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Taught HE over 25 years, Dep Head Cass Art School. Film/Media scholar programmer/cinemas/cult/horror/gothic/folk horror/music/neighbourhoods/audiences/gentrification/ScalaCinema
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Lived opposite Grenfell Tower for over 20 years 💚 W10 to WKen London
UCL+KCL
Lived opposite Grenfell Tower for over 20 years 💚 W10 to WKen London
Pinned
Metamorphosis! Théophile Steinlen, late 19th century. wellcomecollection.org/works/p8bvjn...
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Today's *real* headline that The Onion wouldn't have even tried:
US President Sues the BBC for Editing News Clip
US President Sues the BBC for Editing News Clip
December 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Today's *real* headline that The Onion wouldn't have even tried:
US President Sues the BBC for Editing News Clip
US President Sues the BBC for Editing News Clip
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Jared Kushner has pulled out of a planned Trump-branded development in Belgrade after the project sparked protests and the indictment of a senior Serbian politician.
On Monday, a special prosecutor indicted a cabinet minister and three other officials over the project.
On Monday, a special prosecutor indicted a cabinet minister and three other officials over the project.
After Backlash, Jared Kushner Drops Plan to Build a Trump Hotel in Serbia
For more than two years, the U.S. president’s son-in-law had sought to build a complex of towers in a central Belgrade site once bombed by NATO.
www.wsj.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Jared Kushner has pulled out of a planned Trump-branded development in Belgrade after the project sparked protests and the indictment of a senior Serbian politician.
On Monday, a special prosecutor indicted a cabinet minister and three other officials over the project.
On Monday, a special prosecutor indicted a cabinet minister and three other officials over the project.
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🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration escalated its effort to punish a sitting U.S. senator for protected political speech Monday, formally converting the Pentagon’s review of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) into an official Command Investigation under military law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump Admin Intensifies Military Probe Against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, Launches Command Investigation
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration escalated its effort to punish a sitting U.S. senator for protected political speech Monday, formally converting the Pentagon’s review of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) into an official Command Investigation under military law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This is great news…
December 16, 2025 at 1:51 AM
This is great news…
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Trump has escalated his attacks on Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar to a disturbing new level. Yesterday, federal immigration agents pulled over her son and demanded proof of his citizenship.
Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by ICE
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said federal immigration agents pulled over her son on Saturday and asked him to prove his citizenship.
www.cbsnews.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Trump has escalated his attacks on Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar to a disturbing new level. Yesterday, federal immigration agents pulled over her son and demanded proof of his citizenship.
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After our last post, MAGA voices rushed to claim that Trump had nothing to do with the traffic stop involving Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s son, where federal agents demanded proof of his citizenship. Let’s be clear about why this is not a coincidence.
December 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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TOTAL BACKFIRE: Pulitzer Prize Board just turned the tables on Trump. In his defamation lawsuit, they’re demanding his tax returns, financial records, and even medical & prescription history if he’s claiming damages. (Law&Crime)
December 15, 2025 at 11:48 PM
TOTAL BACKFIRE: Pulitzer Prize Board just turned the tables on Trump. In his defamation lawsuit, they’re demanding his tax returns, financial records, and even medical & prescription history if he’s claiming damages. (Law&Crime)
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Not the first fascist to see Paris, start raging at his inadequacy and insist he’ll outdo Paris. Won’t be the last. None have. None will.
December 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Not the first fascist to see Paris, start raging at his inadequacy and insist he’ll outdo Paris. Won’t be the last. None have. None will.
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Mike Johnson on Trump: 🙈🙉🙊
Mike Johnson refuses to comment on Trump’s post about Rob Reiner and runs away from reporters.
December 16, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Mike Johnson on Trump: 🙈🙉🙊
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Donald Trump put Laura Ingraham on the Kennedy Center Board to help "restore the Center to Greatness"
![Laura Ingraham tweet that was up for at least 30 mins
Authorities in Britain couldn't stop the shooters firing in broad daylight for what seemed like an eternity so this man stepped in. Be vigilant.
[Shares Telegraph article] Moment hero tackles Bondi Beach gunman
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Mike Nelson @mikenelson586
Laura, where do you believe Bondi Beach is?
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December 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Donald Trump put Laura Ingraham on the Kennedy Center Board to help "restore the Center to Greatness"
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From Paul McCartney's Instagram.
December 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
From Paul McCartney's Instagram.
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Trump is afraid you'll vote.
Trump: "We should knock out the filibuster. If you did that, we'd get voter ID, you'd have no mail in voting, all things that make our elections dishonest."
December 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Trump is afraid you'll vote.
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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We are quickly entering a phase in our history as a country where you have to choose a university based on the state it exists in if you want a quality education that doesn’t leave information out based on political and theological ideology.
“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
We are quickly entering a phase in our history as a country where you have to choose a university based on the state it exists in if you want a quality education that doesn’t leave information out based on political and theological ideology.
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🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright:
- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
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- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
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December 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright:
- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
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- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
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December 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Instead of Russia being isolated even more due to Ukraine invasion & war Trump tries to normalize Putin & Russia on the world stage
US opens door for Russia to rejoin G20, ending diplomatic isolation: "The Russian delegation has arrived in Washington for the first G20 Sherpa meeting under US leadership following a long period of diplomatic isolation, according to Russian media." RBC News 15 Dec
newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/us-open...
newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/us-open...
US opens door for Russia to rejoin G20, ending diplomatic isolation
Read more
newsukraine.rbc.ua
December 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Instead of Russia being isolated even more due to Ukraine invasion & war Trump tries to normalize Putin & Russia on the world stage
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Russia is making preparations for the Zelensky ceasefire.
A bill on the genocide of the occupied territories has passed the Russian parliament and will be brought in effect once the frontlines are frozen in place.
A bill on the genocide of the occupied territories has passed the Russian parliament and will be brought in effect once the frontlines are frozen in place.
December 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Russia is making preparations for the Zelensky ceasefire.
A bill on the genocide of the occupied territories has passed the Russian parliament and will be brought in effect once the frontlines are frozen in place.
A bill on the genocide of the occupied territories has passed the Russian parliament and will be brought in effect once the frontlines are frozen in place.
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The first 4 words here (before the hyphen) sound like a modern horror story....
Reform risk reviving Thatcher-style 'industrial destruction' in Wales, warns TUC
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform risk reviving Thatcher-style 'industrial destruction' in Wales, warns TUC
Ahead of crunch Senedd elections next year, analysis for the TUC found Nigel Farage's party poses the biggest threat to Welsh industry - risking thousands of jobs
www.mirror.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The first 4 words here (before the hyphen) sound like a modern horror story....
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Yeah, so, why are you still not investigating Brexit?
December 15, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Yeah, so, why are you still not investigating Brexit?
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This goes way beyond politics. This is pure evil.
This is both disgusting and expected.
The Scumbag-in-Chief
The Scumbag-in-Chief
December 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This goes way beyond politics. This is pure evil.
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Rob Reiner was the consummate storyteller. Over and over, he revealed us to ourselves: what it is to be young and have friends, to fall in love, to feel misery and vengeance, to feel alive. And the laughs. So many laughs. The loss of Rob Reiner is... inconceivable.
December 15, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Rob Reiner was the consummate storyteller. Over and over, he revealed us to ourselves: what it is to be young and have friends, to fall in love, to feel misery and vengeance, to feel alive. And the laughs. So many laughs. The loss of Rob Reiner is... inconceivable.