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Dad to two amazing daughters, cell biologist, uni lecturer, inspired by students often studying in dire circumstances, non-childless cat man (x2), sports (judo, squash, and anything else I can fit in). Glad to have found Bluesky; too much grief elsewhere.
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Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin.
This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.
This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.
January 20, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin.
This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.
This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.
Scott Bessent: ‘the EU projects weakness’. Utter pathetic, patronising garbage. Sycophantic repetition of gross policy and verbal stupidity (that he surely does not believe in) is just disgusting. It all seems to be getting (unbelievably) worse. Where is their backbone? They can say enough already.
January 19, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Scott Bessent: ‘the EU projects weakness’. Utter pathetic, patronising garbage. Sycophantic repetition of gross policy and verbal stupidity (that he surely does not believe in) is just disgusting. It all seems to be getting (unbelievably) worse. Where is their backbone? They can say enough already.
Trump is gross, but Vance is surely worse. Trump operates on greed & what is best for him, but is ultimately dumb. Vance is smarter and more calculating, and knows he ditched his morality. A political chameleon; to feel less irrelevant. He’d probably say Jesus was a radical communist vagrant.
January 9, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Trump is gross, but Vance is surely worse. Trump operates on greed & what is best for him, but is ultimately dumb. Vance is smarter and more calculating, and knows he ditched his morality. A political chameleon; to feel less irrelevant. He’d probably say Jesus was a radical communist vagrant.
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Donald Trump won the first “FIFA Peace Prize” at the World Cup draw – 21 reactions worthy of the Nobel www.thepoke.com/2025/12/06/d...
Donald Trump won the first “FIFA Peace Prize” at the World Cup draw – 21 reactions worthy of the Nobel
Donald Trump, as he tells us repeatedly, is the Peace President (hey, stop sniggering down the back; we said “PEACE” President). As he waits another year to learn if he has won the Nobel Peace Prize, ...
www.thepoke.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Donald Trump won the first “FIFA Peace Prize” at the World Cup draw – 21 reactions worthy of the Nobel www.thepoke.com/2025/12/06/d...
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It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
www.bbc.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
So, to be clear, you can call a group of people garbage, summarily execute people on boats without due process, pardon a convicted drug trafficker, appoint a Health Secretary who is on a mission to make the US less healthy through ignorance of established data, and then ‘win’ a peace award?
December 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
So, to be clear, you can call a group of people garbage, summarily execute people on boats without due process, pardon a convicted drug trafficker, appoint a Health Secretary who is on a mission to make the US less healthy through ignorance of established data, and then ‘win’ a peace award?
Is anyone watching this Oval Office drivel? It’s so embarrassing. Please, someone tell him that he’s making himself a laughing stock.
November 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Is anyone watching this Oval Office drivel? It’s so embarrassing. Please, someone tell him that he’s making himself a laughing stock.
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Embarrassing diatribe at the UN today. Is there nobody who can tell Trump how childish and inappropriate he is? Cowardly, all of them. He was wrong about so much. In particular about London. I was there at the weekend: great vibe, lots of fun. Felt welcome and safe. No arrests by masked thugs!
September 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Embarrassing diatribe at the UN today. Is there nobody who can tell Trump how childish and inappropriate he is? Cowardly, all of them. He was wrong about so much. In particular about London. I was there at the weekend: great vibe, lots of fun. Felt welcome and safe. No arrests by masked thugs!
Still struggling to believe that anyone would not know the difference between transgender and transgenic. Do Republicans just not look stuff up? Is ignorance the plan? I can remember when the wannabe king said that nobody knew what the 19 in COVID-19 was for. So dumb.
March 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Still struggling to believe that anyone would not know the difference between transgender and transgenic. Do Republicans just not look stuff up? Is ignorance the plan? I can remember when the wannabe king said that nobody knew what the 19 in COVID-19 was for. So dumb.
Dinesh D'Souza apologizes for false claims in election conspiracy theory film ‘2000 Mules’ - The Independent
December 3, 2024 at 6:59 AM
Dinesh D'Souza apologizes for false claims in election conspiracy theory film ‘2000 Mules’ - The Independent