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Dave Regis

@drdaveexeter.bsky.social
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"I want to give peace, love and kisses out to this whole stinking world" Not a real doctor, doesn't live in Exeter. ♟ #chess 🎷#jazz 🐞#buglife Devon, UK www.minorityattack.org.uk Humanists.uk school speaker & SACRE rep

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pthelo 𓆉 @pthelo.bsky.social · 19h
Hey @chess.com - This @proton.me short says that you're one of the worst apps for sending user data to CHINA and RUSSIA. First, WTF?! Second, care to comment? Thanks! #chess link to short in alt
Still from a proton privacy short showing Chess.com app is one of the worst offenders in sharing user data with China and Russia, including location data. Weird, right?

Link to short: https://youtube.com/shorts/gxpQtiPZTpM?si=_6ZeTe8tFz7PyA-n
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 23h
Shocked I tell you... 🫢🫢🫢🫢🫢 🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 19h
I'm old enough to remember the 'free trade with Trump will save us' phase of Brexity derangement (enjoy your coffee, tea and bananas while you can, US friends 😀)
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Another corruption story, and the volume makes it hard to absorb one before the next arrives. The real work is understanding why the guardrails failed. The good news: democracies have faced corrupt regimes before, and we know how to hold power accountable.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
Unprecedented Corruption—and How We End It
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...
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Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
DOJ hired these prosecutors: -A gambling exec turned conspiracy theorist podcaster -A guy found liable for selling fraudulent insurance leads -A guy who violated attorney-client privilege in a high-profile murder trial -A guy currently facing animal neglect charges www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
nytimes.com
Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks
The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/10/2026
Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
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Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second home ownership on rural communities A Reform UK MP bought an £800,000 second home on a picturesque Welsh island two days after raising concerns in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Sarah Pochin completed the purchase of a Grade-II listed property on the southern coast of Anglesey (Ynys Môn). Continue reading...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
incredible this will get little to no coverage
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Mick Steward @micksteward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Andrew Pierce did the thing
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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Turncoat" Robert Jenrick appears (at least) six times in the Tory tapestry. Bearing in mind he's not the only defector, that's quite a hit rate...
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rodriguez: It was at least 20 times more expensive than the average detention center. $1.4 billion paid for by Floridians to help the contributors of my opponent. He did the whole thing to get a pat on the head from the president. He got it and left us with the mess.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why you can’t trust Grok - or any other LLM which basically tells you what you want to hear and amplifies online echo chambers
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Did you weave Angela Rayner in? Sure did boss, real cool and relatable just like you asked for Great....wait what? #CPC26
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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hammering it into an open goal like Jude Bellingham against a team of 12-year-olds.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.
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Dave Regis @drdaveexeter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
(Bee)
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
But ice cream shops can’t give a free cone to someone with an “I voted” sticker
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No notes
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
UK and Norway won nature's lottery in 1970 - found oil/gas in the North Sea. UK squandered wealth, appeased corporations. Norway levied 78% tax, took direct stake in companies. Norway now has $1.8 trillion sovereign fund. UK has public finance crisis. UK Govts still appeasing corporations/rich.
fortune.com
How sparsely populated Norway amassed $1.8 trillion | Fortune Europe
Launched in the early 1990s to invest mostly in bonds, the fund has grown to become the largest of its kind by acquiring small equity stakes in thousands of companies across the world.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump’s insider trading is, on its own, the worst corruption scandal in US history, with $$$ dwarfing Teapot Dome. So are Trump’s bribes-for-pardons. So is the Qatar bribe plane. So is all the Saudi money he (and Kushner) have pocketed. And the ballroom. And more. Each alone would be the worst.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Again, you can always detect some faint embarrassment from Democrats when they talk about the ballroom, but “the president demolished a big part of the White House to build himself a palace with bribes from enemy powers” is, by an order of magnitude, the worst corruption scandal in US history
esquire.com
A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Endless corruption.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This one is doing the rounds
A picture of Elon Musk, via the London Economic. The quote says “If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.“ – Nathalie Robin Justice. 
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“He’s gotta resign. … We have to let our own people and everybody else know why it had to be done—because of what’s on the tape, because he lied.” — White House speechwriter Patrick J. Buchanan to White House chief of staff Alexander M. Haig, August 2, 1974
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm with Carl Sagan on this:
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tweet from Steven (with a ph) (@SJKSalisbury):

[Googling instructions for disarming a bomb] 
For me, disarming bombs is indelibly linked to afternoons spent in my grandmother's kitchen, watching her carefully iron the parchment paper that the nitroglycerin came bound in (to be reused at Christm
[Hurried scrolling]
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The future of the military is one computer shooting missiles at whoever it wants and thousands of soldiers who stand around looking sexy
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer
Line chart titled 'GB News has lost £142m to date', showing cumulative losses in pounds rising steadily from around £3m in 2020/1 to £142m by 2025. The red line climbs most steeply between 2021/2 and 2023/4, reaching roughly £110m, then flattens as growth slows towards £142m. A note states the latest figures cover the seven-month period to 31 December 2025. Chart by Press Gazette, source: Companies House
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Richard James @richardjameschess.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Celebrity Traitors chess set. LASTBUR.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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Dirtbag Left Milk Hotel @stambrah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
POTUS: Donnie new ballroom. Practical Donnie entertainment room TIME: I'd like to talk about the rampant corruption and criminality. POTUS: Good ballroom good Donnie give beautiful Donnie deserve pedophile TIME: We have a limited amount of time. POTUS: jealousy interviewer
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings
time.com
Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
J.D. Vance has been a breathless supporter of Neo-Nazis at home and abroad, promoting their fascist ideas and ideology to a jaw-dropping degree. But he has the fucking nerve to say someone tied to *socialists* doesn't belong in America. *You* are the un-American ideologue, you goose-stepping dork.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Have you seen the videos of Mitch McConnell back in the Senate? Do you think he should resign because of his health condition?

It was a disappointment to a lot of Republicans. So that's just—well, Sleepy Joe gave pardons to everybody. He gave them to Fauci. He gave them to this. But you mean I'm not allowed to give them, but Sleepy Joe's allowed to give them? This ain't gonna be much of a story. Here we are doing this. You haven't asked me one fucking positive question. All of this. What about this? What about that? What about that? What about this? All negative. Why are you devoting all this time to the White House? You know how I do, I do that out of my back pocket. I pay for a lot of it, but I fix it because the White House should look like that. It shouldn’t look like—if you would have stood in that balcony and looked at that wall, half the wall was falling. It's actually dangerous. People are walking under, crap was falling off it all the time. Every time it rained, it was leaking, horrible. Now it's perfect, and I would say that I should be given credit for fixing the White House because I'm also doing very well with the war. I'm doing very well with another war that we already won, Venezuela. Do you notice you haven't asked me a question about Venezuela?
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Eric Foltz @ericfoltz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We should probably thank the Republicans for the brilliant idea of holding these hearings right before the election and reminding everyone that Trump is a criminal. They really are a bunch of morons.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's already estimated that the richest 1% alone evade $163 billion in taxes every year. But Trump gutted the IRS — including the unit tasked with auditing billionaires. The agency's audit revenue fell 35%. Now, Trump's IRS is not publishing data on unpaid taxes. See the problem?
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I need to smile more.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"In order to deliver the PM's promise to save social care we need a permanent class of indentured migrant workers without labour rights".
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
U.S. has worse wealth distribution than pre-revolutionary France did.
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Trick Charles, PI 🎃 @nickcharles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We have control…but Iran wants to open it…but he’ll keep it closed because we’re winning. So we’re controlling it being closed. So we’re keeping it closed on our terms. But oil is going through. But Iran wants to open it so oil can go through. His brain is mush he can’t even lie competently.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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