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Rob Smallwood

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| love history, literature, and compassion. I am a uni lecturer and a musician from Nottingham, U.K.

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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 59m
Matt Damon is 56 years old today. Of Trump, he said in 2016 "There's no way we can let this guy be the [president]. To let that dude have the nuclear football, are you kidding me? That's dangerous. He's impulsive and rash, and doesn't seem to think deeply about too many things."
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 3h
Chevy Chase is 83 years old today. He says that “Trump makes George W. Bush look like Roosevelt.”
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 4h
Trump has promised to give US taxpayer money to the communists.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 5h
Does this mean that he’ll have to spend a bit more time in Clacton?
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 6h
Jesse Jackson would have been 85 years old today.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 6h
On 23rd September 2026, the OSCE announced that the US had not invited its observers to monitor the forthcoming November 2026 midterm elections. The organisation criticised that decision as inconsistent with America's international commitments. odihr.osce.org/odihr/667722
odihr.osce.org
ODIHR and OSCE Parliamentary Assembly regret the absence of invitation to observe U.S. mid-term elections
WARSAW/COPENHAGEN, 23 September 2026 – The decision not to invite the OSCE to observe the 2026 mid-term congressional elections in the United S...
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 7h
Trump is correct when he suggests that people are being paid to heckle him. They are to be paid $5000 each.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 10h
Bruno Mars is 41 years old today.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 22h
Rubio calls on Europe to “follow President Donald Trump's America”. Despite the fact that in 2016 Rubio called Trump a con artist. And “the most vulgar person ever to aspire to the Presidency.”
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 07/10/2026
GBeebies reports that Reform UK have investigated themselves and have found that they have done nothing wrong.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 07/10/2026
Damian Kulash is 51 years old today.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 07/10/2026
The Epstein War has now cost the US taxpayer 43.6 billion dollars. gulfnews.com/world/americ...
gulfnews.com
US lost or damaged 81 aircraft in Iran war, report says
The US lost or damaged 81 aircraft, including drones and fighter jets, during the Iran war, raising concerns about military readiness and replacement costs.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 07/10/2026
Yo-Yo Ma is 71 years old today. In 2010 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 07/10/2026
The biggest threat to the US military is Pete Hegseth. theins.press/en/politics/...
theins.press
Loyalty vs. Competence: Pete Hegseth’s policies have become the Pentagon's greatest threat
Despite the “strange war” Donald Trump is waging against Iran, the purges at the Pentagon have continued unabated in recent months. Secretary of Defense Pete…
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 07/10/2026
Toni Braxton is 59 years old today.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 07/10/2026
John Mellencamp is 75 years old today.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026
It is like there is a burglar in the White House stealing whatever he wants and he is surrounded by people who are just letting him get away with it.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026
The whole world is aghast at the remarks of the man who is supposed to represent all Americans.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026
Olivia Thirlby is 40 years old today.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 06/10/2026
Another day dawns and Trump is still withholding much of the Epstein Files from public view. As it is alleged he said in a 2003 birthday card to Epstein ~ “May every day be another wonderful secret."
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 05/10/2026
Maya Lin is 67 years old today. In 2016 she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 05/10/2026
Sir Bob Geldof is 75 years old today. He describes the current occupant of the White House as being a bloviating, bloated orange ball of narcissism and greed.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 05/10/2026
Kate Winslet is 51 years old today.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 05/10/2026
During the recent "brain drain," from the United States, it can be revealed that not a single Republican politician has left the country.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 05/10/2026
The message is clear from What3words.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 04/10/2026
Does anyone else here have a presence on Threads, and if so, what are your thoughts on it?
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 04/10/2026
Melissa Benoist is 38 years old today.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 04/10/2026
The latest estimates suggest that Brexit has reduced UK GDP per person by 6–8% compared with what would have happened by remaining in the EU - equivalent to roughly £5,900–£7,850 in lost annual economic output per average household. obr.uk/forecasts-in...
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 04/10/2026
#Glastonbury2027 Well, it was worth trying 😊
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 04/10/2026
Liev Schreiber is 59 years old today.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 04/10/2026
Charlton Heston was born 103 years ago today in Illinois. Here’s the scene from Planet of the Apes in which he made a remarkable discovery.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 04/10/2026
90 years ago today, on October 4th 1936, London's East End saw the Battle of Cable Street, when tens of thousands of anti-fascists mobilised to block a march by Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Some 6,000 police clashed with protesters, and Mosley's march was eventually abandoned.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 04/10/2026
Is Liz Truss still threatening to sue people who say she crashed the economy?
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 04/10/2026
Has Donald publicised anybody else’s personal phone number overnight?
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
Is Trump planning on releasing any more of the Epstein Files this weekend?
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
Geraldo Rivera ~ “The fact that Jared and Eric and Don Jr. are making all this money with all of these, you know, side businesses, he thinks that's the American way. And I look at it, and it's the most outrageously corrupt situation we've seen ever. Ever."
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
According to AI, Trump is planning to reward Antifa.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
A recent Reuters poll put Trump’s approval rate at 32 per cent, lower than the worst ever figures recorded for his predecessor, Joe Biden. An AP-NORC poll, meanwhile, found 69 per cent of Americans disapproved of the President’s performance.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
Only 28.5% of UK voters now oppose rejoining the EU. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
Black Thought, who performs with The Roots in the house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, is 53 years old today. He said that "There's never going to be anyone in office as cool as Obama."
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
Woody Guthrie died 59 years ago today on October 3rd, 1967. He was antifa. Because the opposite of antifa is fa. There is no in-between. No 'a little bit fa' or 'tolerant of fa’. It's either 'antifa' or 'fa'.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
4 years ago today, after saying she would not make a U-turn, Liz Truss made a U-turn. But not until she’d crashed the economy.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 03/10/2026
Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of Italy and the founder of the Franciscan order, died 800 years ago today, on 3rd October 1226. For centuries, thousands of people have found inspiration in the example of someone who had dedicated his life to assisting those who live in poverty.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 02/10/2026
American portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz is 77 years old today. Here are some reminders of her work.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 02/10/2026
Kelly Willis is 58 years old today.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 02/10/2026
Sting is 75 years old today. He says that Brexit has been a disaster.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 02/10/2026
Donald Trump ~ “Crime in London is through the roof” (September 2025). Here are recorded firearm homicides per 100,000 residents across a range of countries (June 2026).
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 02/10/2026
8 years ago today, Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain documents for his marriage. He was never seen to leave the building. A UN investigation concluded that he was brutally killed inside the consulate and that the killing was a deliberate, premeditated act.
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 02/10/2026
Don McLean is 81 years old today. Asked about Trump, he said " I just think this man is not qualified to be president...and that's an understatement."
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Rob Smallwood @robsmallwood.wsocial.eu · 01/10/2026
80 years ago today, on October 1st 1946, The Nuremberg Trials concluded with the International Military Tribunal, backed by the US, UK, France and USSR, convicting 19 leading Nazi defendants. 12, including Hermann Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Wilhelm Keitel, were sentenced to death.
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