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@colron49.bsky.social
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Brit living in northern Thailand after spending most of my adult life in Germany. I have always taken and continue to take a keen interest in politics and social matters from a left-leaning perspective. No DMs please.

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GoBlue @blu2b4u.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Sierra Club’s forest campaign manager, Alex Craven: Trump admin is ignoring the voices of millions of Americans to pursue a corporate giveaway for his billionaire buddies. Stripping our national forests of roadless rule protections will put close to 60m acres of wildlands on the chopping block.
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Trump rescinds protections on 59m acres of national forest to allow logging
Agriculture secretary to scrap ‘roadless rule’ that protects lands including largest old growth forest in country
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 23/06/2025
Superb from Led By Donkeys. I remember exactly where I was when I heard the liars like him had conned 37% of the electorate into a very narrow win indeed. Unforgivable. Ever. Still angry. Brexit is a crime.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Enjoy America! 🇺🇸
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Anyone know how much she profited on Trump's illegal market manipulation and insider trading scam?
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
SPINELESS POLITICIANS FAIL US AGAIN! They all talk a big game… Trump Tariffs: A bipartisan measure to undo Trump's global tariffs fails in the Senate. The resolution to rein in Trump's tariff authority stalled on a 49-49 tie, with two senators missing the vote. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
nbcnews.com
A bipartisan measure to undo Trump's global tariffs fails in the Senate
The resolution to rein in Trump's tariff authority stalled on a 49-49 tie, with two senators missing the vote.
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Mark Z. Barabak @markzbarabak.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
NEW: She was wrongly snagged by Trump’s word police. Now her medical research is down the drain. A UCSF eye doc's passing mention of "hesitancy" cost her $3 million in funding to study the shingles vaccine. Latest installment in "Trump's America" series www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
latimes.com
Commentary: She was wrongly snagged by Trump's word police. Now her medical research is down the drain
A UC San Francisco eye doctor mentioned "hesitancy" and "uptake" in her grant application. That cost her $3 million in funding for shingles vaccine research.
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Joel Montfort @montfort.me · 01/05/2025
The Gestapo ICE invades a US citizen's home, forces them out on the street, steals their belongings, life savings, and then leaves under the guise that they were looking for someone. newrepublic.com/post/194557/...
newrepublic.com
ICE Invades Wrong Home, Steals Their Life Savings, and Then Leaves
A woman says armed federal agents stole from her family and left their home trashed. “I know it was a little rough this morning,” one of them later told her.
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I’ve Had It Podcast @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
A new low, even for MTG 👀
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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Mingomonk @mingomonk.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Go to hell
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22/04/2025
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
motherjones.com
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
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West England Bylines @westenglandbylines.co.uk · 23/04/2025
We finally have the reasons for refusing the appeal against the £3bn grant to Thames Water. Read about this and more in our latest Sewage Watch - westenglandbylines.co.uk/features/bro...
westenglandbylines.co.uk
Sewage Watch – Protect our rivers and beaches
Since April 2023 Sewage Watch has been keeping a running log of press coverage on the state of sewage dumping into our rivers and onto our beaches - Updated April 2025
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Does Kristi Noem carry $3,000 in cash in her Louis Vuitton because she can't get a credit card or because she doesn't want a credit card recording of where she spends money?
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NPR @npr.org · 21/04/2025
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
npr.org
With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us'
Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.
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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Is 20 hours the typical length of time it takes to die after encountering a demon sent by the Antichrist?
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
👇🏽🎯
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
nbcnews.com
New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22/04/2025
Serious question. Kristi Noem was pictured with a Rolex in El Salvador, and got 3k in cash stolen. She has been on a govt salary for years. Something aint right
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Everyone who served in the military knew a lieutenant like Hegseth. We just never imagined that we would ever have a president who would make one of those dipshits Sec of Defense because he liked his rap on TV.
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NPR @npr.org · 21/04/2025
BREAKING NEWS: The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
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The White House has begun process of looking for new secretary of defense
The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
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J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Hot take here, but the President tweeting out "we cannot give everyone a trial" should by itself be impeachable.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
WHO ELSE AGREES WITH BARBRA?! 🤚
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Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The Dow is now headed for its worst April since 1932 -- the very worst year of the Great Depression.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
He’s weakening our country. He’s weakening our economy. He’s weakening our alliances. He’s weakening the free world. He’s weakening our influence around the world. And Putin keeps smiling every single day.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 20/04/2025
If poor Americans must prove their worth to get Medicaid, Paul Waldman argues the same work requirements should apply to the rich. Capital gains? Prove you’re working. Yacht tax breaks? Pee in a cup. Farm subsidies? Clock in. 1/2
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Horrible -- and unlikely this is just happening in upstate New York: www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04...
Lawyers, advocates and people who have been pulled over say Oswego County sheriff’s deputies are cooperating with Border Patrol agents in a way that smacks of racial profiling. Videos and court records support that theory.

Deputies are stopping Hispanic drivers for minor, unprovable traffic violations like veering left of center, then handing them over to Border Patrol agents who are sometimes already at the scene, the Syracuse.com investigation shows.

In other cases, immigration agents act on anonymous tips and stake out homes. They follow migrant workers from work sites to restaurants.

Undercover officers in ski masks show up at dairy farms in unmarked cars.

They split up families. They take children from schools, even when they turn out to be U.S. citizens.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20/04/2025
BREAKING NYT: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, according to four people with knowledge of the chat.
nytimes.com
Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat
The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/04/2025
“The Pentagon is in ‘total chaos’ and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is unlikely to remain in his role, according to its former top spokesperson, who painted a scene of dysfunction, backstabbing and continuous missteps at the highest levels of the department.”
politico.com
Former Pentagon official warns department's dysfunction could topple Hegseth
“The last month has been a full-blown meltdown at the Pentagon,” John Ullyot, the former top Defense Department spokesperson, wrote in a POLITICO Magazine opinion piece.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
2025: "Brexit costs and red tape denying NHS cancer patients life-saving drugs" 2018: Brexiter Gisela Stuart, "It is important to knock on the head this notion that we didn't know what we were doing.. I know exactly what I was doing" She's now sat -unelected - in the House of Lords
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Navy veteran , ODAT @search1wy.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Sick!!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Somewhat ironic that the least qualified, most unfit and incompetent Sec of Defense in American history is the one who abolished DEI.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Raskin: The president derives his powers only either from the Constitution explicitly or from an act of Congress and Congress certainly has never given the president the power to relocate prisoners to foreign countries and there's nothing in the constitution that remotely vests that power…
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
He would have never been appointed by a president who cared about our military. He’s a disgrace to the people in uniform who serve www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
nytimes.com
Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat
The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 20/04/2025
"We can't defend Abrego Garcia personally because he might be a criminal, we're just defending due process generally" is dereliction of duty because defending Abrego Garcia personally LITERALLY IS due process. The process he's due is literally a defense. We should defend both due process AND HIM.
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Sending the 300 migrants to a prison in El Salvador is a violation of 13 international laws and/or treaties, US law, and 3 Constitutional Amendments.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 21/04/2025
The U.S. Senate confirmed Harmeet Dhillon, a veteran lawyer with a history of attacking voting rights, to lead the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
democracydocket.com
Fox in the Henhouse: Senate Confirms Anti-Voting Lawyer Harmeet Dhillon to Top Voting Rights Post
Read more here.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/04/2025
NEW: When a firefighter dies, a small team of federal health workers helps pinpoint what went wrong and identify how to avoid similar accidents in the future. Trump laid off nearly all of them.
propublica.org
Trump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter Deaths
The cuts, which are part of Trump’s slashing of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, will also halt a first-of-its-kind study of the causes of thousands of firefighters’ cancer cases.
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Other98 @other98.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Just hours after the so-called “truce”– russia launched 96 shaheds and 3 missiles. Kharkiv, Dnipro, Cherkasy were hit. Destructions everywhere. And now we hear talks of peace deals– Where Crimea is gifted to the invader. Where the murderer gets rewarded, And russia “blossoms again.” 🔽
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
"Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was included, the newly revealed one was created by Hegseth. Named “Defense | Team Huddle,” it included his wife and about a dozen other people.... He used his private phone, not his government one, to access the Signal chat." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
nytimes.com
Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat
The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Doubling down on stupid
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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SantiniMore @santinimore.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
No we cannot!😱
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