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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

All to cover up the Epstein files.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 7h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Neil B @firstclasspost.bsky.social · 7h

I had to read the title again, I thought it was a BBC circular.

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Neil B @firstclasspost.bsky.social · 7h

'America First’ turned into tariffs, trade wars and bailouts for everyone else. China buys from Argentina, the US bails them out, and MAGA farmers get the bill.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 10h

🚨 Today in Portland, large groups peacefully gathered to unite against hate and oppression. 1/2

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Neil B @firstclasspost.bsky.social · 7h

Thatcher's greatest lie was the linear economy.

Based on that deceitful logic, privatisation:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A short history of privatisation in the UK: 1979-2012 | Richard Seymour

Richard Seymour: From the first experiments with British Aerospace through British Telecom, water and electricity to the NHS and Royal Mail

www.theguardian.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10h

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 19h

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19h

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

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Neil B @firstclasspost.bsky.social · 17h

Agreed, the Conservatives pursuing fascism is done better and with more conviction by Reform.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19h

How is that probable cause?!

Screenshot of a tweet from Matt Hill (@thematthill) on X. The tweet states that Greg Bovino admitted agents can detain people based on behavior like looking scared or gripping the steering wheel tightly, even if they’re U.S. citizens. Below is a CNN screenshot showing Bovino being interviewed, with the headline: ‘Exclusive: Agent leading Trump’s immigration crackdown speaks to CNN.’

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jeffries to Lawler: "You're a complete and total embarrassment. You're embarrassing yourself and your district right now. And you're going down to defeat next year."

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Nikki Budzinski @budzinski.house.gov · 1d

The President of the United States just threatened to arrest Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson. We can't stay silent in the face of this dangerous, anti-democratic rhetoric.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19h

How much does Fox News pay if you go on one of their shows and claim to be a "Former ANTIFA Member"?

Because I'm ready to spill tea on the Real-Housewives-level shenanigans that go down in the 72-story ANTIFA corporate headquarters. Especially by the lab assistants on the Molotov Cocktail floor.

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Neil B @firstclasspost.bsky.social · 20h

How strange, because the only actual insurrectionist is Trump.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21h

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22h

Gov. Shapiro: "The way the president has chosen to deploy the National Guard in other states, and to deploy the Guard of one state. Texas, into another state, Illinois, is extremely dangerous...It does not make us more safe. It creates chaos and real danger in our communities."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

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Neil B @firstclasspost.bsky.social · 22h

I'd be more worried at the US becoming a dictatorship.

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 1d

Harris and Hillary were right about it all. Every shocking prediction is coming true.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 2d

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