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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 1m

What’s the bet that Trump pays them with cheques with his signature

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 31m

Trump says he’s ordered Hegseth to pay the troops during the government shutdown.

“We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.”

Trump: Chuck Schumer recently said, "Every day gets better" during their Radical Left Shutdown. I DISAGREE! If nothing is done, because of
"Leader" Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th. That is why I am using my authority, as Commander in Chief, to direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th. We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS. I will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military, and the entire Security of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous Government Shutdown. The Radical Left Democrats should OPEN THE GOVERNMENT, and then we can work together to address Healthcare, and many other things that they want to destroy. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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10/11/25, 10:35 AM

Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 6h

I’d like an after shot to see how much dripped all over your shirt

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 6h

Not sure how the Scots would take this

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 8h

Unsolicited triptych

Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

Bad sign when baseball bluesky is overlapping with early morning UK bluesky

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 19h

The first CT piece I have read in a while to properly surprise me - particularly in its stark honesty about how the author perceives recent church goings-on.

It will be interesting to reflect on it in a year’s time. One to bookmark.

churchtimes.bsky.social @churchtimes.bsky.social · 19h

‘The political factions that united to attack Archbishop Welby all agree that his successor is an improvement,' writes Andrew Brown in his latest Viewpoint column

Viewpoint with Andrew Brown: To lose two Archbishops would be ridiculous

I WAS boggled by the quote caught by Gerry Lynch in his radio column this week: Cathy Newman asked on Times Radio, in all seriousness, whether Bishop Mullally could last long enough to be officially consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury. Ms Newm...

www.churchtimes.co.uk

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 20h

“Mr Vance says it has made a ‘beautiful historical building really ugly’.”

Was he referring to the White House?

Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social · 20h

What's it got to do with Vance?

www.bbc.com/news/article...

JD Vance slams Canterbury Cathedral art installation

The US Vice President says it has made a "beautiful historical building really ugly".

www.bbc.com

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 20h

These strips of grilled meat go all the way to the top

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 20h

This is why I am a big Grant Shapps stan - a man who truly understands what excel is for

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 20h

Also the word fajita shares an origin with fascism so I choose to believe Jackfilms is Big Antifa

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 20h

Big “I sleep in a big bed with my wife” energy here

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 20h

“People who make me laugh starter pack”
“RussInCheshire”

🤔

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Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

“It seems to me appropriate, almost inevitable, that when that great Imagination which in the beginning, for Its own delight and for the delight of men and angels and (in their proper mode) of beasts, had invented and formed the whole world of Nature, submitted to express Itself in human speech,…

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Part Adrian Chiles, part 🤷‍♂️

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 1d

It was two OUP books.

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Chilled out

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2d

I am using this very cute post as an opportunity to tell you all that we took the decision to never post J’s face on social media and you are missing out on some of the cutest baby photos that have ever existed

The restraint I am showing on an hourly basis is unreal

David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 2d

Scene from #wartornPortland yesterday. As you can see, things have gotten so dire that even our babies are being trained in amphibious operations.

Picture of my baby and his mom at the pool for swim lessons

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2d

This thread is making me nervous

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2d

Are we going to get another foreseeable govt u-turn?

Kiran Stacey @kiranstacey.bsky.social · 2d

EXC: Bridget Phillipson tells the Guardian's Politics Weekly podcast that the govt should ditch the two-child benefit cap in full, not only in part.

Read here: theguardian.com/politics/202...

And listen here: www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...

Labour’s Bridget Phillipson on Gaza, child poverty and the deputy leadership race – podcast

Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey speak to the education secretary and Labour deputy leadership candidate Bridget Phillipson about the plan for a ceasefire in Gaza, as well as why she is pushing the prime...

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 2d

From @gelliottmorris.com, formerly of 538

FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news · 2d

new polls website just dropped fiftyplusone.news

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2d

“Nobody ever changed things on the basis of consensus. Or wanting to be liked. Or not taking risks. Or keeping your head down. It's a lesson for me and it's a lesson for my party too.”

Pump it into my veins

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2d

> Senator Gigantès

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2d

Obviously functionally useless for predicting the next election, but imagining the Conservative Party as the sixth largest party is good for the dopamine

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 2d

Seat Projection:

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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible

Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 2d

Nice to see some genuinely personal news on the TL

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