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Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social · 1h

In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 1h

"It’s not as if there aren’t plenty of media-ready Palestinian or Palestinian-American guests to choose from, chief among them Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who has not appeared on any of the major Sunday news shows since 2019."

inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

In 2 Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest

In a microcosm of the U.S. coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, since Oct. 7, 2023, influential Sunday news shows have not seen fit to book any Palestinians.

inthesetimes.com

Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social · 2h

It is not that different in the UK, where free access to covid boosters is now severely restricted. RFK-lite. Lite, for now.

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 3h

What the fuck

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 6h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 4h

Read the whole story. It also focuses on health and conditions inside the Jena ICE facility where they sent Hector.

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 6h

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

buff.ly

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Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social · 6h

h/t @dlsumm.bsky.social

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

Imagine that

Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social · 6h

h/t @jonchristian.net

jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 6h

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social · 6h

h/t @juneussell.bsky.social

Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 7h

Just noticed this very nice new mural on the outside of the Broadway centre in Bradford, elegantly touching on the city’s past associations with the wool industry

The mural shows brightly coloured threads forming a weave, merging with grey industrial chimneys and their smoke

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Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you. Only yesterday, I had a @yougov.co.uk survey, with sponsor undisclosed (if not off the pollsters' own bat), asking whether same-sex marriages should be legal. So it's not just in the US.

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Chris Creegan @chriscreegan.bsky.social · 8h

It’s National Coming Out Day. I wrote this post six years ago. Political trends across the globe in the intervening years, not least in the United States, make it, and the words of Harvey Milk who I quote, even more relevant today. We’re not there yet.
open.substack.com/pub/chriscre...

Coming Out - An Act of Repetition

Because the personal is still political

open.substack.com

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Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social · 6h

h/t @clayhensley.bsky.social, with whom I'm proud to share a given name and an alma mater. (#NotAll in both cases.)

Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 7h

It's seriously infuriating how national media is bothsidesing Portland. There's a major (award winning!) airport here which you can fly nonstop to from every city in the country.

SEND A FUCKING REPORTER AND RENT THEM A CAR!!!

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 7h

It's seriously infuriating how national media is bothsidesing Portland. There's a major (award winning!) airport here which you can fly nonstop to from every city in the country.

SEND A FUCKING REPORTER AND RENT THEM A CAR!!!

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Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social · 6h

@drchrismacdonald.bsky.social Thank you for the follow, now reciprocated. You realise, I hope, that if MEPs have their way, you soon won't be able to use your own surname, lest anyone mistake you for a burger.

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 13h

I’m afraid that if you emigrate to Dubai for the tax breaks and 24-hour security, you really should give up your citizenship here for someone who wants it.

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Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks Jacqui Young and @bmj.com for discussing this important subject with myself and @dralig.bsky.social

www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Covid-19: Excluding doctors from vaccination programme puts patients at risk, clinicians warn

Doctors have warned that the government’s decision to exclude health and social care workers from its covid vaccination programme is putting patients at risk and will have a major impact on an overstr...

www.bmj.com

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Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social · 1d

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Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever room he's in, the Antichrist is present.

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Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social · 1d

And @yougov.co.uk asking in today's survey whether same-sex marriages should be legal. I wonder if that was on behalf of these bigots.

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Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social · 1d

"Stupid idea? Slap Yvette's photo on it".

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Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social · 1d

The whole premise exemplifies "straw man". Murdoch's minions as hopeless on culture as they are on politics.

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Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social · 1d

Why is the Foreign Secretary (if she still is) pictured with that story?

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Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social · 1d

In another survey today, @yougov.co.uk, and/or the opinion manipulators that fill its coffers by commissioning push polls, suggests that the legality of same-sex marriage is still up for debate. The loaded questions presuming antipathy to immigration and asylum seekers go without saying.

Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social · 1d

"read the list [and the questions] carefully" indeed.

Nonsense wording of question, with "Volkwagon" among the suggested answers.

"seariously" in the question and "Volkwagon" again in the answers.

Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social · 1d

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

“We are concerned that SB2420 impacts the privacy of users by requiring the collection of sensitive, personally identifiable information to download any app, even if a user simply wants to check the weather or sports scores."

Age verification makes everyone less safe online.

Apple and Google reluctantly comply with Texas age verification law

Texas requires sensitive info just to check weather and sports scores, Apple says.

arstechnica.com

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 1d

you could walk through Times Square buck naked with one of those car-dealership inflatable men tethered to your head, setting off bottle rockets as you go, and you would not be as desperate for attention than this sweaty twerp

a shitty post even by chris Cillizza's standards: "What if...Donald Trump actually deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?"

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

Americans who love democracy need to face the fact that we’re no longer living in one.
We’re living in a transitional state in which a fascist dictatorship is fast descending.
But we still have a great resource: people power. It’s time for boycotts, protests, civil disobedience. Make yourself loud.

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