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this is probably the worst language i've seen a democrat use. saying "transgender ideology" is straight out of the right wing playbook. this is looking more and more like Labour, so I don't want to hear any more shit about how even the transphobic democrats broadly support our rights.
Holy shit.
Marcy Kaptur becomes the latest Dem to release an anti-trans ad, and its worse than all the rest combined.
"I voted WITH Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of schools, and let me be clear, boys should NOT play in girls sports."
This is getting out of control.
Marcy Kaptur becomes the latest Dem to release an anti-trans ad, and its worse than all the rest combined.
"I voted WITH Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of schools, and let me be clear, boys should NOT play in girls sports."
This is getting out of control.
September 17, 2026 at 6:00 PM
this is probably the worst language i've seen a democrat use. saying "transgender ideology" is straight out of the right wing playbook. this is looking more and more like Labour, so I don't want to hear any more shit about how even the transphobic democrats broadly support our rights.
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Due to the unique way the BBC is funded by you we can have a man stand in the sea wearing a shirt harassing desperate people fleeing Afghanistan
September 3, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Due to the unique way the BBC is funded by you we can have a man stand in the sea wearing a shirt harassing desperate people fleeing Afghanistan
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Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset"
U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
July 18, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset"
U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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There's no super secret Israeli plan to occupy the United States. There's a super open corporate oligarch plan to make billions of dollars in weapons massacreing innocent people in Palestine, Iran, and Lebanon.
July 23, 2026 at 5:10 PM
There's no super secret Israeli plan to occupy the United States. There's a super open corporate oligarch plan to make billions of dollars in weapons massacreing innocent people in Palestine, Iran, and Lebanon.
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My instinct when someone says this shit is not 'you're so hardcore', it's 'you are not going to perform well'.
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has said she gets just “zero to three hours” of sleep a night, prompting a debate in the country over work-life balance.
Japan Is Startled by Prime Minister’s Grueling Sleep Schedule
Sanae Takaichi has said she gets just “zero to three hours” of sleep a night, prompting a debate in the country over work-life balance.
nyti.ms
July 22, 2026 at 8:17 AM
My instinct when someone says this shit is not 'you're so hardcore', it's 'you are not going to perform well'.
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It's kind of embarrassing how excited I am whenever anyone in the public sphere acknowledges what's going on in my sector.
‘Thousands of university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees, the British Academy has warned’
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities
Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year
www.theguardian.com
July 14, 2026 at 5:57 PM
It's kind of embarrassing how excited I am whenever anyone in the public sphere acknowledges what's going on in my sector.
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This article is total bull****. At full output Jackdaw could meet 1.6% of the UK’s winter gas demand.
What is true is that Shell and Equinor have put over £1 billion into building Jackdaw and are now desperate for the government to license the 24 million tonnes of CO₂ it would release
What is true is that Shell and Equinor have put over £1 billion into building Jackdaw and are now desperate for the government to license the 24 million tonnes of CO₂ it would release
Jackdaw boss warns of winter fuel shortages if gas field not approved
Adura says the UK government must approve North Sea production urgently to avoid domestic supply shortages.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 9, 2026 at 8:43 AM
This article is total bull****. At full output Jackdaw could meet 1.6% of the UK’s winter gas demand.
What is true is that Shell and Equinor have put over £1 billion into building Jackdaw and are now desperate for the government to license the 24 million tonnes of CO₂ it would release
What is true is that Shell and Equinor have put over £1 billion into building Jackdaw and are now desperate for the government to license the 24 million tonnes of CO₂ it would release
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I genuinely feel like one of the reasons they're losing it over Binface is more than anything, most of the rightysphere in UK media wants to be high-status, and being mocked by count binface running against Farage is a sign that no one actually likes Farage (or by extension, them)
July 9, 2026 at 4:43 PM
I genuinely feel like one of the reasons they're losing it over Binface is more than anything, most of the rightysphere in UK media wants to be high-status, and being mocked by count binface running against Farage is a sign that no one actually likes Farage (or by extension, them)
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British drama school training is the envy of the world and, as more film + TV jobs are moving to the UK, our drama schools are the backbone of a global industry. These cuts are artistic vandalism and economic stupidity.
Performing and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of “difficult decisions” about spending priorities, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson has said.
DfE slashes creative and performing arts teaching grants for universities - Arts Professional
Performing and creative arts university courses will no longer receive funding from a government teaching grant as part of "difficult decisions" about
www.artsprofessional.co.uk
July 7, 2026 at 9:01 PM
British drama school training is the envy of the world and, as more film + TV jobs are moving to the UK, our drama schools are the backbone of a global industry. These cuts are artistic vandalism and economic stupidity.
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i really don't like this framing where trans people being rightly upset about a 9-0 scotus decision against trans rights is resulting in yet more will stancilesque lecturing about how scotus rules are complicated and progress takes time sweeties and also trans people are always overreacting anyways
July 6, 2026 at 3:20 PM
i really don't like this framing where trans people being rightly upset about a 9-0 scotus decision against trans rights is resulting in yet more will stancilesque lecturing about how scotus rules are complicated and progress takes time sweeties and also trans people are always overreacting anyways
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If only there was an extremely simple solution to this that we’ve had access to for years!!!!!
The U.S. is on the brink of surpassing last year’s total measles cases, putting the country on track to set a new record before summer’s end.
Why U.S. measles outbreaks have grown harder to extinguish
The nation is already nearing last year’s record case total, and experts say the virus is forcing doctors to relearn a disease many thought had been consigned to history.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 6, 2026 at 5:05 PM
If only there was an extremely simple solution to this that we’ve had access to for years!!!!!
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Let’s all pretend we can save cash by unplugging the TV so we don’t have to interrogate why the profiteering energy firms have nearly doubled our bills in five years
July 1, 2026 at 5:49 AM
Let’s all pretend we can save cash by unplugging the TV so we don’t have to interrogate why the profiteering energy firms have nearly doubled our bills in five years
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Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-...
*Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵
*Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵
The bonfire of the humanities
150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences
www.technosphere.earth
July 1, 2026 at 10:42 AM
Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-...
*Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵
*Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵
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A brighter day is inevitable not in the sense that we get to just do nothing, but in the sense that everyone who worked for every previous victory felt as exhausted and heartbroken as we do now up until they won, but they beat on anyway, because throughout history those people can't do anything else
June 30, 2026 at 3:45 PM
A brighter day is inevitable not in the sense that we get to just do nothing, but in the sense that everyone who worked for every previous victory felt as exhausted and heartbroken as we do now up until they won, but they beat on anyway, because throughout history those people can't do anything else
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It seems to have become commonplace to blame net zero for Britain’s high energy bills and/or weak job market…
… and I guess I’ll have to explain again why there is very little evidence of this.
Britain has plenty of economic problems; net zero is not high on that list (though climate change is)
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… and I guess I’ll have to explain again why there is very little evidence of this.
Britain has plenty of economic problems; net zero is not high on that list (though climate change is)
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Ed Miliband would be ‘noose around neck’ of job creation as chancellor, union boss warns
Comments by Sharon Graham come as Burnham team explores key government appointments
giftarticle.ft.com
June 21, 2026 at 9:38 PM
It seems to have become commonplace to blame net zero for Britain’s high energy bills and/or weak job market…
… and I guess I’ll have to explain again why there is very little evidence of this.
Britain has plenty of economic problems; net zero is not high on that list (though climate change is)
🧵
… and I guess I’ll have to explain again why there is very little evidence of this.
Britain has plenty of economic problems; net zero is not high on that list (though climate change is)
🧵
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great news for people who don't eat food
Fox Business contributor: Inflation isn't too bad “when you exclude food and energy”
June 18, 2026 at 2:23 PM
great news for people who don't eat food
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I'm really struggling with the brazen level of injustice about this ban on trans people in public the government is pushing through. I used to have faith that science and love always eventually won out but I just can't see that light at the end of the tunnel at all
June 10, 2026 at 9:43 AM
I'm really struggling with the brazen level of injustice about this ban on trans people in public the government is pushing through. I used to have faith that science and love always eventually won out but I just can't see that light at the end of the tunnel at all
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if youre not on the race riot app you are living in a bubble, you have to contribute financially and provide free labor to the race riot generator or else you are in a bubble
June 10, 2026 at 11:08 AM
if youre not on the race riot app you are living in a bubble, you have to contribute financially and provide free labor to the race riot generator or else you are in a bubble
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no other way to say it, this thing in the uk where every single time a non-white person is in the news being accused of a crime we have full on race riots is very very bad
June 10, 2026 at 10:51 AM
no other way to say it, this thing in the uk where every single time a non-white person is in the news being accused of a crime we have full on race riots is very very bad
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Absolutely horrifying
Update: Young people & families today received shocking & transphobic letters from NHS.
These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st).
Forced medical detransition.
This country is a danger to trans children & young people.
These letters tell people that endocrine care (blockers / HRT) is being fully withdrawn in 7 weeks time (July 31st).
Forced medical detransition.
This country is a danger to trans children & young people.
Trans adolescents accessing the only NHS route to healthcare (WellBN) have been through a stressful year long transphobic investigation.
For a year they have sat under the threat of forced medical detransition.
With significant negative impacts. 1/2
For a year they have sat under the threat of forced medical detransition.
With significant negative impacts. 1/2
June 10, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Absolutely horrifying
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If sexual abuse was really considered a terrible thing, the world's richest and most powerful people wouldn't be abusers. The most valued technology wouldn't produce sexual abuse on demand. And allegations of abuse wouldn't be framed as positive depictions of masculinity. Our culture rewards abuse.
June 9, 2026 at 4:37 PM
If sexual abuse was really considered a terrible thing, the world's richest and most powerful people wouldn't be abusers. The most valued technology wouldn't produce sexual abuse on demand. And allegations of abuse wouldn't be framed as positive depictions of masculinity. Our culture rewards abuse.
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Very sad news... R.I.P. Marjane Satrapi! www.euronews.com/culture/2026...
June 4, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Very sad news... R.I.P. Marjane Satrapi! www.euronews.com/culture/2026...
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Universities are a huge cultural and economic asset to the UK. They are also massive employers in their local areas. Why doesn’t the UK government (or the Scottish Government up here) care?!?!
Bonfire of the Universities continues
600 staff at Sussex Uni will receive notification that their positions are “at risk” & asked to volunteer for redundancy
If 200 volunteers don't come forward, compulsory redundancies will follow
Grim & upsetting
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
600 staff at Sussex Uni will receive notification that their positions are “at risk” & asked to volunteer for redundancy
If 200 volunteers don't come forward, compulsory redundancies will follow
Grim & upsetting
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Sussex aims to cut 200 jobs in £35m annual savings drive
Trade union Unison says the cuts will only heap "strain and uncertainty" on the staff who remain.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 29, 2026 at 5:56 AM
Universities are a huge cultural and economic asset to the UK. They are also massive employers in their local areas. Why doesn’t the UK government (or the Scottish Government up here) care?!?!
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The state of the California governor’s race:
May 29, 2026 at 2:57 AM
The state of the California governor’s race: