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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · Mar 8

Anyway, some good people to follow re the race science bros and their networks

@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social
@dialecticbio.bsky.social
@pinkerite.com
@rasmansa.bsky.social
@highcountryrose.bsky.social
@kareemcarr.bsky.social
@whstancil.bsky.social
@aurelmondon.bsky.social
@sashagusevposts.bsky.social

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · Mar 7

As is Steven Pinker

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 2h

Another train hurtling towards UK society that's been visible for a while

bsky.app/profile/magi...

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · Jul 11

And remember when Roe vs Wade was overturned and they either said nothing, blamed the left, or blamed trans people?

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 4h

I've expected this one for a while

bsky.app/profile/magi...

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 6h

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 7h

Bluntly, you cannot have senior political correspondents reading out obvious bullshit they’ve been sent by Dominic Cummings live on the ten o’clock news, and maintain the pretence that Britain is a functional democracy. It breaks the whole thing, makes it plain what it is and always was.

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 8h

We have people in the Labour Party who are wrapped up in this shit, let alone the Conservatives and Reform

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

'Blue Labour' and the Thiel Effect: How MAGA Is Making In-Roads Into British Politics

The ideology of the ‘Make America Great Again’ movement, which has transformed politics in the United States, is having an impact in the UK. But how is this influence being transmitted?

bylinetimes.com

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 8h

I think the left worldwide is very distracted right now and not focusing on the specific people that are existentially challenging them.

And there has been far too much tolerance of "leaders" who are complicit in the whole enterprise.

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 8h

The fact that nothing happened on the back of this investigation isn't encouraging

hopenothate.org.uk/2024/02/22/r...

Revealed: The Shocking Tweets of GB News Co-owner Sir Paul Marshall

HOPE not hate investigation finds the shocking tweets of GB News co-owner Sir Paul Marshall.

hopenothate.org.uk

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 17h

"Cool"

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 18h

Just seen that's he's on Twitter under this @avidseries handle, regularly engaging with the usual crowd like Noah Smith, Claire Lehmann, Diana Fleischman, Gurwinder, Geoffrey Miller, Jordan "Cremieux" Lasker, Cathy Young, and Peter Boghossian

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · Sep 10

Oh ffs, one of the original Twitter race science accounts is on here, and looking at their profile is turbo-posting the usual dodgy charts they all love

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 18h

This guy's given bad vibes for a while and well there we go

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 19h

British culture however loves the idea that for certain people a bit of pain now will stand them in better stead in the long run

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 19h

The Aporia -> UnHerd -> Times pipeline is getting quicker and quicker

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 23h

It is worth reiterating that Tom Jones - a Tory Councillor and regular contributor to The Critic and CapX - regularly engages on good terms with known fascist Raw Egg Nationalist

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 23h

People are mates with this guy too

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

A huge part of current twitter is eating disorder content for racist guys

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 23h

If we had internet gatekeepers, guys who wrote for Nazi sites wouldn't be writing about the need for internet gatekeepers.

Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 23h

Politico is recommending a column by a guy who literally blogged for Richard Spencer's original alt-right site--but who has since been rehabilitated as a very serious political commentator--on why we need to bring back "internet gatekeepers."

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 1d

I'm old enough to remember when anything other than getting the flag of Europe tattooed on your arse made you a traitor to the Labour Party

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 1d

You'd think an ostensibly left wing party's underlying strategy would be winning votes by improving lives with a progressive programme, but no priority #1 is five more years' free tickets, even if that means giving the far-right a chance by becoming more right wing yourself

John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 1d

I think the McSweeney strategy is the right one, because most marginal seats are Labour-Reform contests

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 1d

A visual illustration

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 1d

Well I didn't know Half-Life 2 hate was a thing (well, not hate, but saying it's not GOAT tier). Ocarina of Time I can kind of get and have seen expressed before, but Half-Life 2 for me has always been a ridiculous achievement for the time that to be honest didn't get enough recognition at the time

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

Damn yo what if the United States empire was collapsing. Just imploding & losing all its function because its white supremacist history culminated in a dictator. That would be crazy, yo. Nah that would never happen.

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 2d

I assume this is American, but we're getting like this over here too, what with the "Smile! You're on CCTV" signs on people's houses, and security gates like something off fucking Scarface. Doesn't exactly say "Let's have a chat and a brew sometime"

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Aberdeen City Arts Board @adeencityartsboard.bsky.social · 2d

The insane ramblings of the mad c**t we sell our data to.
Mad man.
We really need to stop giving them money and power. Give them therapy instead. Therapy in a nice secure hospital.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 2d

The Critic?? Never!

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 2d

Even though outside of academia they're telling everyone to read the work of those who do

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 2d

Fucking hell. Cambridge is one that seems dodgy too, most obviously with Nathan Cofnas, but also with Rob Henderson

Magic Money Tree @magicmoneytree.bsky.social · 2d

I think it would implicate too many important people, from those who are deeply involved in it (e.g., Steven Pinker, Michael Gove), to those amplifying it from the edges (e.g., Ed West, Sam Bowman), to those who are previous or current allies (e.g., Sam Freedman, Rob Ford)