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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 8h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15h

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 · 17h

"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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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 8h

Need more processing power on my laptop, mine struggles as it is

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 10h

What can I say, I have ADHD

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 11h

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 10h

The whole piece is just hackneyed bigotry which doesn't stand up to scrutiny, only someone with no experience of dealing with the HO could claim 'the governing class insists on uncontrolled immigration', as if Windrush never happened. Likewise the assertion that only certain minorities practice VAWG

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 10h

Its all those DEI officers

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Dmytro Spivakov @dmytro-spivakov.bsky.social · 3d

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, as was pointed out in the US context and we're seeing the effects of this as repressive policies have been scaled up

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 3d

I agree on this point, you can see it in the way she just copy and pastes stuff from the US without bothering to customise it for the UK context first which she absolutely could do while maintaining the core essence

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 3d

A while back, somone (@jonnelledge.bsky.social maybe?) listed some of the reasons asylum seekers win on appeal and it's like 'HO official confused two different African countries'

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 3d

Citizens and long-term legal residents. Windrush on crack

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 3d

Just noticed the Conservatives’ British ICE proposal also involves using mass deployment of facial ID – still an unproven and unreliable technology that particularly struggles with non-white faces – to enable deportations.

Which would inevitably mean false positives leading to detention of citizens

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 3d

My estimations of the current Tory leadership were already pretty low but I did think they might baulk at this kind of stuff - this is just one example of the kind of stuff I've seen on my TL every day for past 9 months

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!

Petitioner’s counsel has requested documentation of a judicial warrant for his arrest, any charging documents, or other authority supporting his detention. See Santiago Decl. ¶¶ 18–20. ICE has provided no response. Id. To date, ICE has not placed Petitioner in removal proceedings, charged him with violating immigration law, set bond, issued a Notice to Appear, or otherwise processed him. See Pet. ¶¶ 16, 49. In Respondent’s Opposition brief, the government states “ICE intends to take further action consistent with the laws prescribed under the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) once Petitioner is released from medical care and it can conduct the examination as [prescribed] in 8 C.F.R § 287.3.” Opp. at 4. Neither Petitioner nor Respondents have provided the Court with information about Petitioner’s citizenship, whether he has violated any law or regulation, or any information that would suggest that Petitioner is a flight risk.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 3d

Just not sure, really not sure, that I'd follow Kemi Badenoch as an example of the USA as a country that is protecting human rights without being in the ECHR.

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 3d

I'd say we've already had that, people have been shot and killed by ICE, but I take the wider point about greater public awareness. I would also add that it wasn't that long ago that it was broadly accepted that the 'hostile environment' had resulted in grave injustices to the Windrush generation

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 4d

There are some in the Tory party whose priority appears to be making sure that the corpse is at least nicely turned out for the occasion

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 7d

No but seriously, it's fucking wild that this is happening now, and it's having as little an effect on Democratic priorities or ideology or rhetoric as it has, thus far anyways.

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 7d

One of the things linking a lot of bad electoral behaviour takes right now is a massive overstatement of the extent to which voters vote based on 'values'. It's not that they don't at all, but it's so much more nuanced than is being made out, and is often subsidiary to valence/competence questions.

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 7d

Our principled leadership, their elitist disdain for popular opinion etc

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 7d

Most morally offensive part of hegseth's speech was the idea that manliness and courage consists of bullying and abusing people weaker than you rather than standing up for justice against people more powerful than you. Real andrew tate shit

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 7d

The online point is interesting given where the Tory party has since moved on the OSA...

Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 9d

"But I always think it’s important to differentiate how people die versus how they live." 🎯

Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 9d

Can't speak for Ed Davey, but personally I find the insinuation that the current government has anything resembling a vision more offensive than the 'fat bloke' comments

Josh Self @josh.politics.co.uk · 9d

Treasury minister Torsten Bell at Labour conference:

“What Britain needs to tackle Farage is a vision, and the vision they need is not a fat bloke in a wetsuit, which is what the Lib Dems have got to offer Britain in the 21st century.”
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Labour labelled ‘nasty party’ after minister calls Ed Davey ‘fat bloke in wetsuit’ - Politics.co.uk

A senior minister has referred to the Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey, as a “fat bloke in a wetsuit”. Torsten Bell, who serves jointly as a pensions and Treasury minister, delivered the remarks whil...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10d

Nothing to worry about, just masked, unidentified government agents grabbing people off the street whom they see as subhuman. The person whose detention is described in this article was authorized to work and was deported anyway, taking him away from his wife and children who are US citizens.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11d

“They’re, they’re animals anyway. That’s what I would tell my kids all the time,” said the ICE agent, according to body cam footage. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

Man detained in Cato ICE raid wrongfully deported, separated from his family

Body camera footage released from the raid shows agents referring to immigrants as 'animals.'

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 10d

I've just ended up cooking lot more, the same money goes a lot further on ingredients, but yeah feels like something is lost in terms of the wider experience

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