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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11h

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues.

Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11h

he’s gonna end up inventing antisemitism from first principles lmao

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 22h

Casually announcing plans to murder American citizens for wrongthink.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 12h

No, WaPo, we are not doing a repeat of creating social pressure for gay people to get straight married, and no, it's not, "redefining what it means to be in a relationship."

Also, could that kiss in the thumbnail be any more awkward?

He’s gay. She’s straight. They’re happily married.

Meet the couples who are redefining what it means to be in a relationship, including those in gay-straight and same-sex platonic marriages.

www.washingtonpost.com

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 12h

I think it's bad that we allow financiers operating out of the gulf states to run massive private propaganda operations designed to undermine British democracy and stir up racial hatred

Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 20h

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21h

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 12h

I really have come to 100% believe that the younger, equally evil members of the Trump administration are constantly using AI slop to manipulate their elders.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 12h

we are governed by Facebook Grandpas who passionately and irrevocably believe that AI images of five-boobed ladies are real

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 12h

The babby is stored in the placenta

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 12h

I for one wasn't aware they'd even started.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 20h

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21h

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

www.business-live.co.uk

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 12h

As time goes on I do get more and more resentful that we have to pretend these people have sincere concerns

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13h

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social · 20h

I know he was once considered a real threat but Jordan Peterson's King Lear story arc where he gets visibly frailer with every public appearance while his daughter very obviously slowly poisons him is kind of iconic...

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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 17h

I watched 'The Conjuring: Last Rites" and it still makes me smile when you compare the movie version of Annabelle with the actual doll.

The movie version of Annabelle, forged in cursed Bakelite and imbued with the souls of the damned, glares out at us from its glass prison. The sign on the door reads "Warning! Positively do not open", not that any warning is necessary when you look at its cruel face.

The actual Annabelle, essentially a jolly cushion with limbs and a face, gives a cheery smile as it stares out at us from its glass prison. The sign on the door reads "Warning! Positively do not open" which seems unduly harsh. Like caging a Smurf.

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 17h

So about the trenchcoat guy

LeithMotive @leithmotive.bsky.social · 22h

Charles Amos is the legalise incest guy. Insane they didn't do due diligence. www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future

The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

www.thetimes.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19h

I really don't know what to do about a situation where a plurality of the group that (rightly!) takes up most government spending thinks that it is unrepresented in politics.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 20h

Hollow laughter

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 20h

Not quite sure why people putting the 14 words on signs get a ruminative essay on how the saltire has been used www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The battle for Scotland's flag: Why the right has adopted the saltire

The saltire has long been embraced by supporters of Scottish independence – but now it is being unfurled for a different cause.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 20h

'Hargreaves Lansdown has warned UK investors over exposure to cryptocurrencies, saying bitcoin “has no intrinsic value”...'
Wow what a refreshingly principled stance on consumer protection and oh wait nvm www.ft.com/content/f342...

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 20h

It’s the moustache

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 22h

I wondered why I wasn’t watching

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 22h

I have so many questions about the second guy - not all of them about The Happiness Patrol

Stephen Graves @stephengraves.co.uk · 22h

A surprisingly large number of them think the way to connect with Gen Z is "dress like Sylvester McCoy's Doctor Who."

A screen grab of a Times article. The photograph depicts three men and a woman - according to the caption these are Charles Amos, Rhys Benjamin, Daniel Campbell and Glesni Reece.

Charles is in tweeds and a fedora, Rhys sports a combover and a question mark pullover as worn by the seventh Doctor Who. Daniel wears a blue "Make Britain Great Again" baseball cap. Glesni, unlike the others, is not wearing an outlandish costume, just a black tailored jacket over a white blouse.

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Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future
The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 23h

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 1d

I keep asking if they can remember when they were annoyed at being linked with Mourinho

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1d

If your entire argument for why Jews should be protected is not because they are human beings and deserve respect but that they have been "a model minority," then congratulations, you have actually implied that if they weren't, that would justify a mass expulsion.

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 1d

You’re expecting logic from a guy who was suprised Newcastle would hold out for money for Ashworth seemingly before he knew why he wanted to hire him. We’re in this till he chases Mainoo out the club for no good reason

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 1d

I would genuinely support this. Call it a Find Out fee

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Policy Number 2 of my new centrist party, Go Outside!, is that you can't object to a noise that has been in the area longer than you.

thebelovedaunt.bsky.social @thebelovedaunt.bsky.social · 1d

Start with every single bar that surrounds those miserable bastards in Soho that constantly whine about moving to the nightlife centre of London and finding nightlife.

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