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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

that donald trump was allowed to become president again after J6 is something we may never recover from as a nation

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9h

Have you ever noticed that old clothes online sometimes look better than old clothes in your closet?

Why is that? 🧵

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14h

Navarro: 'we are just in the most beautiful place we've been I think ever with respect to trade'

*In Q2 2024, China bought over $3 billion in soybeans from U.S. farmers. This year, they’ve bought $0.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 13h

This seems bad. Craven, abject and despicable are all epithets that also spring to mind.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 13h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Roy Kelly @stanyanfan49.bsky.social · 14h

If you’ve missed the trailers and hadn’t heard of this just to let you know it’s great, and everyone in it is wonderful, especially Aimee Lou Wood. And the currently ubiquitous Suranne Jones gets a chance to show how fabulous she is at comedy.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Film Club

Besties Evie and Noa watch films together every week. But are they only there for the love of movies or something more? Big-hearted rom-com with Aimee Lou Wood and Nabhaan Rizwan.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 15h

Unpopulism — latest

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Roy Kelly @stanyanfan49.bsky.social · 14h

Quality jokes and put downs throughout.

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Roy Kelly @stanyanfan49.bsky.social · 16h

Found in loft where it had migrated at some point. T P Riley was Noddy Holder’s school, where we crossed over briefly. Mr Dickenson, the prize patron, was also Deputy Head and thought Noddy, aka Neville, was bright enough to do better than mess about in a beat group.

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Jon Savage @jonsavage.bsky.social · 20h

I’m obsessed with this record at the moment - a perfect mix of melody, deep feeling and the complexities of love. Arthur as June Alexander’s first record, from around 1960. Dylan covered it but the original is just wonderful (repro 45) m.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Ky...

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 18h

Trump is much weaker than he looks. He's always been a bloated, sloppy, low-IQ flaccid failure. Now he’s a bloated, sloppy, low-IQ flaccid failure desperately trying to distract from all that by attacking US cities with our military and sending his Justice Dept after political opponents.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 17h

If you had written this as a fake news headline a year ago, you would be called hysterical.

Reuters today. Fascism.

Reuters story headlines:

Trunp calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment

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Mario Nicolais @marionicolais.bsky.social · 17h

"If I had to enact it, I do," Trump said. "If people were being killed, and courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up, sure I’d do that."

Undermining states’ rights and the judiciary in one fell swoop.

Pure, unadulterated authoritarianism.

abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics...

Trump says he'd consider invoking the Insurrection Act. What does that mean?

He has been discussing and his allies have been talking about insurrection.

abcnews.go.com

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Roy Kelly @stanyanfan49.bsky.social · 18h

You skate over the Arthur as June bit. As stand ups always say, What’s all that about.
What a record maker though. Provided both Stones and Beatles with two of their best early tracks.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 21h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 1d

As for this - in other words the government would rather we offshore our operations instead of generating jobs and exports in a high productivity sector in the UK. I despair...

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 23h

Apart from the objective stupidity of it, the things they want to cut contribute massively to the economy, so even by their own pathetic, crushingly unimaginative and soulless standards it makes no sense at all.

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Roy Kelly @stanyanfan49.bsky.social · 22h

New parodic territory ahoy.

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I Don't Like Your Tie @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · 23h

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It was a bright cold day in June and the EMI clock was striking thirteen.
George Harrison, chin nuzzled into his breast, whipped by a vile wind, slipped through the glass doors of Victory Studios. The reception smelt of boiled cabbage and magnetic tape.
Enormous at the end of the foyer was a poster. It bore that thin, handsome face, hair slicked back, the eyes seemingly following you around the room. And the familiar words:
EMI IS WATCHING YOU.
On the telescreen, a prim young woman recited the latest record production figures. Harrison’s job was oiling the versificators, ensuring that the steady flow of automatically generated, unremarkable sentimental songs continued through the telescreens. He noticed McCartney in the line for the stairway. They had both attended the same indoctrination centre. Once, Harrison had heard him singing on the stairway. A great, catchy, sweeping melody about a girl. Dangerous. McCartney caught his eye cautiously. They quickly looked away.
From the telescreens, a great voice boomed:
TIES ARE PEACE.
OPEN COLLARS ARE SLAVERY
SARTORIAL UNITY IS STRENGTH
A cough behind him and George gasped to find himself face to face with Martin. His eyeline filled with a horse-patterned half Windsor, tightly knotted. “Harrison,” Martin said, speaking with a mild, almost regretful irony, “I’m aware that yesterday I gave you some very clear instructions on the maintenance of these versficators. I need your report.. Is there anything you’re not happy with?”
At sight of that face, so intelligent, his heart seemed to turn over. He almost stretched out a hand and laid it on Martin's arm. The old feeling, that at bottom it did not matter whether Martin was a friend or an enemy, had come back. Martin was a person who could be talked to.
In some sense that went deeper than friendship, they were intimates: somewhere or other, although the actual words might never be spoken, there was a place where they could meet and talk. O'Brien was looking down at him with a…

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 22h

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. 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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Roy Kelly @stanyanfan49.bsky.social · 23h

What does Badenoch think when Jenrick deplores the number of non-white faces in an area. Does she never think, Hang on, he’s talking about me. Or does she, as seems likely, decline to categorise herself as anything other than Party Leader.

Roy Kelly @stanyanfan49.bsky.social · 23h

If you’ve ever worked in libraries you know exactly what kind of person Kemi Badenoch is, The Great British Badenoch: supremely confident of their rightness and not bright enough to see they’re in the wrong; always disputing a fine or lost book; quick to say, Perhaps you can get someone who can help

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

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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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