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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 1m

I expect his sausage was actually untouchable

Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 3m

Polanski aims to reset the norms of media appearances. If he succeeds then most politicians will be left high and dry.

FortunaFae 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @fortunafae.bsky.social · 2h

Pretty amazed that zack polanski straight up, genuinely defended trans women to piers morgan on his tv show. Can't recall the last time I saw a politician do more than just a soundbite and walk away from it.

Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 7m

Trump gives $20 billion of US tax payers’ money to an Argentinian Elvis look alike

Granuailynn @granuailynn.bsky.social · 9m

Humans need to grow tf up & stop putting wannabe entertainers in positions of power

They don't usually know how to entertain, & they certainly don't know WTF to do w/ power other than to self-enrich

We need to stop demanding entertainment in every facet of lives & instead be governed by competence

Spooky Connections @spookyconnections.bsky.social · 2d

US taxpayers forked about $20 billion to, the pro-Israel / pro-Trump, President Javier Milei of Argentina who then performed a rock concert advertising and celebrating the publishing of his new book.

Meanwhile the average Argentinian is living in extreme poverty. 🧵
#spookyconnections

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 10h

If the Democrats get to do retribution at least they won’t have to use trumped up charges.

End Citizens United @endcitizensunited.bsky.social · 17h

The targeting of Attorney General James is a deliberate act of vengeance from a corrupt regime. Look no further for their hypocrisy than their refusal to answer questions about border czar Tom Homan, who was caught ON CAMERA taking a $50k bribe.

AG Bondi deflects questions about Tom Homan, Epstein files in Senate hearing

Attorney General Pam Bondi is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. MSNBC Senior Investigative Correspondent Carol Leonnig, former Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Catherine Chr...

www.msnbc.com

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 10h

The entire Trump administration will be on trial

DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 17h

Yes! Democrats who get that we need to rise to fight in this moment! Thank you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

FIGHTING FOR THE PEOPLE!

THANK YOU!

THE REFORMERS

WE ARE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 8h

David (Zack) Polanski won hands down and handed the Goliaths their asses on a plate last night on question time. How soon before Reform refuse to appear on the same panel?

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 8h

Question Time engages in Billionaire backed consent, Reform are popular because we put them on ever single week, and on the BBC every single day.

The Left Wing are minor and unpopular because they are almost never on Question Time and the BBC almost never mentions them.

#bbcqt

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 4h

Let’s hope that the immigrant Nobel Prize winners’ travel to relocate from the USA to Switzerland is not impeded. The world will be watching.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 7h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 1h

Loonie Loomer is out to lunch

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

Marge Greene yesterday, Loomer today.

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 1h

New Trump tariff tragedy on the misery go round as he looks for a headline to snatch defeat from the jaws of his Middle East victory

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1h

NEWS: Trump accuses China of launching “hostile” export restrictions on rare earths and threatens massive new tariffs and financial countermeasures from the U.S. in response.

Markets quickly dropped after he made this post.

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 1h

Talkback from the government employees’ union leader as he slams Trump to uphold his oath and stop using the public purse as his own personal piggy bank

Tina - Release the #EpsteinFiles|Resistbot: Text RESIST to 50409 @porpentina2017.bsky.social · 2h

I am so glad to see people getting ANGRY and ensuring their voice is heard!

Go Randy!!! Oh and @housedemocrats.bsky.social and @democrats.senate.gov DO YOUR DAMN JOB!!

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 12h

🔥 🚨🔥 Meet Randy Erwin. Randy is the president of the National Federation of Federal Employees — a union representing ~ 150k employees across the country. We need more RANDY ERWIN ENERGY in this country! Sound ⬆️ & Share. 1/2

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 1h

New Trump tariff tragedy on the misery go round as he looks for a headline to snatch defeat from the jaws of his Middle East victory

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1h

NEWS: Trump accuses China of launching “hostile” export restrictions on rare earths and threatens massive new tariffs and financial countermeasures from the U.S. in response.

Markets quickly dropped after he made this post.

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 1h

Loonie Loomer is out to lunch

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

Marge Greene yesterday, Loomer today.

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 3h

Will Polanski be invited back to question time? That is the question this time.

BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 3h

Members of the audience on Question Time were heard gasping - and later applauding - after a guest challenged a Reform UK politician on immigration.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Gasps as BBC Question Time guest challenges Reform UK politician on immigration

Zia Yusuf, of Reform UK, squirmed under pressure on Question Time on BBC One when an audience member in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, challenged him not to use the term "immigration"

www.mirror.co.uk

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 4h

Good news on so many levels. Thank you Norway

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 7h

⚡️The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Maria Corina Machado.

The Nobel Peace Prize committee awarded it for "her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela."

Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 4h

Let’s hope that the immigrant Nobel Prize winners’ travel to relocate from the USA to Switzerland is not impeded. The world will be watching.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 7h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 7h

Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace prize for keeping the flame of democracy alight in Venezuela. Another headache for Trump as he finds himself on the same side as a Woke liberal socialist woman who he will say stole the prize he most coveted. apple.news/AYNtl8qJLQ32...

Nobel Peace Prize winner named — Sky News

Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize.

apple.news

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 7h

When will the UK government realise that you can run from the truth but you can’t hide it? Denial and suppression of the facts changes nothing except it makes you weaker.

Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like No. 10 has blocked the launch of a crucial report from UK defence chiefs that says UK national security is under severe threat from the climate crisis/looming collapse of vital natural ecosystems, with food shortages & economic disaster potentially just years away.

FFS. I mean SERIOUSLY?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK defence chiefs due to warn

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 7h

Polanski is doing exactly that. Labour could have done it but they were apparently already sold out to commercial and foreign interests. What a missed opportunity, almost as big a misstep as Brexit or austerity

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 7h

If Peter Sellers or Charlie Chaplain were playing the lead you wouldn’t be surprised. For it to have stepped over into the real world feels a significant shift. I follow the developments in the USA through daily podcasts but can’t get away from the feeling I’m watching Dallas rather than West Wing

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 8h

Trump’s round table of sycophants now includes hand picked, self styled journalists

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16h

Donald Trump laughs and says "I've never seen that."

When the 'press' he has allowed in start clapping at his announcement.

The reason you have never seen that is because they supposed to be your critics, not your cheerleaders.

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 8h

David (Zack) Polanski won hands down and handed the Goliaths their asses on a plate last night on question time. How soon before Reform refuse to appear on the same panel?

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 8h

Question Time engages in Billionaire backed consent, Reform are popular because we put them on ever single week, and on the BBC every single day.

The Left Wing are minor and unpopular because they are almost never on Question Time and the BBC almost never mentions them.

#bbcqt

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 8h

It is ridiculous that we are still rehearsing arguments about MMR years after they were settled. If new science emerges that’s one thing but when the challenge comes from an unqualified conspiracy theorist wing nut it shouldn’t be taking time and attention of serious and busy top professionals.

Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 9h

Excellent op Ed about the issues with single vaccines published in response to Trumps Statement about single shots for Measles, mumps and rubella as well as CDC call for single vaccine manufacturer 🧵🧪#HealthPolicy

CIDRAP Op-Ed: Why the CDC director is wrong about the MMR vaccine

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 10h

Why is Hegseth so frightened of women?

ACLU @aclu.org · 17h

All servicewomen serving in combat roles already have to meet stringent gender-neutral physical standards.

But Secretary Hegseth is intent on smearing those women as unqualified — and pushing all women out of military service.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Moves to Push Women Out of the Military

From eliminating the Pentagon’s gender advisory committee to misrepresenting women’s combat readiness, Hegseth’s record shows a clear campaign against women in uniform.

www.aclu.org

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 10h

Polanski has the voice of reason, unhurried and informed. He is a hard act to follow or counter.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 18h

Zack Polanski,
"How do you expect people to integrate when you've taken away their services?"

"We need to make sure that all politicians are speaking about migration in a positive sense"

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 10h

The entire Trump administration will be on trial

DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 17h

Yes! Democrats who get that we need to rise to fight in this moment! Thank you @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

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