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Om🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧↙️↙️↙️ @chakravartin.bsky.social · 1h

The imperial boomerang always returns. Always.

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 1h

It's a case of colonial violence returning to the metropole in the form of fascism. It happened before, with 20th century fascism, and it was predictable.

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

Never imagined our law enforcement would look like this.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 4h

its remarkable to see random suburbanites in their fucking PJs have more courage than the vast majority of america's political, social, and civil elites

armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 5h

More from the scene

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 4h

I do think this sort of open, gutter racism becoming normal enough that they feel comfortable saying it on TV is probably the most damning indictment of the last 5 years.

Alexander Brown @alexofbrown.bsky.social · 5h

The quotes in this are so fucking bad I had to check several times it wasn’t a deep fake
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Reform UK MP says seeing adverts 'full of Black people' drives her 'mad'

Sarah Pochin was responding to a question about whether her party will do anything about the 'representation of demographics in TV adverts', and claimed white people were 'demonised'

www.mirror.co.uk

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Om🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧↙️↙️↙️ @chakravartin.bsky.social · 4h

You’re going to have to raise public spending to pay for rearmament in the face of a changing and uncertain world order, to rebuild the NHS and other public services, and to keep the welfare state going.

There’s also a way to deal with the boats: it’s called opening legal and safe routes.

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Om🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧↙️↙️↙️ @chakravartin.bsky.social · 4h

Labour doesn’t need to copy Polanski 1:1 but it does need to offer its progressive voters something in order to get their votes. Labour isn’t entitled to the vote of progressives. It must earn them.

Also, this is just cargo-cult Blairism rather than actual Blairism lol.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 4h

Right, but the other major party is somewhere to right of Idi Amin? This isn't a morally or intellectually serious position!

John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 7h

I'm a Blairite! You fight for the ground between the two main parties rather than trying to appease Zack Polanski

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 4h

OPEN SAFE ROUTES

boats are dealt with thusly

John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 5h

I am not arguing that Lab should move to the right; I'm saying it should not move to the "left" if that is defined as higher spending and ignoring the boats

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 4h

We need to spend more money on the forces, transition to a carbon free energy sector, build more houses and leave trans people fucking alone.

John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 5h

I am not arguing that Lab should move to the right; I'm saying it should not move to the "left" if that is defined as higher spending and ignoring the boats

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Julianna 💎 @batariangal.bsky.social · 4h

Surely, if you’re one of the two main parties, fighting for the ground between the two main parties traps you in a recursive loop?

John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 7h

I'm a Blairite! You fight for the ground between the two main parties rather than trying to appease Zack Polanski

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 5h

#OtD 25 Oct 1983 the Hayes Cottage Hospital in England was occupied by its workers in protest at its proposed closure the following week. The workers then ran the hospital themselves until the government caved in. It remained open until the 90s stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9783...

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 6h

He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 6h

It's odd for me to realize that my first-year undergraduates are at an age where they don't really remember that there was a form of US politics prior to Donald Trump. For them, Trump is not an aberration from the normal course of political discourse, but just how US politics is done.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 10h

My column in the @ftweekend.com: Keir Starmer is in trouble because he has not been serious about governing, and the best way for him to turn things around is for him to become serious:

Starmer needs to get serious about governing — and quick

The prime minister has to change or his party will seek a change of its own

www.ft.com

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 6h

Probably not a good thing when the revelation of the oligarch who sent $130m to pay troops identity is revealed and the photo used is 44 years old and the headline includes "reclusive." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune

www.nytimes.com

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kobenimeal @kobenimeal.bsky.social · 1d

As always thank you Kat for saying the truth

“The embrace of generative Al technology by the masses typically follows this trajectory: first, it's used to sexually harass famous women, especially influencers, because there's already so much available media of them in existence online. The Al technology then becomes more sophisticated and widely. available, so the tools are then used more widely to harass private figures- like girls in elementary schools. And of course, this all very profitable for (mainly) men, and, like all misogynistic violence, it reinforces their power. This is one of the key reasons I oppose generative Al: so far, it has overwhelmingly served to reinforce existing power disparities and forms of bigotry and violence in our society. Just like the research indicated it would.”

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 6h

you’ll never guess what this is in response to

Lou Cipher @nemo141.bsky.social · 7h

This is why nobody like the American liberal. The world is burning down around them, and they only thing that makes their slack bodies taught is the being a hall monitor.

Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 17h

it’s not just a totenkopf, its very explicitly *the totenkopf* for the ss death head’s units who administered the concentration camps and were responsible for various acts of terror against civilian populations. like come the fuck on

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 6h

“A wealthy banking heir and railroad magnate” because it’s apparently the 1880s

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6h

The anonymous donor who gave a $130 million donation to help pay active-duty service members during the shutdown has reportedly been identified as Timothy Mellon

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

Timothy Mellon, a reclusive billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump, is the anonymous private donor who gave $130 million to the U.S. government to help pay troops during the shutdown, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Mr. Trump announced the donation on Thursday night, but he declined to name the person who provided the funds, only calling him a “patriot” and a friend. But the two people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the donation was private, identified him as Mr. Mellon.

Shortly after departing Washington on Friday, Mr. Trump again declined to identify Mr. Mellon while talking to reporters aboard Air Force One. He only said the individual was “a great American citizen” and a “substantial man.”

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 8h

Hilarious thing about this is that he didn’t appoint all the ministers of state in person either. Some of these people have a whole ministerial career in which the PM has basically never spoken to them at either end.

Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 9h

He did WHAT!?!

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 9h

The violent persecution of Palestinian farmers in the West Bank is the worst it's been since 1967. This is a state orchestrated campaign of terror.

+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 1d

Settler terror devastates West Bank olive harvest

Israeli military restrictions and over 150 settler attacks in the past two weeks have prevented many Palestinians from harvesting this year’s crop.

www.972mag.com/olive-harves...

@mekomit.bsky.social

Settler terror devastates West Bank olive harvest

Israeli military restrictions and over 150 settler attacks in the past two weeks have prevented many Palestinians from harvesting this year’s crop.

www.972mag.com

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DSA Angletonian Caucus 👊 🇺🇸 🔥 @marechalberthier.bsky.social · 8h

more and more people are realizing that everything is Ship Money

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

It's bribery and corruption, a protection racket. But another way to describe money given to the government under threat of punishment is taxation, here imposed unilaterally and arbitrarily by the executive without the legislature.

Ship money is the analogy, if you're up on 17th C. English history.

Exclusive | Trump Hosts Corporate Ballroom Donors at Glitzy White House Dinner

The event included representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon.com and Palantir.

www.wsj.com

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 9h

Also relevant for British politics.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

right. given the numbers, “how to win back the working class” should be as much about care and service workers as hard hats. and yet.

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Om🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧↙️↙️↙️ @chakravartin.bsky.social · 8h

Least racist Reform politician

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 9h

Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white"

Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 9h

A lot of analysts and scholars need to start considering the effects of an indefinite US government shutdown on the global order

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 9h

This is a real red flag about any boss let alone the PM.

Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 9h

He did WHAT!?!

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