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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11h

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12h

You'd think there would be more interest from the US media that Trump is simply delusional - at best being fed complete fabrications by his team, at worst in serious cognitive decline and unable to recognise reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 16h

This, but also they've gotten a lot of people not to care whether the premises are true. There's a sizable contingent that just wants to hurt the libs and recognizes that only libs are going to argue about the truth of the pretext.

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · Aug 1

Basically all my posts recently could be part of the same thread:

The problem of our time is governments—particularly the Trump administration, also the Netanyahu administration, etc—making policy based on factual premises that are not true, which they've gotten "many people" to believe are true.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 14h

Disinformation, now in 3D.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 16h

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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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20h

There was certainly something recently which monopolised all public debate and paralysed all policy initiative in the UK for the better part of a decade, and I dont think it was trans rights.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 23h

"While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors," says Kemi Badenoch.

I cannot be the only person curious about how these two things are related

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 13h

He can stand with uplifting non-racist campaign slogans such as parts of Britain are ‘shit holes where many people don’t speak English and live on the welfare state’. He’d get Rupert Lowe and Tommy Robinson’s vote.

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 15h

Multiple reports from Israeli, Arab and US sources that a ceasefire deal in Gaza could be imminent, with the hope that Phase 1 is signed today or tomorrow and hostage releases would begin almost immediately.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22h

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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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22h

The Conservatives have pledged they will increase the number of deportations to 150k/year

- while significantly reducing the size of the civil service
- without increasing government spending and taxation.
- and opposing mandatory identification.

migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/co...

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 1d

We'd like to ensure a much less well educated next generation in the UK is yet another bold Conservative pitch amongst a cornucopia of proposals this week which range from the deranged to the dangerous...

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls, reports Patrick Jack #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenochs-number-caps-plan-would-cut-100000-university-places

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Jonathan Kingham @jonkingh.bsky.social · 1d

‘As Molly Ivins said of Pat Buchanan, it probably sounded better in the original German.’

Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 1d

It's quite wrong to suggest Robert Jenrick is a racist. Racists believe in something. My SKETCH.

Rob whistle | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine

The day had begun with Robert Jenrick accused of racism. This is of course quite unfair. Racists believe in something. Some of us remember Jenrick as a chubby-cheeked fan of David Cameron fighting the…

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 1d

Robert Jenrick quoted from his Mail on Sunday article in August 2025:

"I certainly don't want my children to share a neighbourhood with men from backward countries"

He's very, very racist.

#bbcpm

Nicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu · 1d

He claimed on Sky that he wants his kids to live in a country of mixed communities without preponderance of one group or another; railed against ghettoisation. He also lives in Herefordshire where 96.9% of the population identified as white in 2021...

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly I hate Jenrick more than Farage. Far more sinister because of the speed of his transformation from off-the-shelf Tory mediocrity into dead-eyed National Front race-baiter

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d

Struggling to find much humour in the likely next leader of the Conservative Party cosplaying the National Front of the 1970s.

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KS_1968 @karenroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick making things up again. His Dad was clearly never a gas fitter. Otherwise he certainly couldn't have afforded to have sent him to private school.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

JFC the man has not one ounce of shame in him.

He went to private school and Cambridge. He owns three homes and rents a fourth!

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

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

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Rachel Gooch @cambridgerach.bsky.social · 2d

He doesn't want areas where there is a 'preponderance' of one race over another. My kids school in rural Suffolk had one black family in a school of 1200 pupils. But that's not what he means, is it?

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

Coverage of Jenrick today basically amounts to sane-washing. He didn't criticise judges. He claimed there was a conspiracy by certain judges, who he had discovered and could number, to undermine British law and create open borders.

ʀak @raksky.bsky.social · 2d

“… a sort of mad McCarthyite scream of paranoia and anxiety of the sort which he has now branded himself… he is living entirely inside of his little mind…”

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social nails Robert Jenrick’s plans for “activist” judges during Sky News’ Press Preview.

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Jonathan Kingham @jonkingh.bsky.social · 2d

There’s quite the list here: www.conservatives.com/news/control...

Controlling immigration

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp MP sets out our Borders Plan to tackle illegal immigration in the UK.

www.conservatives.com

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