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And Matt Goodwin who DID NOT win

Unfortunately there's like 20-30 people in the media who are real true ride or die believers in the eradication of trans people from public life, and they're just powerful and influential enough to mean saying they're wrong throws a bunch of sand in the gears of your career, so cowardice it is.

Feels deliberate + the BBC is your enemy

I think it's a misunderstanding to even say this was an appointment or a mistake. This was quid pro quo for someone who had been instrumental in getting Starmer into power in the first place.

(This is before we get into deputy leader Tom Watson secretly collaborating with the BBC on a fake whistleblowing scandal on prime time TV that resulted in a very large payout, and now looks so deeply suspect that the police should IMO be called in to investigate whether it was a criminal matter).

This must be understood as a prong of a broader strategy.

The other prong will be 'moderate' Zionists like Bush and Shabi saying something along the lines of "This might be a bit too strong but the Greens do need to address..."

To start the loop of "You must apologise", "This is inadequate".

YouTube video by Lenny's Podcast How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma

Oh no. Oh nooooo. Xbox's new CEO is a natalist/birthrater. How did MS miss this in their opsec? Literal stone's throw away from the likes of Palmer Luckey.

"Will my son have classmates in the future? ...the fertility rates are declining." Then she suggests the fix is... AI?

Timestamped:

Lisa Nandy here, famously one of the founding members of Labour Together, set up at a secret meeting with McSweeney et al, where they plotted the downfall of Corbyn

It's that time of year again where I have to do all my mandatory training on "how to not accidentally do corruption" and I'm loving how if I had conducted myself like the average Labour MP I'd not only get sacked, but could go to jail.

Yeah the key is to let them rehabilitate through various media outlets until they just get known as “podcaster” rather than “war criminal”

A picture of a tweet which Wes Streeting deleted recently which reads "Oh look! It's my mum's new mate Peter Mandelson on the telly. Mum, a big big lefty, loved him today!" He tweeted this shit on 08/05/15

*Nodding seriously*
Oh for sure. Yup. Checks out.

a thing that absolutely, definitely, 100% happened

errr... nope, try again

"Israeli settlers have attacked one of the main water distribution points in the occupied West Bank

Nida' Ibrahim reports.

Theo Bertram @theobertram X.com It is those who supported Corbyn, many of whom now support other parties (again), who are most jubilant about McSweeney's departure.

Sure but again, there’s no real good news to celebrate here: we have wasted almost ten years on this man’s hysterical temper tantrum, and it’s left us all in an awesomely worse and more dangerous position.

Its wild to see members of the PLP say 'we simply wouldn't have won without McSweeney.' Lads, you were shooting fish in a very small mug. A magic 8 ball could orchestrate a win over 2024's tories. The reason you are facing an existential crisis right now tho is McSweeney.

The public are IMO fully entitled to ask “why was this abysmal cunt everyone hates ever put in charge of anything” and the unfortunate answer is: he told maybe fifty of the country’s most awful journalists exactly what they wanted to hear, with no regard for what was real. And that’s all it takes.

But Liam was scared and frequently asked what they had done wrong, where they were and what happened to the little blue knit hat he wore the day he was detained, Conejo said. There wasn’t much he could say to his son, “except hug him and tell him everything would be OK,” Conejo said. Worried about further upsetting his son, Conejo said, he was forced to bite back his own tears.

Liam has since been reunited with his hat and continues to wear it, even inside the house, his dad said Thursday. Asked how he might one day explain to Liam everything that has happened, Conejo said he would tell his son that he had become the face of hope and change. "He was the global figure who did all this so that the voices of the people demanding freedom would be heard, especially those of the children who are still locked up," Conejo said. “I would tell him he was very brave and that I am very proud of him.”

welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

Guardian headline: Senior Labour figures tell Keir Starmer to stop making mistakes

The New Statesman • @NewSt... 1h X The Mandelson affair: Inside the scandal of a century by @PronouncedAlva When Keir Starmer first entered Downing Street as Prime Minister, appointing Peter Mandelson ambassador to Washington wasn't part of the plan. Starmer was persuaded that the delicacy of the position would require a politician, rather than a traditional diplomat. But intriguingly, he initially favoured George Osborne over Mandelson, according to a person familiar with the conversations. "Keir doesn't even like [Mandelson], and never really has," one Labour insider now insists. And yet, five months later, the man Starmer apparently never liked got the job. How that happened - and what changed in the intervening months - is now a question to which the answer may determine whether Starmer survives as Prime Minister. Mandelson's links to the notorious paedophile Jeffrey Epstein have plunged Labour into a fresh crisis it cannot afford. Five months since Starmer sacked his US ambassador, new revelations have placed fresh scrutiny on the very decision to appoint him in the first place. Because, while No 10 says it is shocked and appalled by the latest developments, Mandelson's relationship with Epstein beyond his 2008 conviction was not only in the public domain, but pointed o plainly and directly, to Starmer and his of staff, Morgan McSweeney, before the appointed him. And still they went ahead wit the decision.

I note that in 2018, both Mandelson and Johnson’s political careers were completely fucked due to their own crookedness, and both were deliberately brought back via extremely dubious media campaigns because they were useful in defeating the left. Should we learn any lessons from these Cane toads?

Who do we think the british press is currently doing background oppo research on: the green party candidate or the reform guy who spends half his time on TV sofas being soft soaped as a voice of the people?

Don’t worry guys, everything is very cool and normal at the Wegman’s parking lot!

Man on a local news street interview: The earth is a resort for like 500 rich people and the rest of us are just the staff.

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

Pretty safe to assume everyone knows what one of britains most pominent fascists meant when saying this on one of britains most prominent fascist podcasts

Wes Streeting tweet from May 8 2015: Oh look? It's my mum's new mate Peter Mandelson on the telly. Mum, a big lefty, loved him today! Split shot of Mandelson on telly on the left with Mandelson and Wes [Dan Foster Tweet] Streeting's mum on the right (both wearing Labour rosettes and/or badges)

Wes Streeting tweet May 7 2015 We've only gone and got Peter Mandelson out on the Ilford North campaign trail! #GOTV #fighternotaquitter Group shot of canvassing team with Madelson and Wes [Dawn Foster Tweet] Streeting next to each other in the middle

Another canvassing group with Wes [Dawn Foster Tweet] Streeting next to Mandelson in the middle

Lovely day for some of Wes [Dawn Foster tweet] Streeting's old socials? Go on then

oh it’s far worse than that, Epstein’s actions have been common knowledge in elite circles since the 80s, meaning every admin since then knew and did nothing because it would mean hurting the party and its donors.

Heather Jeeves 🇪🇺 @HeatherJeeves Have to say I used to quite like the Green Party but since Polanski has taken the lead I have gone off them. He’s very immature.

Purely coincidental that I decided I didn't like the Green Party around the time they started possessing a threat to power and became hostile to transphobes. Purely coincidental. Real reason I don't like them: Red Zack is not an electable good boy who wears a normal suit.