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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

Reminder: Trump vaccinates himself 👇🏽

Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 1h

Plenty of circumstantial evidence suggesting that Farage is a Russian asset. His loud denials SHOULD be focusing more of the UK media on 'testing' whether his claims are believable. If they were actually doing their job, that is.

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 6h

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

This pretty much captures the contradictions of the politics of Kirk and Turning Point: Of course we oppose doxxing and violence, but we will absolutely use inflammatory language, false claims, and enemies list that fuels threats and intimidation.

Several days after publishing the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s dismissal from Rutgers, the Turning Point USA chapter added an update saying that it did not support harassment or the doxxing of him or anyone else.

“I think that all death threats and doxxing are unjustified and not how political disputes should be resolved in civilized society,” Ava Kwan, a Turning Point USA chapter member, said in an email on Wednesday.
But she defended the broader point of the petition, saying, “I think Dr. Antifa, who believes in violence as a political tool, should be fired, of course. Taxpayer money should not fund the salaries of terrorists.”

For years, Turning Point USA has maintained a watch-list of hundreds of professors whom the group accuses of advancing leftist propaganda in the classroom. Dr. Bray is on the list.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2h

A 54 year old who calls himself "Kid" and who sports a stripper's hat and indoor shades....has no right to judge what is and is not "stupid."

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5h

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 9h

It is utterly surreal this is not being treated as a bigger story.

Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 1d

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 2h

I wonder if Stephen Miller has told El Dumbpfo that the blueprints for Speer's Reichshauptstadt Berlin are still available?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

Trump’s Albert Speer-style German Arch of Triumph now planned for DC.

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 2h

Der Trumpfler can't sack tenured University scientists directly (though he has, with the connivance of the supine Republican Congress, stopped lots of federal grants that fund Uni researchers). He can, though, gut US federal scientific agencies by sacking their staff. Make America sick again! MASA!

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 19h

Sound familiar? 💥
Peter Thiel's hero Carl Schmitt was the defacto legal creator of the Third Reich. A radical antisemite, he defended the burning of books, political assassination, and above all he argued for government by dictatorship through a continual "state of emergency" ... Just like Trump!

Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 20h

Peter Thiel says that his core beliefs are shaped by the work of the Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt, whose theories provided ideological justification for Hitler's regime. Many scholars argue that Schmid has influenced modern governance in China and Russia, as well as movements like Trumpism.

Carl Schmitt - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 7h

As Jonn says in the piece: no. The problem is that not enough people see how extreme it has become.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 7h

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 6h

People often dismiss cell biology as just “looking at stuff”, which makes seminal discoveries like this even sweeter. Congrats @drannecarpenter.bsky.social and team

Anne Carpenter @drannecarpenter.bsky.social · 23h

15 years in the making, we confirmed that mitochondria - the powerhouse of the cell - have an unusual localization in patients who experience psychosis (including schizophrenia and bipolar disorders). You’ll never guess what kind of patient cells we used to make this discovery… 🧵

mitochondria from bipolar patients are closer to the nucleus in these images; control patients' are spread out further

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 11h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1d

"Brexiteers boasted that leaving the EU would be worth hundreds of billions a year. Cambridge Econometrics estimates that over the next decade Britain's economy will be £300bn smaller than if we had not left the EU. This is self-harm on a heroic scale."
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins

With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 6h

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, it's still early June 2016.

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 5h

Obviously if you aren’t eligible (now nearly everyone) you can only get boosted if you have £100 per family member to spare.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 6h

the hypocrisy of trump and vance going on about "free speech" yet threatening/defunding/bullying universities and their staff

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 16h

"Career prosecutors determined that there was no evidence to support these charges. They were pushed out and replaced with individuals whose only qualification is their loyalty to a single man, not to the Constitution or the law. That is corruption. That is abuse of power...we must all speak out."

Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 18h

INBOX: National Bar Association President Ashley L. Upkins calls the charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James “unjust and dangerous” and a representation of "the continued weaponization of our nation’s justice system for political gain."

Full statement below:

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 16h

Someone was telling me that the 1970s National Front (who young master Nigel Fromage was known to express his admiration for) only declared they were for *voluntary* repatriation/remigration.

So the British racist far-right are now officially more extreme than the 1970s version.

What a world...

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17h

Lucy White, GB News regular, an ally and associate of Rupert Lowe, has come up with the send them all back case for remigration + mass deportations

"Millions of people have been imported into our country.

Therefore…

Millions of people will be exported out from our country".

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 16h

Graceful congratulations and professional-grade trolling all in one deft 'bleet'. The man has style.

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 23h

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 19h

Oh, does it benefit the US to provide aid to foreign countries? That would have been good to know back in January and February.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

🇦🇷 🇺🇸

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 16h

Wow. On behalf of... *whom*, do we think?

I'll give you three guesses.

Though I doubt you'll need them.

Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 2d

💥 Bombshell investigation: Hungary operated an illegal network of spies to infiltrate the EU institutions while Olivér Várhelyi, who's currently a European Commissioner, served as chief ambassador.

„Súlyos ügy volt” – így bukott le Orbánék titkos kémhálózata Brüsszelben

A 2010-es években a magyar hírszerzés elkezdett kémkedni Brüsszelben, és ehhez uniós intézményeknél dolgozó magyarokat próbált beszervezni. Viszont a magyar szolgálatok ezt annyira nyilvánvalóan és üg...

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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 3d

“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

has anybody ever been more obviously full of shit than Pam Bondi is at the end of this 20 second clip?

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Dr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 17h

Reminded of my trip to the Barrier Reef a quarter of a century ago. Must dig out the pix. if I can remember where they are, which is doubtful.

World Wildlife Fund @worldwildlife.org · 1d

Bring a moment of calm to your day and take 30 seconds to watch this nature video. #WorldMentalHealthDay

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