Reposted by The Book RestThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Yikes… this is how they’re trying to fix the algae problem… the birds don’t stand a chance…😕 151865732631
Reposted by The Book Restderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/03/2026how ironic to see the state protect two people who sought to strip the state while working under the direction of elon musk, who has made it impossible to seek recourse when people get death threats and harassment on twitter 7259041290
Reposted by The Book RestAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14/03/2026Israel's attack, echoing similar carnage it wrought in Gaza, kills doctors, paramedics and nurses who were on duty.aljazeera.comIsrael kills 12 medics in attack in southern Lebanon as war ravages nationIsrael's attack, echoing similar carnage it wrought in Gaza, kills doctors, paramedics and nurses who were on duty. 24349313
Reposted by The Book RestTeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Every month, a little bit of money comes out of my account to support @ledbydonkeys.org We need people like them to give us a true picture of society, government & the people who run it. We also need them to call out the raging hypocrisy of people like Nigel Mirage and Stephen Yaxley Lennon. 66415
Reposted by The Book RestFionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Hard agree. Bang for buck, money well spent on @ledbydonkeys.org £5 pcm isn’t a lot .. But it is £60 a year…and if LOTS of people do it - say 1000- that’s £60,000 pa. Surely 5000 supporters is possible? £300,000 a year. Etc etc. 24216
Reposted by The Book RestArt Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Pete Hegseth is banishing photographers from the Pentagon over “unflattering” photos of him? Would be a shame if this picture kept circulating. 1751174619
Reposted by The Book RestKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/01/2026The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...semafor.comExclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in QatarThe details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro. 16082348810756
Reposted by The Book RestAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121 25515379918603
Reposted by The Book RestColin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 11/03/2025 210157
Reposted by The Book RestDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 27/02/2025Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comMusk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true.USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said. 18889714161
Reposted by The Book RestMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/02/2025You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.nytimes.comAndrew Tate and His Brother Are Said to Leave Romania for the U.S.Andrew and Tristan Tate, the online influencers, are facing investigations in Romania and Britain, including accusations of human trafficking and sex crimes. 665107253629
Reposted by The Book RestT. Frohock (she/her) @tfrohock.com · 27/02/2025I've been MIA on social media lately. My husband needs a shoulder replacement, so I've been taking on all his responsibilities around the house (shopping, animals, yard work, etc.) around my full-time job. Tl;dr: Pls buy my books: www.tfrohock.com/fiction2 43020
Reposted by The Book RestSandy @imgine.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Tomorrow February 28h is no buy nothing day! Boycotts work; it's a start. When it starts effecting retailers they will make noise. Target notice a decalin this month. I like to make a suggestion, cut down or do not Buy Eggs as long as you can. Big ask, might work! 😏💙💙✌️ www.axios.com/2025/02/25/e...axios.comWhat to know about the Feb. 28 "economic blackout"The grassroots group behind the blackout says it is about "sending a clear message: we have the power." 2187
Reposted by The Book RestThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Really happy with how the guys at @prospect have framed my post. @arusbridger.bsky.social and others at Prospect's support for this Weekly Constitutional series of posts is well received. 3407
Reposted by The Book RestProf Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 21/02/2025It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comTrump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s nextThe breakneck pace and devastating impact of the administration’s policy changes has shocked researchers. 321393649
Reposted by The Book RestThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 21/02/2025Republican Senators who voted for RFK Jr. have the best healthcare in the world, paid for by you. They don’t care about what’s going to happen to your kids, your parents, or you.youtube.comThey Don't CareYouTube video by The Lincoln Project 21663501963
Reposted by The Book RestBundesservice Telekommunikation @gregorxxxsamsa.bsky.social · 21/02/2025“I wanted to make that very clear to the council that in a normal city council meeting this shouldn’t be happening,”latimes.comEx-NFL player Chris Kluwe explains why he got arrested protesting Huntington Beach MAGA library sign'You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is,' he told the council during Tuesday's meeting. The chambers erupted in applause. 12110
Reposted by The Book RestGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/02/2025This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad. 924131073960
The Book Rest @thebookrest.bsky.social · 21/02/2025He's 4 mths older than me & I (fortunately) still have ALL my marbles - enough to say he's already declined into stupidity 😟 020
Reposted by The Book RestFionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Just to remind people that tomorrow is the 3rd anniversary of Putin’s unlawful invasion of Ukraine. His planned 3 day “special operation” is still being slogged out, costing Russia about 1 million men (dead and injured) courtesy of Ukrainian courage. Be there if you can to support them 🙏 7220105
Reposted by The Book RestDr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social · 20/02/2025This is significant. Farage is meeting Musk’s preconditions for bankrolling Reform UK. 58442
Reposted by The Book RestKitKat 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇦🇺🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @uk501.bsky.social · 20/02/2025And here you have it ladies and gentlemen The truth 2107
Reposted by The Book RestOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/02/2025As I keep saying - Musk will do to the US state what he did to twitter. Only this time it's people's lives he's playing with not just blue ticks, disinformation and impressions. 3434079
Reposted by The Book RestThe Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025"They are not on Twitter, but they are in local communities" The Lib Dems could not have paid an agency for a better slogan. 0623125
Reposted by The Book RestCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/02/2025The media are crying out for a serving politician to decry Trump, so here goes: he’s a lying, corrupt, incompetent criminal who is a useful idiot to Putin. Together they are literally destroying the fabric of western democracy and European security. Is any MP prepared to agree? 15582120
Reposted by The Book RestPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19/02/2025DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comDOGE Says It’s Saved $55 Billion; Data Show Much LessThe federal cost-cutting effort dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that. 3316630
Reposted by The Book RestHardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 04/02/2025This Byline Times story on Farage pictured with far-right activists has not been picked up by any established media outlet - including liberal/democratic/left publications. Why? Because people like being comfortable in their own power and status. The newspaper I edit will keep sounding the alarm.bylinetimes.comNigel Farage Pictured With Far-Right Activists Who Posted 'Pride Swastikas' and Racist RantsEXCLUSIVE: The Reform UK leader posed for pictures with the group of prominent far-right activists known for their extreme, racist and Islamophobic posts 411850915
Reposted by The Book RestBylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 19/02/2025The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks – Byline Timesbylinetimes.comThe Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think TanksThe broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley 16492208
Reposted by The Book RestMikeG @memike1.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Next Tuesday Jamie is playing his final gig with the GT Big Band in Saltaire. He's been with them for 3 years, playing most Tuesdays, and he's had a ball. His sight reading is now second nature after all the practice he's had. I've seen him with the band, and they are great, maybe your last chance. 193
Reposted by The Book RestPolitics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Most of the UK farmland sold last year went to tax-dodgers, not real farmers. They exploit inheritance tax breaks, pricing farmers out while barely using the land. They “farm” just enough to meet loopholes, cashing in on rising land values. It’s not about food, it’s a scam for the wealthy. 2021681
Reposted by The Book RestThe Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Right, social media site. Today is the day that the lovely people at @picadorbooks.bsky.social reveal the cover for my first crime thriller, The Cut Throat Trial. So here it is. And I think it’s rather splendid. If anybody wishes to preorder, links are below. bio.to/7zNmPU Eek. 42840116
Reposted by The Book RestSatan @social-hell.uk · 13/02/2025Wilp. Written by Satan & Lee Wilson. Think you know the world? Think again. satan-speaks.com/wilp leewilson.uk/wilp/ #BookSky #WritingCommunity 1710
Reposted by The Book RestLady Bee Middlemast-Neal @mistyswoman.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Well, who'da thunk it? 03114
Reposted by The Book RestGirlyswot Spider 🕷💙🇪🇺🌎🌱 @gsspider.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Spot on Stella. “And so it begins” indeed. Vance and his thug mates are so dangerous to women in the USA. And the UK. 0176
Reposted by The Book RestLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 15/02/2025Have written about JD Vance’s Munich speech. In what may prove to be the biggest week for European security since 1991, it’s time Europe listened to what Trump and his Vice President are telling us. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...open.substack.comWe need to listen to what Trump and Vance are telling us.This may have been the biggest moment for European security since 1991. 1511407512
Reposted by The Book RestJuliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social · 15/02/2025I am hugely grateful to these well-informed fantasy fans for taking the time to write these letters rebuking The Guardian for that asinine 'romantasy' opinion piece. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...theguardian.comFantasy fiction doesn’t need reclaiming for women – they already write and read it | LettersLetters: Responding to an editorial about the surge in romantasy books, James Latimer writes that romance isn’t only for girls, and Yvonne Williams talks about the synergy of dragons and sex 6660185
Reposted by The Book RestLarry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 15/02/2025"The UK is a nation of animal lovers and so its people need a national animal to love; it's been my privilege to fill that furry brief for 14 years and counting." #Larryversary 674012396
Reposted by The Book RestAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/02/2025ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...muellershewrote.comATTN: HHS EMPLOYEESIf you work for HHS, read this BEFORE you open certain emails 4252460214753
Reposted by The Book RestGod @thegodshow.com · 14/02/2025Donold now has a framed picture of his mugshot hung up inside the White House. 7224003722
Reposted by The Book RestJacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 15/02/2025🚨🚨 "There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing How regime change happens in America". Stellar piece by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social making sense of the dramatic constitutional crisis which is underway under the new Trump administration. 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comThere’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are DoingHow regime change happens in America 8182115
Reposted by The Book RestJustin Lee Anderson @justinleeanderson.com · 15/02/2025Guess who’s going to be interviewing @lordgrimdark.bsky.social about #TheDevils in Edinburgh on the 10th of May? (Me. It’s me.)toppingbooks.co.ukJoe Abercrombie for The Devils at Broughton St Mary's 4285