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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 7m

The new Pope is cool AF

Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 21h

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue. For @reuters.com:

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 16m

That’s because it’s so big and influential it has transcended the need for currency. Or members. Or any policies. Or any leaders. Or anything.

Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 9h

Weird how Antifa never asks me for money. Everyone else does, but Antifa is very quiet.

Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 8h

I love how President Trump thinks the existence of mass-produced placards - on high quality paper - absolutely clinches the case for the existence of a vast, well-funded radical left paramilitary force poised to turn every American trans at bayonet point.

Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t mean to be ghoulish but it’s looking like the Grim Reaper will come calling long before Lady Justice gets around to it.

I suspect many Americans will be able to live with that so long as it brings the madness to an early end.

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 8h

Good for them. Being obliged to turn up for work without getting paid isn’t employment, it’s indentured labor.

Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

As the government shutdown moves into its second week, air travelers can expect longer airport security lines—as TSA employees call out sick in higher numbers.

Hundreds Of Unpaid TSA Agents Are Calling In Sick—Expect Longer Airport Security Lines

As the government shutdown moves into its second week, air travelers can expect longer airport security lines—as TSA employees call out sick in higher numbers.

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 8h

I'd be remiss not to note that it took us 20 years and three civil wars to get that SOB's head on the block.

So not an out-and-out precedent 😉

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah. I probably should have mentioned how that ended 😂

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 8h

Oh yeah. Should probably add that we cut off his head in the end.

Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 8h

One of our Kings tried to pull this shit once. He refused to summon Parliament because he didn’t like what they were going to vote for, in part because he’d plunged the country into penury trying to strong-arm a crony into a top foreign job.

That was 1629.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 11h

I think Trump would rather Congress never vote to reopen the government than let Adelrita Grijalva trigger the Epstein Files discharge. And I bet he doesn’t have a plan other than the Insurrection Act.

Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 8h

One of our Kings tried to pull this shit once. He refused to summon Parliament because he didn’t like what they were going to vote for, in part because he’d plunged the country into penury trying to strong-arm a crony into a top foreign job.

That was 1629.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 11h

I think Trump would rather Congress never vote to reopen the government than let Adelrita Grijalva trigger the Epstein Files discharge. And I bet he doesn’t have a plan other than the Insurrection Act.

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 10h

Antiphantom

Are we absolutely sure Donald Trump hasn't seen "Team America World Police" lately and now thinks the F.A.G is Antifa?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 10h

"Anyone can do a decent leader's speech" says Andrew Fisher, whose principal Jeremy Corbyn was so bad at doing a leaders' speech he literally read out a speech cue.

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 10h

I cannot dislike Sir Mel Stride, even when he's on my telly talking a load of old cobblers, as now.

He reminds me of the sort of decent, pragmatic, humane Tory, like Ken Clarke, purged by Dominic Cummings and set for permanent exile because of the Kemi Badenoch's absurd ECHR purity test.

Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 13h

Seriously, if George Soros stumped for this as part of a radical left insurrection he should be demanding a refund.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

All these headlines saying “Bondi Goes on the Attack.” Really? She wasn’t in the octagon, she’s a public servant who was at an oversight hearing. Her job was to answer questions. She refused to do her job. Stop glamorizing and whitewashing this moronic, performative bullshit.

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 13h

If the Mark Zuckerberg character from Alien: Earth doesn't end up with a sizable abdominal cavity I'm going to be real disappointed.

Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 13h

Fucking nailed on given the absolute shambles that is the prosecution, I'd say.

Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 16h

CNN: The judge presiding over the prosecution of Jim Comey has agreed to Comey’s request to schedule a near term trial. Comey asked for a Jan 12 trial date. The judge went with Jan 5. Comey is counting on the gov’t not being ready for trial. A good bet.

Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 13h

So you have a strongly-held opinion about who should sing songs half way through the Superbowl but you don't have a view on whether or not Chicago's mayor and Illinois' governor should be in jail?

Got it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 15h

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean.

If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 15h

Someone in the Oval is going to try and have that "getting on your nerves is not technically a felony yet" conversation again.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned

Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 15h

Brits Could Be Banned From The Benefits Of EU Membership Because Brits Surrendered Their EU Membership - Pt.96

Brits could be banned from holiday homes under EU's 90-day rule

The EU has ordered member states to apply the 90/180-day rule 'rigidly', meaning Brits who overstay could be hit with hefty fines of up to £8,700 and even ten-year bans from entering the bloc.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 1d

If you didn't notice the Supermoon last night, maybe it was wearing glasses and a different hairstyle, and you were fooled by its secret identity as a mild-mannered ordinary moon.

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 15h

Pecan. Definitely. You'd have to be retarded to pronounce it pecan.

meg @blrrydma.bsky.social · 1d

hi guys which way do you pronounce this: pecan or pecan

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Mike Muth @mikemuth.bsky.social · 1d

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Adam Higgitt @ahiggitt.bsky.social · 15h

Kinda ballsy sneering when you reflect that the Rachel in question (not Cunliffe) has managed to become Chancellor of the Exchequer while her critic is the widely derided leader of a widely derided party.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 19h

"If you're name's Rachel, you can be an economist instead of working in customer complaints"

Feeling unfairly victimised