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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 1h

"Ringing the bell for the butler can feel like the only option when your nutritional needs are not being met"

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 1h

Private school can feel like the only option when the state system isn’t meeting your child’s needs, but the financial burden goes far beyond school fees ⬇️

School fees were a shock, then came VAT, uniforms, trips …

www.thetimes.com

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 1h

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

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Ed Hammond @se13ed.bsky.social · 1h

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Dotski_w @dotskyy.bsky.social · 2h

"The four MPs* have little or no political experience or history of engagement in socialist politics. Their shoulders simply cannot bear the weight history was placing on them."

*"4 Muslim men elected on a pro-Gaza ticket last year"

The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · 18h

Loath though I am to link to the Morning Star, the bitter tang of this article is quite something, especially coming from Andrew SHITTING Murray, who is washing his hands of the whole legacy of Corbynism like the psychopath he is.

Your Party, their crisis, our hopes dashed?

CRY if I want to, Cry if I want to.The apparent implosion of Your Party is a mortifying moment for the left in Britain.Not everyone will be weeping at the debacle of the aborted launch of the new part...

morningstaronline.co.uk

Dotski_w @dotskyy.bsky.social · 2h

Remember when rightwing columnists in mewspapers mocked universities for having courses like media studies, and now those skills shortages are part of the reason that industry is dying?

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 2h

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Dotski_w @dotskyy.bsky.social · 2h

My favourite example of this is when someone says "why aren't the mainstream media covering this", and they link to a report from mainstream media.

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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 2h

I see the Irish Times has a new 'Tip-offs' section.

Screenshot from the Irish Times website. Photo of a concerned-looking man on a beach. Headline reads 'A shortage of gardaí on Ireland's west coast makes it 'wide open' for crime'.

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 18h

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Ourkid @eekyrich.bsky.social · 15h

If trump ‘goes’ Vance doesn’t have same sway over the media

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 16h

George Stephanopoulos cuts off JD Vance mid sentence 🤣🔥….this is the way!

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 16h

Desecrating a cemetery.

A new nadir.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 17h

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration

TikTok video by WGN9Chicago

www.tiktok.com

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50 Jenna Ipcar Fans Can’t Be Wrong! @ipcar.bsky.social · Nov 26

At the bank I was told "pick your four digit pincode but it can't be a year." "Aren't they all years?" I asked. We sat in silence for a bit.

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Dotski_w @dotskyy.bsky.social · 16h

Also rot set in with mobile Internet. Before, was only saddos like me spent more than an hour a day online, but now normies have it on tap 24/7, every toilet break, during work, when TV isnt holding their attention.
We didnt evolve to deal with this and its killing us.

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William Lane @williamjtlane.bsky.social · 16h

Internationalism is so important because it touches on the means of economic prosperity (free trade), the international treaties that uphold global peace (what's left of it), and the cultural ties that creat bonds across nations and communities.

It's the glue that holds the world together.

Nathan🌹 @nathanwylabour.bsky.social · 2d

I think Brown is very shrewd to identify internationalism as the key battleground.

Far too many on the centre-left and left are still indulging their economic nationalist fantasies – despite Biden and Starmer as clear examples of the shortcomings of such an approach.

Nathan🌹 @nathanwylabour.bsky.social · 2d

A moving and intelligent call to action here from Gordon Brown. And yet another reminder of why he is my political hero.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 16h

What To Know About NSPM-7 https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-nspm-7/

Q: Is this like that book Minority Report was based on?

A: We’d avoid referencing books from now on.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 19h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 18h

After ceasefire, Abbas’s PA may regain foothold in Gaza administration

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 19h

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was published OTD in 1979.

Douglas Adams: “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

#litsci 🐡 #BookSky

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Dotski_w @dotskyy.bsky.social · 19h

I'm 57 and something new like this comes up every 5-10 years, always something new, it'll be annoying you to the grave, I'm afraid...

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BrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social · 21h

sadly, we know they have been getting away with it, nevertheless...

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 21h

Chatting up girls using ChatGPT?

Yep, you're twelve.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone is twelve now

Everyone is 12 now
ICE agent point gun at unarmed protester

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Dotski_w @dotskyy.bsky.social · 23h

My very online kids were happy the time I ran a 10-mile in 69 minutes, at a pace of 420/km

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