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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 2d

Live scenes from the Tory party relaunch.

Fight GIF

Alt: Man in a yard with bare earth throwing a model plane which smashes into the ground and breaks.

media.tenor.com

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 1d

America is not strong enough to survive without Dolly Parton holding us up via gravity-defying hairspray.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

Dolly Parton’s sister, Freida Parton, is asking for people to pray for her sister’s health.

Verified Facebook post by Freida Parton. The caption reads:

“Last night, I was up all night praying for my sister, Dolly. Many of you know she hasn’t been feeling her best lately. I truly believe in the power of prayer, and I have been lead to ask all of the world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me. She’s strong, she’s loved, and with all the prayers being lifted for her, I know in my heart she’s going to be just fine. Godspeed, my sissy Dolly. We all love you! ❤️”

Below the caption is a photo of Dolly Parton standing outdoors in front of lush green ivy, hands clasped in prayer, wearing a shiny silver outfit with lace-trimmed sleeves, her signature blonde hair styled in soft curls, looking upward serenely.

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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 1d

PRAY FOR DOLLY PARTON ❤️‍🩹

Freida Parton, sister of Dolly Parton, asks for prayers for Dolly’s health. She says with prayers she know Dolly is going to be just fine.

We all love you, Dolly! Praying 💛

people.com/dolly-parton-sister-was-up-all-night-praying-for-singer-amid-health-struggles-11826073

A happy Dolly Parton reads books aloud to happy kids

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Stravaiger @stravaiger1.bsky.social · 22h

Trump's a Tax, Epstein, Jan6 Insurrection AND Constitution Cheat, Bozo

Stravaiger @stravaiger1.bsky.social · 23h

No paycheck, no Air Traffic Controllers

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Flight delays started to climb Tuesday evening across the United States amid air traffic controller staffing challenges, as people responsible for guiding planes through the skies approach nearly a week of working without a paycheck thanks to Trump’s government shutdown.
#TrumpShutdown

Flight delays spread amid controller staffing issues as shutdown drags on

www.politico.com

Stravaiger @stravaiger1.bsky.social · 23h

They're assuming MAGA will be Permanently in charge of the USA 🙏

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Stravaiger @stravaiger1.bsky.social · 23h

Brexit Illegals. Karma, Baby 🍼

“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 1d

🇬🇧 The brexity Telegraph are raging because EU countries are going to enforce their laws in relation to british “overstayers”

Or “ILLEGALS” as Reform, Blue Tories & Red Tories generally like to call them

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Stravaiger @stravaiger1.bsky.social · 23h

These people are Neanderthal

"We are still being told to wash our hands for an airborne virus"

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Guller @gullerisback.bsky.social · 1d

At my rutine mammography today, I was the only one masking. Including staff.

But all the other patients almost ran over to use the hygiene sanitizers the second they saw my respirator 🤣 Hand sanitizers on all tables, to make people feel safe. The only one anyway near to actually being safe? Me.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Update from the war zone in Portland.

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Stravaiger @stravaiger1.bsky.social · 23h

Unrestricted Barracuda Capitalism

System Working As Intended @systemnotbroken.bsky.social · 1d

Privatisation of water in UK: the next chapter - you guess it - another price raise.

FIVE water companies are begging the regulator to let them raise your bills

Anglian Water, Northumbrian Water, Southern Water, Wessex Water and South East Water all want to hike your bills - but by how much?

www.thecanary.co

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Stravaiger @stravaiger1.bsky.social · 1d

Citizen Action Busts the B@stards 👍💥

"How a small group of activists dubbed the Peace Patrol stymie the deployment of federal agents in California"

The Volunteers Tracking ICE in Los Angeles

How a small group of activists dubbed the “Peace Patrol” stymie the deployment of federal agents in California.

www.newyorker.com

Stravaiger @stravaiger1.bsky.social · 1d

Immortal
Thanks 🙏 👍

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

If you can't see how this will end, then you're not paying attention (not least to what's going on on the other side of the Atlantic).

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 2d

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Stravaiger @stravaiger1.bsky.social · 1d

Look at his family's story
He moved back to his native Denmark after the indy and Brexit votes, seeing how it was going
arcofprosperity.org/launching-my...

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Stravaiger @stravaiger1.bsky.social · 2d

One of the Better summaries of What's Wrong with Trump's Presidency

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Stravaiger @stravaiger1.bsky.social · 2d

About Right 👍

"A prime minister must persuade, inspire, above all be seen to take decisions. Voters don’t listen to the backroom strategist; they look to the person at the podium. Starmer, with all the charisma of a damp filing cabinet, cannot carry the story his handlers want told.

Politics isn't management

When Labour finally came to power last year, the sales pitch was simple: stability after chaos. Keir Starmer’s calm, managerial persona was held up as the antidote to the endless psychodrama of Johnso...

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Stravaiger @stravaiger1.bsky.social · 2d

Great analysis by an ex-Scot

".. this isn’t confined to UK; there's MAGA, Brexit, Orbán, Le Pen, Meloni. They feed on imagined betrayals, sneer at institutions, promise simple solutions, wallow in dissatisfaction. I'd suggest a new word for this: MONGAism – from “Make Our Nation Great Again”.

Make Our Nation Great Again-ism

Chris Grey has just relaunched his long-running Brexit & Beyond blog under a new title: Brexit & Brexitism. His latest posts are well worth reading, especially his definition of “Brexitism”. He descri...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

This is shocking racism from Jenrick and Badenoch should sack him immediately.

No further comment necessary.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Stravaiger @stravaiger1.bsky.social · 2d

Hitting the Buffers

"The lack of detention space has slowed Trump’s crackdown just when it was primed to accelerate. From Jan - June, daily numbers in ICE custody rose 43 percent to more than 57,000. From July, detainee numbers are up only about 5%, to roughly 60,000, the latest statistics show"

As Money Rushed In, ICE’s Rapid Expansion Stalled Out

Immigration arrests have declined and jail overcrowding is worse despite billions in new funds.

www.theatlantic.com

Stravaiger @stravaiger1.bsky.social · 2d

Catastrophising Contrarian Concocts Crisis

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2d

PM Orban:

I think the EU is in a phase of disintegration. It's just shaking apart.

And if there isn't a radical transformation of the Union in a year or two, which I don't see the ability of the Union today, neither from the bureaucrats in Brussels, nor from the heads of the leading nation states,

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg “I'm not scared of Israel. I’m scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity.”

Stand with Greta, stand with humanity.

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