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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2h

Shabana Mahmood knows what life is like for Muslims, and especially women. So why is she so willing to throw others to the Far Right wolves? Does she not understand they will also come for her? Or is her bet they will wait until after her political career? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

‘Explosion’ of Islamophobic attacks not being reported to police, politician warns

Exclusive: “There’s been an explosion of Islamophobia since October 7,” shadow secretary of state for justice Shabana Mahmood has said

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 16h

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

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Niki @nikim.bsky.social · 4h

They aren’t even naked 🤷‍♀️

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 16h

The hostage exchange isn’t nothing but Bibi will never stop terrorizing Palestinians

Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 16h

LIVE: Israel shoots dead at least 9 Palestinians in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli soldiers kill at least nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis

‘You cease, I fire’: Israel kills 9 Palestinians despite Gaza truce

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire saying a group of people approached soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 16h

❓ Protecting women and girls?

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/reform-councillor-suspended-amid-misconduct-allegations-from-331118/

Reform councillor suspended amid investigation into ‘lewd remarks’

A Reform UK councillor has been suspended amid an investigation into allegations of misconduct following a complaint by “several women”.

www.kentonline.co.uk

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Politico @politico.com · 17h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 1d

"I keep eating my feather pillow in my sleep. It's really starting to depress me."
"Down in the dumps?"
"I dunno. I haven't been yet".

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

www.theguardian.com

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Niki @nikim.bsky.social · 1d

Every anti-abortion group is also anti-women. They’re a scourge on society and should be slapped down

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 2d

And now Ohana says we wouldn't have gotten to this moment if Netanyahu hadn't operated as he had. True, we wouldn't have had two years of this sheer horror, with 67,000 (at least!) Palestinians killed, 20,000 of them children, many hostages killed, and Israel achieving pariah status internationally

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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 2d

And precisely why community participation can defeat them

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 2d

Also kind of telling that we’ve evolved from “men asking pick up artists for tips on getting women” to “men asking computers for tips on getting women” and continue to completely ignore asking women what they like

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Niki @nikim.bsky.social · 2d

It was excellent

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Niki @nikim.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve just written a presentation about school avoidance post pandemic (in the uk) and it’s a massive issue globally. Our government are looking the other way with their fingers in their ears and blaming the parents

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Niki @nikim.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, she just sets your teeth on edge a bit

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 2d

This one is worth amplifying, because it's @barackobama.bsky.social using his platform to do exactly what we want him to be doing: @obamafoundation.bsky.social alumni who have been doing the work of fighting authoritarianism globally share what they've learned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRNa...

How to stop authoritarianism across the globe: a conversation with President Obama

YouTube video by Obama Foundation

www.youtube.com

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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 2d

JUST TAX BILLIONAIRES
YOU ABSOLUTE NUMPTY

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Niki @nikim.bsky.social · 2d

Agreed, absolutely brilliant, completely relatable

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Niki @nikim.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think we’re supposed to…

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 2d

'oooh, one piece is a bit biblical when you think about it' - bro, what anime isn't? They're all about misfits with a core group of mates & wacky powers who are constantly coming back from the dead; somewhere there's a shock betrayal. Put your Funkos down & explain why you're in the Epstein files m8

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 3d

Making a mockery of the law: judicial treatment of non-volent direct action
Judicial refusal to allow people to say why they are protesting is both illegal and immoral

westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum...

Making a mockery of the law: judicial treatment of non-volent direct action

Judicial refusal to allow people to say why they are protesting is both illegal and immoral

westenglandbylines.co.uk

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3d

Nigel Farage went to Dulwich College which when he attended was more expensive than Eton

He earns £1.5m a year, 92% of which comes from dodgy donations

His girlfriend pays £885,000 in cash to buy houses but she's a waitress.

He's not a 'working man' he's very rich and corrupt

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 3d

There are no clean hands in a criminal enterprise.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 3d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 3d

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump No Longer Remembers That He Was President and Controlled the FBI on January 6, 2021, Confirming Americans' Worst Fears About His Advanced Dementia

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