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Surlysimon

@surlysimon.bsky.social
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Retired,grew up from Menzies to Whitlam, still maintaining the rage comrade, grew up in Canberra but escaped to Melbourne. 40 years working in technical publications

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#VeryAsian Eric @ektaka.bsky.social · 19h
😂🤣😂
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 23h
I wonder if David Sachs had to have brand new business cards printed up saying “Super Intelligence Czar”.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican. www.ms.now/news/russia-...
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A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms
The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican.
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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ask your doctor if jeopardizing your health to make the rich richer is right for you
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21h
In Luxembourg the average state pension for 40 years of contributions is nearly 4x higher than in the U.K. Far from being unaffordable the UK State pension is a joke, what is unaffordable is the tax evasion which leaves us with so little money to spend.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21h
Ken Paxton desperately tried to defend his handling of a child predator case by claiming the defendant “served 60 days.” Then came the Community Note...
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Ken Paxton Defends Handling of Child Predator Case
Community Note: “Paxton's office initially recommended 1 day in jail.”
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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 21h
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My gf got her eggs frozen last year and now we’re looking into freezing some embryos and if things keep going according to plan, fingers crossed, in a couple years we’ll freeze a whole baby
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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 21h
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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
oh sorrry yeah i guess im the asshole for choosing a career that i liked that ai ruined. No worries, my fucking bad
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 23h
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 21h
I grew up in a part of Cornwall where large areas were fenced off with warning signs about collapsing tin mines. I used to have nightmares of the whole county breaking off from Devon and floating towards Brittany. My main concern was that I was already 10 and knew no French.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 21h
This is how you write a headline about the Eric Schmitt hearing debacle. @rollingstone.com
MAGA Senator Humiliated After Attempt to Corner Jack Smith Backfires Comically
Sen. Eric Schmitt thought he was nailing the special counsel on a conspiracy theory — but he mixed up his basketball teams

By Jack Crosbie

September 29, 2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21h
It’s difficult to overstate how dangerous such a declaration would be for American democracy. It would mean a president is attempting to sidestep the Constitution, which empowers states to run elections, in order to prevent his party from losing. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Could Trump take over voting by declaring a ‘national emergency’?
Advocates agree such an attempt would be blatantly unconstitutional but still worry that such an emergency order could suppress voting nonetheless.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 21h
NEWS: A federal judge just ruled that Trump's Justice Department illegally withheld Violence Against Women Act grants from more than two dozen domestic violence and sexual assault groups to force them into political loyalty tests.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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muskraker.bsky.social @muskraker.bsky.social · 21h
Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump the six rules of managing and dominating situations and people. Here's the 1st 3: 1. Never apologize or admit wrongdoing, ever. 2. Always counter-attack, and always with greater force than you received. 3. Use the legal system as a weapon, not a recourse for justice.
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Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm hopeful it'll be updated at some point, but amazingly, the Washington Post's first stab at covering this hearing finds room to include Schmitt calling Smith a "dirtbag" and several other GOP slams against Smith-- but zero on Schmitt's Hawks blunder www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Jack Smith clashes with senators over Trump probes, says he will not be silenced
Jack Smith returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to defend his derailed efforts to prosecute President Donald Trump, telling lawmakers he would not “be silenced by continued threats of prosecution” from...
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 21h
Yeah that's a no brainer 🙄😡 NOW DO SOMETHING!
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 21h
Don’t use the dot com site. Check out who pays for it.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 21h
Jordan Klepper and Daily Show writer Randall Otis discuss tech CEOs trying to project a "cool guy image"
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 20h
Mussolini and his regime went about not only controlling the government but every aspect of Italian society. He also plastered his image on everything and cultivated a macho, aggressive strongman image. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/me-me-me
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Dr. Jimmy Oshet @oshetjimmy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“ without a shadow of doubt” Yet Republican still embrace and fawn over the president who committed crimes against the United States. That is definitely their brand. Checkmark treason, and bestiality as OK for public office. 
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 21h
I blame the media in this country, and I blame my former Republican colleagues, and I blame his voters for allowing him to lie every time he opens his mouth.
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Stealthgirl 🫘 @stealthgirl21.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Once again, political cartoonists tell the truth by keeping things simple.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
DOJ has charged Wilber Garcés with felony assaulting, resisting, or impeding a federal officer, based on the allegation he struck an ICE officer with his sideview mirror when driving off after the initial traffic stop. He was then chased for 8 minutes, rammed, and then shot.
Image 1: the agent is standing in front of the driver’s side mirror, with the mirror at waist height.Image 2: the agent now has has hands on the car as it starts to move. The mirror appears to be very slightly in contact with his waist.Image 3: the agent has pulled his hips back and the mirror is no longer touching the agent.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h
Amazing community note on threads
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 20h
I would be proud to count someone like Jack Smith as a friend In fact, my friends are a lot like Jack Smith
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HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"For decades, electorates have been mis-sold a fanatical ideology: the prerogatives of the private sector must override the collective interest, and anything less is tantamount to Stalinism"
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The Fall of the West by Owen Jones review – a bracing history of the changing world order
A journalist charts a quarter century of geopolitical hubris and economic overreach
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Nic Boothby @nicboothby.bsky.social · 20h
One of the five men arrested near RAF Fairford as part of a terror investigation that prompted fears of an Iran-backed plot CALLED THE POLICE TO REPORT THE INCIDENT, it has emerged !!! Weirder and weirder...
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Suspect in RAF Fairford case called police to report incident
Man dialled 999 before he and four others were arrested near military base in Gloucestershire, it has emerged
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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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God @thegodshow.com · 29/09/2026
Is he serious
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
*sticks pinky out*
Sign on wall reads "Please urinate with precision and elegance." (Chinese translation above)
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"President Donald Trump suffers ego injury from mild-mannered Canadians, initiates geopolitical standoff with Canada and issues annexation threats" is a mid-tier South Park plotline from 2005 unleashed on the world
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This morning, Trump is back channeling Vladimir Putin non-strop. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Dennis Goris | Cartoons @dennisgoris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Threat assessment
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Keep calling it Twitter.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ooooooo, that was nice. Just donated to @angieforfl.bsky.social. (And before doing that I ran my scanner for Democratic malware.)
google search: angie nixon position on trans kids

answer: Angie Nixon strongly supports transgender youth, advocating for their rights, healthcare access, and inclusion in sports.
Angie Nixon for U.S. Se... +1
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
this is legitimately very funny
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A US prosecutor has reopened an investigation into allegations a woman was gang-raped by seven students at a Cornell University fraternity.
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Cornell University gang-rape allegations to be reinvestigated
A US prosecutor has reopened an investigation into allegations a woman was gang-raped by seven students at a Cornell University fraternity.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can you imagine being one of these 5 guys and having to tell people you got arrested for terrorism for having a White Van within 1.5km of a military base? Almost as ridiculous as getting arrested for holding sheets of paper.
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Chris Minns is one of the most can-do people you’ll ever see,” V’landys said. Of course, it depends on who's asking him to do.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron.
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James Leakyboots Batty @jamesbatty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Note to Farage: one reason the police ask you not to speculate about ongoing cases is to prevent you from looking like a total eejit.
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