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."

Is there a reason I ask that the Times are using a picture of asylum seekers in a boat to describe rules for migrants who came on legal routes such as skilled worker visas for doctors?

Reform can win the next election on around 30% of the vote. Starmer clearly hopes that most people will vote tactically to keep Reform out so that Labour wins on around 30% of the vote. Risky and cynical. We need #PR BEFORE the next election!

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

So, my understanding of your question is whether commenting on other people's channels helps the credibility of your own channel. Short answer: don't know 🤷🙁

But, it might do.

I have wondered whether particular users subscribing to your channel helps credibility. Again, don't know 🙁

Great 👍 I'll probably reply to at least some of them.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

The media have to start framing this accurately. The president is now functioning as a tyrant. The story is whether the other two branches of government will do anything to stop him.

Andy Burnham says it’s time for the UK to stop being in hock to the bond markets. The City is in uproar, but who really calls the shots in Britain—the government we elect, or unelected financiers? youtu.be/E1oOQ0EOPhY?...

Vaccines are one of the great public health success stories.

They’ve saved millions of lives around the world.

We cannot allow conspiracy theorists to undermine proven science.

So, what happens if the police stop you when you don't have your "papers" with you? Could you be detained? Do you get fined?

This projection is based on Reform getting just 27% of the popular vote. So with nearly three quarters not voting for Farage we could end up with him as PM. If this doesn’t convince everyone of the dangerous absurdity of our electoral system, what could? Wake up Starmer!
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Exactly. I'm fine with having an ID in a database that links some government databases together and is required/useful to undertake certain transactions.

But if I'm popping out for a walk on the beach, there should never be a requirement to carry my ID with me.

It's our govt and we're free people.

Digital ID is inevitable, but: We need a comprehensive digital rights Act; We must own our data and know who accesses it; The software must be owned and controlled in the UK; Full safeguards against malicious actors; Employers etc should only be given limited access.
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Private finance has been a disaster for our public services. ❌

Say no to new #PFI in our #NHS. 🏥

Join us at #Labour conference to urge the government to change course ahead of their final decision in their autumn budget on 26 November.
Or you can email your MP today 👇

"The idea of a government elected on a minority of the vote is untenable." 💯

Thank you @andyburnham.bsky.social for being such a strong and consistent voice for Proportional Representation.

We need a new kind of politics: where no voter or community is left behind.

It's weird how Tylenol caused autism (first diagnosed in 1943) before it was even invented (1955). What a clever drug.

New paper! Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition, out now in @pnas.org - led by @frosas.bsky.social, Pedro Mediano, & Adam Barrett, w/ @andrealuppi.bsky.social @robincarhartharris.bsky.social, me, & Dan Bor. www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]

I’m worried it can still get stupider

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Hmm, didn't find you under that term, but I do think I found your LinkedIn account as "Mac McGill".

This commentary offers a clear, powerful statement of why freedom of speech is at the heart of democracy and must be defended, whether the speaker is Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, MAGA supporters or MAGA opponents.

I was looking at Bluesky chat - need to do Age Verification in UK for that - will do someday.

How about private messages on LinkedIn or Facebook or, dare I say it, X? Are you on any of those?