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Chris Smith

@ledredman.bsky.social

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Retired Engineer #FBPE Life long anti Tory and Anti fascist Tactical voter

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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · Feb 12

The USA is no longer a reliable ally for Europe. We must build a European defence capability which is totally independent of the Americans. It will cost European taxpayers to do so, but we must stop fooling ourselves that Trump would ever honour the NATO article 5 commitment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Feb 12

Hegseth: "We must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective ... the US does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement."

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RV 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 @rave74.bsky.social · 10h

Bigotry of all kinds has been allowed to flourish. By all parties of power.

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 1d

LGBTQ+ comedians Rosie Jones and Lee Peart were assaulted on a train in what they described as an 'ableist and homophobic' attack.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16h

Someday these ICE thugs will be brought up on criminal charges and receive the justice they deserve.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 17h

On this day in 1953, a Birmingham police commissioner banned an interracial All-Star baseball game organized by Jackie Robinson since it was a "mixed athletic event."

Oct. 8, 1953 | Jackie Robinson and Others Banned From Playing Interracial Baseball in AL

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 16h

"Bondi’s contemptuousness was designed to send a clear message: You have no power to stop us.

Refusal to even entertain the questions of committee Democrats should have been cause for bipartisan scandal. But committee Republicans seemed perfectly uninterested..."

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Bondi to Congress: 🖕

The attorney general came to the Hill to deliver a message to Democrats: Your ‘oversight’ couldn't matter to us less.

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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 10h

My dad used to complain about Petula Clarke being on TV in the early 70's because "she was too old". LOL.

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 12h

In an attempt to show Gary Neville how wrong he was to suggest that middle aged white men are putting flags up to make a point, some middle aged white men have put flags up outside his hotel to make a point.

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 12h

The TUC has warned that the Tory plan to withdraw from the (ECHR) ‘isn’t about migration, it’s about dismantling the legal protections that ordinary people rely on every day’.
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TUC warns Tory plan to leave the ECHR is an attack on workers’ rights

The TUC has warned that the Tory plan to withdraw from the (ECHR) ‘isn’t about migration, it’s about dismantling the legal protections that ordinary people rely on every day’.

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💀 Zandrous 💀 @zandrous.vtubers.social · 12h

HAHAH!

Oh my god. This is so insanely stupid of a lie. Jack Smith didn't get appointed to the case until months after the raid happened. And not only that, he was stuck in the Netherlands until early 2023 after being appointed because of a leg fracture from a scooter accident. Trumps always lie!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Eric Trump accuses Jack Smith of "planting classified documents at Mar-a-Lago"

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Whistler’s Mama @alphagal007.bsky.social · 11h

Because there are no consequences now

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Revolution Underground @americanprodigy.bsky.social · 11h

Notice how they give the price of her home on cable news

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

Johnson: Miss Grijalva has not yet had a scheduled date because she was elected after the house was out of session,

Gallego: You don't want her to be on the Epstein discharge.

Johnson: You guys are experts at red herrings.

Gallego: This is an excuse

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hirono: "I have to conclude that, since no wrongdoing was determined, that Homan kept the money. And I hope he will put that on his tax returns as income."

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 12h

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Yesterday, Stephen Miller had one of the most terrifying Freudian slips I've ever heard.

He claimed Trump has plenary authority (absolute power)—before cutting himself off.

Today, Trump said Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson should be *jailed*.

This is how authoritarian regimes talk. (1/3)

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Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 22h

This is the result of Farage and Jenrick’s far-right, divisive rhetoric. Hard working, responsible people feeling afraid for their future.
Disgraceful.

Doncaster chippy owner 'scared for his children' after vandalism - BBC News

Poseidon's Fish Bar had the word "England" painted on its front, says Iraqi-born owner Darin Ahmed.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 13h

I wouldn't be completely surprised if Farage now matched Badenoch's stamp duty policy. Why wouldn't he? He doesn't give a shit if it's uncosted - for him, it's all about the pledge and the fanfare around it.

Then Starmer has c.4 years to match Farage....

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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 10h

Wrecking and stealing. That's what they do.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 12h

Navarro: 'we are just in the most beautiful place we've been I think ever with respect to trade'

*In Q2 2024, China bought over $3 billion in soybeans from U.S. farmers. This year, they’ve bought $0.

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 11h

Ushering Farage into No 10, with the powers to crack down on dissent from day 1 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Government could crack down on pro-Palestinian protest chants, PM says

The government needs to

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redcazza.bsky.social @redcazza.bsky.social · 11h

Guess what happened when the tories cut stamp duty - House prices went up uf course. Economic illiteracy

Badenoch pledges stamp duty abolition and spending cuts

SAVAGE austerity to fund tax cuts was the tired Tory strategy for government, pledged by party leader Kemi Badenoch in Manchester today.This unappetising menu was spiced up by a new pledge to abolish ...

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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 11h

The feeling is mutual. Especially the shite US sport that nobody else in the world cares about.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 13h

One of the (many) legal gaps that needs to be filled after this nightmare is over is to prohibit federal law enforcement agencies from using federal funds to create propaganda videos with anyone in custody. This is all about spectacle and content creation, remove the incentive and the means

Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 15h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 11h

Jeffries says Dems "have made clear privately and publicly" to Mike Johnson that Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) must be sworn in.

"Why the delay?" he asks. "Does it have anything to do with Republicans continuing effort to hide the Epstein files from the American people?"

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 11h

Illinois governor JB Pritzker is essentially saying that Trump is using the military to overthrow democracy in the US.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 11h

When you watch the Mobster Planet episode of Star Trek and get real confused easily at work

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 12h

My conclusion:

When Mr. Trump attacks democratic institutions, he does so in the manner of a car wreck — so flagrantly destructive as to command public attention. When the Supreme Court undermines our democracy, as it seems poised to do in Callais, it feels more like a slow poisoning: the attacks may be harder to notice, but they are just as deadly

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