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India need Yadav to face as many balls as possible in this last five overs - they probably only need to go at 10s to put up a very solid score but real risk of a total collapse to 120-130 all out if he goes #T20WC #INDvUSA

And that's how Rinku got out there - through the shot early, didn't get any kind of real contact there. Hardik really has to bat (at least) the next six overs. 150 is probably a winning score though!

Looks like it's very difficult to time the ball on this Wankhede pitch - still back India from here because of the power they have behind them and the skills they have in their attack #T20WC #INDvUSA

Starmer does politics in the same way I play chess. I do not mean this as a compliment.

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey: “Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela. Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe.

“Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.”

This, I think, is one of the scarier points - it's not just about what AL can/can't do (I won't say that's trivial!) but more about *our perceptions* of agency and responsibility, which are being challenged in a very new way

Meanwhile Robin Ince genuinely has been cancelled for daring to voice his opinions and for defending trans people.

Where's the outrage from the "cancel culture" lot?

What are the Free Speech Union doing to help him?

Screenshot of a Telegraph headline 'Rights of asylum seekers trump the people of Epping, Home Office argues'

I know the Telegraph has been off the deep end for a while but their headlines have been *something else* recently

better luck next time yanks xx

Are the legitimate concerns of ethnic minorities about racism being ignored? 'Politicians must not ignore threats to racial equality today'

Excellent piece by @sundersays.bsky.social on the need to address the "legitimate concerns" of many British people - about the growth of open racism and ethnonationalism in the British political class and media.

www.easterneye.biz/british-ethn...

Same

(Rachael Maskell has a hard-line anti-abortion stance that ought to disqualify her from membership of the labour party anyway, btw)

Now do Dr Helmut Marko

TIL I have at least ten times as many friends as the average american

why are all these media outlets calling him Mark Carney, rather that his real name, Not Mervyn King?

Pedro Pascal Blasts J.K. Rowling as a 'Heinous Loser' for Her Anti-Trans Views, Backs Harry Potter Boycott

he’s right and he’s right to say it

July 2017: Corbyn urges May to support self-ID: www.theguardian.com/society/2017...

Oct 2017: May promises self-ID: www.theguardian.com/society/2017...

Seven and a half years ago, there was a cross-party consensus that this was the right thing to do. Then the commentariat began shitting on it.

Google search results says: National Institute of Justice (•gov) https://nij.ojp.gov › topics › articles › undocumented-im.. immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens. No information is available for this page. Learn why

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens.

The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

happy ten year anniversary to this post

Trumpism in one country very much seeing off the Musk idea of exporting the movement here!

Every time I read an interview with Judith Butler they sound so rational and humane, the opposite of the demonized caricature.

english.elpais.com/culture/2024...

(c) is probably baked into whatever you do but is made much the worse by (a) and (b)

THE ACCESS IS ALREADY UNLAWFUL

Passing a law saying that:
(a) adds no options for enforcement;
(b) gives the impression that the unlawful access is *currently* lawful (which it isn't); and,
(c) gives trump/musk ammunition that you're corrupt and trying to prevent them ending the corruption

Trump pardons Silk Road founder Ulbricht for online drug scheme U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence after being convicted of running an underground online marketplace that was used by thousands of drug dealers and others to conduct over $200 million worth of illicit sales using bitcoin.

The US President who claims to be so concerned about drug trafficking is the same US President who, on his first day in office, pardoned Ross Ulbricht.

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

Liberal Democrats launch campaign to keep Six Nations on free-to-air television Exclusive: 2025 marks the final year of the BBC and ITV’s joint agreement in the United Kingdom, with subscription channel TNT Sports confirming that they were exploring the possibility of a bid

Liberal Democrats launch campaign to keep Six Nations on free-to-air television

and other sentences never before said by a living person

Sure, it was mostly just funny given (to my memory) 'Blairite' was cloned as a term in opposition to 'Brownite'

I had a big chuckle at seeing Gordon Brown described as a 'Blairite' in 2016