Dame Knitting Cat

Now that they are fumbling for plans and popular support, i bet its occurred to somebody over there why the name was switched to Department of Defense

The thread as a shareable webpage: https://skywriter.blue/@monkemma.bsky.social/3mgatl7zghw2j

Excellent thread from Emma, worth reading the whole thing.

When I say the British Yellow Press are influence operations, it's because they are.

Lying, filthy influence operations. Attacking British Unity and society.

Influence operations should not be allowed.

News Corp is essentially an AI ‘input company’, chief executive says, after US$150m deal with Meta Chief executive Robert Thomson says he often speaks to both OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg

Meanwhile, Murdoch has signed up with Zuckerberg so Meta can "improve" it's AI by harvesting all News Corp's lies
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A wide ranging Leveson 2 is needed NOW!

“Geriatric Fascism” - forever in your debt

Thanks @monkemma.bsky.social these debunking explainer threads are so important. They’re useful for me & anyone else who is trying to halt their relatives’ gradual slide into geriatric fascism. The fact that they have to lie to secure the people’s support is a small glimmer of hope in a bleak world

#dontbuythesun #dontreadthesun
The S*n should be ignored and never brought to people's attention.

priti patel is a ridiculous person and yet still is given airtime... showing how useless and dreadful the rest of the tory party is.

So many right wing spanners blaming Labour for the shit situation they (the right wingers) actually created!

Brilliant work Emma, thanks.

News articles report on compensation awarded to migrants after their phones were seized The Sun - More than 70 boat migrants awarded £500K in compensation after phones were seized in decision blasted as ‘farcical’ The Express - Outrage as small boat migrants given £500k payout after ‘human rights breached’ The Telegraph - Small boat migrants awarded £210k after border agents seized their phones. GB News - Illegal migrants handed £6.5K each in compensation for phones seized while crossing Channel, paid for by YOU. Daily Mail - The lawyers spending YOUR cash to fund asylum seekers, travellers and terrorists: Firm run by millionaire human rights lawyer wins battle for small boat migrants to get £500k of taxpayers’ cash.

So how did our right-wing media report on the story?🙄

Yup, misleading numbers in the headlines, attacks on lawyers, and lots of references to Human Rights (that wasn't the main issue here!)

Only GB News (ironically) reported the correct individual figure

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Labour HAVE put the necessary legislation in place to lawfully seize and search phones to gather information to help with tackling organised immigration crime

That's the bit Tories didn't bother with

And THAT's why asylum seekers were compensated for their phones being unlawfully taken
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During this time:

1,300+ Asylum seekers had their phones unlawfully seized on arrival

400+ phones have NEVER been returned as the Home Office didn't keep accurate records of who they took them from

3 asylum seekers took the government to court in late 2020, having had their phones seized

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🚨 The FACTS 🚨

This was a Sun "exclusive" following an FOI, but the story itself is a couple of years old

In 2022, the High Court found that the Home Office and the then Home Secretary Priti Patel, had been acting unlawfully with respect to asylum seekers from April to November 2020

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Sun headline about £500k compensation for migrants, discussing human rights, and public outcry over payouts.

Did you see this headline?

Did you feel the requisite anger and rage at asylum seekers that The Sun was asking of you?

Did you maybe blame Starmer because.... um... it was probably his fault🤷‍♀️

Would you like to know the reality behind the headline?

Course you would!😜

Let's take a look

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Don’t read the Sun. Only the hard of thinking read the Sun to make sure they are told what to think.

Today, joining the list of things that never happened...

Anyone find it interesting that not so many weeks ago, President Orange Shits Himself was implying that NATO Allies that supported the US in Afghanistan “weren’t on the front lines” is now crying that we aren’t running to his aid in yet another US illegitimate war? 🤔 Anyone?

Jeffrey Epstein knew too much

#Trump destroyed everything #Obama Achieved! Period!!!

#Russa

#Epstein

World Book day, always good to get children to read but it's become a competition for best costume and a money spinner for shops and of course Amazon who are happy to sell you a costume. Not every family has the time, money or skills to make bloody fancy dress costumes, it's not about books anymore.

I don't think that's entirely accurate but there is a gem in there. Putin is a zero-sum-game KGB op at heart. He will use any lever to disrupt the West. His bots do support American fascist tropes but they also push far-left and nihilist tropes. The fascism, on the other hand, is entirely native. /

Criminals are in control of the White House.

Criminals are in control of the DOJ.

MAGA was an op.

It's the Covid PPE scandals all over again! 😡😡😡

The Tories were excellent at siphoning money from the public purse.

All of it - gone.

Asylum seekers to face hotel evictions from June — The i Paper 'You can’t out-Reform Reform’ Shabana Mahmood warned by allies

Is anyone going to explain where these evicted asylum seekers will live if they’re evicted? Because this sounds like a great way to cause more homelessness.

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The UK is getting it wrong on immigration – that must change A new report highlights that there is another way possible on immigration that will benefit everyone

This is what fair and managed migration looks like yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...

WHY IS THE DOJ REMOVING EPSTIEN FILES?!??

He’s right.

Churchillian, moi? It always used to make we laugh the way that Margaret Thatcher used to refer to Sir Winston Churchill as “Winnie”.

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