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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1h

Now that would be the ideal way to end the week.

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Teq @teq2.bsky.social · 1h

Worthy of a page in @privateeyenews.bsky.social, exposing some of this week's daft headlines, and the real world behind them.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 5h

A pub “gone woke”, activist judges, a “revenge” plot by Ursula von der Leyen and a Lithuanian Ballerina personally trying to bring down Western Civilisation - this week’s headlines truly outdid themselves.

All in Bearly Newsworthy, the round-up of what happened in the news this week (or didn't).

Bearly Newsworthy: The Things They Told You To Be Angry About This Week

This week's digest of the UK's most performative outrage - lovingly filtered so you don't have to doomscroll.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2h

felonious geriatric orange game show host squatting in the White House by telling the truth about him.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2h

Someone just sent me this - and it should be a lesson to everyone to never count your chickens before they’re hatched.

And on that note, I shall continue what is referred to as a “dedicated & unrelenting character assassination campaign” against the

If the Donald gets the Nobel Peace Prize today, I'd like to dedicate it to all the followers of @BearlyPolitics (who's no longer on X) for his & their dedicated & unrelenting character assassination campaign against the greatest POTUS in my living memory. Tough shit,

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2h

I am shocked that the President of the United States who has multiple felony convictions and is currently busy doing everything to undermine the judiciary and media in his own country while also threatening to invade Canada, Greenland and Panama did not win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Rigged!

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina
Machado wins Nobel
Peace Prize
CO

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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 3h

Hard to decide on the best bit of this round up. I feel it should be read out by Rachel Parris or Ellie Taylor. & I feel Pray the Gay Away is likely only a BBC pitch away (with a contemporary dance segment woven in). Thanks @bearlypolitics.co.uk x

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 5h

A pub “gone woke”, activist judges, a “revenge” plot by Ursula von der Leyen and a Lithuanian Ballerina personally trying to bring down Western Civilisation - this week’s headlines truly outdid themselves.

All in Bearly Newsworthy, the round-up of what happened in the news this week (or didn't).

Bearly Newsworthy: The Things They Told You To Be Angry About This Week

This week's digest of the UK's most performative outrage - lovingly filtered so you don't have to doomscroll.

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk

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Dragonrider Sue #fbpe #ktto 🐠🐟 she/her 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @topsyscatmum.bsky.social · 4h

Silence from a woman is often a firm of protest. Protests come in many forms. Including the bikini (a garment devised in Brazil to protest that women are not allowed to be topless on the beaches in case they tempt the men)

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 5h

Oh, definitely do feed back!

Safe travels, hope all goes okay.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 5h

A pub “gone woke”, activist judges, a “revenge” plot by Ursula von der Leyen and a Lithuanian Ballerina personally trying to bring down Western Civilisation - this week’s headlines truly outdid themselves.

All in Bearly Newsworthy, the round-up of what happened in the news this week (or didn't).

Bearly Newsworthy: The Things They Told You To Be Angry About This Week

This week's digest of the UK's most performative outrage - lovingly filtered so you don't have to doomscroll.

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 1d

This ursid writes so much good stuff, it's hard to keep up with it.

#r4today

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be a carpenter. I’d love to be one.

But when politicians use that to sneer at everyone else, you start to see what they’re really afraid of: people who can think for themselves.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be a carpenter. I’d love to be one.

But when politicians use that to sneer at everyone else, you start to see what they’re really afraid of: people who can think for themselves.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

You are not wrong.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

Once again, the Telegraph seems shocked that the EU is acting like… the EU.

This is exactly what sovereignty looks like when you’re on the outside.

Ruthless EU has just taught Starmer a painful lesson
Steel tariff threats are a reminder of how Brussels really feels towards post-Brexit Britain

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 2d

Just to be clear, an English degree - learning to critically assess texts - is actually one of the most dangerous for people such as Badenoch.

An educated population, able to bring hundreds of years of context to statements in a dawning age of AI slop and attention-seeking dishonesty is also vital.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

When Kemi Badenoch called for a British version of ICE, is this the sort of thing she had in mind?

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

Just another day of Reform making things up as they go along.

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 2d

Pochinoccio strikes again.

Reform UK’s @SarahForRuncorn has removed a video about Runcorn Boxing Club after lying about her helping getting funding for them.

Statement by the club has shown her to once again have made up things about representing her local area.

www.facebook.com/share/p/1CXr...

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

He’s doing what with bears?

Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2d

By all means, indict Jack Smith on bullshit allegations and give him the trial that SCOTUS denied him.

Poke the bear, Donnie. See what happens.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

And would have avoided this mess.

HAR
Star
Starmix
"When Labour negotiates,
Britian loses"
Keni Budench

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

Ag, shame.

Tesla shares fall as new lower-cost cars disappoint

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

I’ve never saved an owl - though I absolutely would, given the opportunity.

What I have done is accidentally mouth a pigeon.

A rat of the sky, startled by a passing runner, flew into my face and its wing went right into my mouth.

Spent the next week convinced I was going to die of bird plague.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

If only someone had warned us that leaving the world’s biggest single market might make us vulnerable to, you know, markets.

But we wanted to “take back control.”

Congratulations - we’ve taken it all the way back to the 1970s.

British steel faces 'biggest crisis in its history as EU imposes 50%
tariffs
The European Union has said it has no choice but to protect its own industry from a glut of cheap Asian steel diverted to the continent by President Trump's tariffs

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

Over a week since I left X.

I did miss it a bit over the weekend, but, the positive impact has been immense.

Who knew walking away from a place where you got called a “filthy communist” or “sick homosexual” multiple times a day could be so good for your mental health.

an elderly woman is sitting in a chair holding a cup of coffee and asking who knew ?

Alt: an elderly woman is sitting in a chair holding a cup of coffee and asking who knew ?

media.tenor.com

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

Project 2025: The UK Edition (Part 2)

A Cambridge academic, a YouTube influencer, and Reform UK’s old HQ - the ingredients for our own Project 2025 are already mixed.

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

Project 2025: The Manual for Making America Obey Again (Part 1)

Heritage Foundation’s playbook for Trump 2.0 shows what happens when authoritarian ambition meets bureaucratic precision.

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk

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