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Phil McDuff

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · Aug 21

I have something else out in @novaramedia.com about Jenrick and the far right migrant hotels crisis.

Britain’s Elites Care Much More About Migrant Hotels Than the Public Does | Novara Media

The race rioters who burned out a car at the end of my street in Middlesbrough last summer were outnumbered the very next day by locals who came out to sweep up the glass, writes Phil McDuff.

novaramedia.com

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 5h

Who put 20p in the dickhead machine?

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 5h

It’s pretty bleak that The Wire, looking back, is a romanticized picture of American policing

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 5h

Well look. It will come to that at some point. And if you think there's nothing to be done except the party picking up guns and taking the president out by force, then you're basically saying it's already at that point but you don't think anyone should do it. And that's not a respectable position.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 9h

"Thousands are still buried beneath the rubble. We don’t even know all their names. These aren’t just numbers. These are entire families erased, students who will never return to school, newborns who never made it past their first cry." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

We Are Genocide Survivors. But Our War Is Far From Over.

We in Gaza will remember the martyrs—those who died teaching, reporting, healing, mothering, surviving. We will carry their memory like fire in our hearts. And we will begin again.

www.thenation.com

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Your Party 2: 🎃Season Of Dead Terfs🎃 @fasterfizzier.bsky.social · 8h

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 8h

Mine too :)

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14h

This is horrifying. Now she'll be placed with men in prison where she is at extreme risk of being raped and sexually assaulted. And then she has to register as a sex offender.

This is all because a man was ashamed he was attracted to a trans woman.

Screenshot of a BBC News article. The text describes court proceedings involving a person named Watkin, who will serve a prison sentence in a men’s facility with measures to minimize risk and maximize support. It states that Watkin must register as a sex offender for 10 years and is under a lifelong restraining order from contacting the victim. A police detective is quoted saying Watkin concealed her sex, and the victim would not have consented had they known. The article ends with the detective expressing hope that the case’s conclusion allows the victim to move forward.

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 8h

Yup and the thing is, the longer you sit and do nothing, the more you close down all the avenues that aren't "we just gotta shoot all these guys."

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 8h

I wrote a whole thing on this back in the day, he's legit it.

Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 8h

Everyone agrees that it would have been morally right for some ordinary German citizen to kill Hitler in 1936 right?

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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 8h

Like people have all sorts of things to say about why you can't start shooting or kicking the shit out of these guys but, like, what else you got, at this stage? You let it get this bad.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 8h

I don't know, just start trying shit! lock him in the dungeon! the answer can't be "nothing, and also you're not allowed to criticize them"

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 8h

I don't know, just start trying shit! lock him in the dungeon! the answer can't be "nothing, and also you're not allowed to criticize them"

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 8h

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 8h

Let's go @govpritzker.illinois.gov Where you at buddy? It's time to put your money where your mouth is

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 8h

Feel bad for students back on campus whose professors have NOTHING to say while THIS is happening, who are tacitly being taught that the way to be a successful journalist is to be silent when your colleagues are beaten or killed

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 9h

If life is fucking awful for many people, imagine how much more fucking awful it is for people who are also living with things that others do not. We die earlier, poorer and with fewer social ties. Another world is possible, but change will be painful for those doing all right #worldmentalhealthday

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 9h

The reality of mental ill-health, distress and trauma is so disquieting to those who do not experience it that they, with societies endorsement, will invent immense comforting fantasies about how well people stay well at the cost of making change to support those who are not #worldmentalhealthday

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 9h

brutalizing a priest/pastor and now the local beloved cable channel? either call your forces to protect Chicagoland or admit outright your culpability @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 10h

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 9h

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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Ryan North? But - he died... 30 years ago this very night!! @ryannorth.ca · 13h

In video games, you will often find a fully roasted chicken abandoned on the ground, and eating it extremely quickly makes you feel better. What's less known is that this is also true in real life

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Mattholland Drive Winkie's Alley Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social · 10h

James's fundraiser is only two and a half grand from reaching its goal. It's a lot of money for any one of us, but small amounts from a lot of us might push it over. If you can spare anything I'm sure it'll be appreciated massively

www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 9h

Like, one of the few useful things we get from the genocide of Palestinians is how liberals, after only a little bit of pressure would shift from "America can't stop it" to "the Palestinians deserve to be exterminated."

Libs will say they want a nice thing as a thin cover for wanting slaughter.

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 9h

At a certain point we just have to accept liberals aren't ignorant or naive about "regime change" and instead think that it is a good outcome if a country that opposes the US Empire has its leader killed, is destabilised and its people immiserated.

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 9h

Would be nice if the NAFO "anti-imperialists just hate Americans" types and the Will Stancil "leftists are unusually violent" types acknowledged how much they normalized this kind of talk

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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