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Rob @arrellemm.bsky.social · 1h

Hahahaha

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2h

Reporter: Why didn’t Trump win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Nobel committee chair: We only give the award to people of courage and integrity.

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paulsinha.bsky.social @paulsinha.bsky.social · 1h

This reminds me of that time Harold Shipman was snubbed for Physiology/Medicine.

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Rob @arrellemm.bsky.social · 1h

Pritzker is a fucking boss.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 6h

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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Rob @arrellemm.bsky.social · 5h

George III’s very own hunters of ghosts and ghouls. #TheSilverBayonet

A collection of red coated British Napoleonic soldiers in front of a barn behind a stone wall in some Mediterranean setting.

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Rob @arrellemm.bsky.social · 1d

Why would you let someone so obviously insane control your country?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

“We’re in the fight of our lives, and the future of our democracy is on the line. Politics has become more fractured and divided. We’re losing support to both sides. Trying to out-Reform Reform doesn’t work”
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Lucy Powell tells Labour it can’t sugarcoat how badly things are going

Frontrunner for deputy leadership addresses rally as opponent Bridget Phillipson pledges ‘second Labour term our children deserve’

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Rob @arrellemm.bsky.social · 1d

The Genestealer Patriach has strong “me sitting down to watch the telly” vibes.

Jordan Sorcery @jordansorcery.bsky.social · 1d

White Dwarf 126, a classic that featured Space Marine, Space Hulk, & Marieburg for WFRP

The cover is by artist Colin Sullivan and was used, along with some more of his art, in the GW release of RuneQuest. Sullivan's work also graced the covers of the Way of the Tiger gamebooks

#WarhammerCommunity

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Rob @arrellemm.bsky.social · 2d

😂

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 8d

Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.

Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

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Headphone Jack @bazookajoe204.bsky.social · 3d

funniest thing about this crew is that they claim membership in an elite group of sage truthtellers with superior bullshit detectors who are now pretending to be shocked that history's most infamous liar tricked them into campaigning for him

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 3d

“I voted for none of this."

Prominent influencers, including Theo Von, Joe Rogan, and Andrew Schulz, are starting to distance themselves from the president they helped propel to the White House.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Rob @arrellemm.bsky.social · 3d

m.youtube.com/watch?v=FNXE...

Blitzen Trapper - Joanna (Official)

YouTube video by Blitzen Trapper

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 4d

CBI welcomes Tory shadow chancellor's calls for fiscal prudence but adds: “Business will however be concerned by reactionary proposals to scrap key pieces of legislation, like the Climate Change Act, that have done much to boost confidence and underpin investment in high growth sectors."

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Rob @arrellemm.bsky.social · 4d

She will undoubtedly smear, be ready for the boob thing being a big topic.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

A BBC spokesperson now says they will offer to interview Zack Polanski on the Laura Kuenssberg show "in the coming weeks" after cancelling their planned interview with him during the Green Party conference.

Requests for an interview following his election as Green leader were also denied

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

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Rob @arrellemm.bsky.social · 4d

Agreed. It is very Abba! There are probably two tracks that I think are generally weak and many where the lyrics are questionable. Opalite is the highlight for me though.

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Rob @arrellemm.bsky.social · 4d

Although to be fair, The Two Bollocks or Fellowship Of The Bollocks are also great so one is spoiled for choice with Tolkien.

Rob @arrellemm.bsky.social · 4d

Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The Bollocks

👻🎃🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Just Ni-Ghoul 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎃👻 @nothinghuman.bsky.social · 4d

Some Sunday evening fun.

I’ll go first;

Ferris Bueller’s Bollocks Off.

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Jansen Mann @hellojansen.com · 4d

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 5d

I suppose I’m too old and cynical to expect ‘one nation Tories’ to stand up and be counted yet?

Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 5d

"I see gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets rounding up anyone the wrong colour, and I think: *this* is what Britain needs."

Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 5d

Batshit.

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Rob @arrellemm.bsky.social · 4d

“In the future when they don’t have Trump to fight for them…” interesting.

Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 4d

Why the Democrats were right to force the Republicans hand on the gov't shutdown. Trump is freaking out because the GOP will be blamed for bankrupting many Americans over healthcare. The Democrats should force a full and humiliating climb down on Trump and the GOP.

Rob @arrellemm.bsky.social · 4d

Simply but beautifully put truths. I’m sorry I didn’t know more about her while she was here. What a legend. RIP.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 5d

They thought it would hurt everyone except for them. They knew they were voting for people to be hurt, they were excited to watch the suffering. They just didn't think they'd have to experience it too. Which is incredibly delulu, but here we go again with the shock that they also need safety nets

The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 5d

Trump voters now hate the MAGA policies they voted for: analysis

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Trump voters now hate the MAGA policies they voted for: analysis

Now eight and one-half months into his second presidency, Donald Trump is being inundated with polls that show him with weak approval ratings — including 38 percent (Leger), 40 percent (YouGov and Pew...

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 5d

It’s easy to say that this is the last desperate hurrah of a dying party, but can we be clear: Trump’s ICE agents are literally kidnapping people, detaining them without due process in concentration camps (yes, this is the right term) and 1000s have disappeared. These are fascist practices.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice

Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration The Conservatives will pledge to create a new immigration taskforce modelled on Donald Trump’s controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, the Guardian understands. The party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, is expected to announce the policy on Sunday as it heads into its annual conference following a year of historic low poll ratings. The proposed “removals force” will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in a bid to tackle illegal immigration. Continue reading...

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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 6d

Scrabble

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