Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 11mImagine being so fucked up that you see your goal as creating a factory floor of children all of whom are going to grow up to despise you eventually. 040
Reposted by Alan AllportIan Simmons @iansimmons1960.bsky.social · 20hThing is the US is so averse to actual casualties that Hegseth's jacked meat puppets will never actually see combat, which makes them kind of pointless apart from being kind of living Tom of Finland illustrations 3215
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 3hI understand all those words individually but I’ve never seen them organized jn that particular pattern. 1112
Reposted by Alan AllportAndrew Cooper @rickynow.bsky.social · 4hWell I've thought about this, then given up thinking about it. 5136
Reposted by Alan AllportJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 8hMy teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning. 241389293
Reposted by Alan AllportBrian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 10hFrom Writing In The Sand by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, a celebration of the life of beaches in north-east England, 1973-98. 418538
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 5h“Your call is important to us” I think takes it by a nose. 6140
Reposted by Alan AllportBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14hthis would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes 752631486
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 6ha) ‘Englishness’ is a social construction b) Suella Braverman can think whatever she likes about it c) No-one else has to take her seriously Thank you for coming to my Twat Talk. 4435
Reposted by Alan AllportNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17hUnder Secretary Hegseth’s new plan, servicemen with low blood alcohol levels will be required to undergo vodka replacement therapy. 151000163
Reposted by Alan AllportJeremy Dauber @jeremydauber.bsky.social · 19hAnd we're off, with MOVIE NO. 102 in our chronological tour through the American movies of the 80s! This is a big one, an Oscars darling and one that has a lot to say about our story, and its title announces its emblematic status...from September 1980, it's Robert Redford's ORDINARY PEOPLE! 3224
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 17h“The death row inmate Christa Pike was in critical condition and receiving medical care, her lawyers said Thursday, a day after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her” (NYT) Genuinely unclear what the state is trying to do. Save her life so they can try killing her again when she’s, what, better? 2142
Reposted by Alan AllportTim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I want to believe that someone at the Times knew what they were doing here. 111102166
Reposted by Alan AllportAngie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 22hThe most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2 4465481057
Reposted by Alan AllportThe Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · 20hSign at El Alamein station, facing west, installed 2 July 1942. 2162
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 20hAn African-American like Nixon probably has family roots in the United States extending back to the 18th century if not earlier, which is at least as long if not longer than a Ulster reject twat like JD. 0243
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 22hIt’s perma-culture war and not actually very much of the bang-bang kind 061
Reposted by Alan AllportDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/10/2026i also just have to say that pointing at a falling down barn while bragging about how fewer people are coming to america is about the perfect encapsulation of how MAGA believes in making america smaller and weaker 341913392
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The American people tolerate the death penalty because they are addicted to the idea of vengeance, whether or not that makes any sense on moral or practical grounds. 3373
Reposted by Alan AllportKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026John Roberts' friend and defender is quoted in the piece, saying they shouldn't be shaming Roberts for the wreckage and ruin he's brought to this country because of "civility." The bullies always cry "civility" when the victims push back in the slightest. 2403846999
Reposted by Alan AllportKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Those losing their health benefits who were previously eligible include refugees of war, asylees who fled persecution, victims of sex trafficking, & interpreters who risked their lives assisting U.S. service members in Afghanistan — all of whom are in the country w/ the federal govt’s permission”statnews.comU.S. poised to boot legal immigrants from Medicaid, including refugees and sex-trafficking victimsHundreds of thousands of immigrants with legal status, including refugees and sex-trafficking victims, are at risk of losing government health coverage starting Oct. 1. 02919
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My death penalty position is that the state should not be in the business of deliberately killing its citizens and the fact that it’s also incapable of doing it humanely is just another level of the madness. 1302
Reposted by Alan AllportSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When the US State Department is doing such great work to project a friendly American face to the world, it’s a total mystery why fewer people are choosing to visit. 3759094
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“For twenty years, these men marched and fought, plundered and shagged their way across Europe.” The ever droll @jfb1066.bsky.social on Andrew Roberts on Napoleon’s marshals in October’s Literary Review. 2203
Reposted by Alan AllportRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When historians reflect on this regime, cruelty will be the word most often used to define it. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-dep…commondreams.org'Monstrous' US Deportation Hearings for Children Who 'Have No One' Shock Consciences | Common DreamsChildren as young as 3 facing deportation orders without legal representation in immigration court hearings. How can we 26644731968
Reposted by Alan AllportAlistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026No she’s not. 21704117
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Authorities take woman to hospital after multiple failed attempts to kill her so that once she’s recovered they can try to kill her again” would be the most American headline ever if only she was also to be billed for the treatment. 13014
Reposted by Alan AllportDr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 01/10/2026Between October 2023 and April 2024, Israel dropped more explosives on Gaza than were dropped on London, Dresden, and Hamburg combined during all of WWII. The destruction of Rafah, which I believe is the city in this picture, did not begin until May 2024. 26530
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Delighted to announce that the Royal Historical Society has seen fit to honour me with an (checks notes) invoice. 1211
Reposted by Alan AllportRomeo Echo @romeoecho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Pet Peeve Of The Day: Websites with a login page with a little checkbox that says "Remember Me", except they never, ever, ever seem to be able to "Remember Me" 1856340
Reposted by Alan AllportDamonTheDemon @damonthedemon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Few Highlights from 1980s Miners strike Mass unemployment and deindustrialisation 1981 inner city riots HIV Section 28 Poll Tax riots Housing crisis and right to buy Hillsborough Mad Cow disease Decimation of the welfare state NHS outsourcing / chronic underfunding 107712224
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Mind boggling” implies that there’s something mysterious about this when the explanation is in fact pretty obvious. 5396
Reposted by Alan AllportSemafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2... 62731081099
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Britain now approaching Bermuda; BRACE FOR IMPACT 3220
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There are some absolute cunts out there but normally their cuntish instincts are kept in check by social disapproval. One of the things that the Balaclava Brigade (aided by politicians and the BBC’s ‘legitimate concerns’ narrative) have been able to do is mobilize and legitimize that cuntishness. 0102
Reposted by Alan AllportBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Side note on this: wartime Benzedrine and other amphetamines were produced in such gigantic quantities for the allies that students in the UK and Australia after the war used to take them routinely when cramming for exams. 1121614
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026RIP Esther Rantzen. That’s Life! was a part of my childhood and in retrospect it was a very weird show - half of it exposes about orphan-crushing and the other half about vegetables that looked a bit like cocks. 1110
Reposted by Alan AllportSkip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026How the month started to how it ended. 19748139
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I see Joyce Carol Oates is Having Opinions again 270
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Three of our nation’s best mindsstatic.klipy.comThree Stooges: Larry Hits Moe & Curly with MalletALT: Three Stooges: Larry Hits Moe & Curly with Mallet 1101
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I heartily recommend jumping on Jeremy’s fascinating, thoughtful, amusing, surely-to-God-he’ll-never-finish-this bandwagon through *every single freaking 1980s film* now he’s hit an (early) milestone. 2101
Reposted by Alan AllportBryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Hegseth has a lot of opinions about how to win a war for a guy who just lost one. 1314
Reposted by Alan AllportCarol Shoshkes Reiss, Ph. D. @carolshoshkesreiss.bsky.social · 30/09/2026this is becoming the case, and professionals have been leaving the countryhaaretz.comOpinion | A Jewish homeland – for right-wing Jews only?The decision to stop two young Jews involved in "protective presence" activism from immigrating to Israel casts a disturbing shadow over Israel's claim to be the national home of all Jews 042