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AJ Thomas @zzypt.bsky.social · 7m

Evil, pure evil. I hope these evil thugs live in fear about their future in prison.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 48m

This is terrorism and mayhem. Cities and states have an obligation to enforce laws to prevent it.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1h

Margaret Thatcher recognised the need to provide asylum for refugees, as well as the need to distinguish them from immigrants. No hope of that from her successors, of course.

Ian Gow MP (Thatcher's PPS) to Tony Marlow MP 23 August 1979:

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 5h

Government does some good stuff. In this case, it seems it's solved a coordination problem by walking people up the aisle until they have to go through with it. Bad approach to matrimony, surprisingly effective for public policy

James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 6h

Here is why the National Parking Platform is cool:

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/national-p...

The National Parking Platform is a big, exciting deal and you should know about it

How the government nearly squandered an enormous opportunity

takes.jamesomalley.co.uk

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 9h

Some people don't super love Dubai but they get offered good money for a good job and they go for a couple of years. Wouldn't be my choice but I get it.
But a lot of people have made "slagging off the UK and going on about Dubai" their entire personality and it's quite dull

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 7h

This and this www.theguardian.com/politics/202... confirms that politics has been bought. It's unclear how this might change without big systemic change, given that MPs (unlike other voters) don't vote to make themselves poorer.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 10h

You might have heard of 'dark kitchens' when a row of sheds in a car park churn out food for Deliveroo. They're unpopular and low margin. So the next big thing in London food is 'host kitchens' where local pubs, restaurants and kebab shops cook for big brands. www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch...

Why your next upmarket Deliveroo might be made by your local kebab shop

"On one hand, it’s a lifeline... But on the other hand, it’s a harbinger of doom.”

www.londoncentric.media

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Sarah O @erniebufflo.bsky.social · 10h

Don't feel stupid, but also, if someone helpfully tells you "that's fake," the correct response is "oh shit, let me delete this" not doubling down and disabling comments.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

Don’t feel stupid if you fell for fake video. It can be really hard to tell these days. But we do have to try and be careful with what we share because there’s so much AI video out there.

It’s just the world we live in now.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 8h

It would be helpful to have 6+ people willing to share a shockingly egregious example of having a report rejected.

It would also be helpful to hear from MPs & other public voices willing to add their voices to calls on Ofcom (new powers Nov) and EHRC (new chair Dec) to act
bsky.app/profile/sund...

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

If I had 6-12 people who had reported something unlawful & obviously indefensible, get the report rejected, and be willing to speak/advocate about it, that would be a good basis for asking a wider group of people - eg MPs - to support the call for an intervention & investigation of legal duties

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 9h

I've been to Dubai for work a few times. It's like the world's biggest airport lounge. Utterly soulless. Can't imagine wanting to live there whatever the financial benefits. (That's before you get to the ethical issues...)

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 9h

People keep telling me the UK is so over and they're going to move to Dubai and, like, fine. Go on then. Would you like directions to the airport?

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 9h

You definitely shouldn't move to Dubai, writes V&A director Tristram Hunt on.ft.com/46MfW1t

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 17h

Kids should have time to socialise at school. They shouldn't have to feel like they need to rush into the lunch queue. Lunchtime clubs should be viable. Condensing education into the shortest possible time in order to save money is damaging,

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 17h

Something that's not covered enough: School break times becoming too short.

Schools are incentivised to make morning/ afternoon break and lunch as short as possible, then kick the kids out as early as possible in the afternoon, and this is not healthy in so many ways.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 18h

given Labour's likely reliance on tactical voting next time out, it's not what I'd call a thing of beauty

Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 19h

Well, this is fun.

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John Rowan @jrowanbxl.bsky.social · 19h

Me to people who design sinks you can't fill a water bottle from.

a man talking on a cell phone with the words i will find you below him

ALT: a man talking on a cell phone with the words i will find you below him

media.tenor.com

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 21h

It's weird. There were just no clues that this is what he was like.

Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 21h

Johnson refused to answer specific questions or to provide factual denials to allegations of rule-breaking, while insisting all the rules had been followed at all times. His responses led Acoba’s chair, Isabel Doverty, to find him in breach of the rules.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 22h

I find the idea of a consultation on digital ID for kids aged 13+ to be so depressing. Good luck to you if you can get through secondary school without biometric scans and points-based behaviour management and someone checking your location every time you wander in the wrong direction

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 22h

I've been thinking about this post a lot today (related, my son got a detention for "not having his shirt tucked in") and the whole "seeing like a state" approach to rule-based and technocratically managed childhoods is so at odds with anything that will produce resilient, curious, confident adults

Shell @risu.bsky.social · 1d

Edtech is canceral (prison) tech example 56489.
The only job this is preparing children for is a zero hours Amazon warehouse job where they will be timed and filmed at all times.

derloos @derloos.bsky.social · 1d

@risu.bsky.social 😆😆😆 but also WTAF

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The Daily Politik @dailypolitik.bsky.social · 1d

Zack Polanski used the ‘F’ word twice on BBCQT last night… and the audience applauded him for it 👇

"You actually are a fascist from a far right party… this is racism, this is facism and we should call it out"

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Tommy Robinson has endorsed Robert Jenrick's decision to turn up in person to offer support and solidarity to the asylum seeker Hamit Coskun, who shouted, “Koran is burning”, “Fuck Islam” and “Islam is the religion of terrorism" while burning the Quran.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick

We deserve a better class of villain. Or at least a more memorable one.

iandunt.substack.com

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1d

Among the many possibilities for the next few years, the scenario of swapping one pair of dominant parties (Lab and Con) for another (Reform and LD) is intriguing, under-discussed and, in English elections, not entirely implausible either (several county councils made this leap in May)

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 1d

Aggregate Result of the 122 Council By-Elections (for 125 Seats) since the 2025 Local Elections:

RFM: 47 (+40)
LDM: 32 (+10)
CON: 13 (-15)
LAB: 12 (-30)
GRN: 11 (+3)
Ind: 5 (-4)
Local: 3 (-3)
SNP: 1 (-1)
PLC: 1 (=)

Explore: electionmaps.uk/byelections-...

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

dude seems really preoccupied by the Antichrist emerging from random things he doesn't like, which of course is very normal

Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 1d

Conservative tech lord Thiel said tighter financial regulations “were a sign that a singular world government has begun to emerge that could be taken over by an Antichrist figure who could then use it to exert control over people.” Via WashPost

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Andy Cowper @hpiandycowper.bsky.social · 1d

Stunning irresponsibility from leaders in the BMA.

Somebody needs to go after them for this, very publicly and very, very hard: www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

BMA leaders suggest GPs ‘overwhelm A&Es’ in revolt against NHS reforms

A letter sent by senior members of the union has been condemned for advising doctors to sabotage the Pharmacy First scheme, which they claim undermines them

www.thetimes.com

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