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Fiona Downes

@gersgirl.bsky.social
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Privileged to live in a quiet, beautiful part of France. Writer, musician, proud socialist.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When your entire attack line is garbage and you thought you were being clever, you’re a Schmitt-head.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
NEWS: GOP candidate Brandon Herrera defended massive CEO salaries, mocked renters as “bums,” joked about people who don’t “tip their landlords,” then compared being called a “renter” with a hard R to a racial slur.
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Brandon Herrera Defended High CEO Salaries, Joined Mocking of Renters
GOP candidate: "Did you really call me 'renter' with a hard 'r? It's 'renta' to you."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury, claiming he had evidence Smith secretly went to an Atlanta Hawks game. Then it all backfired in real-time.
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GOP Senator’s Jack Smith ‘Gotcha’ Blows Up in His Face
Eric Schmitt accused Jack Smith of perjury over supposed evidence placing him at an Atlanta Hawks game. There was just one problem: It was the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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Fiona Downes @gersgirl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith is hope
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Sue Bradford @suebra.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A naive inquiry from afar for UK/UK-adjacent friends: Why do Burnham & Labour continue to proscribe Palestine Action - & is there anything genuine at all in Miliband's shift on policy re arms to Israel? Btw, good on everyone standing (& sitting) staunch for Palestine outside Labour's conference.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Over 3500 people have been arrested in the UK for voicing support for Palestine Action. Anti-terrorism legislation was used for these arrests. The result is that one of the largest demographics of terrorist in the UK is now elderly middle class white people.
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Wolf Hour @wolfhour.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Most corrupt president and administration in the history of the USA .. (cartoon David Horsey)
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/09/2026
The Chinese Communist Party got access to sensitive components of U.S. F-35 stealth fighters. The U.S. got 2 pandas.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 16/09/2026
“The bride said ‘what’s so wrong with accepting a gracious bribe, I mean gift, from Putin, I mean a friend of family’”. Donald Trump Jr is ‘frigging loaded’ so why was part of his wedding paid for by a Russian Oligarch?
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 17/09/2026
"I don't like to use expletives on this podcast, but what the actual f**k?" says Jon Sopel, who uses expletives quite often on this podcast, says. How will Trump and MAGA "wiggle out" of scrutiny over why Putin's best mate paid for Don Jr's wedding? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...
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Why did Putin’s mega-rich mate spend so much on Don Jr’s wedding? | The News Agents
A senior Republican has told Miles Taylor he is “very concerned” about Umar Kremlev, a close friend of Vladimir Putin, giving a huge amount to Donald Trump Jr and his second wife, Bettina Anderson.
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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Reform is attempting to rabble rouse to avoid scrutiny of their actions and the campaign for caps on all political donations - share this to stand up for this debate and protecting our democracy from the crypto billionaires.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 19/10/2025
"They've chosen Farage to build up as an ally who has the potential to be someone like a JD Vance figure," journalist Jane Bradley tells The News Agents. "Sources told me that lawyers for the ADF in the UK effectively said he's the best out of a bad bunch" www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/is-n...
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Is Nigel Farage being used as a pawn by US Christian extremists? | The News Agents
A New York Times report suggests Nigel Farage is being backed by Alliance Defending Freedom – a conservative Christian group dedicated to rolling back rights of many groups in the US. What does this…
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Grumpenstein’s Monster @maxwellshabbsby.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
It's shit like this why I still keep my Xitter account.
My RT of a Dan Bishop Tweet. 

Bishop wrote:

Members of Congress and the Mayor of Newark committed an insurrection at a federal detention facility in New Jersey today. Worse than 9/11.

I wrote: Hey 
@howardlutnick
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This person thinks that the 650 colleagues you lost on 9/11 were nothing compared to three members of Congress conducting oversight as provided by law.
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AsylumHouse @asylum.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
This man is sick. He has disgraced our country and the office. Time for a straight jacket.
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Welcome !
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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Thank goodness feminism can learn from Nigel farage putting the Office before the House ….
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Fiona Downes @gersgirl.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social why so little, if any, coverage of the massive anti DODGE, Trump, Musk protests in the states?
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
In under 24 hours, Israel has massacred over 400 people in Gaza — including 174 children. Words of condemnation ring hollow. The UK government must end ALL arms sales, trade & diplomatic ties with a state facing genocide charges at the ICJ & leaders under ICC arrest warrants.
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Kaydee @kaydeeartist.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979.  Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth.  Trickle down economics was always a hoax.
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Fiona Downes @gersgirl.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism. We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.
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