Birds do it Bees do it Leopard sharks in groups of threes do it…

Years before Reform have a possibility of power, the news agenda following their every utterance has thousands of people worrying about their future. It’s violent

This is how seriously they take women's sport at the elite level

After quoting Hitler twice last week while saying "words aren't violence" - "Author JK Rowling has criticised police for not prosecuting a Kent mum who made a video about the murder of Charlie Kirk." www.kentonline.co.uk/kent/news/jk...

"Leaked emails have revealed that Shabana Mahmood was involved in discussions over why the political funding watchdog was not told about huge amounts of cash being given to Morgan Mcsweeney’s Labour Together group as required by law.""

"THE new Home Secretary has been dragged into the growing scandal over £700,000 of hidden donations to the think-tank run by Sir Keir Starmer’s right-hand man." [Mail]

Another taste of what’s coming: Harlow Reform oppose a Pride event, call it “unsuitable for children” www.yourharlow.com/2025/09/21/h...

The media seems to have swallowed the “protecting women” from asylum seekers rhetoric when >90% of sexual assault perpetrators are known to the victim and about 95% of white British women have a white British partner. Again, they don’t care about facts

Remember liberals applauding the Shamima Begum precedent for a groomed child and when we raised the alarm about it they were calling us overdramatic

And they already have precedent for this they can base this on: Shamima Begum

If they’re coming for those with indefinite leave to remain now, they will come for those with (or can get) dual citizenship next

He’s got his huge headline which has set the news agenda seen by millions, no one will see your graph apart from a few thousand people, Labour are going to come out with “actually we’re scrapping it today” or some other response to the right of Farage, the escalation continues

I’m sick of people posting facts and graphs about how Nigel Farage’s numbers are wrong. Fascists don’t care about facts

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As we're technically in 'Autumn' now, a little shout-out that I'd love to add to my work for the coming months A reminder of the things I do as a freelancer: EDI/Inclusion/LGBTQ workshops and consulting. LGBTQ+ history/culture workshops. Writing workshops. Editing (non-fiction/academic).

If times could start becoming less “interesting” sometime before the Senedd elections in May, that would be really fucking helpful, thanks. (@willhaycardiff.bsky.social links in his reply to his Substack post with a bunch more detail and analysis on this YouGov poll for ITV Cymru and Cardiff Uni)

Labour say they want to extend ILR to ten years, Reform say they will scrap it and deport people. This is how the escalation happens. Reform already suggested those born abroad should be deported for fly-tipping (status not specified)

And this is why we were criticised the judgment re Shamima Begum because they can move the goalposts at any time.

Recognising a state is all well and good, but it is a mere token gesture when other recognised states in the past carried out genocides of their own (Kampuchea, Rwanda, Bosnia, Sudan) and others are continuing theirs now (Myanmar, China, Isr*l). They won’t face repercussions until it’s way too late.

Border violence has only gone in one direction since 1905 - being violent to more and more people. As this escalating posturing continues across all major parties, no British citizen will be safe. Until one of them stands up and challenges it.

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

It's just bullshit in the papers no matter the subject. First striker here cost £63m and has 3 goals, the second cost £65m and has 2

The @economist.com's consistent anti-trans bias is why I cancelled my subscription after over a decade reading that paper. Truly vile.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

Nice fascist colours you got going on there

Gurl, fascism is not growling at the door; it's in the house, watching telly. You're the ones fannying around outside, fighting about what to call your Scooby Do gang.

Yes but not for these reasons this anti trans, anti immigrant cabbage thinks

it's pointless anyway. journalism isn't dying because of online or because people don't care or whatever. it's dying because it doesn't serve the interests of capital. this is yet another thing that we've been conditioned to blame ourselves for doing through some sort of negligence but it's not

Everything about this headline is hilarious. And the YouTube views are a reflection of how wildly the right has overblown the number of people paying attention.

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This should have been a moment of profound national learning - about the corruption that serves our elite - but the Cabinet Office which ran the VIP Lane sought to close the discussion down and Labour unaccountably let them. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Hamish Falconer: "I have been in the commons week in week out condemning what is happening in Gaza" Has the UK govt halted all arms exports to Israel? Stopped all trade? Imposed sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy? Ended all military ties? No. So your words of condemnation are meaningless

said this elsewhere as well: it's really something how they can work to mobilize all society against us, spend hundreds of billions over decades & celebrate people who want us dead, & yet folks who love us seem to love us for us. "fireworks at influencer nuremberg" is what they leave themselves.

like if you talked to one person who really loves you today, you're more deeply tied to this world on every level than the guy whose funeral is on twelve jillion television stations

I would always rather be us than them, every fucking day, no matter how angry or scared I get trading our humanity for the feeble hope that proximity to power will protect us is not fucking worth it we all die as we live and their picture of what "success" looks like is truly so fucking bleak

🚨 Kazakh billionaire Hourieh Peramaa, not proven a UK citizen, linked to a £100k Reform UK donation via her London mansion’s firm. If true, that’s illegal foreign cash. Reform’s “anti-elite” shtick? Looks like dirty money politics.

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Almost all abuses of the Medicare system were done by corrupt providers and insurers, and almost none by people needing healthcare. Republicans know this. They don't care. Poor people don't deserve healthcare because billionaires and huge corporations want more tax cuts.

Perhaps the home secretary can announce how they intend to protect the life and work of these people, UK citizens being threatened, rather than another proclamation about the fucking boats.

If you want to understand the failure of our media, since Kirk’s murder Republicans have fanned out across the media for interviews, all claiming Dems calling Trump ‘fascist’ causes violence. And not a single interviewer has pushed back with: ‘But Trump called Harris a fascist!’

They should make a society that is good

I guess you’re trying to frame a belief that offers the strongest protection and broadest coverage. How about “trans people should be supported in transitioning early, and they should be given the highest level of privacy in all circumstances.”

We need a coherent and clearly-stated Anti-Gender Critical ideology that cannot be banned from anywhere. Use the Forstater judgement against them.

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There are a bunch of people in my replies saying racist things, and I really should have seen that coming.

What people who say H1Bs are abused seem to mean is that brown people get visas and they don't like that. And they should have to say that with their whole chest and not hide behind weasel words.

The requirements for getting an H1B are extremely strict, I know because I had one. They include proving there are no Americans who are willing to do your job, and you MUST be paid the prevailing wage for your job, so claims that H1Bs are used to undercut wages are simply lies.

There are a whole bunch of takes from tech people right now who are saying the H1B program was "abused" and I really, really want them to sit me down and explain what exactly they mean without saying something racist.

*Gen X stares in stoic silence*

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