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Press Association comment from Quakers in Britain This evening, for the second time in a year, the Metropolitan Police raided a Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists who were meeting there on the grounds that they were conspiring to commit a criminal act. The room in Westminster Quaker Meeting House was let to Take Back Power to hold nonviolent direct action training. Quakers support the principle of nonviolent direct action, which aims to protest without harming people. Oliver Robertson, head of witness and worship for Quakers in Britain, said: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. “Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. “That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.”

Statement from @quaker.org.uk about tonight's police raid on Westminster Meeting House. Guys, I don't think they're buying the Met's line about it all being a cover for plotting "mass shoplifting"

theorizing a Kristi Yesam who is just a lovely person and good at her job.

frankly the War Queer was just badly broken design-wise, due to the ability to take both weapon and sexual specializations

ah THE COMPLETE HOMOSEXUAL HANDBOOK, one of the lesser known late TSR products.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

One thing that people lower-down-a-status-hierarchy absolutely do notice is if another person is only friendly to them in a context wherein by being seen to be as such they gain greater access to or kudos with someone higher-up-the-status-hierarchy. They notice this and talk about it.

have you watched the Powell and Pressburger wartime movies? Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, A Canterbury Tale, A Matter of Life and Death, all stone-cold classics, especially the first.

some hilarious new shiv builds possible for Silent. also very good new boss design.

did my first successful runs with everyone tonight, I like the way the Regent feels like you're playing the level boss of another game.

Dude gets his info from a neo-Nazi site, which he shares as fact, defends going on a neo-Nazi podcast, defends having a Neo-Nazi tattoo, and defends retweeting a Neo-Nazi.

It’s incredible

Ryan grim inadvertently outing himself as a hardcore antisemite to try and claim Platner isn’t one is VERY funny

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

People defend Bullshit Jobs with a fervor that's almost religious but more ... have you ever seen someone moved by like really shitty art but they were 12 and going through a rough patch and they get mad about people criticizing the art but can't defend it?

It's like that, but for nonfiction.

$40,000/year for 2 hours/day of AI-assisted education? Scam artists are apparently convinced there’s a nonzero population who’d like to pay a lot of money not to educate their kids.

Folks will be - legitimately - furious with the Ds that voted no (leadership whipped hard for yes), but I think it is worth looking on the other hand: 98% of House Democrats (and 1% of House Republicans) just voted to try to block the president from waging war on Iran.

Iran! The Great Evil!

The whole "The Dems would be a center-right party in Europe!" line is so old and moldy that having it in your apartment would open you to eviction. This was true in like 1998, maybe, but the past 28 years have seen America move significantly to the left while Europe stagnated.

DeKalb legislator not seeking reelection to Georgia Senate Sen. Elena Parent, D–Atlanta, announced March 5 that she is not seeking reelection to state Senate District 44 this year. Parent has served in the state Senate since 2015 and previously served in the ...

she was the minority chair in the georgia house, btw. not just anyone. there was a lot of anger in our community over her refusal to fight for trans kids, especially. other democrats should take note

I would never pressure my writers into sobriety.

getting really into it like a mid-day soap opera

dog ghost appeared in mirror

i cannot stress enough that if you know anything about how kristi noem found out she was fired you must tell me

I can read a bunch of stuff on the computer and diagnose myself, but if a company does that and misdiagnoses me without a medical license they would be liable. This isn’t hard to understand, is there some kind of gas leak happening over there?

Man. Why did the FBI bother interviewing my family and 10 years of people I’d ever met and literally interrogating me over some weed usage in college when I could have just been a 19-year old with a ChatGPT account and gotten into the SCIF at work with no one watching

this point gets me slightly odd looks from both sides of the atlantic

but on a day the dems are moving towards accountability for the crimes of 'immigration enforcement' the labour gov are lying to the public to justify policies that attempt to meet the fascists halfway

"We have successfully recruited [1]... a former journalist for the Western Mail and an aide to the then Welsh First Minister. Truly we have penetrated the heart of the British state!"

[1] allegedly

I’ve been asked if I would support Sen. Mullin as Noem’s replacement.

The answer is a resounding NO. The rot in DHS is deep, much deeper than any individual.

It’s a question of policy not personnel. The Senate should not consider any DHS Secretary nominee until DHS and ICE are reined in.

It would be great if every Dem could stay on message that every Republican is a piece of shit with no principles other than "Got mine".

what I love about all this is that the actual product getting back to Beijing was probably incredibly trivial stuff. Like, 'smart Google search' levels.