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Out of Americans’ profound love for their Dear Leader, Congress has declared a National Day of Sleep.

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Come on, we all know that if a Republican does it it’s patriotic, right? Why I’m surprised people everywhere, but particularly at work, aren’t falling asleep sitting up out of a profound sense of love for the father of the country. Surgeons! Air traffic controllers! Stock market traders! Sleep!

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This really is an emperor has no clothes moment.

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Frenchfold @frenchfold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After all of that damned rigamarole with Biden, how can anyone think that it’s cool that the guy with the nuclear codes has little more than wet kibble between his ears?

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No one is more committed to sticking a stick in your spoke when you’re on deadline than Adobe.

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In the US the then head of CBS famously said that Trump “may not be good for America, but it's damn good for CBS." They got the “may not be good” in spades. And CBS News was purged by a Trump buddy. With that very live—and clearly dangerous—example, why would the BBC go there?

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I get that journos love a spicy story, and Nige’s lies are definitely provocative (while the Lib Dems campaign for boring stuff like social care) but honestly, the BBC seems so desperate for eyeballs that they choose attention over public service in their political coverage every time.

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The amount of “earned media” attention the BBC lavishes on Reform is staggering. They regularly command 25% of the coverage, and are treated like the government in waiting, despite having 1.25% of the MPs.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

True. And what are his actual policies beyond race-baiting? It’s forcing the Bank of England to take up crypto (hence the £72m), which solves nothing and only makes trouble for the economy. Like…hmm…Brexit?

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Faragists rely on the narrative of "men on boats" creating a de facto Fifth Column in the UK to feed their agenda and to stir up hostility and to win votes and ultimately power. Suckers fall for it. Media boosts it. We've been here so many times before and you'd think we'd all wise up but hey ho

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Frenchfold @frenchfold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This a moment when one whole arm of American religion has stoped making spiritual demands of its adherents. If Roger Finley is correct it should experience membership decline, but who knows how predictive his model is? Or how persuasive being told that what you already in believe is THE truth is?

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It’s not there…. “Can someone please show me where it's in the bible to hate your neighbor? Let children go hungry ? Shun the sick ? Cast out the poor? Unless of course you're white, republican and Evangelical. Then you're taken care of.”

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If diesel exports become banned, they will produce less diesel. which also means they’ll produce less gasoline since they both come out of the same barrel

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

diesel is already at all-time highs, and a diesel export ban may bring some relief to diesel at the expense of gas prices- which could start to rise (as cutting output would hit gasoline hardest). if diesel exports get banned, gas prices could rise toward record levels.

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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you live in TX 23rd Congressional District (which includes Uvalde) or know someone who does, please ask them to vote for Katy Padilla Stout (D). She is running against Brandon Herrera - the gunfluencer, nut job who makes nazi jokes and 'cum trophy' jokes about kids. www.katyforcongress.com

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Because whatever fantasy the GOP has of creating some high-tech apartheid state, the real world gets a vote. Your fellow citizens, even as you grind them into the dust, get a vote. Everyone suffers in a scenario like this. Cruel societies are never stable. Cruel societies are never prosperous.

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These are the conditions that bring on civil wars, and the GOP is doing this willfully, indeed gleefully. If they love their country what is the point of creating this much division? It’s going to rip the country apart. Why? So they get the thrill of telling other people what to do? To what end?

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The presumption of regularity is completely dead.

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I get why Rs might like this guy’s rancid vibe in another red district, but voting for him here is like pissing on graves of your neighbors’ children. But MAGA gotta MAGA, right?

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We’re in Stalin territory here. This must give Miller uncontrollable, spontaneous erections.

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Too bad they’ll never learn from this. In two years they’ll be back with new lies.

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Wow, this is in proper civil war territory. Lo, what the GOP hath wrought in their worship of pure, golden power!

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I hope even a quarter of this is true. Considering what they’ve done to the country — such as getting the debt to $40T, driving diesel up to $8, and kicking 750k people off of health plans today — they should be –25.

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He has to run crypto schemes for national security. And deplete missile stocks. And do pump and dump with the oil markets. And promote measles. And defund FEMA. And…oh there’s so much the God King is doing for Americans. They’d be lost, ignorant, and defenseless without his steady hand.

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What could possibly go wrong with interfering in commodity markets?

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Wow, that’s the upper Devonian!

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It went the way of free speech.

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Tim Hannan @timhannan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s true, that was the most poorly conceived celebration possible. It looked like the US had just given up on the idea of America. Even a deep red MAGA would have felt those vibes.

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There’s nothing more Un-American than trying to restrict the free press. Maybe lying about our elections and inciting an insurrection on the US Capitol, but that’s beside the point. Donald Trump has both on his resume.

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A clothespin in your pocket isn’t going to make Nige shut up, but it might remind a voter that he brought Brexit, which only changed things by just making everyone poorer.

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A clothespin in your pocket isn’t going to stop someone getting beaten up, but it might encourage a passerby to summon help, where before they might have just looked away.

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The thrum of ambient fear is the medium these opportunists swim in. What’s helpful is a gesture to remind people of their courage, to remind people that even though institutions aren’t perfect they can demand change. The clothespins the French used in the 2002 election is a good example of this.

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I wish his awesome magic could be sprinkled over every D+DSA candidate. Delivering on positive outcomes and showing you’re delivering is such a rare skill, alas. The UK had to ditch their PM because he was absolutely useless at the latter.

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