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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 6h

I thought a MAGA shot Kirk, not a leftist.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 7h

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 7h

As someone else said (I paraphrase):
"If you sit down to a game of chess and your opponent punches you in the face, you're not going to be on the winning side by honing your chess-playing skills."

NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 8h

Gavin Newsom: “What more evidence of authoritarianism do you need? These guys aren’t screwing around. We can no longer screw around. It’s all at stake. People need to wake up. We can’t continue to play by the old set of rules.“

Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 8h

A classic of the genre for @therealyplac.bsky.social @yplac.bsky.social
Milngavie Tesco this afternoon.
I actually saw them parking but was too shy to say anything.

Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 10h

Would the Windsors pay it?
And the Criminal Dukes and Robber Barons?

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Mrs Trellis of N. Wales @mrstrellisofnwales.bsky.social · 19h

Unless they are Tory Fraudsters and in the VIP lane.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 10h

"Sin is bad" says Archbishop of Canterbury.

Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 10h

Yesterday would be better. Tomorrow will do.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 20h

As you've misspelled the metric tonne, and are looking at homonyms, why not include tun* in your comparisons?

*~954 litres

Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 21h

TBF, I think Ms Derbyshire was giving Heseltine the opportunity to develop his argument rather than to contradict him or object to his words.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 21h

Won't do any good, but I signed anyway.

Steven Halsey 🌍 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 @sh1882.bsky.social · 22h

Did you see that Boris Johnson is pocketing £115,000 a year from taxpayers through an ex-PM allowance, all while facing investigation over shady money-making deals?

Call for his taxpayers' allowance to be suspended until the investigation is completed - sign the petition.

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Suspend Boris Johnson's taxpayer allowance

I’ve just signed the petition to suspend Boris Johnson’s £115k ex-PM allowance until they’ve finished investigating his dodgy deals. Leaks show he was using his old office for private business, meetin...

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 21h

#ASongOrMovieForRoadsInGene

Every Fosse Way But Loose

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 22h

But turns off replies and quote posts. Very open and inclusive.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 23h

Ha!
You can prove anything with facts.

Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 23h

See also: your house never sells for less than its market price.

Follow me for more economics wisdom.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 1d

But you'd better do it before they have to start their Father Christmas jobs.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 1d

They do the same with poor quality diamonds. I think they say "cognac" if they're even browner.

Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Well who are you going to believe?
It's a real poser, isn't it?

Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 1d

Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr. "We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 1d

I also don't understand why anyone currently in the military, previously in the military (or related to anyone currently or previously in the military) has anything but the deepest contempt for a five times bone-spurs draft-dodger who thinks they're suckers and losers.

Annette ☮️ (annettebeebe.bsky.social) 💙 @annettebeebe.bsky.social · Aug 14

I agree! I just don’t understand how people think he’s masculine. Someone needs to take his makeup away and whatever he has on his head 😊👍that will help a tiny bit 😊

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 1d

You think you've got problems.
My first pint cost me 1/10 (1s 10d: a shilling and tenpence).
10p came as a shock.
£1 was incredible.
Mind you, my pension is now more per month than my first salary was per year.

Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 1d

And if the LibDems joined the LobDems, even better!

Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Well, he silenced the Europhobes with his referendum and saved the party from splitting, didn't he?

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Wouldn't it be nice if the LobDems and Greens got together along with some of the remaining left of centre Labour people.
There are even one or two Tories who the Custard Filled Binbag purged (Dominic Grieve, perhaps) who might join in.
That coalition would crush the swivel-eyed loonies.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for the laugh.
The sad part is that America is doomed.

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 2d

This guy is in charge of US health care.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 1d

“Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune the cost of which should be shared by the community.”
Aneurin Bevan* (attributed)

An architect of the NHS