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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 4h

Can I just recycle old tweets here when someone becomes topical again? Worth a go.

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 4h

Every day for me. You could be making up Gen Z / Alpha culture and I wouldn't know the difference.

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 6h

critics be warnin'

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 8d

Explaining to a U.S. colleague the time the Labour Party candidate, Ed Miliband, had his election pledges chiseled onto a 10-foot stone plinth. This still feels like something that should be made up, but did actually happen.

Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 10d

I can't begin to describe how accurate this is.

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 10d

Mass shootings in America keep on coming and there appears to be no real action to stop them or to even understand why people want to kill others and sometimes themselves.

Reporting on the latest one today, at a church in Michigan.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Michigan church shooting live updates: 4 dead and 8 injured in Sunday attack

An attack on a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints building in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan has killed at least 4 people and injured 8, police said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 13d

Whatever else this means, Kneecap is going to have a lot of good montage footage for their next film, as their legend just grows and grows news.sky.com/story/terror...

Terror charges against Kneecap rapper cannot continue, court says

Liam Og O hAnnaidh, who performs under the name Mo Chara, is accused of displaying a flag in support of Hezbollah on stage at a Kneecap gig in London in November last year.

news.sky.com

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 13d

I follow this where I live in Hertfordshire - even very small developments have campaigns against them. Facebook comments tend to people saying a mixture of a) "we don't need houses" 🤔 b) "it's just greed" c) "traffic is already
bad"

Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 13d

Local news coverage like this from the Sheffield Star show how difficult it will be to reverse the housing shortage. The odds are really stacked against anyone arguing the green belt should be used for news homes.

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 14d

This is a sympathetic interpretation - I might paint one of those on a roundabout to see what happens

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 14d

Make it make sense

Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 14d

The undefeated final boss of this is a union jack with ENGLAND written on it

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 14d

We are seeing a lot of England flags around and I have a question.

Why do some of them have ENGLAND written on them.

Isn't the whole point of flags that you can recognise the nation without needing to write it down.

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 16d

"It's too much liquid"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Trump: "It's too much liquid. Too many different things are going into that baby at too big a number. The size of this thing when you look at it. It's like 80 different vaccines and beyond vaccines."

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 16d

Announcing that (not new) research has confirmed your long-held political beliefs about health, contradicting the medical community. An interesting way to conduct science.

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 16d

"President Trump pledged to address America’s skyrocketing rates of autism, and his team is deploying Gold Standard Science to deliver on this pledge."

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

There are not enough🤔emojis in the world

With RFK Jr. behind him, Trump pushes unproven link between Tylenol and autism

Acetaminophen has been used for decades in Tylenol and many other over-the-counter medications as a pain and fever reliever during pregnancy.

www.nbcnews.com

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 21d

Does Starmer need to work a little bit on his body language

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 21d

It's nice to get feedback from supportive readers.

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 24d

What odds now for the Tory Party to fully merge with Reform? via @skynewsrss.bsky.social

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · 29d

Kellogs Lumpy Nut Cornflakes (tm)

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · Aug 29

I wrote this in 2022 and nothing has changed. www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u...

Disaffected, radicalized young men are not a uniquely American problem. Mass shootings are.

“If firearms were more readily available, these people would quite happily use them,” said a former detective sergeant with London’s Metropolitan Police.

www.nbcnews.com

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · Aug 29

VPOTUS says this is to do with an over-prescription of anti-depressants.

Other countries have SSRIs and serious mental health problems.

Only one has regular school shootings.

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · Aug 29

No red flags were raised — except the fact that deadly weapons are readily available in every city in the country?

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Investigators say no red flags were raised before Minneapolis church shooter amassed an arsenal of guns

But police visited her home at least two times when she was a teenager, records show.

www.nbcnews.com

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Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · Aug 7

Explainer here: www.nbcnews.com/politics/eco...

In short, they are paid by the importer. That money isn't exactly "flowing into" American from overseas.

How tariffs work and why they are a key part of Trump's agenda

The Trump administration has given a variety of reasons and mixed messages for ratcheting up the tariffs charged on goods coming into the United States.

www.nbcnews.com

Patrick Smith @psmithjournalist.bsky.social · Aug 7

This is not how tariffs work.

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