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Shaun Lawson

@shaunjlawson.bsky.social
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Liberal leftie, political and football chat.

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Shaun Lawson @shaunjlawson.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Amazing that 10 years on, this complete BS is STILL trotted out unquestioningly by plenty. The power within the EU resides with its member states' democratically elected governments. No more, no less. Meanwhile, how's Europe's complete failure to organise its own defences working out for you?
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Shaun Lawson @shaunjlawson.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Q: Is there any hope left for Britain now or in the future? A: Hardly any. Starmer will stagger on - either until electoral apocalypse in May, or something even worse comes out about Mandelson. But he's done for. Prime Ministers do not recover from this sort of disaster. It's not if, but when.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Bring back firing squads for anyone involved. Don’t care who.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/02/2026
Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Here is my conclusion after sitting through Maxwell's deposition with her refusing to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so for clemency. She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.
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Shaun Lawson @shaunjlawson.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Good news: I've officially left X. Deactivated my account weeks ago - Grokgate was the final straw. I assume all the "campaigners for women and girls" have got the hell out of Musk's MRA cesspit too? No? Funny that. Bad news: now you all get to hear my pompous windbaggery here instead. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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TTOFDWTN @tjttotal.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Standing up to tyrants #HasASpecialPlaceInMyHeart
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Shaun Lawson @shaunjlawson.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
So here's a question. What's Trump's game? Why's he doing this? I hope this thread helps answer that. 1. Trump is a 100% compromised Russian asset. This has been obvious to anyone paying attention for almost a decade. That means Russia has evidence on him which if it leaked it, would DESTROY him.
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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 22/02/2025
Yeah, not surprised. 😒
West Virginia Watch PART OF STATES NEWSROOM GOVERNMENT HEALTH ABORTION POLICY GOP lawmakers seek to remove rape, incest exemption from West Virginia's near total abortion ban Eleven House Republicans signed onto the measure - it's one of several GOP-backed bills aimed at clarifying or tightening the state's strict abortion ban. BY: AMELIA FERRELL KNISELY - FEBRUARY 21, 2025 6:00 AM in
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Ben Norton @bennorton.com · 23/02/2025
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a hedge fund billionaire, confirmed the Trump admin is imposing a plan that gives the US control over revenue from Ukraine's natural resources. The US will decide what investments are made (to benefit US corporations). This is economic colonialism.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This Sky News correspondent gloriously owned Nigel Farage over his undying adoration for Donald Trump and it’s a supremely satisfying watch www.thepoke.com/2025/02/21/t...
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This Sky News correspondent gloriously owned Nigel Farage over his undying adoration for Donald Trump and it’s a supremely satisfying watch
Nigel Farage – you remember – is sticking by Donald Trump despite the US president blaming Ukraine for starting the war and calling Volodymyr Zelenskyy a ‘dictator’. Sky News US correspondent James Ma...
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The first reaction to this news should be concern about the future of voting by mail www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say
The move threatens to upend trillions of dollars in e-commerce business and the 250-year-old Postal Service.
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🦋🕊️🦋GinLy47 @ginly47.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Brexit: “that great victory for the sovereign right to cock things up”… give ourselves food poisoning, lose control, swamp ourselves in red tape, pay more for stuff and stubbornly isolate ourselves from our own continent… A relentless, ruinous stupidity. (Private Eye)
FOOT-IN- MOUTH
ANOTHER Brexit "control of our borders" success story last month, with the entry into the UK of animal food products banned after an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Germany.
The cause was the failure of an IT system called "import of products, animals, food and feed system" (IPAFFS) - one of many border controls that had to be created when the UK left the EU and lost the use of existing IT systems (ie the EU's food safety Traces platform).
When Germany declared its foot and mouth outbreak on 10 January, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) immediately banned the import of cattle, pig and other animals and associated products. But it took a week for controls to take effect "due to failings in Defra's communications and IT systems, specifically IPAFFS" , according to a
letter last week from Commons environment and food committee chair Alistair Carmichael to the Defra minister responsible, Baroness (Sue)
Hayman. "As a result" , testimony from port
operators showed, "prohibited German goods made it through the UK border"
The head of health and public protection at the Dover Port Health Authority explained that the banned imports had gone through due to another feature forced on borders thanks to Brexit: the timing out of checks if they're not completed within a certain number of hours.
Oh dear, another unreliable IT system necessitated by that great victory for the sovereign right to cock things up.
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Whitney Alese @thereclaimed.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
It would be a shame to encourage folks to use banned book lists to do strange things like -check them out regularly at the library -request the library order them if they don’t have them -buy them -start or support banned book clubs -organize a banned book kids story time A real shame
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)
except from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT on how it's a coup
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Shaun Lawson @shaunjlawson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 19/02/2025
New billboard in Clacton, Farage’s constituency. He’s still the UK’s #1 grifter. No other MP takes more from second jobs while being employed to represent their constituents in Parliament
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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This. Entirely this. Sets my teeth on edge when people talk about Musk being a genius. I may not be an expert in any of these fields but I have a finely honed ability to detect bullshit and he sets off all the alarm bells
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The Moscow Institute of Computer Science has "caught fire", I felt a great disturbance in the algorithm, as if millions of bots suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
BREAKING: USAID contractors/aid recipients say Secretary Rubio and USAID leader Peter Marocco should be held in civil contempt for violating a court order to lift spending freeze.
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Shaun Lawson @shaunjlawson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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Shaun Lawson @shaunjlawson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
FAO Reform MPs What's the matter lads? Cat got your tongue all of a sudden? Where are you? WHERE ARE YOU? Let's be 'avin' you! Come on!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
How’s this prediction going so far?
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
“At least Russia has elections” Russia frequently jails and kills any opposition to Putin, who has been in power since 1999. If you like dictatorships, that’s fine. Just admit that. Don’t insult anyone’s intelligence—including your own—by claiming Russia has real elections.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
So if Russia invaded America, we should just surrender?
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
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PoliticsJOE @politicsjoe.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
David Lammy doesn't rule out the possibility that Benjamin Netanyahu would be arrested if he arrived in Britain.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
So much evil in one photo it is actually staggering
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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Watch this. And then watch it again.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I’ve read a lot of nonsense political novels, but I don’t think any of them imagined the afrikaner broederbond taking over the US Treasury.
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Barbra Streisand @barbrastreisand.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Pete Buttigieg just outlined the long term benefits of President Biden’s infrastructure legislation that almost all Republicans voted against. Remember that when they all take credit for the improvements in their states in the coming years.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Republicans want to tell you what books you can read, what bathroom you can use, what words you can say, what history you can learn, what you can or can’t do with your own body and what gender you are… but tell me more about how the Dems are “coming for your freedoms”. Idiots.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/12/2024
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Bluesky is the resistance. And I love that!
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
There's no longer any upside to Twitter over Bluesky. Twitter's engagement is terrible, it downranks external links, and you're subjected to straight nazi shit if you write even the most banal post. Why are we subjecting ourselves to this?
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Call me Jim @whyknotmeagain2.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Take 11:06 minutes to watch this. Mark is usually very measured. Seeing him this worked up should be a red alert.
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Back to our regularly scheduled programming of focusing our fire on the fascist, rapist, racist, women hating, Putin puppet, criminal conmen billionaires who are seeking to burn our country down to the goddamn ground… Kash Patel at FBI is just as bad a pick as Matt fucking Gaetz was for AG.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Please ask yourself what the worst 10 allegations a prospective Secretary of Education could ever face are and then tell me this is not one of them Preventing child abuse and child sexual abuse is central to the mission of the American education system and McMahon already allegedly failed that test
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
… a chick he bribed to DOJ, a fake wrestling boss maybe sex trafficker to DOE, a Russian spy to DNI, a habitual liar to CIA & boot-licker to the FBI. Does that sound like someone who’s focused on lowering the price of eggs?
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Dear Ma and Pa MAGA, So, your rapist, business fraud, traitor felon-elect has appointed a guy accused of groping his babysitter to HHS, a guy accused of rape to DOD…
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Shaun Lawson @shaunjlawson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I figured it was time to bite the bullet and escape Elon's hellhole. Let's see what this place is like...
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