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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 10h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 10h

We’ll see.

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 13h

The antidote to all the nastiness around. If you don’t love Aardman, you probably don’t have a pulse.

Mandeville was cavendish_maid 📎 @mandeville24.bsky.social · 13h

Perfect Sunday afternoon viewing Wallace and Grommet and the Curse of the Were Rabbit. With a few innuendos thrown in for the adults!

a stuffed animal is standing in the dark with a full moon in the background

Alt: a stuffed animal is standing in the dark with a full moon in the background

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 3d

Labour too often seem to consider it a success if no-one notices their interviews. The insurgent parties only consider it a success if people do. The former just no longer cuts it in the attention economy.

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 14h

The regular MSM is dying & is being kept afloat by billionaires who have their own agenda. Meanwhile our BBC has ceased to abide by Lord Reith’s original stipulations & its politics & news departments are under the control of those put in place by Johnson & the Tories, but now favour ReformUK.

Tories.now

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 14h

People who haven’t read 1984 or any relevant Orwell essays are the ones who speak badly about his books.

Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 15h

I hate it when people talk badly about 1984 because if you actually read it, that book explains what’s wrong with society and what’s wrong with anti intellectualism

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 14h

#BBCQT won’t be asking Polanski back in a hurry, will they?

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 15h

Zack Polanski, "Reform UK's Zia Yusuf was full of b*llocks and I think it was important to call that out on #BBCQT"

"What has become clear about Reform UK, they're a bunch of cowards"

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 14h

The world is being trashed by old, morally-bankrupt, malicious male inadequates trying to keep out of prison or desperate to hold on to power. Meanwhile, racism, misogyny and division of all kinds is begin monetised by faux ‘political’ groups or by bad agents online.

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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 1d

I was informed today that a lot of special needs / disabled girls and women are put on birth control by family members because they are at risk for being raped by men. That thought never even crossed my mind, that is so vile.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

One evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries consoles another evil man who murders civilians from his own and other countries for not getting an award for which neither evil man is even remotely deserving.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Arresting 6 year olds.

Donald Trump making America a Fascist shithole.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t have grandchildren yet but I must say, it would be a worry.

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 14h

This is true.

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JohnWest_JAWS @johnwestjaws.bsky.social · 15h

These 2 speeches, which, as Nick points out, on the same day, precede what Gill has pled guilty to by 4 years, are more damning for Farage as they also precede Brexit.

All European secret services would have been alarmed by this & would/should have been investigating.

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 15h

www.timeout.com/music/the-10...

100 best London songs

London calling! Time Out counts down the sound of the city, distilled into a hundred-track playlist of songs about London.

www.timeout.com

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 15h

I have two sons and I fear for them nowadays, for many reasons. They’re too ‘nice’ for the world around them at the moment, as they’re discovering. It’s painful. The girls are having it even worse I suspect.

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 15h

The subsequent generations of Russians will be weaker, stupider and more prone to illness, as all the strong young men will have been killed and only the unfit will be left to procreate. (If the women can even be bothered to do so). Putin is bent in creating a feeble nation.

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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 15h

Holy timeslots! BATMAN is here in 30 minutes at 1:30pm #TPTVSubtitles

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 15h

Such an underrated artist of hyper-realism.

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 15h

It’s 2025 and there is a film on TV about Greta Garbo. A testament about how Hollywood never forgives those luminaries who see through the meaninglessness and decide to abandon the star-machine and the lifestyle.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

31-year-old David Noutch, white British has been charged with racially aggravated assault, threatening with a bladed article in a public place and assault by beating.

It was a White man attacking Non-White people.

Where is the apology from this hateful racist?

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 16h

Watch as nothing happens…

Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 16h

www.thenational.scot/news/2553658...

Investigation into royal links to Jeffrey Epstein demanded after Andrew email leak

A “FULL and unrelenting” investigation into the royal family’s links to the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has been demanded by…

www.thenational.scot

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 16h

The poet Rupert Brooke who died in 1915 on his way to fight in Gallipoli. He was 27.
Imagine all the beauty, strength and talent wars take away from the human race. The weak are left behind to procreate. War is not the friend of evolution. Our violent stupidity has diminished us as a species.

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