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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Welsh. Mum & Nain. She/her. Retired criminology lecturer/researcher. Bookworm. Here mainly to indulge a lifelong fascination with US politics.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h
Technologically very impressive but this stuff scares the crap out of me from a societal perspective. Just the sheer amount of fraud alone that these models will enable is chilling, let alone all the other harms.
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 13h
The Death Penalty has no place in a modern civilised society, whatever the method employed. #AbolishTheDeathPenalty www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ultimate problem, however, is not that the wrong people are being executed, but that anyone is being executed. The search for a humane way to kill is inherently preposterous. It is not just lethal injection, the firing squad or electrocution that should be rejected – but the death penalty itself.
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“I have an ability on those things that were the new frontiers.” Yes, Donald *pats head* you do indeed have the “highest of IQs” 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
These are awful, horrible people.
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
WTAF???!!! The only unfairnesses about Nixon’s treatment were the failure to prosecute and imprison him, and the cowardly Ford giving him a pardon!
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"This is the second time in 2026 Tennessee officials attempted and failed to execute a prisoner." So utterly barbaric. The death penalty has no place in a modern civilised society. #AbolishTheDeathPenalty www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Tennessee halts executions after Christa Pike survives two lethal injection attempts
Pike had been on death row since she was convicted in 1996 for the murder of Colleen Slemmer.
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh god
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I somehow suspect that the vast majority of the US population would disagree with you, Donald…
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yes! Yes! Send him! ASAP!!!
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"I will not be silenced by the continued threats of prosecution from the president or others.” Jack Smith - a man of courage and integrity. www.reuters.com/world/us/for...
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Former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith tells Senate he won't be silenced by prosecution threats
Former US special counsel Jack Smith told senators on Tuesday that he will not be silenced by threats of prosecution, as ​he faced Republican accusations of abuse of power in his investigations of Pre...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“”It’s so insanely fun,” one of the subjects in NAZA says at one point of the targeted mass killing of Palestinians. It’s impossible to imagine how this thought could enter a person’s mind, and even worse, escape their lips.”
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Daniel Dale ( ddale8@bsky.social ) offers us "some insights and personal opinions about the nature of [Trump's] lying, how it is received by the public and how it is covered by the media." edition.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Elon doesn’t want us to watch this. But we will. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NAZA: "It feels like it could be a radicalizing film." jewishcurrents.org/naza-will-ch...
Alex Kane: The film absolutely debunks the entire Israeli propaganda playbook that they deployed after October 7th: We warn civilians when we’re going to strike, we don’t try to harm civilians. The entire Israeli reasoning for how moral their army was in Gaza completely falls apart. Because as the film shows, deliberate killing of civilians was baked into the army’s programs.

It’s a portrait of an army and a society that has fully descended into bloodlust, which is what a genocidal society does. This is not unique to Israel. This is what happens during a mass murder that an army is carrying out. And this is a portrait of an elite doing it.I mean, that’s the core of it, right? Total dehumanization. When one soldier in the film said, “We erased history,” he was talking about the fact that they would bomb buildings, set fire to others so all the memories and possessions of whoever lived there, well, they were going up in smoke as well. But it was just such a strapline for the rest of the film. Of grappling with history, and choosing to take all the wrong lessons from it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY…
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Important and informative thread ⬇️
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This gives rise to an irrefutable presumption of corruption.
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“…chants of “let them drown” sung by a child over a megaphone.” A child. The appropriate professionals might want to consider whether there is a safeguarding issue here…
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The sons of *all* presidents, regardless of party or name, should be subject to the same scrutiny. www.cbsnews.com/news/john-cu...
Washington — GOP Sen. John Curtis of Utah asked the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden for testimony regarding their business dealings, relationships with foreign individuals and entities and gifts they received, after recent revelations about a Russian oligarch's financial involvement in the wedding of President Trump's eldest son. 

"A toaster is a wedding gift. A private-island party paid for by a Putin-connected oligarch is something else," Curtis said in a post on X. "Republicans nearly wore out the subpoena machine investigating Hunter Biden's foreign relationships. We should not unplug it now."
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"It seems Kraft didn’t realize that, for some people, morality is more important than money."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Re-upping in honor of WB today:
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Yes because this is what I pay my taxes for 🤦🏻‍♀️ FFS 🤬
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What's worse: a Twitch streamer's 2019 comments about 9/11 or the US president on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 selling even more weapons to the country that many 9/11 families believe may have been behind the attacks, or at least knew about them in advance, and that 15 of the 19 hijackers came from?
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🙇🏻‍♀️ Macklemore Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Such a vengeful, spiteful narcissist.
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Despicable.
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Free Palestine! 🇵🇸
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The Loop @theloopuk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
On Saturday, we are drug checking in #Hackney. How does it work? 1. Surrender a substance 2. Tell us what you think it is & about your drug use 3. We do lab tests inc. a test for synthetic opioids 4. After~1 hour, we have results & can give honest advice wearetheloop.org/drug-checking
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
One of Donald’s “fine people”… SMH
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
The closer autocrats come to their end, the more frenziedly do they build. Nero embarked on a golden palace before he was driven to suicide. Marie Antoinette built a model hamlet before she was beheaded. Hitler pored over architectural plans in his bunker during his final days. Trump is buried in catalogues of fixtures and fittings, busy inspecting the workmanship of his helipad-cum-cocktail patio, as the country crumbles around him.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Jared Kushner is not "on the other side of the aisle." He's not an elected official. He's not an administration official. He's the president's son-in-law and a private citizen. You do not, in fact, have to take meetings with relatives of the president. Some might even say you should *not* do that
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"...it is clear the White House under Trump has infected the world economy, and with it Britain." Thanks, Donald 🤬
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
19 years ago I was diagnosed with an MPN (ET) after a blood test for a completely unrelated health matter. You can find out more about these rare blood cancers at www.mpnvoice.org.uk/about-mpns/q... #MPNAwarenessDay
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is complete and total fantasy, and it infuriates me that no one in the press will call him out on this.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
huh you’d think he’d have mentioned this during the phone interview he did that day with a local news station, when he said he watched the towers fall from trump tower and then bragged like a fucking psycho that another building of his was now the tallest building in the manhattan skyline
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
True of the slaveholders, true of the segregationists and true of their racist descendants and ideological heirs today.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Putin's "aspirations" include the destruction of democracy in the US and the total annihilation and elimination of Ukraine. So far he's been more successful at the former.
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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Spotted over I-5 in Seattle
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Maybe concentrate on turning up for more than two days a month yourself first…
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
There is a 37 minute Verbatim investigations film on YouTube, as well as the 29 minute one from Channel 4 News www.verbatiminvestigations.com/full-investi...
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Dirty Money: A Year Undercover in Reform UK
A yearlong investigation into Nigel Farage’s fundraising operation reveals a plot to break the law by bringing foreign money into British politics
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oh dear, Nigel. In the dodgy financial shit yet again, are we? 🙄😏
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
👏 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Michael Sheen says Wales should be asked if it wants Prince of Wales title back
Sheen was speaking ahead of his portrayal of Owain Glyndwr, the last Welsh-born Prince of Wales.
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Dear god 😳
NEW: Former US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll reportedly met with Trump to inform him that the Iran war was making it impossible to achieve foreign-policy goals, Trump talked exclusively about his ballroom in response, causing Driscoll to resign believing the admin was "doomed."
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Thanks, Donald 🤬 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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UK households will take £2,400 financial hit from Iran war, analysis shows
Centre for Economics and Business Research calculates effect of inflation and wage stagnation to end of 2027
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Trump "must be exposed and what he has done painstakingly detailed or we will essentially ratify and institutionalize his transformation of our government into a mafia state." 🧵 from @djrothkopf.bsky.social sets out clearly why Trump, & his SCOTUS & Congressional enablers, must be held to account.
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Martin Rowson on Trump and the consequences of the climate crisis – cartoon
Experts say unusual heat this year has melted the ice that holds Himalayan glaciers in place – which is thought to have led to the floods in Nepal and Tibet
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