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Pam Baker

@pamatluing.bsky.social
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Elderly traveller, hence currently cat-free. West of Scotland. St. Hilda’s College, Oxford. Books, art, conservation, meditation, spirituality, gardens. Always something new to learn. Sorry, I don’t do DMs.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Masked men putting up flags and demanding that passers by who challenge them tell them where they come from is not something to be celebrated. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Why I am putting up Union flags on my high street in Sutton
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
This'll be very telling when he comes to speak. If Farage uses his appearance in front of that committee to encourage a foreign state to bully his own country, he'll have crossed a very specific line.
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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 02/09/2025
I have my critiques about Pritzker, but right now they seem insignificant against my appreciation that he is the governor right now
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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
*DOG: “You're finally back! I missed you so much!!”
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Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Ranavalona I Queen of Madagascar 1828-1861. Very powerful, she strongly resisted attempts to Christianise her country, as well as French & British desire for colonisation. Read more in Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy 4 Sept @wearefootnote.bsky.social #womenwhoruledtheworld
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 02/09/2025
"Dear friends, let us pray that the Church will always be a school of humility for everyone, a home where all are welcome, a place where rivalries are set aside and where Jesus still speaks to us and teaches us to imitate his own humility and freedom." #PopeLeoXIV #LiveTheGospel #ShareGodsLove
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/09/2025
Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?"
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The White House has made it clear that any Republicans considering joining Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) in his bipartisan push to force a vote on the full release of the Epstein files will be treated as committing a “very hostile act to the administration,”
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I know this sounds crazy, but shouldn’t the Secretary of Energy know something about energy?
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Lake Michigan @lakemichigan13.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
nʌki\'wah Graham Greene💙 He is a son of the Great Lakes basin. This one goes out in your honor RIP 🌊🌊
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 02/09/2025
We’re back in session after Speaker Johnson let us out early at the end of July, feeling the pressure from our subpoenas for the Epstein files. Today, @oversightdemocrats.house.gov sat down with survivors who endured horrific abuse. What we heard was beyond disturbing. (1/2)
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
So they re-released most of the same shit they gave the GOP binder crew in February? Color me shocked. Never thought I’d say this, but I’m with Massie. Release the rest of the damn Epstein files, not this cherry-picked bullshit.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
"I spoke with a Midlands-based Reform UK candidate. Instead of trying to convince me to support the party by discussing its manifesto policies and ability to govern, he took another approach: he told me that the UN were sneaking ‘military-aged’ migrants into asylum hotels"
centralbylines.co.uk
Why Reform UK’s conspiracism should worry you
Reform UK appear to embrace conspiracism as an ideology to gain power but it brings an underlying threat to UK democracy
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This is ICE-style immigration enforcement in the UK, it is also very reminiscent of Windrush.
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Motorcyclist on shopping trip arrested amid Labour’s crackdown on undocumented migrants
Fernando Fontoura, who moved to the UK aged 12, detained in drive to find people ‘illegally working’ as delivery drivers
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/09/2025
Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
As many as 100 survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and other victims of sexual abuse are expected to attend a rally Wednesday in Washington, D.C. as a bipartisan Congressional effort gains steam to force the U.S. Department of Justice to make public its controversial files on the disgraced sex trafficker.
miamiherald.com
As many as 100 Epstein victims will attend Washington rally Wednesday
The rally comes as lawmakers Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) want a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to force Attorney General Pam Bondi to release Epstein files.
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South Carolina 50501 @ctraveler.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Victims of Epstein to speak out today at 10:30. Only 2 more votes needed to release the list.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Cities in Texas with higher violent crime rates last year than Chicago. Houston Corpus Christi Lubbock Amarillo Dallas San Antonio Pasadena This isn't about crime. It's never been about crime.
en.wikipedia.org
List of United States cities by crime rate - Wikipedia
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Tim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Just looking up Speaker Johnson’s congressional district map and oh I have questions. Straight and wiggly lines. Wonder where the black folks live?
An electoral map of Louisiana District 4 drawn by Gerry Manders
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Matthew Terrill @matthewterrill.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Not at all the entirety of my politics, but I do firmly believe that one pillar of leftism simply must be: Trains Go Zoom. 🤯🤓
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True Blue 🇦🇺🐨 @spbmckenna.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🚨 Trump’s LACK of ACTION toward STRONGMEN "I think we're going to look back on today as a very big deal because that image of Xi Jinping with Putin, Modi & Kim Jong-un should send a CHILL DOWN the SPINE of every American," That is a NEW WORLD ORDER www.rawstory.com/van-jones-26...
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Van Jones warns Trump's latest move pointed a 'dagger' at the 'heart of the West'
President Donald Trump's lack of action toward some global strongmen has created a situation where a dagger is pointed "at the heart of the West," according to one analyst. Van Jones, a former White H...
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June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 03/09/2025
this is what's so strange to me. the news has a material incentive to sensationalize, and this is huge stuff without any exaggeration. is journalistic ideology really that impenetrable?
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🦋 C.G., PhD 🐸 (🪖"Prima" AKA "Battle" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🟪🟦🟩🟨🟧🟥 #ONEV1 #Pinks 🌸 #Voices4Victory
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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Not 'if'. Not even 'when'. The US *is* one.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
"Nearly a decade on from the Brexit referendum and almost five from when Brexit was supposedly ‘done’, voters who are genuinely happy with the Brexit we have are few and far between, and no political party is seriously suggesting that it’s a success."
centralbylines.co.uk
Brexit referendum’s 10th anniversary: time to think again?
With 10 years of the Brexit referendum on the horizon, should a second referendum be in our sights?
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
It's really quite a thing to have a Secretary of Energy who does not understand, ummm... energy.
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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I'm pretty sure that this attack was in breach of international law. Even if the vessel was carrying narcotics. The US has no jurisdiction in those waters.
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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · 03/09/2025
💷 PFIs were sold as a clever fix for NHS funding. In reality? They left the NHS paying triple the cost and locked into decades of debt. Now they're back. 👉 Swipe through to learn more + share to spread the word. 👉 everydoctor.org.uk/talking-poin...
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted
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Laurence - highest score ever in the Neasden Cognitive Test!! @laurenceineu.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
So a blatant extrajudicial killing then. No arrests, no trials, no convictions, no evidence presented or tested, not being fired upon or attacking or threatening anyone else. In waters in which the US does not even have jurisdiction. A patently criminal act by the US.
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Politico @politico.com · 02/09/2025
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie has filed a discharge petition to force the disclosure of Justice Department investigative files related to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
politico.com
Massie files Epstein discharge petition
Live updates and analysis from POLITICO’s Congress team.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
If Nigel Farage really loved Britain he wouldn't talk it down at every opportunity to a bunch of ill informed right wing American fuckwits who know sweet FA about the reality of this country.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 02/09/2025
Things feel uncertain right now, Illinois. I want you all to know we’re doing everything we can to protect your rights. Make sure you know how to stand up for yourself and others at illinoisimmigrationinfo.org.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/09/2025
when you’re upset at the cool kids for not inviting you to their lunch table
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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 02/09/2025
You know what I hate? Conspiracy theories about 'Big Pharma' hiding the cure to various ailments because it's more profitable to keep people sick. Do you realize how much market share you could steal from your competitors and how huge your valuation would become if you announced you cured cancer?
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.
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Politico @politico.com · 02/09/2025
The House just released the first tranche of documents in its Epstein investigation. But the materials likely won't satisfy those clamoring for more info about the case. Most of what was released in the first batch of files is already publicly available.
politico.com
House releases first trove of Epstein files
The materials, most of which are already publicly available, were produced as a result of a congressional subpoena.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/09/2025
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 02/09/2025
I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Manchester's New Station: Piccadilly, 1960, painting by Claude Buckle, 1905-73 (National Railway Museum). #NorthernArt
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
REP. @yassaminansari.bsky.social on the bipartisan demand for the Epstein files: “This is the most corrupt administration in 🇺🇸 history, and this story shows it more than anything.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Khanna: It’s going to be a bombshell press conference tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. The American people will hear directly from survivors of the Epstein abuse. And they’re not just going to talk about Epstein’s and Maxwell’s abuse — they’re going to talk about rich and powerful men…
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 03/09/2025
By our calculations, the British taxpayer has spent more than £700 million on post-Brexit border inspection facilities, which were designed to accommodate customs checks as well as checks on EU food and plants introduced last year. In reality, though, they have barely been used.
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Britain has an £800M Brexit border black hole
“White elephant” border inspection facilities face bleak future after U.K.-EU trade deal.
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