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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 6h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 6h

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11h

the world of republican congressional leadership, just constantly unaware of anything in the world

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14h

It's never too late

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 1d

"Are there pictures of Donald Trump with naked underage girls?"

"You're a poopyhead"

"I repeat, are there pictures of Donald Trump with naked underage girls?"

Silence.

Bondi ain't defending Trump on this one.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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Mark Henderson @markhendo.bsky.social · 1d

"Little spotted beetles" @secondmentions.bsky.social

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Britain’s big, baffling ladybird glut: ‘My house is literally crawling with them’

These little spotted beetles are looking for a comfortable new home for the winter – and it could be yours

www.theguardian.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

David Squires on … Nottingham Forest’s clash of the titans

Our cartoonist anticipates a battle royale between big men who never shy away from confrontation

www.theguardian.com

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Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 1d

CRYING 😭

thomas skinner on strictly with a union jack flag and ladder

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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

David Squires on … Nottingham Forest’s clash of the titans

Our cartoonist anticipates a battle royale between big men who never shy away from confrontation

www.theguardian.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller is a dangerous madman living in a world of his own making. I really can’t believe there isn’t more discourse around the madness we are witnessing each day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Stephen Miller claims that in Portland "ICE officers have to street battles against antifa, hand to hand combat every night, to come and go from their building"

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

And then there's this intriguing Tweet from Koloshyn's wife @NadinSassy who fled Ukraine along with him to Belarus just before Russia's full-scale invasion. It was taken in 2018 and posted in April this year. What does it mean? 11/12

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

18 months ago.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2d

Yup.

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 2d

if that HIGNFY Euan Blair fuckup had been about a right-winger it'd have had full front-page scandal coverage in the Mail followed by frontpage coverage across the board for the next week, days of "BBC in crisis" headline coverage by the BBC, and parliamentary questions about Tim Davie's future

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 3d

Hmm. We were still fighting in Afghanistan during Trump’s first term. How come we didn’t win “easy” then? Why did Trump sign a one-sided agreement with the Taliban that allowed them to take over?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Alex Richards @alxrchrds.bsky.social · 3d

This is very funny.

‘Sorry residents of Kent.
There are no savings to be made.
In fact, your council tax is going up.’

Reform UK Party Ltd’s ‘DOGE team’ failed.
Here they are at KCC, incl. Russian asset and Farage bankroller Arron Banks (left), and bullshitter and bully Zia Yusuf (centre).

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

I don't believe it!!!

Oh no, wait, I do.

Election poster Kent Council is broken etc vote reform

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t mean to overreact or anything, but this is the commander-in-chief telling military personnel that Democrats are a problem to be dealt with.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

LMAO.

CIA began aggressively tracking Osama Bin Laden in 1995 and they setup a whole unit called Alec Station in 1996 that focused on him and Al-Qaeda.

They were aware of him since the late 1980s.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "Please remember I wrote Osama bin Laden exactly one year ago, one year before he blew up the World Trade Center. And I said, 'You gotta watch Osama bin Laden!' ... I gotta take a little credit."

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3d

Deplorable. Once upon a time, if a president had use a speech to a military academy for partisan purposes, it would be considered a disgrace by both parties.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4d

What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

Convinced that most British people want to live in a functioning, decent country where government improves stuff and everyone can thrive.

The vast majority want nothing to do with this imported hate and atmosphere of violence directed at people just trying to live their lives.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 4d

Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill.

Farage is still silent.

It’s deafening.

#ReformRussianBribes

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