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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21h

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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shanetallon.bsky.social @shanetallon.bsky.social · 17h

Acoustic Disco... 👀

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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 18h

“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

has anybody ever been more obviously full of shit than Pam Bondi is at the end of this 20 second clip?

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 20h

Community notes strike again.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21h

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 23h

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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shanetallon.bsky.social @shanetallon.bsky.social · 1d

PODIUM SPOT!!!

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

The @iea.org's guess at the variable renewable energy share in various countries by 2030 - Denmark will be around 78%.

None of this was meant to be even remotely possible!!

iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/48ecc...

a chart showing various VRE shares by region

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

Trump dodged the Vietnam draft and made a disastrous deal with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The image is an X post by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar
) on X.com, quoting Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand." The post includes a photo of Trump speaking to an audience in Navy uniforms.

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Sean | Drowned in Sound @drownedinsound.bsky.social · 1d

Tory conference: coulda been an email

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Crucial overlooked dynamic: The MAGA agenda fractures the Trump coalition. The "price of eggs" voters hate tariffs, militarization of cities, masked kidnappings, corrupt weaponizing of budget cuts, censoring of comedians.

Me and @amandamarcotte.bsky.social on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy says the safety of the air traffic control system will start being impacted next Sunday if the shutdown continues

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 2d

Listen, I'm not an expert, but this looks and sounds a lot like the President ordering one state to invade another state?

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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shanetallon.bsky.social @shanetallon.bsky.social · 2d

Good read this...

LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 2d

The way Trump has unleashed the AI industry and the requisite dirty power generation it demands harmonizes with all the ways he's inviting corporations to ravage us and our future. And it's making the bubble bigger and longer.

But it will burst.

Which will pop first—AI or Trump?

Two enormous bubbles threaten everything around us.

www.thefarce.org

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d

More messaging like this please

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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shanetallon.bsky.social @shanetallon.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing...

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 2d

This shit must hit so hard if you’re stupid.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Hegseth to the Navy: "Your diversity is not your strength"

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shanetallon.bsky.social @shanetallon.bsky.social · 2d

My favourite song by The Cure...

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 3d

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shanetallon.bsky.social @shanetallon.bsky.social · 2d

Quite a selfish one, but being in my early 40s and having a year ago taken up learning the Trumpet, my advice is learn a musical instrument. The world needs as much music as it can possibly get...

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

shanetallon.bsky.social @shanetallon.bsky.social · 3d

If you can’t see the tooth marks, have you even buttered your bread???

Susie Dent @susiedent.com · 3d

Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

I suspect a party platform of 1) turning back every Trump action and policy, 2) arresting every employee of ICE for involvement in or abetting of crimes against humanity, would do very well.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3d

Here is a thing that I hear from *almost every British Jew I know* but have barely heard expressed in any of these programmes: No single person has done more to make Jewish people globally less safe than Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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shanetallon.bsky.social @shanetallon.bsky.social · 3d

Ruben is getting his first back to back wins at Anfield. I don't make the rules. Banter Era Manchester United make the rules...

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 4d

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

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