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Nik Sunil Williams
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So which ejected Tory MP is gonna start the most obnoxious podcast? #GE2024 #GeneralElection2024
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Nik Sunil Williams@nikwilliams.bsky.social |
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Policy wonk at Index on Censorship and co-chair of investigative media co-op, The Ferret. Works on FoEx, Anti-SLAPP and digital rights. Loves Joan Didion, Dinosaurs 🦕 & My Bloody Valentine. He/Him
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Nik Sunil Williams
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So which ejected Tory MP is gonna start the most obnoxious podcast? #GE2024 #GeneralElection2024
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Nik Sunil Williams
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Happy polling day for all who celebrate.
Luna asked me to remind y'all: thanks to them fuckers down south don't forget your ID
#Dogsatpollingstations
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Nik Sunil Williams
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If you create a country to escape a king you eventually create your own.
In the US, this king is a convicted criminal, who grabs women by the pussy, calls Mexicans (and other Latin and South Americans) rapists and sees the state as a weapon through which you can target your enemies #SupremeCourt
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Press Gazette
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Enemies of the Nigel: the Reform UK leader has widened his media beefs, accusing the BBC, Channel 4 and Daily Mail of biased coverage pressgazette.co.uk/news/nigel-f...
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Nik Sunil Williams
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People who collect trainers have ruined online second hand shoe buying. No I don't want to buy your NB 574s for £90 just cause you got a box
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Nik Sunil Williams
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So #Labour are okay with a trans-exclusionary billionaire dictating who they should meet with to secure the billionaire's backing??
Fucking embarrassing
www.theguardian.com/politics/art...
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Nik Sunil Williams
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Dress for the job you want not the job you have
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Nik Sunil Williams
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I have cracked it - the reason Sunak announced the election in the rain instead of the media suite is that he has transformed it into a bookies
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Nik Sunil Williams
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Has any team qualified at the Euros by own goals alone? Asking for a nation #Euros24
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Jillian C. York 🍉
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In 2015, I wrote a prediction about what content moderation might look like in 2025 and well...read it and weep. edri.org/files/EDRigr...
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Aaron Rupar
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New in PN: How Alex Jones dodged accountability again "Jones will do God knows what w/Infowars until creditors manage to grab his mic & sell it. They he'll hawk hate elsewhere, presumably at a company owned by his dad paying him $1 in salary, ensuring 0 cash flow to plaintiffs"-@lizdye.bsky.social
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Unofficial Guardian (World) Bot
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Jailed US reporter Evan Gershkovich to be tried behind closed doors, says Russian court
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Nik Sunil Williams
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Love stumbling upon old mix CDs I had made for myself when I was teenager. Discovered one driving home from the Big Shop. Had bangers from Beck, The Faint, Billy Talent and ... Herbie Hancock.
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Nik Sunil Williams
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Here is my response to the #LabourManifesto launch today. For all the warm words in David Lammy's interview in The i there is no mention of stamping out #SLAPPs
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Nik Sunil Williams
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David 'Austerity' Cameron blaming social media for diminished levels of public trust in politics is the perfect encapsulation of the problem.
A party who always sees responsibility elsewhere and who believe they are accountable to no one, especially not the voters. #R4Today
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Nik Sunil Williams
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This is my comment on the #Sunak Conservative manifesto.
The government that committed to stamp out #SLAPPs is now silent on the subject
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Nik Sunil Williams
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Can someone write a book about the banning of a book about book banning so a district in Florida can then ban that book so they have then banned a book about the banning of a book about banning books www.tallahassee.com/story/news/p...
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The New York Times
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Gustavo Gorriti, a journalist who has exposed corruption in Peru for more than 40 years, has been accused of bribery by the country's attorney general. Press freedom groups say the investigation is part of a growing campaign against the news media.
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David Kaye
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deeply sad news from RSF. christophe was a legendary fighter in the struggle for a free and independent media. 😢
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Nik Sunil Williams
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Would be very interested in jumping on a call somewhen. Would be very keen to chat about TNR if you have a chance
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Nik Sunil Williams
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It is indeed. A really important piece on top of your vital TNR work
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Nik Sunil Williams
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When you cannot reach your critics, you open your wallet and pay others to reach them on your behalf
Important piece by @freedomhouse.bsky.social looking at how states turn to criminal groups to carry out acts of Transnational Repression
freedomhouse.org/article/tnr-...
#Iran #India #Russia
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southpaw
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Alex Jones is converting his bankruptcy to a Chapter 7 liquidation. www.cnn.com/2024/06/06/m...
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David Kaye
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in the context of so much awfulness in the world, it can be easy to forget what a repressive hell lukashenka has made of belarus. here's a reminder.
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Chris Morran
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Trump’s attorney sent @propublica.bsky.social a cease-and-desist letter demanding this article not be published. The letter warned that if the outlet and its reporters “continue their reckless campaign of defamation, President Trump will evaluate all legal remedies.”
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Nik Sunil Williams
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Also abolish the Home Office
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Nik Sunil Williams
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What a repellant ghoul. Hopefully he is voted out and deemed unemployable by every honourable employer out there
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...
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Nik Sunil Williams
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This is where we are...again #SLAPPs
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Nik Sunil Williams
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Here is my personal response to the discarding of the #SLAPP Bill as a result of Sunak's announcement of the #GeneralElection.
I have a wee folder of SLAPP related memes and this may be my masterpiece
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Nik Sunil Williams
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Am in Lancaster to take part in a roundtable on Transnational Repression - looking at its impact on #MediaFreedom.
An interesting context from which to read this. Interpol is too easily gamed by those seeking to target opponents and dissidents www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
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Nik Sunil Williams
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“Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, will do that for me, but not for anyone else, and WE WILL BE PAYING NOTHING!”
A reminder (if you need it) that #Trump will use anyone to get back into power
www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/...
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Nik Sunil Williams
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So we have the patronising "In an ideal world" candidate too cowardly to fight for principles that he can instead drop at the blink of an eye and a desperate incumbent screaming DEBATE ME as sewage flows through our rivers and we are told to stockpile urgent supplies. WHAT AN OFFERING!
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Kat Abu
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Bad News: I’ve been laid off from mmfa, along with a dozen colleagues. There’s a reason far-right billionaires attack Media Matters with armies of lawyers: They know how effective our work is, and it terrifies them (him).
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Nik Sunil Williams
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post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains.
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Nik Sunil Williams
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Even at my most cynical I didn't expect Carlson's grifterdom to sink this low
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Nik Sunil Williams
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Really enjoyed this piece by @janus.bsky.social. Definitely recommend a read even if you are not a FFVII fan. An evocative way of exploring culture, political movements and your own story
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Prisonculture
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Press Gazette
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A New Yorker story revisiting the conviction of Lucy Letby has been published in the title’s print and app editions despite being blocked on its website to comply with reporting restrictions.
The case may set up a showdown with England's justice system: pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/ne...
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Nik Sunil Williams
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Narrator's voice: He brought back Nick Fuentes
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Nik Sunil Williams
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Am VERY excited about this. @josephcox.bsky.social is one of my favourite writers, both informative and gripping. Making tech issues and crises, living and breathing things that we all must pay attention to
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David Kaye
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i consider katherine maher a friend and an important presence in our democratic debates. so i've followed the right's attempt to take her down with disgust. judd legum does a nice job here showing how bari weiss & her fellow free speech phonies are part of the effort.
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Sarah McLaughlin
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Just a day after a Hong Kong appeals court granted the government's request to ban protest anthem Glory to Hong Kong, "some of the 32 YouTube videos that are explicitly targeted in the injunction were inaccessible for users worldwide, not just in Hong Kong."
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Nik Sunil Williams
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Rishi Sunak attempting to present himself as a wartime PM is fucking hilarious.
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Dr Emma L Briant
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A former #spy for China's secret police has revealed his identity and exposed how the regime targets people overseas who are critical of the Chinese government. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05... #china #spies #espionage #security
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kate conger
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Scoops from me and @rmac.bsky.social! Musk has used Twitter to build influence with right-wing leaders, blocking the company from enforcing its policy against election misinfo after Bolsanaro's loss and telling workers he'd call Modi directly to resolve issues www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/t...
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Alasdair Mackenzie
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OK it’s great Labour say they won’t do Rwanda, but there are so, so many things they could do - on safe routes, legal aid, right to work, culture of disbelief etc - to make the asylum system better, rather than just expanding police powers & banging people up for the approval of the right wing press
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Nik Sunil Williams
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Indeed but it is also the decay of established democracies, far more robust than the German state was before the Nazis took over
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Nik Sunil Williams
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Anyone who develops policy that both sides the Holocaust should be as far from elected office as physically possible. Also it is telling that the one policy change that occurred was a ban on recording proceedings. Cause accountability is the problem of course
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Nik Sunil Williams
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My mother was a TA and my grandmother was a teacher (both in classrooms all her working life and to all of her grandchildren) and this story broke my heart.
The culture war attack on education is an attack on teachers.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Nik Sunil Williams
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The Bill Committee stage hearing for the Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation Bill is about to start. Join online to see how they work to improve the flawed draft parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/... #SLAPPs
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