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Martin McDonald

@martymcd.bsky.social
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UK & US Politics and other stuff from the kitchen table, one tweet at a time. Some say 'a totally undiscovered twitter treasure' apparently. Also tax. And law

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Trump calls Natalie on stage, checks out her legs, calls her "perfect," then floats creating a reality show w/ her -- & other lowlights from his rally tonight in Nebraska (Including Trump saying of Iran, "Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is very small price to pay")
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Martin McDonald @martymcd.bsky.social · 4h
Think there's a difference between a show that's been on air for more than 20 years and one that's been on air for just over two?
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 5h
It's pretty wild how reporters who cover the president are publicly asking what I think should be obvious questions? If the role of a journalist is to speak truth to power, no higher truth than "are you fucking kidding me with this"?
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 5h
WH reporters should be asking until they get a satisfactory answer: 1. Why do you resort to slurs? 2. And wtf is wrong with you?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5h
Archer came and spoke to my school in the 1980s. Charm personified. Bragged at length about his many achievements and then... something bizarre happened. 1/3 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jeffrey Archer obituary
Politician and best-selling author whose career was mired in scandal and disgrace.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
this taxpayer-funded agitprop just aired on Newsmax reminder as you watch this that the Trump administration's line is these are "public service announcements," not propaganda
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
REPORTER: Why are you telling your supporters to vote by mail if you think it's fraud? TRUMP: I'd rather have them vote in person, but they can vote by mail if they want. But there is a lot of cheating in vote by mail. REPORTER: There's no evidence TRUMP: You are fake news
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
TAPPER: 'Get the hell out of here. You don't belong in America.' Is that the right way to speak about someone you disagree with? RICK SCOTT: The point is Ds have all become socialists. They're antisemitic T: You think Wasserman Schultz is antisemitic? S: I can tell you Mamdani is. Hasan Piker ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
Trump: "Annie 'Trannie' Andrews is running against our wonderful Darline Graham for the Senate in South Carolina ... Trannie is not for South Carolina, and South Carolina must show, in the upcoming Election, that it is not for her."
Annie “Trannie” Andrews is running against our wonderful Darline Graham for the Senate in South Carolina. For years my dear friend Lindsey would say that, “Darline is the finest, most reliable, and one of the smartest people I have ever known.” He would then always add, “Also, the most loyal!” Oftentimes I would be upset with Lindsey for saying this, because I thought I had all of those qualities. In any event, Darline is a High Quality person, maybe the Highest, and Annie Trannie is not, in particular, as it pertains to representing the Values of the Great People of South Carolina — She is in favor of Transgender for Everyone, Open Borders, Defunding the Police, High Taxes, a Weak Military, and will absolutely fight to take your guns away — In other words, she is against our Great Second Amendment! Trannie is not for South Carolina, and South Carolina must show, in the upcoming Election, that it is not for her. VOTE FOR DARLINE GRAHAM — SHE HAS MY COMPLETE AND TOTAL ENDORSEMENT, AND WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 12h
The Tory Bayeux Tapestry is very funny and a great skewering of most of the main characters, apart from Angela Rayner who looks absolutely iconic in every image
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Martin McDonald @martymcd.bsky.social · 5h
Was it because Kemi wouldn't let him have a party at this year's conference?
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Martin McDonald @martymcd.bsky.social · 5h
Well, I'm likely wrong which would put me in your camp too, and maybe a lot of people who think like me will be very disappointed!
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Penk @penk.bsky.social · 5h
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Alan Partridge Shrugs 'I Don't Know'
ALT: Alan Partridge Shrugs 'I Don't Know'
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6h
Jeffrey Archer, former Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
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Jeffrey Archer, former Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
Lord Archer died peacefully at home between writing sessions, his publisher said The author and former politician Jeffrey Archer has died aged 86. Archer, who was a Conservative MP for five years before serving as the party’s deputy chairman, died peacefully at his home between writing sessions on Monday, his publisher Harper Collins said. Continue reading...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6h
Holy shit.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 5h
Arched will be remembered largely for his crimes, which were published by Hachette, and later Macmillan
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Martin McDonald @martymcd.bsky.social · 5h
Is it a GCHQ/SIS Recruitment ad?
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Martin McDonald @martymcd.bsky.social · 5h
Friday night on CNN, Enten in response to an R talking point bursts out laughing 'You guys are gonna lose so badly I can't even articulate how bad it's gonna be, I can't find *anything* historically that matches this'
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 6h
because if Achilles gets funded you lose, and they really really needed to step on the formerly-most-recent poll showing Achilles up 11 in the two-way (which again I don't think is correct)
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 6h
That's one in the eye for the cultural elite. (I'll get my coat)
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David KC @davidmuttering.bsky.social · 6h
My cat, Michael, is absurdly pretty
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ian-medgett.bsky.social @ian-medgett.bsky.social · 6h
@dinahrose.bsky.social I see your very cute floof in a sink and raise you a little floof in a massive fluffy bucket 😊
Tabby in a fluffy bucket
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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 9h
The new Supreme Court term opened with the justices, minus Alito, seemingly perplexed over how to decide some novel legal questions raised by Boulder's novel climate change lawsuit: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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New Supreme Court term begins with justices stumped by climate change case
The justices heard arguments in a lawsuit brought by Boulder, Colorado, seeking to hold Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy liable for the impacts of climate change.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17h
This is a good explainer of why the motion is a problem. www.linestotake.com/p/green-part...
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Jewishness itself is now the offence
The Green Party votes to say “Zionism is racism”
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 7h
This proves only two things. The Ukrainian campaign against Russian refineries is causing serious damage. Putin has asked Trump to help him out and the US president obliged.
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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 8h
Media reports claim that President Trump tried to persuade Poland's defence minister to leave the government and form a new ruling coalition with the right-wing opposition. We outline what is known so far and how the government, including Prime Minister Donald Tusk, has responded.
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Reports claim Trump tried to change Poland's government. What do we know?
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London & Southeast🔅 @thesnowdreamer.bsky.social · 7h
Today’s high temps the 24.2C at Heathrow is +6.7C above recent 30-year average for October 5th. The July average max is 23.9C!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Q: Is the UK still a safe space for US forces? TRUMP: I think it is, and I have a very good relationship with your new prime minister. He's liberal, very liberal, but I hear he's gonna open up North Sea oil
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h
Ah yes, the pneumonia plague. Just inject bleach - probably knock it right out.
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 7h
If Trump’s approach to self-soothing involves lying about crowd sizes, so be it. But when he declares publicly that journalists “should be arrested for their dishonesty and disservice to our Country,” I find it tough to shrug and look away. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Trump says some journalists ‘should be arrested,’ escalating attack on free press
If the president wants to lie about crowd sizes, that’s pitiful. But when he talks about arresting reporters without cause, don’t look away.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7h
Trump talking gibberish at the White House: “Canada charged us a lot of tariffs that nobody knew about, except me.”
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 7h
Fed. judge grants a habeas petition for immediate release (after 13 months) of an LPR who ICE was holding w/o bond bc even after ordering a hearing "Petitioner’s uncontested evidence on the systematic bias of the immigration judges is compelling." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
When an individual is at risk of indefinite detention, due process requires at least more than skimming the record for the first time at a twenty-eight minute hearing. However, as Petitioner does not press this argument, the Court need not base its decision on this issue. Therefore, this Court holds that the immigration judge’s decision failed to comply with this Court’s previous order and due process. The evidence before the immigration judge on both the flight risk and dangerousness determinations was plainly deficient of standard for clear and convincing evidence. 3.4 Petitioner’s Case Warrants Immediate Release Petitioner argues that he should be released because “[r]emand for a second bond hearing . . . would not adequately remedy the government’s constitutional violation” and “credible evidence suggests that the immigration court system across the country is systematically rigging bond hearings against noncitizen detainees.” ECF No. 24 at 19–20.  Respondents do not argue regarding the specific remedy proposed.  Because Petitioner’s uncontested evidence on the systematic bias of the immigration judges is compelling, the Court agrees. Therefore, the Court will order that Petitioner be immediately released.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 7h
This will definitely help overcome fears that Reform don't look like a credible party of government.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 7h
Huh Peter Andre now only the second worst person Katie Price has been attached to.
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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 13h
logging on after getting the failed Darth Maul surgery
AI slop image of a kid crying over a dead military man but the guy is bisected and the top half of his body is facing the wrong way so it’s like they just packed the box full
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7h
Judge Stadtmueller, a Reagan appointee in Wisconsin, orders the release of an ICE detainee in part because of the "systemic rigging of bond hearings against detainees." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 7h
I mean it’s an interesting line to take…. www.itv.com/news/meridia...
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Stu Can Play At That Game @btnstu.bsky.social · 8h
How come there's never mention of areas that minorities are discouraged from visiting? Like darts tournaments or the staff rooms at British universities...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8h
Tory shadow minister claims Luton has ‘no-go zones’ where ‘white people won’t go’
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Tory shadow minister claims Luton has ‘no-go zones’ where ‘white people won’t go’
Blake Stephenson tells fringe meeting at Tory conference that the town is ‘a very dangerous place’ with ‘ghettoes’ A shadow Conservative Home Office minister has claimed there are “no-go zones” in Luton where “white people won’t go”. Blake Stephenson, the MP for Mid Bedfordshire who was appointed to the Tory frontbench two weeks ago, claimed the town was “a very dangerous place” where some communities “live in ghettoes”. Continue reading...
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Martin McDonald @martymcd.bsky.social · 8h
I'm not sure where this idea that he has no money gas come from, he'll obviously have been left significant sums from the private wealth of both his parents who have died relatively recently? And that's before the allowance HMK (for some reason still) gives him?
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 8h
No matter how weird you think they are, they are even weirder than that
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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 8h
Things that you hear as a parent: (Youngest child looking into toilet) “Daddy! What would I have eaten that is really orange?”
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AndyH @andyh616.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#McRaturday The amazing looking #BRCW Sulzer type 2, 27056, in very fetching BR blue livery complete with white bodyside stripe & red bufferbeam, standing in Loughborough Central station during the September Great Central Railway autumn diesel gala. #GCR @brcwco.bsky.social 4/9/26
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 8h
This and another post are the first I’m seeing of this and idk what the actual context is but Tom Morello fucking rocks. The one time I met him he nearly spit out his drink when I mistakenly said he “campaigned for John kerry” in2004 lol
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John O’Shea @politicalhackuk.bsky.social · 8h
“Controlling a plague is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman”
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 8h
Andrew Griffith delivers one of the all time rhetorical stinkers. My Tory conference SKETCH. thecritic.co.uk/an-h...
On reflection, it would have been better for Andrew Griffith if he’d abandoned his speech when the announcer got his name wrong. He is the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, supposedly the second most important figure in the Conservative Party. If they don’t even know what he’s called, he should take the hint.

It was an oration that party managers will describe as a cautionary tale to generations of MPs yet unborn

He didn’t, of course. Perhaps he thought that after such a slip, things could only get better. If so, it was a judgement in which he was profoundly mistaken. He was about to give one of the all-time terrible party conference speeches. It was an oration that party managers will describe as a cautionary tale to generations of MPs yet unborn. Some speeches are written terribly. Some are delivered terribly. This one was so terrible in every way that it should be sealed in lead and buried at the bottom of the ocean.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 8h
I love talking our country down While offering no solutions Because I’m a grifting gobshite Who likes to incite unrest Small boat crossings are down 44% Deportations are the highest in 10 years Immigration is 82% lower But who needs facts When you can make up lies
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Martin McDonald @martymcd.bsky.social · 8h
Of course they have, and it explains exactly why they're in this very big hole they've dug for themselves!
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 8h
A bit like everyone who's done very well financially saying 'I've worked very hard', as if no one else has.
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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 8h
The £100k tax anomaly is mad and needs fixing, but can we drop the fatuous whiny idea that everyone on six figures is aspirational and everyone on less is loafing about with no ambition to speak of? Thankyew.
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