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Mary de Sousa

@mollyds.bsky.social
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Irish, Indian, writer, editor, Parisian (after London, Coventry, Aberystwyth, Nicosia, Madrid, Islamabad, Havana).

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 07/09/2026
Just ordered my tickets to Trumpapalooza in Dallas. I won’t be going, of course. I just wanted to make sure six seats spend the evening listening to Trump instead of actual human beings. You can order yours here: events.gopconvention.com/events/2026-...
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2026 Republican Convention Tickets
Sign up for a ticket TODAY!
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/08/2026
This is whole story is horrifying, and as a journalist covering ICE flights, I was struck by this sentence: “We were shipped to Texas overnight from Los Angeles in horrible conditions that I won’t elaborate on in this letter.”
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
NEW: Reports of Trump's catering-truck transfer in Turkey raise big questions about the recent NYT subpoenas. “So, you’re saying there wasn’t a security threat?” a reporter asked on July 8. Trump told her no. Two days later, DOJ went after the reporters who looked into the story.
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Reports of Trump's catering-truck transfer in Turkey raise big questions about the recent NYT subpoenas
“So, you’re saying there wasn’t a security threat,” a reporter asked on July 8. “No, no, why would there be,” Trump replied. Two days later, DOJ went after the reporters who looked into the story.
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Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Why do these "we have to fight to protect our homeland" fash always look like I could take them out with a well-placed wallop from my handbag? Go home, lad, yer tea's out.
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Mark Braggins @markbraggins.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Haha, nice one @privateeyenews.bsky.social !
Extract from Private Eye: Bluesky also banned

THE government confirmed today that, despite being left off the initial list, Bluesky would be included in the social media sites banned for under 16s.

Said a Downing Street spokesman, "We're determined to protect impressionable teen minds from being exposed on Bluesky to friendly polite
conversation on topics ranging from the albums of Miles Davis to classic 70s Hollywood movies and the best era of Doctor Who."

He continued, "Filling teenagers' impressionable young minds with this genial chat is no way to prepare them for the hellish Al future that awaits them."
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Belfast riots, Palestine Action protests. What is terrorism now – and why the hypocrisy? | George Monbiot
The right is obsessed with ‘two-tier policing’. This is indeed a two-tier government – but the real victims are progressives, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Fashion tip of the day: To deal with clothes moths, fill your wardrobe with thousands of tiny spiders, the moth's natural predator. To deal with the spiders, fill your wardrobe with scorpions. To deal with the scorpions, fill your closet with RFK Jr. This way, you avoid harmful chemicals.
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Samira Shackle @samirashackle.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Excellent piece by @stephenkb.bsky.social about the Henry Nowak case and what it does/doesn't show about policing www.ft.com/content/aa94...
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Jeff Daniels' powerful rant against Trump. This video was deleted from facebook yesterday. You know what to do ‼️
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
A government of shallow, glib sociopaths striving to get an "Attaboy" from other shallow, glib sociopaths.
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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
They gutted the Voting Rights Act. That's what just happened at the Supreme Court.
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Polly Kane 🇺🇳💃🏻🇺🇳 @pkalways.sheshed.rocks · 24/04/2026
🙌🏼❤️ #SheShed
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a cartoon drawing of two women standing next to each other with the number 7 on their butt
Alt: a cartoon drawing of two women standing next to each other with the number 7 on their butt
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Not to be overly alarmist, but everyone should be worried about DOJ’s indictment of SPLC. Here’s why: joycevance.substack.com/p/whats-wron...
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What’s Wrong With The SPLC Indictment
DOJ's indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center is a critical moment in the administration's war on democracy
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Remembering Amal Khalil
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This is absolutely fantastic. ht: @maddenifico.bsky.social
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Two of the journalists assassinated in South Lebanon this morning by Israel were Lebanese correspondents Ali Shoeib and Fatima Ftouni. They become the 252nd and 253rd journalists killed by Israel in the last two years. Unprecedented. (📸 Cradle Media)
A photo of Ali and Fatima in their press vests and hats, smiling at the camera with Lebanon in the background
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/03/2026
"Since you don't have the numbers ... " -- Himes makes Kash Patel squirm over questions about how many non-citizens are under investigation for voter fraud (the number is obviously very very few if any)
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This video speaks to what most women know to be true. “All men”…. It’s a system built specifically for them. #WomensHistoryMonth
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/03/2026
The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense (not to mention a grave crime) and Congress should really act like it. 15 Republicans in the Senate could end this nightmare before it somehow gets even worse.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Not a single US newspaper will publish this photo. No news channel will broadcast it. The graves are being prepared for more than 80 young children killed in the US/Israeli strike on the school in Minab, Iran on Saturday. (📸 Middle East Observer)
An aerial photo shows three diggers excavating the ground for graves. More than 65 graves are already dug. Those not yet dug are marked out by chalk.
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The SAVE Act is built to trip women up. About 69 million married women have names that do not match their birth certificates, and this bill turns that paperwork into a weapon against their voice. Screw the patriarchy. #SaveActTaxesYourVote
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Alex Johnson @shedworking.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
You would have got at least one point in the tricky book quiz I went to last night if you had read my book Famous Writers and Their Pets which features Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dognapped cocker spaniel, Flush. Just saying.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 26/02/2026
Today is the day. Hope vs hate. Green vs Reform. Vote Green in Gorton & Denton.
GREEN VS REFORM 

VOTE GREEN! 

Green Party 

Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The crowd is LOVING James Talarico on Stephen Colbert
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 17/02/2026
Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
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l'Humanité @humanite.fr · 13/02/2026
« Protest Songs » : la musique et les chansons pour faire résonner les luttes collectives ➡️ l.humanite.fr/Kqc
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 13/02/2026
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146M Americans don’t have a passport.
40M eligible voters don’t have access to their birth certificate.
60M women do not have a birth certificate that matches their married name.  The SAVE Act is voter suppression.
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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Wow, this was a powerful ad. Incredible, but these victims had to air a commercial during the Super Bowl to try and get justice...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.
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LouYou @louyoufortofu.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Wow. This is powerful stuff! Well done Aliya !
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
In fact eroticized exploitation, abuse, domination, and violence are in fact normative parts of male heterosexuality—they’re largely constitutive of how men define themselves as men. The big feminist and queer intervention in sexual politics has been to say that this is corrosive and unnecessary.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
What it actually boils down to is George Carlin was right all along
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David Chriscole @devilishaccord.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
It'll never get old seeing @zackpolanski.bsky.social answering questions. I mean, he answers them instead of fluffing, talking bs, avoiding the question, and changing the subject. That's what other politicians do, and one of the reasons I'm a Green. 💚👏
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Want to contribute to taking down Nigel Farage? The Green Party are the alternative - lower bills and protect our NHS. Join.greenparty.org.uk
Farage and Polanski battle
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
GEORGIA — @ossoff.senate.gov : “This is a SEISMIC event. This should have people across 🇺🇸 absolutely shook. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office… this is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections.” (H/T @atrupar.com )
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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 27/01/2026
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Let the picture of the little five year old boy standing facing the car and the old man being dragged out of his house with no shirt on, let those images burn into your brain. We don’t have to be this country. We don’t have to live this way. Donald Trump was a choice, Republican voters made for us.
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 21/01/2026
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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @repyassansari.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
An ICE agent killed Renee Good, yet it’s my colleague @replamonica.bsky.social who faces prison time for conducting oversight at an ICE facility. This is political retribution by the Trump regime—protecting Jonathan Ross while targeting those who demand accountability.
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PKs Powerfromspace1 @powerfromspace1.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2026
@iWillNotBeSilenced ICE kidnapped an elderly Hmong man in St. Paul, Minnesota. The temperature was sub-zero, and he was taken only wearing shorts and Crocs, and no shirt. (1/18/26) #ice #dhs #icc #humanrights
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Lucha @iustitia100.latinsky.app · 19/01/2026
They returned the Hmong man, who was taken in shorts and no coat, out into freezing temperatures.
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GabeMac @gabemacbksysocial.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Thank you this was fab.
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Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
"Democracy dies in darkness." I canceled my subscription to the Washington Post over Bezos' pulling editors' Harris endorsement Proud tonight to support a newspaper doing its job: "Thank you for subscribing to the Minnesota Star Tribune." @startribune.com
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 13/01/2026
just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday
Eyewitness account:
Good morning,
My name is Brandon Siguenza, and l am a US citizen from Minneapolis. Yesterday, while doing legal observation, ICE stopped their cars to harass my friend and me. They sprayed pepper spray into the vent of our vehicle. We held our hands in the air and told them we were not obstructing, that the car was in park and they were free to drive forward and away. There was no active immigration raid. They returned to their cars, and drove forward a bit, then decided to stop again. They surrounded us, smashed the windows of our car, opened the doors (they were unlocked), ripped my friend and I out of the car and arrested us on charges of obstruction.
I was put in an unmarked SUV, separated from my friend.
As I was put in the back seat an ICE agent tore the whistle off my neck and said "I'll be taking this, I might need it later." My phone was knocked out of my hand while being arrested. As we drove away I asked the driver and the passenger if they wouldn't mind buckling my seatbelt, as they were driving erratically. I was ignored. I asked them if I could have the handcuffs loosened, as I was losing circulation, and was told no. At one point the passenger realized his own driver's license was in the backseat next to mine, and tried to surreptitiously grab it without me seeing it.
We were taken to the Whipple federal building, where I saw dozens of brown people being processed in an unheated garage. I was frisked, told of my charges, and saw buses and vans being prepped. I later learned that these were being filled with detainees and driven to the airport for deportation. As we were led in, I noticed that the building was very busy. I got the impression that one of the 2 agents bringing me around was being trained. At multiple points throughout my stay, government agents were unable to open doors, not sure where they were meant to be going, and overall confused and overwhelmed. They couldn't figure out how to use the building phones, or complai…
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Make it viral.
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Senseidai2547❌👑 @senseidai.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Any Congressional Republican who says they back the blue is LYING! Especially MAGA Mike Johnson. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica apnews.com/article/capi...
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This Jan. 6 plaque was made to honor law enforcement. It's nowhere to be found at the Capitol
Approaching the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the official plaque honoring the police who defended democracy is nowhere to be found.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Pass this along. All Democrats, Independents in magat states need to check to make they're registered to vote. May have to do it a couple times; last time a week or to before election
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
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The President Who Can’t Stop Naming Things After Himself
The Narcissist-in-Chief is Worried We'll Forget Him. I hope we do.
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