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Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’ Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets

"'Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’ with an accompanying hand gesture pointing towards a place far away."
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Women gamers boycott global esports tournament over trans ban Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.

Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.

weirdo @JackPosobiec reacts to netflix possibly buying warner bros: “They're going to make Looney Tunes gay They're going to make everything gay”

bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok

Really good investigation from Byline, looking at the far-right connections between an anti-migrant group claiming to be led by "ordinary women"

Not the only one to do so either, members of the Women's Safety Initiative also have extreme connections:
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If Russia is banned because it contradicted Eurovision’s mission of peace and cultural unity…

Then why isn’t Israel?

As a woman in media who has for decades done a lot of difficult investigative reporting, sometimes involving famous people, who has been ethical about it the entire fucking time, I want a Pulitzer for not popping off about this in public (prayers up for my long suffering Signal pals & group chats)

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

EU slaps €120M fine on Elon Musk’s X, straining ties with US US vice president says EU should not be ‘attacking American companies over garbage.’

J.D. Vance seems to think the EU’s €120m fine for Musk’s X was for “not engaging in censorship.”

In reality X is being penalised for breaking EU law because of its “deceptive” blue check policy, untransparent advertising library and failure to provide access to public data for researchers

It's Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion — The Hollywood Reporter Netflix promises to maintain Warner Bros. current operations, 'including theatrical releases for films,' the company says.

If you love movies and watching them in cinemas, this is disastrous news. Whatever Netflix says, this will erode a long tradition and have massive repercussions across the entire entertainment landscape.

The CEO of Palantir.

Support for Reform UK nosedives across several polls as scandals take toll Farage's headaches continue...

Has Reform peaked?

The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist

🔴The ‘Pink Ladies’ Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream

An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist, @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social reports

Kill Bill Is Back in Theaters in a New Version. It’ll Never Play the Same. The Whole Bloody Affair changed the way I saw Tarantino’s epic revenge film—and so did the reporting about its making.

I wrote about why cutting Kill Bill in half might have cost Uma Thurman an Oscar, and how the new 4 1/2-hour version makes whole the greatest performance of her career.

The modern right wing: wreckers, scammers, creeps and cranks.

GPs and teachers to finally be told when children become homeless Labour's child poverty strategy will make it a legal duty for GPs and teachers to be told when a child becomes homeless.

The Government is aiming for the biggest drop in child poverty on record – we back them to the hilt on this. Now we urgently need a plan to tackle the root causes of rising child homelessness – starting with fixing housing affordability. www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

Bruce here saying they don't need to do a cost of living special because they talk about it every week... While hosting an immigration special, despite talking about immigration every week

Give credit where it’s due: Labour is finally doing things its supporters actually want | Gaby Hinsliff From tackling child poverty to being honest about Brexit, the party seems to have recognised the growing electoral threat to its left, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order

BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.

there are no cartel members, or they would’ve identified them as such

Farage accuses BBC of double standards after racism allegations - BBC News The Reform UK leader turns fire on the BBC as he faces further questions about allegations of teenage racism.

Nigel Farage declines to endorse Richsrd Tice's claim that the recollections of 20+ of Farage's school contemporaries of his teenage racial slurs are "made up twaddle" and instead suggests he may boycott the BBC until it apologises for Alf Garnett!
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Peer suspended from House of Lords was allegedly paid $1m in ‘corrupt’ deal Lord Evans of Watford and other directors of investment firm deny claims made in lawsuits they say are ‘meritless’

exclusive w/ @robevansgdn.bsky.social:

Lord Evans of Watford, suspended from the HoL last week following Gdn investigation, was allegedly paid $1m for approving a "corrupt" deal as $250k-a-yr director of UK investment firm that sold Kazakh assets for a fraction of their value, per court docs.

Natasha Bertrand: Lawmakers are apparently being shown the full video of the Sept 2 boat strikes in their meetings with Adm Bradley and Gen Caine. HIMES: “what I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service…you have two individuals and clear distress, without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel, were killed by the United States.”

They need to release this video to the public

Detainees at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ facing ‘harrowing human right violations’, new report alleges Amnesty International finds immigrants at Florida facility were shackled and left outside in metal cage for up to a day

"Violence and racist abuse by guards against migrants were commonplace, Amnesty said, adding that one of its own staffers witnessed a guard violently slamming a metal flap of a door to a solitary confinement room against a man’s injured hand."

REVEALED: The Figures Behind The Far Right’s New Research Unit  – HOPE not hate HOPE not hate shines a light on the figures behind a new far-right research unit that has progressive activists in its sights Warning: This blog...

🚨 NEW: We’ve dug into the people behind the far-right research unit we exposed last month, and the picture is grim.

This follow-up uncovers the extreme histories of the individuals building a database of progressives across the UK.

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It's all bad but hadn't seen the bit where Farage says:

"The European Union is the prototype for the New World Order."

That is a seriously, deeply problematic term that taps into Illuminati and antisemitic conspiracy theories.

How the fuck did this man direct the course of our politics?

Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business Alex Karp vows to use his

Palantir CEO and Trump ally Alex Karp is no stranger to controversial (troll-ish even) comments. His latest one just dropped: Karp believes that the U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean (which many experts believe to be war crimes) are a moneymaking opportunity for his company.

Chart showing an enormous July spike in ICE arrests in DC of people without criminal records

File under "charts that need no explanatory context to make the story clear" wapo.st/4iC8oCR

So the Daily Mail owner's wife has just given £50,000 to Nigel Farage's Reform UK

Feminist institutions going “yeah no actually women are just walking wombs please dont hit us billionaire“

GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament