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az @azery.bsky.social · 6h

syrian refugee crisis + eurocrisis broke everyone's brains and that was tiny relative to what's going to happen with climate change lol

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az @azery.bsky.social · 7h

imo you can tell the difference between the one he writes and the ones he doesn't very easily

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 7h

Good news today, but @diplomatofnight.com puts it into context with concise clarity.

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az @azery.bsky.social · 7h

november is gunna get interesting at this rate

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az @azery.bsky.social · 7h

they seem to be recovering, is the thing, but I will grant this, yes. I mostly mention them because their implosion is not due to them shifting right like the SPD, British Labour, Danish Social Democrats, etc did

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az @azery.bsky.social · 8h

the dems are a party that span the centre-right to the left at this point lol. maybe this statement was more accurate in the 2000s at best, but it's certainly not true now

esp not with every European centre-left party except Sanchez's PSOE imploding lol

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Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 9h

It's tempting to treat "the American right is a death cult" as rhetorical hyperbole, but when you look at e.g. their enthusiasm for executing people who are *clearly* innocent, no actually these people really do just worship and revel in death and murder

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az @azery.bsky.social · 17h

Incomprehensibly evil.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 19h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19h

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 19h

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 22h

It was inevitable that “too many people speaking Polish” Brexitism would become outright “too many brown people”

And it’s what people like Gove, David Davis and Johnson enabled

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 1d

The global far right are slowly working through:

1. We want to deport all minorities
2. But without them demographics will implode the economy
3. What if we brought them all back but this time without rights

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1d

I was on a panel at Conservative conference today where the UAE model was seriously proposed as a direction to take Britain’s immigration system.

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

Or the maid, with the employer with grabby hands and nothing to eat but bread and noodles, no bedroom, and no way to leave.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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az @azery.bsky.social · 1d

this made me ugly-laugh

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 1d

New day, same fake story. 👋🏽

Donald Trump is an embarrassing, racist, and corrupt liar.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.-IO

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "The Democrats have no leader. They remind me of Somalia. I met the president of Somalia. I told him, 'you have somebody from Somalia who's telling us how to run our country. Would you like to take her back?' He said, 'No I don't want her!'"

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az @azery.bsky.social · 1d

welcome back

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az @azery.bsky.social · 1d

seriously though, Trump somehow manages to be the one(1) threat the founders of your country were scared of above all else, to the letter.

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az @azery.bsky.social · 1d

well i mean Trump IS a failson of scottish descent so maybe this is less surprising than it seems on the surface

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az @azery.bsky.social · 1d

i think both elon and shaun underestimated how quickly he would basically self-radicalize tbh

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az @azery.bsky.social · 1d

mobile phone was a mistake

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az @azery.bsky.social · 1d

yeah it's not totally off the mark but the blase way everyone was making fun of elon buying it is in hindsight so incredibly depressing

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az @azery.bsky.social · 1d

got reminded of this old shaun banger just now and i can't think of many tweets that have been so utterly proven wrong than this one

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az @azery.bsky.social · 1d

online became the real world during covid and this is the result

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az @azery.bsky.social · 1d

people this stupid would be seen as too on the nose in fiction

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 1d

Immigration is by far the most important political issue of the century for the simple reason that it has the same origins and effects, the same scope of impact, and arouses the same passions with the same moral urgency as the issue of slavery did in 1850s America

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