsey report in the big bad woke days of 1947 showed 37% of men had some sort of homosexual experience. It's not that we are more queer now, it's that it's more accepted to be open about it.

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Diana Magnay reporting that in November 2023 Hamas offered to return the bodies of the Bibas family after they were killed in an Israeli air strike, and Israel refused, "saying this was psychological warfare"

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The data could not be more clear: our public services will collapse without immigration. People desperately need to come here & we desperately need people, too. Me, for @metrouk.bsky.social metro.co.uk/2025/02/19/n...

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Always this. This was true in 2016 and it is true today. Be more like Spain — stop pandering to the extreme right and make the positive case for immigration. It’s a wonderful thing culturally and an economic necessity

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“We are witnessing a very sad moment in American history. The President of the United States is aligning himself with the dictator of Russia, Vladimir Putin, to undermine the independence of Ukraine and its democracy”

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A flaw in Ofgem’s regulation of the energy sector, based on estimates of costs from 2021 to 2028, has meant that households were forced to pay billions in undeserved profits to companies during the cost of living crisis while racking up record levels of debt, according to Citizens Advice

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Tomorrow in Glasgow #ScotLab25 will open its doors and among the many exhibitors will be "Labour Women's Declaration Scotland", an openly anti-trans organisation. They will also hold a fringe meeting on the Saturday morning. Meanwhile no LGBT organisations will be represented at the conference.

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SNP MP Chris Law told us: “These latest revelations will only further fuel concerns that the MoD and the wider UK government have been actively complicit in what many now consider to have been a genocide in Gaza." www.declassifieduk.org/why-have-isr...

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While Trump is expressing his admiration for Putin—Putin’s army just bombed a children’s hospital in Odesa, Ukraine.

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This is an absolute gut-punch of a book about the slaughter in Gaza and the hypocrisy of the west. Will be reviewing soon in Big Issue, @canongate.co.uk

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Timothy Snyder is an expert of modern authoritarianism.

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still find it hard to compute that a swathe of western politicians and political commentators are making public proclamations that almost word for word match passages in anders breivik's manifesto. but, u know, here we are.

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Dr. Abu Safiyah is being released. Should never have been arrested.

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Not for the first time a newspaper exaggerates a technological step forward and hypes it into something it is not. @zsk.bsky.social theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/no-elon-mu...

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Historically, suddenly forcing massive numbers of highly educated and well paid people into unexpected mass unemployment has not led to stability

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Trump wants to land-grab in Ukraine— — just like Greenland, Gaza, Canada, Panama. He wants to grab other people’s land and natural resources all under the guise of “protection” and “development” of “the west” under his care. It’s pure mafia imperialism.

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"Lawyers for the MoD applied for a restriction order which temporarily prevented the BBC from reporting on the relevant parts of the proceedings, before withdrawing their application last week under challenge."

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Here's the executive order just signed by Trump. One of the defining features of fascism is that the discretionary power of the leader always prevails over the rule of law.

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The Israeli govt is now talking about the "forced deportation" of the Palestinian population in Gaza What will it take for mainstream UK journalists to stop talking about relocation, resettlement, depopulation & eviction, and start calling it what it is. Ethnic cleansing

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Note: these are the famous "legal pathways" that those in need of international protection are supposed to take. The sheer cruelty of this is beyond me.

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The UK, which has provided military assistance to Israel throughout its genocide, says it's really committed to the UN and laments the failure to end "the scourge of war". Who writes this stuff?

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The UK government wrote over 20 media releases deprecating the incarceration of Russia's Alexei Navalny. What's its position on the imprisonment of Pakistan's Imran Khan? 👇

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All they know now that they didn't know then is that Starmer, Streeting and co are anti trans bigots and that they haven't the backbone to stand up to them.

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The law won't save us. Nearly all authoritarian regimes legitimize their actions within the law and make their acts legal. More lawyers need to realize this.

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Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics. The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.

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Israel has caved on Gaza. It was trying to sabotage the ceasefire - so it could resume its genocidal frenzy. The revival of genocidal violence is off - for now. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-cav...

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The last national march for Palestine was met with police obstruction and mass arrests. This weekend we must show the government, the police and the British state that we will not stop marching until Palestine is free.

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