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ACLU @aclu.org · 6d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7d

I think this language of "crying racism" is generating "legitimate concerns" about tone at a time of a visible surge in real world racism, not just online racism, and big attempts to shift the boundaries on who is English, on how far remigration goes into settled migrants and UK-born minorities

The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 7d

Crying racism only hurts Labour

Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.

📊 @bwalker.uk

Crying racism only hurts Labour

Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.

www.newstatesman.com

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Becky Barnicoat @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social · 6d

Oh, wow, thank you for this.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 6d

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

A printed poem which reads:

I hav for breakfast Weetabix

I hav for lunch some meat

I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat

Peter Hazel, 5

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Becky Barnicoat @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social · 6d

Argentina suffering the terrible consequences of propelling a viral, hard-right political disruptor to power.

"Milei’s true value lies in his demonstration of how the attention economy can propel the hard right into power."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty

The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silence, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 7d

The idea that "the median voter will feel attacked" by challenging Reform over racism is certainly not shown by the data in this piece. It shows they may be indifferent. (It may mean a different important swing voter, who isn't the median voter)

The New Statesman @handle.invalid · 7d

Crying racism only hurts Labour

Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.

📊 @bwalker.uk

Crying racism only hurts Labour

Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.

www.newstatesman.com

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Becky Barnicoat @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social · 12d

It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to! 😭

Becky Barnicoat @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social · 12d

Morgan McSweeney happened to him – but the fact that he's let that happen to him is damning. "Morgan TOLD me to make flags, patriotism, and far-right apologism my brand, Miss".

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Becky Barnicoat @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social · 14d

Farage's massive over-exposure relies on him not really getting on with anything else. The bind is that any serious politician couldn't do this much publicity without sorely neglecting their actual job. So the least serious one gets the votes. I know it's obvious, but it's v depressing.

Becky Barnicoat @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social · 14d

My timeline is packed with the same clip of Farage questioning the safety of Paracetamol. It's just
so easy for him to spread his message, sow discord and be in the forefront of everybody's minds. We all lap it up.

Becky Barnicoat @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social · 14d

Extremely relatable 900-year-old poem 🧡

eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Sep 22

One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox.
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”

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Becky Barnicoat @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social · 21d

the law of brown-nosing

Becky Barnicoat @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social · 22d

Whose eyes are the most evil? Or is it a draw?

Becky Barnicoat @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social · 23d

How is that not terrorism but holding a palestine action placard is? We're living through the looking glass

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Becky Barnicoat @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social · 23d

Jim Waterson's
@londoncentric.media

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 24d

THIS is the line? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Scale of ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march shows free speech ‘alive and well’ in UK, says minister – UK politics live

Peter Kyle said he was not ‘disturbed’ by huge Tommy Robinson-organised far-right protest but condemns violence against the police

www.theguardian.com

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Becky Barnicoat @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social · 24d

😑

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Becky Barnicoat @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social · 24d

Reassuring to see Keir Starmer posting on X about something entirely unrelated, the morning after Elon Musk incites violent insurrection in the UK. Love our PM, true patriot 🥰

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Becky Barnicoat @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social · 24d

Bonkers hearing a Labour minister put a positive spin on Elon Musk calling for the violent overthrowing of UK govt 🙃

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Becky Barnicoat @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social · 26d

So grateful for all your reporting on this, Martin. I still find people aren’t aware what’s going on, and that this is where an awful lot of public money disappears to.

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Becky Barnicoat @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social · 26d

Still waiting for a govt that will crack down on gross private wealth extraction from the public sector

martinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social · 26d

The cost of a single place in a residential children’s care home in England has nearly doubled in five years to an average £318,000 a year, with private firms racking up huge profits as a result of market failure, according to the public spending watchdog.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Cost of place in children’s care homes in England hits almost £320,000 a year

Private firms’ profits soar, watchdog says, as prices nearly double in five years

www.theguardian.com

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martinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social · 26d

The cost of a single place in a residential children’s care home in England has nearly doubled in five years to an average £318,000 a year, with private firms racking up huge profits as a result of market failure, according to the public spending watchdog.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Cost of place in children’s care homes in England hits almost £320,000 a year

Private firms’ profits soar, watchdog says, as prices nearly double in five years

www.theguardian.com

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Becky Barnicoat @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social · 29d

Joe Sacco on the genocide in Gaza
www.tcj.com/the-angel-la...

Joe Sacco's The Angel Laughs - The Comics Journal

A comic from Joe Sacco originally commissioned by Le Monde Diplomatique about the ongoing genocide.

www.tcj.com

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Becky Barnicoat @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social · Aug 31

Labour’s charm offensive continues. Really building that sweet rapport with the public 🥰

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Becky Barnicoat @beckybarnicoat.bsky.social · Aug 28

For as long as they bang on about the boats and immigration, they feed Reform. Should have gone for a 'reclaim the flag, national pride in our diversity, Olympics 2012'-esque offensive. There's still space for that version of national identity. They've followed Farage down a blind alley.

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