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Danica Ognjenovic

@blytheroad.bsky.social

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Likes: politics, art, flute players, quirky guitar tutors… environmentalists, libraries, Old English and animals. Pro EU🇪🇺 Dislikes: autocrats, oligarchs

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Danica Ognjenovic @blytheroad.bsky.social · 28d

I pick up my flute every day and at some point I know I’ll play this beautiful piece of music by Gluck. One day I’ll do it justice, but I’ll always listen to Jean Pierre Rampal, and to my friend who studied under Rampal in Paris. Music is how I keep sane in a mad world.

Orfeo ed Euridice, Wq. 30: Dance of the Blessed Spirits

YouTube video by Jean-Pierre Rampal - Topic

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

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

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11h

Lord Heseltine, "The number of people aged below 50 who think it was right for us to leave the European Union, is less than 20%

"The latest polls tells us 56% now believe it was mistake to leave the European Union"

Hands up if you are one of the 56% 🙋‍♂️

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10h

We just hit 93,000 members.

We're polling on average higher than we have ever before.

Over 1000 people joining a day!

Join our movement.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 21h

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 13h

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Fuck you Trump

NHS could pay 25% more for medicines under plan to end row with drugmakers and Trump — The Guardian

UK ministers preparing to raise payments to end standoff with pharma industry, cited as reason for firms axing British investments

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 11h

Though less than 1 percent of the planet’s 14,000 or so identified mushroom species are known to luminesce, the actual figure could be much higher. And with more scientists turning their attention to fungal bioluminescence, new information will almost certainly come to light.

Glowing from Within - bioGraphic

With more scientists and artists turning their attention to bioluminescence, new information about glowing fungi is coming to light.

www.biographic.com

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 11h

I try to bring you the latest on French politics on here, as longtime followers know... but the situation now is too bizarre to sum it up in 280 characters.

But basically, Macronist Prime Minister appointed 3 weeks & resigned abruptly on Monday is still resigning, & still no clarity on what's next.

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 14h

These paintings were made
on boards from ammunition boxes
by Ukrainian soldier
Serhii Herasymenko in 2023.

Seen today at the exhibition
Callsign: Artist

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16h

Last night, my team filed a motion to defend voters in California.

DOJ sued 8 states. My firm has filed to protect voters in all 8 states.

We will never back down from the fight to protect free and fair elections.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7d

DOJ has sued 8 states for refusing to turn over their full, unreacted voter files.

My team has now filed motions to defend voters in 7 of those cases in ME, MI, MN, NH, NY, OR and PA.

I suggest that DOJ monitor the docket in the remaining one in CA.

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Danica Ognjenovic @blytheroad.bsky.social · 11h

“As Sen. Durbin said to Bondi after she once again refused to provide any information in response to his question, ‘Eventually you are going to have to answer for your conduct in this. You won’t do it today, but eventually you will’.”

dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 12h

This is a very good post by @nycjayjay.bsky.social - especially on the direct questions Bondi did not answer.

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Pam Bondi Is a Piece of Work

And it’s clearer than ever that she sees her job as covering for and protecting criminals within the Trump regime.

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Danica Ognjenovic @blytheroad.bsky.social · 11h

Reading this excellent piece with the detached misery that accompanies flu.
Basically, @davidallengreen.bsky.social points out that Brits might soon be limited in the number of times they can protest an issue, after which their quota runs out. Per individual or per gathering? Asking for a friend.

dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

NEW

Freedom is just another word for "a gap in the law"

The Home Secretary wants to ban more things

By me

Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/freedom-is...

Personal blog
davidallengreen.com/2025/10/free...

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 15h

"Bondi’s contemptuousness was designed to send a clear message: You have no power to stop us.

Refusal to even entertain the questions of committee Democrats should have been cause for bipartisan scandal. But committee Republicans seemed perfectly uninterested..."

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Bondi to Congress: 🖕

The attorney general came to the Hill to deliver a message to Democrats: Your ‘oversight’ couldn't matter to us less.

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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murderedbybluesky.bsky.social @murderedbybluesky.bsky.social · 1d

"Speaker Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House may have more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records."

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, New Yorker

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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 16h

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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Danica Ognjenovic @blytheroad.bsky.social · 16h

@zackpolanski.bsky.social continues to rattle the settled media; growing membership numbers would suggest that the Green Party has a message that people want to hear.

Lara Parmiani @laravp8.bsky.social · 1d

For the first time in my life I'm hearing the Green Party mentioned on Lbc radio at least once day if not more.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.

Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The greens may be the threat that the right never saw coming.

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Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 20h

Britons back staying in ECHR by 46% to 29%, poll suggests - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18h

Myanmar’s military junta bombed a Buddhist festival this week, killing at least two dozen people and injuring dozens more, according to a witness and the country’s civilian government in exile. A manned paraglider with a motor dropped a bomb on the festival, they said.

Myanmar Military Paraglider Bombs Buddhist Festival, Killing Dozens

The junta targeted a festival in the Sagaing region where people were also protesting army rule, according to witnesses and the civilian government in exile.

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