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Glad to hear that!

I wholeheartedly agree. I’m not a Green member (yet) but this is one of the policy positions that is giving me pause about joining for the moment… it shouldn’t be ‘either, or’.

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This is a grave and sobering admission: they are not pursuing the “WELL ACTUALLY he broke the law during protests,” they are bragging that they are deporting people for protected speech.

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Neukölln Dreaming Rejecting calls to tack right on immigration, Die Linke made impressive gains in last month’s German elections by cultivating a new form of radical politics that pushes working-class communities – and...

“The door to door campaign is an anti-fascist campaign because you can directly fight racist narratives. You can see people changing their minds.”

Read my piece on how the German left is learning to fight the far right and build power in communities
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A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.” The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude meth...

Insane story with insane examples. I can’t believe this is actually happening in America thanks to people like Cruz. You literally couldn’t make this stuff up:

Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.” • The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives. • The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000. Each point represents a federal agency: • Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs. • Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs. Key Observations: • Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates. • Notable targeted agencies include: • HHS (Health & Human Services) • EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) • NIH (National Institutes of Health) • CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) • Dept. of Education • USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) • The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies. • A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size. Takeaway: The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology. Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

There is literally HIV being transmitted from mom to baby because of the illegal shutdown of US AID and now Trump’s State Department wants to spend 400 million dollars on Tesla cyber trucks. This is not about efficiency. It’s a smash and grab.

It was always obvious that the right-wing moral panic around universities had nothing to do with "free speech". It was about delegitimising critical & dissenting intellectual activity, with a view to suppressing it altogether. Far too many liberals were taken in by this transparent, reactionary scam

Greenland to ban political donations… but Starmer still doing nothing about the huge loopholes that let foreign money into British politics 🤦

"[x] is a distraction" is the constant refrain of those incapable of reading politics beyond the level of the news cycle. The attack on DEI isn't a comms strategy. Its an agenda to resegregate the workforce. The trade war will also bring severe material harm to real people. All of this is important.

I hate wes streeting with the fire of a thousand suns.

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Two Star & The Dream Police by Mk.gee on Apple Music Album · 2024 · 12 Songs

But also, this album is amazing for anyone that hasn’t listened yet: music.apple.com/gb/album/two...

My apple replay this year - tbh, surprised Camilla Cabello didn’t make it on the list.

Kneecap win case over 'unlawful' UK govt funding block Irish language rap group Kneecap has won its discrimination case against former Conservative minister Kemi Badenoch.

Irish language rap group Kneecap has won a discrimination case over the British govt's refusal to award them an arts grant

A gentle reminder that Kemi Badenoch admitted hacking into a website, which is a criminal offence

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For anyone on Letterboxd, catch my film rankings/thoughts there.

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Dartford maybe?

Really enjoyed visiting the Turner Prize show at the Tate yesterday… those pen drawings by Pio Abad 😍

nationalising amenities has been popular for years now. a total fallacy that they’re election losers and insane starmer junked his pro nationalisation platform. the only people who are really against it are the big bosses (and all their mates that own newspapers…)