Paul Tommo
@paultommo99.bsky.social
Wanting a better world for my daughter.
Loather of Tories and other assorted right-wing nonsense.
Manchester United ⚽️ + Pittsburgh Steelers 🏈
Loather of Tories and other assorted right-wing nonsense.
Manchester United ⚽️ + Pittsburgh Steelers 🏈
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Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied
The problem with this ‘let’s weaken our commitment to the ECHR so as to fend off Farage’ plan is that when it doesn’t work, we end up with Farage *and* a weakened commitment to the ECHR at exactly the moment we need the ECHR the most.
June 19, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied
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The fascist Felon's abuse of power is simply an attempt to exert control, incite violence, stoke fear & keep us from fighting against ICE for their unlawful, shameful, violent acts.
Keep exercising your right to protest, and THANK YOU‼️🙏🏻🫡✊🏻💙
#SolidarityWithLA
#HandsOffOurImmigrants
#TrumpIsATerrorist
Keep exercising your right to protest, and THANK YOU‼️🙏🏻🫡✊🏻💙
#SolidarityWithLA
#HandsOffOurImmigrants
#TrumpIsATerrorist
June 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The fascist Felon's abuse of power is simply an attempt to exert control, incite violence, stoke fear & keep us from fighting against ICE for their unlawful, shameful, violent acts.
Keep exercising your right to protest, and THANK YOU‼️🙏🏻🫡✊🏻💙
#SolidarityWithLA
#HandsOffOurImmigrants
#TrumpIsATerrorist
Keep exercising your right to protest, and THANK YOU‼️🙏🏻🫡✊🏻💙
#SolidarityWithLA
#HandsOffOurImmigrants
#TrumpIsATerrorist
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🔴Keir Starmer's Enoch Powell Moment? Live with Byline Supplement
A recording from Byline Supplement's live video chat with Byline Times Political Editor Adam Bienkov and Byline Podcast host Adrian Goldberg
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/keir-starm...
A recording from Byline Supplement's live video chat with Byline Times Political Editor Adam Bienkov and Byline Podcast host Adrian Goldberg
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/keir-starm...
Keir Starmer's Enoch Powell Moment? Live with Byline Supplement
A recording from Byline Supplement's live video chat with Byline Times Political Editor Adam Bienkov and Byline Podcast host Adrian Goldberg
www.bylinesupplement.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
🔴Keir Starmer's Enoch Powell Moment? Live with Byline Supplement
A recording from Byline Supplement's live video chat with Byline Times Political Editor Adam Bienkov and Byline Podcast host Adrian Goldberg
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/keir-starm...
A recording from Byline Supplement's live video chat with Byline Times Political Editor Adam Bienkov and Byline Podcast host Adrian Goldberg
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/keir-starm...
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🔴‘Keir Starmer’s Attempt to Out-Farage Reform on Migration Will Only End Badly’
The Prime Minister’s ‘unutterably depressing’ decision to follow Nigel Farage into the gutter of inflammatory anti-migrant rhetoric is a terrible error, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/13/k...
The Prime Minister’s ‘unutterably depressing’ decision to follow Nigel Farage into the gutter of inflammatory anti-migrant rhetoric is a terrible error, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/13/k...
'Keir Starmer's Attempt to Out-Farage Reform on Migration Will Only End Badly'
The Prime Minister's 'unutterably depressing' decision to follow Nigel Farage into the gutter of inflammatory anti-migrant rhetoric is a terrible error, argues former UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
bylinetimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
🔴‘Keir Starmer’s Attempt to Out-Farage Reform on Migration Will Only End Badly’
The Prime Minister’s ‘unutterably depressing’ decision to follow Nigel Farage into the gutter of inflammatory anti-migrant rhetoric is a terrible error, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/13/k...
The Prime Minister’s ‘unutterably depressing’ decision to follow Nigel Farage into the gutter of inflammatory anti-migrant rhetoric is a terrible error, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/13/k...
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I hope you’re not waiting for some clever defence of Starmer’s speech. As you know, I try to be fair and have praised him on foreign policy. I don’t think the White Paper is terrible, but ALL of the language surrounding it is inexcusable, insupportable, and indefensible. He can kiss my migrant butt.
May 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I hope you’re not waiting for some clever defence of Starmer’s speech. As you know, I try to be fair and have praised him on foreign policy. I don’t think the White Paper is terrible, but ALL of the language surrounding it is inexcusable, insupportable, and indefensible. He can kiss my migrant butt.
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Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around.
They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway.
It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway.
It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
May 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around.
They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway.
It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway.
It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
Mini twister just hit Cloudwater brewery in Manchester and sucked part of the roof off!
Beer still being served so no need to panic 👍
Beer still being served so no need to panic 👍
May 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Mini twister just hit Cloudwater brewery in Manchester and sucked part of the roof off!
Beer still being served so no need to panic 👍
Beer still being served so no need to panic 👍
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I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
April 15, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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The US government has frozen more than $2.2bn (£1.67bn) in funding for Harvard university after it defied demands made by the Trump administration to curb protests on campus
news.sky.com/story/harvar...
news.sky.com/story/harvar...
Harvard loses more than $2.2bn in government funds as it defies Trump
The Trump administration has warned the university to comply if it wants to "maintain Harvard's financial relationship with the federal government".
news.sky.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:51 AM
The US government has frozen more than $2.2bn (£1.67bn) in funding for Harvard university after it defied demands made by the Trump administration to curb protests on campus
news.sky.com/story/harvar...
news.sky.com/story/harvar...
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Trump blames Zelensky for starting war after the massive Russian attack on Sumy.
Trump is a traitor working for or collaborating with Putin. Farage is their frog-faced tool.
Fight Fascism #Vote4Democracy in the local elections.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump is a traitor working for or collaborating with Putin. Farage is their frog-faced tool.
Fight Fascism #Vote4Democracy in the local elections.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump blames Zelensky for starting war day after massive Russian attack
The US president said that you "don't start a war against someone 20 times your size" and hope people give you missiles.
www.bbc.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Trump blames Zelensky for starting war after the massive Russian attack on Sumy.
Trump is a traitor working for or collaborating with Putin. Farage is their frog-faced tool.
Fight Fascism #Vote4Democracy in the local elections.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump is a traitor working for or collaborating with Putin. Farage is their frog-faced tool.
Fight Fascism #Vote4Democracy in the local elections.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Heard this gem from @joshuaidehen.bsky.social a couple of days ago and it's been on repeat ever since. Also check out Mum Does The Washing.
open.spotify.com/track/2sTyYi...
open.spotify.com/track/2sTyYi...
Learn To Swim Part II
Joshua Idehen · Learn To Swim, A Mixtape · Song · 2023
open.spotify.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Heard this gem from @joshuaidehen.bsky.social a couple of days ago and it's been on repeat ever since. Also check out Mum Does The Washing.
open.spotify.com/track/2sTyYi...
open.spotify.com/track/2sTyYi...
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Britain's wrongest man rides again.
April 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Britain's wrongest man rides again.
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The Seahawks are trading WR DK Metcalf to the Steelers for premium draft pick compensation, per me and @tompelissero.bsky.social, as finally(!) Pittsburgh gets its big-play weapon.
Metcalf will also get a contract extension to go with the trade.
The Seahawks are trading WR DK Metcalf to the Steelers for premium draft pick compensation, per me and @tompelissero.bsky.social, as finally(!) Pittsburgh gets its big-play weapon.
Metcalf will also get a contract extension to go with the trade.
March 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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The Seahawks are trading WR DK Metcalf to the Steelers for premium draft pick compensation, per me and @tompelissero.bsky.social, as finally(!) Pittsburgh gets its big-play weapon.
Metcalf will also get a contract extension to go with the trade.
The Seahawks are trading WR DK Metcalf to the Steelers for premium draft pick compensation, per me and @tompelissero.bsky.social, as finally(!) Pittsburgh gets its big-play weapon.
Metcalf will also get a contract extension to go with the trade.
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This is outrageous. I'm sharing in the hope Becky's case is looked, and that someone can help her.
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
March 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
This is outrageous. I'm sharing in the hope Becky's case is looked, and that someone can help her.
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This should be a chilling warning for the rest of Europe. If the US can help Putin kill Ukrainians today, the US can help Putin kill lots of other Europeans tomorrow.
March 7, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This should be a chilling warning for the rest of Europe. If the US can help Putin kill Ukrainians today, the US can help Putin kill lots of other Europeans tomorrow.
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Reform UK have won 0 out of the 6 council by-elections declared from yesterday’s vote.
That means they’ve won just 12 seats from 213 council by-elections since the General Election.
#ReformTrain #ReformDerailed
That means they’ve won just 12 seats from 213 council by-elections since the General Election.
#ReformTrain #ReformDerailed
March 7, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Reform UK have won 0 out of the 6 council by-elections declared from yesterday’s vote.
That means they’ve won just 12 seats from 213 council by-elections since the General Election.
#ReformTrain #ReformDerailed
That means they’ve won just 12 seats from 213 council by-elections since the General Election.
#ReformTrain #ReformDerailed
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WIRED also happened to learn just how much some of the bros inside Elon Musk's DOGE are making (six-figure taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.)
Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries
Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.
www.wired.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
WIRED also happened to learn just how much some of the bros inside Elon Musk's DOGE are making (six-figure taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.)
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Judge a woman by the company they keep.
March 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Judge a woman by the company they keep.