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What are we doing here folks?
Russia defends guy they insist is not their guy
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
Putin Defends Witkoff Against Accusations of Pro-Russia Bias
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
What are we doing here folks?
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Morning all.
Photographer Robin Weaver, Portland Street, Pill, Newport, South Wales, 1974.
Photographer Robin Weaver, Portland Street, Pill, Newport, South Wales, 1974.
November 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Morning all.
Photographer Robin Weaver, Portland Street, Pill, Newport, South Wales, 1974.
Photographer Robin Weaver, Portland Street, Pill, Newport, South Wales, 1974.
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There are plenty of great Hugh Masekela albums out there, of course, but I think my favourite is the one which features a song by his ex-wife Miriam Makeba and another by the president of Guinea.
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November 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
There are plenty of great Hugh Masekela albums out there, of course, but I think my favourite is the one which features a song by his ex-wife Miriam Makeba and another by the president of Guinea.
www.patreon.com/posts/brief-...
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The Covid Inquiry finds that if Boris Johnson had called the first lockdown even one week earlier then it could have saved at least 20,000 lives.
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The Covid Inquiry finds that if Boris Johnson had called the first lockdown even one week earlier then it could have saved at least 20,000 lives.
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
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I just found the work of jamesapearson.bsky.social on Instagram. As an autistic person whose brain can completely freeze-grind to an absolute halt so I can’t work and can barely move, this small poem of his has really helped me today Thankyou so much James 🌿:
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I just found the work of jamesapearson.bsky.social on Instagram. As an autistic person whose brain can completely freeze-grind to an absolute halt so I can’t work and can barely move, this small poem of his has really helped me today Thankyou so much James 🌿:
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This is always a danger when authoritarians come under pressure: that they respond either by ramping up the assault on their enemies, to distract attention, or by seizing more power, to fortify their position.
Really unnerving point from Nicole Hemmer, historian of the right: Trump's Epstein fiasco could drive MAGA to push him to go even fuller authoritarian, because the whole project is now in such serious doubt. She's so good on MAGA's future.
Check out this exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
Check out this exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This is always a danger when authoritarians come under pressure: that they respond either by ramping up the assault on their enemies, to distract attention, or by seizing more power, to fortify their position.
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"Nuremberg defendants were surprisingly normal, opportunists who, as he put it in a 1946 lecture, 'exist in every country of the world, who would willingly climb over the corpses of half of the … public if they could gain control of the other half.'”
What's real & not in the new Nuremberg movie:
What's real & not in the new Nuremberg movie:
The Psychiatrist Who Studied Nazi Officials After the War Found Something Shocking. It Didn’t Earn Him Any Fans.
Understanding the minds of monsters is no easy task.
slate.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
"Nuremberg defendants were surprisingly normal, opportunists who, as he put it in a 1946 lecture, 'exist in every country of the world, who would willingly climb over the corpses of half of the … public if they could gain control of the other half.'”
What's real & not in the new Nuremberg movie:
What's real & not in the new Nuremberg movie:
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I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
November 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I cannot begin to properly articulate how upsetting it is to have had people baselessly accuse trans people of being groomers and pedophiles only for it to come out that they were deliberately doing this as part of a project to provide cover to actual groomers and pedophiles in positions of power
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About half of what it was going to cost to fully fund SNAP in November during the shutdown.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
About half of what it was going to cost to fully fund SNAP in November during the shutdown.
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Back in #Liverpool for the closing weekend of the #Firehawks exhibition at Open Eye Gallery
The powerful images from photographer Stephen King capture the trauma that can sit behind child #firesetting behaviour
How #fire draws attention to pain and harm too big and frightening for words to explain
The powerful images from photographer Stephen King capture the trauma that can sit behind child #firesetting behaviour
How #fire draws attention to pain and harm too big and frightening for words to explain
November 13, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Back in #Liverpool for the closing weekend of the #Firehawks exhibition at Open Eye Gallery
The powerful images from photographer Stephen King capture the trauma that can sit behind child #firesetting behaviour
How #fire draws attention to pain and harm too big and frightening for words to explain
The powerful images from photographer Stephen King capture the trauma that can sit behind child #firesetting behaviour
How #fire draws attention to pain and harm too big and frightening for words to explain
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I think I must have previously misunderstood the meaning of “wicker”.
November 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I think I must have previously misunderstood the meaning of “wicker”.
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Here's my argument with Sir Bernard Jenkin MP about the report showing how the racist intimidation of Black and Brown NHS workers on home visits has been exacerbated by the far right's wall of flags.
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Here's my argument with Sir Bernard Jenkin MP about the report showing how the racist intimidation of Black and Brown NHS workers on home visits has been exacerbated by the far right's wall of flags.
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The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.
-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem
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It is incredible — the blind spots you develop when you’ve never, ever been poor.
Trump claims that food stamps "puts the country in jeopardy. People that are able-bodied can do a job, they leave their job because they figure they can pick this up, it's easier."
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
It is incredible — the blind spots you develop when you’ve never, ever been poor.
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
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I reckon a reasonable test of someone’s patriotism might be if they want to see the end of an historic national institution that is trusted and respected worldwide because they don’t like everything that institution does.
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I reckon a reasonable test of someone’s patriotism might be if they want to see the end of an historic national institution that is trusted and respected worldwide because they don’t like everything that institution does.
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Absolutely right. I criticise BBC News, because we need it to be as good as we know it can be. People like Farage criticise the BBC, because they work for its competitors and don't want it to exist.
🎯 Davey is spot on. "We can have criticism of the BBC, but within that, we need to recognise how valuable an institution it is [and how] precious to our country. And that's one of the reasons why people like President Trump and Nigel Farage, want to undermine the BBC." 👏🏽~AA
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Absolutely right. I criticise BBC News, because we need it to be as good as we know it can be. People like Farage criticise the BBC, because they work for its competitors and don't want it to exist.
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This analysis explains Labour’s approach too. Ageing white men must be placated at all costs in all circumstances.
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This analysis explains Labour’s approach too. Ageing white men must be placated at all costs in all circumstances.
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Memorial to Black US Soldiers Who Died in WW2 Quietly Removed
Source: Newsweek
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Source: Newsweek
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Memorial to Black US Soldiers Who Died in WW2 Quietly Removed - NewsBreak
The panels, only displayed last year, were taken down earlier this summer, the Black Liberators told Newsweek.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Memorial to Black US Soldiers Who Died in WW2 Quietly Removed
Source: Newsweek
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Source: Newsweek
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In 1996 I did a little in internship at BBC Westminster. At the time, Robbie Gibb was one of the producers there. Even in that period, he was self evidently a pro-Tory apparatchik, who made no attempt to hide his agenda from his colleagues or even from the little work experience kid.
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 AM
In 1996 I did a little in internship at BBC Westminster. At the time, Robbie Gibb was one of the producers there. Even in that period, he was self evidently a pro-Tory apparatchik, who made no attempt to hide his agenda from his colleagues or even from the little work experience kid.
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Who’s tired? You’re tired
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Who’s tired? You’re tired
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.