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No10 spokesman not prepared to criticise anything about Farage speech today. Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.

I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers

Difficult to conceive of a more ill-judged decision then the one the Home Office took here. It is an affront to free speech of a kind which is really indistinguishable from what you'd see in a police state.

This would make ICE one of the top ten largest militaries in the world. Not much smaller than the entire UK military.

There may come a day when the BBC puts on air one of the other 29,999 headteachers currently estimated to be working in UK schools, but that day is not today

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

it's kind of wild that tottenham hotspur threw a bigger parade than the us military

From what I can see, the Telegraph is giving a full uncritical online platform to an immigration policy that is more extreme than that offered up by the neo-Nazi British National Party at the 2010 general election - general-election-2010.co.uk/bnp-manifest...

S Baum covering the latest survey on trans life and health over at Erin Reed's place. Notably, Hormone therapy made 84% a lot more satisfied with their lives, 14% somewhat more satisfied. Surgery made 88% of ppl a lot more satisfied and 9% somewhat more. That's: Hormones: +98 Surgery: +97

What happened at Fort Bragg yesterday is very grave. Boos and catcalls from uniformed Army personnel responding to Trump's goading have almost no precedent in US history and would be unusual in most of Latin America. Listen to the troops boo the free press as Trump calls reporters “the fake news.”

A really chilling implication here is that if Trump keeps doing speeches on military bases, and commanding officers continue to tell soldiers to opt in or out of these events (as they did here), then there will be lists by base and unit of which soldiers support the administration & which don't.

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The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

We should never let ourselves get desensitized to this. It can’t be overstated how outrageously unpresidential and un-American it is for Donald Trump to speak to the US military like they’re his partisan personal army.

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

Bluesky is a retirement home for 39 year old millennials who are forcibly turning themselves into history dads (nongendered) so if you have a hot take about one of the more popular history dad wars you had better come strapped

This letter from Tony Vaughan KC, the MP for Folkestone, is the clearest articulation I’ve seen on the flaws of the interim update from the EHRC. The section titled ‘Legal Incoherence’ hits the nail on the head.

Very unsurprised to see influential "Gender Critical" people calling to make being trans illegal full stop. That has always been their goal. They obviously now think it's within the Overton Window What is horrifying is that STILL this extremists are still treated like normal people with "concerns"

100% this. Saw there was a blue Labour MP saying he "didn't care" if universities went bankrupt so long as immigration went down. He might want to look at some of the basic demographics of Labour support (and also look at who the largest employers are in large Labour seats).

Even the reddest American states do not have bathroom bans covering all private as well as public facilities. This is as extreme as it gets

Horrific though it sounds, this currently appears to be true. If ministers misspoke, now’s the time for an apology and a clarification

Why are we not doing this? Never seen a more "no brainer" policy. Even people who are the most strongly opposed to immigration tend not to object to top scientists coming here.

🇺🇸🎓 We're witnessing a rapid stress test of whether the argument "US universities cost an arm and a leg because they're not dependent on public funding like the European ones are" is made of any actual substance.

wrote about my trans friends www.theneweuropean.co.uk/marie-le-con...

The battle for Europe: This month will define Britain's future iandunt.substack.com/p/the-battle...

I've been a journalist for 25+ years and I'm not sure I've witnessed as much wilful (and v likely coordinated) disinformation from certain corners of the UK media than over past few days. Sun, Mail and Telegraph have been truly awful - and seemingly shameless www.theguardian.com/business/202...

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

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We should stop using, "he has a point" when we actually mean, "somewhere in that incoherent ramble full of insane demands and wild allegations was something that could be a legitimate grievance if expressed completely differently by a mature and emotionally stable adult."

This is mortifying. It's the kind of calculation you would normally make about a dictatorship. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

VERY IMPORTANT to label this as what it is, The Police State Executive Order. it's not an exaggeration. This is the inner wiring of a police state.

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The DOJ is arguing, on behalf of the President, that the President can scoop up anyone, put them on an airplane, and then no laws apply because no court has jurisdiction. Whether the person is a citizen wouldn't change that because there's no point they could even tell a court they're a citizen.

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Millennials are a goldilocks generation raised in the narrow window between leaded gasoline and social media and hooooo boy is that showing these days

When the honourable principle of impartial reporting runs up against a president who is a proven liar and conspiracy theorist, you end up actively misleading your audience unless you strongly contextualise the falsehoods. I don't expect activist journalism from the BBC but it's far to demand truth.

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BHP redditors voted on English monarchs and the results are in.

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This probably isn’t the developers’ top priority (although it should be), but I’d love to see the Bluesky app have an option to switch to the Julian calendar for those of us who reject the lies of Pope Gregory XIII

I wonder what Liz Truss imagines "the ancient laws of the British constitution" to be. cc: @davidallengreen.bsky.social

If the UK was really, really smart, it would now plough tens of billions into research centres and take in all the American academics fleeing the US. Spoiler: the UK is not smart. 🇬🇧

Who are the most popular kings and queens since 1066? 1. Elizabeth II: +74 net score 2. Victoria: +50 3. George VI: +40 4. Elizabeth I: +36 5. George V: +30 6. Richard the Lionheart: +29 7. Charles III: +27 8. Edward VII: +14 Full list in chart 👇 yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

Any four Republican Senators could stop this at any time simply by threatening to block all action (or even caucus with the Democrats) if Trump doesn't make certain concessions. They won't, but that should be a much bigger story than whether the Democrats are doing everything that *they* can.

Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing

"The men appear to have barricaded the entrance to the bank, spray painted the security cameras, and ordered the employees to lie on the floor. We're watching now to see if they do anything wrong."

I think this is one reason why the BBC's coverage is so poor. It has to bend away from reality for fear of sounding extreme. The truth is that a delusional old man and an insane billionaire are executing an unconstitutional power grab at high speed but saying that sounds hysterical.