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The passive voice has always been a weasly journalist out. Ask where the action is coming from, and who's being protected when this isn't made clear.

Multiple societies in the past all separately came to the conclusion that charging interest on a loan was morally wrong, sinful, or even illegal. Punishable by death in some cases. Yet now we've done a complete 180 and decided it's the glue that holds the world together.

Here’s the thing: research suggests that people DON’T become more conservative with age. Rather, wealthy white people tend to live longer than poorer folks and people of color. That conservatism you see among older folks is actually just survivorship bias.

Yeah I worked in a call centre just as youtube was really kicking off and a few friends ended up on there just for doing their job. Not funny, not clever, just nasty, punching-down shite

Conservatives who join fascists are not switching sides, they just figure they don't need to pretend anymore.

I find this question about whether chatbots are “alive” to be truly, truly boring. You can torture a definition of “life” so that it includes chatbots or you can listen to actual, unequivocal flesh-and-blood people talking about harm it does them *right now*.

"they won't hear it", surely?

8. Perhaps above all, it’s the way policy is decided. There seem to be two main determinants.
A. Will this stick it to the Labour left? The whole country must suffer for Starmer’s factional war. Good, progressive policies are blocked or delayed because they would look like a concession.

I reckon there are plenty of British politicians also acting out of naked self-interest, they just don't have the billions to do the same damage

Today, Trayvon Martin would have turned 31.

He should be here, but instead someone saw a Black child and chose hate over humanity.

We remember Trayvon today because his life mattered. Because his name still matters. And because forgetting has never been an option. 🕊️

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I'm cis so probably not my place to comment, but these folks do tremendous work and could advise:
www.instagram.com/glasgow.tran...

‘Friends of Israel’ groups have funded 56 trips for British politicians Lobby organisations spent £133,000 flying MPs to Israel in two years since the genocide began

Pro-Israel lobby groups have flown British MPs out to the country at least 56 times since the Gaza genocide started.

www.declassifieduk.org/friends-of-i...

And another thing. It is REALLY tedious to open a news page every day and see photograph after photograph of the same worst possible humans gurning back at me. It's like a wanker's yearbook.

A new fun Christmas Day tradition in our house is searching "unwanted present" on eBay

They really hate the repetition as well

If you accept a knighthood, you should have to participate in at least one jousting tournament a year. The tournaments should be televised.

This is a fair general principle - restrictions tend to inspire creativity more than total freedom. See also 3 hour+ films for want of a decent editor who'll stand up to the big name director.

The creators of Peppa Pig would like a word

The famous Nazi book burning photos are literally of research and stories by and about queer and gender non-conforming people and, still, reactionary centrists are saying “we have to throw transgender folks under the bus to defeat fascism.” Both cruel & ahistorical, it boggles the mind

Even Judge Dredd, an actual fascist cop, identifies himself.

Bit rich complaining about New York being taken over by immigrants when there's a big fucking statue in the harbour that invites everyone to come live there.

Should politicians accept donations/funding from organisations or individuals representing foreign governments?

Screen shot of CNN site with a Saturday breaking news alert explaining that Trump launched a strike against Iran atop a CNN story from the same day headlined “Always a peacemaker”: How Trump decided to hold off on striking Iran

really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency

“Forget about intelligence” is a pretty good mantra for this administration

A war in Iraq "could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

— Donald Rumsfeld, February 7, 2003

The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

Surely "defend Israel" should be the phrase in inverted commas here

wracking my brains to think of someone who would have had access to a police uniform, a police-issue plate carrier, and a police car