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Joe Heenan @joe-heenan.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I love this mural in Glasgow. It's so bloody excellent
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Wannabe dictator.
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 12/04/2025
The reports of European visitors having their phones searched at the border and turned away if they've criticised Trump in private messages has already had an impact on US tourism. Keep in mind most people book these trips way in advance. This is just the start. www.ft.com/content/6dc1...
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
In recent weeks, the number of people travelling from Europe to the U.S has plummeted — by as much as 35%. The sharp decline in tourism is a direct response to Trump’s punishing policies — including tariffs and the horrific treatment of immigrants and foreigners.
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tales-typoz @tales-typoz.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
After 80 days in power, Trump has no headway in his alleged endeavor to reach a ceasefire between Russia & Ukraine. He abused Ukraine & stopped all assistance for 11 days & closed USAID in Ukraine. Trump has posed no conditions on Russia & Putin has made no concessions. Trump stands with Putin.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Elon Musk is such a sad, pathetic little man.
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Judge Luttig @judgeluttig.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 10/04/2025
Russian forces yet again committed a warcrime. Four Ukrainian soldiers were shot while laying face-down in the grass, unarmed. It happened in Piatykhatky, Zaporizhzia region.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/04/2025
Whew -- get a load of that stock ticker in the bottom right corner during Trump's cabinet meeting. Grim stuff.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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Montana farmers see Canadian trade dry up due to tariffs
The Montana Farmers Union reports the Trump Administration’s widespread tariffs already caused a significant drop in the price of several crops -- and they say
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
JUST IN: A judge has denied Trump's motion to dismiss a defamation claim brought by the Central Park 5 rleated to statements Trump made during debate with Harris. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
He already discussed with his rich pals during the presidential transition the idea of doing this for them ==>> bsky.app/profile/swin...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/04/2025
🚨 NEWS: The White House confirms the tariff on Chinese imports is now 145%—not 125%. Reminder: tariffs are taxes on imported goods, which means Americans end up paying more.
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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Again, 90 percent of these men have no criminal record.
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
That’s because there weren’t any.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10/04/2025
This has been the GOP MO for as long as I've drawn breath offer you a giant pile of shit then "compromise" with a giant pile of shit half the size GOP and corporate press then normalize and celebrate the new, relocated goalposts together
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Yes there's the strong temptation to ascribe Trump’s actions to market manipulation - but as I keep saying - we cannot rule out the possibility that he is just an incredibly stupid and incompetent individual atop an administration made up of absolute clowns.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
"TRUMP is embarking on the economic equivalent of the Vietnam War—a war of choice that will soon result in a quagmire, undermining faith at home and abroad in both the trustworthiness and the competence of the USA and we know how that turned out" Spot on www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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Trade Wars Are Easy to Lose
Beijing has escalation dominance in the U.S.-Chinese tariff fight.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Watching trump fold on tariffs shouldn't surprise you. He folded to Russia before we even negotiated.
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charles1956.bsky.social @charles1956.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
"I see no kelpies"..
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AnneNC @annetm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Trump factors in nothing other than, look how powerful he is; countries were "kissing his ass". With a few words, he can cause panic at a world level, cause markets/ppl to lose $$$... This is not a stable man. He is destabilizing America financially, socially,... and damaging our security.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Trump has cut the part of the FDA that notifies doctors and the public when there is a safety problem with a drug or a medical device. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Trump has ended up looking confused — and even worse, WEAK — on the global stage.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
President Trump is using the Abrego Garcia case to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop him from imprisoning anyone he wants anywhere else in the world never to be seen or heard from again. His dream is to preside over a police state. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s Gulag Archipelago
He is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants, anywhere in the world.
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Yes, the captain intentionally piloted the ship into a huge iceberg, cracking the vessel like an egg. But the officers insist we'll all greatly benefit from an invigorating midnight swim through Arctic waters.
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Sara Spector @miriam2626.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The more conciliatory I was to my ex malignant narcissist boyfriend the more controlling and cruel he became. Conciliation is a malignant narcissist’s sustenance. That’s why the world must not back down.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This quote from Fundstrat Market Strategy & Sector Research is, sadly, spot on.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Dan Caine, Trump’s new replacement for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reportedly told Trump, “I love you, sir. I think you’re great, sir. I’ll kill for you, sir.” He also put on a MAGA hat, despite it violating military protocol.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
(📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The Daily Beast publishes a sourced allegation that Trump has been a Russian spy since 1987 and then—possibly under some form of threat—deletes it. But in an act of unusual heroism, it left it up long enough for Wayback Machine to capture it text. Here it is (please share):
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Former Intelligence Officer Claims KGB Recruited Trump
Alnur Mussayev alleged Trump was given the codename “Krasnov”.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14/02/2025
THREAD: Trump's intentionally flooding the news cycle w/ a stream of outrage porn to distract, scare, & confuse. These are the stories that actually matter that you might've missed this week: NIH funding cuts jeopardize ‘life-saving’ research in AL aldailynews.com/nih-funding-...
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NIH funding cuts could jeopardize 'life-saving' research in Alabama
A federal judge temporarily blocked the changes in 22 states Monday after the states sued the Trump Administration over the funding cuts arguing they would be “devastating.” Alabama is not part of tha...
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 07/02/2025
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The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler
They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
“I told you if you hold on to clothes long enough they come back in fashion” From the new Private Eye, out now.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Funny how that works
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Western shipowners received more than $6 billion by selling old oil tankers to a shadow fleet transporting Russian oil - Follow the Money investigation
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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
They're waking up.
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WIRED @wired.com · 06/02/2025
SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.
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The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE's Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn't exist.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/02/2025
NEW CBS reports that Trump almost FLOODED the Central Valley of California by instructing the Army Corps of Engineers to release billions of gallons of water from two reservoirs in California's Central Valley. 1/
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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
NYT:
In a forceful response on social media, President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico rejected “the White House’s slander” in any suggestion that the Mexican government had established an alliance with organized crime groups. “If such an alliance exists anywhere,” she added, “it is in the U.S. gun shops that sell high-powered weapons to these criminal groups.” Mexico’s Foreign Ministry estimates that more than 2.5 million guns have flooded over America’s southern border in the past decade.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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Pen2Net @pen2net.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
"Very soon, Europe will stand at Trump's feet and wag its tail gently. Donald will quickly restore order, and everything will fall into place. Europe fought against Trump, meddling in US affairs, but now seems lost as he takes power." Putin said. ~NOELREPORTS -
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Five years after we left, a new YouGov poll finds a grand total of 2% of voters think Brexit has had a very positive impact on the NHS.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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EU medicines agency quits X, moves to Bluesky
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Monday it would no longer post on X and would use rival Bluesky instead, becoming the latest organisation to quit a social media platform that some have criticised for its content.
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