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Json Momoa @jotatx.bsky.social · 1h

@chrischirp.bsky.social is doing a fantastic work here
www.trumpactiontracker.info

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 2h

Finally we find out who Habeas Corpus is!!!

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 3h

🔴 NEW - Nigel Farage and the Brexit cabal are frothing with rage because their immigration promises came true.

The receipts show they all advocated for this exact immigration system 👇🏻👇🏻

Has Farage forgotten his own immigration promises?

We have the receipts, Nigel...

writesbright.substack.com

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 5h

CW - GBN is not a news platform. It is a hate platform.

I don't know how it gets away with using "News" in its name.

Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 1d

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 6h

Katy did repost something yesterday, but apart from that nothing for a month or so.

Hope she is OK

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 6h

Easily fixed on paper...tax the rich more in other areas.

But of course...helping the rich is the entire point, I suspect

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 6h

Trump is a convicted felon...and should be in jail

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 9h

I hope/pray this very flawed ‘deal’ from Trump that Hamas & Israel agreed to ends the genocide & famine & leads to a real ceasefire.

But my biggest fear is there is nothing and no one to stop Netanyahu from resuming the genocide once they get all the hostages back and Trump has his Nobel Prize.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 7h

"In Gaza, destruction is rewarded with contracts and the “peace plan” is property development.

Historian @adam_tooze & economist @ClaraEMattei
trace how capitalism profits through ruin: war, austerity, and reconstruction form one system of control. "
youtu.be/0iIEgp1LPpA

Rebuilding Gaza — For Profit | Adam Tooze

YouTube video by FREE – Forum for Real Economic Emancipation

youtu.be

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 6h

Jonathan Ashworth: "I've wanted to see a ceasefire for 2 years"

The collective position of the Labour shadow cabinet (which you were part of) for months after October 7th was to reject a ceasefire & Labour instructed its MPs not to vote for a ceasefire in Nov 2023.

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 6h

Satire: the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

It didn't feel like satire... 🫤

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 6h

Trust remains a huge issue, however.

I find it hard to trust either Trump or Netanyahu.

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 16h

I know what you mean.

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 16h

I haven't seen what happened, and don't really want to, but hoping you are OK x

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 16h

In an ordinary time, he would already have been in prison

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 16h

I thought things like that were the entire point of the show. Controversy, conflict and whatnot

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 19h

People should stop calling it 'tactical gear', because fascists like that, and it suggests they actually use it for something.

From now on, it should be referred to as 'Emotional Support Clothing'.

#ICE #MAGA #FarRight

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 17h

🎧: Most Israelis refuse to see what their army is doing to Gazan people. Why?

@omerbartov.bsky.social, the Israeli-American professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, joins the Prospect Podcast.

Israeli genocide scholar: My country is in denial

Most Israelis refuse to see what their army is doing to Gazan people. This denialism has its roots in history

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 18h

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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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 17h

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

www.bbc.co.uk

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 17h

This is not a drill.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

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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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 18h

This is a five alarm fire.

Serious implications here: a sitting governor saying basically that the U.S. president is planning to use the military to overthrow democracy in America.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

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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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 17h

Would be funny if Badenoch defected

Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 18h

Thank you for acknowledging that. 😊

Touch wood, I have been lucky, so far, but I keep my mute button on standby.

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Pollik @pollik.bsky.social · 18h

"Number of followers is irrelevant"

Actually, that is not correct. I can name a couple of accounts who have been known to use their large following as a weapon against a target, the alternative guess being they are too dumb to notice that as an issue.

/shrug

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