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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 12h

Looks remarkably like the stores have windows despite Trump's prostestanions they are all boarded up!

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17h

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 12h

Who listens to this shit and buys into it?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 13h

And excercised by Hitler & Himmler 100 years ago.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 14h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 13h

In principle yes but in reality when it has been suspended it the the property market improved. Whether that's a good thing is a different debate.

Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 14h

Tories will abolish stamp duty to “revive the housing market”

First time buyers don’t pay it anyway (up to £300k) & the fact the average UK house price is 10x the average salary is the problem, not £5k stamp duty on a £300k house! And then there’s the £24bn lost tax revenue…

Totally deluded 🤦‍♀️

Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 13h

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14h

Lord Heseltine, "The number of people aged below 50 who think it was right for us to leave the European Union, is less than 20%

"The latest polls tells us 56% now believe it was mistake to leave the European Union"

Hands up if you are one of the 56% 🙋‍♂️

Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 13h

You are absolutely right and the only man calling these idiots out!

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20h

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 13h

Where is Colonel Tom Parker when you need him to keep this idiot away from publicity?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump on George Santos: "We have a young congressman that's right now in jail for lying about where he went to college and other things. It was frankly not good. It was pretty bad. But it was nothing compared to Blumenthal."

Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 20h

If only the World had the backbone to implement Sanctions against the US for Human Rights violations!

God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Pritzker is right. They want to normalize troops in cities so they can steal every election just like Putin does.

Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 20h

I love the English language, where it emanates, the intense anomalies and the enormous ability it offers to create comedy. How is that superfluous?

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 20h

I love the English language, where it emanates, the intense anomalies and the enormous ability it offers to create comedy. How is that superfluous?

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 1d

According to ITV News last night one child is killed every hour in Gaza. Yet our Politicians fret about Students protesting, we still supply Israel with armoury and Trump wants a peace prize!

Ally The Ever Hopefull 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @agulland.bsky.social · 1d

The deliberate murder of children is a sickening war crime.
I hope all those involved are brought to justice and spend the rest of their lives fitting in jail.
#FreePalestine

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Ally The Ever Hopefull 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @agulland.bsky.social · 1d

If you're pepper spraying a pastor then you're the bad guys.

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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🏳️‍🌈💙🇺🇦 Mariana Watts 🇺🇦💙🏳️‍🌈 @marianaunderthe.bsky.social · 1d

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 1d

100% correct.

Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 1d

& that's just the way that 10% want it: #neo-classism

www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says

Research finds it would take average worker saving all their earnings for 52 years to match wealth of richest 10th of society

www.theguardian.com

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t like any of them but her, Jenrick and Philp are wholly laughable. They have no chance

Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 1d

Well said 👏👏👏👏 Non entity politics, parroting nonsense.

Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 1d

Badenoch’s only achievement is to have shrunk the Tories to a low-wattage Faragist think tank and warehouse storing future parliamentary candidates for Reform www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 1d

How he became a MP is a complete mystery but an ex Minister and ongoing shadow minister is funnier than his jokes

Kat Trimble @tangocat.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Philp is so dull. It's like someone let the pencil monitor out for a breather.

The podium has more charisma.

Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 1d

Just heard on ITV News that one child dies every hour in Gaza: and our politicians are a bit upset about some student protests? Fuck Off and stop selling arms to Israel!!

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick is a dangerous fool

Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 1d

We have an independent judiciary in this country. Robert Jenrick wants puppet judges.

The Conservative Party once believed in the rule of law and our shared British values - no longer.

Robert Jenrick holds up a judges wig like a puppet during his speech to the Conservative Party Conference.

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 1d

I am like Zombie most days. Can sleep anytime but bedtime

Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 1d

Snap!

rabagast @rabagast.bsky.social · 2d

one thing i love about myself is how i sleep 4 hours at night, feel like a poorly reanimated corpse all day, start getting real sleepy a few hours before bedtime but still too early to go to bed, then as bedtime approaches i'm WIDE AWAKE AND NOT FALLING ASLEEP UNTIL 4AM AGAIN. and again. and again.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

After spending an entire morning defending his suggestion that there are too many non-white faces in the UK, Robert Jenrick ends his speech with the line: "Let's take our country back".

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

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Richard Cato @richardcato1.bsky.social · 1d

So hope this is true

Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 1d

Read Andrew Wilson’s latest. Great piece on the very bad numbers Trump is facing in the shutdown fight.

www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-shutdo...

The Shutdown Blame Game Is Over — and Trump Lost

Fewer voters see Trump as "tough" and "energetic" now than they did at the beginning of his term.

www.lincolnsquare.media

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

The complete and total bullshit about this is that it should have been the FIRST question asked of Johnson. It is a disgrace that he was not asked about this before he ended his press conference. Unbelievable that he continues to get away with this. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

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