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Not that it did any good. The right-wing media outlets put a racial spin on virtually anything Obama did.
Rush Limbaugh called the Affordable Care Act a "reparations" program designed to benefit African Americans, if I'm recalling correctly
Rush Limbaugh called the Affordable Care Act a "reparations" program designed to benefit African Americans, if I'm recalling correctly
February 16, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Not that it did any good. The right-wing media outlets put a racial spin on virtually anything Obama did.
Rush Limbaugh called the Affordable Care Act a "reparations" program designed to benefit African Americans, if I'm recalling correctly
Rush Limbaugh called the Affordable Care Act a "reparations" program designed to benefit African Americans, if I'm recalling correctly
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😬Not the best look for Reform’s Gorton & Denton candidate Matt Goodwin
White supremacist far right activist says
“you've appeared on our podcasts, had dinner with us, had us write for your Substack, and sought our advice on how to write your social media posts”
Tad awkward😬
White supremacist far right activist says
“you've appeared on our podcasts, had dinner with us, had us write for your Substack, and sought our advice on how to write your social media posts”
Tad awkward😬
February 16, 2026 at 9:55 PM
😬Not the best look for Reform’s Gorton & Denton candidate Matt Goodwin
White supremacist far right activist says
“you've appeared on our podcasts, had dinner with us, had us write for your Substack, and sought our advice on how to write your social media posts”
Tad awkward😬
White supremacist far right activist says
“you've appeared on our podcasts, had dinner with us, had us write for your Substack, and sought our advice on how to write your social media posts”
Tad awkward😬
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We wanted to understand how rugged English-Scots-Irish culture has shaped America. So we talked to three white South African billionaires at a sex party in the Bahamas.
February 16, 2026 at 8:58 PM
We wanted to understand how rugged English-Scots-Irish culture has shaped America. So we talked to three white South African billionaires at a sex party in the Bahamas.
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Robin Williams warned the US about Donald Trump and his links to Miss America Pageants and underage girls in 2012.
Really should have listened.
Really should have listened.
February 14, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Robin Williams warned the US about Donald Trump and his links to Miss America Pageants and underage girls in 2012.
Really should have listened.
Really should have listened.
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So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
It took only a 15-second clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out on a crumbling rooftop — made by A.I. with a two-sentence prompt and the click of a button — to draw swift outrage, and sizable fear, from Hollywood.
"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
A 15-second clip created by an artificial intelligence tool owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance appears more cinematic than anything so far.
nyti.ms
February 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
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Despite making over £20bn in the UK, Starbucks has paid £0 tax in most years.
In fact it's total tax paid ever is only about £20m.
It pulls this off by paying £40m+ a year to its parent company in the USA so it makes a loss.
In fact it's total tax paid ever is only about £20m.
It pulls this off by paying £40m+ a year to its parent company in the USA so it makes a loss.
February 16, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Despite making over £20bn in the UK, Starbucks has paid £0 tax in most years.
In fact it's total tax paid ever is only about £20m.
It pulls this off by paying £40m+ a year to its parent company in the USA so it makes a loss.
In fact it's total tax paid ever is only about £20m.
It pulls this off by paying £40m+ a year to its parent company in the USA so it makes a loss.
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Reform is soft on Russia. And it's stuff like this which explains why 👇🏻
Blimey. Looks like Matt Goodwin, who seems to think the Handmaid's Tale is an instruction manual, is in the pay of an Orban think tank, funded by Russian oil money.
Orbán’s pay cheques: Reform candidate fuelled by profits from Russian oil
The Reform candidate at this month’s byelection claims he wants to put Britain first, but is he still on the payroll of Viktor Orbán’s far-right propaganda unit?
goodlaw.social
February 16, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Reform is soft on Russia. And it's stuff like this which explains why 👇🏻
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Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
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Hi. I do have a chronic illness. A lot of my hospital appointments are at hospitals that take hours to get to by public transport or cost a fortune in taxis because they assume I'll go by car & the new hospital is out of town to provide acres of parking. I don't have a car & often couldn't drive.
February 16, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Hi. I do have a chronic illness. A lot of my hospital appointments are at hospitals that take hours to get to by public transport or cost a fortune in taxis because they assume I'll go by car & the new hospital is out of town to provide acres of parking. I don't have a car & often couldn't drive.
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My friend Christa Foster Crawford (HLS '94) has been doing groundbreaking anti-trafficking work in Thailand for the last 25 years. She needs our immediate help to stay in country & continue to work.
This has been completely vetted by me. This is real.
@kenwhite.bsky.social
hhmin.org/charities/ch...
This has been completely vetted by me. This is real.
@kenwhite.bsky.social
hhmin.org/charities/ch...
Christa Crawford - HHMIN
Please help Christa with her Ministry work. All donations are appreciated.
hhmin.org
February 16, 2026 at 8:30 PM
My friend Christa Foster Crawford (HLS '94) has been doing groundbreaking anti-trafficking work in Thailand for the last 25 years. She needs our immediate help to stay in country & continue to work.
This has been completely vetted by me. This is real.
@kenwhite.bsky.social
hhmin.org/charities/ch...
This has been completely vetted by me. This is real.
@kenwhite.bsky.social
hhmin.org/charities/ch...
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In an era in which “trafficking” is a cliche used to justify bad policies and politics, my classmate Christa Foster Crawford has spent a career doing real work and making a real difference. This is a good cause.
My friend Christa Foster Crawford (HLS '94) has been doing groundbreaking anti-trafficking work in Thailand for the last 25 years. She needs our immediate help to stay in country & continue to work.
This has been completely vetted by me. This is real.
@kenwhite.bsky.social
hhmin.org/charities/ch...
This has been completely vetted by me. This is real.
@kenwhite.bsky.social
hhmin.org/charities/ch...
Christa Crawford - HHMIN
Please help Christa with her Ministry work. All donations are appreciated.
hhmin.org
February 16, 2026 at 8:38 PM
In an era in which “trafficking” is a cliche used to justify bad policies and politics, my classmate Christa Foster Crawford has spent a career doing real work and making a real difference. This is a good cause.
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Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.
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The question of whether the US should or will send troops to defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion is so sensitive and delicate that the literal policy of the United States for years now has been for Presidents to be deliberately ambiguous about it.
February 16, 2026 at 8:19 PM
The question of whether the US should or will send troops to defend Taiwan against a Chinese invasion is so sensitive and delicate that the literal policy of the United States for years now has been for Presidents to be deliberately ambiguous about it.
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No, I haven't.
Though it's interesting that in an article that elbow drops from the top rope onto AOC for stumbling in giving an on-the-spot live answer on a massive stage, the author and New York Times managed to fumble a basic fact about a very prominant public figure.
Though it's interesting that in an article that elbow drops from the top rope onto AOC for stumbling in giving an on-the-spot live answer on a massive stage, the author and New York Times managed to fumble a basic fact about a very prominant public figure.
February 16, 2026 at 8:15 PM
No, I haven't.
Though it's interesting that in an article that elbow drops from the top rope onto AOC for stumbling in giving an on-the-spot live answer on a massive stage, the author and New York Times managed to fumble a basic fact about a very prominant public figure.
Though it's interesting that in an article that elbow drops from the top rope onto AOC for stumbling in giving an on-the-spot live answer on a massive stage, the author and New York Times managed to fumble a basic fact about a very prominant public figure.
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But let's do what you want and do away with paid parking in hospitals.
So no security staff. No lighting and no cctv. Which js what the hospital car parks I worked at in the 90s were like.
Is THAT safer for nurses on nights.
Also not all nurses are female these days. Its not like Carry On Matron.
So no security staff. No lighting and no cctv. Which js what the hospital car parks I worked at in the 90s were like.
Is THAT safer for nurses on nights.
Also not all nurses are female these days. Its not like Carry On Matron.
February 16, 2026 at 8:01 PM
But let's do what you want and do away with paid parking in hospitals.
So no security staff. No lighting and no cctv. Which js what the hospital car parks I worked at in the 90s were like.
Is THAT safer for nurses on nights.
Also not all nurses are female these days. Its not like Carry On Matron.
So no security staff. No lighting and no cctv. Which js what the hospital car parks I worked at in the 90s were like.
Is THAT safer for nurses on nights.
Also not all nurses are female these days. Its not like Carry On Matron.
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Oh and to pay for all the cctv, security and maintenance, which core service do you want to divert money for parking from?
The cardiac wars perhaps?
Or cancer care?
Or maybe the children's ward.
Yea let's treat fewer sick kids so you can have free parking.
What a win eh?
The cardiac wars perhaps?
Or cancer care?
Or maybe the children's ward.
Yea let's treat fewer sick kids so you can have free parking.
What a win eh?
February 16, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Oh and to pay for all the cctv, security and maintenance, which core service do you want to divert money for parking from?
The cardiac wars perhaps?
Or cancer care?
Or maybe the children's ward.
Yea let's treat fewer sick kids so you can have free parking.
What a win eh?
The cardiac wars perhaps?
Or cancer care?
Or maybe the children's ward.
Yea let's treat fewer sick kids so you can have free parking.
What a win eh?
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AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 7:21 PM
AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
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Sorry no, this is actually a terrible idea, but it's one that's understandable. @peterwalker99.bsky.social wrote a great piece explaining why a few years ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why free hospital parking isn't as good as it sounds | Peter Walker
It sounds like an inarguable idea – indeed the Daily Mirror and Jeremy Corbyn are in favour – but the more you look into it, the worse an idea it becomes, writes Guardian political correspondent Peter...
www.theguardian.com
February 15, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Sorry no, this is actually a terrible idea, but it's one that's understandable. @peterwalker99.bsky.social wrote a great piece explaining why a few years ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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My nearest A&E has been moved further away to serve a major road and to provide huge swathes of parking. From most of the area the hospital serves, the bus fare costs more than 24 hours' parking and the buses don't run overnight. A 48 hour emergency admission cost my family about £100 in taxis.
🚨When we go to hospital, it’s rarely for something easy. But patients and their families are being immediately met with fees just to park their cars. And these charges are going up!
I’ve just signed the petition to Scrap hospital parking charges now
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/parking-...
I’ve just signed the petition to Scrap hospital parking charges now
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/parking-...
Scrap hospital parking charges now!
Need to visit the hospital? Patients, families and NHS staff are being met with rising fees just to park their cars. Join me and sign this petition from 38 Degrees to demand these unfair charges are s...
act.38degrees.org.uk
February 16, 2026 at 7:16 PM
My nearest A&E has been moved further away to serve a major road and to provide huge swathes of parking. From most of the area the hospital serves, the bus fare costs more than 24 hours' parking and the buses don't run overnight. A 48 hour emergency admission cost my family about £100 in taxis.
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Drivers when they have to pay to park at the hospital (usually with exemptions for long admissions, disabled parking, etc.)
vs
Drivers when people who don't or can't drive have to pay as much or more for a bus that goes near but not to the hospital or have to pay several times more for a taxi
vs
Drivers when people who don't or can't drive have to pay as much or more for a bus that goes near but not to the hospital or have to pay several times more for a taxi
February 16, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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My theory of the moment: The extraordinary courage of ordinary people in places like Minneapolis is reawakening us to our social and economic ties to immigrants. It's making "love thy neighbor" cool again. That's the ultimate antidote to MAGA hate.
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
February 16, 2026 at 1:21 PM
My theory of the moment: The extraordinary courage of ordinary people in places like Minneapolis is reawakening us to our social and economic ties to immigrants. It's making "love thy neighbor" cool again. That's the ultimate antidote to MAGA hate.
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Thoughts on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
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Was today years old when I learned that Herbert Hoover blamed Mexican-Americans for the Great Depression and deported up to 2 million of them, including plenty of US citizens
Mexican Repatriation - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 15, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Was today years old when I learned that Herbert Hoover blamed Mexican-Americans for the Great Depression and deported up to 2 million of them, including plenty of US citizens
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Come on, Scottish Government, have the courage to stand up for your own planning policy and refuse this damaging application once and for all.
A nationally & internationally protected site for nature is the wrong place for yet another golf course.
A nationally & internationally protected site for nature is the wrong place for yet another golf course.
🔴NEW: The Scottish Government has been secretly lobbied to give the go-ahead to one of Scotland’s most fiercely disputed planning applications, according to emails seen by The Ferret.
Read the full story 👉 https://bit.ly/4kYdMl3
Read the full story 👉 https://bit.ly/4kYdMl3
February 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Come on, Scottish Government, have the courage to stand up for your own planning policy and refuse this damaging application once and for all.
A nationally & internationally protected site for nature is the wrong place for yet another golf course.
A nationally & internationally protected site for nature is the wrong place for yet another golf course.
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The NYT’s logic* is going to be studied in courses on denial & appeasement in years to come. ‘Far right extremist stood by paedophile’ is not news. That’s what they always do. The far right is about the authoritarian use of power; paedophilia & sexual abuse are about power. Both are sick & evil.
February 16, 2026 at 7:02 PM
The NYT’s logic* is going to be studied in courses on denial & appeasement in years to come. ‘Far right extremist stood by paedophile’ is not news. That’s what they always do. The far right is about the authoritarian use of power; paedophilia & sexual abuse are about power. Both are sick & evil.