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Tim Lowe

@timlow3.bsky.social

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Canadian living in Amsterdam for over 20 years. 🇨🇦❤️🇪🇺 Exile from the other place, thank goodness. #ElbowsUp #FuktRump

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Tim Lowe @timlow3.bsky.social · 1d

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Why do #MAGA freak out when they are publicly accused of being fascists and Nazis?
Why do reform freak out when they are publicly accused of being racist in their actions and speech?
Why do both freak out when they are publicly revealed to be under russian influence?

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23m

Let’s be honest: there have already been several bizarre moments from Trump this morning alone that would justify invoking the 25th Amendment.

He is a seriously unwell individual.

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Tim Lowe @timlow3.bsky.social · 2m

#America has so many medvedev’s already. Time flies.

#KrasnovAtWork

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18m

TEXAS senate candidate Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social (grandson of a Baptist preacher): “I put my hand on a Bible and swore an oath to the constitution, not the other way around.”

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 54m

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 5h

here's today's post: "Republicans are losing, and they know it" — they’ve MAGA’d themselves into a corner.
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Republicans are losing, and they know it

they’ve MAGA’d themselves into a corner

bit.ly

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 1h

The Mariupol massacre is a wound in my heart that will never heal.

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 1h

Trump has not yet decided on Tomahawks. We are working on it and I am waiting for his decision, Zelenskyy said.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1h

Absolutely crucial point here by Greg Sargent. When we don’t call propaganda what it is, we co-produce it, and hasten disaster.
newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...

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.

newrepublic.substack.com

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 1h

Six of the best: Yorkshire’s cultural highlights

In proud celebration of Yorkshire’s cultural heritage, we reach the grand finale of our current series

By Ian Richardson

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Six of the best: Yorkshire’s cultural highlights

In proud celebration of Yorkshire’s cultural heritage, we reach the grand finale of our current series

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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Katharine Kite @katharinekite.bsky.social · 11h

Wonderful selection of the glories of Yorkshire! So good the see Hull right up there with its literary strengths & the most glorious of estuarine habitats

Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 12h

✍️ Six of the best: Yorkshire’s cultural highlights

In proud celebration of Yorkshire’s cultural heritage, we reach the grand finale of our current series

By Ian Richardson

@ricojosh.bsky.social

Six of the best: Yorkshire’s cultural highlights

In proud celebration of Yorkshire’s cultural heritage, we reach the grand finale of our current series

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 1h

New video out👇
youtu.be/vPQZ9T1eH-Y?...

Why Elon Musk Is Once Again Trying to Kill Wikipedia

YouTube video by Joni Askola

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Tim Lowe @timlow3.bsky.social · 56m

Wow!
A possibility of a non-LDP led #Japan for the first time in a very long time.

www.nippon.com/en/japan-dat...

An End to 26 Years of LDP-Kōmeitō Cooperation

On October 10, 2025, junior coalition partner Kōmeitō announced it would leave the minority government and put an end to its cooperation with the Liberal Democratic Party. New LDP President Takaichi S...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1h

When I say that the Atlantic is the official magazine of the donor class this is what I’m talking about.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Andrius Kubilius @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu · 1h

The European Defence Community - idea promoted by Jean Monnet and 🇪🇺founding fathers - failed in 1950s. We need to draw inspiration from that attempt to create a new European security architecture, involving also Ukraine 🇺🇦
Full remarks 🔗 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Welcome message by Commissioner Kubilius for the International colloquium ”European Security in Global Disorder” (recorded)

Good evening,\nI very much regret I cannot be there with you.\nI see Jean Monnet as a great historic example. And you are discussing the most important issue of our time: our security.\nLet me start w...

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West England Bylines @westenglandbylines.co.uk · 4d

Complain to the BBC but don't expect to get more than a stock response | Peter Burke

The BBC and the oxygen of publicity

Complain to the BBC but don't expect to get more than a stock response

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

True bravery!

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 1h

Week-in, week-out, up and down the country, Liberal Democrats are winning in real elections.

We've gained seats from Reform UK, the Conservatives, Labour and the SNP. And we've won in Keir Starmer's and Mel Stride's backyards.

Liberal Democrats are the only party taking the fight to Reform UK.

Lib Dems vs Reform - Liberal Democrats are the only party taking on Reform UK and winning.

Bar chart showing the number of seats won by each party in local council by-elections since the English local elections on 1 May 2025, as of 10 October 2025. Source: Election Maps UK.

Reform: 47
Lib Dems: 32
Cons: 13
Lab: 12
Grn: 11

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 1h

Join the Liberal Democrats' winning team today - libdems.org.uk/join

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

🚨 HEY NYC — This clip alone is completely disqualifying. Absolutely humiliating stuff from @andrewcuomo, refusing to condemn Trump for going after NY AG Tish James.

A vote for him is very clearly a vote for Trump.

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Jessica Berlin @berlinbridge.bsky.social · 1d

I remember sitting in a room listening to Scholz advisor Wolfgang Schmidt blather that Germany couldn’t possibly send Ukraine tanks because there’d be German iron crosses painted on them and then Russia would say Germany was at war with Russia.
We’ve come a long way.
We can and must go further. 🇺🇦🇩🇪💪

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 2h

ICE detain both parents of U.S. Marine—already deported father.

Parents arrested on visit to pregnant daughter at Camp Pendleton—who is also married to Marine.

Mom & dad both are green card applicants—sponsored by Marine Corps son.

Joined Marines out of high school to "serve this country."

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Jody 💍💉🧢 @jodydawkins.bsky.social · 4h

"I'd rather live in peace than rest in peace."

Damn.

FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 5h

I post this article too much,,,
But we have mass shooting too much

www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...

Why Flavor Flav says the US must ban firearms now | Opinion

The lack of U.S. gun laws has created a violence epidemic unlike anywhere else on Earth. This is domestic errorism

www.newsweek.com

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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 7h

Federalism and powers reserved by the Constitution for states have always been a core principle of American governance; @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social joins me at 11a ET with what happens when Trump uses the levers of the federal government to impose his will on the states. #Velshi

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Tim Lowe @timlow3.bsky.social · 3h

Accurate explanation for conservative yearning for the land of their childhood.