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Ian Black @balmachreuchie.bsky.social · 2h

These are good points.

Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 2h

Dear Labour activists ...
1. Saying we need a better tax system that finally gets the super-rich to pay their fair share is not "populism".
2. Not jumping onto the anti-foreigner bandwagon as Starmer has done is not "populism".
3. Criticising genocide is not "populism".

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 2h

Dear Labour activists ...
1. Saying we need a better tax system that finally gets the super-rich to pay their fair share is not "populism".
2. Not jumping onto the anti-foreigner bandwagon as Starmer has done is not "populism".
3. Criticising genocide is not "populism".

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 11h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ian Black @balmachreuchie.bsky.social · 2h

Strong endorse for this RSPB post 👇👇

RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 2h

The Chancellor says she 'fixed' a problem caused by “some snails or something”.

Comments like this pit nature against growth – it’s the wrong target.

Here, the system has worked: protecting one of UK’s rarest species while allowing 20,000 homes to proceed.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 2h

The Chancellor says she 'fixed' a problem caused by “some snails or something”.

Comments like this pit nature against growth – it’s the wrong target.

Here, the system has worked: protecting one of UK’s rarest species while allowing 20,000 homes to proceed.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer

Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

www.theguardian.com

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Ian Black @balmachreuchie.bsky.social · 3h

This is an outrageous suggestion

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 5h

Is this real or am I in a coma?

Young Conservative with a Doctor Who question mark pullover.

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Ian Black @balmachreuchie.bsky.social · 3h

Things that will be said today, with a straight face:

1) “it’s over, hopefully. now why don’t all you shits talk about all the other bad things, except this”

2)”I/we ALWAYS supported a ceasefire”

The majority of politicians who say 2 are lying.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 3h

As far as I'm aware, there isn't a magical local way to prounounce "Cockmylane" any other way than the funny one.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 5h

Even a pause in the killing and displacement would be good and I share the cautious optimism that this could end this phase of the catastrophe. But it is wild that people are treating this as if it’s the negotiated end of the Russo-Japanese War, or even Camp David 1978.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 4h

The regulator Ofwat has ruled that 5 private water companies can raise bills by even more than previously agreed

A reminder that despite promising to nationalise the water industry Starmer dumped that pledge &decided to side with the private companies instead. This is the result

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 8h

They are, and the consequences are extremely dire, but that pales in comparison to the much bigger problem: we don't have a legitimate president of the United States right now. What we are to make of his enablers and supporters who have thereby also delegitimized themselves is a secondary problem.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 11h

I think people seriously underestimate what it means to say that the Supreme Court is “illegitimate”, and what the consequences of saying it (and meaning it) are.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h

it is wild how much people just lie lol

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 6h

Jonathan Ashworth: "I've wanted to see a ceasefire for 2 years"

The collective position of the Labour shadow cabinet (which you were part of) for months after October 7th was to reject a ceasefire & Labour instructed its MPs not to vote for a ceasefire in Nov 2023.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 16h

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 14h

So Jack Posobiec?

Yeah, he blocked me years ago on Twitter because I trolled him about being a Nazi and a Russian asset.

Important to remember that these people have feet of clay.

@JackPosobiec has blocked you
You can view public posts from @JackPosobiec, but you are blocked from engaging with them. You also cannot follow or message @JackPosobiec.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14h

Jack Posobiec is criticizing Weimar Republic Germany the right way.

--Ezra Klein

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14h

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 12d

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon National Guard general said that if they were deployed, his troops would be instructed to protect the protesters, not ICE.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Ian Black @balmachreuchie.bsky.social · 1d

A very definite pause, they were confused, and if she had pivoted to slagging it off there would have been unbridled applause.

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 1d

The US is demanding the EU water down its landmark supply chain law and parts of its green legislation just months after agreeing a tariff pact to avoid an all-out transatlantic trade war

on.ft.com/3VX93nT

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