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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 POLL | 80% of Green members support trans people being allowed to change their legal gender.

✅ Support – 80%
❌ Oppose – 8%

86% of Zack Polanski voters support trans rights.

Via @YouGov, 2 October

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 4h

Idiocracy

Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social · 7h

So important. They fired people working on Ebola in Africa tonight. The people who track and investigate and report on disease outbreaks. The CDC prior to the first Trump administration was the global gold standard... but the ideologues can't stand it.

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

Reminder: Trump vaccinates himself 👇🏽

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Today in Portland, large groups peacefully gathered to unite against hate and oppression. 1/2

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pay your respects to the vultures @cathoderituals.bsky.social · 16h

That no one, not journalists, not politicians, are telling him or Kristi Noem to their faces that they're outright lying, and over 600k people in Portland can confirm that, is pretty pathetic. Not one single truthful word here.

A simple, "President Trump, that's not true." is the bare minimum ask.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Alison @alicemerray.bsky.social · 18h

Not entirely sure why I like Alien. Yes, it's sci-fi, which is a genre I enjoy, but it's a bit icky which I'm not keen on. Maybe it's fondness bc it's one of the few movies I actually watched in a cinema, way back.
Anyway, it's on tonight & it's Friday, so I'm going to stay up & watch. 🫣

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 19h

As Wes Streeting comments to condemn some vandalism by trans activists has he said anything about this?

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 19h

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable, coroner rules https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/nhs-wait-times-trans-girl-suicide/?utm_content=1760127601&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 23h

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 22h

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 1d

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

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Alison @alicemerray.bsky.social · 21h

Good. This should be slow and well thought through.
However, I thought they were promising it for 'the end of this Parliament'?
Which honestly is one reason for my concerns, the idea that it's going to be pushed through fast.

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Alison @alicemerray.bsky.social · 22h

Larry Ellison's firm.
He gave the Tony Blair Institute a ton of money, has been salivating over the possibility of getting NHS data & thinks it will be just dandy if 'behaviour is good because people are constantly surveilled'.

Yippee.

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Alison @alicemerray.bsky.social · 22h

There's very much 'for now' floating about there anyway. Why would any govt set this up and *not* eventually try to expand it to everyone and for more uses? Think it's hopelessly naive to think otherwise.

Alison @alicemerray.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating.

Panic World | The wild world wide web of witches

on Podbean

www.podbean.com/ea/dir-ttu8g...

The wild world wide web of witches

Witches, curses, magic, and the internet overlap much more than you’d think — and not just because of the Etsy witch that cursed Charlie Kirk. The very online Peter Berkman and Luke Silas of the band ...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick

We deserve a better class of villain. Or at least a more memorable one.

iandunt.substack.com

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Alison @alicemerray.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. Even if it's 'normal' thieves, it's not great.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

He had been begging for it like a dog meidasnews.com/news/trump-f...

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Oliver Markus Malloy @malloy.rocks · 1d

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 1d

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Alison @alicemerray.bsky.social · 1d

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Alison @alicemerray.bsky.social · 1d

If you're a parent trying to keep smartphones away from your young teens, there's great news. (Not)
Yvette Cooper says 13-year-olds will have to have digital ID.
Also, will schools still be confiscating phones at the start of each day? Phones with IDs on them. 🤔

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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure the irony of a man with a French Huguenot surname whining about our multicultural society won't be lost on most people.

And it didn't stop the hypocritical racist turning up to present a gong at the 2018 British Curry Awards, either.

Changed your mind, Nigel?

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Farage says multiculturalism was a mistake. He's wrong. - The Mancunion

Everything from our language, food, workforce, and values, has been defined and strengthened by cultural diversity

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 1d

What people do not understand is that there are federal prosecutorial guidelines. Even if Leticia James violated the law (and we don't know she did), federal prosecutors would not bring a case for $18,000. I indicted cases for DOJ. This is a vindictive prosecution.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Letitia James, the New York attorney general who defeated Trump in court, indicted by Justice Department | CNN Politics

New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted Thursday in Alexandria, Virginia, as President Donald Trump’s Justice Department continues to pursue charges against his political opponents, two s...

www.cnn.com

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 1d

🧵This post could also be a basis for dismissing the case against Letitia James and any effor against Adam Schiff.

The post "order[ed] Attorney General Pam Bondi to make haste in prosecuting Comey and other MAGA enemies, i.e., Senator Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James."

Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 1d

What a dumb ass: Trump meant to DM Pam Bondi when he mistakenly ordered her to prosecute his enemies via public tweet

China, Iran, Russia: If you're listening, Trump is using Twitter DMs to communicate with Cabinet officials

newrepublic.com/post/201529/...

Trump Accidentally Posted Message That Could Destroy Entire Comey Case

It turns out Donald Trump didn’t mean to make that Truth Social post public after all.

newrepublic.com

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furbabies.bsky.social @furbabies.bsky.social · 1d

Next week, 7 MILLION pregnant women and new mothers will lose food assistance, and formula vouchers. Children will die. Mike Johnson still refuses to reopen the House. So much for "Pro Life".

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