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John Carroll

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Retired, volunteer, remainer/rejoiner, anti-Tory. Food, wine, music, travel. Cheers!

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Cameron Clark @cameronclark.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
When people talk about 'captured by ideology', this is what it actually looks like: emotion masquerading as fact, totally detached from empirical reality
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Talk TV interview: Jenrick, as a former government minister, of course knows that the armed forces can't be directed to commit murder at sea, and would have to refuse the illegal order to commit war crimes. But this is a change of media strategy with a challenge from Restore x.com/TalkTV/statu...
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🚨"Deploy the Royal Marines into the Channel. If they need to use lethal force then they'll be able to do so. I think the problem would come to an end within a matter of days." @RobertJenrick says Ref...
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/10/2026
This is a truly grotesque "trial" of a vaccine known to be safe and effective. It will in practice randomly withhold that treatment from a percentage of children to see what happens. It is absolutely the reverse of good practice.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 30/09/2026
On Fairford a thought just crossed my mind about the 5 suspects. Mango Mussolini on Sunday said “We had them under view for a long time, and we got them.” Ex-fucking-scuse me?! Does that mean UK Nationals are subject to US surveillance? Or was he, as usual, lying through his cheap veneers?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What’s your legacy Johnson? Brexit. Total collapse of trust in politics. And this. The small boats symbolise your dishonesty and your failure. You’re responsible for nothing but damage. Not one good thing. Not one proud moment. You’re forever a shameful disgrace who threw his own mandate in the bin.
Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson
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It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate from the people. He has no real ideas, and no plan.
BORIS JOHNSON: UK is defenceless against migrants without...
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John Carroll @johncarroll.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
c.org/VytZbVWNPc We don’t have nearly enough hospices in the UK and the ones we do have are generally reliant on charity for funding. Fixing this (along with funding for the wider care sector) should be a government priority.
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Make hospice funding a national priority
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW | On a shocking interview… ANALYSING JUSTIN WEBB’S INTERVIEW WITH ED MILIBAND ABOUT SANCTIONS ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS On the absence of balance in an encounter where the Foreign Secretary’s Jewishness was called into question. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/analysing-...
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Analysing Justin Webb’s interview with Ed Miliband about sanctions on Israeli settlements
On the absence of balance in an encounter where the Foreign Secretary’s Jewishness was called into question.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 09/09/2026
Also, why is this basically written up as "quirky crowd make an embarrassing mistake" and not "violent racists form mob because Asian people use hotel"?
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I did a thing about legitimate concerns, and - you'll thank me later - defined the collective noun for patriots. No paywall. russincheshire.substack.com/p/legitimate...
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Legitimate Concerns
How politicians turned migration into a permanent panic — and why the facts tell a different story
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Govt, politicians, rightwing media… you decided that Brexit meant you needed to exclusively appeal to a stereotypical “red wall”/“left behind” voter who you insisted was anti-immigration because it suited you to pin their disaffection onto immigrants rather than onto you…
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 07/09/2026
Astonishing to hear people say they'd rather asylum seekers drowned than be saved by the RNLI. Next comes letting people die in burning hostels rather than be saved by the fire brigade and letting people get kicked to death in the street rather than be saved by the Police. Don't platform this hate.
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Dust and Road @dustandroad.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
'What Happened In #Dover and #Portsmouth Should Scare Us Not because hundreds of men protested, but because they appeared disciplined, coordinated and ready to do it again.' Via @bearlypolitics.co.uk www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/what-happe...
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What Happened In Dover and Portsmouth Should Scare Us
Not because hundreds of men protested, but because they appeared disciplined, coordinated and ready to do it again.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 03/09/2026
The Government is letting data centre developers bypass local scrutiny... BUT they don't even know what the data centres are being used for 🤯 It's time to put the brakes on. It's time for a national data centre strategy.
UK government does not know what datacentres are being used for, FoI request shows

Zack Polanski
Leader of the Green Party:
“The government plans to steamroller over local opposition so private companies can build these facilities – yet they can’t even explain what the benefits are and who is benefiting.”

Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales c/o PO Box Green Party London SE1P 6YL
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Christine Carroll @christine12.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Totally this thread 👇
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Cameron’s austerity model built on a Harvard paper “Growth in a Time of Debt” that suggested the Keynesian model (that Gov should spend in times of recession to promote growth) was erroneous and that Governments should reduce debt. But there was a problem that took some time to uncover
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Crucially: look at that Rest of the World (RoW) number. Remember how all those Brexiter dream free trade deals was going to fill the EU loss? “UK goods exports by tonnage have fallen 20.7%. Export volumes to the EU have fallen 15.9%, while exports to the rest of the world have fallen 37.2%.”
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John Carroll @johncarroll.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Iran war is making everything more expensive for us, but some companies are cashing in. Don't think that's right? Sign the petition now demanding they are taxed more on their record profits to help us all with the cost of living. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ra...
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Sign the Urgent Petition - End this rip-off
People in the UK are struggling to get by while some corporations are set to announce record high profits on the back of the Iran war. Join the campaign to demand these war profiteers are taxed so we ...
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John Carroll @johncarroll.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Enough is enough. Devastating wildfires are threatening our communities, our wildlife, and our landscapes 🌳 We need the UK Gov to back our amazing fire fighters and invest in a real national wildfire prevention plan. Join me and sign the petition here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/te...
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Protect nature for the future: make wildfire prevention a national priority
Enough is enough. Devastating wildfires are threatening our communities, our wildlife, and our landscapes 🌳 We need the UK Gov to back our amazing fire fighters and invest in a real national wildfire ...
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
What is in the media's *own* interests versus the public interest is often a vastly different story. The defensive position of the majority of the established press – that the press isn't free if it can't do anything it likes without consequences – is defensive for a reason. Power protecting itself.
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John Carroll @johncarroll.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Watching Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy, I was shocked to see the damage the chicken industry is doing to rivers, communities and animals. And now I’ve learned the Government wants to expand Big Chicken. I've signed the petition to stop it 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Big Chicken Choking our Rivers
Watching Big Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy, I was shocked to see the damage the chicken industry is doing to rivers, communities and animals. And now I’ve learned the Government wants to expand Big ...
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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 14/08/2026
I heard Lee Anderson on Today saying that no one wanted to live next to an HMO housing people seeking asylum. As far as I can tell, my back garden abuts the back garden of a house that does indeed house asylum seekers, so I thought I'd give a brief account of why I am in fact fine about it.
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John Carroll @johncarroll.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Palantir technologies attack life and liberty. This company has no place in our NHS and the health secretary must trigger the NHS contract break clause. Sign the petition here act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4875
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No Palantir in our NHS
Palantir’s technical support for Israel’s genocidal regime and Trump’s abusive ICE gangs should disqualify it from any role in the UK’s public sector. But it has been handed access to NHS patient data...
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John Carroll @johncarroll.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Jeff Bezos has just been crowned the world's third richest person...while Amazon dodges billions in tax. Right now, governments are negotiating new global tax rules. Tell the UK Government: don't cave to the super-rich.
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Christine Carroll @christine12.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It was always strange to call the genocide in Gaza a war, but it's even more bizarre when there is a ceasefire and Israel has killed 1200 Palestinians since then. Even if the Guardian doesn't want to use the term genocide "war" doesn't capture one sided slaughter of civilians
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
So Badenoch would recruit a neo-Nazi but *not* someone who didn’t want to leave the ECHR or someone who supported our NetZero commitments. Second chances for this guy but not Dominic Grieve. The Tory party is truly wretched. It’s screwed the country, betrayed its own and lost its tiny mind.
Badenoch defends former neo-Nazi pick as council candidate
By Will Meakin-Durrant
Kemi Badenoch has said her party
"believes in second chances".
, after
the Conservatives selected a former neo-Nazi once jailed for harassing a Jewish former MP as a local election candidate.
Joshua Bonehill-Paine
posted on social media that he was "tremendously proud" that he has been chosen to stand for election to Somerset Coun-cil, in the Crewkerne South ward.
Bonehill-Paine (inset) was jailed in 2016 after he was convicted of racially aggravated harassment.
He wrote several blog posts about the former Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, Baroness Luciana Berger, labelling her "an evil money-grabber" with a "deep-rooted hatred of men".

He was previously jailed for producing an ad illustrated with a picture of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, which promised "an absolute gas" at a rally in Golders Green, north London.
Badenoch said: "I want to be very clear - and I think people can look at me and know that I'm not a person who would be recruiting neo-Nazis.
"Josh is someone who actually has been certified by the Home Office to train police officers on antisemitism and on countering extremism.
"Yes, he [has] previously convicted but he has shown contrition for his crimes, has been rehabilitated and is spending every day working to solve the very problem which he knew that he had caused previously.
"And the Conservative Party believes in second chances."
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John Carroll @johncarroll.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It’s amazing how climate deniers see global heating as a UK, and not a global, issue. As in - we don’t need to worry about rising temperatures because the end of the Gulf Stream will make Britain cooler. And - net zero is a waste of time because UK alone can’t influence the world climate. Bonkers!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
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The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Long overdue for The Spectator's Islamophobia to come under the microscope. Excellent piece from Peter Oborne here doing just that. It is now, he writes, just "an upmarket version of GB News" (same owner, of course)
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Exposed: The Rabidly Islamophobic Magazine at the Heart of the British Establishment
For almost 200 years, 'The Spectator' stood for civilised, bravely heretical discourse. But a new report reveals how it now spews out anti-Muslim hatred week after week to its upmarket audience
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John Carroll @johncarroll.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Broken promise: the Government promised guaranteed hours for all workers, but now most will miss out. 🚫 Sign the petition now to protect every worker: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
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Sign the petition to give all workers the right to guaranteed hours
Betrayal: the UK Gov pledged guaranteed hours for all workers, but now most will miss out. Sign now to fight back.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
So, as Chancellor, actively pursuing policies that harm the country’s economy, NHS and social care. They have all lost their minds in their anti-immigration populist frenzy.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
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BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X
Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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Christine Carroll @christine12.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
BBC News - Meet the crypto billionaires building a world where money buys you a vote www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Make the time to read this, and think about Farage. It's terrifying.
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Meet the crypto billionaires building a world where money buys you a vote
They think democracy has run its course - so they're setting up their own nations instead.
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Rotorbabe Recordings @rotorbabe25.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
From the always reliable Private Eye.
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The deep anthropology of Starmer slaughter and the shallow psychology of Burnham worship open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...
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Killing Keir and admiring Andy
Two exercises in projection
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John Carroll @johncarroll.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Amazon made £55 MILLION in profit in the UK last year, but only paid a fraction of what they should in tax. Jeff Bezos is rubbing his hands together, avoiding tax, while we pay our dues. Don't think that's right? Sign the petition now.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?
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As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports
Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Hospitals in England are declaring critical incidents with radiotherapy machines, MRI scanners, cooling units and IT systems failing owing to the extreme heat. Here four doctors describe their experiences on the frontline: unsafe & dangerous for patients amid the worst NHS heatwave crisis in years.
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Y.O.L.O.0311 @yolo0311.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
ANY other President would have been removed, disgraced, and castigated.
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
We knew GBNews is obsessed with immigration. We didn’t know that the obsession extends to the Jews who fled the Nazis in the 1930s - and that we should be wary even of their grandchildren app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73892/...
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The GB News obsession with immigration even extends to antisemitic tropes, and no one is stopping it
One presenter invited her followers to be wary of the grandchild of Jewish émigrés
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Christine Carroll @christine12.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Tech billionaires are getting richer while we pay the price for the real-world harm their platforms cause. The "neutral host" loophole lets them off the hook for pushing dangerous content. MPs are demanding emergency laws to make them pay. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Sign the urgent petition
Tech billionaires shouldn't get to hide behind a legal loophole while their algorithms push dangerous content for profit. MPs are demanding emergency laws to finally make them liable for the harm they...
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Christine Carroll @christine12.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Totally outrageous 👇
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Terrible news: the Court of Appeal has just ruled that the Government’s ban on Palestine Action is lawful. PA is now likely to lodge an appeal before the Supreme Court. So the mass arrests of peaceful people sitting with cardboard signs will continue. Because that is what terrorism looks like ...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Tomorrow’s Independent front page:
The
INDEPENDENT
urop
The Way Bac
Their promises of more jobs, more trade, more power for Britain have proved a con, Michael Heseltine writes as the Brexit vote 10th anniversary approaches. Never have so few done so much damage to so many with so little ability to execute what they lied about. Their scandalously false prospectus has turned to dust and ashes. Naturally, they blame everyone but themselves.
They are the guilty men and should...
...hang their heads in shame
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.
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Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
hasn't troubled the @royalsociety.org's spineless ethical code yet
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Mr Elon Musk FRS | Royal Society Fellow
Elon Musk is the CEO and co-founder of SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink and The Boring Company.As lead designer at SpaceX, Elon oversees the development of rockets a...
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The BBC 10 o’clock news says the right wing idea of ethnic minorities being given preferential treatment in criminal justice is likely to become a “growing fault line in our politics” WITHOUT POINTING OUT THAT IT IS SIMPLY NOT TRUE. What’s the point of the news if it doesn’t correct disinformation?
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