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Dave Coventry

@dcoventry.bsky.social
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South African, interested in US and UK politics, cricket, rugby, player of hockey (field), Linux. Mourning my 2 ginger toms who have both died aged 18. They've had a long life, but still.

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Stuart Johnson @stujohnson.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
All that has historically been wrong with the ANC government on show in this one ANC Minister. Sunday Times - S’THEMBISO MSOMI | Tolashe nanny scandal reveals truth of our self-serving political elite www.sundaytimes.co.za/opinion-and-...
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S’THEMBISO MSOMI | Tolashe nanny scandal reveals truth of our self-serving political elite
Social development minister seems comfortable trampling on the rights of a poor and vulnerable employee for her own benefit, writes S'thembiso Msomi.
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Yes. I am also very uneasy about the severity of Malema's sentence. Obviously he isn't my most favourite MP and I do regard his singing of 'Kill the Boer', while not deemed illegal having been tested in court, as definitely provocative. Moreover, it gives ammunition to white supremacists.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Quite. Pretending that he is playing a game of 5D chess that is beyond the intelligence levels of us mere mortals disguises the fact that he's a fucking idiot.
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
More than that, don't hide. Don't be reticent because you don't want confrontation. I'm convinced the reason Trump and his minions believe elections are stolen is because Democrats are not as willing as Trumpers to hold forth. If you're a farmer, don't let other farmers tell you to vote Trump.
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
'Piss Board' I like it. I was struggling for a term to describe this stupidity and I think you've nailed it.
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Stuart Johnson @stujohnson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Zuma's dirty fingerprints all over this once more. The most destructive President we have ever had - and hopefully will ever have... Once again frustrating justice by any means possible. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026... Sent with my Daily Maverick App (app.dailymaverick.co.za)
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HOLD/HYPERLINK QUERY Judge Sisi Khampepe being illegally monitored by Jacob Zuma, inquiry hears
It appears that retired Constitutional Court Judge Sisi Khampepe, who chairs the groundbreaking inquiry into possible political interference in the stalling of apartheid-era prosecutions, might be und
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Very apt.
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Good. I have limited sympathy for some farmers who didn't vote for Trump because I feel that most, particularly those in deep Red communities, were not committed enough as activists. I feel many pretended to be Trump supporters while voting for Harris because of social pressure or just kept quiet.
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Ashlie Weeks, Esq.--"Mo" @ashlieweeks.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
It looks like Epstein is occasionally showing up in the Trump files.
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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
📸 Mariupol, March 7, 2022. Two weeks later, russia would bomb this building — killing these three little girls. They were buried in the yard of the kindergarten across the street. They stayed, believing the world would protect them. Tragically, like so many, they were wrong.
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 08/12/2025
The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
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The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU
The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
I was tagged and asked to take a look at this claim - cos, well just look at it!🙄 Does it seem plausible that THE Trocadero is going to be turned into a Mosque? It was pretty easy to debunk but I decided to do a deep dive into the reality AND the appalling press coverage 🧵 1/26
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I see plenty of good ideas being mentioned, but nobody to actually carry them out. The Democratic leadership is happy to sit on their hands and wait for the midterms while Rome burns or write angry letters.
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
😂
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LeChatNoir @meidasog.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Good night!
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I doubt it's Russia, even if 'falling out of the 22nd floor window' fits their MO very neatly. Mossad? As a warning about and retaliation for the S. African ICJ case against Israel? And I very much doubt that it's a suicidal remorse for the missing Tembisa millions. That simply isn't the ANC way.
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Stuart Johnson @stujohnson.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Because they thought they would rule until Jesus comes. Now, if only we'd had an inclusive and therefore viable opposition party capable of winning 51% of the vote!! (Preferably not ruled by a matriarch overly sure of her own often right-wing conservative beliefs and over-inflated self-importance)
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
That's unkind...
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
you just know somebody’s being called by their full name right now
A striped cat appears to be “yelling” at a kitten with the exact same coloring. The kitten’s eyes are wide open and their ears pinned back.
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Especially a so called businessman who bankrupted multiple companies and who is manifestly inept.
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Daily Maverick @dailymaverick.co.za · 17/08/2025
A march in Sea Point, Cape Town, on Sunday was the latest in a series of protests aimed at spotlighting the targeted killing of media workers in Gaza. Local journalists led the demonstration, expressing solidarity with their colleagues on the other side of the world.
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‘TARGETED ATTACK’: Cape Town journalists march in solidarity with media workers targeted and killed in Gaza
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Thanks for highlighting it. I have close family members who take a Telegraph subscription and the irrational, unreliable, obsessive, rabble rousing misinformation put out by that grotty rag has turned empathetic humans into hate filled monsters.
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Neil @stopfordianneil.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I’ve mulled over posting this for months now. But yesterday it came to a head. And I’m aware that the people who need to see it will either not be here, or will suggest that I’m lying. I live near an asylum hotel. The reason I didn’t post earlier is that I didn’t want to raise undue attention
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/08/2025
Family of Southport stabbing victim criticise plan to reveal ethnicity of suspects
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Family of Southport stabbing victim criticise plan to reveal ethnicity of suspects
Exclusive: Michael Weston King, grandfather of Bebe King, warns government against ‘kowtowing to the likes of Farage’ The family of Bebe King, one of the three girls killed in the Southport attack last year, have urged ministers to reconsider their support for disclosing the ethnicity of serious crime suspects, saying this information is “completely irrelevant” and that “the propensity to commit crime happens in any ethnicity, nationality or race”. Bebe was six when she was murdered by 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana, a Welsh-born black Briton from a Christian family who had lived in the local area for a number of years. Continue reading...
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Emily PhD 🎓 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Funded by several NIH grants, including two of them to a Harvard researcher. This is the kind of thing the current administration is trying to take away from us. THIS
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Quite. ' If Jews were not hated before, Netanyahu has made them universally despised. Killing an entire Nation to steal their land is not morally defensible, but nor is it possible and the only likely result will be the ratcheting up of tensions and hatred worldwide. Strategically flawed indeed.
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Me @freedom4all77.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Love it!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 26/07/2025
David Pakman is onto something here. Something is not adding up...
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The most suspicious thing I've ever seen on YouTube
The curious case of Benny Johnson's channel
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
It's the Trump methodology. I remember him saying that "if they stop testing, the numbers will go down" during the pandemic. Schrödinger's hurricane.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Trump’s attack against Iran is illegal and immoral. And any leader who tells you otherwise is lying to you.
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Stuart Johnson @stujohnson.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The easy answer to the travails facing ratepaying citizens is that it is incompetence that causes the service delivery failures. That's not the case - state capture at municipal level by ruthless political mafias is the norm and the real cancer. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
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Makhanda cleric fighting poor service delivery won't be put off by death threat
A group called the Concerned Makhanda Residents has raised the alarm after its chairperson, Archbishop Nkosinathi Ngesi, was told that municipal officials had been overheard saying he was the only stu...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Similarities between ICE & the Gestapo
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Sara Spector @miriam2626.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I’m sorry I’ve been quiet on here. But I want to say I fully endorse @BetoORourke for whatever he chooses to run for . I am optimistic in Texas again !
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Netanyahu has placed Israel in mortal danger and the spectre of Israel losing support internationally is very real. Israel cannot exist alone and if they lose the backing of the US they are finished. Hence the fear and hence the attacks.
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
That would be the crux of the matter.
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I have a little conspiracy theory that Hegseth is deliberately using an unsecured line as a channel to supply the Kremlin with classified information while still maintaining plausible deniability through incompetence.
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
1 might be a happenstance, 2 might be carelessness, but 3 looks like an attempt to leak information to the Russians while using incompetence to provide plausible deniability. Or is my conspiracy theory a little too far fetched?
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Rico Schacherl @ricoschacherl.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...
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Enter the Dragon
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
The pill was the driver for the emancipation of women because it offered reliable birth control to allow women to control their lives away from the endless conveyor line of birth. In doing so, it cut the chains that bound them to the wishes of men and freed them from a biblical straightjacket.
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Right. Democrats need to gear up right now for the inevitable smears and misinformation that the Right will use. @antifaoperative.bsky.social has been keeping a list of MAGA who have been arrested for underage sex and rape and these should be used. Because you can be sure the Republicans will.
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This is key. Having Tim Walz, van Hollen, Bernie and AOC out there is well and good, but there needs to be some coordination or it's wasted. The 'leadership' is sitting on their hands waiting for a blue wave next year, which won't come unless they act with some urgency.
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
How very true.
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I think as a middle eastern man with no papers, he'd be first on the plane to CECOT. I doubt he could speak English, either.
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Dave Coventry @dcoventry.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I cannot agree more.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I wrote about some details that the Trump administration might not want to come to light when it comes to what kind of deal Trump has truck with Bukele asharangappa.substack.com/p/whats-the-...
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What's the Real Quid Pro Quo with Bukele?
Hint: It's not about fighting "terrorism," or stopping illegal immigration.
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