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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 18h
It’s been six months since the NYT published this article, and since then total radio silence on the issue. It is past time they revisit it. presswatchers.org/2026/04/new-...
presswatchers.org
New York Times finally reports on concerns that Trump is ‘clearly insane’ | Press Watch
That’s a big deal. But now what? It’s more than a one-day story.
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elijahplovejoy.bsky.social @elijahplovejoy.bsky.social · 16h
For any of you who don't know, North Carolina A&T is an HBCU (and a storied one, at that). (The late Jesse Jackson and the Greensboro Woolworth's Lunch Counter Four would be proud.)
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h
i’m just so fucking sorry that my muslim friends have to be hit with this despicable racism every single day. it’s not ok and you should not have to tolerate it. this country belongs to all of us.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
A teenager in suburban Chicago was arrested before carrying out what was planned to be a mass shooting at a Hindu temple last weekend www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/u...
nytimes.com
Teen Arrested Over Plan to Attack Hindu Temple, Officials Say
The suspect in suburban Chicago was in the parking lot of the temple on Sunday and told a co-worker that his gun had jammed, the authorities said.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/10/2026
1) vance has this weird preoccupation with demanding that people show him gratitude 2) this is just another expression of the idea that some americans don’t count and at most should be seen and not heard
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
"Seven years ago, a political appointee in the first Trump administration approached U.S. immigration authorities with a request that alarmed career staffers: Scrub the immigration records of Rep. Ilhan Omar." Officials "ultimately determined there was insufficient evidence of wrongdoing."
wapo.st
Trump officials scrutinized Omar in 2019. They didn’t find citizenship issues.
The earlier review of Omar’s immigration records looked at many of the same issues being investigated now.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
"Pete Hegseth ousted George in April, as the Iran war was underway. George's risk analysis appeared in the Pentagon's Global Force Management Allocation Plan, a defense secretary-approved annual order determining where troops and weapons will be allocated across the globe."
He warned that the stockpile of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense batteries and Patriot missiles would continue to be strategically low until 2030. His assessment was written for the Defense Department's plan for fiscal year 2027 and before the outbreak of the U.S.-Israel-led war with Iran, now in its seventh month.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
In late December, two months before the U.S. war with Iran began, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George warned that his service was critically short on missile defense munitions and that the shortage would last another five years. www.cbsnews.com/news/randy-g...
cbsnews.com
Ousted general warned of years-long missile defense shortage before Iran war
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, later ousted by Defense Secretary Hegseth, said the shortage of missile defense munitions would extend into 2030.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
worth reading
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Katherine Stewart @katherinestewart.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"Amiry-Moghaddam added that the Iranian authorities were testing the international community’s 'tolerance' towards capital punishment. 'If the international community does not respond firmly now, cases like this could become far more common,' he said." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
theguardian.com
Iranian woman handed death sentence for ‘blasphemy’ in social media post
Rights groups warn of Tehran regime’s increasing use of executions to suppress dissent, with at least 600 this year
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
😡/😞
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Americans must be very proud of how great they are today.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
WSJ: Ken Paxton partied in Dubai on New Year's Eve 2024 with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn't his wife. Paxton is the top law enforcement official in Texas.
wsj.com
Exclusive | Ken Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Ahead of High-Stakes Texas Senate Race
Trump backed the scandal-plagued Paxton in one of the riskiest bets of the midterms
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Another incredible inside look at how Bari Weiss has so dramatically damaged what was once a highly respected news organization. Just a shocking level of political interference.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."
In conducting this hearing, the Court is not called upon to resolve factual disputes between
the parties. The facts set forth in this Memorandum Opinion and Order were proposed by the
Plaintiff, unobjected to by the Government, and then deemed admitted by the Court. Dkts. 74, 75,
77.2 These facts establish that high-ranking government officials, including then Secretary of DHS
Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, engaged in a coordinated public relations campaign to impugn the
personal and professional integrity of Ms. Comans. For reasons unfathomable to this Court,
officials chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an
impeccable record of public service. In short, Ms. Comans was professionally targeted and
personally attacked by government officials for no legitimate reason. The attacks against Ms.
Comans were based entirely on false information, and many government officials knew the
accusations were untrue at the time they were made. With no regard for the truth and with no
consideration for the personal and professional effect on Ms. Comans, government officials
exploited their access to mass media outlets to broadcast false information. These false
statements reached hundreds of millions of people. The purpose of this Order is, to the best of
this Court’s ability, to correct the public record and establish as a matter of law that the
statements made by these officials about Ms. Comans were objectively and demonstrably false.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If you recognize Kliger's name, it is probably in this context: he manually shut down life-saving aid from USAID. In between his DOGE work and starting his defense start-up he was appointed to the DOD as - brace yourselves - chief data officer. bsky.app/profile/donm...
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AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is insane
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Something I wish more people understood: The helicopters thing is an extremely online Nazi idea with its origins in Pinochet's death flights. If you got the attention of right wingers on Twitter, they used to love to tweet helicopter emojis in response. Collins is deep into online neo-Nazism.
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Jeff @jefffreyspies.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Even the people I am extremely careful in discussing politics with recognize that the raid on Omar’s house was entirely outside the bounds.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
rest in peace & with gratitude
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This fraud was then perpetuated by Elon Musk himself, who was running DOGE at the time, and who retweeted a post about the incident while declaring it a "criminal act." The government now "concedes ... that Mr. Musk and officials at FEMA and DHS knew this information was false."
vi. February 11, 2025, Statement by Elon Musk On February 11, 2025, Elon Musk, a Special Government Employee and head of DOGE, retweeted on X a photo of Ms. Comans along with the statement, “FEMA CFO Mary Comans was just fired for funneling $58M to illegal migrant hotels in Manhattan” and he called it a “criminal action.” The Government concedes and the Court finds that other than the fact that Ms. Comans had been fired, the post by Mr. Musk was entirely false. The Government further concedes and the Court further finds that Mr. Musk and officials at FEMA and DHS knew this information was false at the time it was posted. Based on the unchallenged facts and the fact that Mr. Musk was the head of DOGE, he knew or should have known that any payments made to state or local governments through a FEMA grant in February 2025 were approved by his subordinates. Finally, the fact that Mr. Musk posted a picture of Ms. Comans to his millions of followers while falsely characterizing her government service as a “criminal action” was clearly intended to make her afraid. Posting Ms. Comans’ picture served no legitimate governmental interest and was little more than state sanctioned intimidation.
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Sharon Clark 🦋 @sharonclark.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
According to Aaron Parnas: Musk is trying to trick everyone by sending them to his own phony site when they go to check their registration. DO NOT go to votesafe.org When you enter your information, Elon Musk will steal it. DO NOT go to that website! Pass it on...
votesafe.org
VOTE SAFE | Home
We provide you with the information you need to vote with confidence. Sign up for election reminders and get help with voter registration and voting by mail.
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Ant @agramuglia.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I think Ds have largely avoided big discussions of Musk because the other messages they're concentrating on our landing so well and you can only concentrate on a few things. But it's worth saying clearly that the GOP is the tool of maintaining Musk's power over American society.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/10/2026
"What Metro Surge showed the world is that people do not want to watch their neighbors be brutalized, shot, and torn from their homes, and no amount of Trump posting on Truth Social is ever going to change that"
publicnotice.co
Trump wants a race war. Minnesotans won’t take the bait.
We love our Somali neighbors.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
To give a sense of scale, Musk is spending more on the midterms than he was on the 2024 election, and he was the biggest donor in that election. In 2025 he promised to pull back from politics and do much less political spending. Another lie.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
BREAKING: Trump administration cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday at the East Potomac Golf Course after giving less than a full-day notice, with more tree-cutting planned, so plaintiffs challenging the effort went to court seeking a TRO tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
EMERGENCY MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER OR, ALTERNATIVELY, FOR A 14-DAY STAY UNDER SECTION 705 OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT
Plaintiffs hereby move the Court to enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, for a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705.
Despite the Court's admonitions not to "get to a point where someone is telling me, from
the government, that it's too late, too many things have happened and now we are, like, moving
Case 1:26-cv-00477-ACR
Document 76
Filed 10/11/26
Page 2 of 4
forward and we can't, you know, stop the trains," Status Conf. Tr. ("Apr. 13 Tr.") at 18:15-19:10,
Apr. 13, 2026, Defendants have begun irreversible damage to East Potomac Golf Course. At
4:55 p.m. on Friday preceding the holiday weekend, Defendants announced their intent to
begin-barely 12 hours later—a massive operation to clear 529 trees at East Potomac Golf
Course. Decl. of Dr. Kevin Griess, Superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks,
National Park Service 920, ECF 74-1. Although they initially represented that their work would proceed in stages, Defendants in fact took down 529 trees on Saturday alone and have confirmed
to Plaintiffs that they intend to take down hundreds more.
Defendants' surprise tree-razing operation constitutes classic National Environmental
Policy Act segmentation: undertaking elements of a larger project piecemeal and insisting that they are independent and therefore need not be evaluated in a single NEPA review of the entire
project. Defendants cannot circumvent their NEPA obligations in this manner. Delaware
Riverkeeper Network v. F.E.R.C., 753 F.3d 1304, 1313 (D.C. Cir. 2014).Therefore, and for the reasons explained in the Memorandum accompanying this Motion
and supporting exhibits, the Court should enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705, enjoining Defendants from any further tree felling at East Potomac Park. In addition, the
Court should order Defendants to provide the Court and Plaintiffs no less than three business days' written advance notice before any irreparable modification to any permanent forms or
features of East Potomac Park.
If the Court believes a hearing would be appropriate, Plaintiffs request a hearing on this
motion at the Court's first availability. At the parties' meet and confer on Sunday afternoon, Defendants represented that the tree-clearing operation would continue this week until
completed. Defendants indicated during the meet and confer that rain foreclosed any work on
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Sunday, and that the possibility of doing work on Monday depended on weather and the course's
condition. Depending on Defendants' plans, then, it is possible that no work will occur on
Monday.
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Michael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Turning the killing of a human being, any human being, into a spectator sport is about as sick as it gets. trib.al/N7uO55y
trib.al
If the Nidal Hasan Execution Is Livestreamed, We Are a Barbaric Nation
The only countries to carry out public executions in 2025? Iran and Afghanitisan. That’s the company Pete Hegseth wants America to keep.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If you are shocked this am that Trump’s government executed a search warrant against a Democratic Member of Congress and ignored a judge’s order then you haven’t been paying attention. Stop saying this isn’t how it works in the US. It is exactly how it works under Trump.
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 12/10/2026
Some of the largest donations in American political history. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
nytimes.com
Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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RappCatsAdopt @rappcats.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Seems like sometimes our tabbies fly under the radar with adopters but they shouldn't! Tabby cats are terrific! Lacey is a classic tabby: gorgeous eyes & markings and a sweet, gentle temperament. And she plays well with other cats! Let's share so she can find the right person!
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Elon Musk committing election fraud agan. edition.cnn.com/2026/10/10/p...
edition.cnn.com
Elon Musk’s PAC is spreading inaccurate voting information, election officials say | CNN Politics
Election officials in Colorado and Washington state have issued public warnings about inaccurate information from the group tied to Musk.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Again, he doesn’t follow laws or court orders, so this simply cannot be the solution.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Thread
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Ilhan Omar’s home was raided today, weeks after border czar Tom Homan cited an “ongoing criminal investigation.” It reportedly involves immigration paperwork when she was a child. There is NOT an ongoing investigation of Homan taking $50,000 in an FBI bribery sting because Trump killed that probe.
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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
would love to know which judge issued this warrant
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
An important bit of immigration law which is relevant here; there is already a waiver process — Section 212(k) of the INA — by which immigrants who obtain status through fraud that they didn't know about can avoid consequences like losing a green card. So this is *even weaker* than it already seems.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My probe into how local cops in Pa.'s York County teamed with ICE to bust 500-plus immigrants on busy highways, terrifying the Haitian community and shattering families over a busted headlight 287(g) has made York the worst place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. www.inquirer.com/opinion/york...
inquirer.com
How York County became the most dangerous place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. | Will Bunch
Local cops working with ICE in York County, Pa. have made hundreds of arrests, with many more afraid to leave home.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Reminder that HSI should be wholly abolished and none of its staff kept. Their mission is to investigate "the illegal movement of people, goods, money, contraband, weapons and sensitive technology." They're just letting that happen, too busy doing this and guarding the reflecting pool Trump ruined.
apnews.com
Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That’s according to people familiar with the matter.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Paxton's internal polls must be even worse than the public ones. The desperation wafts off the screen.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 11/10/2026
The investigation is nonsense. Trump may view the presidency as a business venture, but news outlets’ standing up for their constitutional rights has nothing to do with antitrust law, no matter what Laura Loomer says. Our full statement 👇🏼
> “The investigation is nonsense. Trump may view the presidency as a business venture, but news outlets’ standing up for their constitutional rights has nothing to do with antitrust law, no matter what Laura Loomer says.
> 
> “Depriving Trump of the attention he craves is not a competitive harm and in any case, antitrust law has long recognized First Amendment exceptions even when there is anticompetitive impact. 
> 
> “Even more bizarre than the administration’s legal theory is that after all his ‘fake news’ rhetoric, Trump is weaponizing the DOJ to pressure the networks he calls the ‘enemy of the people’ to stay at the White House. It’s a weird way of telling the press how much he missed them.”
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Katie Fallow @katiefallow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Noerr-Pennington immunizes efforts to influence government actions from antitrust liability. Also this is as stupid as it is unconstitutional.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/10/2026
Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribution of raw dairy products.
propublica.org
American Academy of Pediatrics Renews Call for Ban on Raw Milk
Citing the growing popularity of unpasteurized milk and the damage it can do to children, the nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians is seeking a nationwide ban on the sale and distribut...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Donald Trump pardoned Jake Lang last year. That’s the reason why he is able to be here doing this. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Question reporters should be asking every Republican elected: Your president trusts Putin, praises Putin, is beholden to Putin, and wants to help Putin annex more of Ukraine. What are you going to do about it?
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I have some very intelligent Indian friends who are in OPT. Some 420,000, or roughly one-third, of international students participated in OPT in 2025–26, making it the largest pipeline of global talent into the US workforce. This will hamper academic research. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
US proposes $100,000 charge for international students to do post-graduate work
Proposed rule would choke off a crucial STEM talent pipeline, policy specialists say
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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And it wouldn’t be a thread about weirdo right wingers with a soft spot for white nationalism without a 2007 poem lionizing Ian Smith by Curtis Yarvin, the court “intellectual” of the Silicon Valley billionaire set.
IAN SMITH: 1919-2007
MENCIUS MOLDBUG • NOVEMBER 21, 2007
"Smith has been utterly vindicated." -
Rian Malan
The last great Englishman Is dead, and fuck who disagrees.
He once said to Henry Kissinger,
"Is there no honor in the world Any more?" This man whose face
Was half shot off in the RAF.
"No," replied good Henry, and Went on to fuck him. And of course His nation -now a rotting ruin.
This small farmer, this militarist, This pissant little pseudo-country,And one day we will either be Hacked to death in our own beds, Or some similar and nasty thing, Or lan Smith, and Enoch Powell, And even our own Tailgunner Joe, Will have another life in bronze.
But do you know us? I'm not sure We have been introduced. We are The neo-McCarthyists. Our motto:
This time, we'll finish the job.
We have no chance of winning, but We're not at least afraid to try.
Our saint is Julian the Apostate, Our modal prince is Castlereagh, Our favorite statesman died today.
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