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A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰

New report says police used excessive restrictions to protect interests of arms firms during Palestine protests

I could also polemicise on how the existence of 'elite' police squads eg. specialist task forces, armed response etc are often hotbeds of toxic Machismo and far-right 'warrior culture'.

But I might completely fill up The Internet with all I could say, let alone the effect on my blood pressure

Ah, sweet summer Dov!

More than you (and most people) can possibly imagine. I can give you dozens of consistent personal 1st-hand accounts of such.

The police are bullies & thugs in a uniform who, crucially, don't know the law half as well as they want us to think. The THICK Blue Line!

I can't wait until the online Americans find out how we use the word 'fanny' next...

The Oxford Cummer. And, send

Absolute bare minimum, a day later, while not acknowledging the scale of the problem, Musk's involvement, nor Labour's own culpability. You were defending the flag fuckers mere days ago.

Police Scotland officers once again showing their true colours!

This is the most aggressive & heavy-handed policing of an LGBT+ event/protest I'm aware in at least the last 18 months.

@policescotland.bsky.social just pissed away whatever tiny sliver of goodwill they've gained in the last few years

Several arrests have been made, they are being detained at Govan police station please consider going to offer support.

You. Are. Australian!

UPDATE: white smoke has *also* been spotted in the city center of Avignon,,, bad news folks!!!

Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer This is a message to the fly-tippers blighting our towns and villages: For too long, your actions have gone unpunished. That ends now. We'll use drones and new tech to identify your vehicle. Then we'll crush it.

This is actually incredible. Are we sure Chris Morris isn’t feeding him these lines?

Begging folks to realize there are other more apt comparisons to our current moment than Nazi Germany

Screenshot from AP News website showing a picture of the London Heathrow electricity substation fire

When I said that, I was having a much needed rest day today, and the world can burn to the ground for all I care, I didn't mean it quite this literally

This! I've been saying/thinking basically this since around 2017.

Trump is canny. He knows how 'the system' works & how to game it to his advantage. He is not smart, but he's not a complete idiot.
There's a lot of similarity in popular perception to him and, say, Boris Johnson.

Christ! Keir Starmer's Labour Party really are speedrunning Blairite Labour, complete with Cash-for-Honours 2: Corruption Boogaloo

Either that or it just wants belly scritches

As a former kid and the son of former kids, I say 'the kids are alright'

Still image from the twister scene from the movie 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939). Shows Dorothy and her dog Toto watching an old woman in a rocking chair flying past the window of the house

Still image from the twister scene from the movie 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939). Shows Dorothy and Toto her dog watching two men in a rowing boat flying past the window of the house

Absolutely wild scenes from across Scotland & Ireland today as Storm Eowyn hits

Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism EN : Umberto Eco : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Ur-Fascism speech by Umberto Eco (English)

The best time to read this was 15 years ago but I guess the next best time for the rest of us is now.

US is now unfortunately waaay past the point of looking for early warning signs but there is a bit of truth in 'America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold'

archive.org/details/eco_...

Spitting Image - I've Never Met A Nice South African (With Lyrics) (HD) Dailymotion video by Peterfoster

www.dailymotion.com/video/x64b8uq

I'm 2 eps in. It's really good so far. It has 2 of my favourite things in storytelling: history, and folk-horror/mythology.

My brother watched it recently and has been going on about it for a couple weeks now. I guess peer pressure works...

Just started watching Season 1 of 'The Terror' about the *very* ill-fated Franklin expedition. Don't think anyone's coming for me, so I'm well and truly fucked

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