A lot of you are using the word "podium" in the wrong way. So, let me set you straight. The "pod-" in podium is from the same root as in "podiatrist" and "chripodist" and "bipod" and "tripod" It means foot.
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David Allsopp
Scientist turned software engineer. He/him 🏹 Field archery 🐀 Rats 😷 COVID cautious 🏃 Parkrun https://medium.com/@davidallsopp @doublehelix@mastodon.social
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🚨EXCLUSIVE: Newly appointed Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has taken tens of thousands of pounds from donors with links to arms firms and controversial US tech firm Palantir, The National can reveal👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2640176...
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And they know this, too. Here's a quote from Pete Buttigieg on July 30, 2019 during one of the Dem primary debates. He's right!
onion personi love how centrists continue to do this thing where they say “if DSA becomes more front and center in the party, republicans will run on that!” as if the right doesn’t just say absolutely anything on and run on shit like peanut the squirrel or litterboxes in school bathrooms
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Sigh. There's no such thing as 'gender critical but not transphobic', Louise Haigh. Anyone know anything more about her than this ridiculous soundbite? labourlist.org/2024/04/tran...
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NEW: After the unrest in Belfast last month, a GB News presenter said there was “no riot” and no burnt homes, despite reports and pictures. Despite 400+ complaints, Ofcom has opted not to investigate. Critics say its bar for accuracy now set far too low www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
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🚨 Bridget Phillipson remains as the Minister for Women and Equalities After FWS Phillipson publicly stated that trans women should use men's toilets. She recently signed into force harmful & discriminatory statutory guidance which will devastate trans lives. Suggests no change re. trans rights.
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phillipson staying as women and equalities minister means the transphobia will continue. pat mcfadden staying as work & pensions minister means wrlfare cuts will continue. shabana mahmood staying as home secretary means the racist immigration policies will contine. what a disappointment.
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Just wanna throw out there that people shouting at Zack Polanski for literally quoting me, a trans person working in this policy area, in my exact words. Was wild. Feel free to question *my* language choice (I will defend it) but shouting at someone else for quoting a trans expert seems unfair!
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@labourlewis.bsky.social Why is the UK government deliberately and maliciously harming children? www.iglyo.org/resources/jo...
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This. “If we just agree that the ignorant bigots are a little bit right or at least that their views are reasonable, they will go away happy” is a hypothesis that has been tested to absolute destruction. It doesn’t work. We need to do the opposite now.
Paul BernalWe've tried your appeasement method for the last decade. It's made everything demonstrably worse. It's a failure, both morally and practically. We need to have the guts to face up to reality.
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Mahmood staying as Home Secretary tells us all we need to know; that the new boss is the same as the old boss, but with a different accent. Seems he's keen to keep the right wing, racist, reactionary policies as the core of his administration. Not good for us visible minorities.
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Massive early mistake from Andy Burnham. Shabana Mahmood should be nowhere near government after the pure evil stint she put in at the Home Office under Starmer. Instead, she stays in post to keep kicking immigrants further and harder.
Adam BienkovAndy Burnham opts to keep Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary. A big mistake