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Margaret Bell 🔔 @margbell.bsky.social · 5h

Friedenburger tried it too
They never learn

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jwwr @jwwr.bsky.social · 11h

So many of the world’s greatest arseholes are just one personal experience away from re-assessing their attitudes. If only there was a way to help them along 🤔

Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 1d

Embarrassing Jeremy Clarkson u-turns on his criticism of the NHS after receiving urgent treatment his private care couldn’t provide.

Jeremy Clarkson reneges on NHS criticism after needing urgent treatment

Presenter, who called service ‘a creaking monster’, says he’s ‘eternally grateful’ to medics who aided him

www.independent.co.uk

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 10h

Not only does the world need to cool down, it also needs to lighten up.

Comedy to bring attention to the seriousness of #climatechange works to motivate and educate people 🤣

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Climate comedy works − here’s why, and how it can help lighten up a politically heavy year in 2024

Jokes can be a healing contagion as they expose hypocrisy, spark laughter and open minds.

buff.ly

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Margaret Bell 🔔 @margbell.bsky.social · 8h

Even 'Fox'

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 10h

Imagine congratulating Hitler on ending the Holocaust by killing himself.

The #GazaHolocaust isn't even OVER but still "leaders" from all around the world are patting Trump & others on the fucking back!

Netanyahu, Biden AND Trump along with other "leaders" BELONG IN THE HAGUE!

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Margaret Bell 🔔 @margbell.bsky.social · 8h

Good 'Conversations'!

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 10h

It is a problem that so many people think of the protesters who want to protect the planet before they think of those destroying it.
Fossil fuel heads and those who enable them are psychopaths unable to think about anything but the bottom line and feathering their own increasingly warming nests imo

The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 10h

By understanding why people commit crimes that damage the environment, we can better hold environmental criminals accountable.

Criminal psychologists are profiling a different kind of killer – environmental offenders

By understanding why people commit crimes that damage the environment, we can better hold environmental criminals accountable.

tcnv.link

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 9h

Have to try anything at this point.

The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 10h

Not only does the world need to cool down, it also needs to lighten up.

Comedy to bring attention to the seriousness of #climatechange works to motivate and educate people 🤣

buff.ly/87EKt79

Climate comedy works − here’s why, and how it can help lighten up a politically heavy year in 2024

Jokes can be a healing contagion as they expose hypocrisy, spark laughter and open minds.

buff.ly

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Margaret Bell 🔔 @margbell.bsky.social · 8h

That's great - thanks for circulating

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Left in Limbo @leftinlimbo.bsky.social · 9h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F13K...

The Worst Photo Of All "Time" | GOP To Blame For Airport Chaos | No Kings Protests Return

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

www.youtube.com

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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 9h

Oh shit!! He said that??

Another Nostradamus?

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Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 9h

👀 at you
Murray WattTheFuck
and @albomp.bsky.social
#auspol and who came before.

Marns🌿🍉 @marnshibski.bsky.social · 10h

It is a problem that so many people think of the protesters who want to protect the planet before they think of those destroying it.
Fossil fuel heads and those who enable them are psychopaths unable to think about anything but the bottom line and feathering their own increasingly warming nests imo

The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 10h

By understanding why people commit crimes that damage the environment, we can better hold environmental criminals accountable.

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Margaret Bell 🔔 @margbell.bsky.social · 9h

And more 'freedom'

Top US news outlets push back against Pentagon's reporting restrictions - BBC News share.google/JzCBcG3876Fl...

Top US news outlets push back against Pentagon's reporting restrictions

A new Department of Defense policy bars journalists from the Pentagon unless they agree to only publish information that has been officially authorised.

share.google

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 18h

"I was hung from the metal shackles on my wrists and ankles and beaten on my stomach, back, face, ear, and skull by a group of men and women guards, one of whom sat on my neck and face, blocking my airways."

Noa Avishag Schnall, a Jewish photojournalist who reported from

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@gfelljones.bsky.social @20244202.bsky.social · 17h

And the Israelis recommenced arresting innocent Palestinians immediately after the release of the previous lot . . .
Aggressive Israeli Bastardry

Viktor 🇵🇸🍉🦘🦘🪃 @viktx.bsky.social · 19h

#FreePalestine
@albomp.bsky.social
@australianlabor.bsky.social

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 21h

Dr. Phil went full MAGA and tried to reinvent himself as a MAGA media mogul and culture warrior. Now his world is unraveling, his media company is laying off thousands and had to file for bankruptcy, and he's being sued for fraud. The whole plan is collapsing.

www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

www.rawstory.com

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 21h

The findings are released as more Queensland councils opt out of water fluoridation and amid rising rates of misinformation.

Water fluoridation leading to lower rates of tooth decay in children, study finds

The findings are released as more Queensland councils opt out of water fluoridation and amid rising rates of misinformation.

www.abc.net.au

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

The 15 year old girl who was dragged from her car by ICE had recently had kidney surgery.

She was thrown to the ground despite screaming “I’m not resisting”

She had to return to the hospital.

These aggressive tactics will disable. They will kill.

They must be held accountable.

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Diaper Diplomacy Unofficial Mirror @diaperdiplomacy-m.bsky.social · 4d

“Don’t take Tylenol if you’re pregnant.” — RFK Jr drops a circumcision bombshell at the cabinet table

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Paulley Ticks @tomadelsbach.bsky.social · 22h

Well, he is full of hot air...

#DonaldTrump #Time

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Margaret Bell 🔔 @margbell.bsky.social · 19h

That was utterly gorgeous!
Thank you

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 21h

On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert paid tribute to Diane Keaton by sharing a 2012 interview from "The Colbert Report." #ValeDianeKeaton
youtu.be/YZ42k83mUlk?...