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Phil McDuff

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · Aug 21

I have something else out in @novaramedia.com about Jenrick and the far right migrant hotels crisis.

Britain’s Elites Care Much More About Migrant Hotels Than the Public Does | Novara Media

The race rioters who burned out a car at the end of my street in Middlesbrough last summer were outnumbered the very next day by locals who came out to sweep up the glass, writes Phil McDuff.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 1m

I don't think "the country is run by horrible bastards who kick the shit out of anyone who deviates from the Thatcherite consensus" is *quite* what Liz Truss and the ASI would want everyone else to believe, but you do you, I guess.

Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 3m

Ok man. Sure. Everything you disagree with is Liz Truss.

Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 52m

Puppies. I miss them a lot.

The first photo we got of Jingles and Jess from the breeder. I actually don't know which is which here. Their adult colours haven't come through and they seem black rather than the grey they would end up as. They are fluffy puppies being held up to the camera. They both have white chins.

This is them as babies on a rug. You can tell who is who here. Jess is darker, on the left, jingles is lighter, on the right. You can also see that jingles had longer legs, Jess was more squat.

Jingles as a very small puppy. This must have been her first ever haircut. Her grey brindle colours are coming through. She is sat on a trampoline for her photo, and she looks like she is smiling.

Two Westiepoo puppies on a shelf. Jingles is at the front looking inquisitive, Jess at the back peering down.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 59m

You can't make these things be something that they're not.

Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 1h

The OBR was put in by George Osborne to provide independent-seeming cover for his program of slash and burn austerity. The entire program of rules and frameworks is there to appease people who fundamentally disagree that the role of government should be to secure the common wealth for all.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 1h

You can say this all you want, but the chancellor is out here saying that's how it works and telling the papers that black holes need to be filled, so in reality it's exactly how it works, isn't it?

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 15h

This from Andy Haldane gets some basic stuff wrong, notably this:

"A £30bn will need to be filled in this year’s Budget,e ven though a stalled economy needs a 1% of GDP fiscal tightening like a hole in the head."

Just wrong. Not how the fiscal framework works at all.

www.ft.com/content/1c4d...

The UK’s failing fiscal framework is a Brexit tribute act

The path and peak of policy uncertainty over the past year eerily mimics sentiment at the time of the 2016 referendum

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 1h

this person posted an AI video (the reporter has three arms, for a start) and then turned off comments when people pointed it out, so i have to insist everybody block them. block this account right now and i'll give you a thumbs up in your mind

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 5h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 3h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 19h

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 18h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

Terrorism. There’s no other word to describe what we’re witnessing.

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 5h

WHEN THE FUCK ARE THESE GOVERNORS & MAYORS GOING TO START CHARGING FOR STATE CRIMES?

YOUR LOCAL & STATE POLICE ARE LEGALLY REQUIRED TO INVESTIGATE THESE USE OF FORCE CRIMES BEING COMMITTED BY FEDERAL AGENTS! CALL YOUR MAYORS, GOVERNORS & PROSECUTORS & DEMAND THEY START ENFORCING STATE LAWS.

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 5h

You dont get rapes of this scale without an official blind eye

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 9h

Who put 20p in the dickhead machine?

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 9h

It’s pretty bleak that The Wire, looking back, is a romanticized picture of American policing

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 9h

Well look. It will come to that at some point. And if you think there's nothing to be done except the party picking up guns and taking the president out by force, then you're basically saying it's already at that point but you don't think anyone should do it. And that's not a respectable position.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13h

"Thousands are still buried beneath the rubble. We don’t even know all their names. These aren’t just numbers. These are entire families erased, students who will never return to school, newborns who never made it past their first cry." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

We Are Genocide Survivors. But Our War Is Far From Over.

We in Gaza will remember the martyrs—those who died teaching, reporting, healing, mothering, surviving. We will carry their memory like fire in our hearts. And we will begin again.

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Your Party 2: 🎃Season Of Dead Terfs🎃 @fasterfizzier.bsky.social · 12h

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 12h

Mine too :)

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18h

This is horrifying. Now she'll be placed with men in prison where she is at extreme risk of being raped and sexually assaulted. And then she has to register as a sex offender.

This is all because a man was ashamed he was attracted to a trans woman.

Screenshot of a BBC News article. The text describes court proceedings involving a person named Watkin, who will serve a prison sentence in a men’s facility with measures to minimize risk and maximize support. It states that Watkin must register as a sex offender for 10 years and is under a lifelong restraining order from contacting the victim. A police detective is quoted saying Watkin concealed her sex, and the victim would not have consented had they known. The article ends with the detective expressing hope that the case’s conclusion allows the victim to move forward.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 12h

Yup and the thing is, the longer you sit and do nothing, the more you close down all the avenues that aren't "we just gotta shoot all these guys."

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 12h

I wrote a whole thing on this back in the day, he's legit it.

Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone agrees that it would have been morally right for some ordinary German citizen to kill Hitler in 1936 right?

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 12h

Like people have all sorts of things to say about why you can't start shooting or kicking the shit out of these guys but, like, what else you got, at this stage? You let it get this bad.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12h

I don't know, just start trying shit! lock him in the dungeon! the answer can't be "nothing, and also you're not allowed to criticize them"

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12h

I don't know, just start trying shit! lock him in the dungeon! the answer can't be "nothing, and also you're not allowed to criticize them"

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