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Niall Martin

@rndmartin.bsky.social
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Historian with wide philosophical and religious interests. Determined Scottish European. Lives in Edinburgh. Reads French and German, moderately well. Don't answer DMs #FBPE. Location Leith/Edinburgh, Scotland. Married to Jenny. Born 1939.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 23h
What happened? He went so hard on proclaiming that voting by mail is fraudulent that everyone made plans not to vote by mail. Now not enough people are planning on voting by mail for him to claim it’s fraudulent if his narrative needs him to. Is that it?
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 22h
Sen Jon Ossoff (D-GA) just gets it, if you’re tired of the high costs, chaos and corruption we can’t allow despair to make us not want to vote. Check your registration, vote early and vote all the way down the ballot to get a #BlueWaveIn30Days
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 22h
"We can shield voters from the high prices stemming from the president’s ill-advised forays."
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How Democrats can rein in the high cost of energy | Opinion
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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 21h
Keeping your car keys wrapped in aluminum foil at night blocks the radio frequency signal emitted by smart key fobs to prevent relay-style car thefts.
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Indivisible Memphis @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social · 21h
Are you in Memphis or surrounding areas? Help us pack the room! #momsky#sheshed
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer
College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 21h
Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 04/10/2026
A Russian drone strike hit the road surface on Kyiv's Pivnichnyi Bridge on Oct. 4, Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported. Video: Kyiv Info; President Volodymyr Zelensky / Telegram.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 21h
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2026
This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Republicans love to accuse Jack Smith of a coordinated takedown of Trump, while completely ignoring evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump continues a coordinated a destruction of American democracy. I want a blue wave for Christmas, damn it!
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 21h
Williamson County Is Flipping Blue Greg Abbott carried Williamson County by only 1,246 votes in 2022, Texas' best GOP year in a decade. Now Trump is dragging down Red State Candidates. Lone Star Left: Lets Flip WilCo Commissioners Court too. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...
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Williamson County Is One Bad Midterm Away from Blue
The top of the ticket flips. The Commissioners Court is the prize.
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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
1950’s, Japan. Photographer Ichiro Kojima
Walking hand-in-hand down a wide, rutted gravel road, two young children journey toward a distant, low-slung mountain ridge under a dramatic, storm-laden sky. Captured in high-contrast black and white, the child on the left wears a traditional dark, patterned kimono bound at the waist with a tied sash (obi), while the companion on the right is dressed in a patterned padded jacket (hanten) over dotted trousers. The vast, unpaved track curves gently through the rugged countryside, flanked by sparse pine growth and rough earthen banks under a bruised, cloud-heavy firmament. The photograph evokes a haunting sensory atmosphere: the sharp crunch of loose river stones beneath small feet, the biting chill of a northern wind sweeping down from the hills, the heavy, metallic scent of rain hanging in the damp air, and the quiet, enduring warmth of childhood companionship amid an expansive, brooding landscape.   Created in the 1950s by pioneering photographer Ichiro Kojima (1924–1964), this image stands as a quintessential masterpiece of post-war Japanese documentary photography. Operating primarily in his native Aomori Prefecture and the rugged Tsugaru region of northern Honshu, Kojima spent his brief career recording the harsh climate, agricultural rhythms, and rural folklore of northern Japan (Tōhoku). His innovative darkroom techniques—involving aggressive burning and dodging—produced dramatic, high-contrast silver gelatin prints where skies churned with visceral intensity above humble agrarian scenes. The children's attire, likely sewn from indigo-dyed cotton, recycled work clothing, or ikat-woven (kasuri) textiles, reflects the resourceful folk traditions of the northern provinces where garments were constructed, mended, and passed down through families.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Guys I'm listening to the Q&A of the pipeline announcement and the first question (with three mins left in the video!!) about anything other than the economics of the pipeline came from POSTMEDIA POSTMEDIA was the first to ask about Indigenous consultation. What is everyone else DOING bro?????
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
SUBSCRIBE ✨ SUBSTACK: rachelgilmore.substack.com PATREON: www.patreon.com/cw/RachelGil... TWITCH: www.twitch.tv/rachel_gilmore YOUTUBE: YouTube.com/@AtRachelGilmore
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Bubble Pop with Rachel Gilmore | Substack
I'm Rachel Gilmore. I'm your least favourite person's least favourite journalist. Let's pop your bubble✨. Click to read Bubble Pop with Rachel Gilmore, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of...
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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Trump and Smith could come together over the contentious issue of diverting bulk water to the United States from Canada.” thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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Trump’s Obsession with Canada’s Water | The Tyee
He keeps talking about turning on our ‘big faucet.’ Look for the valve in Alberta, says one expert.
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Bo 🇨🇦 @borasca0107.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
How will they cool down the AI data chips? Fans? Didn't Tamara Lich & Ezra Levant recently visit the White House too? She had the guts to ask the judge for a pass - since she's still under the house arrest, suddenly she became Ezra's "journalist"? Is our CSIS corrupt too? Where are they all?
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
These traitorous goofs offered up our FRESH WATER????? Full exposé on these idiot Alberta separatists here: archive.is/rhGUj
Excerpt from the Globe article reads: “A Globe and Mail investigation has found that Republican political operatives were on the ground in Alberta this year to assist the separatist campaign in its bid to leave Canada, while harbouring their own aspirations for the province to secede.
The Globe also found that when Alberta separatist leaders went to Washington to meet with the U.S. State Department, they offered up key assets from the province's resource portfolio, including access to fresh water and royalties on crude oil, in exchange for help transitioning to independence.
Through interviews with The Globe on both sides of the border, people involved in politics, the corporate sector and Alberta's pursuit of separatism have described persistent efforts by figures in the U.S. administration and conservative political establishment to support groups seeking American expansionism and independence for Alberta.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Trump's audience in Ohio pops for his dancing as his rally wraps up
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 22h
Jack Smith….man of the people at the Power to the People concert hanging out on the lawn….no fancy pavilion seats or backstage laminate pass
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, as Trump was busy trying (and failing) to convince his own people that “affordability” is a word made up by Democrats, the courts were having a field day with him. joycevance.substack.com/p/another-ba...
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Another Bad Day in Court for Trump
Today, as Trump was busy trying (and failing) to convince his own people that “affordability” is a word made up by Democrats, the courts were having a field day with him.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
According to Suella Braverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. FUCK HER 🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕🏽🖕🏼
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Seriously 💥
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When listening to Trump’s grade school way of speaking, all I hear is a kind of arrogant stupidity. And I wonder, how can anyone support this guy? To this day, I just can’t understand it. It’s the same in 🇨🇦 when Poilievre talks❕
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When my kids grow up and look back at the 2020s, I want them to see that I worked hard to make their world better.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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The Jerusalem Post @thejerusalempost.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tanker struck while exiting Strait of Hormuz, UKMTO reports www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news…
Tanker struck while exiting Strait of Hormuz, UKMTO reports
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The regime told a federal judge that letting 30,000 prison guards keep their union was a national security threat. Judge Vernon Oliver gave that argument one sentence. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-fill...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Nations crumble, democracy becomes obsolete, a tech-powered elite rules… threaded into the Trump admin, with VP Vance one of their own… When a nation is betrayed by its wealthiest citizens, existential crisis follows… tech fascism has global ambitions…”😕🤷🏼 #NerdReich
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 02/10/2026
We teach a class on campus sexual assault, and @alyssaburgart.com is an anesthesiologist. So if you’re looking for experts to break down Title IX, rape culture, and capacity to consent, this is the episode for you.
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Why is Jane Doe suing Cornell and Seven Students?
Podcast Episode · The Present Illness · October 2 · 1h 16m
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Dick Horn @tsuno85.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One million investors lost $3.8 billion on trump crypto coins.
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WyoFile @wyofile.com · 02/10/2026
OPINION: The Pentagon’s call for a new large-scale military base gives Wyoming an opportunity to buck the commodity roller coaster, writes guest columnist David Giralt. #wyomingnews wyofile.com/wyoming-shou...
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Opinion | Wyoming should compete for America’s next great base — on our terms
The Pentagon’s call for a new large-scale military base gives Wyoming an opportunity to buck the commodity roller coaster, writes guest columnist David Giralt.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rufo's co-host is Jonathan Keeperman, who @jasonaw.bsky.social unmasked as "Lomez," a “key player and influential tastemaker in a burgeoning proto-fascist movement," who heads up Passage Press, which reprints out-of-print works by fascist authors talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Directing DOJ to slow-walk politically damaging decisions until after people vote would be a major scandal under any normal administration. Here, it’s just Friday.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Trump regime’s Sept. 24 deportation flight to Haiti carried nearly two dozen former #TPS holders and six additional people whose asylum cases remain open: haitiantimes.com/2026/09/25/5...
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US deports 530 to Haiti in month since TPS ended
U.S. immigration authorities deported 39 people to Haiti on Thursday, bringing the number of total deportees to 529 since Temporary Protected Status ended, ONM said.
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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Clocks don’t all fall back for every province
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mentions on Fox shows of the very newsworthy confrontation between Schmitt and Jack Smith: Ingraham (7-8pm): 0 Watters (8-9): 0 Hannity (9-10): 0 Gutfeld (10-11): 0 Fox & Friends this AM: 0
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026
53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.
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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Head of the Mississippi regatta, 3 fun miles of rowing at speed ...,
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Mark Bauer @thepurplebauer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Welcome to the new GOP - The party of Hugely Stupid Excuses bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Rep. Rich McCormick blames OBAMA for high gas prices in the year of our lord 2026
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😳 On 9/29/26, Argentina’s Supreme cleared the way for President Javier Milei’s administration to scrap historical restrictions on foreign land ownership, opening the door to the likes of Peter Thiel & Sam Altman who have shown great interest in the region … 1/ share.google/t7nTsPAkbpC8...
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Supreme Ct clears way for Milei to scrap limits on foreign land purchases
Opposition parties condemn the ruling, question its scope and warn that it leaves the door open to unrestricted foreign ownership of rural land.
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Source New Mexico @sourcenm.com · 30/09/2026
New Mexico's CD2 race is one of the most closely watched congressional elections in the country. Read what both candidates told Source NM about the border, Project Jupiter and President Donald Trump's policies, plus other issues here: buff.ly/e6BatR9
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New Mexico Election 2026: US House of Representatives, District 2 • Source New Mexico
The 2nd Congressional District race is one of the nation's most closely watched this cycle.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Priceless. Hang 'em in the Louvre.
smug US senators Eric Schmitt and John Kennedy at the Jack Smith hearing moments before their entire plot unravelsKatie Britt's look of horror as she realizes she's part of a failed plan to trap Jack Smith
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope this headline haunts Eric Schmitt for the rest of his pathetic political career.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hello on Day 1680 of Russia's all out war on Ukraine. Russia is now losing more men than it can replace and more ground than it can gain. #EATP for the Moscow Fuhrer. Every single day I've compiled a🧵with all the important news, fact checked, in one handy place. I go again!
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/09/2026
But he keeps waking up 🤦🏽‍♂️
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