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Protik Islam-Jakobsson

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Sometimes I think; sometimes I am. Swedish dad, neurologist, giraffe rotator. PhD candidate researching atypical parkinsonian disorders and methods of procrastination. Pluralist in the streets // atheist in the sheets. we stan Kant

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · Jul 8

more info here:
https://www.newsweek.com/toddler-clever-juice-drinking-hack-mind-blown-1714553

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 7h

Every UK government must have a signature act of tremendous self harm

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23h

The NHS and social care would cease to function under UK govt’s new rules on foreign staff.

Workers will have to wait – from 5 to 10 years – before they can apply for indefinite leave to remain, claim any benefit, childcare, or housing support, despite paying taxes

Govt appeasing Reform.

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

www.theguardian.com

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Edvin Alpros Ⓜ️ antisocial dominans minister @edvinalpros.bsky.social · 7h

Greta har alltid konsekvent styrt om alla frågor om henne själv till att handla om sakfrågan, nu senast svarar hon att problemet är folkmordet och inte vad hon själv utsatts för. Det sticker i ögonen på alla självupptagna skribenter och politiker som fungerar precis tvärtom.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 8h

"The most notable benefit is that she gets the satisfaction of doing something she enjoys in her own way"

Amen.

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 8h

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 8h

Once Trump is out of office, every single lawyer that signed off on his crimes must be disbarred

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

COONS: How did you conclude that these strikes on boats in the open ocean are legal?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any legal advice that my department may or may not have issued

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10h

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 12h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 8h

🥲

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 8h

lol they deserve each other so much 🥲

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 9h

FOUR HOURS A DAY???

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 8h

The first move is to purge every single columnist readers like. The second is this

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 9h

FOUR HOURS A DAY???

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 8h

lmaooo

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Ted Cruz § Cancún controversy
Alternative forms

Cancun Cruz
Etymology

Referring to Ted Cruz going on vacation to Cancún, Mexico, during the 2021 Texas power crisis.

Proper noun

Cancún Cruz

(US politics, derogatory, neologism) U.S. senator Ted Cruz.

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 8h

"Cruz left the family poodle, Snowflake, alone inside the house without heat"

Cancún controversy and July 2025 Texas flash floods
See also: 2021 Texas power crisis
In February 2021, during a historic winter storm, up to 4.3 million Texas residents were left without power and millions of others without drinking water, including Cruz and his family. In the middle of the storm, Cruz and his family were spotted on a plane heading to Cancún,

Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 9h

"we have turkey at home" 😅

Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 9h

at least three people I know who recently traveled abroad on holiday told me they felt they could finally breathe once they left the states. They felt safe walking at night and didn’t worry about the government knocking on their door. Their destinations were non democratic countries.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 18h

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15h

Bill Jenrick (father) LinkedIn:

"I served a 5 year apprenticeship at AEI Manchester and qualified as a Management accountant. Then I worked as an accountant...."

Robert Jenrick (son) : "...gas fitters like my dad"

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

I know plenty of politicians 'working classify' their backgrounds, but this from Jenrick is taking the piss.

His father's linked in is here: uk.linkedin.com/in/bill-jenr...

He was a managing accountant who ended up as the Managing Director of Cannon Industries

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 15h

licorice powder
i hate licorice so you can trust me on this

Insipid Twaddle @insipidtwaddle.bsky.social · 16h

The secret to good chili is to add at least two ingredients that don't seem to belong in chili. Mine are bonito flakes and gochujang, but cinnamon/dark chocolate is a fantastic combination as well.

Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 15h

goddamn' weirdo

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 15h

“It appeared that he simply stopped speaking, as he continued to stand blinking before the camera.”

"Plenary authority means complete and total power.”

Paul Blumenthal @paulblumenthal.bsky.social · 18h

Stephen Miller short circuits after saying Trump has "plenary authority" over sending troops into U.S. cities www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 15h

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 15h

it's what the romans would've done

ryan @youfoundryan.bsky.social · 17h

i add fish sauce to marinara

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16h

Netanyahu openly says he "supports the idea of a 'Greater Israel,' which is a batshit crazy idea, which some people used to say was a conspiracy theory on the far right."

Me to Piers Morgan on his show today.

Full show: youtube.com/watch?v=Kmdm...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

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Philip K. Dick Trickle @pkdtrickle.bsky.social · 16h

It’s important to understand that in its two decade history our immigration enforcement agencies have hired the stupidest, most aggressive assholes imaginable. You couldn’t have better recruited for an old school 1990s right-wing militia.

Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 17h

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.

American citizens are being detained & brutalized.

This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

www.pbs.org

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 16h

Savory oatmeal porridge made with chicken stock, merguez, mushrooms, green chili, ginger, Worcester sauce, and scallions 😤

but if we're talking really perverse, then

tin of nido whole milk powder which can be mixed with cold milk to create a disgusting/wonderful thick custardy mess

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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 2d

is it a good day to start a thread of sax-drums duos and kinda related things? sure it is!

here's Bud Freeman and Ray McKinley, "The Atomic Era," from 1946. Freeman was an Austin High Gang member in the 1920s and then a Commodore Jazz mainstay
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_9o...

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Not the Governor of North Carolina; got the handle first @joshstein.bsky.social · 18h

Raju deserves a lot of credit. I remember watching the Jan 6 attack and Raju describing the attack while being evacuated from the building. This kind of questioning is exactly what's needed.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

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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