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Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs.bsky.social · 6h

La Grenouille (1908)
Directed by Segundo de Chomón

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 9h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 9h

Jack Posobiec is at Trump’s “Antifa roundtable” at the White House today. Last week we reported about Posobiec voting in a state he didn’t seem to live in.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

SORTOR: I took this flag from the man that was burning it in the street

TRUMP: Do you know who he is?

SORTOR: Oh yeah

TRUMP: So why don't you give it to Pam. Give it to the attorney general and we'll start prosecutions

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 8h

Wow, tell me more about Weimar Germany and what came after?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

"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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Derek Bryant @derekbryant.bsky.social · 6h

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Doctor’s Grave Final Words Moments Before IDF Flotilla Attack

YouTube video by Katie Halper

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 16h

Paramount has bought the digital outlet @thefp.com and made its founder Bari Weiss the new editor-in-chief of CBS News.

Journalist @davidklion.bsky.social details how the "anti-woke" crusader and pro-Israel pundit rose to the top of the media industry.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 16h

Newly elected Congressmember Adelita Grijalva says she will provide the final vote needed for a petition that could force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Is that why Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to swear her in for the last two weeks?

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 15h

Rep. Ro Khanna: Republicans Could End Shutdown, Lower Healthcare Costs Today

As the government shutdown enters its second week, Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna of California says “the Republicans could open government today.” The two parties are at a standoff over provisio...

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SilentFilmTitle @silentfilmtitle.bsky.social · 10h

The Making of an American (1920). #SilentFilm

Intertitle from 1920 film ‘The Making of an American’ which reads “Nearly a year had passed since Pete's first attendance at Evening School.

With the help of the public library, he had learned that mastery over all good things begins with mastery of self.”

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 19h

Small book, big map! As part of his research on Huguenot-Indigenous American interactions, Maddock Fellow Dr Joe Borsato @theecoalchemyst.bsky.social is looking at translations of Alexander Exquemelin's book on pirates. Apparently the pirates of the Caribbean used to hang out around Tortuga in Haiti

A large map of the Caribbean pull-out from a duodecimo book printed in 1686

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biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social · 1d

Self-Portrait Fixing Foot -- Julie Heffernan biblioklept.org/2025/10/07/s...

Self-Portrait Fixing Foot — Julie Heffernan

Self-Portrait Fixing Foot, 2024 by Julie Heffernan (b. 1956)

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Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social · 22h

pæþ, m/f.n: path, track. (PATH / ˈpæθ)
#OldEnglish #WOTD

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 10h

Other work by the Ladybird artists
Forestry Commission booklet, 1968
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

A scene in a park in autumn is viewed through a frame of broad-leaf autumn leaves

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Derek Bryant @derekbryant.bsky.social · 9h

NHS could pay 25% more for medicines under plan to end row with drugmakers and Trump www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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

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

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Derek Bryant @derekbryant.bsky.social · 9h

UK libraries urged to remove children’s books with URL hijacked by porn site www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK libraries urged to remove children’s books with URL hijacked by porn site

Puffin issues alert to schools and local authorities over books in popular Spy Dog series by Andrew Cope

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Derek Bryant @derekbryant.bsky.social · 9h

Why Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East | Oliver Eagleton www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East | Oliver Eagleton

The Blair-Trump fantasy for postwar Gaza shows the former PM still thinks that free enterprise can solve all the world’s ills, says associate editor at the New Left Review Oliver Eagleton

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Derek Bryant @derekbryant.bsky.social · 9h

Spanish MPs back move to enshrine in law arms embargo on Israel www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Spanish MPs back move to enshrine in law arms embargo on Israel

Decree bans all exports of defence equipment, products or technology to Israel and imports of such goods from Israel

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Derek Bryant @derekbryant.bsky.social · 9h

Gaza ceasefire talks live: Trump may travel to Middle East at the weekend as he hails progress of negotiations www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Gaza ceasefire talks live: Trump may travel to Middle East at the weekend as he hails progress of negotiations

US president says negotiators are ‘very close’ to what he called ‘potential peace in the Middle East’

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Derek Bryant @derekbryant.bsky.social · 9h

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help ailing hospitality sector but health experts criticise plans

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Adam M Ibbotson 🏺 @adamibbotson.bsky.social · 13h

🔥 NEW VIDEO : OUT NOW 🔥

A long time in the making - it is a deep-dive into 'The Devil's Arrows' the 2nd largest standing stones in the British Isles, but bigger than Stonehenge! They're strange...

It's a hoot! Link: youtu.be/WshfMm15Jv8

#archaeology #prehistory 🏺

Britain's LOST Prehistoric Wonder (that's bigger than Stonehenge!)

YouTube video by Adam Morgan Ibbotson

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 17h

NEWS! Woman whose party couldn't spell 'Britain' decides English degrees are a 'rip-off' newsthump.com/2025/10/08/w...

Woman whose party couldn’t spell ‘Britain’ decides English degrees are a ‘rip-off’

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has today announced plans to reduce student numbers taking worthless degrees ‘like English’, just 24 hours after her party spectacularly failed to spel…

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 15h

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Derek Bryant @derekbryant.bsky.social · 11h

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

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A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently assigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 14h

very possibly THE pivotal moment of the 21st century

Telephone Friend @ironyhat.bsky.social · 14h

Watch This .

According to a 2012 Business Insider article recounting Musk's interview with Sarah Lacy at PandoDaily, he admitted that in 2000, while driving on Sand Hill Road with PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, he decided to show off. "Watch this," he said, moments before the McLaren spun out of control, flew "like a discus" three feet into the air, and crashed. The worst part, Musk acknowledged, was that the million-dollar car wasn't insured.

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