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Wayne Smith

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UK/US Politics, news junkie, huge fan of @TheWho. The Left are always right & the Right are always wrong. Murdoch is the most corrupt man in history #Leveson2Now

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
In honour of Joy Division's iconic album Unknown Pleasures being released on this day in 1979, I'm again sharing one of my favourite ever video clips (Peanuts vs Joy Division dance party)...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
BORDER PATROL: “Are you an 🇺🇸 citizen?” 🔥 NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN: “FIRST ONES. We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us… what are you? You’re not first born. You’re not from this f*ckin’ land. Punk-as* b*tches.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/06/2025
law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.
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Feral Feminist @disa-khazad-dum.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/06/2025
Bargain Hunt expert jailed for offences under Terrorism Act
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Bargain Hunt expert jailed for offences under Terrorism Act
Oghenochuko Ojiri given two-and-a-half-year sentence over failure to report art sales to suspected Hezbollah funder A BBC Bargain Hunt art expert who failed to report a series of high-value art sales to a man suspected of financing the militant group Hezbollah has been jailed for two and a half years. Oghenochuko Ojiri, 53, sold artworks worth a total of about £140,000 to Nazem Ahmad, a man designated by US authorities as a suspected financier for the Lebanese organisation, a court hearing was told last month. Continue reading...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
How long til Trump seeks to deport Musk for being an 'illegal'?
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Michele Bell @pismoshel.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
This will be the least satisfying "I told you so" in American history... 😣
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Last year, Russia imported 5.4 MILLION shipping containers. After today’s historic attack, every single one is a potential weapon that Putin is terrified of. Not only has Ukraine neutered Russia’s long-range air capability today, but they just crippled its supply chain & economy. Utter genius.
A photo of a shipping container which concealed the Ukrainian attack drones in a false roof.
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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 31/05/2025
“Is it unlawful for the president to accept a gift from a foreign state without the consent of Congress?” - @adamschiff.com
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Constituent: Trump and his cabinet in addition to being totally unqualified and inept are breaking laws by ignoring federal judge's orders. When are you going to do the responsibility you are elected for by holding the executive branch accountable up to and including impeachment?
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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Farage's new economic policy platform reminded me that when he was UKIP leader, the party published a pamphlet by Tim Condgon which stated that EU membership cost the UK 11.5% of its GDP per year junepress.com/product/how-...
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How much does the European Union cost Britain by Tim Congdon – junepress.com
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
The final section of this interview is so powerful. Dr Haj-Hassan refusing to let the BBC “two-side” the genocide in Gaza. "You don't ask the perpetrator of genocide their opinion on whether they are committing a genocide". The eloquence in her rage is extraordinary. 2/2
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
This is essential viewing. A remarkable interview with Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, a paediatrician working in Gaza, following the killing of her colleague’s NINE children by Israeli forces. Going to post this video in two clips. Here she responds to ludicrous IDF denials & calls out the genocide. 1/2
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
"It's the deal we've ended up with. The other choice is to go down the road of ignoring international laws... that takes us into a very dangerous place." Matt Frei talks to former minister Tobias Ellwood about the Chagos Islands deal. Watch here: www.channel4.com/news/difficu...
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‘Difficult to cede land in this way’: Tobias Ellwood on Chagos deal
We spoke to former soldier and former foreign office minister Tobias Ellwood, who used to chair the Defence Select Committee, about the Chagos Island deal.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
“Child poverty is the biggest cause of social division in Britain today, a scar on our national conscience, and a stain on the soul of the country” Gordon Brown www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
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Child poverty is a scar on our national conscience
A Labour government has taken millions of children out of poverty before. It can do so again.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
📌The Cabinet of the United States of America is a collection of the worst, most incompetent morons in history, and we are supposed to just suffer through it as if it was just another cloudy day.
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Brian O @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Watch what they do, not what they say.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/05/2025
The Most Transparent Administration in History™️
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Wayne Smith @waynesmith1971.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The Tories turned this country into a third world country.
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Food bank charity Trussell Trust says in the last 5 years there’s been a 46% rise in emergency food parcels provided to families with children New figures suggest 1.8 million were given out last year (compared to the year before that’s an 8% decrease)
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Your occasional reminder that the UK fishing industry adds less £ to UK GDP than Harrods in Knightsbridge and employs roughly the same number of fishers (ca 6000) as the store's full rota.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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Wayne Smith @waynesmith1971.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
To this day I'm still perplexed that it is legal.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
carp-ing from the sidelines
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12 years access to British waters is three times longer than the govt wanted.
We're becoming a rule-taker from Brussels once again.
And with no details on any cap or time limits on Youth Mobility, fears of free movement returning will only increase.
This is very concerning.
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
For those on wondering why a NARCISSIST doesnt talk about his most "heroic" moment. WELL......
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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 12/05/2025
Happy tariff capitulation day to all who celebrate.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
> @jemelehill.bsky.social
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Wayne Smith @waynesmith1971.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Another reason not to vacation in America.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/05/2025
Duffy on the air traffic control system: "The lights are blinking, the sirens are turning ... what you see in Newark is gonna happen in other places across the country." Good luck, air travelers!
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Alcatraz, Gulf of America, a third term, being Pope. All distractions. So well done to the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world for focusing on a story that matters. Trump Inc and the new age of corruption.
Under the title is a picture of Trump’s kids with their spouses and own children. They are stood solemnly outside what looks like a church. They are looking on at Melania who is seen in the foreground out of focus.
The headline says: The Firm: Trump Inc and the new age of corruption.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/04/2025
U.S. ECONOMY SHRINKS UNDER TRUMP Just months into Trump’s return to office, the U.S. economy has already reversed course—shrinking by 0.3% in the first quarter of 2025. That’s a stark contrast from the 2.4% growth rate during President Biden’s final months.
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Happy World Penguin Day to all penguins, but especially Nils, who didn’t let living in Edinburgh (or being a penguin) stop him from becoming The Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian King’s Guard. He’s also been knighted. His official title is Brigadier Sir Nils Olav III and here he is looking regal af
Nils Olav looking calm and satisfied (he never gets in a flap) after inspecting his troops, who stand behind him (you can only see their legs but we can safely assume they all look simultaneously humbled and overjoyed to be in his presence)
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
So much bad happening so fast.
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'60 Minutes' EP Bill Owens Quits, Says He Lost Ability to Make Independent Decisions
"The show is too important to the country, it has to continue, just not with me as the Executive Producer," Owens says in a memo to staff Tuesday
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
He’s weakening our country. He’s weakening our economy. He’s weakening our alliances. He’s weakening the free world. He’s weakening our influence around the world. And Putin keeps smiling every single day.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Hey media: If your headline says “Putin declares Easter ceasefire in Ukraine” without also including the fact that Russian forces haven’t stopped fighting for even a second, you’re just helping his propaganda machine.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
He did it. He crashed the entire economy. In exactly 90 days.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Last week, DHS and Secretary Noem's staff and spokespeople suggested that because Mr. Abrego Garcia had $1,100 in cash on him when arrested outside Home Depot seeking day labor, that was strong evidence that he was a member of MS-13. I guess that raises a similar question about her $3,000.
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Left Of Center Orange Hater @leftocorangehater.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 20/04/2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced an Easter ceasefire starting on April 19, claiming that it would "test Ukraine's sincerity in pursuing peace talks," but across the front line, Ukrainian soldiers tell the Kyiv Independent they have yet to see any sign of it.
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Moscow proposed an Easter ceasefire. According to Ukrainian soldiers, the shooting never stopped
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced an Easter ceasefire starting on April 19, claiming that it would "test Ukraine's sincerity in pursuing peace talks,"  but across the front line, Ukrainian so...
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
NEW: European Commission issues staff with burner phones & basic laptops for US trips, to avoid espionage. [FT] How far the US has fallen under Trump. The EU adopting a measure normally reserved for China. The US is now a security risk to its (former) allies.
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EU issues US-bound staff with burner phones over spying fears.
The pictures is of phone handsets.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
LIVE: Fox presenters’ souls leave their body as they’re forced to finally tell the truth about tariffs. Here, the story a small business making products for kids with special needs. Its tariff bill has gone from $26,000 to $346,000. Fatal. A fate Fox deserves for months of tariff disinformation.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
How stupid are these people?
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Never forget that the chief complaint against Biden was “the economy is terrible.” You utter imbeciles
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