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Myq Kaplan @myqkaplan.bsky.social · 12h

When I first heard about Stockholm Syndrome, it sounded awful, but now I love it.‬

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LabourList @labourlist.bsky.social · 16h

"If we are to reshape out political strategy so it responds to the perspectives we hear on the doorstep, we need a deputy leader that has the time to make this task her singular focus"

Labour council leaders Bella Sankey and Eamonn O'Brien on why they are backing Lucy Powell

‘Labour must reconnect with its base – that’s why we’re backing Lucy Powell’ – LabourList

We are leaders of two Labour councils, from very different parts of the country but both on the frontline of the electoral battles Labour will…

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 16h

Mad, right? I too - 72, declining health, compromised lungs - had to pay 90 quid too. So will my daughter, who teaches in a secondary school. Surely teachers, front-line NHS guys should be a shoo-in right? It's surging again, who needs a collapsed lung AND and collapsed NHS?

Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 1d

Getting my jab today, but thanks to Wes Streeting, I have to pay for it (£90)… Many other 65-69s and immunocompromised ppl will not be able to afford it.

@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 1d

Latest England COVID-19 hospital bed occupancy up.
COVID-19 positive tests up.
COVID-19 deaths up.
COVID-19 cases up.
Data source @ukhsa.bsky.social
Why?
Limited vaccine eligibility, waning immunity, lower priority by leaders, mixing in poorly ventilated, cramped spaces. Scant use of face coverings.

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Ben @cinemashoebox.bsky.social · 20h

Israel highlighting how many 100s of aid trucks they will now allow into Gaza is a tacit admission that they were using aid as a weapon of war, by the way. seems weird not to talk about this

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 1d

Reform councillor Francesca O’Brien chaired a meeting at which a Welsh far-right hate group spread ‘untrue’ claims about religious education, a Swansea primary school has claimed. The meeting centred on entirely unsubstantiated allegations that pupils had been forced to recite Islamic prayers.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

You *really* should be by now but you don’t *actually* have to call them liars or racists, if it offends your commitment to now almost entirely redundant BBC principles of ‘objectivity’ & ‘ balance’. You just have to ask them again & again & again to justify their words & explain their exact meaning

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 1d

Please can I have a Nobel peace prize, I helped a friend of mine murder a bunch of his neighbours and now I’ve told him to stop, so I’ve definitely done a peace. Give me the prize immediately please, not that anything could possibly go wrong, but just give it to me now, or else.

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Gez Kirby @gezkirby.bsky.social · 1d

So the decision to abolish has already been made

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Phillipson presses Starmer and Reeves to abolish two-child benefit cap in full

Exclusive: education secretary tells the Guardian scrapping limit entirely in November’s budget most cost-effective way to tackle child poverty Bridget Phillipson is pushing the prime minister and chancellor to scrap the two-child benefit cap entirely in next month’s budget, with the education secretary telling the Guardian the evidence is clear that it needs to be removed. Phillipson, who is finalising a report to Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves on child poverty, said abolishing the cap was the most cost effective way to make lives better for young disadvantaged people. Continue reading...

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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 1d

ok boomerphobe

Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 1d

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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 1d

“I have in my hand something we should all respect and revere.”

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 1d

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Badenoch's speech perfectly summed up by ‪@mortenmorland.bsky.social .

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 1d

Lucy Powell: I’m already moving Labour leftwards

The deputy leadership frontrunner says “when members’ voices count for something we shift policy”.

🗣️ @georgeeaton.bsky.social meets Lucy Powell

Lucy Powell: I’m already moving Labour leftwards

The deputy leadership frontrunner says “when members’ voices count for something we shift policy”.

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 2d

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 2d

Thread on white power dickheads trying to start riots in disguise, because their narrative is empty bullshit.

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 2d

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes.

In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 2d

See yer da’s got a new car.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Actually, the Right hate the present. And the future. And the past - if it's accurate. They only like a constructed notion of a past that never existed.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

❓NHS waiting list in May 2010 when the Conservatives came to power: 2.60 million.

❓NHS waiting list in July 2024 when the Conservatives left power: 7.62 million.

Who's fault is it Kemi?

Source:https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-workforce/pressures/nhs-backlog-data-analysis

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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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Professor Stanley Unwin @professorunwin.bsky.social · 2d

Wiselymost worms.

Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 2d

See my pinned post, but the biggest "rip off" degrees are courses in things that are vocational or practical. Getting into tens of thousands of debt to saddle yourself with a qualification that limits your employment choices to what's written on your certificate is a scam that shouldn't be allowed.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 2d

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 4d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2d

I imagine Robert Jenrick is currently on his way to places like Plymouth and Chelmsford to complain that there are too many white faces and they are insufficiently diverse

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 3d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

I see that most of the "OMG Javier Milei has performed an economic miracle in Argentina OMG I Heart Maggie" crowd - predictably, since it did the same with Lis Truss - has switched to "tEh PrObLeM iS MiLEi wOz NoT fRee mArKet eNouGh".

How many times must these utter fools fail before they get it?

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