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I still call myself a liberal because socialism doesn't capture the "human rights stem from the individual" of Jesus.
Classes are a useful model but all human reality takes place between individuals.
Classes are a useful model but all human reality takes place between individuals.
You're locked in a room with a king and button that says "Nuke everyone outside the room".
Does your relationship with the king change if you push the button?
Does your relationship with the king change if you push the button?
Bit on the nose.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Bit on the nose.
Probably the equivalent of losing 7-0 to a top team in terms of Amorim's job prospects.
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Probably the equivalent of losing 7-0 to a top team in terms of Amorim's job prospects.
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The left needs to talk about England
England for the English?
After the “summer of flags”, Labour needs a long-overdue conversation about England.
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The left needs to talk about England
Psychedelics are great but Sinema is bad, so you can bet bluesky's anti-AI tribe will be unanimously against this. Losers gonna lose.
“‘We are in this magical, unique time,’ Sinema said of Trump’s health department, led by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”
Kyrsten Sinema Is Ready for Her MAHA Turn
In a new interview, the one-time Democrat says the movement for psychedelic medicine should capitalize on the Trump administration.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Psychedelics are great but Sinema is bad, so you can bet bluesky's anti-AI tribe will be unanimously against this. Losers gonna lose.
Imagine the productivity gains, and improvement to quality of life, from totally free public transport for everyone.
If this is the One Big Idea then we’re even more fucked than I thought we were. Rail fares are extortionate - travel costs need to be massively reduced, not simply frozen at already too-high amounts
UK government freezes rail fares for a year www.gov.uk/government/n...
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Imagine the productivity gains, and improvement to quality of life, from totally free public transport for everyone.
Smart liberals are pragmatically adopting socialism until a new equilibrium is found.
Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Smart liberals are pragmatically adopting socialism until a new equilibrium is found.
They giving away dollars for 88 cents.
November 22, 2025 at 12:57 AM
They giving away dollars for 88 cents.
Obvious solution to all this is for everyone to agree that transsexuals have changed sex and transgenders are waiting to.
Then make the process as fast and high quality as possible.
Then make the process as fast and high quality as possible.
3/ “For example, it is envisaged that the provision would allow a
suitably qualified male to female transsexual to be able to take up employment in a single sex women's hospital. They could themselves be treated as a comparator by a male applicant.”
This shows, quite bluntly, the EHRC is wrong.
suitably qualified male to female transsexual to be able to take up employment in a single sex women's hospital. They could themselves be treated as a comparator by a male applicant.”
This shows, quite bluntly, the EHRC is wrong.
November 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Obvious solution to all this is for everyone to agree that transsexuals have changed sex and transgenders are waiting to.
Then make the process as fast and high quality as possible.
Then make the process as fast and high quality as possible.
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
You're locked in a room with a king and button that says "Nuke everyone outside the room".
Does your relationship with the king change if you push the button?
Does your relationship with the king change if you push the button?
I still call myself a liberal because socialism doesn't capture the "human rights stem from the individual" of Jesus.
Classes are a useful model but all human reality takes place between individuals.
Classes are a useful model but all human reality takes place between individuals.
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
You're locked in a room with a king and button that says "Nuke everyone outside the room".
Does your relationship with the king change if you push the button?
Does your relationship with the king change if you push the button?
I keep thinking about the observation someone made a couple of weeks ago that politicians are not the same kind of people as us. They aren't informed about politics.
Worst time for it.
Worst time for it.
Does seem like.
It's like a lot of modern politics, where you have a well funded group of virulent conservatives dedicated to attacking society, and unengaged politicians hoping to end the fuss by meeting them halfway.
It's like a lot of modern politics, where you have a well funded group of virulent conservatives dedicated to attacking society, and unengaged politicians hoping to end the fuss by meeting them halfway.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I keep thinking about the observation someone made a couple of weeks ago that politicians are not the same kind of people as us. They aren't informed about politics.
Worst time for it.
Worst time for it.
Does anyone seriously think a Kamala/Newsom type is going to put in the work to fix everything like this?
You need visionaries who aren't fascist. Build a new society in their own image.
Not the the sort Dems who take advice from Starmer's people. ("Repair nothing, die in flames, ?????, profit")
You need visionaries who aren't fascist. Build a new society in their own image.
Not the the sort Dems who take advice from Starmer's people. ("Repair nothing, die in flames, ?????, profit")
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Does anyone seriously think a Kamala/Newsom type is going to put in the work to fix everything like this?
You need visionaries who aren't fascist. Build a new society in their own image.
Not the the sort Dems who take advice from Starmer's people. ("Repair nothing, die in flames, ?????, profit")
You need visionaries who aren't fascist. Build a new society in their own image.
Not the the sort Dems who take advice from Starmer's people. ("Repair nothing, die in flames, ?????, profit")
Bit of an issue that there's a coherent political bloc you can define as "Unable to think through consequences".
Seems illiberal to say their voice should count less than mine. Conundrum.
Seems illiberal to say their voice should count less than mine. Conundrum.
Love to be an organisation obligated to ban people if I think they're trans, but every time I'm playing Whoopsie that's a cis person roulette, and if I'm wrong I get sued. And there's no reliable way to establish whether I can be sued for banning them or NOT banning them without going to court
November 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Bit of an issue that there's a coherent political bloc you can define as "Unable to think through consequences".
Seems illiberal to say their voice should count less than mine. Conundrum.
Seems illiberal to say their voice should count less than mine. Conundrum.
Starmer will have to resign as PM if SNP wins majority at next year's Holyrood election, John Swinney claims - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
November 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Absolutely remarkable thought process, treating the Holocaust as orthogonal to morality.
Jon Favreau recruited her for Obama.
Jon Favreau recruited her for Obama.
Sharing the video of this because it’s such a ghoulish thing to say that I’m honestly in disbelief that I even heard her properly
November 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Absolutely remarkable thought process, treating the Holocaust as orthogonal to morality.
Jon Favreau recruited her for Obama.
Jon Favreau recruited her for Obama.
This is a declaration of war on Scotland. Immigrants to Scotland become Scottish before they become legally British. The Westminster government would be deporting Scots.
The i Paper is reporting that once the changes are brought in, the 20 year route will be applied to refugees who are already here.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
This is a declaration of war on Scotland. Immigrants to Scotland become Scottish before they become legally British. The Westminster government would be deporting Scots.
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if you give one single shit about ‘securing borders’ you’re either a mark or a racist. nobody with a working brain cares about ‘securing borders’
Asked if Keir Starmer believes British people want to "see refugee children pulled out of school and deported after 10 years in this country”, his spokesman says that “what the British public wants and what this government was elected on a mandate to deliver was to secure our borders"
November 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
if you give one single shit about ‘securing borders’ you’re either a mark or a racist. nobody with a working brain cares about ‘securing borders’
Diva. I noticed this before. Rogers keeps the spot. Tuchel doing everything right so far.
November 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Diva. I noticed this before. Rogers keeps the spot. Tuchel doing everything right so far.
England desperately needs civic nationalism to counter its lazy slide into darkness.
And Scotland needs a stronger leader than Swinney.
theconversation.com/syrian-scott...
And Scotland needs a stronger leader than Swinney.
theconversation.com/syrian-scott...
November 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
England desperately needs civic nationalism to counter its lazy slide into darkness.
And Scotland needs a stronger leader than Swinney.
theconversation.com/syrian-scott...
And Scotland needs a stronger leader than Swinney.
theconversation.com/syrian-scott...
The same policies from a pragmatic liberal, who is simply adapting to the present state, might work.
Looking at this fiasco, and the mess Starmer is making of government, it’s looking more and more like the defeat of Corbynism was about its own limitations rather than the Machiavellian machinations of the Labour right
Three people who’d be expected to be Your Party bigwigs have largely walked away from Corbyn’s project: former NE mayor Jamie Driscoll, former Labour MP Beth Winter, and former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein.
I have some new intel on the fall-out, if you’re interested in that sort of thing… 🧵
I have some new intel on the fall-out, if you’re interested in that sort of thing… 🧵
November 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The same policies from a pragmatic liberal, who is simply adapting to the present state, might work.
You think "That's a good result" and then look up the teamsheet and wonder how they never won anything.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuLK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuLK...
Scotland 3-1 Spain [11-11-1984]
YouTube video by ScotFooty&More
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
You think "That's a good result" and then look up the teamsheet and wonder how they never won anything.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuLK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuLK...
They haven't realised they're a government with a 161 majority who can just do things.
In a feature for @politicshome.bsky.social I’ve explored the debate behind the government’s “difficult tightrope” on immigration policy
Govt insiders believe there’s political space to set out more of a positive case for skilled legal immigration – but even MPs who support this admit it’s "risky"
Govt insiders believe there’s political space to set out more of a positive case for skilled legal immigration – but even MPs who support this admit it’s "risky"
'It's About Earning Consent': Inside The Labour Government's 'Difficult Tightrope' On Immigration
Government insiders believe there is political space to set out a more positive case for legal immigration. But even Labour MPs who support a progr...
www.politicshome.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
They haven't realised they're a government with a 161 majority who can just do things.
I've made money on every Jake Paul fight and every Anthony Joshua fight. (I've lost every fight except one of Dalton Smith and Dennis McCann - some guys are just easier to read.)
Jake has always wanted respect as a warrior, there's been great value in fading the conspiracy. He would love to see r2.
Jake has always wanted respect as a warrior, there's been great value in fading the conspiracy. He would love to see r2.
November 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I've made money on every Jake Paul fight and every Anthony Joshua fight. (I've lost every fight except one of Dalton Smith and Dennis McCann - some guys are just easier to read.)
Jake has always wanted respect as a warrior, there's been great value in fading the conspiracy. He would love to see r2.
Jake has always wanted respect as a warrior, there's been great value in fading the conspiracy. He would love to see r2.
I go on about this.
English ethnic minorities unwittingly side with the far right, by agreeing they can be British but not English.
English ethnic minorities unwittingly side with the far right, by agreeing they can be British but not English.
Most white adults in England who say English identity requires family heritage *don't* mean it in a racial sense (28% do) - most ethnic minority adults with the same view *do* think you have to be white to be English (54-63%)
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I go on about this.
English ethnic minorities unwittingly side with the far right, by agreeing they can be British but not English.
English ethnic minorities unwittingly side with the far right, by agreeing they can be British but not English.
Once Starmer is replaced, Farage will likely be value again.
Status quo bias all over the place these days.
Status quo bias all over the place these days.
Cashed out Farage as next PM.
Starmer's choice to look weak rather than nasty won't help him personally. The PLP being historically knifeless is anchoring the price.
Starmer's choice to look weak rather than nasty won't help him personally. The PLP being historically knifeless is anchoring the price.
Starmer backtracking again … www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...
November 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Once Starmer is replaced, Farage will likely be value again.
Status quo bias all over the place these days.
Status quo bias all over the place these days.