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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 31m

www.thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Alberta’s Border Patrol Has Made Only a Handful of Arrests | The Tyee

Ten months in, critics are concerned about the $29-million cost and few results from the initiative.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 3h

It's just, you know, it's very hard right now for anyone leading the Tory party cos you are basically always gonna have this problem lol

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1h

oh they made pat mad

“This prosecution was brought by President Trump,” Comey’s attorney, Patrick Fitzgerald, said, adding that they may file an “outrageous government conduct” motion.

Comey’s team also plans to challenge the appointment of the prosecutor in Virginia who brought the charges against him, Lindsey Halligan.

Fitzgerald, said at one point that “it’s the honor of my life” to represent the former FBI director in the case.

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 1h

This is part of why dealerships kind of hate them, right?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

i’d say the real killer feature of EVs is basically the lack of real maintenance costs.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1h

www.axios.com/2025/10/08/t...

Trump baselessly calls for Pritzker, Chicago mayor to be jailed

The state and city sued the administration Monday over the deployment of troops to Chicago.

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 1h

I don't know why some people want to have an unprofessional military so badly. I guess because they feel emasculated and irrelevant, and this will help them feel like a man by proxy. Kind of sad when you think about it.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 9h

rockwell_man: I think drills shouldn't engage in literal physical assault of recruits for any reason, much less to verify a brass check and/or just for fun

that said I do think infantrydork should be punched in his xiphoid process as many times as it takes for him to stop poasting

infantrydork claiming drills laying hands on recruits builds character, including literally punching them in the stomach for fun .

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

on the plus side maybe the next UK general election will be shaped by American disorder?

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2h

it does seem increasingly apparent that next year will be when things really unravel

JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 2h

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest U.S. city. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

kinda wonder what america looks like in 4 years and what ads like this look like then

Kerry @kerrypolka.bsky.social · Apr 29

this is a literal attack ad running in Australia right now lol

Screenshot of a political TV ad, showing a full hospital waiting room and the text "Dutton wants Australia to be like America". The ad is from the Australian Labor Party, Dutton is the opposition leader (of the more conservative party)

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

kind of odd to remember there was a moment in time where May thought Labour overdid it with anti-social legislation

Labour introduced a ludicrous list of powers for tackling
anti-social behaviour – the Iso, the Asbi, the Asbo and the
Crasbo. Crack house closure orders, dog control orders,
grafti removal orders, litter and noise abatement orders,
housing injunctions and parenting orders. These sanctions
were too complex and bureaucratic. There were too many
of them, they were too time consuming and expensive and
they too often criminalised young people unnecessarily,
acting as a conveyor belt to serious crime and prison.’ (The
Rt Hon Theresa May, Home Secretary, 11 August 2010)

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3h

good morning, mr president

Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 4h

Do you know how happy I would be if the AI ”bubble” collapsed? My god yes give me cheap GPUs to snatch up

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 4h

lol abolishing stamp duty is a policy that will prove hugely popular with the wonk set before absolutely blowing up the moment they announce what would replace it - or, alternatively, how they'd fund the lost revenue

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4h

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 4h

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 23h

Which then leads us to (ofc)
4. oh this is going great what if we upskill/increase the numbers
5. oh no they hate us and are organised/allied with local liberals/radicals
6. Who is John Brown and why is everyone singing about him

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 23h

The global far right are slowly working through:

1. We want to deport all minorities
2. But without them demographics will implode the economy
3. What if we brought them all back but this time without rights

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1d

I was on a panel at Conservative conference today where the UAE model was seriously proposed as a direction to take Britain’s immigration system.

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

Or the maid, with the employer with grabby hands and nothing to eat but bread and noodles, no bedroom, and no way to leave.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 6h

Again, it's really important to understand that anyone who hates theatre, art and academia - three things Britain is still *really bloody good* at making - just hates Britain.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 11h

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

i think bluesky search is broken

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Reuters @reuters.com · 6h

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown reut.rs/4mQvdTF

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

sure why not

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 4h

Kemi Badenoch says stamp duty is what is stopping people from buying homes and just lolol

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

lmao

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 4h

U.K GOVT: THREE NEW BOLLYWOOD FILMS WILL BE MADE IN THE UK FROM NEXT YEAR, PM STARMER HAS ANNOUNCED IN MUMBAI

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 18h

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Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 13h

Pete is out here playing Operator. We do not have a SECDEF.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

bro wants the russian military

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 9h

rockwell_man: I think drills shouldn't engage in literal physical assault of recruits for any reason, much less to verify a brass check and/or just for fun

that said I do think infantrydork should be punched in his xiphoid process as many times as it takes for him to stop poasting

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