Dik Gregory

Hint, hint @govmlg.bsky.social

Illinois Governor signs order prohibiting all J6 rioters from state employment

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Sounds a utopian dream, but unlike utopia might it actually be possible? Great thought to bring about evidence-based responsibility in politics.

This really got to me too. Sondland’s remark signposts us towards mob rule. Terrifying.

Now, this is too accurate 👍

Can’t wait!

The juxtaposition of those who would be public guardians of morality and the immorality of their actions/inactions is both extraordinary and excruciating.

And THAT is the damn TRUTH!!! #ChuckandJim

Cf. Eric Morecambe “I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order”. 😉

Neat, but misses the nature of truth. Ignorance is failing to understand the difference between opinion and testable assertion - or why such a difference is crucial to where we are all going. And truth arises from whatever shareable medium we can agree on to publicly test our assertions.

Quite so.

Love it.

A mob threw tea into Boston Harbour today in 1773 protesting a corrupt executive determined to impose tarrifs on trade to suit the needs of a powerful corporation.

Looks like “woeful” went full circle.

Beautifully stated.

Bring back Erasmus+ and youth mobility in Europe Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme

Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake.

Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme

Attractive if you believe people are motivated by greed; rather less so if by socially responsible proportionality.

I’m old enough to remember Boris Johnson telling businesses Brexit paperwork could go in a bin. Now they need a warehouse to store it in

Caroline Lucas, "Brexit is going to cost us twice the amount of the £22 billion black hole - every year"

"Why is Keir Starmer being so cowardly when it comes to Brexit?"

Hope so. And that they are stepping back to reflect on the irony of their faith vs the appalling circumstances that surround them.

Who’d ever have thought?

Oxford’s Word of the Year 2024 is 🧠 brain rot 🧠
“supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as a result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging”
#SoDepressing

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Mancham died in 2017 but had time to say this:

who was ousted a year later by a Russian backed coup, and then spent 15 years in exile in the UK. The museum displays some of his more striking quotes. Here is one.

Lucky enough to have recently returned from a holiday in the Seychelles and to have learned a bit about its colonial and political history. The museum in the capital, Victoria, contains a room dedicated to James Mancham, the democratically elected first President in 1976… 1/2

NEW: President Biden given permission to Ukraine to use long range US missiles inside Russia for the first time.

Major change in US policy, two months before Trump takes office. Biden has authorised it in response to North Korean troops being deployed to the frontlines.

Im not sure the New York Post has yet made it to @bsky.app so worth posting this opinion piece slamming the latest cabinet picks - from a hugely invested/ Trump friendly paper

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