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Stijn Smismans @europollaw.bsky.social · 2d

Bristol South in the latest poll will be Green, and so it will be indeed

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 12d

Given this EXTENSIVE presence across UK institutions, Palantir involvement in Brit Card is not just possible - it’s PROBABLE.
MY FOI DEMANDS ANSWERS ON:
✅ Is Palantir contracted for Brit Card technology?
✅ What’s the contract value & scope?
✅ How will our biometric/personal data be used?

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 11d

When there’s a lot of hand-wringing over how Farage got elected in a little while, this will be the answer. When you ask people if they want fascism or diet fascism they’re never going to pick the low-calorie version

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 12d

What a way to live your life. I only personally know (or knew) one person who’s self-radicalised and it’s a sad and horrible thing to watch every redeeming feature burned on the altar of right-wing fuckery. What’s left isn’t pretty

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 12d

Once a professor who used to have quite interesting things to say.

Now a madman.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 16d

The true question right now is whether you believe in the moral character of the British public. If you do, you'll want to have the fight with Reform. You'll believe that the public will hate the idea of breaking up families, spying on & deporting people who've worked here for years.

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 16d

Re the new Reform pledge, a sports writer has already got to the heart of the matter better than the politics commentators www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country? | Jonthan Liew

The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 17d

This is why they had to invent ‘Antifa’, as an organisation.

Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 17d

Because there are no left wing groups. There is no leftwing counterpoint to The Oathkeepers, 3 Percenters, Proud Boys, Patriot Front, The KKK, etc. etc. etc. Are you starting to finally see the problem?

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 19d

Not only the BBC
is sucking up to
hate spewing fascists

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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 18d

"The law firms that capitulated to Trump are finally having to make good on their deal with the devil ... By entering into these deals, these law firms have helped Trump to chip away at [the rule of law] and become complicit in his attack on our legal system."

www.publicnotice.co/p/law-firms-...

The lawyers who caved

Big Law firms finally have to hold up their end of a Trumpian bargain.

www.publicnotice.co

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 19d

The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization.

This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.

Kamermeerderheid vindt Antifa terroristische organisatie

Een meerderheid in de Tweede Kamer wil dat Nederland, in navolging van de Verenigde Staten, de extreemlinkse beweging Antifa aanmerkt als terroristische organisatie. Een motie daartoe van Lidewij de V...

www.rd.nl

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Declan Gaffney @greyskiesthinking.bsky.social · 20d

Most people working in this area have known for years that DWP's figures on trends in out-of-work benefit caseloads are complete junk but have struggled to find more accurate figures. Ben has now produced an estimated time series and the discrepancy is huge. Nobody should be using these stats!

Ben Baumberg Geiger @benbgeiger.bsky.social · 21d

Are out-of-work benefit claims at a record high? My new post open.substack.com/pub/inequali... , and also my take on More or Less this morning at www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Are out-of-work benefit claims at a record high?

The official statistics are wildly misleading - I've now made some new estimates that show just how wrong they are

open.substack.com

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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 21d

‼️🇪🇺🇺🇦 All eyes are on Trump's second state visit to the UK, yet a far more important development is unfolding in Brussels, where senior EU officials are closing in on a plan to use the roughly €200 billion in frozen Russian assets in Euroclear to support Ukraine

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 21d

Hallo Trump! Windsor Castle

Jules McHamish @julesmchamish.bsky.social · 21d

👏 👏 someone deserves a round of applause.

Welcome to #Windsor #Trump

Trump & #Epstein projected onto castle wall!

H/t Chris Ship ./1

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Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social · 22d

FOR WEDNESDAY:

Here is the route of the march against Trump & the far right

GATHER: 2pm Portland Place (BBC)
MARCH: at 3pm
RALLY: 5pm at Parliament Square!!

Route map for Trump not welcome demonstration

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22d

This is thinly disguised homophobia by Farage.

The same far-right figures who have spent years coming for my trans friends & colleagues are emboldened again against anything different from their "normal."

Today and everyday I stand with the whole LGBTQIA+ community.

Your struggle is my struggle.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 23d

Nigel Farage:

"Children who have two stable parents have a better chance in life... The most stable relationships, the ones that last the longest, tend to be between men & women... There's an awful lot of kids in the country not getting the kind of start... they deserve."

Farage has two ex-wives.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23d

There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die"

= Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24d

The common sense meaning should make this Elon Musk's "rivers of blood" moment

Though I think he goes further than Enoch Powell in a couple of important ways

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24d

Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today.

"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."

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Stijn Smismans @europollaw.bsky.social · 23d

No,he said 'involuntary legal injection' & 'killing them'. 'euthanising' has been used by media, mostly indicating how nazi this is. Don't fall in trap though of using nazi vocabulary for it. Euthanasia is not involuntary, and that an injection is used does not define euthanasia either.

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 24d

Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

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Stijn Smismans @europollaw.bsky.social · 24d

Fox news now campaigning to murder homeless people. We have publicly entered full nazi territory. youtu.be/LdC3cM8m34U?...

Fox News Host Sparks Outrage After Suggesting “Just Kill” the Homeless #FoxNews #Homeless #OGMNews

YouTube video by OGM News

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 24d

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.

This is getting very dark, very quick.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24d

26 Police Officers were injured at today's riots but only 9 people were arrested.

Compare that with the peaceful Palestine Action protest where 0 Police Officers were injured but nearly 900 people were arrested.

The Government has got Law Enforcement ridiculously wrong.

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Stijn Smismans @europollaw.bsky.social · 24d

He is not even good in storytelling, because he lacks the natural stage flair for it, but above all because he has no story of his own.

Stijn Smismans @europollaw.bsky.social · 24d

Mass murder to be correct

Stijn Smismans @europollaw.bsky.social · 24d

Please use the right vocabulary, this is not euthanasia, this is killing. (the use of an injection does not define euthanasia)

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24d

"Keir Starmer needs to be assassinated, someone needs to shoot Keir Starmer."

I think this might be incitement to violence rather than Free Speech.

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