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Mary E Clinton

@meclinton.bsky.social
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Hoarder, bibliophile, old school lefty, follower of Dorothy Day. In my previous lives I have been an academic and a theatre crew member. Full time carer and worrier.

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
She's building up to it.
That Melania hat picture. Big Trouble in Little China character, big hat, facing same way as Melania picture, with electricity coming from his hands.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This is absolutely hilarious. Russell Brand shares fake redacted file claiming that Penelope Keith shot JFK. Clearly didn't read it. Mind you, it's no madder than some of the other theories.
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Tim Gatzios @timgats.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
One [Labour] MP said: “Increasingly I’m trying to figure out what we’re doing that the Tories wouldn’t be if they were in power.”
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I actually managed to find the funny in this one. Yeah, I know, under THESE conditions?! Remarkable. I’ll do a shot of Novichok to celebrate. Russian warship, go fuck yourself! Here’s my take: Are Trump, Musk & Johnson KGB Agents? Yeah, Probably. youtu.be/XvBGrQ8gKEg?...
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Are Trump, Musk & Johnson KGB Agents? Yeah, Probably.
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Skree Ghoulsen 🎃🦇🌿 @breebird33.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
happy valentine's day! looking at you my fellow heartless who may need some self love today 💚✨
digital illustration bathed in warm hues of orange, red, and ochre greens of two figures framed in delight border. The smallest figure dressed in a 16th century shirt and doublet holds a large dripping heart up to the larger who is crouched on their hands and knees, trying to hold back the tentacles bursting through the torn linen of his shirt from a his chest under a wide-sleeved doublet. More tentacles twist and arch from where a head would be above a mane of long wavy hair. Text at the bottom reads: Please, take it back...you need it for more than I.
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 14/02/2025
Happy Valentine's Day 🍷🩸🖤
Two of Cups card from Abigail Larson's "Horror Tarot" depicting a vampire couple embracing in a coffin
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 31/01/2025
The new U.S. Department of Transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, issued an order this week that threatened to shift federal transportation funding away from local governments that don’t cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.
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Trump Raises New Threat to Sanctuary Cities: Blocking Transportation Dollars
A new order revives an old battle about how much an administration is allowed to coerce cities and states by withholding money.
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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 31/01/2025
White House announces tariffs on products from Canada, Mexico, China, reports Jennifer Shutt, @jennifershutt.bsky.social, of @statesnewsroom.com, via @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/01/31/d...
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White House announces tariffs on products from Canada, Mexico, China • Alaska Beacon
Leavitt said that Trump will place 25% tariffs on goods coming from Canada and Mexico, and a 10% tariff on imports from China.
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Mary E Clinton @meclinton.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
@wintonka.bsky.social glad to see you here.
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Benji @bitmapx.com · 20/01/2025
Elon doing the salute
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
There's no Felon without elon...
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Share this around if you like the sound of it - I do
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
BREAKING: A judge has ordered US president-elect Donald Trump to be sentenced next week in his New York hush money case - but has suggested he will not jail him news.sky.com/story/judge-...
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Judge orders Donald Trump to be sentenced in hush money case - but signals he won't be jailed
A judge has ordered US president-elect Donald Trump to be sentenced next week in his New York hush money case - but has suggested he will not jail him.
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Mary E Clinton @meclinton.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Beware those January sales
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 15/12/2024
Wes Streeting’s decision to interfere in what doctors think is best for young trans patients poses dangers for everyone | Jennie Kermode
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Politicians should keep their hands off our bodies
Wes Streeting’s decision to interfere in what doctors think is best for young trans patients poses dangers for everyone
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/12/2024
It wasn't the first time Nigel Richards, arguably the best Scrabble player ever, won a Scrabble competition in a language he didn’t speak.
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This year’s Spanish Scrabble champion? A man who can’t speak Spanish.
Nigel Richards, arguably the best Scrabble player ever, previously won French tournaments without speaking the language.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
‘Whelmed’ really means ‘capsized’ - the over and under were added later for effect. But you can be consolate: consoled and comforted. And gruntled too.
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 08/12/2024
In Advice: Rethinking my assigned reading lists has reinvigorated my classroom. chroni.cl/3ZrBN9F
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Are You Assigning Too Much Reading? Or Just Too Much Boring Reading?
Call me unrigorous if you like, but rethinking my assigned-reading lists has reinvigorated my classroom.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Nearly half the 1.5m UK children growing up in poverty in the private rental sector are pushed into it by housing costs. Private renters paying three times as much as mortgagor for the same housing. Yet govts cut real wages/benefits, don't curb profiteering morningstaronline.co.uk/article/priv...
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Private rental costs drive hundreds of thousands of children into poverty
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 05/12/2024
"You put a billionaire who basically has made his fortune off government subsidies in charge of deciding how the government should spend its money."
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'Sounds like a con job': Senator blasts DOGE plan — and suggests going after Elon Musk
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) supports cutting government spending, but he does not believe someone receiving government money should decide what gets cut. Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday, Murphy addressed C...
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 05/12/2024
Uber will need to fingerprint drivers in California to transport teens
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Uber will need to fingerprint drivers in California to transport teens
Uber has 30 days to require certain drivers to get fingerprinted if the ride-hail giant intends to continue transporting unaccompanied teens in California.  The California Public Utilities Commission issued a ruling Thursday that requires taxi and…
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/12/2024
Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, is the 10th-richest person in the U.S., worth $127 billion. He is also the beneficiary of a series of tax dodges that will enable him to pass on much of his fortune tax free, according to securities and tax filings reviewed by The New York Times.
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How Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, Is Avoiding Billions in Taxes
The chief executive of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, has taken advantage of popular loopholes in the federal estate and gift taxes, which have quietly been eviscerated.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 05/12/2024
The crypto world is jubilant after President-elect Donald Trump chose Paul Atkins, a crypto-company adviser, as the next chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission
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Crypto Players Celebrate SEC Pick, Bitcoin Touches $100,000
Paul Atkins, Trump’s nominee to run the securities regulator has close ties to digital-asset companies.
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👓Politcal Sceptic👓 @politicalsceptic.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Starmer still speaking like he's in opposition. Most of the analysis, I've heared, so far (mainly radio) are looking at his boring tone, his inability unable to hold a room... Most people just want them to deliver, and not talk about why failure is likely, bcus of that other lot.
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Judge Labour on six targets, Keir Starmer says in major speech
The PM says the pledges, ranging from living standards to the NHS, will allow voters to hold the government to account.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Man in yellow, "As we've got a Cabinet made up of mainly public sector workers with no private sector experience, how are they going to hope to complete all of the things that they've laid out today" #BBCQT You mean the way Boris Johnson, Lis Truss and Rishi Sunak achieved great things 🤦‍♂️
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
When I worked in the public sector two types of people were broadly responsible for things not getting done, MPs and Lords. The former, obsessed with optics over infrastructure. The later often had discrete and undue influence over projects
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
No matter how demoralized we are in today's America, I'll always have this selfie of me meeting Jane Goodall.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I ran into the fabulous @mazzucatom.bsky.social yesterday, one of the world’s leading economists, & she gave this super clear explanation on why the Guardian management should be listening to its journalists. AND restructuring its board. Please watch! 1/
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Oldie but a goodie...
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 04/12/2024
“Yes, it’s a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” - Amos Goldberg, Israeli Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Location: Parliament Square, London. Read full statement below)
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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
#RefugeesWelcome please share.
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Kitty Ross @curatorkitty.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/pQaofO/abbey... If you are not familiar with Abbey House Museum #Leeds which is now threatened with closure, here is a lovely video from @leedsmuseums.bsky.social to show some of what would be lost.
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Abbey House Museum
Explore the Victorian streets, reminisce in the childhood galleries and discover Leeds' social history.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Cropped from some Berlin street art. An orange jelly bean carries a placard that says: What if it’s not too late
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Congratulations to Dr Ally Louks on her successful PhD! Haters and losers can get in the sea. www.forbes.com/sites/callum...
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The Online Reaction To The ‘Politics Of Smell’ PhD, Examined
An unexpected post went viral over the weekend: a University of Cambridge student sharing the fact she completed her PhD on the politics of smell.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The Dutch traded live eels to London starting in the mid-15th C., & quickly won a monopoly on eel sales in the city. How do we know? Well...by the 16th C., English regulations started calling ALL eel sellers in the city as "palingmen" from the Dutch word for eel: paling. 1/2 🗃️🧪
Meme. Two Dutch eel ships from Hollar's 1647 "Long View of London." They're moored in the middle of the Thames, just off of the docks at Queenhythe. This is a quite detailed and accurate drawing; the eel ships looked very much like this up through the 1930s, when they left London for good.

There are a clutter of other small ships near the docks; Queenhythe was the primary dock for ships bringing reeds into the city. So there's at least some reed ships in there.

Behind the eel ships and the reed boats, you can see the houses and buildings of the city. The map is a tan parchment color, with the city drawn in black ink. Presumably, 17th C. London actually had color. But Hollar, for all his attention to accuracy in other ways, has chosen to lie to you about the city's hues. He's been dead a long time, so there's no way for you to seek revenge. You just have to deal with his deception.

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"Two dutch ships
just paling around"
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damnatio memoriae @indamnatio.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
St Cecilia, sculpted in 1610 by Stefano Maderno, allegedly in the same pose that her incorrupt body was found in 1599 The basilica bearing her name in Trastevere, Rome is supposed to be built over her house, a church has stood on the site since the 3rd century
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damnatio memoriae @indamnatio.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
A fantastic 1867 stained glass representation of Christ from the Book of Revelations, “in the midst of the seven candlesticks … girt about the paps with a golden girdle” And, quite literally, “From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations” St Mark’s Church, Ampfield
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Josh Russell → @MVTFWD @joshfwd.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Yep. Well, let’s try and make them see it.
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I talk about this endlessly in my book....how our current electoral system is NOT fit for purpose @petergeoghegan.bsky.social explains more re donations Jeez Labour...tighten up these horrors....
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EleriTudor @eleritudor.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
F off Farage - We will NOT have women dying in car parks in this country! Nigel Farage Teams Up With Extreme Anti-Abortion Group and Calls for Debate on Restricting Abortion Rights in UK – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...
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Nigel Farage Teams Up With Extreme Anti-Abortion Group and Calls for Debate on Restricting Abortion Rights in UK
The Reform Leader is joining forces with a US-based Christian legal group, which campaigns for abortion to be outlawed around the world
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The Mirror @mirror.co.uk · 29/11/2024
On Karim’s fourth attempt to cross the Channel, there were 70 people crammed into a smugglers’ boat. “After a few hours, the dinghy is going down. Everyone is screaming. I see three young guys my age fall from the boat and drown.” @roswynnejones.bsky.social @refugeestogether.bsky.social
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'I watched three people die as our boat sank in Channel with 70 of us aboard'
This year is already the deadliest for people crossing the English Channel in small boats. At least 60 are confirmed to have died this year, according to United Nations figures
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orlabarry.bsky.social @orlabarry.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
UK government acted illegally in withholding £14,250 in funding to the Irish-language rap trio Kneecap because of their political views www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n...
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Kneecap: UK government acted illegally in withholding funding from Irish rap trio
The Department for Business and Trade said Kemi Badenoch’s decision to rescind funding had been ‘unlawful and procedurally unfair’
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero. 🖖
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💙Ann💙 @ahddrv.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Sunak's recovery plan made NHS dentistry crisis worse www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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NHS dentistry crisis as report finds Tory 'recovery plan' made situation worse
A watchdog's damning verdict on the NHS dentistry crisis found 'patients who do not already have a relationship with a dental practice struggle to get accepted'
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
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