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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - my new article, if of interest please share.
I endured an English public school. But that’s not the only reason I’m unsurprised about the Farage allegations |
Let’s put aside the schooldays accusations and look, instead, at the Reform leader’s path since then. I think a pretty clear picture of the man emerges, says author and podcaster Musa Okwonga
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... - my new article, if of interest please share.
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heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
October 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god
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Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”
October 15, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”
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Every local authority has been cut to the bone for years – this is common knowledge - but Grimey and his Reform chums swore blind that £millions were being wasted through incompetence and laziness. DOGE found fuck all - welcome to reality, dickhead.
October 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Every local authority has been cut to the bone for years – this is common knowledge - but Grimey and his Reform chums swore blind that £millions were being wasted through incompetence and laziness. DOGE found fuck all - welcome to reality, dickhead.
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If you're stuck, have Batman come into the room and punch somebody.
What’s an unconventional piece of writing advice that’s really worked for you? #WritingPrompt
July 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If you're stuck, have Batman come into the room and punch somebody.
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I appreciate it's cliche and pointless to note this, but I don't think that six months into her term a hypothetical President Kamala Harris would be suing MSNBC, Bill Gates and The Guardian for reporting on her close personal friendship with a paedophile.
July 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I appreciate it's cliche and pointless to note this, but I don't think that six months into her term a hypothetical President Kamala Harris would be suing MSNBC, Bill Gates and The Guardian for reporting on her close personal friendship with a paedophile.
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July 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets
What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn
Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf
What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn
Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf
June 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets
What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn
Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf
What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn
Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf
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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
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the enemy of my enemy is not my friend but watching them smack each other in the nuts is still very funny
June 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
the enemy of my enemy is not my friend but watching them smack each other in the nuts is still very funny
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
I don’t believe in the death penalty but I’d probably make an exception for this absolute shit stain on humanity
"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...
Go, Elon, and Never Darken Our Doors Again
The worst ultra-billionaire on Earth says he’s leaving government. Let’s hope he actually does it.
prospect.org
May 30, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I don’t believe in the death penalty but I’d probably make an exception for this absolute shit stain on humanity
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
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But this manifestly isn't a way to "counter" Reform. It's just an endorsement of Reform. If it's what Glasman believes, then he should simply join Reform. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
May 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
But this manifestly isn't a way to "counter" Reform. It's just an endorsement of Reform. If it's what Glasman believes, then he should simply join Reform. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Wrote about how Musk's illegal shuttering of USAID is likely to cause 25 million deaths over 15 years. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/elon-musk-...
Elon Musk is committing a genocide
The worst is not really covered as the worst.
www.everythingishorrible.net
April 30, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Wrote about how Musk's illegal shuttering of USAID is likely to cause 25 million deaths over 15 years. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/elon-musk-...
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the jobs of the future, where you will be a hereditary serf producing goods for your betters
Lutnick: "It's time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here. We let the auto plants go overseas."
April 29, 2025 at 6:23 PM
the jobs of the future, where you will be a hereditary serf producing goods for your betters
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I really wish reporters would stop saying that there is an effort by the Trump administration to combat antisemitism. It is quite the opposite. There is an effort to foment antisemitism.
forward.com/fast-forward...
forward.com/fast-forward...
Columbia staff receive texts asking if they're Jewish, as government hunts antisemitic harassment on campus
Barnard employees received the text as Columbia University students plan a new tent encampment to protest the Israel-Hamas war.
forward.com
April 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I really wish reporters would stop saying that there is an effort by the Trump administration to combat antisemitism. It is quite the opposite. There is an effort to foment antisemitism.
forward.com/fast-forward...
forward.com/fast-forward...
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Our administration will stand for two things: Fighting antisemitism and stopping the Soros-funded, Hollywood-controlling, migration-orchestrating, well-poisoning, global banking cabal of rootless cosmopolitans from destroying our Christian way of life.
by J.D. Vance
by J.D. Vance
April 19, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Our administration will stand for two things: Fighting antisemitism and stopping the Soros-funded, Hollywood-controlling, migration-orchestrating, well-poisoning, global banking cabal of rootless cosmopolitans from destroying our Christian way of life.
by J.D. Vance
by J.D. Vance
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If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.
April 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.
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This is a really telling chart and emblematic of the political era.
This chart showing 80% of Americans think it’d be great if more of us worked in factories, while just 20% would actually work in a factory, applies to much of the fake populist promise
They celebrate farmers but don’t want to farm, miners but don’t want to mine, soldiers but don’t want to fight etc
They celebrate farmers but don’t want to farm, miners but don’t want to mine, soldiers but don’t want to fight etc
April 14, 2025 at 8:55 AM
This is a really telling chart and emblematic of the political era.
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I am getting increasingly frustrated by Labour bigwigs speechifying about how the world has changed and we need to be bold and then... not being bold
April 8, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I am getting increasingly frustrated by Labour bigwigs speechifying about how the world has changed and we need to be bold and then... not being bold
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I wrote about how America seems to have gone mad and what that does to anyone trying to stay sane. Read at @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...
www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...
You're Not Crazy. America Has Gone Mad
American politics has become so insane that being reasonable feels like a malady, and MAGA agrees.
www.liberalcurrents.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I wrote about how America seems to have gone mad and what that does to anyone trying to stay sane. Read at @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...
www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...
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April 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Europe is such a tough place to do business.
Here we see a French Court completely devaluing a previously valuable asset into which the Russian government invested millions.
Here we see a French Court completely devaluing a previously valuable asset into which the Russian government invested millions.
FRENCH COURT SAYS CRIMES COMMITTED BY MARINE LE PEN, DEFENDANTS, MERIT IMMEDIATE BAN FROM PUBLIC OFFICE
March 31, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Europe is such a tough place to do business.
Here we see a French Court completely devaluing a previously valuable asset into which the Russian government invested millions.
Here we see a French Court completely devaluing a previously valuable asset into which the Russian government invested millions.
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Things I expected to see more in life based on my childhood comics:
- magicians wearing tuxedos
- ‘Keep off the grass’ signs
- pies cooling on windowsills
- people shaking their fists
- anvils
- magicians wearing tuxedos
- ‘Keep off the grass’ signs
- pies cooling on windowsills
- people shaking their fists
- anvils
March 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Things I expected to see more in life based on my childhood comics:
- magicians wearing tuxedos
- ‘Keep off the grass’ signs
- pies cooling on windowsills
- people shaking their fists
- anvils
- magicians wearing tuxedos
- ‘Keep off the grass’ signs
- pies cooling on windowsills
- people shaking their fists
- anvils