Destroying the credibility of official government statistics.
04.08.2025 03:09 โ ๐ 50 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0@karenapsmith.bsky.social
Taught HE over 25 years, Dep Head Cass Art School. Film/Media scholar, programmer, writing on cinemas/cult/horror/music/neighbourhoods/audiences/gentrification/ScalaCinema UCL+KCL Lived opposite Grenfell Tower for over 20 years ๐ W10 to WKen London
Destroying the credibility of official government statistics.
04.08.2025 03:09 โ ๐ 50 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Yes, the really posted this
The level of stupidity is incomprehensible ๐
This absolute turnip lives in Mississippi.
He's LITERALLY an economic migrant.
Does he have ZERO self-awareness?
Does he just think nobody will notice?
Or because he's an entitled white man, does he perhaps believe that he doesn't count?
Not included in the highlights below is the fact that the AfD also proposed that refugees trying to cross into Germany should be shot at the border.
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Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."
03.08.2025 15:16 โ ๐ 30962 ๐ 9656 ๐ฌ 1135 ๐ 570WELKER: There are 40 people put the jobs numbers together. Is the president planning to fire all 40 of them?
HASSETT: We're gonna try to get the numbers so they are transparent and reliable
"This is considered impolite to point out in many mainstream venues, but to be a Republican in good standing today, you have to believe, or at least go along with, an insane amount of lies."
www.arcdigital.media/p/to-live-in...
A leaked DHS memo, allegedly from Phil Hegseth, reveals a terrifying Trump plan to deploy the military for years of nationwide deportations. Despite the disastrous LA operation, theyโre doubling down, risking lives and rights in a brutal crackdown that chills the soul.
news.yahoo.com/news/article...
Laziest fight ever... ๐ ๐คฃ #dog #dogday #bluesky
03.08.2025 02:26 โ ๐ 1526 ๐ 225 ๐ฌ 62 ๐ 22Terrific piece. I had missed that the Reform council in Kent is *already* complaining about tightened visa rules for social care.
03.08.2025 10:34 โ ๐ 244 ๐ 84 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 2Amazed it took 40 years to reach this conclusion. It was obvious in the 80s, if you bothered to look.
Thatcher used the working-classes' own money to bribe them into voting to destroy their futures, and the Tories have been worshipping her for it ever since.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
BTW Not sure you heard this but the WH is now claiming they had NO IDEA that GHISLANE was transferred to a minimum security prison nor knew why?
YEAH THAT WH
Imagine getting fired because math hurt a manโs feelings. Weโre being governed by a walking Yelp review.
02.08.2025 21:50 โ ๐ 18801 ๐ 4605 ๐ฌ 1275 ๐ 365This is something we all need to be better at communicating: that all far-right political movements require the presentation of a completely fake version of reality in order to maintain power.
03.08.2025 11:39 โ ๐ 324 ๐ 114 ๐ฌ 15 ๐ 5This 'patriot' protesting against immigrants in Manchester is actually Irish far right thug Paul Rock, who got eight years for tying up and robbing a 76 year old woman. But yeah, just concerned parents.
02.08.2025 19:30 โ ๐ 1706 ๐ 647 ๐ฌ 71 ๐ 37Two judges ruled against Taco Friday, saying due process is still a thing for now.
One ruled they can't stop people based on occupation or language, and the other said they can't pick up people on immigration parole outside courtrooms.
Are you tired of losing yet?
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
Peter Thiel believes Women's suffrage was a mistake. He argues extending voting rights to women along with welfare recipients made "capitalist democracy" an "oxymoron."
02.08.2025 03:01 โ ๐ 38 ๐ 19 ๐ฌ 13 ๐ 4Happy #Caturday
Following a serious attack on his own tail - take that, perfidious tail - Xander undertakes some vigorous & methodical grooming
Believe NOTHING from the Trump regime. Everything they say on any issues must be assumed to be a lie.
02.08.2025 15:07 โ ๐ 326 ๐ 93 ๐ฌ 19 ๐ 3Recurring๐งตof cartoons: when you get to the end, click on Continue Thread.
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Jon Ostrove @jonostrove.bsky.social
Ohmygawd. ๐คข๐คข๐คข๐คฎ๐คฎ๐คฎ
02.08.2025 07:48 โ ๐ 11 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0McGowan: He seems to be getting rid of statisticians and climate people and weather experts and scientists and anyone who doesn't agree with what he wants to tell or what he wants to say.
02.08.2025 02:13 โ ๐ 15009 ๐ 4625 ๐ฌ 866 ๐ 343Literally trying to excuse child sex trafficking. There is no low Republicans will not sink to.
02.08.2025 03:16 โ ๐ 80 ๐ 24 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 07/2/2020: Prosecutors charged Maxwell w/ enticement of minors, sex trafficking of children, & perjury. The indictment charged that she "assisted, facilitated, and contributed" to the abuse of minor girls despite knowing that one of three unnamed victims was 14 years old.
Trump was president then.
Back home from A&E - nothing broken
Huzzah
Love the NHS ๐