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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 5h

When was the US not this?

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 6h

#OtD 8 Oct 1916 mostly migrant workers at Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company in NJ walked out on strike against low wages and dangerous conditions. Police killed 4 strikers and injured dozens, crushing the strike after 10 days stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1085...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 7h

Experts argue Israel's actions in Gaza amount to genocide, surpassing isolated violations of war laws.

Legal scholars: Genocide label crucial in addressing atrocities in Gaza

Experts argue Israel's actions in Gaza amount to genocide, surpassing isolated violations of war laws.

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 6h

You mean the archway? That's so that you can reach in with your foot. Or are you saying that there's a drainage hole behind?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 9h

A hot plate that sits above a dish, browning the food underneath it.

Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 9h

And precisely why the right hates them, of course.

Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social · 10h

Wisdom, moral imagination, an enlarged sympathy for those who live or have lived differently from yourself. This is what you get from studying the Humanities. So quite important, actually.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...

Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms – punctum books

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 15h

Wrote for BadFaithTimes.com about an idea liberals have to dismiss.

badfaithtimes.com/the-norms-re...

The Norms Respecters Have To Be Stopped

What will it take for liberals to see there is no returning to political norms?

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 10h

Adding my tuppenceworth in support of it being bootscraper. I used to live in a house with a very similar one.

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 12h

Because he's a racist.

Still, whystate the obvious when a few hundred words of gentle criticism can be written and published?

Why Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East | Oliver Eagleton www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East | Oliver Eagleton

The Blair-Trump fantasy for postwar Gaza shows the former PM still thinks that free enterprise can solve all the world’s ills, says associate editor at the New Left Review Oliver Eagleton

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17h

Kemi Badneoch ends her speech by saying she stands for a country "where people are judged by the content of their character, not the colour of their skin"

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 20h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 18h

Spot on from @stephenkb.bsky.social. And the other aspect of this nasty turn is the eliding of British ‘culture’ with ‘white British’, which will shock anyone who has watched TV or football, or listened to music, or read a book, or indeed breathed since 1980.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18h

Poor old Kemi has a problem. She doesn’t want arts subjects learned, because then people would understand how she’s talking bollocks. She doesn’t want sciences or mathematics studied, because then people would understand she’s talking bollocks. She doesn’t want law studied… 1/2

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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 16h

Wikipedia on Misinformation about violence by transgender people

en.m.wikipedia.org/w...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 19h

I remember when politicians were expected to resign for telling lies like this.

#RobertJenrick #BrokenBritain #BrokenTories

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

I know plenty of politicians 'working classify' their backgrounds, but this from Jenrick is taking the piss.

His father's linked in is here: uk.linkedin.com/in/bill-jenr...

He was a managing accountant who ended up as the Managing Director of Cannon Industries

Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 19h

Exactly this.

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 19h

This Labour government's ableism, its hatred of disabled people and those with long-term ill-health, is absolutely on a par with RFK etc. This is Trumpian health policy, and it stinks. #DontVoteLabour

Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 2d

Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

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🦇🧛‍♂️Bram Stoker’s GuitarMoogula🧛‍♂️🦇 @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 2d

For the actual fucking love of god.

The person responsible for the gaslighting of thousands of people with ME/CFS with CBT and torturing them with graded exercise therapy, both of which were then tried again on Long Covid patients.

An absolute menace to the sick or vulnerable.

Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 2d

Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 20h

It is a mark of intellectual limitation that you cannot see intellectual work as a joy in its own right. #KemiBadenoch

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20h

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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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20h

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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Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 22h

The Express defending "our tolerant society". 🤣

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social · 22h

In any sane, functioning democracy, or juat in any sane, funtionong political party, Jenrick's speech would have seen his career killed stone dead.

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 22h

In the current climate of far right hostility, Jenrick is actively inciting violence against these judges with this. Badenoch may have defended his explicit racism yesterday, but this alone should see him lose both his position as shadow justice secretary and the whip immediately.

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Robert Jenrick names judges he would sack for ‘pro-migrant bias'

The shadow justice secretary has accused 'activists' within the judiciary of having links to political causes that compromise their independence

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 1d

jkr openly condemning palestine so once again if it isnt clear all transmisogynistic politics claiming to "defend real females" is ideologically the same kind of reactionary nationalism, heterosexualism, and turning "weaklings into soldiers" that zionism, hindutva, etc are

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