Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether

Nigel Farage accuses Starmer of "inciting violence" by calling Reform's racist policies "racist"

Moldova is the first former Soviet state I visited 20 years ago; by sheer coincidence being there for independence day and a free street concert. Loved the country, loved the people, delighted by this news.

Maron is on fire here. Burning through anti-woke hacks like Ricky Gervais with fierce intelligence

"By any sensible definition, 'racist' is a word you can't apply to someone who doesn't want Romanians living next door." Says Fraser Nelson, who happily published Taki's Nazi fandom, racist liar Liddle, and white nationalist Douglas Murray. Beyond satire. frasernelson.substack.com/p/who-thinks...

The Trump Administration's DHS officers appear to be carrying large weapons around downtown Chicago in camouflage and masks. This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidation, instilling fear in our communities and hurting our businesses.

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

"there'll be lots of people in the LGBT community and allies who would say that's outrageous"; yeah, like me @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social. Please explain how this treats trans people with "dignity and respect". You're an abject disgrace on trans rights. As a gay man my message to you is "resign".

Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes. That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

Paul Verhoeven has been tapped to direct reality itself now, I see

Respectful debates

Minorities are afraid the right wing will kill them. The right wing are afraid you'll laugh at them.

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This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

A few pics from the @ukstoptrump.bsky.social event today. Well organised, great atmosphere & loved the Vance ball getting bounced around the crowd!

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*. There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

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Exactly this.

For there to be no comment from the government on Musk's call for violence, let alone action against X, is unconscionable. An utter dereliction of its responsibility for national security and an affront to every member of an ethnic minority, who is being put at risk by this rhetoric.

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

My Spanish is better than I realised

Pivoted so hard they affected the earth's rotation

Nancy Mace acting on disinformation that the shooter was trans: goes off on tirade against "trannies" Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."

Surprised to find out that Alex Jones believes Charlie Kirk was shot - usually he’d declare it was crisis actors and mirrors

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Charlie Kirk was a white supremacist who pushed the racist Great Replacement Theory. Kirk was vociferously anti-LGBTQ. Kirk's final words were to besmirch Black people. Stop this revisionism. People who say bad things don't deserve to be murdered, but they also don't deserve to be praised either.

I feel that Hanania is probably one of the few far right types who actually understands where his fellow travelers are taking us and thinks, nope, civilization is better moderately woke than violently broke.

This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

This wasn't the reaction to Melissa Hortman's death, who was murdered by a man posing as a cop specifically because she was a sitting politician he hated. But they relate more to Charlie Kirk. That should tell you everything you need to know.

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

There’s a way to be respectful in reporting on Charlie Kirk being shot while also refusing to whitewash who he was and what consequences his political activism has had. Obituaries for public figures are a part of history.

I agree with Patrick intellectually, but practically I think any statement - especially from the Right - that violence is un-American is good right now, however untrue it is.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

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Absolute fucking scum - I hope they're prosecuted.

This absolute banger

Credit to Ed Davey for this. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Jamie Raskin, "They only want to protect free speech that they agree with" JR then demolishes Farage, ending with "You might want to think twice before you let Nigel Farage Make Britain Great Again"

CAN YOU IMAGINE CALLING FOR SOMEONE TO BE ARRESTED FOR A TWEET?!?!

If some university did this they’d be accused by the very same administration of anti-semitism.

Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions — and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...

The BBC need to get better at challenging Farage's lies.

It's actually astounding how Labour has managed to go further on anti-migrant, anti-trans etc policies in a year than the Conservatives did in 14. The way they so cavalierly talk about circumventing human rights for migrants, trans and non-binary individuals etc is beyond even the last government.

unbelievable weasel of a man, a failed government barely a year after being elected, and a disgrace to Labour's heritage. the cabinet should commit collective seppuku to erase their dishonor.

Starmer has posted 6 photos of a black young man on instagram. An “illegal immigrant” he’s saying will be deported. On the day Reform announced their controversial plan. I am not sure Starmer was expecting the comments he has received. Hundreds. Here’s just some,