Phil

@himynameisphil@union.place
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#Usdaw shop steward, #UKLabour local volunteer, #ttrpg and #boardgame enthusiast, #Packers fan, slow #runner, #coffee fiend. Toby Ziegler, if he were a British/Canadian, thirty-something, sweary nerd.
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My unionUnion of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW)
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Here's one thing I've learned as a Jew and the son of a WWII refugee: you don't just watch out for the nazis - you watch who goes to bat for the nazis.

JK Rowling goes to bat for the nazis.

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/j-k-rowling-tweets-support-for-activist-embroiled-in-nazi-controversy

J. K. Rowling Tweets Support for Activist Embroiled in Nazi Controversy — Assigned

Kellie-Jay Keen has been the center of controversy over the Nazi presence at her Australian rallies for several days. Today, author J. K. Rowling showed her support for the embattled Keen.

Assigned

The BBC, which mainstreamed Nigel Farage and the far right, is going to scold Gary Lineker for the following comments on the UK's immigration policy:

"There is no huge influx. We take far fewer refugees than other major European countries. This is just an immeasurably cruel policy directed at the most vulnerable people in language that is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the 30s"

Free speech, but only if it's speech that doesn't offend the far right

#Lineker
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/mar/08/gary-lineker-bbc-uk-asylum-policy-nazi-germany-match-of-the-day-presenter

Gary Lineker responds to critics of his immigration policy comments

Presenter mocks ā€˜freedom of speech champions … demanding silence from those with whom they disagree’

The Guardian

Growing up, I had three sisters. One of them was a quiet child, often angry or sullen and sometimes cruel.

One day that person went away.

And then I had a brother.

He was cheerful and warm, finally comfortable in a body he'd wanted his entire life.

Conservatives want to eradicate my brother. I'm here to say that's not going to happen.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

Here’s an idea.
If you don’t want to be called a fascist or a Nazi…
- don’t vilify and criminalise asylum-seekers
- don’t plan to detain and deport them
- don’t defend far-right violent protests against them
- don’t breach their human rights
- don’t defy the Refugee Convention.

"Machines built to eat people don't stop until they run out of people" will live in my head rent-free from now on.

(by @JuliusGoat)

ā€Listening to ’The Witch Trials of #JKRowling’ is exhausting. It’s exhausting because it requires constant vigilance [i.e. #factchecking to unmask her falsehoods].ā€ https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/03/06/witch-trials-jk-rowling-podcast-hesse-column/
Listening to ā€˜The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling’ is exhausting work

A podcast promised clarity from Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling on how she really feels about trans issues. But it falls to the audience to fact-check her.

The Washington Post
This is genocidal rhetoric. As it says, it was met with "raucous applause." This was done at the largest conservative conference in the United States. You can't be a conservative in the U.S. without being okay with this. I don't care what your thoughts are on lower taxes(for the rich) or isolationism. This is what the Republican party sees as a priority.
Baby Wilfred Johnson to be given booster seat in House of Lords

Boris Johnson is to give his three-month-old son a peerage, it has emerged.

NewsThump
actually its only "artificial intelligence" if it comes from the ƁrtificiƔl IntƩlligƩncƩ region of france. otherwise its just sparkling alienation of the working class.
I don't have a horse in the SNP leadership race, but it strikes me that putting either a religiously-motivated homophobe or a rampant transphobe in charge of Scotland would be a bad thing - for Scotland itself and for European politics more broadly.