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Married and own a home by 30 years old in the US 1960: 52% 1970: 48% 1980: 45% 1990: 43% 2000: 35% 2010: 25% 2025: 12% I’m sure everything is fine.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

What chance have we got to have an honest debate about migration when the UK government uses inciteful language to describe asylum seekers? @ukhomeoffice.bsky.social needs to correct this and apologise. If govts lie to voters, if politics doesn't involve trust, how do politicians think this ends?

Lewis Goodall has said he has looked through Hansard and not a single Conservative stood up and said appointing Mandleson was a bad idea let alone because of what everyone knew at the time with regard to Epstein.

£180 for all of the BBC's output? Yes please. I would rather fund ad-free British content than the tech bros' American streamers. And as I listen, read and watch primarily BBC content, £15 a month seems fair to me.

Not a good look for @bethrigby.bsky.social and @skynewsrss.bsky.social to offer this degree of hyperbole over one dishonest man vs the mishandling of the pandemic and the devastation of #Brexit. No more #ElectoralDysfunction for me.

Nigel Farage tells GB News that Keir Starmer's decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador shows his judgement is "seriously wrong" and he should stand down as Prime Minister. Here's what Farage said when Mandelson was appointed

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Dr Richard North is a long time EU-phobe and Climate Change denier who, before the 2016 referendum, wrote ‘Flexit’ a template and guide for a permanent EU exit for the UK. Quite a clever man, if he also is disparaging of Farage everyone, especially members of Reform, should be very concerned!

Steve is very pleased with himself, and he won't tell me why. I'm extremely worried.

Just a quick note to @greenparty.org.uk and @greenpartyhan.bsky.social - I was not consulted on being quoted on your leaflets and I have not endorsed your campaign (or any campaign in this seat). I think this note, like the bar chart next to it, is misleading and out of context.

Do you get it now?

Is it unreasonable to ask the BBC to report every conviction for murder and add the immigration status of each accused, just to get an accurate picture of how many, or how few, violent crimes are attributable to asylum seekers vs home grown criminals? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"I was only following orders" wasn't an acceptable excuse at the Nuremberg trials & won't work now. #AccountabilityIsComing

REFORM - leading in the polls - charges prospective candidates £125 to apply to run as an MP - before selecting a GB News host who is a colleague of the party leader and one of his MPs to run instead. You'd honestly think this was newsworthy. But apparently not.

Once again #FundHealthcareStopICE!

So sad to hear this, despite his age. I grew up listening to his reports. He spoke about his subject with such passion and authority. From a time when BBC reporters spoke with authority and integrity, rather than under instructions to not offend anyone. #MarkTully #BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The task for political leadership now is not just to tell the truth, but to make people care about what is true and what is not.

Thanks to @hackedoff.bsky.social for publishing this must read evidence - our newspapers look after one another so you won't read it anywhere else - of what the Daily Mail has done.

A free press shouldn't mean a free pass to abuse ordinary people. It’s time for independent regulation that holds power to account. Sign the petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

You know who”stayed a little back” in VIetnam? DJT.

One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history

Is this the supposed "national sovereignty" that the Brexiteers and right-wing newspapers said they cared about?

The new ICE Bluesky account only follows journalists from NPR, The Washington Post and the NY Times. I guess they must be interested in keeping up with current affairs, cos of course public monitoring of the free press by a Governmental violent militia might look a bit fashy.

The anti-Farage backlash sentiment is a) real and b) not fully priced into most political analysis, in my view

Not so much a new broom as a tired old broom with weak bristles incapable of achieving anything productive. #ReformAreNotYourFriend

Still can't get over how Apple and Google removed the ICE app that alerted people that ICE was in the their community, but won't remove an app that has an AI tool that creates 'nonconsensual sexualized images of women and CHILDREN'

Why is embedding Peter Thiel’s Palantir in the British army, navy & airforce a national security disaster? Well consider what happens when you ‘buy’ a Tesla. You’re actually just renting the software. That can be turned off at any time. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

The islands of Little Diomede (U.S.) and Big Diomede (Russia), are just 2.4 miles apart and when the sea freezes you can walk between them Russia is already America's neighbour

Venezuela has set a precedent. If powerful states can remove leaders and justify it later, what exactly is illegal anymore – and why should anyone listen to the West? eastangliabylines.co.uk/foreign-poli...

Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐗/𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐰. Musk’s platform is proving itself a vile cesspit: its AI generating sexually explicit images of children is horrifying. Every day we tolerate this, we weaken our democracies and endanger our future. www.newsweek.com/grok-apology...

Let this be a lesson to all people who think they have found a "bold new player who will upend our old politics". They will do whatever existing politicians do, and worse! Trump is bad, Farage will be as well. Good people are rarely drawn to politics, and if they are, they don't rise to the top!

Like this example: The actress being depicted here is 14

Not seeing a lot of comments from the "immigration is bad" brigade on this story! #ReformIsNotYourFriend #racism #migration #immigration

Yet more proof, if proof were needed, that @teamlabouruk.bsky.social are peddling outdated, unproven solutions to modern problems - evidence be damned. Who are they trying to appeal to, and why? BBC News - Councils warned against adopting four-day week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

Christmas cancellation update

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

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.

Tis the season for hapless authors to hawk their wares to lazy present buyers 🙄 That said, this is a bloody brilliant read so Christmas or not, get a copy for everyone you know! 📣 #TheCutThroatTrial

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.