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"What does a plumber know about politics?" coming in about 5 minutes I should think

Israel's apologists spent over 2 years sowing distrust in the official Gaza death toll.

Now the Israeli army quietly accepts that it is actually an underestimate.

Eternal shame for the atrocity deniers. They must never be absolved of their guilt.

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Ooh, okay. You have my attention 👀

like looking at snuff videos do you Justin

To be clear, what’s happened here is: our horrible newspapers and a few fucknut MPs instructed the police to unban these fash football hooligans quick-smart, or else. This is “or else”: they are making it clear that anyone who defies them will get the full treatment, at maximum shenanigans.

The profit motive is at the heart of every single stupid, unnecessary change to the things you use. Capitalists can't increase their profits by making something that works well and keeping it the same, so they endlessly "innovate" to Make The Line Go Up

This *IS* campaigning

Attempting to get people to like you is bad politics, what you should do instead is hector them and treat them like your serfs

Bring ther BACK! Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Turning campaigns into mutual aid hubs isn't good for campaigns or mutual aid! Your campaign manager should be entirely too busy to schlep around 5600 tampons! KAT ABUGHAZALEH THINKS CAMPAIGN FUNDS SHOULD HELP FEED PEOPLE The Illinois congressional candidate turned her campaign office into a mutual aid hub. Jessica Washington December 26 2025, 6:00 a.m. Share bitice to open, the Calpaign diso neaps stock a community fridge available any time of day and hosts drives to collect specific supplies. A request for tampons for Chicago's Period Collective, for example, resulted in a massive outpouring of support. "We ended up getting over 5,600, and my campaign manager's car was just filled with tampons," said Abughazaleh through laughter. "I wanted him to get pulled over so bad." The point here is to "show" the campaign's values through providing for the community, rather than simply telling

White man has opinions about the Black Panther Party and their Free Breakfast for Children program, which we have to thank for Congress's school breakfast program that feeds over 14 million American kids ever day.

Leaving aside whether Will is being a tool here, it's kinda fascinating as a comparativist how his liberal policymaker brain has been able to mentally divorce "doing politics" from "being able to personally deliver material benefits to your supporters"

The problem with Thatcherism is eventually the plebs have no money

As previously noted, below:

Potential estrangement is pretty much the only weapon a child has against a parent who's gone completely headlong into TERFism or Qanon or whatever

"but if I make bad art no one will praise me for it!" Okay so there's nothing you actually feel driven to create or express, you just have a sucking wound where your sense of self-worth should be, and you think getting compliments for something you didn't even make will heal it

While I'm here let me just restate my opinion that Little Britain is the shittest comedy program ever produced.

he's a company man and fancies himself

The price of integrity

This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter

In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career.

I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters.

Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Progressive people "must be willing to say, unapologetically, I am a Zionist", Chancellor Rachel Reeves said on Monday "I am a Zionist not in spite of my belief in democracy or freedom and equality, but exactly because of those beliefs"

Yes, again, none of “democracy or freedom and equality” are compatible with systematically destroying a subject populace of non-people who have no rights, that you have conquered and now rule over and murder with total impunity.

MALE VIOLATING GYM RULES, NOT LEAVING THE GYM

MALE VIOLATING GYM RULES, NOT LEAVING THE GYM

Just a matter of time before I encounter this one in reality

The feeling I felt watching was familiar but I couldn't place it for a few minutes....then I realised....I felt the way I feel when I'm at a party and Cards Against Humanity comes out.

i love watching a film and then searching it on Reddit to see what nerds with limited social skills and no sense of humour think of it

Very sensible, thanks Gabby

We should rest assured that on Mark Zuckerberg's watch, nobody, and I mean nobody, will do sex trafficking eighteen times.

What progressives won’t say about abortion The sanitised narrative ignores ethical truths

Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.

This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.

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Hey @smoothdunk2.bsky.social, you seen this

They're all infected with the notion that "I will be the one to tame this dragon", it's the same with liberal journalists lining up to interview the far-right in the hopes of getting some clippable gotcha

Asylum in UK to be made temporary under Home Secretary’s plans Shabana Mahmood will lay out reforms modelled on the Danish system on Monday.

To reiterate, this is about making life immeasurably more miserable and stressful for some of the most vulnerable people, in the almost certainly vain hope of winning over the votes of racists.

Anything more shabby and shameful is difficult to envisage.