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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3h

Literally all they've got any more is KKK-style nativism, directed specifically at Latinos. Every single GOP message collapses back to this. They've become the Klan

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Andy Birss @andybirss.bsky.social · 10h

This episode driftglass.blogspot.com/2025/10/prof... while apparently about Huckleberry Finn tells you more about contemporary America than you find out in all #Americast shows-And nails the 'Both Sides!' nonsense of Justin Webb and others. Thanks @bluegal.bsky.social and @driftglass.bsky.social

Professional Left Podcast Episode 939: Huckleberry Finn And The Sins Of MAGA

“ All right, then, I'll go to Hell!" -- Huckleberry Finn ...

driftglass.blogspot.com

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Andy Birss @andybirss.bsky.social · 11h

Since Justin Webb is paid money by the Murdoch Mob to write for The Times shouldn't he declare this before he reads out anything from that stable during the frequent press reviews on #r4today ? The obvious conflict of interest is clear but apparently the BBC hierarchy doesn't care.

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Andy Birss @andybirss.bsky.social · 11h

Imagine if the current crop of #r4today editors and presenters had as much interest in food banks and the people forced to use them as they obviously have about promoting books, plays, music and films.

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Andy Birss @andybirss.bsky.social · 11h

I know it seems to confuse #r4today presenters but just because they and their friends haven't experienced the effects of austerity it doesn't mean others still aren't suffering from services being withdrawn, benefits being cut or Sure Start Centres disappearing.

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Andy Birss @andybirss.bsky.social · 11h

For good journalists and presenters it doesn't matter how much they get paid as they seek to speak truth to power. However most of the current crop of #r4today presenters seem to think their job is to protect the status quo and their nice side work paid for by the extreme right-wing Murdoch mob.

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Andy Birss @andybirss.bsky.social · 12h

The #r4today programme used to be the place to go to listen to the news but now it seems to be just a vehicle for paying rather poor presenters vast sums of money for them to read out what their right-wing friends in the overwhelmingly right-wing UK press think.

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Stephen McBarron @stevemc.bsky.social · 12h

Doesn’t Emma Barnett know early years provision was decimated by her beloved Tories back in 2010 when they axed sure start - subsequent generations have paid the price of austerity! #r4today

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Andy Birss @andybirss.bsky.social · 13h

#Americast has effectively normalised the snatching of people from the streets of the US by armed masked thugs in unmarked cars. When the same masked thugs start coming for journalists the #Americast crew will be safe of course as they don't speak truth to power and 'Both Sides!' things away.

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Andy Birss @andybirss.bsky.social · 13h

Trump 'making America normal again' by appointing a dangerous sycophant to high office Justin Webb? www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch... #Americast #r4today

‘Trump’s lawyer, not America’s’: Hayes blasts Bondi as worst AG in modern history

"It's hard to come up with someone else who's done more damage to the Department of Justice, to the rule of law and the constitutional order in such a short time," says Chris Hayes on Trump Attorney G...

www.msnbc.com

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d

Birmingham, my home city, is a fantastic city, with fantastic people- a success story. It has its problems, like anywhere. But the obsession the online right has with it is as transparent as it gets.

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Andy Birss @andybirss.bsky.social · 1d

Leni Riefenstahl used to get very upset after WWII when people called her a Nazi so I presume once Trump has 'gone' Ms Bondi will deny that she knew anything that was going on.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

When people are hired, not for their honesty or competency, but for their ability to be snarling trolls on TV for the delight of their immature and unpleasant boss, you get an AG like Pamela Jo Bondi.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Surely someone in BBC News can read!

#wato

Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch: We didn't get the Rwanda plan off the ground "because of the ECHR"

Also not true.

The Supreme Court declared one verson unlawful - not just because of the ECHR - and you never tried the treaty-based version.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 3d

Follow-up email just sent to today @ bbc . co . uk

Link for yesterday's email
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/619500...

Link for today's email
www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2...

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 1d

A dog whistle so loud even cats could hear it

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

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Andy Birss @andybirss.bsky.social · 1d

Trump 'making America normal again' by appointing this appalling human as Attorney General Justin Webb? #Americast

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d

Struggling to find much humour in the likely next leader of the Conservative Party cosplaying the National Front of the 1970s.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

So to summarise, this is a white politician blaming a black journalist for the racism he is now actively helping to promote, after receiving the full endorsement of his own party leader

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Rachel Gooch @cambridgerach.bsky.social · 1d

He doesn't want areas where there is a 'preponderance' of one race over another. My kids school in rural Suffolk had one black family in a school of 1200 pupils. But that's not what he means, is it?

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 1d

Quite an odd headline even the hyper-cautious BBC. That isn't the main line he's defending: he had attacked a supposed total lack of white people in the area

Catio Miles @catiomiles.bsky.social · 1d

This is how propaganda at Tory BBC works.

The story for them is not that the Tory politician is racist.

For the BBC the story is how to defend him.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jenrick defends calling Handsworth 'worst-integrated'

The shadow justice secretary stands by his comments about the Birmingham area amid sharp criticism.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch: The reason we are not deporting people is the ECHR.

That is not true.

#r4today

Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 2d

"Leaving the ECHR would be a high-risk policy, damaging to our international standing and, at best, irrelevant in tackling illegal immigration. That such a policy is justified by misleading and spurious claims only makes matters worse."
- David Gauke

archive.is/eMg3O#select...

#r4today

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Andy Birss @andybirss.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly Ed-I know they will go with the Jenrick stuff during the Badenoch interview but I don't think that #r4today editors and presenters have caught up with how many people are so concerned about the climate emergency. And I don't think most presenters have a grasp of what we face.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 1d

#r4today

Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 2d

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.

A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.

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