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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 2d

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 3d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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JT @earthakitsch.bsky.social · 2d

Am furious that my friend took the evening to confirm, but will certainly come to the next one, have literally been looking for stuff like this

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch, a woman who excuse-makes for obvious racism and can't condemn it without doing mimsy false equivalences, talking about 'courage', is it?

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 2d

Brexit / Tory govt aspect aside: what a fantastic advertisement for the success of the EU

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 2d

I will add: this is not a reason for nihilism. Trump is unpopular and weak. But we can literally see where he is unpopular and weak: it’s above all on issues like the economy, inflation, and healthcare. This is the territory Dems should fight on because it’s the territory they are going to *win* on

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JT @earthakitsch.bsky.social · 3d

Venturing out and staying in the north of the city rather than downtown was a vastly superior decision and unfortunately I'm getting *ideas* again

JT @earthakitsch.bsky.social · 3d

Being a corporate drone in chicago for the week and it really is a lovely city regardless of what donald trump (rip) says

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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JT @earthakitsch.bsky.social · 3d

Long standing followers will be excited to learn I can repeat my long-standing and enthusiastically described thesis that Twinks are the Heralds of Fascism

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4d

What a delight to learn that most people aren't in fact raging LGBTQ-phobic shitweasels

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4d

1. 4 months ago, The Supreme Court gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education in schools.

Now, in Montgomery County, Maryland, where the case originated, the results are in.

Only 43 families out of 160,000 students have exercised that new right.

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Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 6d

Great thread. Badenoch’s complete lack of interest in Ukraine in particular is just utterly bizarre to me. She talks as if she is engaged in a battle for our values. What does she think Ukrainians are fighting and dying for? Why does she think Boris and Ben Wallace helped to arm them?

Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 6d

It is genuinely amazing the extent to which the Conservatives' current strategies are basically the complete opposite of what they should be doing.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 6d

Very hard not to conclude that the Dem messaging strategy of focusing on healthcare has been highly successful at shaping public impressions of the shutdown fight so far despite being hated on here to the point that major accounts were actively adopting GOP framing to attack it

YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 7d

Oct 3 poll of 2,811 U.S. adults (+/-2.4%)
% of U.S. adults saying Democrats' bigger goal in congressional shutdown talks is to:
Preserve Affordable Care Act tax credits & restore Medicaid funds 61%
Expand Medicaid benefits to immigrants in the U.S. illegally 13%
today.yougov.com/topics/polit...

YouGov survey results by political party for the question, Which do you think is the more important goal for Congressional Democrats in government shutdown negotiations?

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JT @earthakitsch.bsky.social · 6d

I will not hear a word against the USA, the country where I got given a tote bag for my blueberry muffin

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 6d

Where is our wallet? Is our wallet coming back? Where does mommy go when she covers her eyes? | Analysis

CNN @cnn.com · 7d

They’re questions that could be asked of any number of President Donald Trump’s social media posts: Was he telling the truth before? Did he just not understand that thing that he said earlier? Is he just trolling all of us? | Analysis

Analysis: Trump is finally ready to talk about Project 2025 | CNN Politics

They’re questions that could be asked of any number of President Donald Trump’s social media posts:

www.cnn.com

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 7d

just parent your fucking kids oh my god!!!! no one made you have them!! be a responsible adult!

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 8d

Some parents are letting their kids talk to ChatGPT in the guise of characters. Some are using it to tell bedtime stories or create coloring books.

"My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”

‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity

www.theguardian.com

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 10d

Some great reporting here: “One of the most prominent YouTubers, Anthony Styles, 59, has since deleted his AJ Audits channel after it was revealed he is a convicted paedophile. He was known to frequent protests… where demonstrators claimed to stand for the “protection of women and children”

Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 10d

Hotels housing migrants are now YouTube content farms. Outrage = clicks. Clicks = cash: £10k–£20k a month, just for filming cruelty. Division is the business model.

Details here ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @owensennitt.bsky.social

Lucrative hate: YouTubers target migrant hotels for clicks

YouTubers are cashing in by harassing asylum seekers at hotels, turning human misery into profitable, divisive entertainment

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 10d

I am obviously going to disagree with Leo on abortion as a discrete topic, but the importance of having a Pope demanding holistic pro-life beliefs instead of the hypocrisy that reveals it’s about controlling women cannot be understated.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 10d

Pope Leo in remarks to journalists tonight: "Someone who says I am against abortion but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life.” www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

Pope Leo criticizes 'inhuman' treatment of immigrants in US

Pope Leo on Tuesday appeared to offer his strongest criticism yet of U.S. President Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies, questioning whether they were in line with the Catholic Church's pro-life teachings.

www.reuters.com

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 11d

If I were a producer for the new Harry Potter TV series, with a duty of care towards the three child actors playing the leads, I’d find the way Rowling treats the leads of the last screen adaptation to be hair-raising, to put it lightly.

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 11d

Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has hit out at Emma Watson in a lengthy statement on X, saying: “She has so little experience of real life she’s ignorant of how ignorant she is.”

J.K. Rowling Brands Emma Watson “Ignorant” in Lengthy Post Defending Anti-Trans Stance: “She Has So Little Experience of Real Life”

Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling has hit out at Emma Watson in a lengthy statement on X, saying: “She has so little experience of real life she’s ignorant of how ignorant she is.”

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Key Figure Marjorie Bouvier Simpson KC @jorisbinned.bsky.social · 11d

I do think in our desperation we've forgotten Andy Burnham is a bit crap. This counts double for Andy Burnham.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 13d

The radicalisation happening of UK elites is bad, bodes ill for the future, but is also, to be clear, really really funny quite a lot of the time.

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 13d

The Fabians thing is hilarious. Probably the first time a conspiracy has genuinely made me laugh out loud.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 14d

It's IMO striking that the actual case that the UK should join its European peers and have a proper, free and universal ID card all involves things that improve the lives of the people who actually voted Labour in 2024, who are of course inferior to people who voted Labour in 1979.

Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social · 14d

The ID stuff being rushed put as if there was an emergency is almost comical. Half-baked, inevitably unpopular, designed to fix something something. How are they this bad at at politics?

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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · 14d

Rachel Reeves, at IPPR, says the idea of the populist right that foreign workers depress domestic workers’ wages is simplistic and wrong…

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JT @earthakitsch.bsky.social · 14d

Ok, I'm going to admit it. I don't know what asbestos is. I know it's bad for us, but it's just one of those things that boomers stuck in our homes to make life worse for the rest of us, right? Like the slow collapse of an economic system they benefitted from?

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14d

I realise the audience for this would just be "me, and also maybe other foreigners" but I would love to read something on why Brits, who are happy to live in a country where their every movement outside is filmed by CCTV, hate the idea of having ID cards, something plenty of countries happily have

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15d

He's essentially saying 'I didn't agree with the 1993-2016 economic model, and I didn't agree with Boris Johnson's either'. Okay, but you didn't agree with Corbynism either. What is yours, to hope that it turns out that 'the easiest route in every poll' turns out to drive growth?

Equally, the belief that uncontrolled legal migration was nothing but good news for an economy should never have been accepted on the Left. It is not compassionate Left-wing politics to rely on labour that exploits foreign workers and undercuts fair wages.

The huge increase in immigration that happened under the Conservatives was based on a hyper-liberal free-market viewpoint. Labour is clear that there must be no return to that.

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