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jjsalmo

@jjsalmo.bsky.social
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Irish & Munster rugby Cork hurling, Skib rowing. Brexiters, MAGA, Reform Mobsters, save your breath for cooling your bile. Cynicism is your enemy. Scepticism is your friend. Woke as Fuck. Slava Ukraine.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 23h
21-year-old U.S. Navy sailor deployed on USS Fort Lauderdale for 11 months dies by suicide
21-year-old U.S. Navy sailor deployed on USS Fort Lauderdale for 11 months dies by suicideI would give my life to have her back.
I want accountability from the military.
I want truth.
I want no one to ever experience this."
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SISTER OF JAIMIE BETHEA, WHO DIED BY SUICIDE DURING NAVY DEPLOYMENT
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 22h
I’ll have more in a newsletter going out shortly, but something to flag in the meantime: The AGs are seeking PATIENT INFORMATION, asking for “complete identification of the individuals...to whom [plaintiffs] prescribed and dispensed abortion drugs” to cross-check against Medicaid databases
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Just My Opinion👵🏻 @justmyopinionok.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of those posts that you hope is true…
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 28/09/2026
Most experts agree: diesel export ban MAY initially lower prices in SOME areas of the US, the south and midwest. But long term would backfire both in our national security (including alliances) and in price. Global Diesel prices would eventually skyrocket as a result and those prices would hit us
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 24/09/2026
🗳️Voting is underway in Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont & Virginia! This is your moment. Make your plan, cast your ballot & make your voice heard. Every vote is a voice. Every voice matters. Get out & VOTE💙 #Vote2026 #EarlyVoting #VivaHerAlliance #SheShed
🗳️Voting is underway in Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Virginia & Vermont!

This is your moment. Make your plan, cast your ballot and make your voice heard.

Every vote is a voice. Every voice matters. Get out & VOTE💙

#Vote2026 #EarlyVoting 
#VivaHerAlliance #SheShed
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 28/09/2026
🇺🇸 Manny Rutinel, Democratic nominee for Colorado’s 8th District. An attorney, former state representative & former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers economist, he’s focused on lowering costs, protecting earned benefits & creating good-paying jobs. #CO-08 #MannyRutinel #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
🇺🇸 Meet Manny Rutinel, Democratic nominee for Colorado’s 8th District.

An attorney, former state representative & former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers economist, he’s focused on lowering costs, protecting earned benefits & creating good-paying jobs.

#CO08 #SheShed
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Pegs @pegoidal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 26/09/2026
These 7 men at Cornell drugged & raped a woman for hours, then called their friends to come rape her. 2 men got expelled. 5 had to write letter of apology. 0 faced any consequences. Men throughout the societal ladder are complicit. Women are not safe around men.
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 24/09/2026
In El Paso, The Texas Tribune has been closely reporting on the expansion and oversight of immigration detention facilities, including Camp East Montana, the country’s largest ICE detention center. www.texastribune.org/2026/05/30/t...
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ICE sued over “inhumane” conditions at Camp East Montana
The El Paso tent camp has seen at least three detainee deaths, a measles outbreak and nearly 50 detention standards violations in less than a year of operation.
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CNN @cnn.com · 24/09/2026
After spotting an elephant calf struggling in a river, five fishermen set about rescuing the animal by bringing it into their boat. Officials from India’s forest department were then able to reunite the calf with its mother.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 23/09/2026
she was probably already planning to leave anyway but cool
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Kara Swisher Says She’s Leaving CNN, Calls Ellisons “Terrible Media Owners”
"F*** these guys ... I’d rather work for Rupert Murdoch," Swisher said.
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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He said what he said! TY @captmarkkelly.bsky.social #FDT #Pinks
"A FREE PRESS DOESN'T EXIST TO MAKE A PRESIDENT LOOK GOOD.
IT EXISTS TO INFORM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND HOLD THOSE IN POWER ACCOUNTABLE.
THE GOVERNMENT DOESN'T GET TO DECIDE WHICH VOICES ARE HEARD OR SILENCE
THOSE IT DOESN'T LIKE.
SENATOR MARK KELLY
X - SEPTEMBER 21, 2026
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Release ALL the Epstein files NOW!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/09/2026
NEWS: Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has secured a record $131.5 million settlement from DoorDash after a NYC investigation found the company underpaid or failed to properly pay 264,000 delivery workers. 1/
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jjsalmo @jjsalmo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Only in America will u lose healthcare, go bankrupt if ill. What a shitshow.
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Joey Blue @jp262.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Donald has a net negative 42-point approval on foreign affairs. I wonder why that is? 🤔 (And yes, fuel prices are just the tip of the Greenlandic iceberg… )👇🏻
CNN graphic showing Trump with a negative 42-point approval rating on foreign affairs.MS Now graphic showing the difference between diesel prices before the war ($3.76) and now ($6.51).
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The TV networks, including Fox (!!!), have jointedly announced they will not travel with the White House pool to cover Trump's trip to the U.N. General Assembly in NYC. It's a start. Let's see if they hold the line.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the Republican agenda since Reagan is working
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 21/09/2026
A year ago this week, I left Twitter. It had gotten to the point where there was nothing but constant abuse, and my mental health would not have coped had I stayed. It cost me readers, a fair bit of money and a lot of reach - and I don’t regret it for one second.
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I Left Twitter a Year Ago. Going Back Confirmed It Was The Right Decision.
A year after quitting the platform that helped grow my audience, I went back to see what had changed. The answer was: not much, except perhaps the darkness.
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jjsalmo @jjsalmo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is Reform Ltd going after the women's vote
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Mark @njdoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Never stop talking about the Epstein Files regardless of what happens or whatever BB disastrous distraction the demented, malignant narciscisstic, orange felon deliberately creates!
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
💥 Ukraine struck Moscow Oil Refinery in Kapotnya - both primary processing units of the plant were hit, - Exilenova The first point is ELOU-AVT-6 unit, the second is the complex oil processing unit (KUPN) as part of the Euro+ complex. The KUPN was very badly damaged. AVT-6 also took several hits.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 20/09/2026
"She said the heat waves Europe experienced over the summer, especially in coastal areas, were “exacerbated” by high sea surface temperatures." via @mongabay.com at news.mongabay.com/2026/09/glob...
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Global ocean breaks records with 100 days of heat as El Niño adds new threat
For 100 consecutive days between June 2 and Sept. 10, the global ocean outside of polar regions sustained record high average sea surface temperatures, according to data from the Climate Reanalyzer, a...
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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
One particular photo of the big attack by democratic Ukraine on fascist Russia's capital Moscow this morning has inspired an epic meme.
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Johnny 🫧 Cowlick @jefferycowlick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The fraud is coming from the right. Just like the corruption. And the cheating. And the violence. And the lying.
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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Case in point. #ExtrawurstGroßbritannien last minute asking for huge concessions or threatening to walk away. Like 2015 all over again. And blaming us for the consequences of the UK's choices bsky.app/profile/nial...
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
✈️❗️Over 400 flights delayed in Moscow, dozens more canceled due to massive drone attack, — local channels ➡️ Sheremetyevo — 121 flights delayed for arrival and 126 for departure. ➡️ Vnukovo — 60 flights delayed for departure and 69 for arrival, 11 more canceled.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Credit to @bestforbritain.org … and to @the-independent.com for its pro-EU/anti-Brexit reporting. Good to have some organisations willing to represent us and our shared best interests, rather than those of non-dom billionaires and populist politicians who couldn’t care less. bsky.app/profile/best...
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
PLEASE - you vile excuse for a human being - do us all a favour, stop your whining and piss off somewhere else Oh - you already have? In which case keep your mouth well and truly shut www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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ZÖMBY WOOF @steveshark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...
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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed
GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center crowd is singing America The Beautiful. This is what democracy looks like.
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Large protest today at the Kennedy Center against the MAGA regime’s illegal plot to fully destroy President JFK’s sacred memorial simply because an unhinged jealous pedo rapist tyrant is angry that he can’t take ownership of it. Love this. 💙👊
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1gypsy (🎵I/me/me/mine🎵) 🦋 @theonegypsy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That's pretty funny.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who did this? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Iran has just declared that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the orange felon is removed from power. Looks like Iran has held all the cards from the very beginning of this illegal disastrous war. The orange felon and drunkard rapist fox host should be in jail.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It just never ends.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
25 years ago today, George W. Bush signed the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force into law. Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against it, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We should ask ourselves why this is something a Labour Prime Minister feels the need to refute. After 16 years of austerity, a tax and spend socialist is just what we need.
Burnham says budget will be ‘challenging’ and denies he is just ‘tax and spend socialist’ - Guardian headline
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It’s funny, but also not funny at the same time.
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jjsalmo @jjsalmo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mark Carney's speech to the European Parliament stands in stark contrast to the UK's incrementalist exceptionalism. The UK needs to step up quickly.
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