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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 6h

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 6h

a man in a suit and tie is making a face

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a face

media.tenor.com

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 8h

She’s Canadian which is why you’ve never seen her arrested before

Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 8h

OK, she really said that they arrested “the girlfriend of the founder of ANTIFA”

The girlfriend

of the FOUNDER

of - anti fascism?

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 10h

lest anyone think the girlfriend line was a hilarious joke I concocted...

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 8h

People are saying that Habeas Corpus has been doing some great work lately, his ratings are through the roof, and it would be a great shame if he got suspended, but you know, I’ll leave that to Kristi.

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 8h

Pop quiz: can you give another name to the ‘fa’ that Weimar Antifa was against

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 9h

Trump next week: people are saying I should suspend Hamish Gawpus.

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 9h

Someone desperately, desperately needs to ask him if he thinks Magna Carta died in vain.

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 9h

Genuine LOL

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 9h

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

Trump: Suspending who?

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 12h

A cruel and unfair comparison I know, but I’m reminded of that bit in Extras where Patrick Stewart is dumbfounded that girlfriendless bloke Ricky Gervais doesn’t watch Star Trek

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 12h

“But you’re a librarian, why the hell aren’t you playing D&D” would have stuck a bit closer to the cliche

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Dr Aimée Fox @draefox.bsky.social · 1d

Only a month 'til the publication of “Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict”, edited by me, @mpmfinch.bsky.social & @dmorganowen.bsky.social!

US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 12h

Looking forward to seeing this book out very soon now!

Dr Aimée Fox @draefox.bsky.social · 1d

Only a month 'til the publication of “Framing the First World War: How Divergent Views Shaped a Global Conflict”, edited by me, @mpmfinch.bsky.social & @dmorganowen.bsky.social!

US readers: get 30% discount (code: FRAMINGWWI) & free shipping if you order direct from @univpressofkansas.bsky.social

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 14h

Mike Johnson is younger than me and yet you get the sense that he’s always been 75

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 14h

Bungle isn’t going to get you out of this one, bitch

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 14h

Lee Greenwood is 82.

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 16h

Mike Johnson, “I don’t really follow politics”

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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Justin Glawe @justinglawe.bsky.social · 16h

Unless something changes drastically, this little, daily act of cowardice will be a handy footnote in the history books noting the many people who refused to stand up for other Americans.

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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250 Years Ago News @250yearsagonews.bsky.social · 18h

Oct. 8, 1775: Gen. George Washington holds a council with his staff on the issue of "whether it would be advisable to enlist any negroes in the new army or whether there should be a distinction between such as are slaves and those who are free." Their decision is not favorable to equality. 1/3

A Black soldier, Peter Salem, was credited with killing a British major at the Battle of Bunker Hill earlier in 1775

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 18h

Drop something SKELETAL

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 18h

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 19h

There are two types of people in the world

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 19h

Also British universities, which despite the decades of neglect and contempt of the political class continue miraculously to overachieve.

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 19h

If anyone abroad thinks about the modern UK they think about Harry Potter (yeah I know but still), the BBC (see previous), actors, music, football, the Royals, tourism.

Absolutely no-one thinks about British steel (sorry Nigel).

John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 21h

Again, it's really important to understand that anyone who hates theatre, art and academia - three things Britain is still *really bloody good* at making - just hates Britain.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 22h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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