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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If you’re ever wondering whether person (x) is reasonable or whether they’re just a hooting wingnut crackpot, then I have always found “do they have serious, very aggro beef with Amnesty International” is one of the best indicators.

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NEW: JK Rowling and other gender-critical campaigners have reacted furiously after a report from Amnesty International called them 'anti-rights' organisations
The author has accused human rights group Amnesty of believing women don't deserve rights in response

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

I don't think I've ever seen a group so litigious as gender criticals in the UK. They want to censor any and all criticism of them. Every time I criticize JK Rowling on here, there's like ten TERF accounts snitch tagging Rowling on X asking her to sue me. Thankfully, we have a First Amendment here.

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Smartypants @smartypants.dropout.tv · 12/07/2026

These politicians are CHOPPED 🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️🙅‍♀️

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Dimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 12/07/2026

Every former gifted kid rn: 😶

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Not getting the whole 'Politician consistently voted against abortions and LGBTQ issues but they were *lovely* to their gay friends, of whom they had many' thing.

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lemme gon’ head and rewatch The Newsroom. This is one of, if not thee first scene of this whole series. 😎

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Ash @santanaelchan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

She's just like me

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 12/07/2026

please show respect for the dead body of someone who didn’t respect your alive body

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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I think at this point the UK has accepted Paddington as the Death Bear, collector of souls. So, I think as a nation we should start smearing marmalade on the eyes of the dead and whisper “fare for the crossing”. It’ll feel weird now but, in three of four generations, no one will question it.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Renee Nicole Good was murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed. The next could be you. What’s at stake isn’t just American democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones. This is personal — to every one of us.

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Luddite shouldn't be used as a insult anymore. They were right about more than most of us are willing to admit.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14/01/2026

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Robert Jenrick

alan partidge can i just shock you i like reform

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Little bit wary of centrists who post lots of "AHA! SEE! Farage wants to privatise the NHS!" gotchas coz we already have a government right now that's doing a bit of the ol' that and they should probably pipe up about it if they feel so strongly about the NHS.

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LuxJude352 @luxjude352.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

George Monbiot wrote this about Johnson’s unsuccessful attempts to warp British democracy in 2021. But we are way, way past such a moment regarding the Trump Administration. #r4today #Fascism #autocracy @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

"Whenever you watch a documentary about a
dictator's path to power, there comes a moment when you think: "Why didn't people do something? They could have stopped him while there was still time." We have now reached this moment."

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Just thought I'd post this:

Nadhim Zahawi's lawyers threatening Dan Neidle for saying he'd used an offshore tax structure to avoid tax

Nadhim Zahawi threatening the Independent for saying he was under investigation from HMRC

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Never forget: the people who hate their country most are those who style themselves "patriots".

Former Tory chancellor Nadhim Zahawi says UK is ‘sick’ as he defects to Reform UK

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

It's "go woke go broke" until there are mass protests on the streets and then we're all "paid actors". We're either rich elites coining it in from pretending to be leftwing or we're squealing blue hair piggies jealous coz we've got no money. It can't be both.

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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Eldest daughter recently came out as gay. Over the moon. Now she won't have to deal with boys. I was one once, and we're all cunts. BTW: me and her mum have known for years.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

We have cleaned up the crime scene and blocked a local investigation and hidden the perpetrator and invaded the state and that is how you know that we are acting in good faith and that everything was the victim’s fault. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

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Trump Administration Live Updates: Noem Says ‘Hundreds More’ Agents Will Be Sent to Minnesota Over ‘Corruption’

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I’m not linking but I just read a columnist (one of my favorites) say Trump “has no ideology beyond his own power.” Ten years in, this trope should die. Trump's ideology is white supremacist and that goes a long way in explaining his imperialism and protectionism.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Its not that the media is not covering what is happening, but it does feel like the military occupation of an American city should be treated as a national crisis.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Using phony criminal charges to intimidate his opponents. Deploying masked thugs to terrorize American cities. Unilaterally threatening and bombing foreign countries. Trump is a ruthless dictator, plain and simple.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Left: Yvette Cooper criticising Iran for "repression of peaceful protestors" Right: Labour's Baron Hain criticising Yvette Cooper and Keir Starmer for conflating non violent protest with terrorism, effectively the "repression of peaceful protestors"

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Isi Baehr-Breen @isibb.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

It occurs to me all the yelling at ICE in MPLS isn't merely funny. Getting made fun of like this is awful for morale. ICE is losing field officers faster than it can wave them through training, and a big part of it is how little of this these little weasels can take.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Paul Verhoeven undefeated in creating a movie that flies right over the heads of the people it’s making fun of

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Alex Hevesy @venomlance.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

This generic acetaminophen had an Amtrak ACS-64, four Amfleet 1 cars, a Conrail EMD GP15-1, and some Conrail rolling stock in it. The problem is more serious than I thought.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Starmer has the worst political instincts of any party leader in history. His entire strategy is trying to appease a bunch of people who already decided years ago they hated him. Meanwhile he's pissing off everybody who tolerated him.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

The Trump regime is about to burn 500 tons of USAID emergency food. Why? Because it expired after its shipment was delayed. 1.5 million children could have eaten for a week. Now, taxpayers will spend $130K for it to be destroyed. This isn’t just inefficient – it’s cruel.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

leaving this here go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/07/2025

never forget this and vote accordingly when the time comes.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

If you haven’t already, now is a great time to start not supporting Gavin Newsome for president

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Here's the thing lads. The police, as a rule, just arent the sorts of folk who tend to err on the side of caution, and that's me being very nice. If you give them an inch of further ground on which it is possible to arrest people they will take a mile, just as a rule.

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

You proscribe one group called Palestine Action, in the eyes of these folks you just proscribed anyone who thinks that regarding Palestine, we should take action. It is abuse of power. And it is also hardcoded to how they operate.

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Ritesh! @riteshwriter.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Rules that anytime you scroll down to Youtube comments nowadays, it's flooded with bullshit like this. Whenever you think something couldn't possibly get worse, the 'AI' industry steps in and always seems to find a way.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Billionaires are convinced AI is on the verge of making new scientific discoveries because they don't understand how AI chatbots work.

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Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Is Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

There should be a Girl Talk album for every single year

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

After almost 2 years of refusing to use the word “genocide” The NY Times publishes this now that the slaughter of Gaza is in its final stages. Get ready for loads of revisionist history from Corp News on the Gaza genocide just like with the invasion of Iraq. And coming soon, the climate emergency.

OpEd by a genocide scholar stating that Israel has perpetrated a genocide in Gaza

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Capital demands that: 1. The government must strip away sensible rules which prevent businesses from attacking the public good. 2. The government must constrain *itself* with insanely restrictive pledges, such as Rachel Reeves's fiscal rules. 3. Protesters challenging capital must be locked up.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Reeves says rules and red tape are ‘boot on the neck’ of business

At the Mansion House dinner she calls for regulators to allow more risk to clear the way for economic growth

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

It's actually kind of dark how Labour's pitch to the progressive left is increasingly "you have no other choice." Okay, leaving aside whether that's true or not: do you really expect a huge bloc of people to be okay with never getting to influence the direction of the country?

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