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Dom
@domruston.bsky.social
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Radical centrist. Learning to sing. But not really wanting to. Beekeeper.
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Dom @domruston.bsky.social · Sep 3
This one thing perfectly highlights the failure of the U.K. political process:

The referendum result was 52/48.

That is *not* a decision or a mandate. It’s basically a *we don’t know *.

Would you bet your family’s future on a 52/48 opinion? Of course not.

But Theresa May did. 🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h
“.. On Sept. 20, Trump meant to send a private message to Attorney General Pam Bondi urging her to prosecute” Comey.

“.. Trump believed he had sent Bondi the message directly .. and was surprised to learn it was public, the officials said.” 🤡

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Dom @domruston.bsky.social · 3h
The USA is no longer a serious country.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3h
I love that we live in a world where we're all supposed to now praise Trump for his peace-making and ignore the fact that at least 20,000 Palestinians have been killed on his watch, with bombs & bullets - & rhetorical support! - that he supplied to Israel.
That's all erased now.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4h
White House policy is increasingly driven by (and aimed at) an increasingly small echo chamber of terminally online right wingers, which includes far too many of the administration’s own top officials. No one else can make sense of what they’re talking about much of the time.
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 5h
Notable about today’s WH roundtable on Antifa, IMO: not just one outside law enforcement/public safety official brought in for it. Bondi, Patel for administration, but no police chief, state Public Safety Secy, sheriff, etc. Just a dozen right-wing “journalists”. …
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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h
OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 5h
Veteran FBI agent Habeas “Habie” Corpus has been suspended
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h
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 · 9h
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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Dom @domruston.bsky.social · 7h
Netanyahu doesn’t want to reach a deal.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 8h
Does this include Laura Loomer who deleted her tweet accusing Charlie Kirk of stabbing Trump in the back?

We all want to know.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth’s sprawling hunt for Charlie Kirk critics spans nearly 300 investigations
The inquiry, resulting in a smattering of disciplinary action so far, follows an extraordinary directive aimed at silencing criticism of the slain activist and Trump supporter.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 8h
Softening up the public. If they’re saying they’re talking about it, they’re going to use it.
Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say
A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.
www.nbcnews.com
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Dom @domruston.bsky.social · 7h
Reposting your own replies. Classy 😁
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Dom @domruston.bsky.social · 8h
Poor sod. I imagine he was hoping for much less than that…
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 8h
“Bondi seemed pleased with her performance, which is a further indication of her essential puerility. It doesn’t take much skill to throw insults at Senators, just a hypertrophic spleen.”

open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...
A Ridiculous Attorney General
Bondi’s smug evasions revealed volumes about the Administration
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 8h
Dems should have adopted Pritzker’s current orientation towards Trump from day one.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h
If you come for my people, you come through me.
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Dom @domruston.bsky.social · 8h
We will, will we?
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Dom @domruston.bsky.social · 8h
Jesus Christ. No wonder you’re so bewildered.
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Dom @domruston.bsky.social · 8h
Are you *seriously* suggesting that there should be no legal distinction between a permanent residence and a holiday home?

Silly. Billy.
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Dom @domruston.bsky.social · 8h
May was PM and could have charted a completely different course post-referendum. Maybe an independent commission to evaluate the pros & cons of the various flavours of Brexit, then a vote in parliament or at least a better informed second referendum…

Her actions were unfathomably irresponsible.
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Dom @domruston.bsky.social · 8h
A holiday home *is not a home*.

It’s a HOLIDAY HOME.
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River @riverlorien.bsky.social · 10h
Making huge cuts to areas like disability support and services to fund cuts that primarily benefit the wealthiest and those in London won't help Starmer with many of the progressive and lower income voters that he's currently losing
Tory plan to abolish stamp duty ‘will benefit London and the wealthiest the most’ – as it happened
The Social Market Foundation thinktank says council tax reform and a property-based tax would be more sustainable and fairer
www.theguardian.com
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Dom @domruston.bsky.social · 8h
What about his ties to Putin?!? 🤨
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11h
FBI agents assigned to Musk concluded he was systematically avoiding conduct standards imposed on those holding high-level clearances. FBI management concluded it could do nothing about this because of Musk's ties to Trump and the GOP.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 11h
JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 19h
Y'days post: The uphill struggle to stop Reform mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Only two political parties are likely to stop a Reform government: Labour and Reform themselves. While Starmer at their conference showed Labour can fight Reform, they also fight against their core vote.
The uphill struggle to stop Reform
Making political predictions is foolish, but I can only see two political parties that can stop a Reform government in the UK: Labour and ...
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Dom @domruston.bsky.social · 8h
We?

You mean you and the rest of Hesselden’s sock puppets… 😘
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h
Sickening.
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