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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 1h

Friends, narrative is important (otherwise, propaganda wouldn't throw billions at it).

Please, always frame Georgia as a Russian takeover and an important front-line of our common European fight for freedom and peace.

Also, call the Georgian Dream a regime, not a government.

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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 1h

At least Yeltsin was shitfaced.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 16h

Trump: You build what's called a reverse bathtub. And it's not that uncommon, but it is actually a reverse—you, you seal it. The problem is, nature always wins. I know a lot about reverse bathtubs. I've done it, and it's something you only do in emergency

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1h

I was married but I’m not married any more. Women don’t like the vehicle.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many super-rich men trying so hard to blatantly buy a mayoral election in a city before.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 4h

E-bikes don’t have this problem.

Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 8h

Real-world data from 800k cars on the road - rather than data from distorting lab tests - show plug-in hybrids, with a large battery as well as a combustion engine, are 4.9x worse than official data say, making them essentially as bad as ordinary petrol cars

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars, report finds

Analysis of 800,000 European cars found real-world pollution from plug-in hybrids nearly five times greater than lab tests

www.theguardian.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: the Georgian Dream rushed through adoption of further dictatorial laws, now only a signature away from the puppet de facto President.

BAN on protests: first-time closing the road is administrative detention for 15-20 days; second-time - up to 1 year criminal imprisonment; 1/2

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, but remember that time Barack Obama wore a tan suit?

www.ft.com/content/2ea2...

How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto

The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies

www.ft.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphy201.bsky.social · 1h

Lol “…. and the BEST gift would be to beat Andrew Cuomo a second time” 😂❤️

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3h

An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Bob From Accounts 🚲 @bobfromaccounts.bsky.social · 6h

Here are 10 cyclists taking up the space of approximately one car.

In London, 60% of car trips are single-occupant

Cycle lanes and cyclists don't cause congestion; cars do

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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 12h

Wow. All the jazz musicians in Portland & Vancouver need to get together and play across the street in protest! Play loud!

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphy201.bsky.social · 2h

I’m surprised to hear their position on Fracking. Clearly they’re happy to lie on the local nimby level 🤷‍♂️ “Get ready for fracking, Reform UK tells energy firms” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Get ready for fracking, Reform UK tells energy firms

The party is serious about going after shale gas - but critics argue it's too difficult and costly.

www.bbc.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphy201.bsky.social · 4h

It was “a” (unspecified) meeting in some village. They publish the minutes, but they go to a different school (or something).

If the minutes do come out I expect that Cllr Matthews’ account will have been an absurd an grotesque twisting of the truth.

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evil matt @windows98support.bsky.social · 5h

Can’t believe Sadiq Khan has ruined the thriving London murder industry :((( hashtag sidiqout

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphy201.bsky.social · 4h

@reformexposed.bsky.social on BBC2’s #politicslive ReformUK’s Cllr Sean Matthews of LincolnshireCC asserts (in response to an approval of a solar farm) “at a parish council meeting yesterday […] they said they’d rather have a nuclear plant in their village than an anerobic digester”
Minutes, anyone?

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 9h

The UK did 'we've had enough of experts' a decade ago

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 17h

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 7h

‘Lack of investment in grid capacity putting strain on Netherlands electricity grid, but don’t worry because the Dutch are investing at least €200 billion in resolving the issue.’

There @BBCNews; fixed your misleading headline for you…👍

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Netherlands' renewables drive putting pressure on its power grid - BBC News

Homes asked to use less electricity as network is overloaded by the rush to wind and solar power.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 7h

Cardiff To Be First UK City To Introduce Extra Parking Fees For SUVs www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

Cardiff To Be First UK City To Introduce Extra Parking Fees For SUVs

Cardiff tackles 'carspreading'.

www.forbes.com

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 7h

US political commentator Adam Mockler, "Whether its foreign bots trying to get people outraged.. Or Elon Musk's feed could radicalise young people"

We have the same problem in the UK, but not just bots online, or fake news online, but populist commentators appearing on TV making up fake news

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 22h

When your family thought you had been killed, and then see you return. Via Muhammad Smiry. #Gaza

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 22h

I find it incredible Raye’s record company tried to screw her over, this woman is a bonafide star who coukd have made them a fortune youtu.be/CpKcoHrWTF8?...

RAYE - Where The Hell Is My Husband? (Glastonbury 2025)

YouTube video by BBC Music

youtu.be

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 1d

The GOP knows from unhinged rallies. As an aside, is Scott Bessent the thirstiest person in DC?

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Bob Downie @geomannie.bsky.social · 1d

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Raise fuel duty in line with inflation to raise income for critical services

In 2000 fuel duty on petrol was 49p/litre. Since then, it has not risen with inflation, and currently sits at 53p/litre. We believe raising the duty to 93p/litre would raise significant revenue for th...

petition.parliament.uk

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking of all the people who insisted that this admin was serious about "ending antisemitism on college campuses."

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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