It's very telling that this discourse always puts the onus on the kids to tolerate their parents vile views and never asks the parents to moderate said views for the sake of their kids

Hear that young'uns? We strip mined your future to keep the gazillionaires in gold platted toilet paper & are outsourcing the remaining jobs to the giant plagarism machine so the best you can hope for is being recruited to die in an illegal war to titilate the homegrown racism we've been cultivating

this part alone should be a big news story, and enough to dispel the lie the the gvt are in any way trying to 'fix the economy' or cost of living. even if you dont shop with (for eg) amazon, the stuff you buy in tesco costs more because of this stuff because thats how these things work

By "populist", it's safe to say the FT is referring to the far right This matters though because it helps conflate any alternative to the status quo, whether left or far right, and leaves only the status quo as a "reasonable" alternative, even if said status quo is increasingly far right...

Whenever the Guardian "reaches out" to the US, I think about their 2004 "Vote for Kerry" letter-writing campaign, aimed at Clark County, Ohio. Not only did it backfire, but it was the only Ohio county (of 88) to go "overwhelmingly Republican this election" (2004). pressgazette.co.uk/archive-cont...

The Ghost of Christmas Future has a message for Keir Starmer. Alexei Sayle brings you his alternative Christmas message from the streets where Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol.

I see there’s a post about microplastics going around with a photo of drinking straws, so here is my semi-regular reminder that the 3 biggest sources of microplastics are tires (45%), synthetic clothing particles (35%) and paint (~10%). Lay article attached:

I wonder why a massive TERF who everyone despises, like Ditum, would insist that people have to spend time with, and be polite to, massive arseholes who've caused them pain.

Yeah, no thanks. Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.

The BBC and Herald are both linking arms in a journalistic hit on the judge of the Sandie Peggie case in which both struggle to pretend that alterations to the judgement which include changing a capital letter to a lower case letter should be considered an issue of major judicial malpractice.

If you’re frightened by the new hateful bullshit but you loudly welcomed the old version because it wasn’t hurled at you personally and helped you to get things you wanted, congratulations! These are the consequences of your self-indulgent idiocy, now right in all of our faces for everyone to enjoy.

Flaming Hydra has graciously given this out for free! For any Spider-Man fans and comic book historians, here’s a closer look at the story behind Mary Jane Watson’s iconic introduction, and who REALLY wrote it. Thanks to Josephine Riesman & Zach Rabiroff for this. flaminghydra.com/a-swingin-su...

One of the reasons behind the rise of fascism is that people who could do the most to stop it and genuinely want to* refuse to even consider that what they are currently doing is counterproductive If it weren't for the arrogance & fragility of the mainstream elite, things could be widely different

History will record how a non-trivial number of supposedly liberal centrists went along - wittingly or unwittingly - with the transparently McCarthyite scam of the cancel culture/free speech moral panic And in doing so helped pave the way for neo-fascism.

I've been aware for a while of the work by faith and other community groups to support people seeking asylum. So I asked the @refugeecouncil.bsky.social where there was really vigorous community support. They said Northallerton. Here's what I found when I went there: as.ft.com/r/b3449fbd-3...

In this latest round of troubling and targeted attacks on anyone who would stand in the way of their propaganda machinery, the Trump admin is rescinding US travel visas (and threatening worse) for Europeans who have worked on the digital services act and/or worked to address hate speech.

Big social media platforms have become wired to spread bullshit. The people and organizations who worked to understand why, called out the bullshitters, and tried to push for platform changes to counteract manipulation and address harmful misinformation… have been silenced by an admin powered by bs.

Nina Jankowicz: “They’re not doing this because they have any evidence of censorship — they lost a Supreme Court case that made those claims… They’re doing this because the group of researchers and advocates have stood up to liars like Donald Trump and the platforms that enable them.”

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group.

Letting hunger strikers die, arresting Greta Thunberg — this is not incompetence or even indifference. The UK state is deliberately making examples of people to ramp up the crushing of basic civil liberties and silence opposition to genocide

Greta Thunberg has been arrested in London for holding a placard supporting the Palestine Action prisoners on hunger strike. The PA prisoners have been held without charges for over a year and their lives are at risk. bsky.app/profile/zack...

Support the Hunger Strikers, Free the Filton 24, and don't stop until every factory of death in my city and on our planet is ashes and rubble.

I wonder why Ian Hislop, editor of the homophobic and transphobic Private Eye and hirer of antisemitic cartoonists for Private Eye, could possibly want to demonise the Jewish, gay politician who holds explicitly pro trans rights views 🤔

Yes. And translators, badly paid, have been trying to make people aware of this, but they have only a small platform. Need writers and readers to be aware and speak out. All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.

'Listen to me as I come to your neighbourhood and tell your trans siblings they are subhuman or I will use the wealth of billionaires to sue you into oblivion,' is a very late-capitalism form of free speech right.

Concerning the result of the local election in Extremadura, where the right wing PP (which relies heavily on the far right VOX) beat out the PSOE.

If you're in the UK, London's Mayday Rooms - "an archive, resource space and safe haven for social movements, experimental and marginal cultures and their histories" - is looking to hire a Project and Programming Coordinator! maydayrooms.org/we-are-hiring/ maydayrooms.org/wp-content/u...

“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”

www.eldiario.es/extremadura/... via @eldiario.es

Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?

It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love. youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng

For the short CV format: ✅Former journalist, and editor. ✅Worked in policy across migrants' rights, LGBTQIA+, Autism, disability, construction, heritage and environment ✅Experienced in public speaking and media interviews ✅Provided evidence for more consultations and committees than care to remember

I love my job, genuinely, but currently on a rolling three month contract, dependent on funding, and...a little bit stressed. Thinking it may be time for something more permanent if anyone is looking for an experienced policy and comms person.

Donations to Gaza are disappearing and people like Hammam are still out there trying to survive the winter in the ruins of their homes, please donate to them if you can: chuffed.org/project/1580...

My own feelings about IK aside, I had always felt that this was the case ie that Trump wasn’t ever going to have Khan released. The military runs things (always have), now they don’t have to pretend re human rights etc.

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I just wish someone would be honest and say “we are ending civilian science in favor of science that is focused on serving national security and war”

Unless the answer is 'the victims asked me not to say anything', I do start to wonder what would motivate someone to have knowledge of sex crimes and not saying anything for years.

I think Terrorizer reviewed them in 98 when they opened for Iron Monkey.

If you want to know what's so horrific: "To make this device even crazier, Palmer Luckey, the CEO of ModRetro (who also founded Anduril, a weapons and drone manufacturer in the USA) has decided to create a limited edition Chromatic made of the same metal used in Anduril's aerial attack drones."

This is just full-on Nazi stuff and she is one of the most-watched media personalities in the country.

Please HELP Shadia 💔❤️‍🩹💔❤️‍🩹💔❤️‍🩹💔

Imma be so real. A lot of adults also need to read this book.

Oh look a handy link to this book which you can buy for young people for Christmas instead of books by a sex pest. Or instead of hand wringing about how online makes misogyny. Can We Talk About Consent? a book by Justin Hancock and Fuchsia MacAree - Bookshop.org UK share.google/cWFf0abjMVST...

Out: Children's books by the sex pest who we have decided to Suddenly Notice.™️ In: The very good book for young people about consent which will help stuff like this never happen again.

Doesn’t feel good that the head of BBC News Content is instructing reporters to refer to trans people with slurs. If this leak is real it raises questions about who made this decision, who was consulted, and why the BBC chose to ignore its own editorial guidelines on slurs and offensive language

Please join Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelley, Ruth Wilson Gilmore and many others in signing this call for an academic and cultural boycott of the UAE, in relation to its complicity in genocide in Sudan. spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...

If you want to know what's so horrific: "To make this device even crazier, Palmer Luckey, the CEO of ModRetro (who also founded Anduril, a weapons and drone manufacturer in the USA) has decided to create a limited edition Chromatic made of the same metal used in Anduril's aerial attack drones."