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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 1d

After Columbia canceled my course on race and media, and Washington Poat fired me for speaking about race and violence,

I’m teaching about race and media anyway!

@resistanceschool.bsky.social fall session on Race, Media and International Affairs starts tonight!

600+ signups.

We move!! ✊🏾

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Tony @ttothehaz.theroadrunner.co.uk · 19h

Is there a way we can say ‘Yes we agree, the UAE is the best place for you. You live there now. Forever.‘ ?

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19h

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

JFC the man has not one ounce of shame in him.

He went to private school and Cambridge. He owns three homes and rents a fourth!

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

I know plenty of politicians 'working classify' their backgrounds, but this from Jenrick is taking the piss.

His father's linked in is here: uk.linkedin.com/in/bill-jenr...

He was a managing accountant who ended up as the Managing Director of Cannon Industries

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 22h

Heseltine at the Tory conf:

"Fascists of the 30s are back... Trump's language coincides with words here... The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem. We must make clear we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Farage... We don't need Trump's mouthpiece anywhere near No. 10.”

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

By integrating sharia law into our legal system? Not bothering with democracy?

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

We must emulate the United Arab Emirates, apparently.

Where to even start...?

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING:

The Supreme Court just rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction for recruiting and grooming teenage girls for sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein.

The decision means that her conviction and 20-year criminal sentence remain in place.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus Christ

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d

Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride's big speech.

#ToryPartyDeath

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SEND HT @wsu-albion.bsky.social · 1d

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SEND HT @wsu-albion.bsky.social · 2d

What are the flowers in your drink? 😂😉

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SEND HT @wsu-albion.bsky.social · 2d

All of us #bhafc

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 3d

What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

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SEND HT @wsu-albion.bsky.social · 3d

#bhafc last time I gave up listening/watching we won 3-1…kinda tempted

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SEND HT @wsu-albion.bsky.social · 3d

This not very inspiring #bhafc time for a #ffsbrighton

SEND HT @wsu-albion.bsky.social · 3d

He seems fun…when I say fun, I mean massive bellend

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Micah @rincewind.run · 6d

Discworld QOTD, from Making Money

“What the Iron Maiden was to stupid tyrants, the committee was to Lord Vetinari; it was only slightly more expensive, far less messy, considerably more efficient and, best of all, you had to force people to climb inside the Iron Maiden.”

Micah @rincewind.run · 7d

Discworld QOTD, from Thief of Time

She has told me everything,' Wen went on. 'I know that time was made for men, not the other way round. I have learned how to shape it and bend it. I know how to make a moment last for ever, because it already has. And I can teach these skills even to you, Clodpool. I have heard the heartbeat of the universe. I know the answers to many questions. Ask me.'

The apprentice gave him a bleary look. It was too early in the morning for it to be early in the morning. That was the only thing that he currently knew for sure.

'Er . . . what does master want for breakfast?' he said.

Wen looked down from their camp and across the snowfields and purple mountains to the golden daylight creating the world, and mused upon certain aspects of humanity.

'Ah,' he said. 'One of the difficult ones.'

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Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social · 6d

RIP Jane Goodall. Fellow difficult women everywhere salute you.

A photo of and quote by Jane Goodall: “ it actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 7d

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

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Talib Kweli @talibkweli.bsky.social · 6d

#blackstarforever blackstarnofearoftime.bandcamp.com

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SEND HT @wsu-albion.bsky.social · 6d

Always a complete inspiration, rest in peace

Micah @rincewind.run · 6d

an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously

when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint

the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny