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Volewica

@nigel-purchase.bsky.social

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Lapsed neo-liberal, economist, former fund manager, fantasy & SF author, loves Ancient Greek, indifferent clarinettist & sax player. #Xitter exile. Deeply worried about #ClimateChange. No, I don't want to have sex with you. **No** DMs, please

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Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social · 19d

Donald Trump ordering his Attorney General to prosecute his enemies, on Truth Social. Seems he meant to text or DM her.

It's all out in the open. The corruption. The assault on freedom of speech. The weaponizing of the DOJ to prosecute his enemies, even when no crime can be found. All right there.

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Ramez Naam @ramez.bsky.social · 17d

Now that RFK Jr has found the cure for autism, he can retire with our thanks.

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 1h

Farage is saying all teachers are Marxists. They're not. They just teach that we should care for one another. But that offends his fascist instincts. The result is he is turning on a profession that teaches about compassion and empathy - because he loathes it. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

Nigel Farage’s declaration of war on teachers is a war on compassion, empathy and kindness

According to The Guardian, Nigel Farage, speaking at an event at a private Christian college in Michigan, USA, has accused teachers in the UK of “poisoning our kids” and predicted that they would go o...

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1h

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 15h

Chicago and Portland showing us how it’s DONE!!

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Murielle S @frenchieinlimbo.bsky.social · 1h

#farage is a threat .

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Mike Maguire @mike-m1967.bsky.social · 2h

The hilarity continues, let's laugh the bastards out of power.

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 10h

So uh you should ask for these machines to be removed from your state.

Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 13h

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 3h

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Gemma @gemslawrence.bsky.social · 2h

Because of the rapid pace at which Trump/Miller and co are moving, the Insurrection Act is weeks away at most.

And sending red state troops into blue states is a blatant attempt to start the Civil War that Hegseth and co are desperate for.

www.alternet.org/amp/trump-in...

Inside Trump's plan to have red attack blue states — using a 200-year-old law

www.alternet.org

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Thy Magvs Nikola @thymagvsnikola.bsky.social · 10h

I saw the footage of ICEstapo agents firing pepper shot at the footpath in front of the unmoving protesters across the street. Those violent, violent Portlanders had the audacity to stay put. One frog even jittered about in some kind of war dance! 😉

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sanderella11.bsky.social @sanderella11.bsky.social · 7h

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3h

WAKE UP, AMERICA!

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Sally K. H. @calamityjane516.bsky.social · 3h

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DocBuglove @docbuglove.smokefleet.net · 1d

Everyone on the fence about A.I., there's something you don't realize.

It's purpose is to eliminate human jobs and human skills.

That's it. That's its single purpose. For companies to no longer pay people or train them in skills.

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 1d

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13h

Is there a better indication of how superficial and unhelpful mainstream media has become than that they are cutely musing about whether the domestic terrorist who changed "The Department of Defense" to "The Department of War" will get a Nobel Peace Prize—instead of reporting the fascism/terrorism.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1d

Anas Al-Sharif would be the first to post about tne ceasefire and the celebrations of Gaza

Instead, Israel killed him along 250 other Journalists

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 5h

ANTIFA:

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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 15h

So, the president of the United States casually mentioned that he took away free speech. Just in case you missed that.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6h

‘Just money, with no strings attached’: how direct cash transfers are giving women in rural Kenya a new life

Financial support given directly to the women in rural Kilifi county has cut both infant mortality and deaths among under fives, while boosting village businesses

www.theguardian.com

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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 @vero1986.bsky.social · 1d

It was always easy for our military to terrorize citizens as Miller describes.

That's not the point.

The point is that this is America—not the Third Reich—and OUR MILITARY ISN'T TO BE USED THIS WAY.

Anyone who can't understand and accept this was NEVER a fan of America, democracy, or rule of law.

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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 14h

We’re watching an entire political party actively protect the single most infamous sex-trafficking operation of our time.

This isn’t just silence—it’s complicity at the highest level.

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cdlane.bsky.social @cdlane.bsky.social · 1d

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Mack Butterfield @mack2114.bsky.social · Sep 7

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.
It was their final, most essential command.
And if all others accepted the lie, if all records told the same tale,
then the lie passed into history and became truth.

George Orwell, 1984

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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