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Trying hard to stay sane in a mad world

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Aintright @aintright.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Happy 100th birthday to you, Sir David Attenborough. More than anyone else, you have inspired my love of nature. Thank you. #DavidAttenborough #nature #wildlife
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gwjakes.bsky.social @gwjakes.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Looking forward to James O B at 10am
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
‘The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again…’
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Shocker.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
As well as listening to "American Week", you can now watch every week. This week's edition, via @lbc.co.uk's official YouTube channel: 📺: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X_y...
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'Trump seeks to be a King... a move rejected by an actual one' | Simon Marks' American Week
YouTube video by LBC
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gwjakes.bsky.social @gwjakes.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Trump has taken his football home pulling out 5000 service personnel from Germany all because he thinks Germany has been mean to him . What would he do if the whole world told him what we think of him .
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Spot-on.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Trump is trying his toxic beta-male handshake, and Charles is having absolutely none of it.
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 25/04/2026
'Trump never served in battle, but has created battlefields in which decent men and women die.' @matthew-wright.bsky.social is repulsed by the 'five-time Vietnam draft-dodging' president claiming to speak for the UK 'more than Harry'.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
As a former NATO chief identifies the necessity of ending UK military dependence on a no longer reliable or trustworthy USA, we thank our lucky stars we haven’t done anything really stupid, like let Farage, Johnson & co persuade us to turn our backs on EU allies… open.spotify.com/episode/2ANY...
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Is the UK-US "special relationship" over?
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
They laughed at us because people were stupid enough to vote him back into office. Now they look at us with disgust and distrust.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Jaw-dropping reporting by The Atlantic about FBI Director Kash Patel.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Thread.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Stick it on a t-shirt
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Politico @politico.com · 10/04/2026
BREAKING: Kamala Harris just gave the clearest signal yet she’ll run for president again in 2028. “Listen, I might, I might. I’m thinking about it,” Harris told the Rev. Al Sharpton at the National Action Network convention.
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Harris gives her clearest signal she is mounting a 2028 presidential bid
She has toyed with the idea before, but her comments Friday took on a new meaning in front of an audience full of Black power brokers.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The bravest man Nigel Farage has ever met…
Trump’s maddest post yet.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Matt Frei, "What Keir Starmer struggled to explain is that this calamity was started by our supposed friend and ally, Donald Trump" "Plenty are feeling the cost of his illegal war with Iran, real enough to create a covid like shock to the economy, without a vaccine" #C4News
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 31/03/2026
The 12 year olds at the Pentagon had a cool new missile they wanted to use. It explodes a few feet above the ground & shoots out little tungsten pellets, killing everyone nearby. They used it to bomb a sports facility where girls were playing volleyball. Killed 21 people. In your name.
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New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows
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reggiepauncefoot.bsky.social @reggiepauncefoot.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Not to mention the dusty shelf where his 'Me n Geoffrey' photo albums once lay.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
👋
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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
How many people that read this on supermarket shelves will find out it was all bullshit?
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
We laugh at how unutterably pathetic he is (me as much as anyone) but if you think Trump won’t sacrifice countless American soldiers’ lives to postpone the public humiliation of his epic failure in Iran, then you really haven’t been paying attention…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/03/2026
Trump: "We're in a position we haven't seen. We're respected. You know, our country now is respected all over the world. A year and half ago we were a laughingstock. The King of Saudi Arabia told me."
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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Airport ICE will be the last Trump nail in American tourism’s coffin. Foreign AND domestic.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
My latest for @theipaper.com on where things stand: 🗞️: inews.co.uk/news/world/t...
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Trump's Iran gamble has failed - and America's allies will pay for it
Trump has no strategy, no plan, no understanding of the complexities of the conflict he has ignited
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
“Needled”.
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Epic cover from The Economist. Trump will be furious.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Thank God Starmer is in charge, really. If it had been any of his immediate predecessors, we'd currently be at war with Iran, playing lapdog to a deranged US administration, unable to say what we were doing or why.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
There's a special place reserved in Hell for hacks and apologists who attempt to explain the verbal dribblings of Donald Trump. Trump is insane and dangerous. It's that simple. Call it out.
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