Andy Birss
@andybirss.bsky.social
Retired lab tech and four times Covid champion-Don't get the bug-Get vaccinated!
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I guess he wants to be called the "Secretary of War" because he commits *War Crimes* and he thinks he'll get away with it because it's in his job title?
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Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I guess he wants to be called the "Secretary of War" because he commits *War Crimes* and he thinks he'll get away with it because it's in his job title?
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
If you want to know about US politics then don't bother with #Americast as it rarely gets to the heart of any issue. Try @bobcesca.bsky.social and my friends at the ProLeft Podcast instead www.bobcesca.com/the-bob-cesc...
The Bob Cesca Interview: Driftglass and Blue Gal 11/26/25
Driftglass and Blue Gal Day — I don’t mind saying, this is our best talk yet. You should be listening to Driftglass and Blue Gal on their show The Professional Left Podcast everywhere y…
www.bobcesca.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
If you want to know about US politics then don't bother with #Americast as it rarely gets to the heart of any issue. Try @bobcesca.bsky.social and my friends at the ProLeft Podcast instead www.bobcesca.com/the-bob-cesc...
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This fella is a good example of Annie's Law.
Named after my mother, it states the number of complaints a person makes is in inverse proportion to the number of things they have to complain about.
Named after my mother, it states the number of complaints a person makes is in inverse proportion to the number of things they have to complain about.
November 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This fella is a good example of Annie's Law.
Named after my mother, it states the number of complaints a person makes is in inverse proportion to the number of things they have to complain about.
Named after my mother, it states the number of complaints a person makes is in inverse proportion to the number of things they have to complain about.
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There is a lot of appalling shit in the world right now. But this really made my blood boil
Money buys *everything*, even things that were previously beyond its reaches
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Money buys *everything*, even things that were previously beyond its reaches
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Cristiano Ronaldo clear to start World Cup after Fifa suspends two games of his ban
Cristiano Ronaldo will serve the final two games of his ban only if he is guilty of a similar infringement in the next year
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November 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Trump makes the outrageous claim that “most” immigrants, which include over 25 million U.S. citizens, “are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”
November 28, 2025 at 6:42 AM
I think it is 'excellent' that #r4today devotes its precious time to the 40th anniversary of Blind Date rather than in-depth coverage of Reform's links to Russian money or the Hong Kong fire toll.
November 28, 2025 at 6:48 AM
I think it is 'excellent' that #r4today devotes its precious time to the 40th anniversary of Blind Date rather than in-depth coverage of Reform's links to Russian money or the Hong Kong fire toll.
Nothing on the headlines about the Hong Kong fire but there is an item about it being 40 years since 'Blind Date' first started on UK TV! Dear god #r4today continues to get even worse.
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Nothing on the headlines about the Hong Kong fire but there is an item about it being 40 years since 'Blind Date' first started on UK TV! Dear god #r4today continues to get even worse.
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Pure, uncut Nazism.
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Pure, uncut Nazism.
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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A badge of honour for @willhaycardiff.bsky.social
Leaked messages show that Reform UK’s director of comms branded a prominent Welsh journalist a c**t for asking questions about why the party wouldn’t appoint a Welsh leader ahead of the Senedd election
Reform UK head of comms branded prominent Welsh journalist a 'c***'
Warning: this news article contains highly offensive language. Emily Price Reform UK’s director of communications used a highly offensive expletive to describe one of Wales’ most prominent journalists...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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What is wrong with the Hong Kong authorities arresting people in connection with the deadly fire there? Don't they know that they should follow the lead of the UK and have a long public inquiry followed by years and years of vacillation and delay before anyone is possibly held to account. #Grenfell
November 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
What is wrong with the Hong Kong authorities arresting people in connection with the deadly fire there? Don't they know that they should follow the lead of the UK and have a long public inquiry followed by years and years of vacillation and delay before anyone is possibly held to account. #Grenfell
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Vance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.
November 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Vance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.
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BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture.
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit. Even though it is evidently true. 🤷♀️
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit. Even though it is evidently true. 🤷♀️
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith Lecture.
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit. Even though it is evidently true. 🤷♀️
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit. Even though it is evidently true. 🤷♀️
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
I'd like to inform you what I think about senior BBC staff censoring the speech by Rutger Bregman but in the spirit of the age I'm not allowed to tell you. #Zeitgeist
November 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I'd like to inform you what I think about senior BBC staff censoring the speech by Rutger Bregman but in the spirit of the age I'm not allowed to tell you. #Zeitgeist
A very interesting lecture on A.I. by Professor Matt Jones www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VUr...
Becoming AI – Your Journey to Assimilation? - Matt Jones
YouTube video by Gresham College
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November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A very interesting lecture on A.I. by Professor Matt Jones www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VUr...
Could Justin Webb let us know that if Trump's cutting of half a billion dollars from food bank funding was part of him 'making America normal again'? www.ms.now/the-last-wor... #Americast #r4today
Report shows Trump administration cut $500 million in funding for food banks
ProPublica Reporter Nicole Santa Cruz joins MS NOW's Jonathan Capehart to discuss a new report revealing the Trump administration cut $500 million in funding for programs that help food banks nationwi...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Could Justin Webb let us know that if Trump's cutting of half a billion dollars from food bank funding was part of him 'making America normal again'? www.ms.now/the-last-wor... #Americast #r4today
How would Emma Barnett and Justin Webb get by on their joint paltry £650,000+ salary from the BBC if they didn't have lucrative columns at The Times to supplement them? Think of the poverty they would have to suffer if the Murdoch clan didn't grease their palms! #r4today
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
How would Emma Barnett and Justin Webb get by on their joint paltry £650,000+ salary from the BBC if they didn't have lucrative columns at The Times to supplement them? Think of the poverty they would have to suffer if the Murdoch clan didn't grease their palms! #r4today
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It's amazing how Lineker (a sports presenter) was hounded out of the BBC for having thoughts, while a news presenter and commentator can publish unending pieces defending Trump, with no repercussions whatsoever. The double standard!
#r4today
#r4today
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
It's amazing how Lineker (a sports presenter) was hounded out of the BBC for having thoughts, while a news presenter and commentator can publish unending pieces defending Trump, with no repercussions whatsoever. The double standard!
#r4today
#r4today
Will nobody think of the the top 1% of earners in the UK? Those #r4today presenters like Justin Webb struggling to get by on the pittance of £365,000+ from the BBC and the Murdoch cash for writing columns for The Times. Think of their suffering and weep!
November 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Will nobody think of the the top 1% of earners in the UK? Those #r4today presenters like Justin Webb struggling to get by on the pittance of £365,000+ from the BBC and the Murdoch cash for writing columns for The Times. Think of their suffering and weep!
Presenters on #r4today are in the top 1% of earners in the UK based on their earnings from the BBC alone. However many of them top that up by writing columns for the right-wing owners and the right-wing editors of the overwhelmingly right-wing British press.
November 27, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Presenters on #r4today are in the top 1% of earners in the UK based on their earnings from the BBC alone. However many of them top that up by writing columns for the right-wing owners and the right-wing editors of the overwhelmingly right-wing British press.
I understand the reluctance of #r4today presenters to hold the overwhelmingly right-wing UK press to account as it would probably mean that the same presenters would lose their cushy 2nd jobs as columnists for the newpapers they review on the show www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Donald Trump didn’t start this quiet war on woke
Like his Republican Party takeover or social media use, the president’s attack on universities simply tapped into a growing mood
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November 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I understand the reluctance of #r4today presenters to hold the overwhelmingly right-wing UK press to account as it would probably mean that the same presenters would lose their cushy 2nd jobs as columnists for the newpapers they review on the show www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Mr Robinson earns well over £410,000 a year-Why not employ 2 people with scientific knowledge about the climate emergency on £200k each to replace him? The BBC could save money and have those in place better able to quiz guests on the issue of the age. #r4today
November 27, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Mr Robinson earns well over £410,000 a year-Why not employ 2 people with scientific knowledge about the climate emergency on £200k each to replace him? The BBC could save money and have those in place better able to quiz guests on the issue of the age. #r4today
The issue of the age is the climate emergency but the overwhelming majority of presenters on #r4today #wato #bbcpm obviously haven't a clue about science or the scientific method. There should be pressure on the BBC to replace some of these people with those who can question guests knowledgeably.
November 27, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I look out of my window at the blocked drains and grass growing through the paving stones-The visible effects of austerity. But #r4today presenters have normalised those things not immediately visible-The disappeared services, the chances lost, the children growing up in poverty and the food banks.
November 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I look out of my window at the blocked drains and grass growing through the paving stones-The visible effects of austerity. But #r4today presenters have normalised those things not immediately visible-The disappeared services, the chances lost, the children growing up in poverty and the food banks.
Hong Kong has launched an investigation into the fire there a day after it happened. Nearly 8.5 years after Grenfell the wheels of justice here roll on so slowly that they may as well not exist. The system is set up here to protect the powerful from responsibility for their actions. #r4today
November 27, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Hong Kong has launched an investigation into the fire there a day after it happened. Nearly 8.5 years after Grenfell the wheels of justice here roll on so slowly that they may as well not exist. The system is set up here to protect the powerful from responsibility for their actions. #r4today