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Radical centrist. Learning to sing. But not really wanting to. Beekeeper.

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Dom @domruston.bsky.social · Sep 3

This one thing perfectly highlights the failure of the U.K. political process:

The referendum result was 52/48.

That is *not* a decision or a mandate. It’s basically a *we don’t know *.

Would you bet your family’s future on a 52/48 opinion? Of course not.

But Theresa May did. 🤬🤬🤬🤬

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 8h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Yamuna Krishnan @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social · 7h

I became a subscribing member because of Ben Meislas’s genuineness and commitment to relay current events without whitewashing.

Steve Rose @steverose7.bsky.social · 10h

I spoke to the hardest working man in podcasting: BEN MEISELAS of Meidas Touch, who's taking the fight to Maga (and beating Joe Rogan in the ratings), and doesn't mince his words about the state of US media, and its failure to meet the current moment.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle

His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan’s. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?

www.theguardian.com

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OSINTRadar @osintr.bsky.social · 10h

SPIEGEL:

📍 “Before the attack on Ukraine in 2014, on the decision of Angela Merkel, the German armed forces were training the Russian army in modern combat tactics.”

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11h

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OSINTRadar @osintr.bsky.social · 10h

🇺🇦🇺🇸Zelensky and Trump have confirmed that the US will transfer Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukrain

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11h

The joke is on Trump. The ethnic cleansing is simply being moved over to the West Bank.

Who in their right mind would believe the Israelis— under Benjamin Netanyahu—about *anything*?

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Mark C. Walton @chileboy.bsky.social · 14h

In which the always informative and accessible @asharangappa.bsky.social exposes the baselessness of the charges against NY AG Letitia James.

And, if you haven't already subscribed to her Freedom Academy newsletter, you should do so here: open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

Friday Round Up! 10/10/25

Making sense of a(nother) flimsy indictment.

open.substack.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21h

Farage/Reform and the Trump playbook.

Mass sackings of unsympathetic civil servants
Promise to reduce workers's rights
Inflict spending cuts - hit the poor, old, sick, disabled

Now claims teachers are “poisoning our kids” - just as Nazis did to control education.

Power grab by dividing society.

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 11h

wow is this grotesque

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12h

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Ballard Partners is helping companies cash in on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Clients of a Trump-connected lobbying firm keep landing no-bid ICE contracts

Ballard Partners is helping companies cash in on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

www.motherjones.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Today, as the government shutdown persists, the Trump administration has started to fulfill its long-held promise to lay off federal workers.

The man behind all this chaos? Russ Vought, the “grim reaper” of government cuts, who @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social profiled back in 2024:

The bureaucrat who could make Trump's authoritarian dreams real

Russ Vought has a plan to take presidential power to new heights.

www.motherjones.com

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 12h

"We were strip-searched, zip-tied, blindfolded and disappeared into the Negev Desert."

5 Days in Israel’s Desert Prison: Jewish Flotilla Activist David Adler on Harrowing Detention Ordeal

Israeli forces have abducted over 500 peace activists over the past week who were sailing to Gaza in an effort to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged territory. Organizers of the Global Sumud Flo...

www.democracynow.org

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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OSINTRadar @osintr.bsky.social · 18h

🇪🇪🇷🇺 Estonia has closed the border crossing with Russia in Saatse.

The reason is the increased activity of Russian troops in the area.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22h

Useful explainer from David Conn with statements from Barrowman's comms people trying to say nothing. There will be a significant public appetite to see the pursuit of criminal charges, all the more so if the attempt to get the cash back is successfully impeded
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

www.theguardian.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18h

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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A Tomlinson @tenlargedown.bsky.social · 18h

This is what #Starmer and #Labour should be focusing on. This plays to Starmer’s strengths like #partygate.

#Farage and his link to #Russia

#NAFO

Russian Bribery Case Spooks Farage

YouTube video by A Different Bias

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 20h

Pretty predictable

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 21h

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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Dom @domruston.bsky.social · 20h

He is totally out of his depth.

And as a result, so is the USA. The damage is incalculable.

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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 2d

A reminder that 75% of people support a wealth tax.

To the ‘patriots’ saying they’ll leave the country in a strop:

Paying a wealth tax on assets above £10m is not a hardship. You'll still have a fancy house, fancy car and a fancy life.

Patriotic Millionaires know. @patmillsuk.bsky.social

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LauraD-in-Indy @laurad-in-indy.bsky.social · 1d

And all it took was for Qatar to give him a $400 million, tricked out plane he gets to keep; bail out the Kushner's failing 666 Fifth Avenue flop to the tune of billions of dollars; and fund a different Kushner investment venture, Affinity Partners for another $200 million.
SO MUCH CORRUPT SLIME!

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21h

Prosecutors Sucking Lemons in Their Vindictive Prosecution of Jim Comey

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/11/p...

Prosecutors Sucking Lemons in Their Vindictive Prosecution of Jim Comey - emptywheel

Unless prosecutors find a way to make the Jim Comey prosecution go away, in nine days, we'll get details (in the Vindictive and Selective Prosecution motion) of the efforts Trump has already made to p...

www.emptywheel.net

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 21h

1/ The question of why Russians aren't flocking to fight in the war in Ukraine is continuing to exercise Russian warbloggers. 'LIVE Z' highlights the devastating effect that indefinite military service is having on family life, which he says is a "defining issue". ⬇️

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