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Farage at Dover is Brexit-era Baywatch reboot 🇪🇺

CalumKirkcaldy

If you are lapping up these new Jackie Chan and Tsui Hark films on BD here's a *really* simple suggestion1) Give a shit about Hong Kong by writing to your

Markus Leninist #JoinAUnion

Markus_Leninist

I have been suspended by the Labour Party.The charge-sheet reads 'Supporting Socialism', of which I am certainly guilty, and I have absolutely no intention of indulging in the masochism of

Anne Helen Petersen

annehelen

I asked a bunch of librarians for their take on this article; general sentiment is "a lot of us already do this, but also libraries cannot fix everything, and if

Mike Stuchbery 💀🍷

MikeStuchbery_

So, you know about Hadrian's Wall right? The defenses 'meant to keep out the Picts' across northern England? Well, what if I told you they had a much bigger, badder

Chris 'Dr. Person Fakename' Horne

thischrishorne

Zero attention. It's not just that there's limited, if any, news value, but it demonstrates our lack of understanding about (or indifference to) the harm we, as an industry, can

CAAS

CAASomerville

TY Somerville for turning out to the #HomesForAll March today!We’re fighting for Alva & Estefani. For tenants & homeowners statewide. We see you and we will never leave our neighbors

Jenny Owen Youngs

jennyowenyoungs

This morning I interviewed my mom for a project, and was shocked to discover that our family history is basically a blueprint for a Tom Waits album My grandfather had

The Shitposter Assassinated

julie_neuhouser

There's several international dynamics happening around the rebellion in the United States that I think are interesting. This thread will be based around people, not states, because geopolitics is a

Governor JB Pritzker

GovPritzker

I'm testifying before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security on our national response to the worsening coronavirus pandemic. Tune in now:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsinAGELHvA When it became clear that #COVID19 was not

Chuck Wendig

ChuckWendig

TRUMP: "I've decided to eat babies."PEOPLE: "He can't eat babies, that's super illegal."TRUMP, on TV, eating babies, not even cooking them first: "People are saying that I really am the

Tides of History

labour_history

#OTD 1988. Section 28 is introduced. Law states that local authorities cannot 'promote homosexuality' or 'the acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship'. A look back at the controversy

Question Portland

QuestionPDX

THREAD: A quiet constitutional restoration is brewing. Might it quell our nullification crisis? It's not widely reported, but it could be a big deal. Allow me to explain...#PortlandRiots https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/portland-man-c

Aveek Bhattacharya

aveek18

1/ All eyes on Hartlepool, with 3 weeks to the by-election. But away from party politics, our new briefing shows what ‘levelling up’ is really going to mean in the

Emily Galvin-Almanza

GalvinAlmanza

So I was talking with my mom about #DefundThePolice. And she asked me a question: how could what happened to Rayshard Brooks happen, at this moment, in this uprising? How

Ingrid M

iMusing

Morrison government education minister Dan Tehan - who was tasked with abolishing income support to early education - is on ABC Sydney radio to sell his government’s hatred of low-income

Darryl Holliday

d_holli

The local action taking off from the latest @city_bureau/@WBEZ investigation on racial disparities in bank lending is . @JaymalGreen is mobilizing. Politicians/civic leaders *sound serious*. @lindalutton is everywhere — threading