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Oh boy, are the Right excited by this graph recently published by The Economist! And of course none of them has bothered to read the article itself (TBF, it is behind a paywall!). So as always, let's add a little context and explain why these kinds of comparisons are so problematic 🧵1/25

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We are all seeing this, right?

Women can be raped in rooms full of witnesses or behind fraternity doors, report it, name the men, and still watch the institutions with the power to act do nothing. I was drugged and raped for hours on a college campus while people watched. I reported it. /1

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

The other names here www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

"Il était au bloc hier, il a été amputé de la main gauche, il a aussi reçu une greffe à la main droite et a des plaies au visage et sur le thorax", a déclaré mardi soir à l'AFP le maire de Wingles, la commune où vit l'adolescent.

Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶

I've been sitting on this for 5 months and I'm sorry. 🐣 🪶

The Kennedy Center is a microcosm for what he's done to this country.

I don't listen to either artists, but what a shameful response from Sheeran. The guy has plenty of cash, enough to take a stand, and he chooses silence. I hope this loses him a significant amount of fans and support.

The "legitimate concerns" people are just far right thugs and, as ever, cowards. Pathetic cowards. bsky.app/profile/wohy...

For years I've documented this in real time. Now let's set out the full case, with evidence. Facebook has hurt you, hurt your kids, and Meta knew, and did it anyway. And our govts have done almost nothing. 🧵 #bbcpm #C4News

Reform voters, and to a lesser extent Tories, are much likelier to think they hold the most common public view across several topics that our survey suggests is not the case, most notably: -2024 rioters -Trans ID -Bregret -Business reg -Lockdowns -Israel-Palestine -Trump yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

Reform UK and Tory voters are much more likely than others to think their own views are broadly in line with those of the wider public - but are they right? Reform: 75% say similar Con: 71% Lib Dem: 44% Labour: 42% Green: 38% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

SCOOP: Republican House candidate Ralph Alvarado is pivoting his message, editing his website to remove Trump mentions and delete a photo of them together. From “America First Fighter” to “Independent Leadership.” Trump won KY06 by 15 pts. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202... BEFORE/AFTER

Trump: "Intel came in. They had a problem. I said, 'I can solve your problem, but I want 10% of the company' ... somebody said that's not very American. I said, 'No, I think it's very American, actually.' And I've done that with other deals."

FIFA World Cup France 1998 website

Been the case for years. Banning unisex public toilets has already led to cis women being beaten up for "being a man in a woman's bathroom". Again and again : trans rights are women's rights.

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

Damn. Poor kids, going through the pandemic's disruption of their school life, then having to navigate the swamp of life in the era of social media, then their learning is scrambled by the adults' inability to realize what a danger AI is to them. I do not envy today's kids...

"What a wizard lark!" Cartoon by @bodycartoon.bsky.social for the New Zealand Herald - in 2020?

Thank you for this.

He's falling apart at the slightest pushback. The election at the end of the year are going to break him. He's going to tell people to fuck off, every interaction with the press is going to be filled with vulgarity, and I wouldn't be surprised if racist slurs start popping up.

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog roasts Pete Hegseth, RFK Jr., and Jeanine Pirro at the Correspondents' Dinner a.k.a. Black Tie January 6th

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

We're witnessing the inevitable result of electing a President who thinks being on television & posting on Truth Social is the same as actually doing the job of governing. Without a single figure in his team who can say: "Donny...shut the fuck up". So by Saturday, we'll be back in genocidal terrain.

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

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Meanwhile, Poland is on track to have its average household better well off than the average British household in the coming few years. And Poland isn't Spain or Portugal, its government has been right wing for many years now. Shows you can be right wing and still acknowledge reality, unlike Orban.

The Usual Suspects (1995)

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"I don't believe in building libraries or museums." So he's going to build another Trump hotel. "One pony trick" is generous.

One quote for posterity. They have indeed managed a turnaround, I would say a turn away, if anything. In that, US allies have turned away from , and US enemies have turned towards America. A 180 turn indeed.

From @lewisgoodall.com of @thenewsagents.co.uk My god, America. My god... youtu.be/t3Y_ozT_p3g?...

this is truly excellent and important work

Trump introduces Markwayne Mullin: "As the only Native American -- I didn't know that. Huh? Let me look at you. Uhh. I think that's alright."

An untrained man being paid to stand uselessly behind a trained woman who is NOT being paid because the government can't agree on how he's supposed to do his job, which he's currently not doing.

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Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

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Breaking News: A New Jersey woman who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University in 2024 has been released from a federal detention center in Texas, where she had been held for more than a year. She has not been charged with a crime. nyti.ms/4sJs8In

The Defense Minister of Israel says it was "blood libel" to go after Israeli soldiers caught on camera raping a Palestinian.

Oh boy! What a headline... Ask yourself: "What am I being asked to believe?" "Who am I being told to blame?" Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on. Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵 1/21