Roger McCarthy
@rogermccarthy.bsky.social
'Prince, I can hear the trumpet of Germinal,
The tumbrils toiling up the terrible way;
Even to-day your royal head may fall,
I think I will not hang myself to-day'.
(Chesterton)
The tumbrils toiling up the terrible way;
Even to-day your royal head may fall,
I think I will not hang myself to-day'.
(Chesterton)
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god bless none of this is true for the vast, vast majority of Chinese workers.
Then they should deliver China's employelment benefits with it.
Your vacation days follow you throughout your career.
The company is required to pay for your 5 mandatory social insurances: medical maternity, retirement, unemployment, and workplace injury.
You get a House fund.
etc
Your vacation days follow you throughout your career.
The company is required to pay for your 5 mandatory social insurances: medical maternity, retirement, unemployment, and workplace injury.
You get a House fund.
etc
January 29, 2026 at 2:43 PM
god bless none of this is true for the vast, vast majority of Chinese workers.
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Ernst Lubitsch, Director, Producer, Writer, #BornOnThisDay in 1892, in Berlin
January 29, 2026 at 1:05 PM
Ernst Lubitsch, Director, Producer, Writer, #BornOnThisDay in 1892, in Berlin
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Is it Bovino or Miller whose pronouns are he/Himmler? David Shuster had me cracking up on Amped Up yesterday.. did you catch it?
youtube.com/shorts/CsZ4F...
youtube.com/shorts/CsZ4F...
His Pronouns are He/Himmler... David Shuster Jokes on DHS
Not the normally reserved David Shuster cracking jokes on the Bovino/Miller set!!
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January 29, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Is it Bovino or Miller whose pronouns are he/Himmler? David Shuster had me cracking up on Amped Up yesterday.. did you catch it?
youtube.com/shorts/CsZ4F...
youtube.com/shorts/CsZ4F...
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Student finance in a nutshell
Essentially Plan B is just an income tax hike, applied in a really haphazard way, at the wrong point in most people's lifecycle.
January 29, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Student finance in a nutshell
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People from outside Ireland occasionally ask me, "Why is Bono, an international music titan from Ireland, not all that loved in Ireland?". The answer in its entirety is a complex one, but "He sent Dolly Parton a birthday cake and put his own name on it" goes a long way to summing it up.
January 21, 2026 at 11:05 AM
People from outside Ireland occasionally ask me, "Why is Bono, an international music titan from Ireland, not all that loved in Ireland?". The answer in its entirety is a complex one, but "He sent Dolly Parton a birthday cake and put his own name on it" goes a long way to summing it up.
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Love the framing. The Left is shouting "WE WON IN MINNESOTA! THE REPUBLICANS ARE FOLDING!" while THE EXACT OPPOSITE THING IS GOING ON.
The Republicans, who own the American press, have said "our bad" — but precisely NOTHING has changed in Minnesota. Yet the Dems are ready to fund DHS "with limits!"
The Republicans, who own the American press, have said "our bad" — but precisely NOTHING has changed in Minnesota. Yet the Dems are ready to fund DHS "with limits!"
January 29, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Love the framing. The Left is shouting "WE WON IN MINNESOTA! THE REPUBLICANS ARE FOLDING!" while THE EXACT OPPOSITE THING IS GOING ON.
The Republicans, who own the American press, have said "our bad" — but precisely NOTHING has changed in Minnesota. Yet the Dems are ready to fund DHS "with limits!"
The Republicans, who own the American press, have said "our bad" — but precisely NOTHING has changed in Minnesota. Yet the Dems are ready to fund DHS "with limits!"
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Once fascism takes hold, law exists to enforce that fascism and punish its opponents.
You can't peacefully overthrow a dictatorship.
So your choices are:
1) Submit to slavery.
2) Overthrow them.
Law, discourse and voting will not change this.
History tells us they are coming to kill you all.
You can't peacefully overthrow a dictatorship.
So your choices are:
1) Submit to slavery.
2) Overthrow them.
Law, discourse and voting will not change this.
History tells us they are coming to kill you all.
January 29, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Once fascism takes hold, law exists to enforce that fascism and punish its opponents.
You can't peacefully overthrow a dictatorship.
So your choices are:
1) Submit to slavery.
2) Overthrow them.
Law, discourse and voting will not change this.
History tells us they are coming to kill you all.
You can't peacefully overthrow a dictatorship.
So your choices are:
1) Submit to slavery.
2) Overthrow them.
Law, discourse and voting will not change this.
History tells us they are coming to kill you all.
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On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
This was a minor story on London news this morning - but suspect is a real cautionary (and alarming) tale of an older man getting radicalised online.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sidcup man convicted aover explosive attack on Ulez camera
Kevin Rees's homemade bomb caused damage to vehicles and property including a child's bedroom.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 9:43 AM
On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
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With his usual perfect taste, Tomás starts off here with what I'd call Dorothy Malone's best performance, notwithstanding how great she was in Written on the Wind — The Tarnished Angels, black-and-white Sirk and a stone masterpiece.
Dorothy Malone, Actress, #BornOnThisDay in 1924, in Chicago
January 29, 2026 at 1:46 PM
With his usual perfect taste, Tomás starts off here with what I'd call Dorothy Malone's best performance, notwithstanding how great she was in Written on the Wind — The Tarnished Angels, black-and-white Sirk and a stone masterpiece.
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Share this with everyone you know. ICE has not backed down in Minnesota. They are kidnapping children from their homes and sending them to an unheated prison in the dead of winter. The maximum legal detention time is 20 days (still too long!). Some kids have been imprisoned over 100 days there
One Minnesota journalist doing remarkable work right now is Elizabeth Shockman/@eshockmanwrites.bsky.social for @mprnews.org. This article posted yesterday on child detentions is an essential read. An essential read.
‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond
ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and sending them to Texas within hours — in at least two cases against a judge’s order. ...
www.mprnews.org
January 29, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Share this with everyone you know. ICE has not backed down in Minnesota. They are kidnapping children from their homes and sending them to an unheated prison in the dead of winter. The maximum legal detention time is 20 days (still too long!). Some kids have been imprisoned over 100 days there
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I found this and thought you all needed to see it
January 29, 2026 at 12:24 AM
I found this and thought you all needed to see it
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Listening to Bill Evans in England on Ronnie Scott's birthday 🎂
Bill Evans Trio, with Eddie Gomez on bass & Marty Morell on drums, recorded at Ronnie Scott's London club, December 1969.
Great cover photo by Jean-Pierre Leloir
youtube.com/watch?v=wjSU...
Bill Evans Trio, with Eddie Gomez on bass & Marty Morell on drums, recorded at Ronnie Scott's London club, December 1969.
Great cover photo by Jean-Pierre Leloir
youtube.com/watch?v=wjSU...
January 29, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Listening to Bill Evans in England on Ronnie Scott's birthday 🎂
Bill Evans Trio, with Eddie Gomez on bass & Marty Morell on drums, recorded at Ronnie Scott's London club, December 1969.
Great cover photo by Jean-Pierre Leloir
youtube.com/watch?v=wjSU...
Bill Evans Trio, with Eddie Gomez on bass & Marty Morell on drums, recorded at Ronnie Scott's London club, December 1969.
Great cover photo by Jean-Pierre Leloir
youtube.com/watch?v=wjSU...
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Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you
January 28, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you
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They will literally kill us all if we don't stop them, permanently and irreversibly.
January 29, 2026 at 12:00 AM
They will literally kill us all if we don't stop them, permanently and irreversibly.
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I would call them immoral but it's worse than that. It is an environment where the highest degree of immorality is celebrated, and you celebrated for finding more ways to exceed it. A sea of vicious and jeering young men who have surrendered any sliver of human decency and cannot be redeemed.
January 29, 2026 at 12:00 AM
I would call them immoral but it's worse than that. It is an environment where the highest degree of immorality is celebrated, and you celebrated for finding more ways to exceed it. A sea of vicious and jeering young men who have surrendered any sliver of human decency and cannot be redeemed.
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You know he practiced his speech in the Homewood Suites bathroom mirror that morning. Only to become instantly famous lmao
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." Meet 𝐄𝐝𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐨 𝐆𝐨𝐧𝐳𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐳, an ICE Deportation Officer from Miami, FL (originally from Puerto Rico). Gonzalez has lived in Miami and Hollywood, FL. He decided it would be fun to travel to Miami to kidnap and threaten people. #OneOfOursAllOfYours #UnmaskICE
January 28, 2026 at 4:49 PM
You know he practiced his speech in the Homewood Suites bathroom mirror that morning. Only to become instantly famous lmao
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‘They were all monsters, monstrous in the sheer scale of their lives and characters and in the self-belief that propelled what might have been, in smaller personalities, merely enthusiasms or inclinations onto the world stage.’
Rosemary Hill on the Mitfords:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rosemary Hill on the Mitfords:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rosemary Hill · One of the Worst Things: Jessica Mitford’s Handbag
It sometimes feels as if we shall never hear the last of the Mitfords. What Jessica, one of Deborah Devonshire’s older...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 4:22 PM
‘They were all monsters, monstrous in the sheer scale of their lives and characters and in the self-belief that propelled what might have been, in smaller personalities, merely enthusiasms or inclinations onto the world stage.’
Rosemary Hill on the Mitfords:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rosemary Hill on the Mitfords:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Dutch Jew in New Amsterdam here: don't forget that the rampant antisemitism of the U.S. State Department is why Anne and her sister perished in the camps, because they and so many others seeking refuge were denied entry here.
January 28, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Dutch Jew in New Amsterdam here: don't forget that the rampant antisemitism of the U.S. State Department is why Anne and her sister perished in the camps, because they and so many others seeking refuge were denied entry here.
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#OtD 28 Jan 1995 40 fascists outside the Clarence Inn, Manchester, attempted to attack a Bloody Sunday commemoration, but were beaten back by members of Anti-Fascist Action and their supporters stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1000...
January 28, 2026 at 4:25 PM
#OtD 28 Jan 1995 40 fascists outside the Clarence Inn, Manchester, attempted to attack a Bloody Sunday commemoration, but were beaten back by members of Anti-Fascist Action and their supporters stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1000...
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Tell me again how this BBC editorialising is just my cognitive bias... This isn't a quote from anywhere. It's just the BBC's description of this disgraced, divisive politician.
January 28, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Tell me again how this BBC editorialising is just my cognitive bias... This isn't a quote from anywhere. It's just the BBC's description of this disgraced, divisive politician.
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LIKE.HE.WAS.A.DEER.
“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
January 28, 2026 at 10:51 AM
LIKE.HE.WAS.A.DEER.
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that is the head of DOJ’s civil rights division. You may remember her from such episodes as calling her conservative critics “hoes.” Now she’s asserting that Edward Whelan III lacks “street cred.”
Sometimes the app formerly known as Twitter still delivers:
January 28, 2026 at 12:47 PM
that is the head of DOJ’s civil rights division. You may remember her from such episodes as calling her conservative critics “hoes.” Now she’s asserting that Edward Whelan III lacks “street cred.”
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i have three real options for the brezhfit
January 27, 2026 at 3:05 AM
i have three real options for the brezhfit
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Reform seem to have been charging people £125 to put themselves up as potential Gorton and Denton parliamentary Candidates:
Applications closed Sunday.
When did they select Goodwin?
Applications closed Sunday.
When did they select Goodwin?
January 28, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Reform seem to have been charging people £125 to put themselves up as potential Gorton and Denton parliamentary Candidates:
Applications closed Sunday.
When did they select Goodwin?
Applications closed Sunday.
When did they select Goodwin?
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