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Hector the Cat
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Trying to be pragmatic - often irritated

My old account in the other place:
https://x.com/hector_paw
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This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.

I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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OH GOODY JAKE BERRY WILL BE APPEARING ON R4 ANY QUESTIONS TONIGHT. WE HAVEN'T HAD ANY BBC MEDIA APPEARANCES BY MEMBERS OF REFORM UK LTD. FOR AT LEAST 21 HOURS!!
December 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Trump is sinking us in inflation and debt.
December 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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It is very difficult to think of anything Trump has done this year that does not denigrate the USA’s staunchest allies and delight their once shared enemies, most obviously Vladimir Putin. And apart perhaps from Mark Carney, Western politicians are not rising to the unprecedented challenge he poses.
Trump: "Immigration and energy are going to destroy Europe."
December 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It’s even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
December 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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December 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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What’s happening at the Supreme Court this week is bigger than just one FTC commissioner. The majority seems ready to endorse the “unitary executive” theory, giving Trump the power to purge agency staffers and replace them with loyalists. It’s a frightening prospect we should be paying attention to.
Humphrey’s Who? The Big SCOTUS Case Few Understand
A decision over who Trump can fire will reshape how our entire government functions
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Spoiler alert…

It wasn’t.
It isn’t.
They don’t.
Trump: "It was a rigged election. It's gonna come out over the next couple months too, loud and clear. Because we have all the information."
December 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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To be honest, I never ever remember anyone making jokes about the holocaust in the 70s.

I DO remember the police guarding hundreds of NF members doing a Nazi salute on the roof of a pub opposite the Rock Against Racism concert in Victoria Park

They weren’t joking

Real Nazis are still around
I remember the kids who made "jokey" Hitler salutes in school. They were utter cunts in every other aspect of their personalities, too.

It's not an excuse, it's a confession.
You know I actually find it really intriguing that a bunch of British upper class people are coming out of the closet to admit that as children they made "jokey" Hitler salutes, because I was once (if in another country) the child on the receiving end of that kind of "jokey" antisemitism.
December 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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I've loved Sigourney Weaver ever since one of my all-time favorite movies, ALIEN. Couldn't resist going all fanboy on her yesterday & asking for a photo. She told me she's now in the cast of The Mandalorian. Talk about bad timing: she's now in that galaxy far, far away, years after I checked out! 💔
December 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Trump is captured by the information he gets. And Tulsi Gabbard will be feeding him garbage

“I have knowledge. I have vast knowledge. I see what’s happening. I get reports that you will never see. And I think it’s horrible what’s happening to Europe.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump lambasts ‘weak’ and ‘decaying’ Europe and hints at walking away from Ukraine
US president recycles far-right tropes on European immigration and presses Zelenskyy to accept his peace plan
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Time to work with Canada and Mexico:

BBC News - Trump criticises 'decaying' European countries and 'weak' leaders
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Trump criticises 'decaying' European countries and 'weak' leaders
The UK praises Europe's "strength" after Trump says countries fail to control migration or take action to end the Ukraine war.
www.bbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Anyone remember when Keir Starmer got free tickets to the footy and everyone kicked off?
December 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Remembering today the late 🇺🇸 American actor #EliWallach #BOTD in 1915 in Brooklyn, New York, seen here with Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef on location at Sad Hill Cemetery, Burgos in Spain on the set of “THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY” (1966) dir. Sergio Leone

🎬 United Artists
December 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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The United States gives far too much power, money, and influence to silly people with heads full of nonsense.
December 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Musk and Trump hate the EU for the same reasons Farage and Putin hate it. It stands for civil rights, the rule of law, and regulation of oligarchs
December 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Only one flag removed by the county council despite over 130 complains. Hundreds left to residents. And now a man in his sixties has been severely beaten by a mob for taking one down. Read the full story here ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @owensennitt.bsky.social
Left to danger: Norfolk council inaction leads to flag-related violence
As Norfolk refused to act on flag complaints, locals removing them instead found themselves threatened and violently attacked
eastangliabylines.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
BBC News - New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says
www.bbc.com/news/article...
New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says
The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.
www.bbc.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱
December 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Mark Kelly: “Jobs are down. Wages are flat. Costs are up & this President is asleep — Like literally, he’s falling asleep on the job. It’s hurting the American people — He’s doing nothing to try to help people with the cost of groceries, rent, & healthcare”
December 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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I'm really pleased that the accusations against Farage are quite rightly not going away. He appears very, very rattled and deservedly so.

This is very long overdue.
December 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Republican officials never seem to have heard or thought much about the most disturbing actions of their own president.
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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The silent majority of British people are crying out for politicians to come up with practical solutions on immigration.

That means recruiting more caseworkers, getting the backlog down, letting asylum seekers work and pay their way and creating safe and legal routes for refugees.
December 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM