Alison
@happysceptic.bsky.social
European living in Oz. Teacher for 34 years and counting. 🇪🇺🇦🇺🇬🇧
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it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
February 5, 2026 at 1:16 AM
it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
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This is the grim, depressing reality Donald Trump has made of American life.
Instead of waking up on a Saturday, relaxing and spending time with your loved ones, you now have to watch American towns being ravaged and their citizens being murdered by violent secret police. All because of one man.
Instead of waking up on a Saturday, relaxing and spending time with your loved ones, you now have to watch American towns being ravaged and their citizens being murdered by violent secret police. All because of one man.
January 24, 2026 at 5:17 PM
This is the grim, depressing reality Donald Trump has made of American life.
Instead of waking up on a Saturday, relaxing and spending time with your loved ones, you now have to watch American towns being ravaged and their citizens being murdered by violent secret police. All because of one man.
Instead of waking up on a Saturday, relaxing and spending time with your loved ones, you now have to watch American towns being ravaged and their citizens being murdered by violent secret police. All because of one man.
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‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:43 AM
‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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To be fair to a certain group of commentators, if you put aside literally everything Trump has ever said or done, it was really hard to see all this coming.
January 19, 2026 at 8:58 PM
To be fair to a certain group of commentators, if you put aside literally everything Trump has ever said or done, it was really hard to see all this coming.
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There aren't any good options in dealing with Trump. You just have to improvise around his idiocy and hope he gets distracted by someting else.
January 17, 2026 at 4:48 PM
There aren't any good options in dealing with Trump. You just have to improvise around his idiocy and hope he gets distracted by someting else.
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"I'm so angry with NATO for doing what NATO was created to do, that I'm going to Make America Great Again by forcing my own citizens to pay 10% more tax. Now where's my Nobel prize!"
January 17, 2026 at 6:31 PM
"I'm so angry with NATO for doing what NATO was created to do, that I'm going to Make America Great Again by forcing my own citizens to pay 10% more tax. Now where's my Nobel prize!"
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I think this sums it up. He is a laughing stock around the world.
“A festering carcass of American rot. A rotting pumpkin.” Thank you, Oliver from the UK👏
“A festering carcass of American rot. A rotting pumpkin.” Thank you, Oliver from the UK👏
September 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I think this sums it up. He is a laughing stock around the world.
“A festering carcass of American rot. A rotting pumpkin.” Thank you, Oliver from the UK👏
“A festering carcass of American rot. A rotting pumpkin.” Thank you, Oliver from the UK👏
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Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
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Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Muting a Black woman to claim the vote was unanimous is so incredibly on the nose
Good god
December 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Good god
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Just the good, friendly, morale-boosting kind of racism.
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
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Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Just the good, friendly, morale-boosting kind of racism.
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It shouldn’t take nineteen clips to prove the point, but here they are anyway.
Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It shouldn’t take nineteen clips to prove the point, but here they are anyway.
Wordle 1,603 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 well well well !
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 well well well !
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Wordle 1,603 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 well well well !
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 well well well !
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Sorry to interrupt your afternoon, but I felt you should see this.
A rare foray into video as I ask, "Monarchy... what the hell is it all about, eh?"
A rare foray into video as I ask, "Monarchy... what the hell is it all about, eh?"
October 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Sorry to interrupt your afternoon, but I felt you should see this.
A rare foray into video as I ask, "Monarchy... what the hell is it all about, eh?"
A rare foray into video as I ask, "Monarchy... what the hell is it all about, eh?"
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Brexit impact on UK economy
'negative for foreseeable future’, Bank of England chief says
news.sky.com/story/brexit...
'negative for foreseeable future’, Bank of England chief says
news.sky.com/story/brexit...
Brexit impact on UK economy 'negative for foreseeable future,' Bank of England chief says
The bank's governor, Andrew Bailey, said for nearly a decade he had been careful to "take no position on Brexit" but when asked directly about its impact on economic growth he "had to answer that ques...
news.sky.com
October 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Brexit impact on UK economy
'negative for foreseeable future’, Bank of England chief says
news.sky.com/story/brexit...
'negative for foreseeable future’, Bank of England chief says
news.sky.com/story/brexit...
I’m SURE the Nobel board is trolling him in this speech, explaining essentially she’s won because she’s done the opposite of what he’s doing!!!!
October 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I’m SURE the Nobel board is trolling him in this speech, explaining essentially she’s won because she’s done the opposite of what he’s doing!!!!
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📽️ VIDEO: Donald Trump is using the same tactics authoritarians have used to attack democracies for centuries. Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins the podcast to expose Trump's playbook and share one of her most important maxims of resistance.
Watch below👇
Watch below👇
SCARY: Trump Knows What He's Doing | Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Donald Trump is not as dumb as he looks. Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins us today with a warning about Trump's next authoritarian moves.
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October 4, 2025 at 1:00 AM
📽️ VIDEO: Donald Trump is using the same tactics authoritarians have used to attack democracies for centuries. Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins the podcast to expose Trump's playbook and share one of her most important maxims of resistance.
Watch below👇
Watch below👇
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Precisely
Of all the best and kindest humans to ever live, Jane Goodall is near the top of my list.
Rest in Peace, you beautiful soul.
On behalf of the earth, I thank you
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Rest in Peace, you beautiful soul.
On behalf of the earth, I thank you
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Precisely
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This morning was pure psychopathy. On the world stage. In front of generals and admirals who have actual important work to do. Performative partisan political rhetoric from an angry macho dimwitted sociopath and a ranting rambling repetitive narcissist in chief. Absurd. Troubling. And surreal.
September 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This morning was pure psychopathy. On the world stage. In front of generals and admirals who have actual important work to do. Performative partisan political rhetoric from an angry macho dimwitted sociopath and a ranting rambling repetitive narcissist in chief. Absurd. Troubling. And surreal.
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On Friday, Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya left his family home for a shift as the director of the Al-Shifa hospital. A day later, the bodies of six family members arrived while he was still on duty.
Gaza hospital director receives bodies of brother and other relatives while on duty | CNN
On Friday, Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya left his family home for a shift as the director of the Al-Shifa hospital. A day later, the bodies of six family members arrived while he was still on duty.
www.cnn.com
September 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
On Friday, Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya left his family home for a shift as the director of the Al-Shifa hospital. A day later, the bodies of six family members arrived while he was still on duty.
Americans who believe in free speech and freedom of the press need to push back LOUDLY and NOW before it’s too late. Once it’s gone, it’s gone.
September 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Americans who believe in free speech and freedom of the press need to push back LOUDLY and NOW before it’s too late. Once it’s gone, it’s gone.