Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialwaxmonkey @waxmonkey.bsky.social · 26/09/2026ok so at this point we *dont* want the strait that we control open 36839156
celinelawrence.bsky.social @celinelawrence.bsky.social · 08/09/2026If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link : rnli.orgrnli.orgRNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution - Saving Lives at SeaThe RNLI is the charity that saves lives at sea. We do this through lifeboat search and rescue, lifeguards, water safety education and international interventions. 000
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"It is hard not to draw the conclusion that the police and Home Office seem to be incapable of an appropriate response to the threat of far-right activity and violence."nicklowles.substack.comDid Kent Police ignore a 999 call?Contrary to their public statement, HOPE not hate can exclusively reveal that Kent Police were tipped off about the Patriot Platform mobilisation – and seemingly did not act on the information. 26711282
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026no devices and low-tech for billionaires’ kids but ai for the rest of us plebs www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/t...nytimes.comSilicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not for Their Own Kids.At home, moderation and restraint are the rule for tech parents. Boredom is exalted. Maybe they’re onto something. 11830303
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialBen Alpers @benalpers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Deplatforming people works. There have always been American Nazis. But they used to be marginal people, despised in our public discourse. But then the way American Nazis had been treated for decades on end suddenly became "cancel culture." And now our public discourse is filled with Nazis. 740173
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026There’s an underlying assumption a lot of people are making that if a black guy successfully misleads you, it means you have set your racism levels too low. 292429408
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/08/2026A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay. 31972232287
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialPeter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Interesting point in this v good Rafael Behr piece on Nigel Farage - his unwillingness to openly condemn Rupert Lowe and Restore as extreme racists suggests a lack of confidence in Reform UK's core vote. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 24914
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialSaganism @sagan.bsky.social · 14/08/202641 years ago, Carl Sagan gave a clear and elegant explanation of the science behind global warming. 392142945759
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Musk's genocide. 15843330
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialDom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 09/08/2026"Do you disavow this statement that someone else made who coincidentally also has a scary name?" 431604227
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 09/07/2026“I have spent my whole adult life involved in progressive politics. I have sat in offices where men with flawless progressive resumes talked over me, diminished me, and made it clear that the equality they preached in public did not always extend to the women beside them.”newsweek.comI dated Graham Platner. I believe Jenny Racicot and Lyndsey Fifield.'Believe women' cannot be a phrase we reserve for our enemies. 325362
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialHeather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool 502243375589
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialAdil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 11/06/2026If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors? 14275912369
celinelawrence.bsky.social @celinelawrence.bsky.social · 01/06/2026How is this man so continuously delightful ? 010
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialGeorge Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Important data point here: “A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance”. The Greens have already hurt Labour even before any direct gains. 701225527
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I think my most capital C Conservative position is that 'edtech' is almost always an expensive con that distracts us from what we know works best in education and that there really is absolutely no harm in a classroom looking broadly the same as it did 20 years ago most of the time. 40671118
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 04/05/2026do think one of the big problems of the era is that a lot of mainstream politicians have forgotten that you just can't convince everyone; the point of successful electoral politics is to convince the people you can convince and to *defeat the rest* 172090334
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 24/04/2026Yesterday, journalist Amal Khalil was struck by an IDF airstrike while she was reporting in southern Lebanon. As rescuers tried to save her life, they were fired upon. Khalil is the 9th journalist killed by Israeli strikes in Lebanon this year. [1/2]apnews.comLebanese journalist Amal Khalil killed in Israeli strike on a house where she took cover, paper saysRescue workers say a Lebanese journalist was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon. The daily Al-Akhbar newspaper says its reporter Amal Khalil was killed on Wednesday in the southern vil... 23744324
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialSpooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people. 8997763836
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Great piece (and graphics) by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com. PS This is exactly why @pauldwebb.bsky.social and I talked about 'the educated left-behind' when we wrote about the young people who'd followed Corbyn into the Labour Party - and who may well be following Zack Polanski into the Greens.ft.comWhy higher pay hasn’t made young adults feel richerThe aspiration gap has turned everyone into losers, especially graduates 75919
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialJared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen." 723103791773
celinelawrence.bsky.social @celinelawrence.bsky.social · 15/03/2026I honestly cannot think of a more delightful public figure. 031
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialJennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Amazing and cool observation Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump all born the same year. 29131
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialMike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Says everything about mainstream media in the West. 251064383
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialAndrew Sabl @andysabl.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I’ve long wondered whether many Labour bigwigs are moved by identity more than strategy. They regard Labour as “fundamentally”/“existentially” working class—and white, like their grandparents—and would rather lose appealing to that identity than win with a middle-class, socially liberal coalition. 22012
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Good analysis by Ben, my only addition is that I think psychologically Labour cannot accept that their median voter is closer to Hannah Spencer: still young, well off but still renting, female, and socially liberal than it is their desired median voter: Lee Anderson, and that is because of misogyny. 16458114
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Everyone of these posts is superb, but this one is a masterpiece in the uses of detail and subtle emphasis. 114138
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 05/02/2026"It's bad but not as bad as some people are saying, and that's the real problem" ticks so many pundit boxes. 1. Contrarian ""nuanced"" take; 2. Punching left; 3. Defends evil without actually defending it, ensuring you're still invited to give keynotes at Evil Corp Dinners but also to MET Gala. 445974
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialJane A. @jane-in-progress.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Every goddamn word of this ⬇️ "Economic inequality is at the heart of all humanity’s major problems, but the wealthiest refuse to confront a system that benefits them." www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...theguardian.comIn Davos, the rich talk about ‘global threats’. Here’s why they’re silent about the biggest of them all | Ingrid RobeynsEconomic inequality is at the heart of all humanity’s major problems, but the wealthiest refuse to confront a system that benefits them, says economist and historian Ingrid Robeyns 11730691139
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 27/11/2025A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving 9559171889
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 21/11/2025It's always the ones you most expect... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comCryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators sayTether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin 11629821146
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialDanielle Froom 🏳️🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 30/09/2025I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians". 9495563142
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialJazzReads📚🏀 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 28/09/2025So exhausting.. 21397643872
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 05/09/2025If Rayner had set out to minimise her tax bill, she could have waited til her son turned 18 before buying the Hove house. She didn't because she wasn't trying to minimise her tax bill. 171004247
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialRandi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 15/08/2025It's worse this time - Our guy invited him HERE. 22529184
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/08/2025Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces. 🔗: aje.io/eeht0q | #JournalismIsNotACrime 30837343
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialLeila Molana-Allen @leilama.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Our colleagues Al Jazeera reporters Anas al-Sharif & Mohammed Qraiqeh, & cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal & Moamen Aliwa have been killed in a strike on a tent for journalists near Al Shifa hospital. They worked relentlessly through bombing & hunger to document this war. Please remember them 7354146
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 29/06/2025NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk. “When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.” The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children. Don’t ever forget.washingtonpost.comIn Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatalThe Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials. 10738092186
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Just in case anyone wants a reminder of how Trump helped create the situation he's now using as justification to bomb Iran. abcnews.go.com/Politics/ira...abcnews.go.comWhat was in the Iran nuclear deal and why did Trump withdraw the US from it?Known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, the deal followed two years of negotiations during the Obama administration. 22944419
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Farage 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 9434411024
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Nostalgia in politics can work for more than one thing, it doesn't only have to be a guy saying "Don't you miss being racist" it could be a different guy saying "Remember when people had pensions" 344269742
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialRichard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 23/05/2025So, the #BBC protected: - Jimmy Saville - Gary Glitter - Rolf Harries - Nigel Farage - Huw Edwards - etc But get rid of Gary Lineker !?!?! 1012220586
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 12/05/2025"Keir Starmer to cap immigration at 0, blow up the arrivals terminals at all major UK airports and order the Royal Navy to shoot approaching vessels on sight - but in greatest Brexit betrayal yet, still refuses to allow us to hunt people with foreign vibes for sport! Only Farage can save us." 11547127
celinelawrence.bsky.social @celinelawrence.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Spite and intolerance and a lack of willingness to accept nuance ... recognisable bhaviours to those of us on any part of the atheist to full faith spectrum as things which should make us angry. 030
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialDavid Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp. 108111255043
Reposted by @celinelawrence.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025We found the voter fraud!!!!! 709231176172
