Elinor Elliot
@elinorelliot.bsky.social
Some of us saw this shit coming in 2016
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February 12, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Sue Gray shunted aside for Morgan McSweeney
Karen Pierce dispensed with in favour of Peter Mandelson
Competent, experienced, and highly qualified women replaced by mediocre men (no doubt legends in their own heads and at their own dinner tables)
Results?
All too predictable
Karen Pierce dispensed with in favour of Peter Mandelson
Competent, experienced, and highly qualified women replaced by mediocre men (no doubt legends in their own heads and at their own dinner tables)
Results?
All too predictable
February 12, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Sue Gray shunted aside for Morgan McSweeney
Karen Pierce dispensed with in favour of Peter Mandelson
Competent, experienced, and highly qualified women replaced by mediocre men (no doubt legends in their own heads and at their own dinner tables)
Results?
All too predictable
Karen Pierce dispensed with in favour of Peter Mandelson
Competent, experienced, and highly qualified women replaced by mediocre men (no doubt legends in their own heads and at their own dinner tables)
Results?
All too predictable
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Choose carefully.
February 12, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Choose carefully.
Elite child abusers don't change.
The Dilley family detention center is run by CoreCivic, a major Trump donor who has raked in millions from federal contracts already.
Never forget who is profiting from this cruelty.
Never forget who is profiting from this cruelty.
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about t
www.propublica.org
February 12, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Elite child abusers don't change.
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🆕 Several Earth system components may be closer to destabilisation than previously thought. Crossing key temperature thresholds could trigger feedback loops, pushing the planet toward a “Hothouse Earth” trajectory. Study by @oregonstate.edu, @iiasa.ac.at & PIK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 11, 2026 at 4:52 PM
🆕 Several Earth system components may be closer to destabilisation than previously thought. Crossing key temperature thresholds could trigger feedback loops, pushing the planet toward a “Hothouse Earth” trajectory. Study by @oregonstate.edu, @iiasa.ac.at & PIK: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
If you keep company with people like this, don't expect your messaging to work
They may not even be playing on your side
They may not even be playing on your side
a reminder that Tim Allan, who quit Starmer's Downing St today, previously spun for....not only Kazakhstan and Qatar but also Vladimir Putin’s government
www.ft.com/content/a0a8...
www.ft.com/content/a0a8...
From Blair to Putin to Starmer: PR chief Tim Allan’s CV
Former New Labour spin-doctor has faced criticism over his choice of clients, including Russia’s government
www.ft.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:33 AM
If you keep company with people like this, don't expect your messaging to work
They may not even be playing on your side
They may not even be playing on your side
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Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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Bring back firing squads for anyone involved.
Don’t care who.
Don’t care who.
February 9, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Bring back firing squads for anyone involved.
Don’t care who.
Don’t care who.
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"Every accusation is a confession"
"What breaks my brain is how many of the people propagating false QAnon and #Pizzagate conspiracy theories, winking and nodding to them, and sending true believers into a frenzy on a regular basis were interacting with Epstein," writes @melissaryan.bsky.social.
QAnon helped hide the cabal in plain sight
How the Epstein files explain our current hellish reality
www.altrightdelete.news
February 9, 2026 at 10:09 PM
"Every accusation is a confession"
Looks like they won't be finding the bodies after all
One Epstein files email shows he requested 6 55 gallon drums of sulfuric acid????
😳
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February 9, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Looks like they won't be finding the bodies after all
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I hear it’s almost time for some superb owls! Here’s one from 1508 by Albrecht Dürer.
February 8, 2026 at 10:27 PM
I hear it’s almost time for some superb owls! Here’s one from 1508 by Albrecht Dürer.
Some good political news for once.
Makes me like Portuguese people even more.
Makes me like Portuguese people even more.
Exit polls show socialist Antonio Jose Seguro has crushed the Far Right candidate Andre Ventura in Portugal’s presidential runoff.
February 8, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Some good political news for once.
Makes me like Portuguese people even more.
Makes me like Portuguese people even more.
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It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.
February 5, 2026 at 7:33 PM
It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.
I fucking despair at the damage this socipath is doing
Trump has opened the Marine National Monument to commercial fishing. Say good bye to the last 386 North Atlantic Right Whales. We all failed you.
Trump Opens Marine National Monument in Atlantic to Commercial Fishing
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:31 PM
I fucking despair at the damage this socipath is doing
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
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Robin Ince mentioning Audre Lorde & James Baldwin in reminded me about this powerful conversation between those iconic thinkers about the experiences of American Black men and women
It was originally published in ESSENCE in 1984.
Revolutionary Hope: web.archive.org/web/20140120...
It was originally published in ESSENCE in 1984.
Revolutionary Hope: web.archive.org/web/20140120...
Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde
JB: One of the dangers of being a Black American is being schizophrenic, and I mean ‘schizophrenic’ in the most literal sense. To be a Black American is in some ways to be born with the desire to be.....
web.archive.org
February 8, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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In a touching tribute to his mentor, Morgan McSweeney has resigned in disgrace.
February 8, 2026 at 2:46 PM
In a touching tribute to his mentor, Morgan McSweeney has resigned in disgrace.
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I’m thinking of another wronged woman today.
Sue Gray.
Downing St began to fall apart after an experienced dedicated civil servant was ousted for Morgan McSweeney.
She opposed Mandelson’s appointment.
Sue Gray.
Downing St began to fall apart after an experienced dedicated civil servant was ousted for Morgan McSweeney.
She opposed Mandelson’s appointment.
February 6, 2026 at 11:28 AM
I’m thinking of another wronged woman today.
Sue Gray.
Downing St began to fall apart after an experienced dedicated civil servant was ousted for Morgan McSweeney.
She opposed Mandelson’s appointment.
Sue Gray.
Downing St began to fall apart after an experienced dedicated civil servant was ousted for Morgan McSweeney.
She opposed Mandelson’s appointment.
Unfortunately the calibre of people who built the NHS is not matched in the current parliamentary Labour party.
What is Keir Starmer's vision, actually? That needed to be the focus all along, not the naked pursuit of power and then lacking the first fucking clue what to do with it once you get it.
What is Keir Starmer's vision, actually? That needed to be the focus all along, not the naked pursuit of power and then lacking the first fucking clue what to do with it once you get it.
Damn right. There's still time to transform a wasted govt into a transformational one. It's not as though nobody knows what needs doing, or we're lacking ideas about how.
Labour built the NHS in 3 years, and transformed the nation. They can this too. It just takes will.
Labour built the NHS in 3 years, and transformed the nation. They can this too. It just takes will.
McSweeney is gone. Time for Starmer to try to salvage his government by launching long overdue proper action to address all the flaws in our political system - peerages, patronage, cronyism, party finances, MPs revolving door, appointments, ministerial code, business interests, Leveson, etc etc.
February 8, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Unfortunately the calibre of people who built the NHS is not matched in the current parliamentary Labour party.
What is Keir Starmer's vision, actually? That needed to be the focus all along, not the naked pursuit of power and then lacking the first fucking clue what to do with it once you get it.
What is Keir Starmer's vision, actually? That needed to be the focus all along, not the naked pursuit of power and then lacking the first fucking clue what to do with it once you get it.
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You can't expect me, with all your talk about superb owls, not to remind you of Louis Wain's 1904 "The Cat's Nightmare" (hint, that nightmare is owls).
February 8, 2026 at 5:42 PM
You can't expect me, with all your talk about superb owls, not to remind you of Louis Wain's 1904 "The Cat's Nightmare" (hint, that nightmare is owls).
Newsflash, Keir: nobody gives a shit.
Now can you please get on with doing what people elected you to do?
Now can you please get on with doing what people elected you to do?
BREAKING: Keir Starmer’s statement on McSweeney quitting government
February 8, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Newsflash, Keir: nobody gives a shit.
Now can you please get on with doing what people elected you to do?
Now can you please get on with doing what people elected you to do?
Self-regard is not the same thing as genius.
There seems to be some considerable confusion about this.
There seems to be some considerable confusion about this.
Peter Mandelson – the great genius at the heart of New Labour.
Dominic Cummings – the great genius at the heart of 'Leave'.
Nick Timothy – the great genius at....
Morgan McSweeney – the great....
Steve Hilton...
Can we ban all alleged great geniuses and cast them into outer darkness forever?
Dominic Cummings – the great genius at the heart of 'Leave'.
Nick Timothy – the great genius at....
Morgan McSweeney – the great....
Steve Hilton...
Can we ban all alleged great geniuses and cast them into outer darkness forever?
February 8, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Self-regard is not the same thing as genius.
There seems to be some considerable confusion about this.
There seems to be some considerable confusion about this.