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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 1h

If you’re frustrated with governments not reeling in social media, read this.

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 4h

Must-read piece in @theguardian.com (h/t @dpcarrington.bsky.social). In #ScienceUnderSiege, we describe how petrostates Saudi Arabia & Russia leveraged Musk's buyout of twitter so they could weaponize it for climate denial propaganda & attacks on renewables.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h

Tick-tock.

The Clock Is Ticking

Trump and Putin face a reckoning

chadbourn.substack.com

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 10h

They should stop polling, and just stick with the big one we had in 2016 that revealed that roughly half of us will believe any old shit.

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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 10h

Perfect score. 100% dementia

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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, I can confirm you have dementia.
100%

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21h

President Trump, "I also did a cognitive exam. One of the doctors said he had never seen a perfect score. I had a perfect score"

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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 1d

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We'll be making cuts that will be permanent. And we're only going to cut Democrat programs. I hate to tell you."

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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 1d

GOP think it’s a documentary

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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 1d

Always with the bats

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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 1d

A lens to view this thru:
Declaring he’s ended seven wars.
Repeatedly mentioning his concerns about getting into heaven.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

The signs are becoming more obvious.

Trump to Get Second ‘Yearly’ Health Screening in Months — TIME

When the President visits Walter Reed on Friday, he’ll do a “routine” annual check-up, the White House said—despite the fact he just did one in April.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Palestinians moving back towards Gaza City are being fired upon.

Israeli forces say the ceasefire does not exist until the government votes for it.

At least 8 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since dawn.

(🎥 Al Jazeera)

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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 2d

Definitely not mental.

Andrew R @excelpope.net · 2d

See yer da’s got a new car.

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Representative Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans won’t come back to work because we can now force a vote on releasing the Epstein Files.

Meanwhile, folks' insurance is skyrocketing because they refuse to extend healthcare tax credits.

They’re putting Pedophiles before the American People.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 2d

“Miller is working overtime to polarize the public debate about Trump's increasingly dictatorial abuses of power…He relentlessly depicts Democrats as allied with a vast, inchoate class of violent criminals and insurrectionists…” sharp read of what Stephen Miller wants from @gregsargent.bsky.social

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2d

Only the military remains outside Trump’s grip. Despite the firing of several top officers—and his threat to fire more—the U.S. armed forces are still led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the president. But for how long?
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 2d

“The state does less and does it better“.
Lmao wut?

Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 2d

Tax cuts for the rich.
Trickle down economics.
More austerity.

Wow. What a speech

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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 2d

According to Kemi, the amount of civil servants has ballooned since Brexit.
We’ll duh

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2d

Heseltine was the first Tory MP to publicly criticise Enoch Powell after Rivers of Blood in 1968. Let him cook

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 3d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 2d

“If the Conservative party didn’t exist, would there be any need to invent it?”
OOOFF

Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 2d

Badenoch’s only achievement is to have shrunk the Tories to a low-wattage Faragist think tank and warehouse storing future parliamentary candidates for Reform www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr

The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 2d

Happy “Mickey Mouse Degree” day
to all who celebrate!

Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing says "the party of ambition" like restricting access to higher education.

Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 2d

My sums might not add up, but I’m pretty sure that Hamlet and Harry Potter did more for our economy than Liz Truss

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 4d

After a trip across Ukraine on trains that keep running in spite of Russian air raids, nothing says welcome home quite like those three magical words:

Rail Replacement Bus

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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 2d

Our arts and culture are one of the few remaining economic and soft powers we have.
So yeah, why not smother them too

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Cannonball Adderall @manchegoblue.bsky.social · 2d

Hundred quid says Jenrick “leaked” that audio himself

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