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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 10d

Congrats to Moldova!!! Russia threw everything to destabilize the election and failed spectacularly.

Democracy won 🙌🏼

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UDJG Life @udjg.life · 12d

Clippy says:

It looks like you're trying to be a dictator. Would you like to:
• Demand a private company fire someone?
• Get someone who said something mean about you fired?
• Have the DOJ prosecute your enemies?

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 12d

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14d

If you think that adults taking Tylenol hurt kids, just wait until you read what the adults in the Epstein Files were doing to them.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 16d

"We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy."

Translation:

"We have spent the last days watching millions of customers cancel their subscription and our stock price plummet."

BOOM. ~AA

September 22, 2025
STATEMENT ON JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! FROM THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY
The Walt Disney Company issued the following statement today regarding Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 16d

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 17d

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day....

PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money review – a devastating picture of the biggest spending scandal ever

This rigorous look at the Tories’ ‘VIP lane’ for PPE suppliers during Covid raises questions about the motivations of those involved – ones that are almost too disgusting to contemplate

www.theguardian.com

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Trevor Stables 🇨🇵 🔶🏳️‍🌈 @trevor0257.bsky.social · 16d

No written Constitution. No Proportional Representation...!!
What could go wrong???
#libdems have been warning of this for decades !!

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17d

Reform's plans to end indefinite leave to remain go to the post I wrote last week on their slide towards chaotic authoritarianism.

The British constitution would allow them to do it if they had a majority but at vast cost to our society and way of life.

samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...

The route to chaotic authoritarianism

Why Reform’s deportation plan would have consequences well beyond asylum

samf.substack.com

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17d

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 19d

Pete Buttigieg WARNS America:

“They didn't stop at the law firms. They didn't stop at the Universities. They didn't even stop at the comedians. They are NOT going to stop until they have TOTAL POWER!."

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 20d

Previous generations fought fascism in nearly every corner of the earth. Today it’s on our streets, silencing opposition and attempting to control the airwaves.

The GOP has declared all out war on free speech. It’s up to us to fight for it.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20d

Martin Daubney proving that there really is a lower tier in life than being a former Loaded editor.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20d

Pyongyang-style

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19d

This is a great cover.

A TV remote with buttons showing all the things power can achieve

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 20d

Poland has closed its border with Belarus due to Zapad-2025 military exercises by Russia and Belarus and Russian drones flying into Poland.

This cuts off a €25-billion-a-year trade artery between China and the EU -

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20d

This is the standard approach through history: The community of the free. We've always had people insist on liberty, but only for their group, typically white men with property. Progressive liberalism was about rolling out those rights for everyone, a process that is now being reversed.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 20d

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23d

The private family life of twice divorced Nigel Farage, who had children with both of his ex wives.... and now lives with his girlfriend.... is none of my business... just as the private family lives of everyone else are none of his.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 23d

Nigel Farage:

"Children who have two stable parents have a better chance in life... The most stable relationships, the ones that last the longest, tend to be between men & women... There's an awful lot of kids in the country not getting the kind of start... they deserve."

Farage has two ex-wives.

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Barry Howard 🔶 @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 24d

Reform featured in a quarter of all BBC News at Ten bulletins - considerably more than the Lib Dems, who have 18 times as many MPs, and often policy is unscrutinised, according to an a new study.

It’s time for fair and balanced coverage of all political parties.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage

Nigel Farage’s party featured in considerably more News at Ten bulletins than Lib Dems over six months, study finds

www.theguardian.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 8

ThAt’a nOt TrUmP’s SiGnAtUrE www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

a WSJ analysis of Trump’s signature on his letter to Epstein showing it matches his signature on other documents

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Andrew Cross @euromanc.bsky.social · 28d

Feather down

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 6

This is frankly one of the worst things Donald Trump has ever posted, which is really saying something

Trump: "Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR"

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 6

A political party, that's topping the polls, lauding someone who called for human beings to be burned to death should be a moment for national self-reflection.

This is not who we are nor who we should become.

Reform UK are a plague on our national humanity. We must never permit them to govern.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 3

"Stay tuned for more details" -- Epstein survivor announces that survivors are creating their own list of Epstein-related abusers

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Andrew Cross @euromanc.bsky.social · Sep 3

Why not cut straight to a pre-crime team?

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