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Fifthcolumnblue @fifthcolumnblue.bsky.social · 6h

They know when they're losing, and wondering just when Putin will realise they'ver been lying to him about how badly they've been losing

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 16h

😵‍💫 The Kremlin showed Putin's celebratory lunch with the generals yesterday.

It doesn't feel festive at all. Everyone's expressions are gloomy…

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Fifthcolumnblue @fifthcolumnblue.bsky.social · 6h

Same in the UK. Asylum seekers and immigrants get absolutely shit-all from the government (ie £9.00 per week), so all of the idiots that think they're living in mansions with 96 inch tellies are just that.

Idiots.

Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 7h

Facts matter!

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Chewy @freddagg.bsky.social · 14h

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Fifthcolumnblue @fifthcolumnblue.bsky.social · 7h

MAGA are a load of misogynists, but they're also homophobic bigots.

They don't give a fuck about Trump and his buddies fucking little girls, but they won't stand for anyone fucking little boys.

It's all wrong to normal people, but to MAGA, one is much worse than the other.

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 7h

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

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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Fifthcolumnblue @fifthcolumnblue.bsky.social · 7h

But the tea is lovely, apparently. 🙃

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 8h

Oh this is not great

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Fifthcolumnblue @fifthcolumnblue.bsky.social · 10h

He's a useful idiot for the oligarchs and project 2025 loons.

When he outlives his usefulness he'll simply be an idiot. I reckon that day is fast approaching

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Fifthcolumnblue @fifthcolumnblue.bsky.social · 11h

Only way he'll leave Pennsylvania Avenue is in a box.

If he quits or gets deposed he spends the rest of his days in court or jail.

Never underestimate a cornered rat

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 16h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 23h

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 15h

Governor Pritzker didn't ask for this or consent to it‼️ It's a violation of the state sovereignty of IL. ‼️

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Fifthcolumnblue @fifthcolumnblue.bsky.social · 15h

Those Russians sure are careless when disposing of their cigarette buts...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 1d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 16h

Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has written an open letter to One Nation Conservatives who feel abandoned by their party urging them to join the Liberal Democrats, following Kemi Badenoch’s conference speech today

Full text of the letter:

Dear friends,

Our country is at a crossroads.

The Conservative Party under Kemi Badenoch is becoming more extreme and out of touch, chasing Nigel Farage instead of focusing on the issues that really matter to people. Meanwhile, Reform UK is growing in strength - threatening the tolerant, decent values that hold our communities together.

I know many One Nation Conservatives are deeply concerned about the lurch to the hard right in our country and under Kemi Badenoch’s leadership. Her plans to tear up the Climate Change Act and withdraw from the ECHR show she is abandoning traditional British values of tolerance, decency and the rule of law.

So my message to the millions of One Nation Conservatives who feel let down by their party and reject the divisive politics of Badenoch and Farage is to come and join us. Help us save our country and defend the values we all hold dear.

We will stand strong where others back down. We will not pander to Reform. We will fight to protect our environment, stand up for decency and the rule of law, and stop Trump’s America from becoming Farage’s Britain.

So if you share those values, now is the time to join the Liberal Democrats.

With best wishes,

Ed Davey

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon’s National Guard General: They’ll defend America and protect protesters.

That’s leadership we need more of. 🇺🇸

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 22h

Hello - I'm back again. A new 🧵every day covering the important aspects of the Russia-Ukraine war (without the gratuitous gore)

Today it's Day 1323 of Moscow's illegal invasion as it continues Putin's dream to reunite the states of the Soviet Union, whether they like it or not (spoiler: they DON'T)

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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 21h

Pleased to see that the @newsagents.bsky.social picked up on this article about diversity in adverts too.

The utterly unrepresentative Tango Man really does typify where we've got to on this.

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Who Targets Me @whotargets.me · 20h

In Hungary, it looks as if Meta's decision to end political advertising in Europe (announced late July) led to a significant increase in activity by Fidesz and its supporters/allies.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 22h

Up to 25,000 Cubans could soon be fighting for Russia.

It is reported that Cubans are promised about $2,000 per month - far more than they can earn at home. It is also possible that they are promised jobs in construction but then sent to the frontlines.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 1d

Reform pushes for 85% migrant population certainly is a new direction for the party.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

How the Green Party plan to abolish Landlords.

Basically by just doing exactly what the Government were doing in the 1970's.

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