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RickHT

@hercort.bsky.social
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Progressive; democratic socialist; LGBTQ+ ally

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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This seems a smart pick. After jettisoning 11+ ministers, Burnham needs experience and Healey brings that institutional memory, and an appetite to manage the Treasury rather than be managed by it. Rebalancing power from the perm secs back to elected government is important after chaos since 2010
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This is a smart pick. After jettisoning 11+ ministers, Burnham needs experience and Healey brings that institutional memory, and an appetite to manage the Treasury rather than be managed by it. Rebalancing power from the perm secs back to elected government is important after the chaos since 2010
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Cruella de Liz Kendall's resignation letter is deluded, or top gaslighting. From voting for the two-child limit, benefits freezes, rape clause, sanctions, "tough love".... posing as compassionate while overseeing child destitution. The contrast with what comes next will be her political epitaph.
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I don't think many under 65s actually trust or watch BBC News & current affairs output in 2026. Kuensberg has failed upwards for twenty years by being a partisan Tory hack. She couldn't be impartial if her life depended on it.
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The entire world is supporting Belgium tonight. FIFA has extinguished any remaining goodwill towards the US hosts. A nation led by a Christian nationalist white supremacist faction's fascist regime shouldn't be hosting international events.
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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"They Call Us The Wrong Kind of Jew” Miriam Margolyes, Michael Rosen & Alexei Sayle DON’T HOLD BACK
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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Israel Sniped a 10-Day-Old Baby. Why is the West Silent?
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social The only constitutional test for PM is confidence of the House. All this pearl-clutching and performative angst over bureaucratic trivia is intellectually dishonest, institutionally cowardly, and transparently partisan. Tedious hypocritical noise to delegitimise and tarnish.
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Was that "we" the hawkish neocon forever-war blob that thought their gravy train was under threat? The moment lady Graham knew the deranged orange simpleton would win, and that his beloved military belligerence would be protected, he puckered up bigly
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Starmer had no loyal faction, just the Labour Together Mandelson lot who installed him as their useful idiot puppet. That tiny sliver has had a vice‑like grip on the party's machinery, but never the numbers to protect their craven, charmless, asset once the tide inevitably turned.
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Starmer conflating criticism of Netanyahu's Kahanist regime with antisemitism for 6 years is itself antisemitic. Kahanism isn't Jewishness. Rejection of it isn't bigotry. This bad‑faith weaponisation protects a murderous regime, not Jewish people.
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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A Trillion Dollars
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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The TRUTH about Henry Nowak
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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It’s time to devolve rail to Wales. Rhaid datganoli rheilffyrdd i Gymru.
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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g This is new leadership that will always stand up for Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
70+ mins per 90 of slow, sideways possession with occasional brilliance delivered by expensively assembled technically world-class players on megabucks. Turning that into a winning machine isn't particularly impressive when the approach is boring, low-risk, poor-spectacle, high-reward cynicism. 😴
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
🎭 "Weasily Streets" ( "Easy Street" from Annie, music by Charles Strouse) 🎵 Number Ten – I see the key It's not a job, it's a destiny The lefties will scream at my regime,  But I got the donors and the PR scheme 🎵 🎵 Oh, Weasily Streets, Weasily Streets
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
🎵 Number Ten – I see the key It's not a job, it's a destiny The lefties will scream at my regime, But I got the donors and the PR scheme 🎵 Weasily Streets, Weasily Streets
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Not in Wales. Here, the Senedd threw out US-style voter suppression like the filth it was. ID my a*se!! The Tories? They're still banking on the far-right playbook – one-party state shenanigans if they ever win again
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Suffering from a full house of self-serving bias. Naive realism? CHECK Moral self-licensing? CHECK Bias blind spot? CHECK Attribution asymmetry? CHECK And purity-identity fusion? DOUBLE CHECK. It must be exhausting, being so pure and virtuous that every challenge becomes a desecration!! 🙈
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Exactly. US has lower taxes but health premiums + deductibles + student loans + unpaid leave… the US ultimately pays far more, it's just to tax-dodging predatory private companies instead. Norway’s system buys security while the US system buys fear, risk & far too often poverty and destitution
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
To be fair, with US education in the toilet and the Federalist Society's radicalism poisoning everything, 'honoring the founders' has become a niche concern at best.
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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Why Labour REALLY Supports Genocide
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
He'd only endorse a corporate Dem cos they manage decline rather than challenge power&fight for the working class; they serve donors who hollow out democracy; they make Dems status quo feel compassionate; they're effective at preserving oligarchy. Colbert is far too ethical for endorsement
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
From last season's unscrupulous corporate sellouts range 😆
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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Diolch Matthew Rhys for your support❤️
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Zack was missing one word there. FAILED. Balls is a failed Labour politician married to an incompetent lightweight Minister. Odious partisan hacks like Balls doing hostile political interviews during an election campaign is something a functioning Ofcom would call out and sanction ITV for.
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Late draft of the letter sent to IOPC yesterday
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
@zackpolanski.bsky.social Hi Zack. I attach an advanced draft of a complaint sent to the IOPC today. Solidarity.
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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It's time to take the fight to Palantir.
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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GOLDSPHINCTER - Donald J Trump is Acrid Goldsphincter (James Bond Music Parody)
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
While just 13 Dems have called for 25th amend. The gutless wonders at DNC HQ might want to “focus group” why so loathed & despised. Chuckles & Hakeem’s risk-aversion, institutional deference, strategic ambiguity & moral cowardice is unforgivable. They too are fascist enablers. Utterly complicit imo
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
youtu.be/7WsFTvu1mB0?... this is the kind of sketch you ought to be doing
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Russell Brand Tommy Robinson PARODY!
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
@snlukhosts.bsky.social youtu.be/7WsFTvu1mB0?...
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Russell Brand Tommy Robinson PARODY!
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Abolition. Dag nab it. Chuckles, Hakeem & DNC leadership would’ve tried to reform the Stasi!! They’re so spineless & gormless. As with the Nazi Gestapo after WWII, what you’re dealing with an entity so toxic that reform is offensive & impossible. Dem leadership couldn’t read a room if they tried
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
It’s not all the world, lads. Putin’s Russia is still having its boots licked & tummy tickled; Netanyahu’s satanic death cult regime retains US support, for what it’s worth. Members of the “Bored of Peace” club for tyrants (those NOT based in the gulf) probably remain allies for now, I guess
lads.xn--its-so0a
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Trump Won’t SURVIVE THIS - Yanis Varoufakis
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Deranged orange simpleton
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Deranged orange simpleton in the Whitehouse
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Solidarity Karl. He should sit as independent or join the Greens. The genuine progressive voices of Plaid, yourparty, independents, SNP, a couple Libdems & inevitably, further suspensions by Blue & Blairite Labour ghouls at HQ & NEC ghouls mean there’s plenty of great work to be a part of at WM.
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Much of the world now inclined to avoid/boycott US for Tourism, business, trade etc. The prospects for a well-attended successful FIFA World Cup diminish by the day. Illegal war of aggression, war crimes, threats of genocide & an army of Gestapo thugs & concentration camps across the US. Hmmm
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Nepomanaby Captain Bonespurs, the malignant narcissist overgrown infant felon, predator, insurrectionist & war criminal thinks US soldiers and public servants are suckers and losers. His opinions ought to be shared only with his cultists & the soft furnishings in a padded cell.
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The Blue & Blairite Labour ghouls managing Keir haven’t honoured the promises made to Wales, esp in the manifesto, while Starmer is actively hostile to the devolved administrations, including a Welsh Labour Govt in Cardiff. Why would English regions believe anything he says on that form?
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Left, a life of impeccable public service & integrity. Left, Nepomanbaby, serial draft-dodger, convicted felon, insurrectionist, adjudged rapist. A war criminal with complicity in the illegal cover up of a child sex-trafficking & child-rape conspiracy. A disgraceful life of depravity & destruction
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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Trump has 'endangered' American lives since he took office
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I think Trump's epic failures on the Ten Commandments insults Jesus: Bearing False Witness (Commandment 9); Adultery (Commandment 7); Stealing (Commandment 8); Having other gods (Commandment 1); Taking the Lord's name in vain (Commandment 3); Killing (Commandment 6); Coveting (Commandment 10)....
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
The overgrown infant launched another display of narcissistic rage & aggression. He is desperate, flailing. Iran's not moved by threats in its war of survival. China & Russia get this. Dipsh*t Manbabies Trump & Hegseth have only hubris, chutzpah, tantrums & threats. No plans, no strategy, no clue.
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
@itvnews.bsky.social ITV reporting on the plight of citizens in Iran when they normally couldn't give a stuff. Interesting that ITV is trying to generate anti-regime sentiment to defend Trump & Netanyahu regimes' war crimes. Not criticising Israel & US indiscriminate and slaughter of Iranians tho
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
@prifweinidog.gov.wales We thought it might be indifference, but it is actually contempt. Your Blue Labour pupppet PM has destroyed the Labour Party in Wales for at least a generation. He's done so in less than 18 months as PM.
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RickHT @hercort.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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