Tim
@timblue.bsky.social
He/They. Another member of the Xodus, living near London.
Wants to believe as few false things and as many true things as possible.
Life is complicated. Let's start by trying to be kind to each other.
Wants to believe as few false things and as many true things as possible.
Life is complicated. Let's start by trying to be kind to each other.
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By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
February 7, 2026 at 3:38 AM
By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet
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I criticize dems
Today is a great example as to why-
Trump sends ANOTHER racist post
NOT ONE DEM PRESS CONFERENCE
Dems should be forming a BLUE WALL and saying NO MATTER WHAT maga bills go up- we WILL NOT VOTE FOR THEM until they impeach Trump
That's how the minority takes power
But... nah
Today is a great example as to why-
Trump sends ANOTHER racist post
NOT ONE DEM PRESS CONFERENCE
Dems should be forming a BLUE WALL and saying NO MATTER WHAT maga bills go up- we WILL NOT VOTE FOR THEM until they impeach Trump
That's how the minority takes power
But... nah
February 7, 2026 at 3:10 AM
I criticize dems
Today is a great example as to why-
Trump sends ANOTHER racist post
NOT ONE DEM PRESS CONFERENCE
Dems should be forming a BLUE WALL and saying NO MATTER WHAT maga bills go up- we WILL NOT VOTE FOR THEM until they impeach Trump
That's how the minority takes power
But... nah
Today is a great example as to why-
Trump sends ANOTHER racist post
NOT ONE DEM PRESS CONFERENCE
Dems should be forming a BLUE WALL and saying NO MATTER WHAT maga bills go up- we WILL NOT VOTE FOR THEM until they impeach Trump
That's how the minority takes power
But... nah
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On today's AI slop from the president: The world is watching us. Our children are watching us. And anything short of outright condemnation, outrage and reflection on the systemic failures that brought us here—the consistent apologies or obscuring of racism in our national discourse—is unacceptable.
February 7, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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JoJo is so right.. here in the UK if the PM did something so abhorrently racist they would be expelled from office same day..
The same applies in the EU.. so for supporters of Trump not to denounce him, means they to are rancid racists
The same applies in the EU.. so for supporters of Trump not to denounce him, means they to are rancid racists
The press needs to ask every single Republican if they denounce Trump’s posts depicting the Obamas as monkeys.
Don’t let them say they “didn’t see it” either.
Make them answer.
Don’t let them say they “didn’t see it” either.
Make them answer.
February 6, 2026 at 4:02 PM
JoJo is so right.. here in the UK if the PM did something so abhorrently racist they would be expelled from office same day..
The same applies in the EU.. so for supporters of Trump not to denounce him, means they to are rancid racists
The same applies in the EU.. so for supporters of Trump not to denounce him, means they to are rancid racists
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Racism has been central to Trump and his movement since he came down the escalator. He is a racist. His people are racists. His defenders are racists. His supporters are racists. His party is a party of racists. If they want to disprove that, they can. But it's important to know they don't want to.
February 6, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Racism has been central to Trump and his movement since he came down the escalator. He is a racist. His people are racists. His defenders are racists. His supporters are racists. His party is a party of racists. If they want to disprove that, they can. But it's important to know they don't want to.
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South Minneapolis a hornet’s nest of resistance this AM. Car commuters everywhere, multiple observers on every corner, ICE patrols getting smothered by completely oppressive neighborhood watch. Incredible job guys, you’re all heroes
February 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
South Minneapolis a hornet’s nest of resistance this AM. Car commuters everywhere, multiple observers on every corner, ICE patrols getting smothered by completely oppressive neighborhood watch. Incredible job guys, you’re all heroes
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I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
February 6, 2026 at 2:52 PM
I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.
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It's not just the decision to give public money and public data to a sworn enemy of everything we stand for, appalling though that is. It's also the secrecy and illegal shutting out of any competition. What does Palantir have on Streeting and Starmer - and did Mandelson give it to them?
Calls to halt UK Palantir contracts grow amid ‘lack of transparency’ over deals
Opposition MPs urge Labour to pause public contracts with the US tech firm after attempts to examine deals blocked
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:46 AM
It's not just the decision to give public money and public data to a sworn enemy of everything we stand for, appalling though that is. It's also the secrecy and illegal shutting out of any competition. What does Palantir have on Streeting and Starmer - and did Mandelson give it to them?
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👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it.
What? x.com/sethharpesq/...
What? x.com/sethharpesq/...
February 6, 2026 at 1:57 AM
👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it.
What? x.com/sethharpesq/...
What? x.com/sethharpesq/...
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Here is a thing:
There were several years when I was one of VERY few journalists seriously covering harassment and abuse issues in comics (and by extension sometimes video games). During that time, I became the Person People Told Things To.
(cont'd)
There were several years when I was one of VERY few journalists seriously covering harassment and abuse issues in comics (and by extension sometimes video games). During that time, I became the Person People Told Things To.
(cont'd)
February 6, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Here is a thing:
There were several years when I was one of VERY few journalists seriously covering harassment and abuse issues in comics (and by extension sometimes video games). During that time, I became the Person People Told Things To.
(cont'd)
There were several years when I was one of VERY few journalists seriously covering harassment and abuse issues in comics (and by extension sometimes video games). During that time, I became the Person People Told Things To.
(cont'd)
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NEW: Dear Washington Post journalists, I’ve written this for you.
Last year @theguardian.com gave away our news title & binned 100+ journalists. It sucked!
But we fought back & you can too. First a strike, then a new masthead @thenerve.news Fuck Bezos. There is another way 👊👊👊
1/
Last year @theguardian.com gave away our news title & binned 100+ journalists. It sucked!
But we fought back & you can too. First a strike, then a new masthead @thenerve.news Fuck Bezos. There is another way 👊👊👊
1/
February 5, 2026 at 4:37 PM
NEW: Dear Washington Post journalists, I’ve written this for you.
Last year @theguardian.com gave away our news title & binned 100+ journalists. It sucked!
But we fought back & you can too. First a strike, then a new masthead @thenerve.news Fuck Bezos. There is another way 👊👊👊
1/
Last year @theguardian.com gave away our news title & binned 100+ journalists. It sucked!
But we fought back & you can too. First a strike, then a new masthead @thenerve.news Fuck Bezos. There is another way 👊👊👊
1/
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"At the pond itself, women have also been made to feel unsafe by anti-trans activists. Mary remembers some “standing at the gate, looking up and down at anybody that came in to decide if they were sufficiently woman enough"...it resulted in male police officers entering the space."
"As co-chair, Beth, now 68, faced down intimidation from anti-trans groups to oversee a vote that cemented the Association’s inclusive ethos in 2024. It was, she says, 'the hardest thing I have ever done, and also the thing I’m the most proud of.'"
The women fighting for trans inclusion at Hampstead ponds
The High Court has rejected a legal challenge attempting to ban trans people from Hampstead Heath’s single-sex ponds. Good Law Project speaks to the activists and regular swimmers behind the movement ...
www.dazeddigital.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:58 PM
"At the pond itself, women have also been made to feel unsafe by anti-trans activists. Mary remembers some “standing at the gate, looking up and down at anybody that came in to decide if they were sufficiently woman enough"...it resulted in male police officers entering the space."
What a powerful performance!
On 1 May 1517, xenophobic mobs, riled up by preachers who were in turn pressured by wealthy broker John Lincoln, rioted in London. They claimed that foreigners were stealing their jobs and welfare. Thomas More, then under-sheriff of London, tried to stop the mob with an empassioned speech.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 1:46 PM
What a powerful performance!
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Depressing that Wes being an incompetent right wing TERFy arsehole isn't enough to put the premiership of this country out of reach for him, but if him being a friend of Mandy will keep him out of no10 then I'm happy to remind people that he's Mandy's protegé
February 5, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Depressing that Wes being an incompetent right wing TERFy arsehole isn't enough to put the premiership of this country out of reach for him, but if him being a friend of Mandy will keep him out of no10 then I'm happy to remind people that he's Mandy's protegé
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“The era of hiding behind servers is over”.
February 5, 2026 at 8:34 AM
“The era of hiding behind servers is over”.
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INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
February 4, 2026 at 5:11 PM
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
An excellent update on the state of play for the By-Election here:
swingometer.substack.com/p/gorton-and...
Encouraging, overall, I think.
swingometer.substack.com/p/gorton-and...
Encouraging, overall, I think.
Gorton and Denton Update 1
There's somethin' happenin' here, what it is ain't exactly clear
swingometer.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:29 PM
An excellent update on the state of play for the By-Election here:
swingometer.substack.com/p/gorton-and...
Encouraging, overall, I think.
swingometer.substack.com/p/gorton-and...
Encouraging, overall, I think.
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Pleased to see the jury make this decision.
We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries.
People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here - it's the politicians who continue to provide cover.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries.
People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here - it's the politicians who continue to provide cover.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Palestine Action protesters not guilty of defence firm burglary
The group are cleared of aggravated burglary over the alleged raid at an Elbit Systems warehouse.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Pleased to see the jury make this decision.
We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries.
People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here - it's the politicians who continue to provide cover.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries.
People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here - it's the politicians who continue to provide cover.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Increasingly polarized into opposing dumpster fire tactics not even on principle as because I never want to see a dumpster fire tactical debate post again ever for the rest of my life.
February 4, 2026 at 1:47 AM
Increasingly polarized into opposing dumpster fire tactics not even on principle as because I never want to see a dumpster fire tactical debate post again ever for the rest of my life.
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It's not enough to just say "but Obama didn't do that." Sure, it's true, but that's not how memory works. You need to tell a true story about what really happened, populate the discourse with evidence and examples that give life to a memory of the Obama era that people can picture and engage with.
February 2, 2026 at 4:39 PM
It's not enough to just say "but Obama didn't do that." Sure, it's true, but that's not how memory works. You need to tell a true story about what really happened, populate the discourse with evidence and examples that give life to a memory of the Obama era that people can picture and engage with.
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Good god. We've spent a decade with the British media - including the BBC - claiming that the 'gender critical' movement wanted to 'protect women and girls'.
And it turns out Jeffrey Epstein was funding part of it.
And it turns out Jeffrey Epstein was funding part of it.
I'm not being facetious. Epstein was apparently giving talking points to the people pushing anti trans rhetoric in the UK.
February 2, 2026 at 7:11 AM
Good god. We've spent a decade with the British media - including the BBC - claiming that the 'gender critical' movement wanted to 'protect women and girls'.
And it turns out Jeffrey Epstein was funding part of it.
And it turns out Jeffrey Epstein was funding part of it.
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New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor.
Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time.
A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.
Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time.
A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.
February 1, 2026 at 5:26 PM
New Epstein emails show Peter Mandelson secretly advising JPMorgan’s CEO on how to fight Labour’s 2009 bankers’ bonus tax - even suggesting he “mildly threaten” the Chancellor.
Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time.
A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.
Mandelson was Business Secretary at the time.
A year later, he was seeking work with JPM.
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This is arguably the strongest signal of a midterm wave we’ve ever seen in modern American politics.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/blue-wave-...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/blue-wave-...
February 1, 2026 at 5:08 PM
This is arguably the strongest signal of a midterm wave we’ve ever seen in modern American politics.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/blue-wave-...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/blue-wave-...
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aw yeah hat and backpack
I'm so glad they're free
I'm so furious they (and so many others) were traumatized
This doesn't end until there are zero (0) kids being traumatized
I'm so glad they're free
I'm so furious they (and so many others) were traumatized
This doesn't end until there are zero (0) kids being traumatized
liam and his dad are home!
and someone please get rep. castro a coat!
and someone please get rep. castro a coat!
February 1, 2026 at 4:39 PM
aw yeah hat and backpack
I'm so glad they're free
I'm so furious they (and so many others) were traumatized
This doesn't end until there are zero (0) kids being traumatized
I'm so glad they're free
I'm so furious they (and so many others) were traumatized
This doesn't end until there are zero (0) kids being traumatized