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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 5h

Super fun watching Americans rediscover that "membership =\= votes" while stanning for hypnotits.

onion person @junlper.beer · 19h

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 5h

Increasingly convinced that the only way forward for America to survive as a liberal democratic state is for supporting the Republican party to become a profound moral taboo.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 5h

The best thing about Your Party is that whenever someone insists his leadership of Labour failed due to a baroque cabal of ruthless opponents rather than his own inadequacies you can just point at it, and then have a hearty giggle.

McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 6h

Increasingly of the opinion that Brexit is analogous to the 8th amendment and abortion in Ireland - an obviously stupid and unsustainable policy remaining in place because the most deranged reactionary voices get the most attention and the political class assume the electorate agrees with them.

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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 6h

A stupid idea that's bound to fail, adopted purely for the purposes of holier than thou posturing? From Jeremy Corbyn? Astonishing.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 22h

Every time I hear about terrible things happening at Reach Plc my genuine distress at all the good journos having their livelihoods threatened is tempered by the fact that Christian Calgie is also suffering.

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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 22h

Because he didn't?

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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 23h

Sally Jenkins is staking out a "it's often ok" position which seems in line with her "Charlie Kirk was civil and that's what counts" take.

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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 1d

Except people who love pizza aren't Dominos clients.

Ian Hill @ianhillmedia.bsky.social · 1d

They said the change blends its "heritage with a more playful, modern look and sound to reach the next generation of pizza lovers."

Domino's unveils new logo, jingle

They said the change blends its "heritage with a more playful, modern look and sound to reach the next generation of pizza lovers."

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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 1d

It would be nice if discussions of the Tomahawk included a bit of consideration on launch platforms.

Hans de Vreij @vreij.bsky.social · 1d

Will Ukraine get Tomahawk cruise missiles? This is what president Trump said: "Yeah, I might tell him (Putin), if the war is not settled, we may very well do it,” he said. "We may not, but we may do it. … Do they want to have Tomahawks going in their direction? I don’t think so." Sounds like a 'No'.

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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/cbLm--0Iudo?...

"Knowledge is Porridge"

YouTube video by Rafael Figueiredo Caparroz

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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 1d

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 1d

Yes.

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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 1d

How about when they published provable lies about the killing of George Floyd and when Weiss was called on her response was to ask Radley Balko on her podcast to debate if?

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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 1d

Hey - Charlie Kirk was civil when he was calling for Biden to be executed. You got to give Sally that!

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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps it's my own particular field colouring my perceptions but it's eerily similar to how Putin and his coterie think, except Putin doesn't bother with the Gramscian gloss. He just sees the masses as a resource of the state, to be mobilised as it sees fit.

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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 1d

It's also straightforwardly not in the text.

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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 2d

Sampler of drugs

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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 3d

Fondly remembering Novara's Rivkah Brown being really excited and enthused about the attacks until Monday morning when Novara's HR and legal departments came online and she miraculously saw the error of her ways.

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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 3d

Halsin? I seem to have missed that. And Wyll has been laying it on very thick to my half orc no matter how hard I friend zone him.

McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 4d

Especially as there were no indications Biden suffered actual cognitive decline.

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McDaragh @mcdaragh.bsky.social · 4d

My grand theory of UK politics is that if we think of it in terms of a computer the BIOS chip and motherboard haven't been updated in decades so nothing is really going to work but the voters simply don't get it and keep trying to swap out the CPU.

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