The X factor for durably shifting political views
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The X factor for durably shifting political views
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There's a one hour special on Nigel Farage and Reform UK, and whether they are ready to lead, on BBC2
Presumably, there will be a similar one hour special on Zack Polanski, and whether The Greens are ready to lead, as well?
Trump: The emperor has lost his mind
Piece from me on how it is high time that we took evidence of Trump’s dementia and narcissistic personality disorder seriously
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The performance of SOMEWHERE on Saturday, January 24 at 7:30 p.m. has been canceled. Ticket holders will be emailed regarding their options. Ticket-related inquiries may be directed to boxoffice@guthrietheater.org.
"The federal government is killing people in the streets, so the arts are canceled," is the point we have reached.
If the US is genuinely worried about a Russian threat in the Arctic then the best way to address it would be to destroy Russia's capacity for military aggression by helping Ukraine to win.
To snatch a five year old carrying a school bag from the street and tell the parents nothing as you send that child to a prison thousands of kilometres away is unalloyed evil.
Every person in this chain of command should be prosecuted. Every single one. They have to be.
So prescient! Depressed congratulations
“Even now people continue to treat TACO — Trump Always Chickens Out — as if it were an established fact, although the past few weeks show that it’s just wishful thinking.”
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We're getting very close to what Anders describes.
Normal, civilised US citizens need to understand it's their system that is sick, not just one man.
In pretty much every other democracy I can think of, doing a January 6 number would have meant imprisonment and being barred from public office.
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
Make this go viral.
Labour MP Louise Haigh.
David is right. It's juvenile journalism and doesn't seek to get a real answer to the question. It's the "When did you stop beating your wife" approach.
This is why military service members should refuse to follow illegal orders. Because when the shit hits the fan, Trunp and Hegseth will deny everything and blame you. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
What's do mad is it's so unbelievably blatant
Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
I was honored to speak at a conference “Intent to Destroy: Confronting Russia’s Campaign to Erase Ukraine & Its People” at Georgetown. The mere suggestion of amnesty for Russia's war crimes and genocidal actions against Ukrainians, contained in Trump's 28-point plan, is an unconscionable obscenity.
How’s that going?
It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security.
The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government.
You won't win him over with another conference on AI
Speaker Johnson must stop blocking the results of a free and fair election. We’re demanding he do his job and swear in Adelita Grijalva immediately.
This seems accurate to me
That's the wrong leg
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
The Tax Payer's Alliance criticism of Civil Service salaries is a perfect indication of their narrow minded idiocy and why they should be completely ignored
On the other hand…
I stand by the assertion that this is thought management. "You aren't clever enough to see the negative aspects of this argument so we won't let you hear it"
Actually I was referring to the "deplatforming" of speakers at events in the UK. There were a series of these in the last few years. The speakers booked held views that the left disliked and they thought this meant it ok to threaten violence if they spoke.
Maybe a fair point
Well we don't get those widely reported over here so I'm unsure how accurate your point is.
But, it's not going to be effective to moan about them without acknowledging the overreach on the left.
If Vance said something similar I guess it goes to show even a stopped clock is right twice a day
The problem is this ignores the point that the traction the right got on this point was in some way a reaction to left wing free speech overreach (thought management). That still needs addressing. It's not ok just because the other side are worse
Ed Davey, "Elon Musk has applied to sell energy in this country"
"When someone is calling for the overthrow of a democratically elected government, we should take that seriously"
"I don't think Elon Musk is a fit and proper person for us to do business with"
