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McDaragh
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"Somebody will surely stop this" says society based on sloughing off responsibility and accountability at any opportunity.
Fondly remembering the five day freak out about Biden possibly implying racists were garbage people.
Trump on Somalis: "We're gonna go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage."
December 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Fondly remembering the five day freak out about Biden possibly implying racists were garbage people.
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The official policy of the Trump Administration is ignorant bigotry. We’re asked, under principles including charity, to assume that people support the administration despite that policy, not specifically because of it. I am increasingly unwilling to extend that charity.
December 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The official policy of the Trump Administration is ignorant bigotry. We’re asked, under principles including charity, to assume that people support the administration despite that policy, not specifically because of it. I am increasingly unwilling to extend that charity.
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she went to state legislators, TPUSA and conservative media outlets within a few hours of getting her grade, if you can’t identify the bad faith that can be seen from space, you need to get your eyes checked
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
she went to state legislators, TPUSA and conservative media outlets within a few hours of getting her grade, if you can’t identify the bad faith that can be seen from space, you need to get your eyes checked
"Obsessive losers to engage in bitter fight with precisely zero real world impact."
Your Party faces proxy war between supporters of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, insiders warn
Your Party faces proxy war between supporters of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, insiders warn
While members’ vote avoids one-to-one leadership race, battle continues ‘for the soul of the party’
Your Party faces a potential proxy war between supporters of Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana after members opted for a collective model of leadership, insiders have warned.
Members voted narrowly in favour of an initial period in which the new leftwing party is guided by a 16-strong central executive committee at its inaugural conference at the weekend. The decision avoided a direct and possibly brutal contest between Corbyn and Sultana to be sole leader, the other option available. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
"Obsessive losers to engage in bitter fight with precisely zero real world impact."
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For all that has happened since, my Joker moment on UK politics media remains Boris taking office and immediately breaking every single red line he had laid down on Northern Ireland to accept a deal that had been on the table for years, then being hailed as a visionary who proved the doubters wrong
Everything that happened around the handling of the NI protocol in late 2019 was my “Oh wow we are just in a whole new world here, huh?” moment and it has never actually reverted from that
December 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
For all that has happened since, my Joker moment on UK politics media remains Boris taking office and immediately breaking every single red line he had laid down on Northern Ireland to accept a deal that had been on the table for years, then being hailed as a visionary who proved the doubters wrong
It would be nice if "willing to accept Jonathan Gullis" was the kind of attack against reform that would resonate.
Two more Conservative MP rejects hop over to Reform UK. Jonathan Gullis and Lia Nici.
More and more, Reform UK looks simply as if the Tories ran off stage, then came back on two minutes lates, wearing a comedy moustache-and-glasses disguise. ~AA
uk.news.yahoo.com/former-tory-...
More and more, Reform UK looks simply as if the Tories ran off stage, then came back on two minutes lates, wearing a comedy moustache-and-glasses disguise. ~AA
uk.news.yahoo.com/former-tory-...
Former Tory MP Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform UK
He joins Daniel Jellyman
uk.news.yahoo.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
It would be nice if "willing to accept Jonathan Gullis" was the kind of attack against reform that would resonate.
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Everyone who attended the Your Party conference fits into one of these four simple categories:
December 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Everyone who attended the Your Party conference fits into one of these four simple categories:
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Replies really missing the point of this one - at the moment we have right wing newspapers that fawn uncritically on right wing parties and hate the centre/left, and centre/left newspapers that report broadly fairly on everyone and unsurprisingly, correctly critique centre/left governments a lot
Sometimes I do think we should have more media outlets that just go 'Labour good' – you know, for balance
Anyway, here are some front pages from the day after the most disastrous fiscal event in the UK since Robert Peston started a run on Northern Rock...
December 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Replies really missing the point of this one - at the moment we have right wing newspapers that fawn uncritically on right wing parties and hate the centre/left, and centre/left newspapers that report broadly fairly on everyone and unsurprisingly, correctly critique centre/left governments a lot
Personally I'd wait to make a decision until after the split sometime next week.
I’m curious what thresholds Your Party needs to reach for pollsters to start asking/reporting about them routinely
December 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Personally I'd wait to make a decision until after the split sometime next week.
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yeah AI Ben Garrison is incredible
November 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
yeah AI Ben Garrison is incredible
10/10 no notes.
Your Party members have voted to keep the name Your Party
Your Party still called Your Party after two day conference
Members voted to keep the name
leftfootforward.org
November 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
10/10 no notes.
Seems like a bit of an important development that the editorial staff of racist moron weekly is starting to abandon Trump on this.
Fox News legal contributor Andy McCarthy knocks down Hegseth's defense:
"Neither Hegseth’s statement nor the explanation attributed to Bradley ... makes legal sense.
...
It cannot be a defense to say, as Hegseth does, that one has killed because one’s objective was 'lethal, kinetic strikes.'"
"Neither Hegseth’s statement nor the explanation attributed to Bradley ... makes legal sense.
...
It cannot be a defense to say, as Hegseth does, that one has killed because one’s objective was 'lethal, kinetic strikes.'"
‘We Intended the Strike to Be Lethal’ Is Not a Defense | National Review
The laws of war, incorporated in the federal war crimes statute, prohibit the killing of people who have been rendered hors de combat.
www.nationalreview.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Seems like a bit of an important development that the editorial staff of racist moron weekly is starting to abandon Trump on this.
We've reached the "even the baseball racist is getting off the boat" stage of Trump ETA lets depravity
November 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
We've reached the "even the baseball racist is getting off the boat" stage of Trump ETA lets depravity
This rules. More factions! More incoherence! More inexplicable policy pronouncements from otherwise unemployable elected simply because they have too much time on their hands!
Your Party members have voted to have a COLLECTIVE leadership - so against having a single leader (for now).
So no Corbyn v Sultana leadership race just yet...
Vote was tight - 51.7% in favour
So no Corbyn v Sultana leadership race just yet...
Vote was tight - 51.7% in favour
November 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
This rules. More factions! More incoherence! More inexplicable policy pronouncements from otherwise unemployable elected simply because they have too much time on their hands!
New frontiers in sodcasting - gentleman playing YouTube videos at full volume with no headphones in the library. Await @alanbeattie.bsky.social 's suggestions for punishment.
November 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
New frontiers in sodcasting - gentleman playing YouTube videos at full volume with no headphones in the library. Await @alanbeattie.bsky.social 's suggestions for punishment.
Do hope that Hegseth establishes a precedent for officers being recalled to duty specifically to be court martialed. It would be incredibly funny if nothing else to see him hoist by this petard.
"Declaring 'no quarter' is a war crime," argued Brian Finucane, a former State Department lawyer and an editor at Just Security. "Even assuming an armed conflict exists."
"Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing," agreed Just Security co-editor-in-chief Ryan Goodman.
"Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing," agreed Just Security co-editor-in-chief Ryan Goodman.
November 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Do hope that Hegseth establishes a precedent for officers being recalled to duty specifically to be court martialed. It would be incredibly funny if nothing else to see him hoist by this petard.
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Hamas ✅
Hezbollah ✅
Zarah Sultana ❌
Hezbollah ✅
Zarah Sultana ❌
Jeremy Corbyn declines to call Zarah Sultana a friend as Your Party holds first conference
Jeremy Corbyn declines to call Zarah Sultana a friend as Your Party holds first conference
Jeremy Corbyn has declined to say his Your Party co-founder Zarah Sultana is a friend as supporters of the new grouping gather in Liverpool.
news.sky.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Hamas ✅
Hezbollah ✅
Zarah Sultana ❌
Hezbollah ✅
Zarah Sultana ❌
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Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
Uncomfortable feelings here as my belief the PA ban is draconian and counterproductive clashes with my belief that Sally Rooney's politics are utterly ridiculous and performative.
Sally Rooney says she will be unable to publish books in UK while Palestine Action banned
Sally Rooney says she will be unable to publish books in UK while Palestine Action banned
Author tells high court her public support for group means her books could disappear from UK stores altogether
The Irish author Sally Rooney has told the high court she is highly unlikely to be able to publish new work in the UK while the ban on Palestine Action remains in effect because of her public support for the group.
On the second day of the legal challenge to Palestine Action’s proscription, the effect on Rooney, who said her books could disappear from UK stores altogether, was held up as an example of its impact on freedom of expression. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Uncomfortable feelings here as my belief the PA ban is draconian and counterproductive clashes with my belief that Sally Rooney's politics are utterly ridiculous and performative.
This is very very good.
NEW | Wading through coverage of the Budget…
THE BUDGET, THE BRITISH PRESS, AND THE LONG SHADOW OF BENEFITS STREET
Why a TV show from 2014 is still easy shorthand for creating division.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-budget...
THE BUDGET, THE BRITISH PRESS, AND THE LONG SHADOW OF BENEFITS STREET
Why a TV show from 2014 is still easy shorthand for creating division.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-budget...
The budget, the British press, and the long shadow of Benefits Street
Why a TV show from 2014 is still easy shorthand for creating division.
brokenbottleboy.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
This is very very good.
This is bad, but it should also put paid to the usual horseshit from the French left about Macron being president by default. Melenchon is clearly unacceptable to the vast majority of French voters and yet his fanboys keep insisting on him.
France, Odoxa poll:
Presidential run-off election
Bardella (RN-PfE): 53%
Philippe (HOR-RE): 47%
Bardella (RN-PfE): 58%
Glucksmann (PS/PP-S&D): 42%
Bardella (RN-PfE): 74%
Mélenchon (LFI-LEFT): 26%
Bardella (RN-PfE): 56%
Attal (RE-RE): 44%
Fieldwork: 19-20 November 2025
Sample size: 803-689
Presidential run-off election
Bardella (RN-PfE): 53%
Philippe (HOR-RE): 47%
Bardella (RN-PfE): 58%
Glucksmann (PS/PP-S&D): 42%
Bardella (RN-PfE): 74%
Mélenchon (LFI-LEFT): 26%
Bardella (RN-PfE): 56%
Attal (RE-RE): 44%
Fieldwork: 19-20 November 2025
Sample size: 803-689
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 AM
This is bad, but it should also put paid to the usual horseshit from the French left about Macron being president by default. Melenchon is clearly unacceptable to the vast majority of French voters and yet his fanboys keep insisting on him.
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This is extremely unfortunate to say the least. Not sure how I would have reacted to having my Reith lectures censored - the world has changed in an ill way in the two years since.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
This is extremely unfortunate to say the least. Not sure how I would have reacted to having my Reith lectures censored - the world has changed in an ill way in the two years since.
This is literally just unashamedly promoting a policy so racist certain people are afraid to walk the streets.
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This is literally just unashamedly promoting a policy so racist certain people are afraid to walk the streets.