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

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 5h

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 7h

Tough gig being a satirist at the moment. Who’d ever had imagined POTUS acting like a toddler because someone didn’t give him what he wanted?

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 4h

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 6h

It's weird. There were just no clues that this is what he was like.

Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 7h

Johnson refused to answer specific questions or to provide factual denials to allegations of rule-breaking, while insisting all the rules had been followed at all times. His responses led Acoba’s chair, Isabel Doverty, to find him in breach of the rules.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 9h

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

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Susieus Maximus @susieusmaximus.bsky.social · 7h

Killing dogs is a hobby for lots of law enforcement officers. If I recall correctly, @gregdoucette.bsky.social used to keep a tally of cops shooting dogs for no real reason other than that they're chickenshits and they can get away with it. It was not a short list.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

Every single Democrat in Congress should’ve already had a post up by now about the Trump admin approving a Qatari air base inside the US.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 9h

Thou shalt not shoot priests in the head. I shouldn’t have to say this.

Thou Shalt Not Shoot Priests in the Head

I shouldn’t have to say these things.

www.thegodpodcast.com

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Joanna Pegum @londoner007.bsky.social · 8h

So sorry! Glad her passing was peaceful

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Dan Jagger @auditorynerves.bsky.social · 9h

Baby giant tortoises thrive in Seychelles after first successful artificial incubation.

Trial that has produced 13 hatchlings could help other threatened species avoid extinction.

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www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Baby giant tortoises thrive in Seychelles after first successful artificial incubation

Exclusive: Trial that has produced 13 hatchlings could help other threatened species avoid extinction

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 8h

Update: been informed that RIF is standard corporate bullshit to mask the reality of lives being ruined. Jargon to suck the emotion out of things is a language of its own.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h

Another of the Trump puppetmasters Russell Vought has been busy seizing the chaos of the government shutdown to advance the Project 2025 agenda.

The sacking of federal workers now has its own acronym - RIF. Reductions in Force.

Trump official says federal layoffs 'have begun' amid government shutdown

www.cnbc.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 9h

Yes. Neither is good, is it…
Both Farage and Jenrick need to be wiped from our political map.

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Jeff Scroggie @jeffscroggie.bsky.social · 9h

Don’t know which is worse. Being a racist or leaning into racism to further your own ends politically.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 9h

From Sunday, Brexit will deliver a big highly visible slap in the face. Hopefully that will bring it deservedly back into the news.

European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 9h

From Sunday, travelling into Europe gets tougher for Brits.

New EU border rules mean fingerprint scans, photo registration and longer queues.

This is the real-world cost of Brexit - more hassle, more red tape, more delays.

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Steve Mortlock @stevemortlock.bsky.social · 15h

Whatever you think of ID cards, has there ever been a time when a sitting government got its priorities so wrong?

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 17h

Great. Now Labour plan to hand the IDs of 13-year olds over to hackers as well as those of adults.

(There's no way the database won't be hacked, right?)

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 10h

The perpetual puzzle of this lot is the Emperor's New Clothes thing that stops everyone in the audience going "Yeah, but that's mental isn't it?"

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10h

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 13h

I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 12h

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 13h

Quite a coup for Zurich, a dark sign for America, and perhaps a missed opportunity for the UK.

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 16h

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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 16h

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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