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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says. Lost for words at the insanity in Trumpistan, a truly sick dictatorship. Like medieval times, executions offered as a public spectacle in a country that claims to be Christian. What next?
bbc.co.uk
Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
Pete Hegseth says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain".
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Deer from Descrizioni Degli Animali, Innocente Alessandri, Pietro Scattaglia and Lodovico Leschi, 1771-1775.
Fallow deer depicted next to a broken tree, fungi and flowers, illustration.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’ve never been more embarrassed to be an American.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“Edie might be over 100, but head scratches never get old” 🥰 IG: @sanantoniozoo www.wnct.com/have-you-see...
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Holy Fuck — There really was a little girl in the car when those KKK thugs shot her father in the Bronx. FUCK ICE FUCK TRUMP FUCK YOU FOR SUPPORTING HIM
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Today’s Autumn Arrival Spotlight... the Fieldfare! 🍒 Flocks arrive from Scandinavia, filling UK hedgerows and fields with their speckled breasts and blue-grey heads, feasting on berries and insects.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
It's not Roosevelt we're dealing with. Hell, it's not even Nixon.
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Stefan 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🇬🇱 @stefanswelt.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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a cat is sitting in a cardboard box on the floor while another cat looks on .
Alt: a cat is sitting in a cardboard box on the floor while another cat looks on .
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Trump has turned the Department of Justice into his own personal vendetta machine. And Pam Bondi has been happy to go along for the ride. We're witnessing the most egregious politicization of the DOJ in recent memory — and I lived through the Nixon years. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
nbcnews.com
Large banner of Trump unfurled at Justice Department headquarters
The DOJ has traditionally operated with a degree of separation from the White House to prevent the department's powers from being abused for political purposes.
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Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust @bbowt.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
🐝 Bumblebees are back! This is the time of year when queen bumblebees, who have spent the entire winter hiding safely underground, emerge from their holes. 🌼 The first thing the queens do on emerging is find spring flowers such as snowdrops, crocuses or daffodils, to drink all the nectar they can.
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Roman Piso @romanpiso.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
#Discover @paulinsc.bsky.social @hermes61.bsky.social www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Devastating Poll Reveals How Many Americans Call Billionaire Trump ‘Corrupt’
A brutal new poll reveals a significant portion of the American public has a remarkably low opinion of the president. A striking share of Americans now describe billionaire President Donald Trump as “...
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alkanette.bsky.social @alkanette.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/th...
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The time for change is now: end fox hunting
Hunting was supposed to be banned over 20 years ago, but the hunts have carried on chasing and killing wild animals with dogs like the law never changed. This government was elected on a promise to fi...
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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
peaklass: Sometimes you meet trees that undoubtedly must shake themselves, stretch their branches and move around the woods at night. This old beech has roots like tentacles, swarming across the mossy rocks, not to tether it to the earth but to propel it around when my back is turned.
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alkanette.bsky.social @alkanette.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Sunday thought: Green Shoots? open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Sunday thought: Green Shoots?
The past week
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Rob Connell @robconnell.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The question isn't how we save ourselves from Reform. It's how we save ourselves from Labour.
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alkanette.bsky.social @alkanette.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Buck McGraw @buckmcgraw.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I’ll Syiuuuueeeee you!
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Taking part in #BigGardenBirdwatch today or over the weekend? Head over to our dedicated BGBW feed for all the birdy chat, sightings and joy! PS Yes, of course we want to see your tea-and-biscuit set-ups ☕🍪👇 bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 23/01/2026
Bravo @ben-cooke.bsky.social. Brilliant scoop, and hard to imagine a more important one. “This government is hiding the true danger of climate change from the people”. Spooks don’t mess about when they leak. www.thetimes.com/article/4a1c...
The internal version also warned that collapsing ecosystems could motivate acts of eco-terrorism in Britain, as well as drawing NATO into conflicts over remaining breadbaskets in Russia and Ukraine. 
Described as a reasonable worst case scenario the report said that many ecosystems around the world were so stressed that they would soon pass a tipping point after which they were an inexorably degrade no matter what humans did to protect them.  forests in Canada and Russia might pass a tipping point by 2030 as my glacier in the Himalayas that fed Rivers on which 2 billion people dependent the report suggested. Intelligence chiefs warned that the decline of Himalayan rivers would almost certainly escalate tensions between China India and Pakistan potentially leading to nuclear war.Britton which imports 40% of its food including a fifth of its animal feed from South America, which struggle to feed itself unless it made expensive investments in its supply chains the authors said. These investments could include lab grown meat a new crop varieties. “This government is hiding the true danger of climate change from the people” a source close to the development of the report claimed. “We need to have an honest conversation about the risks we face to our prosperity and how to mitigate them.”
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MellowSteadyFlow @mellowsteadyflow.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on Trump’s Board of Peace: an international body in service to one man’s ego | Editorial
Editorial: It was supposed to give Gaza a future, but the US president is using it to attack the UN, international law and multilateralism
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
PM Starmer: Putin being on a board of peace - he is waging war on a European country and as we sit here, they're raining down bombs on #Ukraine. it's minus 20, 60% of the energy in Kiev is gone and people are having to put tents up in their living rooms to keep warm.
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alkanette.bsky.social @alkanette.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Someone stop this moron. It hurts to listen to him. Toe curling.
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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
A demented Donald Trump confused Greenland with Iceland as a silent crowd watches in horror as the President of the USA humiliates himself, slurring badly and visibly disoriented
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Donald Trump has lost his mind. youtu.be/NQHLciC67V8?...
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Has Donald Trump Finally Lost It?
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I like how the rules of media sanewashing have a paradoxical effect. Trump doesn’t simply fuck up his speech; he only “appears to” because the rules dictate we have to leave room for the possibility he’s announcing a campaign to acquire the sovereign nation of Iceland—another NATO ally—as well.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
For the second time in two days, Trump appears to confuse Iceland and Greenland. "They‘re not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. I mean, our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money."
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
BREAKING: European Union halts new trade deal during Trump’s speech in Switzerland. I watched the entire speech so that you did not have to, and recapped it here. Simply put: if Joe Biden gave this speech, they would call for the 25th Amendment. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
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BREAKING: European Union Halts Trade Deal with United States While Trump Blasts Europe During Bizarre Speech at Davos
We have major news this morning.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
'Is There A Plan Behind Trump's Confusion of Greenland and Iceland' will appear somewhere tomorrow, I'm sure. people invested in the idea that the system can still work will do anything to avoid the reality of the president's deluded ignorance.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
For any other public official, this would be criminal www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Opinion | How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion
The president took an oath to serve the American people. Instead, he’s focused his second term on enriching himself and his family.
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Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust @bbowt.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
⚠️ Yesterday the Government released a National Security Assessment which confirms what we've known for a while - continued nature loss is a global threat and would have dire consequences for all of us. 🧵 (1/7)
Text: New Government National Security Assessment: Nature loss is a 'global threat'
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Roman Piso @romanpiso.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Trump’s Bizarre Behavior Has a Clinical Name: Disinhibition
Trump’s late-night posts and diplomatic leaks raise questions about disinhibition, an early marker of cognitive decline inside the presidency.
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Roman Piso @romanpiso.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
#Discover www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Rambling Trump runs through his achievements as worried world watches on
The ‘very stable genius’ zigzagged wildly in a packed press room – Nato’s future lies in the hands of a modern Caligula
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 21/01/2026
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 21/01/2026
There's been some speeches this week which will absolutely make their way into collections of great political speeches. It's really been quite a moment
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Trump didn’t flood Minnesota with federal agents because of undocumented immigrants — he did it because he lost there, hates its leadership, and wanted to remind a blue state what power looks like when it’s unrestrained. Texas and Florida, with millions more undocumented residents, were ignored.
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Trump’s Immigration “Crackdown” Is a Political Occupation, Not Law Enforcement
3,000 federal agents in Minneapolis — while Texas and Florida, with far larger undocumented populations, see none. This isn’t about immigration. It’s about vengeance, intimidation, and power.
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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The new world order... ‘Best speech by a world leader ... in a very long time’: Carney’s Davos address draws global attention www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
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‘Best speech by a world leader ... in a very long time’: Carney’s Davos address draws global attention
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s keynote address at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos has sparked widespread international coverage as global news organizations weigh the future amid rising geopoliti...
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Britain is Europe’s weakest link - my latest for @euractiv.com
euractiv.com
Britain is Europe’s weakest link | Euractiv
Europeans should harbour no illusion: Britain will be at the forefront of those pushing Denmark to cut a deal with Trump at almost any cost rather than deepen the rift
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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
One of the reasons why Carney was able to give such a powerful speech is that he has been thinking of these issues for a long time. He watched firsthand in 2016 as Britain committed what he considered to be a monumental act of stupidity with Brexit. Here he alludes to it directly
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 21/01/2026
Carney's words for middle powers also apply to the internet: Diversification reduces vulnerability Normality is not coming back. We must de-risk not just from China but the US "In this world you need a web of connections." We're working so we won't have to choose between hegemons + hyperscalers.
youtube.com
Full: PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum in Davos
YouTube video by FactPointVideo
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Roman Piso @romanpiso.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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Trump Goes Wild In Unhinged Middle-Of-The-Night Posting Spree Over Greenland
The president fired off a series of posts well after midnight that included private messages from world leaders.
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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 20/01/2026
Scott Bessent appeared to taunt the Europeans in Davos, saying they will “form the dreaded European working group first, which seems to be their most forceful weapon". Mocking Emmanuel "Jupiter" Macron may be a mistake.
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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
BREAKING: Trump admits in a jaw-dropping letter to Norway’s Prime Minister that he's threatening to seize Greenland because he's upset that he didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize. We have entered full-blown mad king territory... www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 19/01/2026
The President’s betrayal of NATO is complete with this latest tariff threat. It will only further alienate our allies, drive economic uncertainty, and raise costs. Congress must act, and put a stop this self-destructive madness. www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/01/...
cnbc.com
Trump says 8 European nations face tariffs rising to 25% if Greenland isn't sold to the U.S.
Trump recently hinted that he may pursue a tariff strategy on Greenland similar to the one he used to force foreign countries to change their drug prices.
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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
2016: a tiny orphan landed at the Nursery. So began Ambo's story with us. Ten years on, he's living wild, fraternising with Kenya's biggest bulls. He hails from Amboseli, land of the legendary Craig – who knows, he might become a tusker himself. swt.bio/ambo
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Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii): 90cm (35in). This Pacific seabird is easily identifiable by its bright blue webbed feet, which they use to keep their eggs warm. Their streamlined bodies make them excellent divers, & they can plummet from heights as high as 80 feet! #booby #bird #nature #wildlife
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Sue Reeve @suereeve.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This just shows what a vindictive, mealy mouthed, vengeful, grudge-bearing, acrimonious, spiteful, bitter excuse for a human #Trump is. #Greenland BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Trump links Greenland dispute to not getting Nobel Peace Prize, in letter to Norway's PM - BBC News
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Trump links Greenland dispute to not getting Nobel Peace Prize, in letter to Norway's PM - BBC News
The US president says he no longer feels obliged to think only of peace, after not being awarded the annual prize.
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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 19/01/2026
Waking up to news Trump told Norway he wants Greenland bc he didn't get the peace prize is just... what the fuck are we doing. This is a clearly sick man who needs medical care. He should not be holding this much power.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The President of the United States is incontrovertibly mentally unwell and wants to make war. The Prime Minister of Norway has confirmed that he received this letter. It seems to me that several things must happen, preferably as soon as possible. 1/3
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Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This isn't satire. No jokes. This is the President of the United States telling Norway that he's going to take Greenland from Denmark because Norway didn't give him a peace prize. This isn't Orange Man Bad. This is Orange Man Mad.
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