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@sorrynonames.bsky.social
Ex conservative, now an adult. And on Bluesky too.
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These people think Confederate generals who led thousands of men to their deaths in an armed insurrection to preserve slavery deserve sympathetic consideration of their complex motivations, while protestors who think ICE is getting a bit grabby deserve to get kicked in the head by a police horse.
JD Vance: “I feel like something happened like 10 years ago where every, it’s like you have to think that every single person that who fought for the Confederate side was an evil person. I just think that’s so stupid.”
June 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
These people think Confederate generals who led thousands of men to their deaths in an armed insurrection to preserve slavery deserve sympathetic consideration of their complex motivations, while protestors who think ICE is getting a bit grabby deserve to get kicked in the head by a police horse.
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Joe Biden says he's started treatment for his prostate cancer and the prognosis is good. Donald Trump says Biden was executed in 2020 and was replaced with a legion of clones. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.
June 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Joe Biden says he's started treatment for his prostate cancer and the prognosis is good. Donald Trump says Biden was executed in 2020 and was replaced with a legion of clones. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.
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We make jokes about this sometimes because it’s laughable. But when journalists try to make sense of the nonsensical, rational out of the irrational, and coherence out of the incoherence, they affirmatively do the public interest great harm.
May 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
We make jokes about this sometimes because it’s laughable. But when journalists try to make sense of the nonsensical, rational out of the irrational, and coherence out of the incoherence, they affirmatively do the public interest great harm.
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Do we think Britain has become ground zero for toilet-based warfare because we have more basic common sense than anyone else on Earth, or has this happened for very different reasons.
Disabled campaigners watching ‘in horror’ as trans people face toilet segregation
Disabled campaigners watching ‘in horror’ as trans people face toilet segregation
Disabled activists say supreme court ruling has left trans community at similar risk of exclusion from public spaces
Disabled rights campaigners say they are watching “in horror” as the UK’s trans community faces similar toilet segregation and exclusion from public spaces that they do.
The aftermath of the supreme court ruling on biological sex has led to organisations banning trans people from using the toilets of the gender they live as, with accessible facilities frequently promoted as a solution. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Do we think Britain has become ground zero for toilet-based warfare because we have more basic common sense than anyone else on Earth, or has this happened for very different reasons.
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More should have been made about Farage's absence from Parliament in the week of the summit. After all, the date was well known in advance. And next week is a holiday for the Commons anyway. This is someone who deliberately chose not to be present.
Where's Wally?
"He was the first through the E-gates to the south of France!"
"He was the first through the E-gates to the south of France!"
May 22, 2025 at 11:32 AM
More should have been made about Farage's absence from Parliament in the week of the summit. After all, the date was well known in advance. And next week is a holiday for the Commons anyway. This is someone who deliberately chose not to be present.
Shit reporting, characterising this as still supporting Brexit when they say directly it wasn't about the EU but rather to stick their foot up the ass of the government. Feels like we never left? You mean "feels like there aren't any benefits". Shit journalism.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘It feels like we never left’: resentment builds in one of UK’s firmest Brexit-backing areas
Keir Starmer says Britons have moved on but many in Thurrock think they were lied to in debate about leaving EU
www.theguardian.com
May 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Shit reporting, characterising this as still supporting Brexit when they say directly it wasn't about the EU but rather to stick their foot up the ass of the government. Feels like we never left? You mean "feels like there aren't any benefits". Shit journalism.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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People willing to de divisive over perceived immigration status, which is actually very arbitrary and often full of misconceptions, will easily be divisive over other things like race, sex, religion, etc
May 15, 2025 at 12:10 PM
People willing to de divisive over perceived immigration status, which is actually very arbitrary and often full of misconceptions, will easily be divisive over other things like race, sex, religion, etc
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The PM’s assertion that strangers are bad or wrong is awful.
May 15, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The PM’s assertion that strangers are bad or wrong is awful.
Labour will never, never, never get a vote from me again. Fuck that party. Fuck you @uklabour.bsky.social . You dicks. I hate Tories and Reform but if I'm going to be vilified anyway then I may as well have lower taxes while I'm in this dump.
Horrific rhetoric
If you thought the PM’s speech was punchy, his foreword to the immigration white paper says high net migration has done “incalculable damage” to the country.
That is a serious shift in tone for a Labour government/party.
That is a serious shift in tone for a Labour government/party.
May 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Labour will never, never, never get a vote from me again. Fuck that party. Fuck you @uklabour.bsky.social . You dicks. I hate Tories and Reform but if I'm going to be vilified anyway then I may as well have lower taxes while I'm in this dump.
Wow
Look at the Trump official’s tie.
May 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Wow
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It's not just the non electoral consequences. There are very clear electoral consequences too. The reality is the electorate generally wants things that are stupid and wrong - the skill is doing things that are smart and right while making them feel like they're getting what they "want".
May 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
It's not just the non electoral consequences. There are very clear electoral consequences too. The reality is the electorate generally wants things that are stupid and wrong - the skill is doing things that are smart and right while making them feel like they're getting what they "want".
1) we're going to give people who want to claim asylum no path to do so aside from risking their lives on a small boat
2) we're going to bitch and moan that there are too many small boats
2) we're going to bitch and moan that there are too many small boats
The Home Office will restrict work and study visas from nationalities who are most likely to overstay and claim asylum. Visas will be rejected for individuals who fit the profile of someone who will go on to claim asylum and are from countries with high rates of asylum.
May 6, 2025 at 7:53 AM
1) we're going to give people who want to claim asylum no path to do so aside from risking their lives on a small boat
2) we're going to bitch and moan that there are too many small boats
2) we're going to bitch and moan that there are too many small boats
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I love how finding out the head of HHS doesn't believe in germs isn't the craziest part of that fucking sentence
A section titled what?? In a chapter titled WHAT????
May 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I love how finding out the head of HHS doesn't believe in germs isn't the craziest part of that fucking sentence
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It is such a deeply narcissistic way of defining friendship. Someone who knows you. Who tells you what you want or need to hear to feel better. Whose very existence revolves around you. Not somebody you find interesting, you want to know more about, help, support, learn from.
Dictators will love it.
Dictators will love it.
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)
May 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It is such a deeply narcissistic way of defining friendship. Someone who knows you. Who tells you what you want or need to hear to feel better. Whose very existence revolves around you. Not somebody you find interesting, you want to know more about, help, support, learn from.
Dictators will love it.
Dictators will love it.
Can you imagine if @uklabour.bsky.social were in the Democrats' shoes here? In the face of these polls Starmer would insist that the people have spoken on all of the issues in question and so we need to defer to Trump.
Look at these numbers among independents: bsky.app/profile/greg...
Remarkable from WaPo poll: Trump sinking fast on immigration among independents.
56% disapprove of handling of issue
62% oppose removing foreign students
52% oppose renditions to El Salvador
Only 21% want Abrego Garcia left there
Engage, Dems.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1944...
56% disapprove of handling of issue
62% oppose removing foreign students
52% oppose renditions to El Salvador
Only 21% want Abrego Garcia left there
Engage, Dems.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1944...
April 25, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Can you imagine if @uklabour.bsky.social were in the Democrats' shoes here? In the face of these polls Starmer would insist that the people have spoken on all of the issues in question and so we need to defer to Trump.
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Why did the Secretary of Defense feel the need to bypass Pentagon security?
(AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer, two people familiar with the line told The Associated Press.
apnews.com/article/hegs...
apnews.com/article/hegs...
April 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Why did the Secretary of Defense feel the need to bypass Pentagon security?
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So the dream here is that Americans have a lot less disposable income and work physically demanding jobs, while Chinese factory workers get to be management consultants with luxury SUVs and holiday homes?
I can see why this idea is appealing to someone, just not sure it's Americans.
I can see why this idea is appealing to someone, just not sure it's Americans.
US Treasury Secretary Bessent: Rebalancing of China economy towards consumption and US economy towards manufacturing in two to three years would be a huge win - JPMorgan session.
April 23, 2025 at 11:31 AM
So the dream here is that Americans have a lot less disposable income and work physically demanding jobs, while Chinese factory workers get to be management consultants with luxury SUVs and holiday homes?
I can see why this idea is appealing to someone, just not sure it's Americans.
I can see why this idea is appealing to someone, just not sure it's Americans.
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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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Feels almost cruel to point out that all the bollocks about our 10% tariffs being a 'Brexit benefit' lasted for about four days. But here we are...
April 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Feels almost cruel to point out that all the bollocks about our 10% tariffs being a 'Brexit benefit' lasted for about four days. But here we are...
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Remember Trump is using emergency legislation for the tariffs.
So the measures that were urgent and necessary to meet that emergency have now suddenly become non-urgent and unnecessary.
If US congress and courts properly held president to account for misuse of emergency powers, this would matter.
So the measures that were urgent and necessary to meet that emergency have now suddenly become non-urgent and unnecessary.
If US congress and courts properly held president to account for misuse of emergency powers, this would matter.
April 10, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Remember Trump is using emergency legislation for the tariffs.
So the measures that were urgent and necessary to meet that emergency have now suddenly become non-urgent and unnecessary.
If US congress and courts properly held president to account for misuse of emergency powers, this would matter.
So the measures that were urgent and necessary to meet that emergency have now suddenly become non-urgent and unnecessary.
If US congress and courts properly held president to account for misuse of emergency powers, this would matter.
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I'm sorry, but isn't this just the Cultural Revolution 2.0? Why on earth would fired aid workers and NIH medical researchers go to work on assembly lines for worse salaries in jobs they don't know how to do? Why are they getting their economic policy from Mao?
April 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I'm sorry, but isn't this just the Cultural Revolution 2.0? Why on earth would fired aid workers and NIH medical researchers go to work on assembly lines for worse salaries in jobs they don't know how to do? Why are they getting their economic policy from Mao?
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Y’all know what to do
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Y’all know what to do
Somewhere Keir Starmer is telling ministers it's time for the UK to start doing this so they don't lose Sunderland
April 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Somewhere Keir Starmer is telling ministers it's time for the UK to start doing this so they don't lose Sunderland
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This is obviously the only correct legal holding and anyone who disagrees is a fascist who rejects the rule of law. It's as simple as that; we can't have a system of the executive black-bagging people without cause or process, much less one that ships them to a place a court already said they can't.
JUST IN: Saying the Trump administration’s “grievous error” “shocks the conscience,” a federal judge has rejected their call to lift her order demanding the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This is obviously the only correct legal holding and anyone who disagrees is a fascist who rejects the rule of law. It's as simple as that; we can't have a system of the executive black-bagging people without cause or process, much less one that ships them to a place a court already said they can't.
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“This isnt what I voted for” is an odd thing to say when this is exactly what you voted for.
April 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
“This isnt what I voted for” is an odd thing to say when this is exactly what you voted for.