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Social Equality, Green Energy, Anti-Fascist, Anti-Racist, Pro-EU, Pro-NHS Scottish Independence, 🇵🇸 #FreePalestine Autistic + Married. Name is an alias. 🚫 Porn, Crypto, MAGA

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John Tells 💚 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @johntells.bsky.social · 17d

I follow a lot of American politics, despite being British.

Why? It's because my wife resides in America, and because America has a huge influence over the rest of the world - especially the billionaires.

American politics therefore is extremely important, even though I am unable to vote.

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John Tells 💚 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @johntells.bsky.social · 1m

What do Mastodonian's have against the UK?

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John Tells 💚 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @johntells.bsky.social · 9m

I love words. Please, say some more words. I don't want action, just give me words.

John Tells 💚 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @johntells.bsky.social · 12m

Yeah, um, throwing people around and destroying families also agitates and irritates crowds. One is protected under 1A, the other is cruel and heartless.

But thanks for admitting that you're violating the constitution?

John Tells 💚 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @johntells.bsky.social · 15m

It's one way to get Trump out because we know he won't leave voluntarily, but I agree that Vance might just be so much worse.

They all need to go, but how?

John Tells 💚 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @johntells.bsky.social · 41m

Oh, I know there are unusual cuisines around the world but in Britain? I cannot imagine there are many people advocating for insect cuisines here.

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John Tells 💚 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @johntells.bsky.social · 2h

Reducing the meat industry is ultimately good but who the heck is suggesting that you eat insects?

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John Tells 💚 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @johntells.bsky.social · 3h

If you live here, and you cannot tolerate diversity, you should leave. You don't have the right to take peoples lives, or to destroy families.

Not just Muslim extremists, but your white supremacists too. Citizen or not, get out.

John Tells 💚 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @johntells.bsky.social · 4h

It may lock up some pedophiles but I doubt it'll fix America. You can never know though, perhaps MAGA waking up to the realisation they were lied to and believed in a pedo might allow them to realise they were duped as a whole.

Wishful thinking, of course.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 7h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

JUST NOW IN MEMPHIS — Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social announces his run for Congress: “Believe in me, because I believe you deserve the best. It’s about US.”

Full: www.facebook.com/share/v/1A8A...

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John Tells 💚 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @johntells.bsky.social · 4h

He's got the energy, and sounds like a true American. I wish him the absolute best, he deserves it.

My only advice is to be more secular with your words so that you can appeal to all voters no matter their belief. America is secular, after all.

John Tells 💚 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @johntells.bsky.social · 4h

We have Eero and Ring, both Amazon products. It's out of my control though, otherwise I absolutely wouldn't have them.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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John Tells 💚 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @johntells.bsky.social · 5h

Hasan, a popular left-wing political streamer was captured allegedly shocking his own dog to keep her from leaving the camera view.

The dog can be seen with a shock collar, and yelped after she tried to move. Hasan did not seem to care about said yelp.

If you use a shock collar, fuck you.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h

NEW: Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools.

It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

www.propublica.org

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John Tells 💚 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @johntells.bsky.social · 7h

There is a strong potential for a future in the UK that mimics the America of today.

This gives me anxiety but knowing that a future with my foreign (Indian but American citizen) wife is looking unlikely fills me with depression and hopelessness.

John Tells 💚 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @johntells.bsky.social · 7h

Heseltine was born in the 30s, he lived through WW2. He was there when the bombs fell.

I'd trust his opinion on the fascists of 1930.

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nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 6d

The year is 2003.

17-year-old Stephen Miller is sitting in the back of a school bus talking about torture, as in “Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity."

Miller looks directly into the camera and describes the torturing Iraqis in gruesome detail, as his peers laugh uncomfortably.

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John Tells 💚 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @johntells.bsky.social · 16h

The Tories won't win. They're a lost cause. Reform will absolutely do BrICE though.

John Tells 💚 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @johntells.bsky.social · 16h

Nothing to see here. Just federally funded terrorists shooting a person exercising their 1A right.

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John Tells 💚 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @johntells.bsky.social · 17h

I'm surprised this doesn't have more attention.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

The Supreme Court appears ready to side with Trump in bringing back “gay conversion therapy.”

This practice involves physically abusing teenagers to try to turn them heterosexual, including with electric shocks and chemically-induced nausea.

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John Tells 💚 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @johntells.bsky.social · 17h

I don't have faith in the guy at all, but this is a good message and a good video.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18h

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

John Tells 💚 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @johntells.bsky.social · 20h

Surely we all know about the collapse of the USSR? They very rapidly became capitalist.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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John Tells 💚 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @johntells.bsky.social · 22h

I'm not trying to sound hostile, I am absolutely all for trans rights.

I don't know when you can elect a new governor, or how that whole process works, but I hope that you can all agree on a governor that works for all. Sadly, I know that's difficult as there rarely is a perfect candidate.

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