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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 9h

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Ourkid @eekyrich.bsky.social · 7h

If trump ‘goes’ Vance doesn’t have same sway over the media

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 7h

George Stephanopoulos cuts off JD Vance mid sentence 🤣🔥….this is the way!

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social · 7h

Desecrating a cemetery.

A new nadir.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 8h

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration

TikTok video by WGN9Chicago

www.tiktok.com

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50 Jenna Ipcar Fans Can’t Be Wrong! @ipcar.bsky.social · Nov 26

At the bank I was told "pick your four digit pincode but it can't be a year." "Aren't they all years?" I asked. We sat in silence for a bit.

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Dotski_w @dotskyy.bsky.social · 7h

Also rot set in with mobile Internet. Before, was only saddos like me spent more than an hour a day online, but now normies have it on tap 24/7, every toilet break, during work, when TV isnt holding their attention.
We didnt evolve to deal with this and its killing us.

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William Lane @williamjtlane.bsky.social · 7h

Internationalism is so important because it touches on the means of economic prosperity (free trade), the international treaties that uphold global peace (what's left of it), and the cultural ties that creat bonds across nations and communities.

It's the glue that holds the world together.

Nathan🌹 @nathanwylabour.bsky.social · 1d

I think Brown is very shrewd to identify internationalism as the key battleground.

Far too many on the centre-left and left are still indulging their economic nationalist fantasies – despite Biden and Starmer as clear examples of the shortcomings of such an approach.

Nathan🌹 @nathanwylabour.bsky.social · 1d

A moving and intelligent call to action here from Gordon Brown. And yet another reminder of why he is my political hero.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 7h

What To Know About NSPM-7 https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-nspm-7/

Q: Is this like that book Minority Report was based on?

A: We’d avoid referencing books from now on.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 10h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 10h

After ceasefire, Abbas’s PA may regain foothold in Gaza administration

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · 10h

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was published OTD in 1979.

Douglas Adams: “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

#litsci 🐡 #BookSky

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Dotski_w @dotskyy.bsky.social · 10h

I'm 57 and something new like this comes up every 5-10 years, always something new, it'll be annoying you to the grave, I'm afraid...

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BrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social · 12h

sadly, we know they have been getting away with it, nevertheless...

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 15h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Louise Ankers @louiseankers.bsky.social · 13h

Chatting up girls using ChatGPT?

Yep, you're twelve.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone is twelve now

Everyone is 12 now
ICE agent point gun at unarmed protester

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Dotski_w @dotskyy.bsky.social · 14h

My very online kids were happy the time I ran a 10-mile in 69 minutes, at a pace of 420/km

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Dotski_w @dotskyy.bsky.social · 14h

Our 21yo is quite depressed by this one, 18yo barely talks about it

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Dotski_w @dotskyy.bsky.social · 14h

I think the age based differential vote might be smaller than suggested, if HH is 10 points ahead in that group and they turn out 30% more thats still well short of the margin

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 18h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Dotski_w @dotskyy.bsky.social · 16h

I suspect it'll be a negative for HH, beforehand those voters were largely transferring to her, whereas now, while she might get most of them earlier, some of them wont be sufficiently motivated to make it to the polling station, just for someone they had already decided weren't supporting

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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 17h

Someone ask Mick and Clare their thoughts there

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David Chance @davidchance.bsky.social · 18h

NYT is the only major English language paper that has decent cover of Central Europe and Andrew Higgins is good.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...

Viktor Orban’s ‘Propaganda State’ Is Starting to Show Cracks

www.nytimes.com

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Ray Minehane @rayminehane.bsky.social · 20h

I believe in restorative justice to a point. I don’t believe for example restorative justice would work with Ian Watkins

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Breda O'Brien: What is the justice system for if we don’t believe in rehabilitation?

Serving time in prison should not be the start of a longer sentence of stigma and shame

www.irishtimes.com

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Dotski_w @dotskyy.bsky.social · 18h

"...but we're not going to give your machine to the client"

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