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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 1h

If there was a Nobel Prize for state embezzlement President Trump would be a serious contender.

He'd have to overcome the all-time champ and current world record holder for history's biggest thief, "who's the daddy" Vladdy Putin.

But I'd say DJT is making excellent progress.

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 1h

It's really weird that there's a top ex-WH lawyer called Ty Cobb.

It would be like one of our high profile KC's going by the name of Bobby Charlton.

(Except Charlton was nice. Ty Cobb the baseball CF was a dangerous psychotic and ferocious racist.)

Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 8h

This lie loses crucial lie points for Trump very obviously having not the first clue about who did actually win the Nobel Peace Prize.

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 11h

Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most.

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 8h

I confess: I never once imagined that the simple act of politicians being corrupt in broad daylight would actually make that corruption harder to stop.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

Imagine that

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 9h

We now cross to Moscow for a statement from Vladimir Putin, Chairman of the Coalition of United National Tyrant Scumbags (C.U.N.T.S) on the awarding of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to someone who *hasn't* joined in with one war, invented another, militarised his own big cities and abolished USAID.

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 9h

1. Stay in bed.

2. Drink the coffee.

3. Pee in now empty coffee cup.

You're welcome.

Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 11h

Fit one of these with a short range/low power EMP and you've got yourself a reasonably safe way to end a car chase, no?

(Admittedly, that would also fry the drone)

This DART Drone Can Safely Land on Cars at High Speeds - Core77

It's the opposite of the drones being used in modern warfare

www.core77.com

Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 12h

Also (and this isn't a rhetorical question) if persuading someone to undertake conversion therapy is protected as free speech then why isn't the same rationale applied to clinicians treating trans folk?

(This goes the other way of course - that's the nature of precedent.)

If ‘Conversion Therapy’ Is Free Speech, What Isn’t?

Based on oral arguments this week, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority seems likely to hold that the First Amendment protects so-called conversion therapy for gay and transgender minors when it ...

www.bloomberg.com

Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 13h

People talk of money "down the back of the sofa" to describe a small amount - in volume if not necessarily in value.

They should visit the back of my sofa. I swear there are as-yet-undiscovered additions to the periodic table down here.

Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 13h

With huge respect to one of the last media outlets still doing expensive investigative journalism as well as to the value of this story, “Boris Johnson breached rules” isn’t a headline.

It’s steady state.

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 13h

A stat that invites you to believe that we’re not doomed.

(We are doomed, btw)

Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 15h

"From a peak share of 51 per cent of the UK’s new car market in 2012, diesel vehicles now account for only 3 per cent last year"

Astonishing progress

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How many lives is this saving?

UK dieselgate motorists prepare to go to court against carmakers

Hundreds of thousands of claimants aim to prove that VW was not the only manufacturer cheating in emissions tests

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 15h

Ok.

But I still think America is a gerontocracy.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15h

Think America is a gerontocracy?

Cameroon's President Paul Biya is running for another term at the age of 92.

He's been either PM or President for 50 years - starting his first term when Harold Wilson was UK Prime Minister.

Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 15h

They’re calling an explicitly peaceful defence of the constitution “terrorist” less than a year after cheering on the blanket release of 1500+ duly convicted felons who smashed their way into the Capitol, resulting in the deaths of five cops.

There are not “good people on both sides” of this one.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 20h

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 16h

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Henderson, Henry Kissinger, Anwar Sadat, Mother Theresa, Aung San Suu Kyi and Barack Obama. These are some Nobel Laureates who either didn’t deserve their award or who turned out to be unworthy.

With a record as bad as this, they may as well give the next one to Trump tbh.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 18h

Mariners landing in Toronto like

Christopher and Paulie Walnuts from the Sopranos after wandering in the woods all night.

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 16h

I saw a clip of a 12 year-old Palestinian girl stepping through the rubble of what was her home. It was her grimaced attempt to put a brave face on it as she fought back tears that still haunts me.

Tens of thousand of Gazan kids have been killed but hundreds of thousands more have been traumatised.

Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 16h

I’m so dumb I must have stared at this for two minutes thinking “LA? That’s definitely a blue city.”

Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 16h

maga are pedo projecting terrorists, representing decent red folk-whom I will transition to blue side in ‘28, after exposing neoliberals in ‘27, midterms wins ‘26, mayoral wins ‘25🇺🇸

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 16h

Kristi Noem was on this raid, wasn’t she?

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

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 19h

Mariners win

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 16h

You laugh because it IS both comical and absurd.

But the administration doesn’t need to convince people like you. It only needs to do just enough to keep feeding the constructed reality Trumpiverse.

If people want to believe a thing, they will very often find a way to do so.

Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Faint, irregular pulse detected in GOP.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

It’s about time some red state governors said this!

Tweet from Home of the Brave: “Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt criticizes Trump for sending the Texas National Guard to Illinois,” followed by Stitt’s quote about states’ rights and federalism. Below is a photo of Stitt sitting in his office with an American flag behind him.

Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 1d

Surely if you're Donald Trump and you somehow one day win the Nobel Peace Prize, you will forever know it's not yours on merit?

That's the bit I don't get.

Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 1d

"There's a real sense that Labour's dominance is about to come to an end" - Laura McAllister 2025.

But also: Laura McAllister 2021, 2016, 2011, 2007, 2003.

Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 1d

They say the only certain things in life are death and taxes but I reckon Professor Laura McAllister popping up to predict an imminent Welsh Labour #senedd collapse must be a close third.

She's been at it since 1999 so sheer probability alone suggests that eventually she'll get it right.

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 1d

Dear pundit,

If you want to big up Reform UK then big up Reform UK.

If you want to comment on the rise of Reform UK, then comment on the rise of Reform UK.

But, please, don't big up Reform UK one day and then comment on the rise of Reform UK the next day - as though the two have no relationship.