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People nitpicking on a cultural custom of calling a related elder an “aunt” but not outraged over Trump killing random people because he wants to are telling on themselves. And what they are telling is that they are racist and authoritarian.

Can we focus more on how victims of sexual violence continue to be failed today and less on the drama of the Royal Family? Then perhaps some good might come from this?

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

🚨 BREAKING | Greens rocket to **2nd place**

➡️ REF – 32% (-)
🟢 GRN – 17% (+2)
🔴 LAB – 16% (-)
🔵 CON – 16% (-1)
🟠 LD – 12% (-)

Via @findoutnowuk, 29 Oct (+/- vs 22 Oct)

Police investigate alleged racial abuse of Green deputy leader Mothin Ali claims a "racist thug" threatened to "smash my head in" at a London train station.

When the Government ape the language and the rhetoric of the right - such as Starmers island of strangers speech - there are real life consequences.

Huge solidarity with @mothinali.bsky.social and everyone facing racism.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

What happens when the Administration for Strategic Preparedness & Response is not strategic, prepared, or capable of responding because it's run by an unqualified anti-vax scammer?

Thanks to @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social's always excellent reporting, we have a clear view of the ongoing ASPR disaster.

New homes: even if you build them, there’s no one to buy them We’re often told housing demand exceeds supply — so why are new homes struggling to be built and bought?

"People who can actually afford to buy in the current housing market, due to higher mortgage rates and the difficulty of saving for a deposit ... is probably stuck at around 120,000 a year across England."

Relying on the market to supply homes is a failed model
www.ft.com/content/9080...

Farage to ask MPs to back the UK leaving the ECHR
This would place Britain in a tiny club of non-members with Russia and Belarus.
Belarus has never been in the ECHR and is a loyal ally of the Kremlin.
Russia was expelled from the ECHR after invading Ukraine.
⚠️A vote for Reform is a vote for Putin⚠️

A president so stupid that one of the great intellectual achievements of his life is “passing” a dementia screening. A president so narcissistic that he can’t stop bragging about passing that dementia screening as evidence of his immense genius.

The British press in all its ignorant, blinkered, navel-gazing, entitled glory here

Note to Metro fact-checkers: she’s Ireland’s third woman president, lads

As Reeves travels to Riyadh to discuss trade, Saudi Arabia is in the middle of an execution spree. The UK must not cosy up to regimes with appalling human rights records.

Trade deals can’t come at the cost of our values; our govt must not prioritise profit over human rights.

If Labour is continuing to lose votes, just got 11% in a by-election in a seat they've held for 100 years and in a few recent polls is equal to or just behind the Greens maybe we should stop suggesting they're the only thing that can defeat Reform.

Sir Keir Starmer has been specifically named in a UN report for complicity in Israel's genocide.

The report states that the UK government played "a key role in military collaboration with Israel... a collective crime... with detailed knowledge and cooperation in the destruction of Gaza." 🧵

A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese getting off a plane while wearing slim black pants, black boots, and a black Joy Division t-shirt.

how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people

Reminder that DOGE was a rounding error - did a ton of damage, saved little in the scope of the federal budget. Better understood as a mechanism for undermining the administrative state and pursuing ideological objectives than as a way of reducing federal spending.

ArtSci dissolves task force considering departmental reorganization after resignations of task force members - Student Life Four members of the seven-person task force resigned from their roles Monday night.

Excellent story. WUSTL asked a faculty task force to merge six departments into one, and they decided that plan was awful, and they resigned, and it didn't happen.

tinyurl.com/32tjkcef

A screenshot of a post on X that reads: Cuomo, talking to conservative radio host Sid Rosenberg this morning: "God forbid, another 9/11—can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?" Cuomo asks. "He'd be cheering," Rosenberg says. Cuomo paused and chuckled before saying: "That's another problem."

Just disgusting.

Katie Lam should be hounded by public outcry to resign from parliament and it’s disturbing that not enough people are calling for her resignation

Trump’s new ballroom you’re paying for is going to be bigger than the White House itself. Because he believes he is more important than the country.

The symbolism is disgraceful and obvious. Again: Republicans would lose their minds if Obama did this.

"Viewpoint diversity" about whether human activity is warming the planet, or whether vaccines work, is like "viewpoint diversity" about whether the sky is blue or whether the Earth is round. It falls outside the range of good faith scientific and academic discourse.
#ScienceUnderSiege

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill the top House Democrat.

Another pardoned J6 rioter was arrested Sunday, this one for threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries.
The 23rd in 3 days.

Moynihan was arrested after text messages saying he planned to "eliminate" Jeffries in New York City. He wrote "I cannot allow this terrorist to live."
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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In the "before times" category: Tabloid news made it a several-day item when young J Carter WH staffers called in for a late-night weekend shift (incl me), showed up at the office w blue jeans. Always wore a jacket and tie, even on all-nighters, after that.

Now: POTUS diarrhea from a plane.

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’ Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

BREAKING: @zackpolanski.bsky.social confirms on #BBCLauraK that @greenparty.org.uk now has a bigger membership in England and Wales than the Tories do across the UK.

Well, you can finally cross “I’ve seen a handcuffed, inflatable penis” off your bucket list

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

This is what the 25th Amendment is for.

Good piece & thread about DHS’s flagrant dishonesty.