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@metalthrashinmatt.bsky.social
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Radical/Looney Left, guitar playing, GenX gamer dude from the UK!
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Matt Butcher 💙🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰👊🇺🇲🔥 @metalthrashinmatt.bsky.social · May 3
I had the absolute pleasure of meeting Nicko McBrain at his drum store in Manchester this morning! As an Iron Maiden fan since the age of eleven, it was a dream come true to meet this extraordinary gentleman! And as genuine and humorous as I'd always imagined! 🤘

#uptheirons
#nickomcbrain
#drumone
Myself and Nicko McBrain holding thumbs up for the camera, at his Drum One store in Manchester.
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rbreich.bsky.social
The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals.

The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry.

Where is the MAHA outcry?
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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bigbrohem.bsky.social
"During the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham promoted discredited treatments like ivermectin and, as Louisiana’s surgeon general, halted the state’s mass vaccination campaign...The Department of Health and Human Services did not announce the appointment..." FFS
Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.’s Second in Command
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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cheryl2877.bsky.social
#Pinks #ProudBlue

The oath is NOT to a man or a political party. It is to the Constitution and the Country.
In my military training, I was taught that I should obey and enact all *lawful* orders… I was also taught that, if I was ever ordered to do anything unlawful, that my responsibility was to the law and the Constitution. Pete Buttigieg
November 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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orlisadeschene.bsky.social
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UkQn1Q/
A federal judge paused the child sexual abuse case alleging Linda McMahon, her husband and the WWE turned a blind eye to years of sexual abuse of the underaged "ring boys." The McMahons denied the cla...
TikTok video by ABC News Live
www.tiktok.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
After ousting the BLS director and scrapping the October jobs and inflation reports, Trump is now canceling release of the advance Q3 GDP estimate.

Trump doesn't mind turning the lights off on the economy because he’d rather Americans not know how badly it’s doing under him.
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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bonsaibean.bsky.social
Don’t shop anywhere in the next week. Maybe local but otherwise save your money
indivisible.org Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11h
Don’t shop at Home Depot, Target, or Amazon over the next week. During the busiest shopping period of the year, let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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meidastouch.com
Watch out, everyone! Mike Johnson has hit the podcast circuit!
November 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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cwebbonline.com
When they can’t bury the truth at the Capitol, they try to drown it in the river.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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casuallylucid.bsky.social
"Pete Hegseth is planning for the military to sever all ties with Scouting America, saying the group... is no longer a meritocracy and has become an organization designed to "attack boy-friendly spaces..."

Of course Hegseth would attack them for the improvements they've tried to make 🙄

#Pinks
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. Military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formally known as the Boy Scouts
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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darren32359.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/post/203480/...
ICE Suddenly Loses Key Evidence One Day After Being Sued
ICE says the evidence disappeared in a “system crash.”
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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mjfree.bsky.social
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the POS 34x convicted felon, DEADLY INSURRECTIONIST, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Donald Trump did 🩸🩸🩸
November 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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fintechernest.bsky.social
“And the dismantling of USAID has left a legacy of death. According to one recent study, closing the agency “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
DOGE Was a Harbinger of Trump’s Assault on Decency and Privacy
Democrats will have to repair the damage
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Maybe putting a dozen narcissistic poser Fox hosts in charge of sprawling federal agencies with millions of combined employees and vastly important responsibilities with enormous power wasn’t the greatest plan.
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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bstnboy.bsky.social
Data Centers driving increase in cost of electricity.

Data Centers should be hit with surcharge for the excess amount of electricity they consume.

www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/11/...
Data centers are concentrated in these states. Here's what's happening to electricity prices
Residential utility bills rose 6% on average nationwide in August compared with the same period last year, according to the Energy Information Administration.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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gadyepstein.bsky.social
“We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders,” the masked ICE agents told them www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/i...
"I asked for their names. They didn't give me their full names," Hestmark recalled of the agents. "They didn't show me their badge numbers. They didn't remove their masks. They simply said, 'We have a warrant for his arrest, and they handed me a QR code, and they put my husband in handcuffs. And they took him and said I couldn't follow." "She was just stunned," Paul said. "She kept asking what was wrong, what did we do? We'd done everything right." "We kept asking them if there was something we could do, if there was any way we could keep her from being separated from the family," he continued. We’re just trying to figure out what's happening, and they're just telling us, I'm sorry. We’ve tried to not have to do it, but we've got direct orders."| • "I had to take my baby, our baby, from his crying mother's arms," Paul said. "We were completely shocked, and I feel like we were tricked," Hestmark said. "We went through every possible legal and appropriate channel. We followed the advice of our lawyer. We were told that our case was straight forward." "He just wanted to be part of this country and for us to start our future together. And he wanted to do it… "Tom isn't in the system. I can't find him," Hestmark said. "I can't call him. I can't put money into his account. The lawyer doesn't know how to proceed because he hasn't been charged with anything." Both said their spouses were able to call them Thursday night, and they believed they were still being held in the basement of the federal building as of Friday afternoon. "She said that she was scared. She was anxious, missed her baby. She just wants to come home," Paul said. "She said the agents themselves were in the detention down in the basement of the federal building, saying, What are we doing here? These aren't the sort of people were supposed to be arresting.” "They hadn't given him anything to eat or any information," Hestmark said. "They gave him a mat and a foil blanket to sleep on." As she was detailing his arrest Friday afternoon, Bilger called Hestmark again from detention. She said he told her they had moved him to the Otay Mesa Detention Center and back but he hadn't slept and still hadn't been processed. "My wife's alone and terrified," Paul said. "My baby doesn't have his mom to hold him. I can't work right…
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Fascinating interview with Mary Trump.

#USDemocracy

youtu.be/anLE28i2wr4?...
Why Seeing Epstein and My Uncle Donald Haunts Me | The Daily Beast Podcast
YouTube video by The Daily Beast
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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trumpluvsobama.bsky.social
That is not how it works🤬
iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h
White House Declares All of Trump’s Orders to Military Are Legal

The Trump administration is twisting U.S. military code to take revenge against Democrats who reminded troops to follow the law.
White House Declares All of Trump’s Orders to Military Are Legal
The Trump administration is twisting U.S. military code to take revenge against Democrats who reminded troops to follow the law.
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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catalystmeow.bsky.social
Disgusting ICE is making migrants sleep on cement floors.
#USDemocracy #MomSky
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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casuallylucid.bsky.social
"The only thing revealed by this transparency is that social media companies do not give a f*ck about this."

Our attention is the product

There are tutorials in many languages on how to exploit that for profit, not just to stir the pot

AI makes it so easy to exploit now and everyone wins but you
America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle
The 'psyops' revealed by X are entirely the fault of the perverse incentives created by social media monetization programs.
www.404media.co
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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dbnewtondoors.bsky.social
www.pravda.com.ua/eng/columns/...

trump is compromised. Russian Intelligence compromised trump many years ago and it clearly shows.
The wrong way to peace in Ukraine
Last week, Russia attacked Ukrainian civilians with more than 500 drones, cruise missiles, and rockets. Most of these drones were shot down, but the attack hit two apartment buildings in Ternopil, in ...
www.pravda.com.ua
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Winston Churchill was arguably Britain's greatest PM. His first term was 1940–1945 but he lost the post-war election. Britain said 'no' because despite their reverance for Winnie they thought he wasn't a convincing peacetime PM.

America, you can say 'NO'.

#USDemocracy
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
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November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM