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sturdyalex.bsky.social
They got this wrong. The smart "play" would be to offer up that ICE agent as a "bad apple". The more they insult Good, next to a photo of America's sweetheart holding her little boy, the more they try to murder her character, while that video of her murder plays, the angrier people will get. 2/2
January 8, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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JD Vance on the killing of Renee Good: "The reporting over this has been one of the biggest scandals I've ever seen in media. I've never seen a case so misrepresented and misreported."
January 8, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
I hadn't noticed this but the victim is clearly trying to wave ICE through, and then they jumped her.
nysea.bsky.social Prince Caspian @nysea.bsky.social · 1d
Lifted from X (credit to @KeiPritsker)
January 8, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Trump's secret police in action in Minneapolis today.
volberg.bsky.social Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 17h
ICE++ the CBP, and judging from the patches — BORTAC.

BORTAC is a counterterrorism tactical unit of CBP.

Just shooting people
January 8, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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jonnelledge.bsky.social
Watching The War Between the Land & Sea and I'm trying to suspend my disbelief here but there is absolutely no way UNIT would get planning permission for that massive pipe in the middle of Westminster, they'd be tied up in challenges for literally years
December 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
Just seen Grok putting the body of the victim of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis into a bikini. Digital corpse desecration now available to the public.
January 8, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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yougov.co.uk
Which potential coalitions have the most support from Britons?

LD + Lab, Davey PM: 36% support
Lab + Grn, Starmer PM: 33%
Lab + LD, Starmer PM: 31%
Grn + Lab, Polanski PM: 30%
Ref + Con, Farage PM: 29%
LD + Con, Davey PM: 26%
Con + Ref, Badenoch PM: 25%

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
January 8, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
Grok, which generates sexual deepfake images of children as an inbuilt feature, is currently the third most downloaded app on the IPhone app store
January 7, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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snellarthur.bsky.social
Totally agree. Which is why all the "Love Actually Moment" wish fulfilment bollox is just that. Keep him mostly onboard until he's dead/replaced/too demented to know the difference/whatever
January 6, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
Five years ago today.
Front page image: The New York Times TRUMP INCITES МОВ RAMPAGE IN CAPITOL FORCES EVACUATIONS; IT'S 'PART OF HIS LEGACY’, A REPUBLICAN SAYS
January 6, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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robblackie.bsky.social
For every minute Britons spend on Twitter, they spend:

35 minutes on YouTube
35 minutes on Facebook/Messenger
11 minutes on Instagram
7 minutes on TikTok
5 minutes on Snapchat.

If the UK government wants to scale down on Twitter than it's really not a problem for directly reaching people.
Ofcom Nations Report 2025 time use by social media channel
January 5, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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willhaycardiff.bsky.social
Reform UK's director for Wales has been removed from Cwmbran Community Council for failing to attend meetings.

David Thomas is also goes by the names "DJ Dowster" and "Dr Squeegees" (I am not joking).

Find out more about Dr Squeegees here:
willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/special-re...
Special report: Who are Reform in Wales?
We dived into the wild world of Reform UK in Cymru
willhaywardwales.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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captmarkkelly.bsky.social
Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
January 5, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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alexvont.bsky.social
The video in the thread redacts the images, mercifully. But you can see from the prompts what is happening. This is obscene, vicious and intolerable. X and Grok should be shut down until this grotesque harassment can be stopped. Those responsible should face the full force of the law.
eliothiggins.bsky.social Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3d
One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.
January 5, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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bondhack.ft.com
Went to check if this screenshot (posted by @aric.bsky.social) was real (it is) and then made the mistake of also scrolling through Grok's replies on X. Still constantly cranking out sexualised images of young girls. Beyond bleak.
January 5, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why." Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!" First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?" Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization." Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces. Proud to be an American today! USA 🇺🇸" Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster." Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City." Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position" Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"
January 5, 2026 at 6:50 AM
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samfr.bsky.social
Rubio says Cuba is run "by incompetent senile men" in a moment of spectacular projection.

(Yes they're threatening Cuba now).
January 3, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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charlotte2153.bsky.social
There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.
January 2, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
Trump’s inauguration, Taylor’s engagement, and a whole lot of genocide. What a wild ride 2025 was.
December 31, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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dorianlynskey.bsky.social
Happy new year comrades!
December 31, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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joxley.jmoxley.co.uk
Sorry, I am really losing track: should people be punished for things they say on social media or no?
twlldun.bsky.social Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 9d
Fashy Bob off again
December 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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danielsugarman.bsky.social
Having had a day to think through everything about El-Fattah, here's where I stand. Yes, it's possible to believe all of these things at once! In fact, it really shouldn't be that hard.
1) His tweets are hideous, I don’t believe his ‘apology’ for an instant, I hate that he's now here and I believe that his presence, and the presence of any others who believe what he believes does, in fact, make the community I am a part of here less safe. 2) He had a right to citizenship based on the legal parameters (his mother was born here. It doesn’t matter that she was born while her own mother was here as a student and then left when she was two. That’s not how the system works). 3) I don’t believe that his citizenship should be somehow ‘revoked’ for his tweets. Apart from anything else, that’s a terrible precedent to set up. And no, he’s not in the same bracket as someone who literally went to join ISIS. 4) Among other things, he repeatedly supported the killing of civilians. Just dismissing that as “some tweets” minimises the issue. People in my community have the right to be vehemently critical about someone who doesn’t believe we’re human and has tweeted about how he thinks our relatives should be murdered. 5) The government was unbelievably stupid to actively celebrate him coming here 6) The Tories suddenly clutching their pearls on this is pretty hypocritical, especially since they worked very hard when they were in power to help him come here. 7) Watching Farage and others in Reform UK who celebrated someone who tweeted incredibly repulsive sentiments last year suddenly acting outraged at this guy is fairly revealing about their attitude towards someone’s actions based on their ethnic and racial background. 8) Watching some people bend over backwards to pretend that his tweets aren’t a problem or were a ‘long time ago’, doesn’t sound very different to those who ignore the accusations against Farage at school simply because they happened ’50 years ago’.
December 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
having spent a while watching this I would say that it was at its absolute funniest on the seventh, maybe eighth replay
jjvincent.bsky.social James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 12d
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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simonjeffrey.bsky.social
Impeccable timing. ‘Good day bury bad (cricket-related) news)’
December 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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sturdyalex.bsky.social
The newly renamed Kennedy Centre, with DJT's name obscured by a black rectangle.
December 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM