Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

‘Man of the people’ Farage fumes at trail hunting ban Farage once again voicing the real concerns of the working class! www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/man...

The person who made the decision to hold this story has never been a news reporter or a news editor. Really sickening.

60 Minutes, dead at 57. The murder weapon was Bari Weiss.

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

The Persian Robe, 1940 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16995

The Concert in the Egg https://www.wikiart.org/en/hieronymus-bosch/the-concert-in-the-egg-1480

La ligne de vie / The line of life - 1936 https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3112548

The Nightingale's Song at Midnight and the Morning Rain https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-nightingale-s-song-at-midnight-and-the-morning-rain

Atavism at Twilight https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20521

The Terrible Games https://www.wikiart.org/en/giorgio-de-chirico/the-terrible-games-1925

There's a word for selling political influence for cash... (sadly Reform aren't the first to do so) Via Private Eye

Seconded

Did you know that in journalism it is surprisingly easy to find people who aren't burning to tell truth to power? Who have no moral and ethical tether. Oligarchs who own media for political influence spot them and put them in charge. They don't work for you, dear reader. They work against you.

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

The Times, just protecting women again today

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Total gaslighting. Anti-trans activist; chooses to speak in person, provoking students who want to protect trans rights; they exercise their freedom of speech to tell her she isn't wanted; she gets to speak anyway; the BBC dutifully platforms her again; and now she threatens to sue everyone.

‘Jesus was a refugee. As a child he had to go to Egypt for safety. So please: think what the message of Christmas really means’ The head of the Church of Scotland tells me Christmas is about welcoming the outsider as she speaks out against the hate growing in society In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

Good to see the Church of Scotland speaking out on this. (The head of the CoS is our Moderator, appointed for a term of 1 year, not a permanent role, but for the duration of that year they effectively speak on behalf of the Church.)

The holy family fled to Egypt as Herod massacred boys under three in and around Bethlehem. So Jesus early childhood was spent in a foreign land. That’s what happens as the nativity plays end. Too brutal. But with racist voices who would demonise refugees Christians need to remember the full story.

The real message we should all be broadcasting and celebrating..

‘Jesus was a refugee. As a child he had to go to Egypt for safety. So please: think what the message of Christmas really means’ The head of the Church of Scotland tells me Christmas is about welcoming the outsider as she speaks out against the hate growing in society In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

One of the world’s most interesting thinkers, the Dutch historian Rutger Bregman, says citizens need to form a modern day protest movement modelled on the 19th century ‘Temperance Crusade’ to bring Big Tech to heel before it’s too late. I couldn’t agree more. My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

Has nobody noticed that I look like a serial killer?

One woman is murdered every three days by a man in the UK. Kemi Badenoch doesn’t give a fuck about that stat.

One of the world’s most interesting thinkers, the Dutch historian Rutger Bregman, says citizens need to form a modern day protest movement modelled on the 19th century ‘Temperance Crusade’ to bring Big Tech to heel before it’s too late. I couldn’t agree more. My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail) https://www.wikiart.org/en/hieronymus-bosch/the-garden-of-earthly-delights-1515-9

Portrait of Katharina Cornell https://botfrens.com/collections/63/contents/20933

Still Life with Lemons, 1914 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/16021

The Promenades of Euclid https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/1244330

Eroica, 1987 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5300

The Duo http://www.moma.org/collection/works/80588

Says Turkey-Boy

Daft cunt

Doing acid in this joint would be quite the blast

How well can anyone eat? How many houses can they live in? How many beaches can they walk on at a time?

If Trump destroys the BBC, Britain will end up with American-style TV news. Our current polarisation would look like a playground squabble. We need to protect the BBC and then reform it here at home. The first step should be to remove all political appointees My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

The BBC is a mess, but it’s our mess, and we must defend it from a low-life like Trump It is for the British people to deal with the BBC over its editorial failings, not some foreign president, whose moral universe puts him on the level of a bag of garbage My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

If the BBC is destroyed by Trump, then America has scored a direct hit on British democracy, levelling one of the pillars of state. Anyone with an ounce of patriotism should want to fight this. Yet it’s those who shout the loudest about patriotism who would happily watch the BBC flattened by Trump

Rather than continue his policy of grovelling to Trump, Starmer should make defending the BBC his line in the sand and tell the US president to beat it. Starmer is on his knees to Trump when he should be staring him straight in the eye My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

The BBC is hard to like, let alone love. It’s narcissistic and navel-gazing. It allowed sexual predators to become super-stars. It is now an outfit more interested in clickbait - as we see on bottom-feeding shows like Question Time - than journalism. And its impartiality is certainly up for debate

The BBC is hard to like, let alone love. It’s narcissistic and navel-gazing. It allowed sexual predators to become super-stars. It is now an outfit more interested in clickbait - as we see on bottom-feeding shows like Question Time - than journalism. And its impartiality is certainly up for debate

If Trump destroys the BBC, Britain will end up with American-style TV news. Our current polarisation would look like a playground squabble. We need to protect the BBC and then reform it here at home. The first step should be to remove all political appointees My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

Rather than continue his policy of grovelling to Trump, Starmer should make defending the BBC his line in the sand and tell the US president to beat it. Starmer is on his knees to Trump when he should be staring him straight in the eye My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

If the BBC is destroyed by Trump, then America has scored a direct hit on British democracy, levelling one of the pillars of state. Anyone with an ounce of patriotism should want to fight this. Yet it’s those who shout the loudest about patriotism who would happily watch the BBC flattened by Trump

The BBC is a mess, but it’s our mess, and we must defend it from a low-life like Trump It is for the British people to deal with the BBC over its editorial failings, not some foreign president, whose moral universe puts him on the level of a bag of garbage My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

Let me see here... Trump is planning to launch a full-scale war against Venezuela on the same day that the Epstein files must be released according to a law passed by Congress and signed by Trump. It is almost as if Trump will stop at nothing, including war crimes, to keep the files secret.

"I don't care what anyone says, I like that movie."