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Andrew Donaldson
@adonaldson.bsky.social
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Starmer's Britain.

Not even subtle.
They found ourselves made strangers in their own country. Enoch Powell. We risk becoming an island of strangers. Keir Starmer.
May 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social
The step-up in anti-migrant rhetoric from the government is shameful and dangerous.

Migrants are our neighbours, friends and family.

To suggest that Britain risks becoming “an island of strangers” because of immigration mimics the scaremongering of the far-right.
May 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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thomashansen.bsky.social
The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:

Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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natashadevon.bsky.social
Wrote for @theipaper.com about how people from backgrounds involving wealth & privilege most of us can only dream of have become the self-appointed gatekeepers of ‘working class values’ and I’ve HAD ENOUGH - inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...
I regret not calling myself working class
We emerged with posher accents and a belief we would automatically out-perform our parents financially (which never quite panned out). The working-class label didn’t quite seem to fit
inews.co.uk
March 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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rgarner.bsky.social
I have seen many explanations of why rewriting legacy systems is a bad idea, but they have all been threads. This is succinct: attempt it and a headless king will chase you into a ravine
radiobeartime.com Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · Mar 29
I see tech people posting explanations about why the DOGGERS attempt to rewrite the US social security system is doomed.

The actual reason is simple.

Any system that old will be haunted by a million ghosts.

Those who do not understand the hauntology of business are damned.
March 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
adonaldson.bsky.social
First they came for the judges and I said woah now let’s leave the judges alone www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Top US Supreme Court justice rebukes Trump's call to impeach judge
Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare statement after Trump called for a judge that halted his deportations to be impeached.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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poliakova.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
adonaldson.bsky.social
I wonder if targeting the UKs military history is the way the unwoke become woke
March 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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stevepeers.bsky.social
The UK and France were the main countries suggesting sending troops, so obviously he was referring to them. The main purpose of authoritarian lies/gaslighting is to see which grovellers remain loyal to the authoritarian despite the gaslighting. I see that Badenoch is in the ranks of the grovellers.
nutedawn.bsky.social The Nute After Christmas @nutedawn.bsky.social · Mar 4
Good test of self-respect here in seeing which Brits pretend to believe him
March 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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edzitron.com
I can't stop laughing at this man I'm sorry. This is the kind of shit the biggest loser in the world would say to their girlfriend about buying her flowers on Valentine's Day once, and he's doing so in an argument that started because he called her a bitch
Tweet: "Have you said thank you once?" -@VP JD Vance - pic of jd Vance looking oddly symmetrical. Why are his pants so tight?
March 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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ericlipton.nytimes.com
The White House has designated Mr. Musk’s office, United States DOGE Service, as an entity insulated from public records requests or most judicial intervention until at least 2034 (Important reporting here by NYT Minho Kim)

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/u...
Trump’s Declaration Allows Musk’s Efficiency Team to Skirt Open Records Laws (Gift Article)
Government watchdog groups say they will challenge the Trump administration’s decision to put the initiative under the Presidential Records Act, which shields its work from public disclosure.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
this is correct (strap in it’s also long)
tweet from Jason Hickel @jasonhickel All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point. Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it. It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this. tweet from @jasonhickel continued: But these are all just symptoms. The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned. Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even basic steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future. tweet from @jasonhickel continued: Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment. At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development. The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital. tweet from @jasonhickel continued: And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism. They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative.
November 7, 2024 at 6:21 AM
adonaldson.bsky.social
Boring but pretty morning if you like that sort of thing youtu.be/-xjK2_wzBc4?...

I’m thinking a bike mounted mic to get general quiet outdoors that’d be nice too…
Frosty morning cycle
YouTube video by dies-el
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February 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
adonaldson.bsky.social
Britons need something to work for because it seems whether you work hard or not everything is a bit shite www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Britons need better work ethic, says senior Tory MP Chris Philp
The shadow home secretary says the UK is in a global race and everyone needs to make a contribution.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 31, 2025 at 7:45 AM
adonaldson.bsky.social
Hey can we stop putting journalists onto Air Force One please. Folk are just shooting the shit with Trump and turning his rambles/reckons into dozens of articles (hi BBC).
January 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
adonaldson.bsky.social
Trump just goes on TV and rambles. He says shocking things then moves into another topic, rinse repeat. The result? You read the news and it’s 20+ articles of Trump talking points, with experts assigned to respond to each. Too much airtime…
January 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
adonaldson.bsky.social
I don’t use this much but when I do, hoo boy, it’ll be wild
January 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM