Magic Money Tree
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Maxing out credit cards and neglecting roofs
Pinned
As is Steven Pinker
Anyway, some good people to follow re the race science bros and their networks
@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social
@dialecticbio.bsky.social
@pinkerite.com
@rasmansa.bsky.social
@highcountryrose.bsky.social
@kareemcarr.bsky.social
@whstancil.bsky.social
@aurelmondon.bsky.social
@sashagusevposts.bsky.social
@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social
@dialecticbio.bsky.social
@pinkerite.com
@rasmansa.bsky.social
@highcountryrose.bsky.social
@kareemcarr.bsky.social
@whstancil.bsky.social
@aurelmondon.bsky.social
@sashagusevposts.bsky.social
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I decided to go ahead and make a starter pack of historians, scientists, and others who work on scientific racism. If you’d like to be added to the pack (or removed from it), let me know.
go.bsky.app/E9PN3oG
go.bsky.app/E9PN3oG
November 6, 2024 at 9:57 PM
I decided to go ahead and make a starter pack of historians, scientists, and others who work on scientific racism. If you’d like to be added to the pack (or removed from it), let me know.
go.bsky.app/E9PN3oG
go.bsky.app/E9PN3oG
Still, I think we all needed a Brass Eye-esque 'This is the one thing we didn't want to happen' moment in British politics in the run-up to Christmas
I once legged it from my desk in a previous job because I accidentally sent a half-finished email to a client. Whoever at the OBR accidentally published their analysis of the budget before the budget has even happened must have imploded into some sort of neutron star
November 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Still, I think we all needed a Brass Eye-esque 'This is the one thing we didn't want to happen' moment in British politics in the run-up to Christmas
I once legged it from my desk in a previous job because I accidentally sent a half-finished email to a client. Whoever at the OBR accidentally published their analysis of the budget before the budget has even happened must have imploded into some sort of neutron star
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I once legged it from my desk in a previous job because I accidentally sent a half-finished email to a client. Whoever at the OBR accidentally published their analysis of the budget before the budget has even happened must have imploded into some sort of neutron star
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Incidentally to the leak, a remarkably dull set of measures compared to all the pre-budget excitable briefings, once again illustrating the strategic vacuum at the heart of this government.
BREAKING The entire Budget has leaked early
- £22BN of headroom
- £26bn tax rises
- Freeze on tax thresholds
- Pay per mileage confirmed
- Changes to capital gains
- £22BN of headroom
- £26bn tax rises
- Freeze on tax thresholds
- Pay per mileage confirmed
- Changes to capital gains
November 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Incidentally to the leak, a remarkably dull set of measures compared to all the pre-budget excitable briefings, once again illustrating the strategic vacuum at the heart of this government.
And remember, the Labour right still think Miliband's way too much of a hippy when it comes to climate change www.energylivenews.com/2025/11/26/d...
November 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
And remember, the Labour right still think Miliband's way too much of a hippy when it comes to climate change www.energylivenews.com/2025/11/26/d...
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Honestly, I think some centre-left criticisms of Green policy are fair. But if Labour keeps alienating its natural supporters the Greens will become more viable, more progressive policy experts could start gravitating towards them, and their policy offer could gradually become more compelling.
tbh Polanski seems to have avoided most of the big MMT heffalump traps (allowing that "inflation doesn't go higher" was a misspeak), I'm relatively impressed at whoever's advising him.
November 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Honestly, I think some centre-left criticisms of Green policy are fair. But if Labour keeps alienating its natural supporters the Greens will become more viable, more progressive policy experts could start gravitating towards them, and their policy offer could gradually become more compelling.
My abiding memory of the last 7-8 years of Twitter is the Labour right's outriders (if you know them you know them) reposting UnHerd articles, joking about with Spectator writers, and sneering with incredulity at the idea of structural racism. Fundamentally, they're right wing
This is performance art. It's political discourse improv. It's like watching Jim Ross and Jerry "The King" Lawler acting shocked that a wrestler would distract the referee
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
My abiding memory of the last 7-8 years of Twitter is the Labour right's outriders (if you know them you know them) reposting UnHerd articles, joking about with Spectator writers, and sneering with incredulity at the idea of structural racism. Fundamentally, they're right wing
This is performance art. It's political discourse improv. It's like watching Jim Ross and Jerry "The King" Lawler acting shocked that a wrestler would distract the referee
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This is performance art. It's political discourse improv. It's like watching Jim Ross and Jerry "The King" Lawler acting shocked that a wrestler would distract the referee
Michael Gove, a man who's happy to have a boss like this: hopenothate.org.uk/2024/02/22/r...
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Michael Gove, a man who's happy to have a boss like this: hopenothate.org.uk/2024/02/22/r...
Are the government going after foreign students so they can say "Big number go down", are they trying to destroy what are essentially some of the only left wing think tanks in the country, or is it just general stupidity and malice?
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Are the government going after foreign students so they can say "Big number go down", are they trying to destroy what are essentially some of the only left wing think tanks in the country, or is it just general stupidity and malice?
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Still thinking about how our sycophantic media political class was falling over themselves to copy "DOGE" this year, even though it was already well known this guy was a white supremacist.
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Still thinking about how our sycophantic media political class was falling over themselves to copy "DOGE" this year, even though it was already well known this guy was a white supremacist.
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UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
I assume this is the same Wes Yang who JK Rowling (amongst others) is mates with
November 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I assume this is the same Wes Yang who JK Rowling (amongst others) is mates with
Another mask off. Fucking hell
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Another mask off. Fucking hell
What a trailblazer
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
What a trailblazer
From a mate. Incredible scenes
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
From a mate. Incredible scenes
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I know it's asking a lot for journalists to be educated about what fascism is on an ideological and philosophical level, but this kind of thing is *unambiguously* fascism.
Reform are so dangerous and this headline doesn’t do it justice. I also think a piece like this should start with the politician‘s core views just to emphasise the urgency.
November 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I know it's asking a lot for journalists to be educated about what fascism is on an ideological and philosophical level, but this kind of thing is *unambiguously* fascism.
Although this article isn't taking a "What did you do to make them say that?" approach to racism (unlike so many others over recent years), there's still a flawed framework that sees it as a weakening of defences rather than a strengthening of attacks: theconversation.com/is-racism-be...
Is racism becoming more acceptable in the UK?
Anti-migrant protests are helping challenge ideas about the acceptability of prejudice.
theconversation.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Although this article isn't taking a "What did you do to make them say that?" approach to racism (unlike so many others over recent years), there's still a flawed framework that sees it as a weakening of defences rather than a strengthening of attacks: theconversation.com/is-racism-be...
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For people who leave their nerdy public sector reform long-reads to the weeekend… 👇👀
Are legacy mentalities from comms, political strategy and trad policy dragging government down?
Are legacy mentalities from comms, political strategy and trad policy dragging government down?
Are a small number of legacy disciplines dragging the whole of government down? A provocation:
medium.com/@jamestplunk...
Government seems increasingly unable to cope with the pace and complexity of today's world. Why? 1/n
medium.com/@jamestplunk...
Government seems increasingly unable to cope with the pace and complexity of today's world. Why? 1/n
The disciplines theory of government
Are legacy disciplines dragging the whole operation down?
medium.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
For people who leave their nerdy public sector reform long-reads to the weeekend… 👇👀
Are legacy mentalities from comms, political strategy and trad policy dragging government down?
Are legacy mentalities from comms, political strategy and trad policy dragging government down?
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New on Pinkerite:
The Boot Boys versus Pinkerite ~ is Jerry Coyne deliberately obtuse? Is Steven Pinker really a racist?
www.pinkerite.com/2025/11/why-...
The Boot Boys versus Pinkerite ~ is Jerry Coyne deliberately obtuse? Is Steven Pinker really a racist?
www.pinkerite.com/2025/11/why-...
The Boot Boys versus Pinkerite ~ is Jerry Coyne deliberately obtuse? Is Steven Pinker really a racist?
One of the "Boot Boys" displays his value as an alpha male. ---------------------------------------- Almost a year ago I was called "tenaci...
www.pinkerite.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
New on Pinkerite:
The Boot Boys versus Pinkerite ~ is Jerry Coyne deliberately obtuse? Is Steven Pinker really a racist?
www.pinkerite.com/2025/11/why-...
The Boot Boys versus Pinkerite ~ is Jerry Coyne deliberately obtuse? Is Steven Pinker really a racist?
www.pinkerite.com/2025/11/why-...
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As Maya Goodfellow shows in "Hostile Environment", this is a recurring theme in the political discourse on immigration. Racism is framed as a regrettable but natural response to a number of migrants arbitrarily deemed to be excessive, rather than a socially constructed and contestible subjectivity.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood made more explicit her argument that when ethnic minorities face racism, "we have no choice but to ask: what is the cause of our division"
Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)
Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
As Maya Goodfellow shows in "Hostile Environment", this is a recurring theme in the political discourse on immigration. Racism is framed as a regrettable but natural response to a number of migrants arbitrarily deemed to be excessive, rather than a socially constructed and contestible subjectivity.
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We're nowhere near the worst of it; it continues to accelerate, with little-to-no pushback from those in positions of moral and political authority. White's comments, the state's anti-migrant actions and the fascists that rampaged through London streets are individual expressions of a broader trend
Lucy White advocates a ban on "non-natives" from office, citing Rishi Sunak and Priti Patel.
So she is referring to UK-born ethnic minority citizens. (Her argument would apply equally to Shabana Mahmood, Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman and others)
Lucy White continues to be a GB News regular
So she is referring to UK-born ethnic minority citizens. (Her argument would apply equally to Shabana Mahmood, Kemi Badenoch, Suella Braverman and others)
Lucy White continues to be a GB News regular
November 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
We're nowhere near the worst of it; it continues to accelerate, with little-to-no pushback from those in positions of moral and political authority. White's comments, the state's anti-migrant actions and the fascists that rampaged through London streets are individual expressions of a broader trend
Every time, man
November 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Every time, man