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Hell-y 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸 @mxhollyclara.bsky.social · 7h

Zack Polanski genuinely gives me hope that we can have a different kind of politics, different kind of government as opposed to the 49 years of shite I’ve lived under.

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 15h

“Why is it always hard choices for working-class communities — not for multimillionaires and billionaires?”

Zack Polanski calls for a tax on the super-rich on #BBCQT

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21h

It’s been over two weeks! Swear her in! And release the Epstein files.

Screenshot of a tweet from journalist Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) on X. The tweet shows a transcript from a NEWSNATION interview with Mike Johnson. The interviewer asks why he won’t swear in Adelita Grijalva, suggesting it’s to block her vote on an Epstein discharge petition. Johnson replies that Democrats are using distractions and red herrings and says it’s only a scheduling issue that will be addressed once Democrats vote to reopen the government.

Continuation of the NEWSNATION interview transcript shared by Aaron Rupar. The interviewer points out that Republicans have been sworn in during pro forma sessions and asks why it should be different for a Democrat. Mike Johnson replies that the two Florida representatives sworn in earlier were an exception because they had flown their families in for the ceremony.

Final part of the tweet thread showing a screenshot from a NEWSNATION broadcast. The interviewer asks if Adelita Grijalva would be sworn in if she flew in her family. Mike Johnson responds that these are distractions. The split-screen broadcast shows the interviewer on the left, Mike Johnson in the center, and a clip of Adelita Grijalva speaking at a podium outdoors on the right. The headline reads: ‘WHY IT MATTERS: GRJALVA TO BE SWORN IN ONCE GOV’T REOPENED.’ A timer below shows ‘Government shutdown in 6 days.’

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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 21h

Dress Rehearsal for the Mid-terms. Even if we GET that far and have a vote in Novcember 2026 , the winners won't be taking their seats in January 2027.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the US House speaker refusing to seat an elected Democrat? | Moira Donegan

Adelita Grijalva won a landslide election for her Arizona seat. But Mike Johnson is defying the will of the voters

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 21h

Set fire to Magna Carta.

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1d

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 22h

Well, who ELSE is going to do it?

The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 22h

🇵🇸👀The Palestinian Authority plans to play a major role in governing post-war Gaza, despite US and Israeli resistance, - Reuters

❗️While Trump’s plan envisions international technocratic committee leading Gaza’s transition, PA, backed by Arab states, expects to oversee reconstruction and governance.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 1d

‘It is grating, galling and grotesque to have to take Trump’s monstrous proposition, for which he expects the Nobel Peace Prize, seriously. For a start, where is the Palestinian representation?’

New on the blog from @selmadabbagh.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

Selma Dabbagh | Knowledge of the Relevant Facts

Israel has assassinated a record number of Palestinian journalists, refused to allow international reporters to enter...

www.lrb.co.uk

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 1d

Thing is, Habeas Corpus was suspended for any and all Afghans and Iraquis in the wake of 9/11...and colonal policy has a way of coming home.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was.

"I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was.

"I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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Brian Donnelly @brianpdonnelly.bsky.social · 1d

🎞️ 'Leading film and TV producers want home-grown companies to be given more priority for funding and commissions to help Scotland’s screen sector to compete at the highest level.'

🎞️ Exclusive via @brianjaffa.bsky.social @heraldscotland.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2552550...

Scottish producers urge screen funding rethink to help them 'stay afloat'

Home-grown companies say more help is needed to help home-grown film and TV companies compete globally

www.heraldscotland.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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[email protected] @2braids.bsky.social · 1d

These dummies are having a fake presser about a fake organization...it's sooo funny. They are leading up to stop elections in 2026 and 2028. This is part of the plan. Ya'll better be aware.

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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 1d

All these paid agitators must be costing a fortune.

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 1d

The sobering first thought is that only someone this ill-informed and shallow coud have got this as far as today. The sobering second thought is "what happens tomorrow?"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A Gaza ceasefire deal could be Trump’s biggest diplomatic achievement – but the devil is in the detail

The plan attempts to thread the needle between creating the conditions for a ceasefire and negotiating a lasting end to the war but hard questions remain

www.theguardian.com

Peter Arnott @peterarnott.bsky.social · 1d

Certainly feels that way...

Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 8d

There have likely been 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25.

@gsoh31.bsky.social, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes, argues that the Higher Education system as we know it is coming to an end.

Where now for Britain’s Universities?

UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

politicalquarterly.org.uk

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The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social · 1d

Book launch: "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750-1820" (Yale UP)

Wed 29 Oct, 16:45-20:00, including drinks

Featuring a host of IASH alumni, this event celebrates the new volume by Linda Andersson Burnett & Bruce Buchan.

raceandthescottishenlightenment.eventbrite.co.uk

Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: Book Launch and Discussion

Join authors Bruce Buchan and Linda Andersson Burnett to celebrate "Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History 1750-1820".

raceandthescottishenlightenment.eventbrite.co.uk

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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 1d

Asking people to pay for goods would kill the shoplifting industry ...

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Mhairi Brennan @mhairibrennan.bsky.social · 1d

Reading about #indyref2 in the news and wish you knew more about #indyref 1? My new book, coming soon, has got you covered!

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d

British politics has become a grotesque carnival, a circus of horrors

My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

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Maureen Pickering @maureenpickering.bsky.social · 1d

Massive fall in number of children in care as progressive policies work to reduce poverty and as violent crime reduces but, hey, you don’t need to know that do you? talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/10/08/m...

Massive fall in number of children in care as progressive policies work to reduce poverty and as violent crime reduces but, hey, you don’t need to know that do you?

Scotland’s system for children in care. Professor John Robertson OBA There’s something important missing from the above ‘news’ today on children in care in Scotland – …

talkingupscotlandtwo.com

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 1d

Is this "cancel culture"?

"Professor who teaches about antifascism moves to Europe after death threats"

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

One online activist called Bray a “domestic terrorist professor,” and another shared the address of his home in New Jersey. The campus’s chapter of the conservative student group Turning Point USA then launched a petition Thursday to demand that the university fire him, referencing Trump’s executive order and claiming Bray is a risk to their safety.

Bray has received three death threats since Sept. 26, including one threatening to kill him in front of his students, according to screenshots of emails reviewed by The Washington Post. The threats and the publication of his address compelled Bray to move his family to Spain for the remainder of the academic year, he said

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

This was never about deporting criminals. It’s about Stephen Miller’s campaign of ethnic cleansing.

Tweet from Alex Tabarrok reads:
“Sergio Garcia, celebrated Chef who came to the US before ICE even existed. Deported after 36 years.
The picture tells you a lot about the decline of the Republican party.”
Attached photo shows Sergio Garcia standing with Laura and George W. Bush outdoors. The photo is signed: “To Sergio Garcia, With best wishes – George & Laura Bush.”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Mrs. Corpus’s little boy. 🤡

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to create a docile, obedient nation, first attack the arts so you deskill children of critical thinking. Once you’ve done that the people can be moulded as their rulers please. Beware this barbarism. It’s a path to demagoguery and authoritarianism

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