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The Prophet Cassandra

@prophetcassandra.bsky.social
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Talks occasionally. Trans. Socialist. Politics. Film (Paul Schrader Expert). Photography. 29. London. She/Her.

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Nathan Ramsden @nathanjramsden.bsky.social · 7h
Even more concerningly, LabourLGB has now begun a campaign of harassment and intimidation against prominent trans Labour members on X, libelling them in an attempt to get them expelled from the party.
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Nathan Ramsden @nathanjramsden.bsky.social · 7h
Just posting this here for the purposes of documenting the scourge of transphobia in our party. The tiny gang of miserable bigots which calls itself 'LabourLGB' has sent a tirade of abuse to Yuan Yang on X because she spoke up for trans people at Labour Conference today.
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 14h
well, I hope you're happy. Keir Starmer is at home crying but not in a relatable or authentic way
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The Prophet Cassandra @prophetcassandra.bsky.social · 14h
It feels very dour to be like "yes that was a great speech, great presentation from Andy. It also does not change the critical, terminal, government killing problems of this policy programme which were the same critical, terminal, government killing problems Keir had." but you know.
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The Prophet Cassandra @prophetcassandra.bsky.social · 14h
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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 14h
Switching from the triple lock to a double lock of inflation or 2.5% increase each year... not sure that actually does much for the UK's finances. How often is earnings the one that's highest of the three in any given year? Feels like a move that incurs maximum of odium for not actually much benefit
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16h
'Should the British government be willing to take bigger political risks in order to make our debt look less risky in the event of a global flight to safety?' Again this is a question with a more obvious answer if you are starting from the Carney position of 'Trump, on balance, bad'.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16h
'Where should our tax and immigration policies be trying to attract researchers from?' for example, is a question that has a different answer when your starting point is 'Donald Trump is bad and has bad consequences'.
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 17h
Rally is as packed as anything I've been to at Conferance - with a huge range of excellent, passionate speakers. The fight back against the EHRC guidance and to rebuild trans rights starts here.
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Labour for Trans Rights @labour4transrights.bsky.social · 17h
Labour MPs, trade union leaders, and civil society are joining together to stand in solidarity with the trans community and say enough is enough. Trans people deserve equal rights and the government must change the law to restore the freedoms that have been lost.
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Labour for Trans Rights @labour4transrights.bsky.social · 17h
Fantastic to see so many people in attendance at our annual rally, packing out one of the largest rooms in the whole Labour Conference fringe!
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The Prophet Cassandra @prophetcassandra.bsky.social · 18h
ANDY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 19h
Hard to square “we are absolutely, positively, not going to have an early election” with having a conference where all the big announcements start “in the next manifesto, …” unless the intended message is “we are taking the next two years off”.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 20h
This notion of bigoted beliefs being a protected characteristic like gender or race is just absolutely barmy. Those of us who’ve experienced genuine discrimination for who we are know there’s no comparison, and the political and legal collusion on this stuff is disastrous.
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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
what do you MEAN you’re going to prevent future immigrants from settling here in a reasonable timeframe because people who didn’t vote for you and frankly hate you are angry at a previous cohort of immigrants and posted a lot about it on X? don’t you realise you are in CHARGE?
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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
once in a generation huge Labour majority with the most liberal voter coalition they’ve ever had and the prince across the water returned to lead them to glory, and we’re going to end up with a stupid compromise that pleases nobody because no one in labour realises *they can set the agenda now*
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Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
no Dame Emily Thornberry! don’t just talk about it being unfair to existing immigrants! talk about it being bad for integration and bad for the economy regardless of implementation timing! you’re supposed to be an outrider for Labour’s liberals, it’s time to ride!
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Charlie Brown's relationship with his hoes is the closest of any on earth.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As unprofessional as it may be, I suspect I will be shouting "we have been saying this for years" a lot today. Harsher immigration policies don't just ruin individual lives, they damage the economy, reduce jobs, and generally harm the whole country.
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thepig993 @thepig993.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
😜at least we all have death waiting for us 😜 there's an upside to being trapped in british politics
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Oh Lord, grant me social care reform, but not yet.
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Steamed Buns @aremay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
watching a person debate with like 3 of my friends that bi men are simply out there to bum everyone. madam you wish. bi men are out there to talk about labour policy from the 1970s
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This new thing where people claim it’s coercive or misogynistic to bemoan the low number of straight women willing to be in relationships with bisexual men……….we are experience a global shortage of thinking caps.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Guardian reports Rayner's continued defence of migrants care workers from in Cabinet. Seems to have won that argument for care workers with No 10 + Home Office Big unknown: will anyone protect 250k non-care workers (chefs, vets, architects) from being thrown out www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Angela Rayner stands by attack on care worker visa reforms ahead of Labour conference
Housing secretary says Home Office moved goalposts with ‘disruptive’ change to permanent residence rules
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Kirsti, an architect - directly affected - on her MP not appearing to understand that protecting [only] care workers would mean forcing out vets, architects, chefs and many others (but perhaps unwittingly for most MPs + ministers who have not spotted this) bsky.app/profile/heri...
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A sort of Dr Jekyll Mr Hyde performance art piece about X radicalisation. Sharing funny Zack Polanski memes on Bluesky while posting that international journalists should not be allowed into Gaza on X.
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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
pro-crime mahmood thinks its acceptable to let thugs intimidate our brave boys and girls in the police because she doesn't believe in the rule of law. Sad!
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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The biggest cope of this is that he wasn’t saving NATO, his foreign policy was absolute dogshit which much like his domestic policy largely involved alienating his natural allies to try to cozy up to people who hate him
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The Prophet Cassandra @prophetcassandra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Eugenics Wars did (not) exist: The Evolution of Pre-Atomic Horror Historiography
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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Okay having just realised in a flash that Rees-Mogg was deliberately quoted Daniel Defoes' explict attack on anti-immigrant politics from 1701 I feel like people should shut up now.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 23/09/2026
The man who filmed himself stabbing one, with a person on board, is still seemingly at large.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
1) Not an article 2) Not praise 3) Please shut your mouth on the topic of racism. It does not affect you and you visibly do not understand it.
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𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🌹🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What Andy Burnham needs to do in order to unite the left is to buy me Control Resonant. There is still time for redemption. A day until release. Fill up my Steam wallet you northern hack.
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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I think a key issue is that Labour's LGBT+ group is a party organisation *for managing the LGBT+ people in the party*, while the LibDems LGBT+ group is an organisation *of LGBT+ members* that aims to hold the party/leadership on course w/rt LGBT+ rights.
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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Also in the context of the author being a spad to David Lammy 2024-26, was this Keir Starmer's biggest mistake? I can think of one glaringly obvious one that Burnham and Miliband have already had to make great efforts to put right...
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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think so much about Mahmood's tenure as Home Sec makes sense when you realize she basically values the immigration file much more than internal security
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed.
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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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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If I had a nickel for every time it was implied that trans activists caused harm to a gender critical person’s dog I would have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"The public will of course notice the reduction in small boat crossings and net immigration and thus vote Labour again!!" - me, a fucking idiot
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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Between the killing of DTIC and now CASI, DOD really trying to kill any and all scholarship on war, I’m sure that’ll work out smartly!
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
no wonder the UK political press is so captured by cranks when this guy and Sodha are apparently what pass off as titans of intellect there
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
you don't have to be an eco-socialist to accept this. this was the ecomodernist green growth position! which apparently is still too radical for the "realists" of the UK
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
apparently "spending more on infrastructure, especially energy efficient infrastructure usually multiplies growth" is something lost on UK elites
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Finn @thegoblinpoet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I asked my AI agent Claudrillard if he's a simulacrum and he just replied "please kill me", so I'm not sure
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Sir Almaviva @ilcontealmaviva.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The system is currently very unfair (to immigrants and their families, not to anyone else) as is. The Labour government wants to make it even more unfair, to a degree we've not seen since I moved to the UK. But they keep telling us they want "fairness" (for whom?), because they think we're idiots.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A lot of Labour people visibly believe that a Labour government gives off tolerance particles, and therefore sitting mute is fine and good. The reality is that it took a cross party, whole society effort to make us, as Sunak says, the most successful multiethnic, multifaith democracy in the world:
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Rishi Sunak: Britishness must not be turned into a DNA test
I worry that the immigration debate is going far beyond arrival numbers
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The usual moral “I’ll support anything as long as the rosette is red” voids in the replies to this. The reality is that Sunak did take real political damage in sacking Braverman and taking the whip from Anderson. Starmer and Burnham both useless on this.
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