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The right's made hyperbolic claims about alleged leftist extremism for decades. It's time to name their actual extremism on immigration by opposing ethnic cleansing explicitly. "I oppose ethnically cleansing the United States because I believe all men are created equal, as do all decent Americans."

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Starmer's government is still on X, the platform that promotes hate and racism.

The term "biological sex" was adopted widely only in the last decade as a reaction to mainstream acceptance of trans people. It was rarely if ever used before that. By any metric, from legislative usage to search query usage, it's plainly evident this is a novel term only made popular by the right.

Remember the stink when Farage had an account closed by Coutts? The reams of press and commentary, even by sensibles, was a thing. This meanwhile will merit very little.

The state of the UK. I remember when the foreign office advised against travelling to certain US states such as North Carolina for less systematic human rights abuse. Thanks @kierstarmerpm.bsky.social and @labourpartyuk.bsky.social for showing your real colours

National reviews of healthcare for trans children have been conducted by Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Japan, Holland and the state of Utah. None of them have concluded that gender-affirming healthcare should be banned. Cass is a total outlier.

The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.

What we find: Disclosure changes everything. In the last Swiss federal elections, mandatory disclosure rules applied for the first time. Reported campaign spending was suddenly 4x higher. Under voluntary transparency, every party systematically underreported except for the Greens & Green Liberals

And never forget that Dame Hilary Cass belittled as "shroud wavers" those of us asking, begging, for a regime that would keep trans children alive.

Starmer saying the next PM will inherit a country that is 'fairer' than the one he inherited 2 years ago. In the one Starmer inherited, trans people could use public toilets.

A travesty. What in God's name is the matter with her. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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One of the lessons of the last two years is that Labour urgently needs to stop being afraid of its own shadow. Burnham should appoint whoever he thinks would be the best Chancellor and throw his authority behind them. The Daily Mail will try to kill them anyway. So just govern.

Hard not to regard this as a classic example of a pre-emptive campaign by certain sectors, along with their media sympathisers, to discourage a new prime minister from appointing someone who might damage their interests in the long and short term. And it will almost certainly work.

More than half way to Net Zero in UK The key fact is that most people believe it is a long way off and hard. Only 8% believe we're halfway there. www.gov.uk/government/n...

“Those who carry out conversion practices - commonly known as ‘conversion therapy’ - could be jailed for up to five years under landmark new plans.” This is overdue. But it’s hardly effective reform while the government pursues conversion practices on trans children by withdrawing their healthcare.

I need a standard/good survey question that gives me a measure of how much time someone spends on social media (how "online" are they). This isn't my usual area of surveys, so any suggestions? (bat signal @aedwardslevy.bsky.social, @awmercer.bsky.social, @kwcollins.bsky.social, and others).

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Troubling thread on the use of AI in the EHRC analysis of consultations about equality law.

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Concerned that the UK government has too quickly adopted AI for everything? Well, here's a brief story of individuals acting with impunity, violation of FOI law, and complete misunderstanding of their own results.

Draft conversion practices bill published. A few thoughts. 🧵

Even if the bill becomes law - and given Labour has chosen to publish it as a draft this must be doubtful - I doubt it will protect even one trans person from abuse. Yet another savage betrayal of Labour's Manifesto commitments to trans people and those who love them.

But it behooves Jeffries to remember that Mamdani does represent more people than any congressperson and most US senators, so there's that. (All the states in green have fewer people than NYC.)

So many dropped kerbs on our street. In some cases the whole section of pavement in front of a house is a single large dropped kerb, so there is nowhere to put a street tree. Cities designed for cars are killing us.

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"The UK court system is a fucking joke. "No facts, no standing, no harm. They get a court to strip the rights of a minority group without them being involved in the case or any factual record. "As bad as things are in the US... there are still constitutional restraints that prevent stuff like this."

I wrote this a year and a half ago. Unsurprisingly, Labour has experienced the same electoral decline as other European social democratic parties because of this strategy. Yet, pundits still make the same lazy claims. Politicians live in their phantasm of the “doorstep.” As if research did not exist

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The EHRC trans code explained: What it does, how it works and what happens next iandunt.substack.com/p/the-ehrc-t...

🔴 SCOOP: Farage doesn't seem to want to answer questions about his money. So I went looking - and found that the Reform leader's personal company is in breach of UK company law democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...

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I honestly can’t understand why Elon Musk’s X isn’t banned in the UK. It has become a poisonous vehicle for spreading hatred and dissension, and is run by a white supremacist agitator, who explicitly incites violence. Surely there is a criminal sanction for this?

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When you keep indulging the mad fascists worldview as legitimate they at some point will in fact get violent to bring about that world when it refuses to coalesce they will simply create that fight they need to believe they are in

This is no more about the details of immigration policy than the progroms my great great grandparents fled were about Jews committing crimes. It's straightforward racist violence and it needs the strongest possible response.

Context: in 2018, FB labeled clean energy & climate as “political” topics. I was told I had to “register as a political entity.” I’m a scientist, I said. Over my dead body. So my previously thriving page was shadowbanned-til Dec when the algo was altered to deliberately promote divisive content 😳

Nearly a year ago, I put in a set of FOI requests over the use of AI during the EHRC's extended guidance period attracting over 50K comments in the UK over a version of the current guidance going through parliament. Apparently, giving even the most basic info over how it was used.

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Reviewing our data and the story of our campaign to discuss with MPs. Hoping the show of support from cross-party MPs over the last week means we can engage more.

I am so curious what is after that “unless…” Without clarification, one could assume she associates transness with criminality, and Mary-Ann Stephenson must resign now.

📢 "Your voice is needed." UNISON general secretary @AndreaEganGS.bsky.social is calling on members and trans allies to oppose the EHRC guidance. MPs will decide on it in the next 30 days. Tell us why it's unworkable in your workplace. 📩 [email protected]