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Sooner rather than later it might be worth discussing the strategic implications of scenarios in which the President of a great power and his closest backers in business and tech elites have gone insane
NEW: In leaked recordings, Peter Thiel argued that Nashville should be a moral alternative to Pope Leo XIV and the Catholic Church, which he called “a dubious ally” against a hypothetical future Antichrist Democratic president.
“America is the last and final form of the Roman Empire,” Thiel told a closed-door crowd in Nashville’s Masonic Temple. “There is no successor.”
He has attacked Pope Leo XIV at least four times this year, once calling him “a useful idiot for the CCP.” thelettersfromleo.com/p/the-…
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It’s not that people have gone insane.
It’s that there are some places where the trans activist demand that gender identity trump sex across all of public life runs slap bang into sexed embodiment.
Sport it the clearest instance of that place.
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It’s an indication that most people do not have a problem with trans people but don’t
agree with trans ideological claims that gender identity should trump sex in law and public policy and that all of women’s single sex things should become mixed sex.
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Some Greens have doubled down on the mess of their own making. Others have left them to it. We’ve welcomed some former Greens to @BOSLabour
Green Party crisis: Defections, splits and member exodus over Zionism stance
jewishnews.co.uk/green-party…
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I have never denied that people who call themselves trans exist and in the UK, they rightly have exactly the same rights as every other citizen. What you want is for women to lose their sex-based rights to accommodate men who say they're women. That's the conflict.
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Patrick Stewart. Turned up so early and so unobtrusively to be a star in the reasonably priced car, we mistook him for a delivery driver and asked him to go round the back. Took his hat off and said, “But I’m the captain of the Enterprise”. Fucking nice guy.
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No one is challenging the existence of the infinite ways in which human misery and anxiety expresses itself. What many of us are challenging, is the notion that what a miserable and anxious child needs is irreversible, serious and unevidenced medical interventions.
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On Tuesday, Landsec shelved its £1.5bn plan for Lewisham Shopping Centre.
Today, Goldsmiths has walked away from its planned Catford campus: 600+ students, a 10-year lease, millions of council investment.
The Green Mayor @LiamShrivastava promised hope. Where is it for Catford?
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Landsec has pulled out of its £1.5bn investment in Lewisham shopping centre, citing Mayor @LiamShrivastava's Green administration's lack of support.
300+ affordable homes, jobs, a park and a music venue: gone.
Our Group Leader @Ese_Journo has written to the Mayor 👇
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To announce my pronouns costs me an awful lot.
It says that I comply with and offer fealty to a quasi religious ideology that direct harms the rights of women, the safety of children and the rule of law.
I will not comply.
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Congratulations to Carole Cadwalladr, @carolecadwalla, who together with colleagues first revealed this story.
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When the Guardian went on strike to protest the Observer sale, I became a de facto spokesperson. Later a Tortoise employee I’d never met wrote to me to cancel my 20-year contract. No goodbye & no pay-off. This is how they now take credit for my work..but write me out of the story
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Sort your mess out @limebike - currently blocking the entire Tooley Street crossing outside London Bridge station.
Greens/LibDem Coalition running Southwark Council want more of this…🤦🏻♂️
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Good news Jews. Victor is reassured
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How did Southwark Green delegates vote at their conference? If they voted in favour of the motion this statement is void - and an insult to our local community.
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Those of you who have, like me, knocked about on the Left for years, will recognize many of the anti-Zionists who have turned up in the GP. The same names and faces expelled from the Labour party, ex UCU activists, soixante-huitards from IS. There are new recruits but also the odd notorious Antisemite. This will be a victory night for them.
And a devastating night for environmentalism
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Nearly all the billionaires queuing up to quit Britain and trash Britain funded Brexit, backed Brexit and conspired with the Brexit editors to push it over the line.... and now they abandon the very ship they holed...
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These idiots praise trump who caused this and blame Labour who have nothing to do with it.
Never bet against human stupidity
