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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Is it at all surprising that a convicted felon would ignore a judge's order?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18/03/2025
He couldn’t even run a charity without breaking the law—Now he believes he’s in charge of the Supreme Court, Congress, our rights, and the U.S. justice system. Who’s going to stop him?!
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Angelo Carusone @goangelo.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed. Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance. My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
His track record speaks for itself. While we continue to resist, we should take comfort in that he is deeply incompetent, not very bright & his policies are hurting even his most devoted supporters. Let's not get in the way of his inevitable self-destruction.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Is there not a single journalist in the White House with the courage to step up and point out Zelenskyy is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign country who is bravely standing against the illegal invasion of Ukraine by a murderous dictator?
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 04/03/2025
For 250 years, the United States has supported democracy. Now, in the middle of a horrific war that Putin started, Trump is turning his back on Ukraine and democracy, all to the benefit of a brutal dictator in Moscow.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
And there it is. Putin’s lifelong dream. After years of relentless Russian propaganda, now fully embraced by the American president and the world’s richest oligarch, millions of Americans are convinced that this is a good plan because Europe is an enemy and Putin is our friend.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
If you want to stop World War Three, think what would have stopped World War Two. Occupation of the Ruhr. Anschluss with Austria. Annexation of Sudetenland. Hitler could have been stopped each time. But fear of war led to war. Don’t repeat the mistake. #SlavaUkraini
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/02/2025
“Friday, February 28, 2025, will go into the history books as one of the grimmest days in American diplomacy,” writes @radiofreetom.bsky.social. Now “Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us”: theatln.tc/FHJeRVAj
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One of the Grimmest Days in American Diplomacy
At an Oval Office meeting, the president of the United States ambushed a loyal ally.
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Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The EU wasn’t formed to screw anyone. Quite the opposite. It was formed to maintain peace, to build respect among our nations, to create free and fair trade, and to strengthen our transatlantic friendship. As simple as that. 🇪🇺🇺🇸
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”
America has turned on its triends
Trump's abandonment of his country's allies is real and will endure
Winston Churchill is credited with saying that America does the right thing after exhausting the alternatives. Donald Trump has turned that aphorism on its head. In the past 10 days, he has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. Those who thought America was a friend or ally, notably Ukraine and Nato, are dropping once safe assumptions to cope with a world in which America is an unabashed predator. Countries that were treated by Washington as adversaries, notably Vladimir Putin's Russia, are suddenly America's friend.
There were hinge moments in history when the US displayed its character as global leader, such as Dwight Eisen-hower's repudiation of Anglo-French imperialism in the 1956 Suez crisis, or
Ronald Reagan's 1987 exhortation to the Soviet Union to tear down the Berlin Wall. They defined the world's idea of America. Trump's assertion this week that Ukraine "should have never started" the war is the dark version of those. His account of Russia being provoked to invade Ukraine came straight from Putin's talking points. So too was JD Vance's Valentine's Day speech in Munich in which the US vice-president identified liberal democracy as Europe's real threat from within.
These moments will live in infamy.
What do they tell us about what is com-ing? First, there should be no doubt that Trump's contempt for allies and admiration for strongmen is real and will endure. During his first term, Trump's instincts were curbed by the more traditional Republicans around him. Trump 2.0 is the real article. It is entirely possible that figures like Marco Rubio, his secretary of state, or Mike Waltz, his national security adviser, still believe in the US-led alliance that each once championed. Their private thoughts are irrelevant. Each displayed fealty to Trump's predatory vision of America at talks with Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia this week. Uk…
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The UK's anti-protest laws pre-legitimise far right authoritarianism. Labour must repeal them now. My column today. www.theguardian.com/global/comme...
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Extremists would not need to create an authoritarian state in Britain: Starmer is doing that for them | George Monbiot
The PM and his ministers are supporting illiberal laws that hard-right authoritarians could apply with zeal, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 20/02/2025
No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/02/2025
The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.
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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 19/02/2025
🚨BREAKING: My team have uncovered shocking new data - a record 20 million people waited 4 weeks or more to see their GP last year. That's just wrong.
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Ed Davey uncovers NHS scandal of GP appointment waits data
Despite Labour celebrating about hitting their target for NHS waits, new data from the Liberal Democrats reveals over 20 MILLION people waited 4 weeks or mor...
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 19/02/2025
Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn. It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Neo-Nazi terrorist and convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, cited this same Napoleon quote in his manifesto.
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 31/01/2025
The reality of #Brexit.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
This is a massive, urgent report. If you read it all and follow all the in-text citations, you will be as anxious as I am right now. Not just America but the world is headed for ruin under the Trump-Musk autocracy we’re now just fourteen days away from. These men aren’t well, and they intend evil.
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Elon Musk Aims to Start a Race War in the United Kingdom. Is the United States His Next Target?
Somehow this message isn’t crossing international boundaries with the alacrity or the urgency it needs to: Elon Musk is now a global threat, and his actions will cause mass violence in the near term.
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andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Despite all of the challenges - legal and meteorological - we did it! After 40 years of damaging deregulation, Greater Manchester has this morning successfully retaken control of the whole its bus network. 🙌🏻
The first Bee Network service pulls out of a snowy Altrincham Interchange early this morning.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills. Norway - 0 UK - 0 France - 0 Spain - 0 Portugal - 0 Denmark - 0 Australia - 0 Iceland - 0 Italy - 0 Finland - 0 Ireland - 0 Germany - 0 Netherlands - 0 Sweden - 0 Japan - 0 Canada - 0 United States - 643k
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Paul Evans @pauliewaulie.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
In Eugene Ionesco’s play, ‘Rhinoceros’, nearly all of the characters gradually turn nto Rhinoceroses. It’s a parable about how fascism spreads, and how its opponents concede one minor point after another before they nosedive into nazi savagery. Niall Ferguson. And ‘conservatives’ everywhere:
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
2024 ends tomorrow. Here are this year’s gun violence stats for the US: Killed: 16,574 Injured: 31,403 Mass shootings: 529 School shootings: 112 (42 students/staff killed, 115+ wounded). It seems the right day to share this Jimmy Carter quote on gun violence & children, tragically still relevant👇
On children and gun violence
“Every day in the United States, seventeen children are killed by gunfire. That’s about 6,000 children each year who are killed by guns, as compared, for example, with about 3,000 a year who died at the height of the polio epidemic of the 1950s. We rose up as a society to fight against polio. Why do we not act more forcefully to halt today’s even greater scourge?”
– 1997 book, "Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith"
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zoloru.bsky.social @zoloru.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Or was it just noughties naivety?
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zoloru.bsky.social @zoloru.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Rewatching Love Actually.. remembering first watching it (and despite massive crush on Hugh Grant) thinking ‘never could such a clueless bumbling fool be PM’ … aaah the naivety of youth.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
This is tediously stupid now… Really. Just stop with the idiotic headlines and the swagger and the EUphobic chest-thumping. Brexit is a shitshow. You know it. We know it. Even Trump might know it. Pipe down. Accept that you ballsed it. And leave us to deal with the embarrassing mess you all made.
Opinion piece from Daniel Hannan in The Telegraph 

Keir Starmer is going to Brussels with his begging bowl. It should be the other way around
We are the only major European economy that can forge a new trade deal with the US. That should be a our core priority
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
How it started, How it's going.
Composite screenshot of tweets by Elon Musk. 

The first from 2022 reads: "For Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral, which effectively means upsetting the far right and the far left equally".

The second, from 20 Dec 2024, reads: "only the AfD [extreme right wing party] can save Germany"
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Lex Luthor has nothing on Elon Musk. We actually have, on this planet right now, a genuine supervillain for the ages.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Britain doesn’t need billionaires posing as champions of the working class while hijacking our democracy for their own interests.
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2Tone4Real @2tone4real.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
More #Brexshit "Benefits"
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme
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Bring back Erasmus+ and youth mobility in Europe
Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Boris Johnson is terrified that we will ditch Brexit, rebuild the UK with the EU, do well economically and… …that will show him for the fraud he is.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Reminder Tesla has the highest death rate per mile of any make of car, more than double the average. I wonder who recommended this change?
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
If you ask me, this would have been a much better choice for Time’s Person of the Year.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
🦋 ‘X’ turns dark, and the Sky turns Blue. The move from X to Bluesky – a lesson on how progressives can take back control.
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'X' turns dark, and the Sky turns Blue
The move from X to Bluesky – a lesson on how progressives can take back control
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
We need to make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform in the world, we need to do it with urgency, we need to make sure Reform UK never get any where near power & we need to send Elon Musk packing. TOGETHER we can do it
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 12/12/2024
Sterling close to its highest value against the Euro since the Brexit referendum. Markets appear to be rewarding the prospect of long term British political stability. Not something you’ve been able to say for a while.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Only 9 years (meaning he will serve 6 max) for the man who tried to burn down the hotel containing Asylum Seekers. Can you imagine if it had been Just Stop Oil and an Oil Refinery. Be 20 years at least.
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
When I left X, I left 260000ish followers who cared about the NHS. This is bad because the NHS is in a state of emergency and EveryDoctor has just launched an important petition. If you can see this, please could you follow me and share this? 🤞💙🚨
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zoloru.bsky.social @zoloru.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Hi Rainey, yes coq10 (ubiquinol specifically) very important mitochondrial supplement. I use MitoQ.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This is unsustainable, especially now that billionaires are taking over our government.
A tweet from Americans For Tax Fairness announces that the combined wealth of four wealthy Americans has reached $1 trillion. It names Musk, Bezos, Ellison, and Zuckerberg, noting their wealth was $74 billion twelve years ago.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Struck once again by the way Elon Musk has become all the things his admirers claimed to despise when they lied about George Soros doing them…
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 05/12/2024
When you spent billions and destroyed your brand to recreate 1930's Germany and got 1780's France instead.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The Brexit Curse British food exports to EU ‘have fallen £3bn a year since Brexit’. Border checks, lower standards on pesticides, veterinary drugs, animal welfare make UK exports harder. Brexit costing UK economy about £100bn a year. Rejoin EU. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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British food exports to EU ‘have fallen £3bn a year since Brexit’
Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy report finds trade flows have shown no signs of returning to previous levels
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