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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Polarization is not the problem. The problem: ethnonationalists threatening vulnerable citizens' rights. "The people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists." @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ah yes there are those ‘valid concern about biological sex based rights’!

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 30/09/2026

I have *been* saying that medieval style antisemitism has a major foothold in the left and the best thing allies can do is be aware of the dog whistles so you know when someone is gone off on one

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The problem I have with so many AI evangelists is they are fundamentally anti-human

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

They should reveal that care workers have a 10% chance of wiping out humanity, and raise the investment that way.

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I await the first time a politician proposing some nuts new immigration restriction is asked what is otherwise the media’s favourite question: how are you going to pay for it??

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I can't really Nelson Muntz "ha ha!" this, because it's associated with 2-3 catastrophic wars and decades of US security policy in the Middle East ending in tatters, and those are bad things. But still. Not an ounce of sympathy for the Saudi royals for the implosion of their Trump transactions.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i don't agree with owen jones on a lot, but he's right here and rosie is absolutely an arse to bi people

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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giannisarra.bsky.social @giannisarra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Pretty much agreed with the entirety of this piece. Have thought much the same about both the RNLI and the emphasis on tax cuts. There needs to be a full-throated muscular defence of basic liberal principles, and that's more important right now than the steady growth strategy Ed Davey represents.

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giannisarra.bsky.social @giannisarra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A military coup is worse than an assassination.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy Bi Visibility Day to all my Bis especially people my age who grew up with systemic homophobia & biphobia and buried all those Other Feelings because it was the path of least resistance and are only just unpicking that & worry that it doesn't count now bc it's not enough & you're too old anyway

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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So, just to be clear, Daniel Thomas was: 1- Carrying a knife contrary to section 139 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 2- Used that knife to commit criminal damage (Criminal Damage act 1971) 3- likely engaged in the criminal offense of endangering Life at Sea (Merchant Shipping Act 1995)

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

centrists still think "ride it out, & no consequences after" is a viable plan

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not to be all maudlin, but I think "sung by a child" is the bit that has broken something inside of me.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is human trafficking on a massive scale.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There are so many things wrong in this article, let me focus on two: on the perverse logic argument against sanctions, and on the betrayal of Israel's human rights and anti-occupation activists. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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This Israeli election could be the country’s last – this week I saw that for myself | Jonathan Freedland

Spend time on the ground and you see how high the stakes are for next month’s contest – for Israelis and Palestinians alike, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Pup Aros ™️ 𓃡 -> mir @rubberdogaros.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Crawling back to Balatro like the filthy little whore I am on my dirty hands and knees begging for a scrap of dopamine

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Lib Dem pledge to cut fuel duty by 10p is depressingly bad policy: poorly targeted, expensive (£5bn), and it weakens incentives to switch to EVs and reduce usage.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As a pragmatic centrist, I read the Niemöller poem differently. After each group mentioned I pencil in what percentage of the population they are, and if it’s a small number I cross off their names as disposable. Poetry is fine but math wins elections!!

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think fundamentally a lot of what unites the "we have to pre-emptively surrender on immigration" people is that they genuinely wanted to surrender on immigration

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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

it's wild that you can get someone from ukgov to give it the "we hear you. we see you" routine if you're a small bunch of unhinged racists, but when the home office rips up my wife's naturalisation cert and sends her a replacement belonging to a romanian lady(!), lisa nandy is nowhere to be seen

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Piddington in Oxfordshire votes to leave UK over asylum plans

Piddington residents vote over proposals to house up to 1,256 male asylum seekers nearby.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

right, the man's not a messaging mastermind or anything, but at his best he has this intuitive sense of where the hinges in our coaltion are & how to hit them

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

so the exact scenario all of us opposing this have warned about for the last 2 years

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This, too, is whitewashing, is reputation laundering. Letting these Nazi fucks pretend anonymously that they’d really like to constrain him but lack the ability, that’s a vicious lie.

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giannisarra.bsky.social @giannisarra.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If these laws aren't going to be applied equally and fairly and to stop hate mobs, they shouldn’t exist.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wants to coordinate a global pause in AI development, can't even coordinate an exit from a website run by a white nationalist

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It is honestly kinda fascinating how they’re like if the tobacco industry was like “you’re damn right it gives you cancer and that just proves smoking is the future.”

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My heart goes out to the millions of people struggling to remember how to write "Thanks! Sounds great!" in an email.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Awful. Just awful. A promising young man, a high school honors grad who joined JROTC and dreamed of becoming a doctor, killed himself because of the Trump admin’s obsession with hurting Haitians and the humiliating shame of an ICE ankle monitor. His blood is on their hands.

A picture of a young black man, dressed in a light blue suit with a smart black bow tie, smiling as he is handed a diploma from a school official, a white man in his 40s-50s who is also smiling. Underneath is the caption “Pierre Damas Bel receives his high school diploma. (Family Photo/Instagram)”

Bel arrived in the United States in 2024 in order to reunite with his parents, who had fled Haiti three years before. The family was granted temporary protected status, purchased a home in Springfield and settled into life in the U.S. Bel dreamed of studying medicine and graduated high school last May with honors and as a proud member of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC), his father said. He was the eldest of three siblings and his family described him as smart and responsible.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

On the argument that Britain doing anything about climate change is futile because we're so small.

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brie skull emoji @brie-skull-emoji.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

the Male-Grievance Grift-o Sphere going after popular stuff might seem like a tactical error at first but it's designed to put vulnerable/stupid men into a siege mentality by making it seem like all of pop culture is out to get them. it's an attempt to isolate

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giannisarra.bsky.social @giannisarra.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I'd missed that Cofnas's post-doc position involved teaching in the first place, and I can't imagine a less suitable person for teaching.

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giannisarra.bsky.social @giannisarra.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Many other things about this worthy of mockery, but an enemies list starting with Ardal O'Hanlon of all people jumped out to me.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This...just isn't what terrorism is?

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Call me human, but if you are outsourcing being a parent to a dodgy AI, you shouldn’t be a parent. It’s interesting that the bigots think LGBTQ ppl shouldn’t be parents but have SFA about this actual bad parenting. That it was a ‘humble brag’ makes it so much worse. Zoom exists!

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A final thing to consider is how Nathan Cofnas views Academic Freedom in his own words. Cofnas clearly supports purging the academy of his ideology enemies or think academic freedom matters. “From our perspective, there is no path to success that doesn't involve removing the activist non-scholars”

Action 2: Change the Population of Decision Makers on Campus
In the last twenty to thirty years, huge numbers of leftist activists have been hired as professors.
Many of these people have nothing to contribute to scholarship and are only here to push their ideological agenda. The activists are now so numerous that it has become almost impossible to be hired by a university without their approval. If they are allowed to control graduate admissions and faculty hiring for another generation, it is game over. From our perspective, there is no path to success that doesn't involve removing the activist non-scholars from these decision-making processes.

There are two ways to reduce the power of the wokesters on campus: remove them by showing that they don't satisfy minimal criteria for contract renewal or academic promotion, or dilute their influence by bringing in some of the non-woke scholars who have been pushed out of academia for political reasons.
Regarding the first option, critics may say that removing, or taking any other action against, the pseudoscholars would violate "academic freedom." But academic freedom doesn't mean that taxpayers have a moral obligation to (directly or indirectly) finance lifelong sinecures for political activists, many of whom were hired by illegal procedures where straight white men or non-leftists were disqualified in advance.
Realistically, however, it will be very difficult to get rid of people who have already been hired and even given tenure.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 23/08/2026

If you think this can be reformed, I don't know what I'm supposed to do with you.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I think it's key to understanding their worldview that they imagine a world not *without* immigrants, but one in which immigrants' inferiority is permanently asserted and they become a subservient caste. All these people worship the Gulf States.

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 14/08/2026

If we had anti-SLAPP laws, it would have been a THE and inside the paper broadsheet story and little more. If we had Leveson 2, none of this would have got so far

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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I should say re Jason Arday the completely out of proportion multi week frenzy that outlasted his resignation wasn’t just from the traditional right wing press. It was also the BBC inexplicably putting it on the front page, and many other liberal/centrist ‘skeptic’ types breathlessly carrying on

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

No, that is not the alternative The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Internet Piracy has always been awesome and great. Literally piracy makes things more popular.

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