@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-09-18 07:01:30
"Nearly a quarter of MPs and half of the House of Lords were privately educated, and that was also true of half of newspaper columnists – up 7 percentage points since 2019 – 47% of political commentators and 45% of podcasters"
https://www.theguar…
@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-09-17 15:36:40
@cdarwin@c.im2025-07-18 03:34:23
Academics and colleagues are rallying around a California university professor who was arrested and charged with assaulting a federal officer during a chaotic immigration raid at a cannabis farm that resulted in a worker’s death.
John Caravello, a math and philosophy professor at California State University Channel Islands, joined a crowd of protesters who confronted immigration agents when they arrived at Glass House cannabis farm in Camarillo, a community about 50 miles north of Los …
@villavelius@mastodon.online2025-09-16 12:35:04
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-18 14:18:17
Top House Democrats are calling on Brendan Carr,
chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC),
to resign over the indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show.
The congressional leaders accuse Carr – who runs the US’ media watchdog
– of engaging in a “corrupt abuse of power”
by “bullying ABC” and forcing the media company to “bend the knee to the Trump administration”.
Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries, Minority whip Katherine Clark, Demo…
@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-08-16 16:10:43
We are gen Z – and AI is our future. Will that be good or bad? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/16/gen-z-ai-technology-hope-panel?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@buercher@tooting.ch2025-09-18 17:02:23
First, an ABC reporter was told that his coverage amounted to hate speech and that he should be prosecuted simply for doing his job. Then, the FCC threatened to go after this same network, seizing on a late-night comedian’s inopportune joke as a pretext to punish speech it disliked. That led to a shameful show of cowardly corporate capitulation by ABC that has put the foundation of the First Amendment in danger.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/18/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-comments-show-cancelled-suspended-monologue-trump-us-politics-live?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@buercher@tooting.ch2025-09-18 17:00:26
Schumer warned that Donald Trump’s and his threats against people who criticize murdered conservative activist Charlie Kirk “is an assault on everything this country has stood for since the Constitution has been signed”.
“One of the great hallmarks of our country is free speech, whether you agree or disagree, and this administration is trying to snuff it out. They don’t want people to even speak when they don’t like what they said. That is the road to autocracy."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/sep/18/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-comments-show-cancelled-suspended-monologue-trump-us-politics-live?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-10 02:40:10
Tammy Bruce is a former radio host who was a commentator on Fox News for more than 20 years,
where she also served as an occasional guest host of Trump favorite Sean Hannity’s show.
Before her political conversion to conservatism, she hosted a radio show where her outspoken views were broadcast widely on Los Angeles station KFI, and she was one of the few radio commentators representing the progressive movement at that time.
Bruce was fired from her radio job after she voc…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-14 16:24:21
A sense of apprehension hung over Los Angeles this week
in the wake of a supreme court ruling that paved the way for federal agents to conduct warrantless raids
and target people based on their skin color, accent or job.
Immigrant communities have been on edge for months amid sweeping raids that have rounded up thousands of people.
In July, a judge issued a temporary restraining order that barred agents from racially profiling people in southern and central California…