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Daily James O'B. Central School of Art. Made kippers for Joe Strummer. Nose-bleed in communal bath in Tokyo. Marooned in a Turbulent World. Ace husband. Ace cat. Hungry vegetarian. Schitt's Creek. Clangers. Tim Snyder. Balzac. Quiet Riot. Tries. Canaanite!

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
This is what really matters. Just peace for Ukraine.
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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
“Trump simultaneously says we should execute drug dealers while pardoning the largest drug market creator in human history. And so he is creating one of the hallmarks of authoritarian rule, which is a tier of justice that says: if you’re my friend, if you’re an ally, the rules don’t apply.”
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Nazi salutes at the inauguration & violent convicts released in *week one*…
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Travel, grant and funding cuts ‘stifling’ US health agencies in new Trump era
Halts to external communications, publishing reports and reviewing and approving research a ‘dramatic shift’
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
If you share my deep concern that a fascist like Elon Musk could use the X algorithm to interfere with the upcoming Canadian election please write to Elections canada and demand a full investigation into X's interference in Canada. stephane.Perrault@elections.ca www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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NDP MP Angus calls for investigation into Elon Musk over potential election interference | CBC News
New Democrat MP Charlie Angus is calling on Elections Canada to launch an investigation into Elon Musk and his social media platform X, saying he is concerned about potential interference by the tech ...
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ᵁⁿᵏⁱᵉᴹᵒⁿᵏⁱᵉ @unkiemonkie.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Love The Lincoln Project.
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Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
If Viktor Orban really blocks European sanctions at a key moment for the war, it’ll be absolutely clear that in this big game for the security and future of Europe, he is playing in Putin’s team, not in ours. With all the consequences of this fact.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
A truly dreadful piece of writing that neatly demonstrates why he had no respect at all from the rest of the senior civil service.
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olive16fromtwitter.bsky.social @olive16fromtwitter.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
those ears ; )
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🚨THIS WEEKEND please join me & @thebhf.bsky.social in inspiring the nation to learn LIFE SAVING CPR❤️🙏 450,000 people have now engaged with the FREE online training course to learn CPR in JUST 15 MINUTES! Let’s all be ready👇 www.bhf.org.uk/how-you-can-...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Sadly many of us will witness a cardiac arrest in our lifetime - let’s be ready. THIS WEEKEND please join me & @thebhf.bsky.social in inspiring the nation to learn LIFE SAVING CPR❤️🙏
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
The dream of technology is now under the control of men who are vain, foolish, self-centred, amoral, desperate for power, and in some cases openly fascistic. iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-res...
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How to resist the tech overlords
Big tech has now made its position clear. It is on the far-right. Here's what happens next.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Excellent episode. Listen to it. It’s 17 minutes long.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Hegseth's confirmation is awful news for global security, esp in a 50-50 tie. Cannot emphasise enough how unusual this is for Defense Secretary. Biden's Lloyd Austin got 93 votes to 2. A misogynist drunk, with little experience, now in charge of 3m personnel + $1Tn budget with a paper-thin mandate.
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MaryamB (She/Her) #FBPE #BanX #DemocracyDiedInDarkness 6Nov24🖤 @maryamb.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The Government has contacted potential administrators for Thames Water in case the company falls into bankruptcy. It should have been the Labour Government priority to nationalise water companies right from the start. I personally can’t wait for this. ❤️🇪🇺 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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UK government contacts potential administrators for Thames Water
Teneo, Interpath and EY among those reportedly approached for the role if company falls into bankruptcy
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Lorna MacGillivray @elemjay.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This is so deeply sinister. The USA is broken.
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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This is disgusting. It’s happening across government agencies, but there’s something viscerally horrible about seeing such hateful language underneath the NASA logo.
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LadyFluffyOrca 🫍📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
www.972mag.com/palestinians... How heartbreaking this story is, how do you recover from such losses. 😢
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‘My neighborhood was one of Gaza's most beautiful. All that’s left is rubble’
Rushing north after the ceasefire to see what remains of their former lives, Gazans find flattened homes, bulldozed graves, and missing bodies.
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ASH TRAY The First, Popetato of wulferhampton 📎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @ashashman1.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This 👇
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Sam Wise Masks @theailingwitch.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Mo has been caring not only for his beautiful family through the last year+ of brutal genocide, but for a shelter full of cats! He risked his life countless times to keep those in his care safe, and he still needs our help in this time of ceasefire. Please help Mo, his family, & the sweet kitties.
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Xenta @xenta.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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Xenta @xenta.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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Xenta @xenta.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Foggy Kyiv💙🩵🩶🤍
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Feeling overwhelmed by Trump’s first week? A little piece of advice: skip the doomscrolling and go straight to the facts. This read is a great place to start.
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Making Sense Out of the Chaos
A helpful guide to some of the worst of Trump's Day One actions
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
So close to 25,000 European Movement members! NO to Trump and YES to EU membership. It’s that simple… …let’s do it —> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 24/01/2025
The truth of January 6th can't be erased. Watch the pardoned criminals brutally attacking police inside the Capitol and see what some call 'patriotism.' No spin, just facts. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/revisiting...
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Revisiting January 6th: The Truth in Motion (Videos Of Pardoned Criminals)
Uncovering the Lies, Confronting the Violence, and Standing Firm for Democracy
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Immigration raid in Newark, NJ, where they abused a military vet.
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Newark mayor says business raided by ICE agents, multiple people detained
Immigration agents "raided a local establishment" in Newark on Thursday, according to the city's mayor.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Has anyone seen other examples of these?
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"It makes no sense for Starmer to pretend he would die in a ditch over Brexit – the sooner he abandons it the better" 👏👏👏
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Labour’s Brexit problem: why Starmer must soon face a rejoin reality check
It makes no sense for Starmer to pretend he would die in a ditch over Brexit – the sooner he abandons it the better
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The Bunker podcast – Your daily news Deep Dive @bunkerpod.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
📳 NEW EPISODE 📳 Why did civilised Germany welcome Hitler’s message of hatred so fervently? @nndroid.bsky.social talks to historian Laurence Rees, writer of acclaimed BBC series The Nazis: A Warning From History, about his new book The #Nazi Mind. Listen linktr.ee/bunker_pod
Why did otherwise civilised Germans welcome Hitler’s message of hatred and racial supremacy so fervently? Laurence Rees wrote and produced the acclaimed BBC series The Nazis: A Warning From History as well as documentaries on Auschwitz, Stalin, the Russian Front and the Holocaust. He talks to Andrew Harrison about his new book The Nazi Mind, where he examines the psychological mechanisms that drew Germany into the horrors of the Second World War – and how those same deep compulsions are revitalising the far-right today.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps. The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years. History is repeating. Pay attention.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
57th day of non-stop protests in Georgia, the regime is stalled dealing with protests as people nationwide hold them accountable. The movement demands two things: New elections free of manipulation and cheating. The immediate release of all regime prisoners.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 24/01/2025
Israeli forces have arrested at least 22 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since yesterday evening until this morning, according to the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS). 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️
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Israel continues destruction of West Bank’s Jenin as Gaza ceasefire holds
Arab League warns Israel’s ‘brutal’ operation in West Bank’s Jenin threatens to ‘destroy all efforts at peace’.
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Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
MOVING MOUNTAINS: Writing Nature Through Illness & Disability launches in paperback on 6th March 2025! You can preorder now from the usual places & do ask your local bookshop/library for a copy too. Available as an ebook/hardback now. 📚💚 #NatureWriting #Disability uk.bookshop.org/p/books/movi...
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Moving Mountains: Writing Nature through Illness and Disability a book by Louise Kenward.
'An anthology to treasure and return to' ELINOR CLEGHORN'Uniquely compelling, dynamic and powerful' LUCY JONES'Deeply affecting' TOM SHAKESPEARE'Promises to change the landscape of nature writing' LIZ...
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Rupert Murdoch has now spent around £2bn in keeping the truth about the way his news organisations operate out of the courts in the UK and US. Please don’t shrug and say it’s normal. It’s not. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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Chris Parr @chrisjparr.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Leeds becomes first Russell Group university to quit X but will stay on other platforms like Bluesky. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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Leeds becomes first Russell Group university to quit X - Research Professional News
Leeds says Elon Musk’s social media site “no longer aligns with our university values”
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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This is a hell of a piece of writing about a story that, if you heard about it for the first time, would blow your socks off. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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The lies and smears from Murdoch’s news empire cannot be ignored
Rupert Murdoch has now spent around £2bn in keeping the truth about the way his news organisations operate out of the courts in the UK and US. Please ...
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olive16fromtwitter.bsky.social @olive16fromtwitter.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Naomi, read RSPB the statistic that half of the UK feeds their garden birds. If accurate, can the government afford to reduce environmental standards? @edmilibandmp.bsky.social Doesn't this make the case that trade with the EU in some form is the solution keeping green standard + growing growth
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 23/01/2025
'The political landscape is far from funny, but sometimes a headline really gets you.' @mrjamesob.bsky.social reacts to Kemi Badenoch reportedly saying 'it would be best if Liz Truss would shut up for a while.'
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Have UK newspapers created an environment so hostile to Prince Harry that he will never see the crimes committed against him fully investigated? The Planning ‘pendulum’. Mystery Hour. www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...
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James O'Brien - The Whole Show - Podcast Episode | Global Player
I'm almost embarrassed to say this
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked." She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it.
Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.
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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"Does the rule of law apply equally to everybody in our society? Or are there people who are untouchable?" NotW whistleblower @danevanswrites.bsky.social talks #phonehacking with @goldbergradio.bsky.social From @bylinetimes.bsky.social podfollow.com/1747192337/e...
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Byline Podcast: Murdoch's Phone Hacking Shame
Rupert Murdoch has been shamed after his News Group Newspapers admitted to illegal activity for the first time as it settled a phone hacking case brought by Prince Harry.NGN made a “full and uneq...
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
If you aren’t already signed up to www.bestforbritain.org/join then start with that & we have a very exciting call to action coming in the next couple of weeks!
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Join Best for Britain
Join the campaign to fix the problems Britain faces after Brexit. @BestforBritain
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olive16fromtwitter.bsky.social @olive16fromtwitter.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
BRIAN IS BACK! “If [as a European gov’t] you pull your punches all the time, you’re going to end up with the worst of every world: you’re going to end up undercutting your own dignity and power on the international stage, and you’re not going to get Trump to change.” @brianklaas.bsky.social 🥊🥊
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olive16fromtwitter.bsky.social @olive16fromtwitter.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
@disordershow.bsky.social | @quietriotpod.bsky.social the cerebral sofa I sink into after listening to the too many podcasts I need to navigate this madmadmadmad world.
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