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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19h

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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wolfeden.bsky.social @wolfeden.bsky.social · 19h

By rope.

Jackie Kashian @jackiekashian.bsky.social · 1d

How was Mussolini impeached?

wolfeden.bsky.social @wolfeden.bsky.social · 19h

Wouldn’t bet against that.

wolfeden.bsky.social @wolfeden.bsky.social · 19h

A fascist state in action.

David E. Rovella @davidrovella.bsky.social · 1d

Masked ICE agents beat US citizen, threaten him with attack dog, arrest him for hours on no charges.

apnews.com/article/us-c...

US citizen detained and held at ICE building in Portland for hours before release, lawyer says

A lawyer in Portland, Oregon, says he is representing a U.S. citizen who was detained and held at the city's U.S.

apnews.com

wolfeden.bsky.social @wolfeden.bsky.social · 19h

Gaza is destroyed, Palestinian deaths uncountable, no sign of a two state solution. Trump enabled genocide, as did most of the West. Palestinians are still imprisoned in the world’s largest concentration camp, now with no housing or any other infrastructure. Trump is an asshole.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Witkoff, flanked by Jared and Ivanka in Tel Aviv, says "may god bless Donald J Trump, the greatest president the world has ever seen"

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 1d

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wolfeden.bsky.social @wolfeden.bsky.social · 20h

Farage is a Russian asset.

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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wolfeden.bsky.social @wolfeden.bsky.social · 1d

Deluded gangster trash.

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 2d

Every word he says here is a lie. Every. Single. Word. He’s living in an alternate reality. #25thAmendment.

wolfeden.bsky.social @wolfeden.bsky.social · 1d

Integrity is the enemy, of Trump and his crew of gangsters.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Donald Trump is weaponizing the DOJ against his political opponents.

Meanwhile, he's gutting the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section which assists U.S. attorneys’ offices around the country with investigating crooked government officials.

"Drain the swamp."

wolfeden.bsky.social @wolfeden.bsky.social · 1d

Neoliberalism endlessly enriching the rich, and trashing everyone else.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Surely this will trickle down to workers, right?

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

Corporate income taxes are $77 billion lower than last year, primarily due to the Republican tax cuts for the rich.

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wolfeden.bsky.social @wolfeden.bsky.social · 1d

Milei is an economic moron trashing the economy, believing in neoliberalism, creating a world of poor people, as slaves for the rich. Neoliberals work for the interests of the rich, not the people.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

wolfeden.bsky.social @wolfeden.bsky.social · 1d

The Brexit campaign, was partly funded by Russia and Farage, Banks etc visited the Russian embassy, getting intel and help. Russia wanted Brexit to weaken the U.K. and EU, Farage is a classic traitor and still is.

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Good to blame Farage for the dull-arsed, ruinous, tedious failure of Brexit.
Not that good to keep punishing us for that failure, rather than looking to swiftly boost our prosperity by asking to rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union.
But yes. It’s a start.

www.thetimes.com/article/8875...

Starmer and Reeves are expected to argue that if it hadn't been for Brexit this type of downgrade would not have been needed - and cite official figures suggesting that if Britain had not left the European Union the economy would be about £120 billion greater by 2035 than current forecasts suggest.
The message is simple: Farage is ultimately to blame, as the man who delivered Brexit with "easy sloganeering" then walked away from the aftermath rather than putting in the hard yards.
Or to put it another way: Farage, not us, is responsible for putting up your taxes.
The theme will tie to the main thrust of Starmer's argument at conference, that the Reform leader is selling easy solutions that are just a fantasy.

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stornoway-cove.bsky.social @stornoway-cove.bsky.social · 2d

He will be apoplectic if Greta gets to the prize before he does…

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GwenieThinks 🤔 @gwenie.bsky.social · 5d

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Just ‘Steve’ 💙 @steveplou.bsky.social · 4d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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wolfeden.bsky.social @wolfeden.bsky.social · 7d

Goebbels said exactly the same, at the start of Hitlers Regime, to ensure all resistance was crushed early on. This was to free the regime, from any opposition, so it could murder at will. The Trump regime is copying past authoritarian regimes.

Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 7d

This is an old formula used by authoritarian regimes. Stoke chaos and blame scapegoats to justify the use of force.

wolfeden.bsky.social @wolfeden.bsky.social · 7d

Trump library, the perfect oxymoron.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 7d

Trump's presidential library is being built adjacent to Miami's iconic symbol of liberty and democracy. That makes it a permanent reminder of the president's damaging legacy (via Bloomberg Opinion)

Did Trump Notice Where His Presidential Library Will Be Built?

Presidential libraries often attempt to elevate accomplishments and whitewash failures. Donald Trump and his family think that Florida officials have given them a prime location to do just that with his library.

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wolfeden.bsky.social @wolfeden.bsky.social · 7d

Try that, working in a supermarket, a few jobs are vocations, most aren’t.

wolfeden.bsky.social @wolfeden.bsky.social · 7d

The Trump administration lies and that it, you can’t debate liars, all you can do is call them out.

Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 8d

Mark Kelly: “lf you are undocumented in our country, you cannot get healthcare from the Affordable Care Act exchange. You are not eligible for Medicare. You are not eligible for Medicaid. They’re just making that up. They just like to blame brown people.”

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Maida ☠️ @emmaidama.bsky.social · 7d

Happy Sunday Friends! 🤩💖✨
#QuoteOfTheDay #Pinks 🌸

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 11d

“Woke” is weaponized
Empathy is pathologized
Logic is minimized
Science is marginalized
The Constitution is bastardized
History is revised
Government is monetized
Authoritarianism is televised
Propaganda is normalized
Violence is prioritized
Killing is fetishized
Fascism is realized

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 10d

BREAKING: Striking workers are currently storming Tesla showrooms in Paris, demanding higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy.

(🎥 Luc Auffret)

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wolfeden.bsky.social @wolfeden.bsky.social · 10d

More neoliberal failure, Friedman was an economic loser, beaten by Keynes. He moved to social policy and exited people with his Road to Serfdom, how mass democracy leads to tyranny. The reality, neoliberal leads to Tyranny by suppressing democracy, enriching the few, Trump the neoliberal endgame.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10d

Elon Musk: “I love Javier Milei.”

Kemi Badenoch: “Javier Milei is the template.”

Donald Trump: “My favourite president.”

Nigel Farage: "Amazing. Cutting and slashing … doing all the things he’s done … that’s leadership.”

Meanwhile... in Argentina

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Farage, Trump, Musk: your boy Javier Milei just took one hell of a beating. Why so quiet? | Aditya Chakrabortty

The wild politics and chainsaw made Argentina’s president an economic hero for the right. And now, with his nation’s finances in chaos: silence, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

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