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Constitutional, Public, & Human Rights Lawyer! Tolerance, Democracy, Rule of Law, Liberty, and Equality! Proudly woke 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇧

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Booker eviscerates Patel: "He's like an 18 year old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of, doing keg stands and chugging with friends. He's an embarrassment. He is a disgrace. This is a mockery and a sham. What's bad are the people enabling him."
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 28/08/2026
Trump’s Education Department deletes post that compares his administration to Nazi Germany
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Trump’s Education Department deletes post comparing administration to Nazi Germany
DOE misinterprets ‘tiger’ quote from Oscar-winning 2017 film ‘Darkest Hour,’ forcing it to delete social media clip after backlash
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
If you fancy a read in the shade, I’ve written a short piece on the words that wear their hearts on their sleeves. Like ‘secretary’, originally a ‘keeper of secrets’. susiedent.substack.com/p/hiding-in-...
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Hiding in plain sight
The stories of language that we stopped listening to
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FTZim @ftzim.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It's very unusual for @bbcstever.bsky.social to go 4 days without his daily Russia report! Is he alright? @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
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Laboo👻boo👻 Doll @matchbox30.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
As a proctologist, this looks like a fecal extrusion device, although it appears he's using a fairly heavy duty model. We only prescribe these to patients who diarrhea themselves 24/7.
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FTZim @ftzim.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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FTZim @ftzim.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This shot from my Samsung camera!
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
When it comes to your children’s health, listen to doctors. Not a president who once told Americans to inject bleach. The American Academy of Pediatrics’ immunization recommendations have not changed.
Children’s immunization schedule
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
🟡 From This Month’s Magazine Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned… By Byline Times raising The academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious…
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Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned University Revealed
The academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and hard-right and foreign influence at Cambridge…
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Must-reader for anyone who thinks the midterms are a foregone conclusion:
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Dog rescued in Venezuela after 6 days in rubble! Such goodness all around 😍
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FTZim @ftzim.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
What an evil and disgusting bust*rd!
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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 21/06/2026
🌈🇺🇦 Kyiv Pride, today. Just imagine, we are under martial law, but the gathering is allowed, because we live in a democracy and people show up to advocate for their basic human rights. Not something you could see in Moscow.
Gatherers at the Kyiv pride, rainbow flagsCrowds in KyivKyiv pride supporters next to the University Trans flag at the Kyiv pride
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Who could have predicted this? 🤷🏻‍♂️
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AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 21/06/2026
Crimean authorities have stopped selling fuel to individuals and businesses as shortages become acute. Ukrainian strikes are slowly cutting access to the peninsula, hitting fuel trucks and ferries. www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukr...
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Russian Authorities Halt Fuel Sales In Occupied Crimea
Russian-installed authorities in occupied Crimea have suspended fuel sales to private individuals and businesses amid a severe fuel shortage and a weak tourist season, as Ukrainian drone strikes conti...
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FTZim @ftzim.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This is what we are and should be! Boldly fighting back the hate on our streets. The passion, vigour and adrenaline running in this man's stream is incredible and a joy to watch now and again. It totally exemplifies what Liverpool as a city is! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Michelle and I loved reading to this bright group of kids today! We hope this new Chicago Public Library branch at the Obama Presidential Center will be a place where folks come to read, check out books, and connect with one another for years to come.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
It'd be depressing at the best of times, but there is something profoundly inane about it when it comes from a prime minister who can't even drag himself off a social media site used to spread non-consensual porn and coordinate race riots.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
1/ Russia is doomed unless it takes over not only Ukraine but also Armenia, Belarus, and Georgia, argues warblogger Alexei Zhivov. In a notable diatribe on Channel One Sebastopol, he declares that the West will tear Russia apart unless it 'reunites' its former empire. ⬇️
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Nigel Farage urges the nation to respond with ‘cold indifference’.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Pay attention to who is willing to break the law for Donald Trump as we head into the midterm elections—because his end goal is to create a system where others will break the law for him. It's about building up a custom where it's normal to break the law for a person. The big case is the military.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/05/2026
Holy shit, Trump is really crashing out. His latest unhinged screed: “We should have a giant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY, for 250, instead of having overpriced singers, who nobody wants to hear, whose music is boring, and yet who do nothing but complain. Cancel it.”
Holy shit, Trump is really crashing out. His latest unhinged screed: “We should have a giant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY, for 250, instead of having overpriced singers, who nobody wants to hear, whose music is boring, and yet who do nothing but complain. Cancel it, just like I canceled my involvement with the failing and unsafe to be in Kennedy Center, because a Highly Conflicted, Crooked Federal Judge, said that I should not be allowed to spend my time and money in order to MAKE THE CENTER GREAT AGAIN”
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/05/2026
Mini-scoop: Reform hasn't reported its alleged Russian hack to the Information Commissioner's Office. Any significant breach of personal data must be disclosed. Reform hasn't done so, nor have they explained why they don't think it needed doing. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
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Exclusive: Reform failed to tell the UK’s data watchdog about Farage’s ‘hacked’ phone
Party faces new questions over the alleged Russian cyberattack it claims sparked the £5m Harborne donation scandal
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
How is this cartoon of Zack Polanski, published in the Sun - complete with forked tongue and other Der Stürmer tropes - not blatantly antisemitic?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/05/2026
Morning Joe put together a supercut of Sen. Blumenthal asking Trump's judicial nominees who won the 2020 election, and each of them refusing to acknowledge that Trump lost
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Ukrainian drone strikes Moscow high-rise days before Red Square parade. Producer @bbcbentavener.bsky.social
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
For the first time in 80 years, the federal debt-to-GDP ratio is over 100%. In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo.
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The Secret Way the Rich are Getting Richer
The biggest untold story about how we pay for government involves a big switcheroo by America’s wealthy. Watch.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Jeffries says everything is on the table legislatively to deal with the Supreme Court: In the new Congress, we’re going to have to do something about this Supreme Court, and let me be very clear: everything is on the table.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Justice Elena Kagan Isn't Mincing Words, About The Voting Rights Act........
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/04/2026
BRENNAN: The shooter had multiple weapons. You said he traveled from CA across the country by train. How did he do that? BLANCHE: This isn't about making laws more restrictive BRENNAN: I'm asking about crossing state lines w/firearms BLANCHE: I don't think that's something we should be focused on
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/04/2026
LUTNICK: It is outrageous that Canada will not put US spirits on the shelf. It is insulting and disrespectful to America SHAHEEN: They won't do it because of the insults from this president and comments like yours
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The young people in our @obamafoundation.bsky.social Leaders program give me hope. One of those leaders, Luisa Neubauer, is working to fight climate change and recently traveled to Antarctica. This Earth Day, I hope you'll check out her incredible story.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
If journalists had any integrity and courage, they would boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner. It should be as empty as a TPUSA event.
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Something like this will have to happen in this country once Trumpism is defeated. In the absence of accountability, the world will rightly assume that it will happen again.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/04/2026
Kaine: "You don't sucker punch somebody in a bar and then blame your buddies when they don't join the fight with you. If the president wanted the support of allies, he should've respected them instead of putting tariffs on their economies and trash talking them."
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Péter Magyar victory speech: "We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others." He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Vance in Hungary: "I want to help as much as I possibly can the PM [Orbán] as he faces this election... A signal to everybody, particularly bureaucrats in Brussels who've done everything they can to hold down the people of Hungary". Falsely accusing others of interfering as he admits interfering.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Impressive so far. A refusal to be bullied into an illegal war by a mad US President should unite the nation. But Brexit Britain is, of course, not a normal nation.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The Iranians hit a fully loaded oil tanker in the gulf. The cargo and vessel together will have a worth of at least $300 million (and it could go higher). If Trump cannot guarantee such trade flows freely, he is stuck, no matter how many awesome statues of himself are built.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/03/2026
Trump is mad online about the ballroom
The National Trust for Historic Preservation sues me for a Ballroom that is under budget, ahead of schedule, being built at no cost to the Taxpayer, and will be the finest Building of its kind anywhere in the World. I then get sued by them over the renovation of the dilapidated and structurally unsound former Kennedy Center, now, The Trump Kennedy Center (A show of Bipartisan Unity, a Republican and Democrat President!), where all I am doing is fixing, cleaning, running, and “sprucing up” a terribly maintained, for many years, Building, but a Building of potentially great importance. Yet, The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a Radical Left Group of Lunatics whose funding was stopped by Congress in 2005, is not suing the Federal Reserve for a Building which has been decimated and destroyed, inside and out, by an incompetent and possibly corrupt Fed Chairman. The once magnificent Building is BILLIONS over budget, may never be completed, and may never open. All of the beautiful walls inside have been ripped down, never to be built again, but the National “Trust” for Historic Preservation never did anything about it! Or, have they sued on Governor Gavin Newscum’s “RAILROAD TO NOWHERE” in California that is BILLIONS over Budget and, probably, will never open or be used. So, the White House Ballroom, and The Trump Kennedy Center, which are under budget, ahead of schedule, and will be among the most magnificent Buildings of their kind anywhere in the World, gets sued by a group that was cut off by Government years ago, but all of the many DISASTERS in our Country are left alone to die. Doesn’t make much sense, does it? President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Forbes @forbes.com · 31/03/2026
A judge issued the ruling in response to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s legal challenge.
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Trump Ordered To Halt White House Ballroom Construction
A judge issued the ruling in response to the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s legal challenge.
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comtechdiagnostics.bsky.social @comtechdiagnostics.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
. Just so everyone remembers . . . . .
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FTZim @ftzim.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Now, this is off the charts! This level is derangement warrants for impeachment. I could never ever imagine this happening even from a pound shop president
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