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books, films, music, politics, history. "Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern." - Frank O'Hara


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Twlldun 's avatar Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social
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Looking forward to retweeting this thread when the exit poll drops

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I don’t think we have to worry.

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POLITICO Europe's avatar POLITICO Europe @politico.eu
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Donald Trump learned “a lot” from Nigel Farage before deciding to run for US president. At least, that’s how Nigel Farage sees it.

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The New York Times's avatar The New York Times @nytimes.com
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Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta leaders repeatedly promoted the safety of the company’s platforms, playing down risks to young people, including children, even as they rejected employee pleas to bolster youth guardrails, a New York Times analysis of state attorneys general lawsuits shows.

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Rootless Cosmopolitan's avatar Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social
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I would have said Cleverly but he appears to have ruled himself out. Badenoch as last one standing? Tugenhadt possibly.

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Andy Miller 's avatar Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social
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Not sure about the new Star Wars.

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Pete Fraser's avatar Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social
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‘The thing I consider the worst outcome is GOING to happen, but I can’t coherently explain why’ is not a comment on politics, it’s psychological confession.

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Rafael Behr's avatar Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social
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One of the pleasures of the coming months will be momentarily recalling the existence of politicians about whom it was once necessary to know something, and then gratefully releasing their names back to the oblivion of irrelevance. Lord David Frost, for example.

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Rootless Cosmopolitan's avatar Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social
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All the journos are going to go on about on 4/5 July is this cunt winning Clacton, aren't they?

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Rootless Cosmopolitan's avatar Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social
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Go home Savanta, you’re drunk.

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Rootless Cosmopolitan's avatar Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social
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Badenoch vs Cleverly vs Braverman.

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Rootless Cosmopolitan's avatar Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social
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The Matt Goodwin Fate awaits.

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Rootless Cosmopolitan's avatar Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social
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I’d like to hear what the clothes Guy says!

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Rootless Cosmopolitan's avatar Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social
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Right wing crank weirdo.

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Rootless Cosmopolitan's avatar Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social
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Driven by mainly men/boys? They’re feeling sad and scared.

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Rootless Cosmopolitan's avatar Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social
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The polls have been clear for over a year. It’s going to be an extinction level event for the Tories.

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Rootless Cosmopolitan's avatar Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social
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Although we’ve been saying that for over a year now.

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Mark Chadbourn's avatar Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social
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New Deltapoll: Labour lead by 27 points. Con 19% (-2) Lab 46% (-) Lib Dem 10% (+1) Reform 16% (+4) SNP 2% (-2) Green 5% (-) Other 1% (-1) Fieldwork: 14th - 17th June 2024 Sample: 1,383 GB adults (Changes from 6th - 8th June 2024)

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Mark Chadbourn's avatar Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social
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Redfield & Wilton: Labour leads by 25%. Tied-lowest Conservative % (worse than Truss). Highest Reform %. Westminster VI (14/6-17/6): Labour 43% (+1) Reform UK 18% (+1) Conservative 18% (–) Lib Dem 12% (-1) Green 5% (–) SNP 3% (–) Other 1% (–) Changes +/- 12/6-13/6

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Peter Stefanovic 's avatar Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social
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Just when you thought you had heard it all. The Conservative party’s chief executive has taken on a senior role at a private cancer care firm that said in its annual report it had benefited from soaring NHS waiting times!

www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

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Robert Reich's avatar Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social
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Typical pay for the 100 highest paid CEOs was over $29M last year. Much of the compensation was tied to stock gains. Just so happens that corporations spent ~$800 BILLION on stock buybacks, which artificially boost share prices. Translation: CEOs are goosing their own pay.

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Rootless Cosmopolitan's avatar Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social
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And yet he’s not going to lose either.

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Alastair Meeks 's avatar Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social
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Just the very recently defeated Conservative candidate for London mayor clambering out of the dustbin of history to vigorously defend Reform, even as it is campaigning to destroy the Conservative party.

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RachelGeekyGirly's avatar RachelGeekyGirly @kalrell.bsky.social
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I'm just gonna advertise stopthetories.vote.
Just throw postcode in there and it shows history of your area and seat, and most importantly who to vote for to tactically unseat a tory.

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Rootless Cosmopolitan's avatar Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social
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Congrats on allowing the Conservative to win. Genius.

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Rootless Cosmopolitan's avatar Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social
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The “stab in the back” myth - beloved of the Nazis.

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Rootless Cosmopolitan's avatar Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social
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Which is basically four seats in the whole country. Unless you’re in one of those four, it’s a vote for the Conservatives.

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Rootless Cosmopolitan's avatar Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social
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And end up with a Tory winning. Yeah, fucking genius, mate.

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Rootless Cosmopolitan's avatar Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social
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Putin’s puppet.

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Yair Wallach's avatar Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social
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Former Likud MK, Moshe Feiglin, today, quoting Hitler for inspiration: "What did Hitler, may his name be cursed, say? 'I can't live in this world as long as there's a single Jew alive'. So we will not be able to live in this land as long as there's a single Islamo-Nazi [=Palestinian] left in Gaza.

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Sarah Murphy's avatar Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
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The Tory wettie in the face of electoral annihilation is something to behold. Quite happy to rely on FPTP when it returned them to power. Now soiling themselves at the prospect of Labour winning big. Their sense of entitlement to power untouched by their own epic failure.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC's avatar Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social
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The AP deleted this 10 seconds after posting probably the most debasing thing a news organization has posted in 8 years

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Rootless Cosmopolitan's avatar Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social
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Vote tactically to get the Tories out. Only thing that matters.

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Peter Stefanovic 's avatar Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social
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Rishi Sunak's Treasury blocked giving laptops to poor kids at the start of the pandemic so they could keep learning in lockdown

another illustration of just how out of touch he is
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Rootless Cosmopolitan's avatar Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social
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That’ll be why they’re only 20 points ahead in most polls 😉

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I've never seen pundits consider the Votey McVoteface aspect. All those voters just voting against the Tories just for the sheer fun of giving them a good kicking.

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Chris Kendall オトクラット's avatar Chris Kendall オトクラット @ottocr.at
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When he was a child, posh people didn't have Sky, it was a class indicator. He might as well bewail the fact that he didn't go to his local comp, and only shopped at Waitrose.

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Maya Media's avatar Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social
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Who could have possibly guessed?

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Toby Earle's avatar Toby Earle @tobyontv.bsky.social
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‘You think you had it bad - I didn’t have Sky TV’

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Mark Chadbourn's avatar Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social
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He will never live it down.

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Rootless Cosmopolitan's avatar Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social
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Bribes not gifts.

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Hart Pearson Sebastian Cunningham 's avatar Hart Pearson Sebastian Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social
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😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

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Adam Bienkov's avatar Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social
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"If Labour win this time, they'll change the rules so they're in power for a very long time," says Rishi Sunak, whose government has

- Rejigged electoral systems
- Introduced Voter ID
- Raised election spending limits
- Extended voting overseas

bylinetimes.com/2024/06/11/r...

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