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Tigernan Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 2h

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2h

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

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Cathey🎃🌎🗽☮️❤️‍🧡💛💚💙💜🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 💙 💛 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 @cleverhandlebars.bsky.social · 2h

PAINFULLY clear.

carolmac80💙🌈☮️🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🇺🇦🧿🌊 @carolmac80.bsky.social · 21h

His priorities are not America or it's people.

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Humor For Resistance @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 2h

#satire

the balloon costumes that protesters are wearing - a dino, a raccoon, an a unicorn - Outrage in US as Nobel Peace committee snubs Portland novelty T-Rex

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h

The conventions of political reporting today are not well equipped to handle this concerted use of pretexts for instrumental purposes and the bottomless bad faith they employ. Grasping the industrial-scale deception at the core of MAGA politics is essential. 6/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Shane Lear @shanelear.bsky.social · 2h

This could be my 80-year-old Trumper father. Thank God, my mom hasn't been taken in.

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MsRegiGirl @msregigirl.bsky.social · 4h

Cute Kitten Videos!! We need them! Najee playing with her fuzzy ball that is nearly as big as her. #HappyCaturday #Caturday

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h

The full argument is in this link. 7/7
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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Phoenix🔥 @fivetimessix.bsky.social · 6h

Annie is new to BlueSky. Give her a follow.
Repost please.
@annie-evans.bsky.social

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Jane E. D. 🫘 🍸 @guanadu.bsky.social · 2h

Is Trump dying fast? Did they do a PET scan to see how bad his dementia has gotten? Most are guessing MRI or CT... It HAD to be a PET scan, it's what they use with dementia...

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

"Advanced imaging" are the important words here.

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Rose Ann The Sharer @thecleannewdeal.org · 2h

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2h

No idea where Blair falls, but I do think there is a range to Epstein’s many impressive connections from absolutely evil participants to shallow society clingers who just couldn’t imagine a very rich friend of their friends is *really* a loathsome sex criminal.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 13h

Tony Blair met with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in London during his time as prime minister, it has emerged

Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while prime minister

www.thenational.scot

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 2h

*vomits*

Cans of Pringles with “Santa’s Secret Flavour”

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7h

The grand jury indictment against New York AG Letitia James accuses her of receiving a lower-cost loan on a home she purchased.

James saved only about $50 a month with lower interest rate, the indictment alleges.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Letitia James saved only about $50 a month with lower interest rate, indictment alleges

The grand jury indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James accuses her of receiving a lower-cost loan on a home she purchased in Norfolk, Virgini

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 2h

No fingerprint or DNA tests were conducted in Jeffrey Epstein's cell after his death. Sus AF.

Release the Epstein files. Now.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4h

In Opinion | If President Trump wanted to help Portland, “there are many ways he could do so with the $10 million that was the estimated cost of his deployment of the Oregon National Guard,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes.

Opinion | Our Beautiful Portland Hellscape

With the millions being used to deploy troops to Portland, Trump could help with treatment for substance use, with emergency housing, with education.

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Kathryn 🌱🌸🚜🧳 ✈️💄 @katefromcambs.bsky.social · 6h

Hello Bluesky, sharing the rather lovely Princess Alexandra rose from David Austin. It’s fragranced too! 🌱
My travel adventure was simply amazing! I’m feeling blessed and oh so grateful to have wonderful people in my life. 🤗#Friends #Friendship #DistanceDoesNotMatter #roses #travel