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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 8h

A brave Hungarian peasant girl.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 9m

"The real danger of this moment is that if Europe does not act now, it will never act again. The longer it waits, the deeper the erosion of its confidence in itself. The more it will believe resistance is futile. The more it will accept that its laws are not binding..."

#r4today

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16m

The EU has a secret weapon to counter Trump’s economic bullying. It’s time to use it | Johnny Ryan

The anti-coercion instrument, or ‘trade bazooka’, is designed to shield against foreign pressure, says civil liberties campaigner Johnny Ryan

www.theguardian.com

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louise33andathird.bsky.social @louise33andathird.bsky.social · 9h

Independent thought and empathy are to be discouraged at all costs.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 16h

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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louise33andathird.bsky.social @louise33andathird.bsky.social · 9h

Lawyer Bondi was careful not to lie under oath. She couldn’t say she hadn’t seen the pictures.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 10h

This is worth a watch.

elsievoteblue.bsky.social @elsievoteblue.bsky.social · 11h

Listen up people 💙That lying witch Pam Bondi , can keep denying anything involved Trump and Epstein!!
Michael Wolff has receipts 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
#DemVoice1
#ProudBlue
#DemsUnited

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louise33andathird.bsky.social @louise33andathird.bsky.social · 12h

We need more civil servants to do what the EU used to do for us.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 13h

They have, *genuinely*, no thoughts whatsoever about maybe why the civil service increased dramatically in size during and after Brexit? Nothing occurring to them? Just the loose purse-strings and reckless state spending overindulgence of the Conservative Governments of the 2010s?

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 20h

Incidentally English graduates are in demand by tech companies who need to translate what they do into understandable language for their business customers in particular.

But why let facts get in the way of a stupid soundbite?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 21h

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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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 20h

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 20h

The electoral/political logic of these findings is that Reform, the LibDems, Labour, the Greens could all do well in the current electoral landscape from more focus on the ECHR - but that the Conservatives would be better off trying to contain and manage the salience than to increase it

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Jane G @janeger.bsky.social · 1d

@profaliceroberts.bsky.social isn't due to start for a good 15 mins yet, but this hall already looks fuller than any at the Tory Party Conference.

Picture of theatre venue with the audience taking their seats

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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 1d

What is nick candy talking about? Did he grow up the son of a landowner in feudal times

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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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 1d

Was there ever a woman - person - with more tenacity than Gisèle Pelicot? She’s back in court challenging the appeal of one of her 50+ rapists.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 1d

There's also something disgusting about a qualified solicitor, so it can't have been said from ignorance, suggesting, as Jenrick did today, that barristers' beliefs and values can be deduced from those of their clients.

Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 1d

It's dangerous and it's also incoherent: I heard Jenrick saying today that when judges don the wig it symbolizes the point they leave personal views & identifications aside. Fine, but this makes his claim (if even true) that some judges have 'links' with immigrants' charities utterly irrelevant.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

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

The Conservatives are obviously in a lot of political trouble, because they have lost support after their 24% worst ever result

A quirk that has not been noticed: resilient/loyal Conservatives are more likely to be ethnic minorities and Scottish voters than white British voters in England!

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1d

History won’t praise Democrats for playing by the rules if it’s the reason we lose our country.

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent letter from the Bishop of Birmingham to Robert Jenrick.

At a time when so many other voices have been silent, the bishops have been admirably outspoken against attempts to stir up division.

The churches do a lot of community cohesion work & do not want to see this trashed for party gain.

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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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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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

Picture here is from 1992. LA riots. Ive seen this called bad news judgment. In any real journalism outfit this is more like a firing offense. I basically say such things. Beyond belief.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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