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Crazy Cat Lady Abroad @crazycatladyabroad.bsky.social · 10h
Apparently a game-worn Michael Jordan jersey just sold for $14 million. Nothing against Michael Jordan, or Da Bulls, but...can we talk about what's wrong with a society where enough rich people can cheerfully drive the price on a basketball jersey to 8 figures while children go sick and hungry?
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 7h
Ukraine has hit a huge Russian data centre linked to bot farms. In unrelated news, does anyone know why every Reform account on Twitter is getting hardly any likes and shares?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/10/2026
SOMEBODY EXPLAIN HOW THIS MAN STILL HAS A JOB? Brenden Cuni, the same ICE agent seen on video brandishing a rifle at the scene of the shooting in NY, where officers shot an unarmed man in front of his 5-year-old child, was also filmed kneeling on a pregnant woman in Minneapolis last December.
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grumpyscot.bsky.social @grumpyscot.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
youtu.be/eQ67oapo-To?...
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"Star-Spangled Banner" - Marsh Family adaptation of the US National Anthem for 250th 4th of July Day
YouTube video by Marsh Family
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Hush-Kit aviation news, history & satire @hushkit.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"You'll never reach 25K followers with a very niche aviation site purely for obsessives" Prove this right or wrong by sharing or not as you wish.
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grumpyscot.bsky.social @grumpyscot.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The New York Times is about the only decent News Vendor left on the other side of the Pond. It should be ashamed of itself.
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Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A reminder that if Rupert Lowe becomes Prime Minister, he will change the law as follows: - reintroduce the death penalty and make the reintroduction retrospective: applied to cases that preceded, sometimes by many years, the change of law - make minors at the time of their crimes eligible for it
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Difficult to express the visceral disgust I feel at Musk, his fascism, his hideous and cruel abuse of power with cuts to aid that are responsible for death and suffering worldwide, his support for the repulsive Lowe and the way he’s shit-stirring in our country’s democracy and wellbeing.
"A vast number of people need to be removed from our country - when I say vast I mean it," Lowe posted and Musk reposted. "Only Restore Britain can save Britain," Musk posted. "It is the only way." In addition to mass deportation of non-whites, Restore Britain would outlaw halal and kosher meat slaughter, restore the death penalty and defund the BBC. Non-existent a year ago, Restore Britain's debut has been rocket-
boosted by Musk on X to become a viable political force with nearly 100,000 members.
Restore's ideology is straight-up authoritarian.
Musk wants it to run Britain, a country in which he has never lived and of which he is galactically ignorant.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/05/2026
Assigned to Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo (Obama).
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Make #FarageCamps trend on every available platform. Nobody wants their name associated with evil crap like that
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Mastercard is sponsoring Trump's Freedom 250 and its Christian nationalist Rededicate 250 event on May 17 where Pete Hegseth and Mike Johnson will headline: "rededicating our country as One Nation under God." I noticed my REI credit card is a Mastercard. I've reached out to REI for comment.
REI credit card is Mastercard
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Oh excellent. Another think tank grifting for foreign money to buy our democracy and put Farage in No. 10 - via a pact with the unelectable Tory party, a manifesto modelled on Trump’s Project 2025 and the strong hope that - with helpful media cover - voters will be stupid enough to fall for it.
Headline from The Sunday Times:

The Nigel Farage backers chasing Maga millions and a Jenrick pact

A pro-Reform think tank has set up base in London and Texas to attract donors and push for a deal with sympathetic Tories

Photos of Farage and Jenrick
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Really?🤦🏼‍♀️ These posts pop up periodically and are mind numbingly tedious. Is TFL being “racist against white people” by offering an internship to those with a minority ethnic background? Or is it possible there’s more to this than the screenshot and tweet suggest?🤷🏼‍♀️ 🧵1/10
Screenshot from twitter:
Basil the Great
@Basil_TGMD

Transport For London are literally racist against White people 
TFL are controlled by a Board appointed by Sadiq Khan
Surely he should be prosecuted for a hate crime... no?Screenshot from TfL.gov.uk accompanying the tweet:

Internship
Learn the essential skills you need to start your career in industries like public relations, public affairs or
marketing environment.
Apply now
How long: II months
Where: London based hybrid working. Anticipated I to 2 days on average in the office- subject to working
patterns and business requirements.
Salary: A bursary of £21,824 (reviewed in line with London Living Wage)
What you'll need • You must be of Black, Asian and minority ethnic background, defined as having some African, Afro-Caribbean. Asian or other non-white heritage
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Should we follow Putin out of the ECHR? Or is it just another Brexit where we give up our rights in the vain pursuit of making migrants disappear?
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the3million @the3million.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Júlia followed every rule, but the UK’s immigration system trapped her in bureaucratic limbo for 7 months. Now, she faces being forced to leave. This is the reality of an immigration system that isn’t working. We can do better. Read her full story: the3million.org.uk/julia-story
the3million.org.uk
the3million | Júlia Story | Giving a voice to EU citizens in the UK
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Canada has shown the world how to stand up to the gangster regime. The United States is losing $12.5 billion in travel as Trump turns them into an international pariah. This is the "find out" phase of international relations. Keep the boycott strong. #FAFO #elbowsup www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/t...
nytimes.com
As Foreign Tourists Stay Away, U.S. Could Lose $12.5 Billion This Year, Tourism Group Says
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
A vote for Reform is not a vote for anything new, disruptive, or ground changing. It's not a vote for working class representation. It's a vote for Tories who left the Tory party because it wasn't cruel and nasty enough.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
He nailed it!
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 26/05/2025
Holy crap that's fascinating. www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
As they continue to dissect the latest Shahed delivery, the engineers say one of their biggest worries is how the Russian drones are now being controlled. The newest models are unfazed by Ukraine’s electronic warfare, they say. This is because they no longer rely on jammable GPS, are driven by artificial intelligence, and piggyback on Ukraine’s own internet and mobile internet networks. The team say they recently discovered a note inside one of the drones they were dismantling—presumably left by a sympathetic Russian engineer—which hinted at the new control algorithm. The drones are controlled via bots on the Telegram social-media platform, the note indicated, sending flight data and live video feeds back to human operators in real time.
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NPR @npr.org · 24/05/2025
Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.
npr.org
Justice Department cuts to public safety grants leave police and nonprofits scrambling
Hundreds of public safety grants cut, worth $500 million, funded initiatives like drug treatment and gun violence prevention programs.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
We’ve asked Information Commissioner’s Office to investigate the health department's refusal to release information about KPMG's £8million Palantir contract We will keep pushing this case - and many others Sign up to Democracy for Sale to help us democracyforsale.substack.com/subscribe
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Trump delays tariffs on EU until July 9th www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Trump extends deadline for EU trade deal until 9 July
Trump said he granted the request to extend the 1 June deadline after a
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
For the hard of thinking - Jill Biden holds a Doctorate in Education, not a medical degree.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Come for "the batshit signal", stay for the final line
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The hysterical reaction of certain commentators to today’s UK-EU agreement is something to behold. The “surrender” of using e-gates when you go on holiday. The contempt for the “will of the people” of making education abroad more accessible. Rigorous debate is good. This nonsense is a waste of time.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Can I ask those many journalists who ignored, ridiculed or minimised Carole Cadwalladr’s revelations about Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica and Russian election interference — You won’t apologise. Journos never do. But please acknowledge and fight against big tech and disinformation
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Johnson put a border in the Irish Sea, sold out the fishing industry, all SMEs trading with the EU, our farmers, universities, musicians, young people, scientists, all of us… And now he sits in the mess he made throwing insults at those who are clearing up after him. What a monumental piece of shit.
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grumpyscot.bsky.social @grumpyscot.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Ukraine is 'not our war' says JD Vance news.sky.com/video/share-... Ah, crawl back in your ditch of historical ignorance, son Yankee Generation ‘Y’ is even more dumb than Generation ‘X’. How embarrassed are Americans to have this stinking pile of 💩 cluttering up their ‘Great Sidewalk of Life’?
news.sky.com
US Vice president says Ukraine conflict is 'not our war' as Trump calls Putin
JD Vance told reporters 'we should be able to move beyond the mistakes of the past' but will walk away if the US isn't able to bring the war in Ukraine to an end.
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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Astonishing evidence at the Covid Inquiry. The Government repeatedly ignored offers from the Crick Institute to provide mass testing on a national scale. Instead, the Government paid Deloitte consultants to project manage, not yet established, privately run labs. 1/2
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
It’s so much easier to tear something down than to build something better. Farage will only ever destroy. Because his ideologies don’t work. They divide, they harm, they cost, they isolate. He doesn’t want a better EU deal. He *needs* the failure. His power relies on the anger that creates.
Screenshot of Telegraph headline: 
(Photo of Farage below) 

Farage: Make me PM and I'll scrap Starmer's Brexit deal

Reform UK leader tells the Telegraph that new EU pact to be unveiled on Monday is a slippery slope to rejoining bloc
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Mike Robbins @mikerobbins.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Her 150th anniversary was this week. Born in poverty, she became a journalist, photographer, screenwriter and the first woman to fly the Channel. She was also famous for her beauty. Harriet Quimby - an American story. #harrietquimby #history
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The Spectacular Story of Harriet Quimby
Journalist, photographer, screenwriter and early aviator; the short but spectacular life of Harriet Quimby
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17/05/2025
A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY! Trump cut global food aid, now enough rations to feed 3.5 million people are rotting in warehouses. People are starving, but this man’s legacy will be cruelty in bulk.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 17/05/2025
BREAKING: A massive explosion from a bomb has destroyed American Reproductive Centers, an IVF and fertility center in Palm Springs, CA. At least one person is dead. Authorities are investigating whether terrorism played a role.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Food for millions wasted, children left to go hungry, and America’s reputation permanently damaged.
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Exclusive: US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage
The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programs.
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This op-ed is freaking beautiful and everyone should read it www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...
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An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy
Dear Mr. RFK Jr., (The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.) You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Just hope that the bacteria and sewage recovered
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/05/2025
A U.S.-funded charter plane carrying dozens of white South Africans who claim to have been victims of discrimination in their home country left Johannesburg on Sunday, heading for the U.S., where the Trump administration is welcoming them as refugees.
nytimes.com
White South Africans Granted Refugee Status by Trump Leave for U.S.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
When "required by law" becomes just a suggestion.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 09/05/2025
No anthem played over Red Square today can cover the sound of justice coming. Today, on Europe Day, a special tribunal for the Crime of Aggression is launched in Lviv. Justice for Ukraine begins to take shape. Justice is the foundation of a long-lasting peace. → europa.eu/!G9GkXT
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/05/2025
Breaking News: Newark's mayor, Ras Baraka, was arrested while he and three members of Congress from New Jersey were protesting at an immigration detention center in the city. He was taken to an ICE facility in Newark, his aides said. nyti.ms/3Z680Un
Mayor Ras Baraka is wearing an orange tie and a black hat. The text reads: "Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Arrested at Protest Outside ICE Detention Center." Photo by Dave Sanders for The New York Times.
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Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Donald Trump has the habits of the vandal, the autocrat, the gangster and the fool - for proof, look no further than Ukraine. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ukraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: as a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool | Jonathan Freedland
This presidency places authoritarian ambition above all – and now the people of Ukraine are paying the price, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
URGENT: This is not a crime A judge has the authority in her courthouse to excuse a defendant for God's sake Trump tried this in 1st term & he was thrown out of court 👉 www.courtlistener.com/docket/14997... PS the violation here was Patel's tweet & that's why he deleted. I'll be filing complaint
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/04/2025
“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.” blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...
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The Smithsonian PURGE: Trump Team Removes Artifacts of Black Resistance
Critics warn: it’s not just history being erased—it’s identity.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I would love to hear the argument that any gang member in the history of the United States has caused more death and destruction with their conduct than Donald Trump—because just on the pandemic alone, Trump has all of gang and mafia history beat by at least 500,000 dead bodies.
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Matt Johansen @mattjay.com · 18/04/2025
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The USA has voted against a UN resolution on cooperation with the Council of Europe because it included the words "condemnation of Russian aggression against Ukraine" Only 8 other states voted against: - Russia - Belarus - North Korea - Eritrea - Mali - Nicaragua - Niger - Sudan
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Starmer told UK must repeal hate speech laws to protect LGBT+ people or lose Trump trade deal. Plus sacrifice the NHS, food and environmental standards, worker rights. Who governs? No thank you. Don't want to be the 51st state, or US slaves. Better to join the EU and Single Market.
independent.co.uk
Starmer told to accept Trump ‘free speech’ agenda to win trade deal
‘Good chance’ of agreement, says JD Vance – but sources say his concerns over Britain’s hate speech laws ‘are still a red line’
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