James ball coming out as a transphobic prick

Obvious counterfactual to this is 'what evidence would convince Helen to believe trans people when they talk about this?'

It really feels like everything people have been concerned about for the past seven months in the Middle East may all be coming to a head. The risk of wider, more intense regional war, the possibility of the West Bank in open revolt. The regional polycrisis is ready to boil over.

It is not impossible. Subsequent series of politicians have made decisions which have brought about conditions which make it impossible. Change the conditions, change what's possible.

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a failure of everything

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Someone’s clearly not watched Bridgeton

As I keep saying, they will never forgive us for being right about Gaza.

As Israel's crimes become too obscene to deny, as Western public opinion shifts decisively against Israel, those vindicated over Gaza in the possible way are even more hounded and silenced.

Nowhere is this more the case than Germany, as its authoritarian core reasserts itself.

You and her are political allies

Everything being subscription based

she skipped the DEM PRIMARY you guys can’t start doing the “oh you won’t vote for Biden? guess you want to be put in a concentration camp” thing for the PRIMARIES

SS UNIT ARRESTING JEWISH POLITICAL DISSIDENT FOR PROTESTING AGAINST ONGOING GENOCIDE (2024, COLORIZED)

Also, if you're completely motivated by spite (I know I am!), this is an excellent way to give Keir Starmer a bloody nose and spoil any kind of electoral success for Labour at the local elections.

jujopd.bsky.social 🇵🇸 Not pregnant, not a pensioner, not my problem

Seeing people sharing that Sharon Osbourne Tweet with 'Yay, slay queen!' responses.

It makes her look like the worst person on Earth, just absolutely mortifying. Most spectacular instance of deliberately shitting your pants in public I can remember for a long time.

Today in news from our dystopia: there's a fencing company with special hints and tips on how to 'fortify data centres against disruptions caused by protests'.

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Best thing about Britain is how we don’t treat our politicians like royalty

Oh no you had to go shopping what torture

PeePee

It's amazing when you think about how the Lib Dems were punished for abandoning their tuition fees pledge, and the Labour Party does this every week and get called sensible and realistic for doing it.

What disgusts me is how none of these journalists or Labour folk raised their voices when Apsana Begum was treated worse than this and then cleared.