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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 6h

Turns out Robert Jenrick wasn't even in Handsworth - the place he slagged off in Birmingham, but in the nextdoor neighbourhood of Aston.
www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...

Robert Jenrick outed as not even being in Handsworth when he took 'racist' swipe

The MP made controversial comments about Handsworth - but was in fact walking along a street in Aston

www.birminghammail.co.uk

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Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 6h

I think it is still fine to do, thank you. Here it is. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Understanding Arena di Verona: Heritage, opera and tourism

Thank you for visiting! My name is Dr Adrian Guachalla and I am Lecturer in Tourism and Creative Enterprise at London Metropolitan University. This research aims to understand your perceptions and exp...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 8h

🤬 The Russians dropped an aerial bomb on the church in Konstiantynivka: 2 dead, 5 wounded, — OVA

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Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 8h

I don't usually make recommendations in advance, but here's an exception. Michael Barenboim, a very fine musician, has consistently spoken out in Germany against the Gazan genocide. And Kareem Roustom's 'Pavane (pour les enfantes défuntes)' is commissioned 'for the children of Gaza'. Tomorrow 3 p.m.

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Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 9h

Alas not.

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Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 9h

Feeling sick. A fascist has been in my building, pushing these through individual letter boxes. I even heard this arrive. Have never previously been on the receiving end of their propaganda.

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Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 13h

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 16h

Shame on anyone who congratulated this fascist.

What does María Corina Machado’s alliance with the European and Israeli ultra-right imply for the Venezuelan people?

Simón Rodríguez AI generated image Convening under the banner of “Patriots for Europe”, two months ago the European extreme right met in Madrid, bringing political leaders of the Trumpi…

venezuelanvoices.org

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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 1d

I raised the devastating impact of sudden visa rule changes with the Mayor – over 200 TfL workers are at risk of deportation.

These are people who trusted the system, built lives here and are now left in limbo.

I'm glad the Mayor has committed to lobby the Government and support these workers.

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Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 1d

Me too, but can that really be the case? None of it is hidden.

Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 1d

How depressing it has been today to see people, some of whom I had thought better of, lauding a far-Right politician who wants not only to give her country’s natural resources to US corporations, but to have it invaded by the US. Forget Kissinger; they may as well have given it to Quisling.

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Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 1d

www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Pope Leo in 'Dilexi te': Faith cannot be separated from love for the poor - Vatican News

Taking up Pope Francis’ desire “that all Christians come to appreciate the close connection between Christ’s love and His summons to care for the ...

www.vaticannews.va

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

The letter Nobel Prize Winner María Corina Machado sent Netanyahu in 2018 begging Israel to help her enact Regime change.

Very peaceful behaviour.

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Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 1d

Probably related: I've seen many recent PhD proposals on Chinese art song and/or European art music in China.

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe you guys shouldn't have made late night talk shows the preeminent political arena

aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 2d

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 1d

Kidnapped in international waters, extraordinary rendition to a genocidal state, and then imprisoned indefinitely.

You'd think this would trigger the immediate expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador for these inexcusable actions against an Australian citizen.

Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 1d

An Australian woman who has not agreed to sign a waiver acknowledging she sought to 'illegally break Israel’s naval blockade' on Gaza will be “indefinitely detained” in Israel’s Ketziot prison unless she agrees to sign the waiver.

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 1d

None of us are safe in a world where basic norms in respect of the sanctity of human life are blithely disregarded. Those norms must be enforced, and enforced visibly. There must be political and legal consequences for every politician who made the genocide possible. The alternative is unthinkable.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

The foreign secretary says the UK has been contributing to the peace process.

No. What the UK govt has been contributing to is the extermination of the Palestinian people.

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Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 2d

No idea who Ari Shapiro is; I shall certainly keep it that way. How can anyone by now fail to see the 'AI' emperor's new clothes for what they are?

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 2d

Utterly depraved: the 'Blue Labour' Starmer regime films and broadcasts deportations of fellow human beings who have endured greater suffering than we can imagine and risked their lives to come here.

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Al Quds News Network @alqudsnewsnet.bsky.social · 2d

The raids haven't stopped... The occupation army continues to bombard Gaza with heavy artillery and air

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

"What do you mean by Palestinian Hostages?"

An embarrassing question from Krishnan Guru-Murthy

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Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 2d

Note, though, that even education for him must be racialised presenting it in tandem with a deliberate misrepresentation of critical race theory (black) and, in time honoured fashion, (Jewish) Bolshevism. The two have very little in common, but they do for his 'poisonous', racist ideology.

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Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 2d

'Reform ... has not set out much detail on a proposed education policy and does not appear to have appointed an education spokesperson.' The Führer has reserved that role for himself; he clearly does not intend Muslims and 'foreigners' to be alone in his camps.

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Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social · 2d

Education helps sets us free; it helps us understand the world, to think, to be critical, which is why he and predecessors from Thatcher onwards have been determined to destroy it. It may help innoculate, but it cannot indoctrinate.

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