@gypitneep.bsky.social
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Salty, GenX, Scot. Politically homeless leftie, despite what my kids say.
Cuppa tea, please.
No DMs.
Salty, GenX, Scot. Politically homeless leftie, despite what my kids say.
Cuppa tea, please.
No DMs.
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Lest it might be useful as an aide memoire, my "American Week" for @eddiemair.bsky.social's programme on @lbc.co.uk that first aired on January 8th 2021. Please feel free to share with anyone who might benefit from hearing it at a time when some memories are faulty.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/776778...
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/776778...
January 8, 2021 - "American Week": American Carnage
Simon's live weekly roundup for Eddie Mair's programme on LBC. Live every Friday at 4:50pm.
audioboom.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Lest it might be useful as an aide memoire, my "American Week" for @eddiemair.bsky.social's programme on @lbc.co.uk that first aired on January 8th 2021. Please feel free to share with anyone who might benefit from hearing it at a time when some memories are faulty.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/776778...
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/776778...
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Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
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I saw Prince George at the Festival of Remembrance last night and I felt so sorry for him. When it is his turn to be King of England, both Scotland and Cymru will have their own Presidents and be Republics.
November 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I saw Prince George at the Festival of Remembrance last night and I felt so sorry for him. When it is his turn to be King of England, both Scotland and Cymru will have their own Presidents and be Republics.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Lisa Nandy talking about lack of journalistic standards and the existence of editorial bias at the BBC...while in conversation with Laura Kuenssberg
That has to be the absolute definition of irony
#bbclaurak
#bbcbreakfast
That has to be the absolute definition of irony
#bbclaurak
#bbcbreakfast
November 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Lisa Nandy talking about lack of journalistic standards and the existence of editorial bias at the BBC...while in conversation with Laura Kuenssberg
That has to be the absolute definition of irony
#bbclaurak
#bbcbreakfast
That has to be the absolute definition of irony
#bbclaurak
#bbcbreakfast
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This is exactly how he will be remembered
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
This is exactly how he will be remembered
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We’re not doing enough, ladies. Let’s fuck shit up.
November 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
We’re not doing enough, ladies. Let’s fuck shit up.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?
Wishing a horrible and painful night in an overcrowded, understaffed A&E for all the utter bastards setting off fireworks tonight. May they know the fear and panic they inflicted on my poor dog.
November 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Wishing a horrible and painful night in an overcrowded, understaffed A&E for all the utter bastards setting off fireworks tonight. May they know the fear and panic they inflicted on my poor dog.
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Rama Duwaji, wife of Zohran Mamdani, is an American animator, illustrator, and artist. Throughout her career, her illustrations have been featured in The New Yorker and The Washington Post, as well as at BBC, Apple, and more. And now, First Lady of NYC.
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Rama Duwaji, wife of Zohran Mamdani, is an American animator, illustrator, and artist. Throughout her career, her illustrations have been featured in The New Yorker and The Washington Post, as well as at BBC, Apple, and more. And now, First Lady of NYC.
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Brother Warnock lays it plain.
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Brother Warnock lays it plain.
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@jaketapper.bsky.social I'm sure this will be the first chapter of your next book. Right? 🙄
November 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
@jaketapper.bsky.social I'm sure this will be the first chapter of your next book. Right? 🙄
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This thread is horrifying, and is only happening with the complicity of Congress and the Supreme Court
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This thread is horrifying, and is only happening with the complicity of Congress and the Supreme Court
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The Scottish government provides every family with a newborn with a ‘baby box’ of essentials to help them get started.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is bringing the boxes to NY.
Why can’t we have obviously good & nice things like this under a Labour government UK wide?
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is bringing the boxes to NY.
Why can’t we have obviously good & nice things like this under a Labour government UK wide?
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The Scottish government provides every family with a newborn with a ‘baby box’ of essentials to help them get started.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is bringing the boxes to NY.
Why can’t we have obviously good & nice things like this under a Labour government UK wide?
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is bringing the boxes to NY.
Why can’t we have obviously good & nice things like this under a Labour government UK wide?
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Are they finally catching on to his eternal grifting and gaslighting?
November 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Are they finally catching on to his eternal grifting and gaslighting?
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MTG - con artist. Don’t forget how she stalked David Hogg after the school shooting in FL and how she screeched d out the word Liar when President Biden was giving his state of the union speech. She is a grifter and
Sees the writing on the wall. Do not trust her.
Sees the writing on the wall. Do not trust her.
November 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
MTG - con artist. Don’t forget how she stalked David Hogg after the school shooting in FL and how she screeched d out the word Liar when President Biden was giving his state of the union speech. She is a grifter and
Sees the writing on the wall. Do not trust her.
Sees the writing on the wall. Do not trust her.
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This latest scandal won't be covered by the UK mainstream media, but it's one more clear example of the corruption that surrounds this manipulative fraud.
Belgian court convicts two for EU funds misuse linked to Nigel Farage's Brexit group | Euractiv
Verdict ends decade-long probe into alleged misuse of EU funds by associates of top Brexit campaigner
www.euractiv.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This latest scandal won't be covered by the UK mainstream media, but it's one more clear example of the corruption that surrounds this manipulative fraud.
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Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
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HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.
November 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
HAPPENING NOW: Judge McConnell is sharply rebuking the Trump administration for what he said was defying his order to make full SNAP payments by Nov. 5. He has ordered USDA to make the *full* payment to states by tomorrow.
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Far from cutting energy bills as they promised, the Labour government is hiking the bills of Scots to pay for nuclear plants in England.
In Scotland, we have vast renewable resources - and with the powers of independence, we can use them to lower bills.
In Scotland, we have vast renewable resources - and with the powers of independence, we can use them to lower bills.
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Far from cutting energy bills as they promised, the Labour government is hiking the bills of Scots to pay for nuclear plants in England.
In Scotland, we have vast renewable resources - and with the powers of independence, we can use them to lower bills.
In Scotland, we have vast renewable resources - and with the powers of independence, we can use them to lower bills.