Cassandra Nilsson
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Not hard to see why Reform did not announce their plan to abolish Personal Independence Payment until *after* the by-election..
August 16, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Not hard to see why Reform did not announce their plan to abolish Personal Independence Payment until *after* the by-election..
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Jason Arday was hounded through the national press for weeks. There was nowhere for him to turn.
IPSO has not opened a single standards investigation in over a decade.
Add your name for an inquiry into press culture:
hackedoff.org/campaign-actions/demand-an-inquiry-into-the-culture-of-the-press
IPSO has not opened a single standards investigation in over a decade.
Add your name for an inquiry into press culture:
hackedoff.org/campaign-actions/demand-an-inquiry-into-the-culture-of-the-press
August 16, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Jason Arday was hounded through the national press for weeks. There was nowhere for him to turn.
IPSO has not opened a single standards investigation in over a decade.
Add your name for an inquiry into press culture:
hackedoff.org/campaign-actions/demand-an-inquiry-into-the-culture-of-the-press
IPSO has not opened a single standards investigation in over a decade.
Add your name for an inquiry into press culture:
hackedoff.org/campaign-actions/demand-an-inquiry-into-the-culture-of-the-press
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“Reform has a woman problem. This is a party that would repeal the Equalities Act on day one.”
Rachel Millward, Green Party Deputy Leader, arguing against the motion ‘This House Believes Reform is Fit to Govern’ at the Oxford Union.
Rachel Millward, Green Party Deputy Leader, arguing against the motion ‘This House Believes Reform is Fit to Govern’ at the Oxford Union.
August 16, 2026 at 9:00 AM
“Reform has a woman problem. This is a party that would repeal the Equalities Act on day one.”
Rachel Millward, Green Party Deputy Leader, arguing against the motion ‘This House Believes Reform is Fit to Govern’ at the Oxford Union.
Rachel Millward, Green Party Deputy Leader, arguing against the motion ‘This House Believes Reform is Fit to Govern’ at the Oxford Union.
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There are 71 Lib Dem MPs in Westminster. There are 8 Reform MPs.
When was the last time a Lib Dem press release led the BBC News headlines or was the main story on the BBC News website?
(Rhetorical question)
When was the last time a Lib Dem press release led the BBC News headlines or was the main story on the BBC News website?
(Rhetorical question)
August 16, 2026 at 10:28 AM
There are 71 Lib Dem MPs in Westminster. There are 8 Reform MPs.
When was the last time a Lib Dem press release led the BBC News headlines or was the main story on the BBC News website?
(Rhetorical question)
When was the last time a Lib Dem press release led the BBC News headlines or was the main story on the BBC News website?
(Rhetorical question)
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There are priorities, and then there are *PRIORITIES*.
This current regime is actively destroying our own country AND much of the rest of the world. We need to fix that first. We can't do anything for anyone else if we are this broken.
This current regime is actively destroying our own country AND much of the rest of the world. We need to fix that first. We can't do anything for anyone else if we are this broken.
August 15, 2026 at 8:12 PM
There are priorities, and then there are *PRIORITIES*.
This current regime is actively destroying our own country AND much of the rest of the world. We need to fix that first. We can't do anything for anyone else if we are this broken.
This current regime is actively destroying our own country AND much of the rest of the world. We need to fix that first. We can't do anything for anyone else if we are this broken.
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Society has deluded itself that we are more tolerant than, say, 50 years ago.
The reality is that hate and bigotry just went underground until such times as they felt able to show themselves again.
The reality is that hate and bigotry just went underground until such times as they felt able to show themselves again.
August 16, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Society has deluded itself that we are more tolerant than, say, 50 years ago.
The reality is that hate and bigotry just went underground until such times as they felt able to show themselves again.
The reality is that hate and bigotry just went underground until such times as they felt able to show themselves again.
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BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?
August 16, 2026 at 8:40 AM
BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?
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A big part of these proposals is to make employers take out insurance to cover employee sickness costs, removing that obligation from state.
I’m sure the fact Arron Banks runs an insurance company is just a coincidence.
I’m sure the fact Arron Banks runs an insurance company is just a coincidence.
Reform proposes £50bn welfare bill cut with changes to disability payments system Pip
The party's proposed changes were they to come to power include a replacement for the disability payments system Pip.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 16, 2026 at 8:16 AM
A big part of these proposals is to make employers take out insurance to cover employee sickness costs, removing that obligation from state.
I’m sure the fact Arron Banks runs an insurance company is just a coincidence.
I’m sure the fact Arron Banks runs an insurance company is just a coincidence.
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There are different kinds of violence. Two years ago, it was thugs out on the streets trying to burn down hostels and mosques. This summer, it was character assassins in suits and summer frocks on social media and in editorial meetings
August 16, 2026 at 11:19 AM
There are different kinds of violence. Two years ago, it was thugs out on the streets trying to burn down hostels and mosques. This summer, it was character assassins in suits and summer frocks on social media and in editorial meetings
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Let's face it: this wasn't even the biggest scandal *at Cambridge University*. Yet the much bigger story, exposed by Byline Times, has scarcely been picked up anywhere. Of course, that involved white, radical-rightwing professors, so nothing to see here. bsky.app/profile/geor...
The Jason Arday story is by no means the biggest scandal at Cambridge University. I'm sure the media is going to pick this up and run with it in just the same way ...
Or is the exaggerated CV of one Black professor somehow more important than this?
Or is the exaggerated CV of one Black professor somehow more important than this?
🟡 From This Month’s Magazine
Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned…
By Byline Times raising
The academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious…
Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned…
By Byline Times raising
The academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious…
August 15, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Let's face it: this wasn't even the biggest scandal *at Cambridge University*. Yet the much bigger story, exposed by Byline Times, has scarcely been picked up anywhere. Of course, that involved white, radical-rightwing professors, so nothing to see here. bsky.app/profile/geor...
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The treatment of Jason Arday was massively out of proportion to his faults. People who have committed terrible crimes have received less scrutiny, yet I don't believe anything he did or said even crossed the threshold of criminality. How many of us would have survived what he was put through? 🧵
August 15, 2026 at 6:08 PM
The treatment of Jason Arday was massively out of proportion to his faults. People who have committed terrible crimes have received less scrutiny, yet I don't believe anything he did or said even crossed the threshold of criminality. How many of us would have survived what he was put through? 🧵
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Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.
In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.
August 15, 2026 at 7:17 AM
Look, put simply, people should not be comfortable saying that in public and the way to fix society runs directly through making them afraid to say it again.
The Telegraph's hounding of Jason Arday.
August 15, 2026 at 4:53 PM
The Telegraph's hounding of Jason Arday.
This is the end goal of every right wing "news" story, every smear campaign. Replace people of colour, replace women, replace LGBTQ+ people with fascists so that only cis, white, male bigots are in positions of power.
They don't care about the "issues", they just want those people gone.
They don't care about the "issues", they just want those people gone.
In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.
August 15, 2026 at 4:50 PM
This is the end goal of every right wing "news" story, every smear campaign. Replace people of colour, replace women, replace LGBTQ+ people with fascists so that only cis, white, male bigots are in positions of power.
They don't care about the "issues", they just want those people gone.
They don't care about the "issues", they just want those people gone.
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The Daily Mail's best paid columnist is Boris Johnson.
A man more deserving of scrutiny across the last two decades than practically anyone else in public life.
A man more deserving of scrutiny across the last two decades than practically anyone else in public life.
The right-wing media hounding of Jason Arday:
188 articles in the space of a few days.
158 articles in The Daily Mail, Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express & Spectator.
Maybe like cigarettes the r/w media should carry a health warning: these papers can kill.
188 articles in the space of a few days.
158 articles in The Daily Mail, Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Express & Spectator.
Maybe like cigarettes the r/w media should carry a health warning: these papers can kill.
August 15, 2026 at 11:38 AM
The Daily Mail's best paid columnist is Boris Johnson.
A man more deserving of scrutiny across the last two decades than practically anyone else in public life.
A man more deserving of scrutiny across the last two decades than practically anyone else in public life.
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Nearly every past atrocity was legal, nearly every liberatory movement to end it was not. Resistance is criminalized because oppressors write laws that protect their cruelty and make our objection to it illegal.
August 9, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Nearly every past atrocity was legal, nearly every liberatory movement to end it was not. Resistance is criminalized because oppressors write laws that protect their cruelty and make our objection to it illegal.
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Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030.
That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
August 13, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030.
That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Please sign and share if you feel able. We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences.
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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August 15, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Please sign and share if you feel able. We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences.
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All I want is a seaside cottage, a crackling fire, the rumble of thunder in the distance, a vintage mystery novel, an emotional support owl, a whistling kettle on the stove, and a healthy supply of freshly-baked cinnamon rolls.
May 2, 2026 at 12:45 PM
All I want is a seaside cottage, a crackling fire, the rumble of thunder in the distance, a vintage mystery novel, an emotional support owl, a whistling kettle on the stove, and a healthy supply of freshly-baked cinnamon rolls.
Just because the Golders Green attacker also stabbed a Muslim man doesn't mean his attacks on 2 Jewish men weren't antisemitic.
Both the press leaving out the 1st stabbing *and* the press fixating on it have agendas.
Please b careful what views u form based on reporting b4 all the facts are known.
Both the press leaving out the 1st stabbing *and* the press fixating on it have agendas.
Please b careful what views u form based on reporting b4 all the facts are known.
May 3, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Just because the Golders Green attacker also stabbed a Muslim man doesn't mean his attacks on 2 Jewish men weren't antisemitic.
Both the press leaving out the 1st stabbing *and* the press fixating on it have agendas.
Please b careful what views u form based on reporting b4 all the facts are known.
Both the press leaving out the 1st stabbing *and* the press fixating on it have agendas.
Please b careful what views u form based on reporting b4 all the facts are known.
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And we've not forgotten this, from one of the worst publications.
May 3, 2026 at 9:35 AM
And we've not forgotten this, from one of the worst publications.
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Antisemitism and Jewish safety is not some abstract concept for me. In fact, in the last 6 weeks alone 2 people have been arrested in relation to antisemitic actions towards me and yesterday the Times newspaper published a vile antisemitic cartoon.."
May 3, 2026 at 8:33 AM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Antisemitism and Jewish safety is not some abstract concept for me. In fact, in the last 6 weeks alone 2 people have been arrested in relation to antisemitic actions towards me and yesterday the Times newspaper published a vile antisemitic cartoon.."
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Guardian.
"UN warns women in public life face increasingly sophisticated online violence
UN Women report says AI, anonymity and lack of effective laws are increasing the risks of engaging in digital spaces"
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Absolutely. We need image/privacy rights asap,
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
"UN warns women in public life face increasingly sophisticated online violence
UN Women report says AI, anonymity and lack of effective laws are increasing the risks of engaging in digital spaces"
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Absolutely. We need image/privacy rights asap,
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
UN warns women in public life face increasingly sophisticated online violence
UN Women report says AI, anonymity and lack of effective laws are increasing the risks of engaging in digital spaces
www.theguardian.com
May 1, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Guardian.
"UN warns women in public life face increasingly sophisticated online violence
UN Women report says AI, anonymity and lack of effective laws are increasing the risks of engaging in digital spaces"
---
Absolutely. We need image/privacy rights asap,
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
"UN warns women in public life face increasingly sophisticated online violence
UN Women report says AI, anonymity and lack of effective laws are increasing the risks of engaging in digital spaces"
---
Absolutely. We need image/privacy rights asap,
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...