It would appear that “former Tory MP Antoinette Sandbach has threatened the University of Cambridge with legal action after a historian named her as a descendant of merchants who enslaved his ancestors.”
"Greenpeace activists have covered Rishi Sunak's £2m mansion in oil-black fabric after climbing on to the roof of his property in Yorkshire!"
The Tories couldn't care less about the #Climate, unless there's something in it for them. Uxbridge & new North Sea oil licences are all the proof you need.
“I was a theater and band kid. My sophomore year my school did Hairspray as our school play. It has a role that is traditionally played as a man in drag. My school followed that tradition. That is now illegal. It was explicitly asked if Rocky Horror Picture show and Hairspray would be banned under the new youth drag ban law. The legislature said yes.”
A northern Utah school district has reversed its earlier committee-based decision that removed the Bible from elementary and junior high school but kept it in high school libraries.
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"Prime Minister Stephen Harper was so embarrassed in 2015 after Justin Trudeau kicked his arse to the street, he vowed revenge.
Eight years later:
He controls the media.
He is head of the IDU.
He's on the payroll in Alberta, Sask, & Manitoba.
He is head of the Conservative party.
And he controls Poilievre."
Matthew McManus writes that those who imagine that there was a pre-Trump iteration of the US right in which the right was moderate are indulging in fantasy.
The right has long been driven by the radical determination to turn back the tide of equal rights for minority groups and legislate the notion that some people are superior to others.
Mike Johnson, the new speaker of the house, is just another in a line of followers direct from the Project 2025 playbook.
For those unfamiliar, Project 2025 is a conservative manifesto designed to consolidate direct Presidential control of all assets in the Executive branch of the US government, using Unitary Executive theory. This "logic" is based on the vesting clause of Article 2 of the US Constitution. It will eliminate all checks and balances on the office of the president.
This playbook includes replacing all personnel with pro-Trump supporters, banning gender-affirming care and language (even the term gender affirming), gay marriage, abortions, and anything not white, Christian, or conservative.
It would turn the US into a Christian theocracy. A place where AFAB women are breeding stock, and homosexuality becomes a criminal offense again. It would turn the office of the President into a dictatorship.
Johnson has voted against Gay Marriage, against certifying the 2020 election, and is a threat to what's left of this so-called country. His election as speaker of the house is a direct attack on freedom.
We can no longer bury our heads in the sand. We can no longer stand idly by and watch as fascism returns to power. This looks more like the Weimar Republic in 1923 than the United States in 2023.
For any who doubts that this playbook exists, or views this as some Right Wing conspiracy, I invite you to read this document for yourself. This is real. This is a threat. This is not a test.
Globe & Mail reports that Conservative leader Pierre #Poilievre is muzzling his MPs.
They have been instructed NOT to comment on #Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's transgender policy. Conservatives claim Mr. Poilievre himself is “very disciplined” and is “not going to wade into these issues.”
Don't be fooled - Pierre Poilievre fully supports the Premier. He's just not going to tell you that before the election.
Conservative Party leader Pierre #Poilievre made a surprise speech on a WestJet flight from Quebec City to #Calgary on Sunday.
A WestJet spokesperson said it was a public flight. The use of the PA in this circumstance was approved in advance by WestJet operational leadership, the pilots and inflight crew.
Today, a petulant Pierre #Poilievre refused to answer her question and then shut down a Canadian Press reporter, "You're just a tax-funded mouthpiece to the PMO."
Poilievre's playbook = Trump's playbook:
ask which news outlet a journalist is from
proceed to attack their credibility
dismiss the reporter, then blame PM
Discrediting the press is a tactic to make the public distrust all media and a very effective tool to avoid answering questions.
Re-posting an interesting piece from 2022 about Conservative leader Pierre #Poilievre.
"Cold & calculating"
"Poilievre tosses red meat at the masses"
"No debates! Why risk saying something that can be used against you"
"No charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace.
Pierre Poilievre is no leader."
"Pierre #Poilievre claims to lead a party that wants to get rid of 'gatekeepers'. What a laugh. Have you seen the things they just voted FOR?
They want to BE the gatekeepers. They will decide for us what we can and cannot do re our bodies, our health, our lives."
Reminder: Canada's Conservative Party has a close and friendly relationship with India's PM #Modi through the 'International Democratic Union' (IDU) organization headed by former Prime Minister Stephen #Harper. Some of the members include Hungary's Orban, Israel's Netanyahu, Mike Roman (Jan6) Steve Bannon, & Michael Flynn.
Update from the federal Conservative Convention being held in Québec City this weekend.
"The director of the anti-abortion group, Right Now, confirmed their goal is to nominate & elect even more anti-abortion politicians to the House of Commons, with an aim of passing legislation to restrict abortion access in #Canada."
Utah school district reverses decision on Bible, returns it to library shelves (thehill.com)
A northern Utah school district has reversed its earlier committee-based decision that removed the Bible from elementary and junior high school but kept it in high school libraries.