Nate O
@nateo.bsky.social
An ‘academic’ per Daily Mail ✡️ 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
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Every day the #BBC uncritically platform dark money funded right-wing voices. Examples include the Institute of Economic Affairs, the Taxpayers' Alliance & the ridiculous right-wing contrarians Spiked. Time to call time on media representation without knowing who pays the bills.
Exclusive: The BBC has issued an apology after one of its presenters failed to challenge a climate-sceptic lobbyist who runs a group that has received funding from fossil-fuel interests
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
BBC Apologises for Failing to Challenge 'Dark Money' Climate-Denial Lobbyist
EXCLUSIVE: BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford 'fell below usual standards'
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Every day the #BBC uncritically platform dark money funded right-wing voices. Examples include the Institute of Economic Affairs, the Taxpayers' Alliance & the ridiculous right-wing contrarians Spiked. Time to call time on media representation without knowing who pays the bills.
Maybe I’ll always be yank-brained but floating removing the choice of a trial by peers is irrefutable evidence that the UK needs a codified constitution setting out the legal rights of people. Maybe it can be modelled on one of the constitutions from one of its many colonies
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Maybe I’ll always be yank-brained but floating removing the choice of a trial by peers is irrefutable evidence that the UK needs a codified constitution setting out the legal rights of people. Maybe it can be modelled on one of the constitutions from one of its many colonies
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I do try not to get too alarmist but I do have an increasing concern about the possibility of a major collapse in institutional legitimacy (government, courts, media) arising from what is a pretty undeniable shift on their part to the far right positions on most social issues
November 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I do try not to get too alarmist but I do have an increasing concern about the possibility of a major collapse in institutional legitimacy (government, courts, media) arising from what is a pretty undeniable shift on their part to the far right positions on most social issues
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Stefan Benarroch, two years below Farage at school, has told the Guardian that Ettedgui "was such a gentle soul and Farage – Farage made his life a fucking nightmare." He has also alleged Farage would hang outside where a Jewish service was held to identify and taunt other Jewish boys.
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Stefan Benarroch, two years below Farage at school, has told the Guardian that Ettedgui "was such a gentle soul and Farage – Farage made his life a fucking nightmare." He has also alleged Farage would hang outside where a Jewish service was held to identify and taunt other Jewish boys.
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New: Three new ex-pupils come forward, on the record, to say Farage's racism as a teenager was targeted, persistent and nasty. Farage has denied targeting any individuals - but two of the men tell us they recall Farage abusing Peter Ettedgui.
w/ Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social
w/ Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social
Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims
Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
New: Three new ex-pupils come forward, on the record, to say Farage's racism as a teenager was targeted, persistent and nasty. Farage has denied targeting any individuals - but two of the men tell us they recall Farage abusing Peter Ettedgui.
w/ Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social
w/ Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social
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Never stop eastside
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Never stop eastside
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BLOOD WORK / EPISODE 9
TO LIVE AS PEOPLE OR DIE LIKE MEN: ATTICA
In 1971, a community cast aside by the state attempted to reclaim their humanity and political subjectivity. We look at the Attica Prison Uprising to see what that event can teach us about politics, law and violence.
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TO LIVE AS PEOPLE OR DIE LIKE MEN: ATTICA
In 1971, a community cast aside by the state attempted to reclaim their humanity and political subjectivity. We look at the Attica Prison Uprising to see what that event can teach us about politics, law and violence.
@bloodwork.show
To Live as People or Die Like Men: Attica | Blood Work
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November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
BLOOD WORK / EPISODE 9
TO LIVE AS PEOPLE OR DIE LIKE MEN: ATTICA
In 1971, a community cast aside by the state attempted to reclaim their humanity and political subjectivity. We look at the Attica Prison Uprising to see what that event can teach us about politics, law and violence.
@bloodwork.show
TO LIVE AS PEOPLE OR DIE LIKE MEN: ATTICA
In 1971, a community cast aside by the state attempted to reclaim their humanity and political subjectivity. We look at the Attica Prison Uprising to see what that event can teach us about politics, law and violence.
@bloodwork.show
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Turing failed to consider whether a human thinking a machine is sentient might actually be a sign that the human isn't intelligent rather than the machine being intelligent.
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Turing failed to consider whether a human thinking a machine is sentient might actually be a sign that the human isn't intelligent rather than the machine being intelligent.
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Perhaps naive and nostalgic of me but – was there not a point in the last decade or so when one would have expected (at least within the legal profession and the judiciary) – a far bolder defence of the rule of law?
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Perhaps naive and nostalgic of me but – was there not a point in the last decade or so when one would have expected (at least within the legal profession and the judiciary) – a far bolder defence of the rule of law?
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we got nazis taking over our government and the Washington Post ed board is cosplaying Andy Rooney
OMG they changed the hed and I am DECEASED
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 PM
we got nazis taking over our government and the Washington Post ed board is cosplaying Andy Rooney
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
If my secret plan (i.e. to flee house arrest and claim asylum in the United States days before I was to serve 27 years for my failed coup plot) hinged entirely on successfully completing the first step in the plan (i.e. removing my ankle monitor) I think I could complete the first step in my plan
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If my secret plan (i.e. to flee house arrest and claim asylum in the United States days before I was to serve 27 years for my failed coup plot) hinged entirely on successfully completing the first step in the plan (i.e. removing my ankle monitor) I think I could complete the first step in my plan
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I'm sure shifting from inappropriately or non-identified agents to non-identified bounty hunters with letters of marque looking for a 9 figure payday won't have any downsides
NEW: ICE has torn up its $180M cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program and is now guaranteeing private surveillance firms at least $7.5M each, with potential payouts reaching $281M per vendor. The change signals a shift from “pilot” to full-scale outsourcing of street-level investigative work.
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I'm sure shifting from inappropriately or non-identified agents to non-identified bounty hunters with letters of marque looking for a 9 figure payday won't have any downsides
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what the fuck
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
what the fuck
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50p
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
50p
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A mayoral candidate is repeatedly asked to condemn Hamas and denounce anti-Semitism simply because he's Muslim.
A sitting president who promotes white nationalism, employs gutter racists and dines with literal Nazis is given a free pass.
A sitting president who promotes white nationalism, employs gutter racists and dines with literal Nazis is given a free pass.
A mayoral candidate saying maybe the city should cover the cost of bus rides gets the full socialism panic treatment before he even tries it.
A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.
A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A mayoral candidate is repeatedly asked to condemn Hamas and denounce anti-Semitism simply because he's Muslim.
A sitting president who promotes white nationalism, employs gutter racists and dines with literal Nazis is given a free pass.
A sitting president who promotes white nationalism, employs gutter racists and dines with literal Nazis is given a free pass.
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The numbers vary from study to study but hundreds of thousands of people have died because of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio illegally disbanding USAID — a body count on par with the first eight years of the Syrian civil war — In just seven months. It’s mass death that is simply unfathomable in scale.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The numbers vary from study to study but hundreds of thousands of people have died because of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio illegally disbanding USAID — a body count on par with the first eight years of the Syrian civil war — In just seven months. It’s mass death that is simply unfathomable in scale.
Why hasn’t the Board of Deputies denounced Farage?
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Why hasn’t the Board of Deputies denounced Farage?
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oh so nvidia is cooked for real for real
November 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM
oh so nvidia is cooked for real for real
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I do not see why Bolsonaro is upset about going to prison. After all, is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I do not see why Bolsonaro is upset about going to prison. After all, is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
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This is brutal and just shoves vulnerable broke people into homelessness.
The government’s decision to halve the time limit for refugees to leave Home Office accommodation is driving people into homelessness and exploitation, according to migrant rights campaigners and homelessness charities
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
By me, for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/new-asylum...
New asylum policies making homeless refugees “targets for the far right”
Labour’s abrupt return to the 28-day move-on period is pushing vulnerable people into rough sleeping and exposing them to fraud and abuse.
national.thelead.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This is brutal and just shoves vulnerable broke people into homelessness.
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In 2021 Good Law Project went for an Orwell Prize for uncovering the Covid PPE VIP lane - an issue which helped bring down the last Government. We didn't even get shortlisted - one of the judges was a Director General under the last Government working on... the Covid response. 😂
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
In 2021 Good Law Project went for an Orwell Prize for uncovering the Covid PPE VIP lane - an issue which helped bring down the last Government. We didn't even get shortlisted - one of the judges was a Director General under the last Government working on... the Covid response. 😂
Marriott’s musings over democracy appear, at least to me, to be outright plagiarism of authoritarians since the days of old, a degraded copy of the old saw about the danger of democracy as uncontrolled anarchy, at least if understood in the Graeberian sense davidgraeber.org/articles/the...
November 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Marriott’s musings over democracy appear, at least to me, to be outright plagiarism of authoritarians since the days of old, a degraded copy of the old saw about the danger of democracy as uncontrolled anarchy, at least if understood in the Graeberian sense davidgraeber.org/articles/the...
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For some reason I've suddenly remembered those two Palestine activists who were convicted of harassment (later overturned on appeal) for filming themselves asking a Labour MP questions about Gaza.
Today I learned that stalking a 17 year old girl, writing up a 400 page 'dossier' about her, falsely reporting her to the police and smashing her phone does not constitute 'harassment'.
One wonders what *would*.
One wonders what *would*.
Graham Linehan cleared of harassment but guilty of criminal damage to trans activist's phone
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
For some reason I've suddenly remembered those two Palestine activists who were convicted of harassment (later overturned on appeal) for filming themselves asking a Labour MP questions about Gaza.