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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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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23h
Goes without saying that I would rather this was accompanied by explicit statements of condemnation of US actions, but failing that this implicit criticism will have to do.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23h
Feel a lot of pride about the way Britain has responded to Trump's attacks on Ukraine, repeatedly launching big symbolic demonstrations of solidarity when things are at their most tenuous.
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 22h
"The Aug. 6 report, commissioned by the contractor that did the work...makes no mention of vandalism to the liner and blames the problems on the use of improper materials and a rush to complete the job."
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Trumplogic par excellence 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
As he himself said: "Nobody takes things more personally than me. When someone says something about me I hate them for the rest of my life. It's probably wrong but I hate people, I HATE 'em. I never recover from it." (DJT, Apprentice, S05E12).
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Never a truer word…
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Signs you’re a war criminal: You attack the court that goes after war criminals
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A conservative Danish politician explains why it his impossible for Europeans to view an America governed by Trump as an ally.
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Age yourself with a Hollywood crush.
Richard Gere, 1977
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I’ve always called them “sitting down shoes.” Because I sure as hell was never able to walk in them 😂
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Important 🧵 on the plight of Haitian deportees (most of whom were in the US legally).
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"This represents a significant lurch in the US from civilisation towards savagery." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Execution TV? Pete Hegseth has taken the once ‘greatest democracy’ to a horrific new low | Paul Daley
A proposal to livestream the killing of Nidal Hasan by firing squad opens a window ever wider to the Trump administration’s complete moral vacuity
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Horrific. Barbaric. What the hell has become of America?
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Wut? 🙄
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🎃👻🧙‍♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙‍♀️👻🎃 @viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026
this is so fucking sad
Alvin Sng 0 @alvinsng My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
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Me: Icanjust play an audiobook from my phone.
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Share a smile 🖤😀
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Marilyn Monroe Blows a Kiss
Alt: Marilyn Monroe Smiles & Blows a Kiss
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How very Trumpy...🤨
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sounds ominous 🤔
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This starts with her aggressively trying to link him to the Muslim Brotherhood. I'd like to see someone turn the tables on this. "You're Christian, right? Did you support Timothy McVeigh? Did you agree with Dylann Roof? Or Eric Rudolph? Robert Lewis Dear? No? Even though you share their religion?"
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Cities are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 🎯
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dear god. The moral bankruptcy of the GOP knows no bottom.
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Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Latest @theguardian.com cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ben Jennings on US bombers withdrawing from RAF Fairford – cartoon
The aircraft have been redeployed back to their home bases in the US, according to a Pentagon official
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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For Kemi, being the Nasty party is not toxic but a badge of honour | John Crace
The Tory leader says the party’s plans to cut people’s benefits are no more than ‘common sense’
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every time he says something completely insane or incoherent and the media basically ignores it, they look more and more disingenuous for acting like Biden was some doddering old fool and I am so fucking sick of it.
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So incredibly delusional 🙄 "Everybody is looking at us." Yes - and wondering WTF has happened to America, and why on earth did they elect a prize fool like you.
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"...I know more about everything than anybody in this room. Anybody anywhere in the world." 🤣🤣🤣 It's waaaaay past time to invoke the 25th...
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The more information you give the public about the reality of the death penalty, the less support it enjoys. In the UK, when people are offered specific alternative punishments, the death penalty has historically failed to get majority support, regardless of the crime. Only 35% of respondents believe it should be available as a punishment in all cases of murder, according to YouGov. And in the US, support for capital punishment has steadily declined, from 80% in 1994 to 52% in 2025.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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 · 02/10/2026
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
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
“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
A fool and his money… 🤷🏻‍♀️
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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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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The Band - It Makes No Difference
YouTube video by cg3480
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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 · 28/09/2026
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The Lovin Spoonful- Younger Generation
YouTube video by heyprettyfacexo
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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
Album cover - David Bowie, "Hunky Dory"
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Rhi B 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @rhib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"After its run in cinemas, the film will stream in late November on the Guardian’s website, for free, as part of the news organisation’s commitment to the dissemination of independent journalism." www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
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Global release announced for acclaimed Gaza documentary NAZA
Theatrical rollout across 56 territories planned for documentary about Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza before film will stream on Guardian website
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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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