apparently a lot of cis women need to hear this but a world where our faces, bodies, hair, breasts, clothing and voice are constantly scrutinized as "not feminine enough" is infinitely more dangerous than a world where trans women might also be in the bathroom and need to pee
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A grown man made a wager. He lost. He made another wager. He lost again. End of story.
- Tony Soprano
This is the story of weak men and rapacious men.
This is the story of Bed Bath & Beyond.
This is the story of the United States today.
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While everyone's mocking Therese Coffey consider this: Truss has appointed an ardent anti-abortionist as Health Secretary. Steve Baker, Rees Mogg and Sue Ellen Braverman, all ERG, all anti-abortion. Prepare to fight for our right to choose (again).
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Hi! We’re CUDDL, the new app that uses cutting edge technology to give people the feeling of being cuddled when they’re feeling alone!
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Tech startup CUDDL has been awarded a £5 billion contract with the Home Office who will use their app to strangle refugees
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Our tweets about trans inclusion have gained a bit of traction, and we're conscious that there is a lot of conflicting information out there at current, so we thought we'd do a bit of mythbusting ahead of the vote on Friday 🧵
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Young girls everywhere are watching the RFU ban trans women, or seeing people going after Caster Semanya and questioning who she is, and thinking "what if I get too tall, too strong, too good?"
This diminishes all of us.
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Absolutely screaming that on a day of 37 resignations, Michael Gove was sacked.
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Shocking footage of the police repeatedly punching a protester in the head after an immigration raid in #Dalston this evening. How do the justify this awful violence?
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Roe v. Wade is based on the 'right to privacy.' If the majority opinion by SCOTUS suggests that the constitution does not protect the right to privacy... that affects a WHOLE lot of other decisions. Buckle up - this is the beginning of a lot of potential ugliness.
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“I’m a devout Christian. I’m a huge moist Tory and imo god is extremely in favor of concentration camps. I think if Jesus were here today he’d say that refugees should politely stay put and Die. I’m already planning my conservatory in heaven (a place with no planning authority)”
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This person is a teenager. And there are grown middle aged women, old enough to be their mother, in their mentions mocking them, being facetious, as well as cruel about their appearance. Bullying kids isn’t feminism, or protecting yourself, it’s supremacy.
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just saw Stormzy at the O2 tonight and I’ve revised my opinion of Britain: worst social order on earth, possibly the worst political system on earth, but actually an extremely good country hindered by the fact that its ruling class hates everything about it that makes it cool
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Here's what I learned: Nasrat previously worked for the World Bank and ICANN, and originally meant to start an "Etsy for Afghanistan."
Then the Taliban took over, and the famine began. 13,000 Afghan newborns have died of malnourishment in 2022 so far.
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I translated this brief statement by the Workers' Front of Ukraine, which is unequivocal: The war is fuelling reaction across the country.
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#TheWeekInTory Armageddon Special covers events since Wednesday
1. A lucky (legal term) week for Jacob Rees-Mogg, the brain of a tapeworm trapped in the body of another tapeworm, who moved £44m of his money out of a Russian bank only days before he sanctioned it. Phew!
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Anyway, remember how the U.S stole 7 billion dollars from Afghans about two weeks ago? A country that they have bombed for nearly two decades?
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"If I don't sell my kidney, I will be forced to sell my one-year-old daughter"
After decades of war and as the economic crisis in Afghanistan worsens after the Taliban takeover, a growing number of desperate Afghans are selling organs to avoid starvation
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Really don’t understand the weirdly sacred position comedy has inherited in recent times. It’s just some cunt talking on a stage, if they say some incredibly offensive shit, people have every right to be pissed off, the same as literally any other situation
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the problem with the remorseless and ceaseless accumulation of wealth is that eventually you run out of other people to extract capital from
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"The EU has equipped and trained the Libyan Coast Guard, a quasi-military organization, to patrol the Mediterranean, sabotaging humanitarian rescue operations and capturing migrants. The migrants are then detained indefinitely..." newyorker.com/magazine/2021/
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Extra taxes for average zoomers. If this goes through a 25 year old grad on 25k faces marginal de facto tax rate of 40ish%. 69 year old doing same job would pay 20%
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Exclusive: The threshold above which graduates have to pay back student loans is set to be lowered by the Gov.
Currently £27k. Ministers looking at £25k or as low as £22k. Announced within weeks. Would save Treasury billions… but squeeze grads further.
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/
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A 22 year old student with 3 Kids including a 1 month old has been forced to live like this for years
She’s caught over 1000 mice in her London property and has said Clarion have done nothing to help. She told me she’s desperate and fears for her kids safety. Please #RT🙏🏽
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I read the New European JK Rowling story 3 times yesterday + realised how easy it would be to take the arguments at face value. So here's a thread of all the inaccuracies and incorrect assumptions I spotted, in case you too are worried abt a family member who buys it every day
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I’ve been a lesbian for almost 50 years. I’ve known trans women, mostly lesbians, all that time. None have ever “pressured” anyone into sex that I know of. This grubby fantasy is identical to the straight sex fears of the 80s about gay people.
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💷Kent Tories running a sweepstake on when £20 Universal Credit cut will be mentioned at a meeting is right up there with Boris #Johnson’s Bullingdon chums burning £50 notes in front of homeless people. Sickening and sociopathic. #CancelTheCut
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Don’t make me tap my favorite chart
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Very funny to see the media evolve the already incredibly tenuously linked conversation from “anonymous abuse online is threatening MPs!” to “holding MPs accountable is threatening MPs!” in real time
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Watchdog looks at protecting MPs by cutting details from expenses theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/o
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incredible take. 'i saw a little boy cavorting in red lipstick and it made me furious at anyone who can't afford to buy property'
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If you are, or know of, a freelancer who has good writing, comms and admin skills and an interest in Labour rights, unions, 4 day week etc … this might be for you?
Colleagues and comrades please share with your networks
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Oh, there are two articles? Two articles in The Guardian today that compare Wayne Couzens to trans women? Was one not enough?
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Andy McDonald resigns as Keir Starmer’s Shadow Employment Rights Secretary.
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hello things are🌱changing🌱 around here and I am looking for a friend
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There are always good things happening out there in the world. You just have to search for them
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'average household wealth of britain's 16-24 year olds' factoid actualy just statistical error. average 24 year old makes 0 a year. rich georg, the 22 year old who lives in a mansion and makes £10mil every day is an outlier adn should not be have been counted
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Average household wealth in GB, by age of head of household:
16-24: £65k
25-34: £126k
35-44: £332k
45-54: £647k
55-64: £859k
65+: £692k
spectator.co.uk/article/why-ar
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