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@raksky.bsky.social
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears."
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@raksky.bsky.social
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Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
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A high school student and budding mariachi recounts the damage done to his family by two separate immigration raids, four months apart, detailing the lasting trauma federal enforcement is leaving on brown youth across the U.S.
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
November 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
A high school student and budding mariachi recounts the damage done to his family by two separate immigration raids, four months apart, detailing the lasting trauma federal enforcement is leaving on brown youth across the U.S.
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
The full story: lataco.com/oxnard-ice-r...
By Izzy Ramirez
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China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds: World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months, analysis reveals, a...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds: World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months, analysis reveals, a...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds: World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months, analysis reveals, a...
“The difference in their physical ability was just unbelievable”
Sarah Vine trying to convince Sky News Press Preview that Algerian Olympic boxer, Imane Khelif, was trans to fit her forever hateful narrative. Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social and Anna Botting @annabotting.bsky.social push back ✊🏻
Sarah Vine trying to convince Sky News Press Preview that Algerian Olympic boxer, Imane Khelif, was trans to fit her forever hateful narrative. Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social and Anna Botting @annabotting.bsky.social push back ✊🏻
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
“The difference in their physical ability was just unbelievable”
Sarah Vine trying to convince Sky News Press Preview that Algerian Olympic boxer, Imane Khelif, was trans to fit her forever hateful narrative. Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social and Anna Botting @annabotting.bsky.social push back ✊🏻
Sarah Vine trying to convince Sky News Press Preview that Algerian Olympic boxer, Imane Khelif, was trans to fit her forever hateful narrative. Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social and Anna Botting @annabotting.bsky.social push back ✊🏻
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"It’s an indictment of mainstream media that this process keeps getting worse. There’s no learning curve. The operating principle seems to be: MAGA Republicans have lied to us for a decade, but we have to pretend they might be telling the truth this one time."
www.stopthepresses.news/p/how-news-c...
www.stopthepresses.news/p/how-news-c...
How news coverage eases us into tyranny
When the media act like things are normal, they don’t reassure us – they gaslight us
www.stopthepresses.news
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
"It’s an indictment of mainstream media that this process keeps getting worse. There’s no learning curve. The operating principle seems to be: MAGA Republicans have lied to us for a decade, but we have to pretend they might be telling the truth this one time."
www.stopthepresses.news/p/how-news-c...
www.stopthepresses.news/p/how-news-c...
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Human laundromats love to fold
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Human laundromats love to fold
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This kind of influence by a political appointee of the Johnson government, with a strong partisan record and reputation, appeared a Faustian pact imposed on the BBC by the government of the day. Its striking that this attempt continued after a change of government
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
‘Make no mistake – this was a coup’: the extraordinary downfall of the BBC’s top bosses
The whirlwind that started when Deborah Turness came under attack at a board meeting is part of a wider political story, some say
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This kind of influence by a political appointee of the Johnson government, with a strong partisan record and reputation, appeared a Faustian pact imposed on the BBC by the government of the day. Its striking that this attempt continued after a change of government
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
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Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue-bbc-over-misleading-edit-of-the-vicar-of-dibley/
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue-bbc-over-misleading-edit-of-the-vicar-of-dibley/
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You don't say.
'Robbie Gibb, Theresa May’s former comms chief who was appointed to the BBC’s board by Boris Johnson’, "led the charge" in pressuring the corporation’s leadership over claims of systemic bias in coverage of Donald Trump, Gaza & transgender rights.'
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
'Robbie Gibb, Theresa May’s former comms chief who was appointed to the BBC’s board by Boris Johnson’, "led the charge" in pressuring the corporation’s leadership over claims of systemic bias in coverage of Donald Trump, Gaza & transgender rights.'
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders
Sources say Robbie Gibb amplified criticisms of Trump, Gaza and trans rights coverage, and had ‘a lot of oxygen in the room’
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
You don't say.
'Robbie Gibb, Theresa May’s former comms chief who was appointed to the BBC’s board by Boris Johnson’, "led the charge" in pressuring the corporation’s leadership over claims of systemic bias in coverage of Donald Trump, Gaza & transgender rights.'
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
'Robbie Gibb, Theresa May’s former comms chief who was appointed to the BBC’s board by Boris Johnson’, "led the charge" in pressuring the corporation’s leadership over claims of systemic bias in coverage of Donald Trump, Gaza & transgender rights.'
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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Farage has always been Trump's bitch on heat.
November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Farage has always been Trump's bitch on heat.
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The BBC crisis didn’t come out of nowhere… youtu.be/23_OLmRHjwQ?...
Ros Atkins on... why the BBC's crisis didn't come out of nowhere | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The BBC crisis didn’t come out of nowhere… youtu.be/23_OLmRHjwQ?...
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Not a surprise - just took them 10 months to think of it.
Open Records Advocates Alarmed as DHS Abandons Text Archiving Software | Truthout truthout.org/articles/ope...
Open Records Advocates Alarmed as DHS Abandons Text Archiving Software | Truthout truthout.org/articles/ope...
Open Records Advocates Alarmed as DHS Abandons Text Archiving Software for Manual Screenshots
Relying on agents to archive their own messages via screenshots has the potential for error and abuse, experts say.
truthout.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Not a surprise - just took them 10 months to think of it.
Open Records Advocates Alarmed as DHS Abandons Text Archiving Software | Truthout truthout.org/articles/ope...
Open Records Advocates Alarmed as DHS Abandons Text Archiving Software | Truthout truthout.org/articles/ope...
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Long, detailed interview by Ash Sakar with investigative journalist Paul Holden on the dark secrets behind Starmer’s rise to power and his increasingly disastrous premiership
youtu.be/F-0lefCBeNE?...
youtu.be/F-0lefCBeNE?...
The Dark Truth About Starmer’s Rise to Power | Ash Sarkar Meets Paul Holden
YouTube video by Novara Media
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Long, detailed interview by Ash Sakar with investigative journalist Paul Holden on the dark secrets behind Starmer’s rise to power and his increasingly disastrous premiership
youtu.be/F-0lefCBeNE?...
youtu.be/F-0lefCBeNE?...
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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We've reached a pivotal moment in our history when we either defend the institutions that underpin our democratic values, or undermine them in an attempt to appease those who can NEVER be appeased by anything other than total capitulation to their worldview, be they domestic or foreign.
#c4news
#c4news
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
We've reached a pivotal moment in our history when we either defend the institutions that underpin our democratic values, or undermine them in an attempt to appease those who can NEVER be appeased by anything other than total capitulation to their worldview, be they domestic or foreign.
#c4news
#c4news
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You might have thought Question Time was biased.
But you never realised how much.
UKIP never even had a single MP.
But you never realised how much.
UKIP never even had a single MP.
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
You might have thought Question Time was biased.
But you never realised how much.
UKIP never even had a single MP.
But you never realised how much.
UKIP never even had a single MP.
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‘The BBC is punished for the wrong things. It loses its leaders over an editing error, while escaping accountability for its editorial failures on Gaza.’
BBC Trump row: Pro-Israel bias over Gaza is the real scandal
The corporation stands at a crossroads. Down one path lies self-censorship and hollow apologies; down the other lies the public it was built to serve
www.middleeasteye.net
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
‘The BBC is punished for the wrong things. It loses its leaders over an editing error, while escaping accountability for its editorial failures on Gaza.’
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The BBC - for all its flaws - remains the greatest news and broadcasting service in the world.
It is everything Donald Trump and his cabal of nasty little nobodies will never be and we need to defend it.
It is everything Donald Trump and his cabal of nasty little nobodies will never be and we need to defend it.
Donald Trump Slams 'Corrupt' BBC After Tim Davie Resigns Over Bias Row
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald...
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/donald...
Donald Trump Slams 'Corrupt' BBC After Tim Davie Resigns Over Bias Row
The US president said the corporation's behaviour was "a terrible thing for democracy".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The BBC - for all its flaws - remains the greatest news and broadcasting service in the world.
It is everything Donald Trump and his cabal of nasty little nobodies will never be and we need to defend it.
It is everything Donald Trump and his cabal of nasty little nobodies will never be and we need to defend it.
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Every personal attack.
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The right can mock my teeth all it wants – it shows the Greens have struck a nerve | Zack Polanski
As a politician, I expect opposition and debate. But when it centres on personal insults, not policies, something else is going on, says the leader of the Green party, Zack Polanski
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Every personal attack.
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Hey @schumer.senate.gov, a 'promise' from Republicans? WTAF? Are you a child? Even you can't be that naïve. Don't you dare do your kabuki theater with hundreds of millions of lives hanging in the balance.
If you can't play hardball, resign. Immediately.
If you can't play hardball, resign. Immediately.
November 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Hey @schumer.senate.gov, a 'promise' from Republicans? WTAF? Are you a child? Even you can't be that naïve. Don't you dare do your kabuki theater with hundreds of millions of lives hanging in the balance.
If you can't play hardball, resign. Immediately.
If you can't play hardball, resign. Immediately.
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The BBC isn't perfect, but it belongs to Britain not Trump.
Political leaders across the UK must unite in defending its independence from the White House.
Political leaders across the UK must unite in defending its independence from the White House.
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The BBC isn't perfect, but it belongs to Britain not Trump.
Political leaders across the UK must unite in defending its independence from the White House.
Political leaders across the UK must unite in defending its independence from the White House.
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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You can be assured that tendentious memo by Michael Prescott, and the co-ordinated combination of the Telegraph, Mail, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the White House means that the BBC hit job has been long in the planning, and has some insider help
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
You can be assured that tendentious memo by Michael Prescott, and the co-ordinated combination of the Telegraph, Mail, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the White House means that the BBC hit job has been long in the planning, and has some insider help
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When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”.
Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
The BBC’s Attempts to Appease the 'Right-Wing Coup' Against It Are Now Seeding Its Own Destruction
By attempting to appease those forces seeking to destroy them, the BBC has helped trigger a crisis that now threatens its very future, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
When Boris Johnson was Prime Minister one of his senior advisers confided to me that one of the only things in politics his boss actually cared about was “killing off the BBC”.
Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...
Five years on, and it is a campaign that appears to be finally coming to fruition.
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/t...