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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 3h

We are months away from US hearings asking, "Are you, or have you ever been, part of a group or association opposed to fascism?"

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𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗜𝗧 🌹 @graemefromit.bsky.social · 3h

“You Boy! Have I made anymore gaffs?”

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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 3h

Are you, or have you ever been, a member of an organisation opposed to fascism?

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Joseph Young @jayoung3292.bsky.social · 23h

🤣🤣🤣

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 8h

Geoffrey Hayes finds himself on trial in Softly Softly: Task Force - And With What Measure? (8th October 1975)

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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 6h

It isn't a risk, it's an issue.

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Bryan Blessed @bryb.bsky.social · 6h

I do enjoy r/FixedByTheDuet content.

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Alice Porter @aliceporter.bsky.social · 6h

Scans of the Scottish fucking maritime museum. Bloody hell. Would be hilarious if it wasn't so horrific.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 13h

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

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Diane Ravitch🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🗽🇨🇱🏳️‍🌈✡️🇨🇦 @dianeravitch.bsky.social · 1d

Resist peacefully! With style and humor!

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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 8h

I am very much afraid that this is correct.

BrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social · 14h

because they're terrified if the situation was reversed, they'd be treated the way they treat others. it's never once occurred to any of them that not behaving like assholes in the first place, would actually make for a better existence for everyone. no win-win scenarios ever for these people.

Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 15h

We have already heard the P of the Pop...

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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 15h

All those new members will have higher expectations of the actualite of the Green Party than the reality. The more capable of them might try to make it more effective. They will be resisted by the clown hardcore.

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 17h

The Green surge continues ... We’ve just passed 90,000 members! 💚

People everywhere are joining the movement for real change.

Want hope to be normal again? Join the Green Party today ↩️

Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 15h

Capacity is the key word. It doesn't define how "much computing" we have available but it does define how much energy we have available to run it. 1 watt of computing here is not the same as 1 watt of computing there

Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 15h

Are they? Seems like if they do realise it, other imbeciles will be ready to take their place in the discourse and in the leadership of the Conservative party.

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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 15h

Why are they like this

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 15h

Ludwig Börne offering to spy on himself for half the price the police spy is being paid. (From Heinrich Heine’s book on Börne.)

And yet he knew that he was surrounded by spies, and he once said to me, "there's a fellow walking constantly behind me, following me through all the streets, standing in front of all the buildings I go into, and certainly is well paid by some government for it. If I only knew which government, I would write to it to say that I should like to earn the money myself, that I myself would submit a reliable daily report about how I had spent the whole day, with whom I had spoken, where I had gone; yes, I am ready to deliver this report at a much cheaper price,

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Patrick Ness @patricknessbooks.bsky.social · 16h

*deep sigh* Again, I have an English degree and have contributed rather extensively to the British economy, including writing a show that pumped £10 million into Wales. But the stupidity is the point here, of course.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 1d

You know who doesn't integrate? People like Robert Jenrick. You think he works out at the local leisure centre? Goes to the Tuesday night pub quiz? You think his golf club lets anyone play? Or his private members' clubs let anyone in? He puts the ick in prick

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Chris Weston @chrisweston.bsky.social · 17h

The Who and Cheap Trick, no more hard rock than the Kinks. Maybe the author only ever heard one song?

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The Kinks - Destroyer (Official Video)

YouTube video by The Kinks

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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 1d

US Army veteran has a message for ICE and the military being deployed to American cities. 1/2

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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