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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h

Donald Trump is ordering extrajudicial killings of suspected drug smugglers.

He's vilifying his political opponents and threatening to jail them.

His ICE agents are terrorizing immigrants and firing chemical agents at peaceful protestors.

And some people think he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

BlackRock is seeking to buy Aligned Data Centers, a data center construction company.

It’s also going to buy AES, one of the major power providers for Big Tech data centers.

While these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 13h

They lionised a woman for calling for hotels full of asylum seekers to be set on fire. Now they're lionising a man who set fire to a Quran in public.

The far-right, whether it's Reform UK or Conservatives, are championing the cause of those who will violently tear our society apart.

Reprehensible.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14h

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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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 14h

Farage is adopting every dimension of the orange's culture wars in the US. That's an alarming prospect since Starmer then lurches further right in time.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15h

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...

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 15h

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 15h

The rules apply to any non-EU citizens not covered by free movement law, not just British citizens. All these possible penalties for overstay already exist.

Brexity folks are allowed to worship British border controls; but the EU is not supposed to enforce theirs against Brits.

Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 2d

People breaking immigration law can be deported. EVEN IF THEY'RE BRITISH.

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 22h

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 · 1d

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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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 23h

“You’re banned, you can’t chant that, you’re nicked for holding a sign, you’re kids are poorer, you’re colder, you have to have an ID card and the racists have legitimate concerns in our island of strangers… now vote for us or Farage wins.”

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Brian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 1d

The Velvet Underground, Filmmakers' Cinematheque, New York City, February 8, 1966 by Fred W. McDarrah #LouReed #JohnCale

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Jacob Grier @jacobgrier.bsky.social · 1d

Reading this post from a recently opened coffeeshop enclosed by surprisingly transparent plywood.

View from a coffeeshop with wall-length windows

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 1d

Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk

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Simon Shepherd 🇪🇺 @simonshep.bsky.social · 1d

I did click. My point was that while Joplin popularised it, the sentiment she expressed was written by Kristofferson.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Historic Cricket Pictures @picturesporting.bsky.social · 2d

A good photo by any standards, but given the equipment of the day a sensational one. Surrey allrounder Alan Peach loses his middle stump to Warwickshire's Harry Howell in the drawn Championship match at The Oval, June 16th 1927

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Simon Shepherd 🇪🇺 @simonshep.bsky.social · 2d

Astonishing how far the stump has travelled but the ball hasn’t!

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 2d

Not saying they look *exactly* alike but would definitely cast Robert Jenrick (shadow justice secretary) in biopic of Paul Reczeh (Gestapo agent, all-round sociopath)

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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 2d

Robert Jenrick and his wiggy puppet

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 2d

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Simon Shepherd 🇪🇺 @simonshep.bsky.social · 2d

By extension from league tables there should also be P(layed), F(or), A(gainst).

And in reverse, has anyone ever seen S(ociety) as a standalone?

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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 2d

Let us not forget the journalists killed in the last two years in Gaza. International Federation of Journalists says Israel has "controlled the narrative" throughout and demands that it "lift its media ban and grant foreign reporters independent access to Gaza".
www.ifj.org//media-centr...

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 2d

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
p.s. My new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out this week. Details at www.tomgauld.com

Panel 1
A figure stands at a lectern
"This image illustrates my theory that, presented with a sufficient quantity of intricate formulae, overcomplicated diagrams and impenetrable acronyms, an audience will agree with almost anything."
The screen is completely packed with such things

Panel 2,3,4,5.
Four audience members say enthusiastically: "My thoughts exactly!", "Hear, hear!", "I quite agree!" and "Excellent point!"

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Simon Shepherd 🇪🇺 @simonshep.bsky.social · 2d

“Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose”

Me & Bobby McGee, Kris Kristofferson

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Simon Shepherd 🇪🇺 @simonshep.bsky.social · 3d

Vlad’s Army

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