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Richard Jones-Nerzic @richardjonesnerzic.bsky.social · 8d

'Starmer is the most unpopular new prime minister since records began in the 1980s, plummeting to depths unseen even by Liz Truss, while just 12% approve of the government’s record, compared with 70% who disapprove.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My conference pass was revoked for asking difficult questions: this is Keir Starmer’s Labour | Owen Jones

I was told it was a ‘safeguarding’ issue. This speaks to a party that has not only lost its soul, but is scared of the truth, writes Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Richard Jones-Nerzic @richardjonesnerzic.bsky.social · 21d

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Jon Stewart's Post-Kimmel Primer on Free Speech in the Glorious Trump Era | The Daily Show

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · Sep 1

In solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla which launches this week in a bid to break the Israeli naval blockade and deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, I've recorded a new song for Palestine

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Billy Bragg - Hundred Year Hunger

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · Sep 1

This weekend's round-up of toxic media and advertisers include a barrage of anti-migrant hate pieces in The Express (all were published in just one day).

Supported by ads from #Specsavers, #MarellaCruises (by #TuiUK), #BritishGas, #Asda, #Tesco, #OakFurniture #RyobiTools, and #Yimbly.

Express article with headline reading: Councils told: Keep up fight over hotels.

Express article with headline reading: Keep fighting, all legal migrants must be deported.

Express article with headline reading: Asylum seekers in one in ten new homes.

Express article with headline reading: Fearless Farage gets scale of asylum crisis.

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Richard Jones-Nerzic @richardjonesnerzic.bsky.social · Aug 30

We must be doing something right. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Russia bans IB after branding it ‘undesirable’

At least 29 schools listed as delivering IB courses are likely to be affected by the decision

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Richard Jones-Nerzic @richardjonesnerzic.bsky.social · Aug 30

It can't happen here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Step back and take it in: the US is entering full authoritarian mode | Jonathan Freedland

Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. But now it’s time to call it what it is, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Richard Jones-Nerzic @richardjonesnerzic.bsky.social · Aug 16

embed.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Sensitive documents left behind on a public photocopier in the hotel in Alaska. It includes the lunch menu that was never eaten, and most shockingly, crème brûlée with ice cream.

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Richard Jones-Nerzic @richardjonesnerzic.bsky.social · Aug 13

The Compote

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Richard Jones-Nerzic @richardjonesnerzic.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Richard Jones-Nerzic @richardjonesnerzic.bsky.social · Aug 9

Some are only so-so. Most are for the ages.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Aug 9

The rich don’t spend the money they have, and the poor don’t have money to spend.

This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending.

Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared

The Real Reason the Economy Might Collapse | Robert Reich

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Richard Jones-Nerzic @richardjonesnerzic.bsky.social · Aug 7

I live in a Swiss farming village. It's like industrial farming never happened and the high food prices reflect this. Importantly the public vote to sustain the high prices and not simply because of the obvious higher quality but because farmers are seen as more more than just producers of food.

Richard Jones-Nerzic @richardjonesnerzic.bsky.social · Aug 4

Agreed.

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Richard Jones-Nerzic @richardjonesnerzic.bsky.social · Aug 4

Test cricket!

Richard Jones-Nerzic @richardjonesnerzic.bsky.social · Aug 4

youtu.be/QHpnnlq779w?... 15 years ago.

Stephen Colbert and I Discuss Taxing the Rich

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Richard Jones-Nerzic @richardjonesnerzic.bsky.social · Aug 2

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This.

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi

The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 30

Motherfucking wind farms…

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Richard Jones-Nerzic @richardjonesnerzic.bsky.social · Jul 11

'Think of Hitler’s top henchmen — Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, Albert Speer, Karl Dönitz — all of them as, if not more, fanatical and sadistic than Hitler, eager to carry out his orders, wielding considerable power...' open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Trump's Magnet of Malevolence

Why Miller, Vought, Bondi, Patel, Noem, Vance, Kennedy Jr., Rubio, and Hegseth are amplifying his cruelty

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Jul 11

The biggest issue of Brexit
Take back control of our borders
Did not control our borders
It hypercharegd small boat arrivals
Because we left the EU
And no longer had access to the Dublin returns agreement
Brexit didn't fix small boats arrivals
Brexit made it happen

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · Jul 7

This really is not getting the attention it should. The Tories' latest proposal is to exclude *any household that includes any foreign national from any benefit*.

And when asked about it, they keep citing small boat crossings - a minute fraction of migration - to justify it. ~AA

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Richard Jones-Nerzic @richardjonesnerzic.bsky.social · Jul 7

Never trust anyone who uses the word 'evil'.

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · Jul 6

Here's Home Sec Cooper with the Israeli ambassador who endorsed the complete decimation of Gaza ('every school,every hospital, every home'). Yvette doesn't count such language as terrorism. The other photo is 83 Yr old Rev Sue Parfitt. She calls for an end to genocide. Apparently THAT is terrorism.

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Richard Jones-Nerzic @richardjonesnerzic.bsky.social · Jul 6

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Richard Jones-Nerzic @richardjonesnerzic.bsky.social · Jul 5

ICE and the growth of Trump's prerogative state.