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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1h

The direct address straight to the camera at the end of this is 100% right out of professional wrestling. Finally.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 47m

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 49m

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5h

UAE has no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record.

Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP

No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.

But here's Tice calling us decadent

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 1h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1h

Fugitive Womb Act

awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 6h

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

jessica.substack.com

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Rebecca Taylor @beccaet.bsky.social · 51m

I don't really do sundaes, but I reckon hundreds & thousands, chopped up chocolate buttons assorted berries & squirty cream?

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 1h

Wander round Mumbai these days and you’ll hardly see a brown face.

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 1h

As a general point, I am always amused when I hear the Spectator complain about 'the governing class‘.

I mean.
Really?

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Barry Howard 🔶 @barryhow2c.bsky.social · Jul 30

A reminder that the Lib Dems have continuously campaigned for:
👩‍👩‍👦‍👦 Scrap the Two child Benefit Cap
🧓Keep Triple Lock Pension
❄️Keep Winter Fuel Payments
🤰Free school meals
🇪🇺Closer ties with EU
🗳Fair votes/ PR
🌎Climate action/Net Zero
🇵🇸Ceasefire in Gaza/Two state solution
🇺🇸Stand up to Trump
#LibDems🔶

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Siegfried @siegfriedwatson.bsky.social · 7h

This image has been disproven, it's Toronto police from a while back.
... But we should still do this to ICE, lmao.

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Always Think 1st so U R #WokeAF @alwaysthinkhow.bsky.social · 8h

#WarRavagedPortland they are ICE fishing @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3h

Today I wrote about why my law firm is currently litigating 63 voting and election cases in 30 states. While the legacy media focuses on other things, Trump has launched a wholesale attack on free and fair elections.

I started Democracy Docket to keep you informed. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 3h

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

If you’re not alarmed yet you’re not paying attention. 🇺🇸

www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 3h

Orlando! Trump shut the government down cause he wants to rip away your healthcare to give Billionares a tax-break. Rally with us tomorrow (Thursday) @ 6PM. RSVP 👇🏾

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Healthcare Over Billionaires Rally · Maxwell Alejandro Frost for Congress

Join Congressman Maxwell Frost, Rep Anna Eskamani, Orange County Democrats, SEIU, AFGE, healthcare professionals, and impacted workers on Thursday, October 9th at 6 PM as we rally to protect access to...

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Rebecca Taylor @beccaet.bsky.social · 3h

😂😂😂

Cam Walker @walks30.bsky.social · 3h

“Children left unattended will be given a Red Bull and taught to swear.”

- sign at The Heys Inn, Oswaldtwistle, UK

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Rebecca Taylor @beccaet.bsky.social · 3h

Men like that really don't want to tackle VAWG at all 😡 They want to scapegoat an "other" so they don't have to address deep seated misogyny in society that leads to street harassment, stalking, domestic violence, rape/sexual assault and 2 women murdered every week by a current or former partner.

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Pawel Swidlicki @pswidlicki.bsky.social · 3h

The whole piece is just hackneyed bigotry which doesn't stand up to scrutiny, only someone with no experience of dealing with the HO could claim 'the governing class insists on uncontrolled immigration', as if Windrush never happened. Likewise the assertion that only certain minorities practice VAWG

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 9h

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 9h

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 9h

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 9h

A big reason why the Conservatives have the lowest trust rating of every party on immigration [an area of comparative political strength for the Conservatives for half a century until 2010] was making promises that they didn't deliver.

Partly as the promises were unlikely if not impossible

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 23h

I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.

Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.

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