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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 35m

I really want you guys to watch this speech from Russell T Davies, the guy who brought Doctor Who back, and did Queer as Folk and loads of other iconic shows at the Welsh BAFTAs recently about censorship and TV and the rise of the far right. It is amazing. www.reddit.com/r/GreenAndPl...

From the GreenAndPleasant community on Reddit: Russell T. Davies at the BAFTA Cymru Awards

Explore this post and more from the GreenAndPleasant community

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 36m

There’s always California! We barely have winter here and while it’s not perfect, by any means, it is still pretty damn nice.

Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1h

So no, there is nothing Trump has done that sounds even vaguely close to meeting Alfred Nobel’s criteria for the Nobel Peace Prize. Not a single thing. He will not win it. It would be an unprecedented affront to everything it purports to stand for. And this is a prize that was given to Kissinger.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1h

These troops, along with ICE agents, have in recent days and weeks, fired tear gas into groups of peaceful protestors, fired pepper balls at people, “fired tear gas, flash-bang grenades and pepper balls without any clear signs of provocation” and more: www.milwaukeeindependent.com/heather-rich...

Trump's federalized troops are shooting American citizens and Americans seem okay with the violence | Milwaukee Independent

www.milwaukeeindependent.com

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1h

In the meantime, in the name of ‘peace’, Trump continues to send in armed troops into the streets of his *own cities*. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

Live updates: National Guard deployment latest and state and cities’ lawsuits | CNN

The Trump administration’s efforts to deploy National Guard troops to Democrat-led cities have prompted a legal showdown. Follow here for the latest.

www.cnn.com

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1h

He has continued to support Netanyahu’s government’s actions in the region despite the general world consensus being that Israel’s actions in Gaza are at the very least wildly disproportionate, with the UN’s own commission finding that the acts are genocidal. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says

The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

www.bbc.com

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1h

He has proposed to ethnically cleanse Gaza: www.ap.org/news-highlig...

Trump doubles down on plan to empty Gaza. This is what he has said and what's at stake | The Associated Press

CAIRO (AP) — Behind U.S. President Donald Trump’s vows to turn Gaza into a “Riviera of the Middle East” lies a plan to forcibly drive a population from

www.ap.org

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1h

Of the two most visible conflicts right now, in Gaza and Ukraine, for the vast majority of the time he has sided with the invading or more aggressive regime that the rest of the world has condemned. He called Zelenskyy a dictator and said he was risking world war 3 www.bbc.com/news/live/c6...

Trump calls Zelensky a 'dictator' as he hits back at 'disinformation' criticism

It comes after the Ukrainian president suggested Donald Trump was

www.bbc.com

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1h

The holding and promotion of peace conferences? Well, he’d claim that he’s resolved eight (or nine or ten) separate wars, but the truth is those are either relatively small skirmishes, he had no role in them, or they are not resolved in any meaningful way.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1h

Here he is demanding that all NATO countries commit 5% of their GDP to defense spending, a 150% increase in what he and Obama were pushing only a few years ago: english.elpais.com/internationa...

White House insists all European countries must spend 5% on defense

Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt says NATO members must ‘pay their fair share’ ahead of key summit in The Hague

english.elpais.com

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1h

Here he is renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Restoring the United States Department of War

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.

www.whitehouse.gov

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1h

Part Two: Abolition or reduction of Standing Armies - here he is proposing spending $1 trillion more on US armed forces: www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...

Trump promises $1 trillion in defense spending for next year

Trump's plan for a huge increase in defense spending next fiscal year would mean billions more for equipment and training.

www.militarytimes.com

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1h

Could anything be more against ‘fraternity between nations’ than explicity attacking the United Nations www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump delivered an embarassing performance at the UN general assembly | Mohamad Bazzi

This was Trump unfiltered and unleashed – as he has been since the start of his second term, with no restraint and no need for even the mildest niceties

www.theguardian.com

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1h

Here’s a timeline of his trade war with the rest of the world: www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

Trump's trade war timeline 2.0: An up-to-date guide

President Donald Trump started his second term in office with momentous plans to change US trade policy to achieve various economic and nontrade related aims. This timeline tracks the development of t...

www.piie.com

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1h

Here is him referring to Haiti and African nations as ‘shithole countries’ www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Trump referred to Haiti and African nations as 'shithole' countries

President Donald Trump referred to African countries, Haiti and El Salvador as "shithole" nations during a meeting Thursday and asked why the U.S. can't have more immigrants from Norway.

www.nbcnews.com

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1h

First up - ‘fraternity between nations’. Here is Trump saying foreign countries are going to hell. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/u...

‘Your Countries Are Going to Hell’: Trump Airs His Grievances at the U.N.

www.nytimes.com

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1h

The will of Alfred Nobel says the peace prize should go to someone “who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses“. Does that sound like Trump?

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1h

If it’s reality TV it’s also excellent

Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 1h

I’m conceptually a big fan of Mastodon, but it has a bunch of different problems to Bluesky - with cross environment moderation and financial sustainability being serious issues. It’s also still dominated by one technical provider.

Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 9h

And stuff.

Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 9h

You know what I find really weird? All this jostling bullshit and frantic scrabbling for people to blame and yell at and stuff. People could just be nice and learn to spell and stuff. Why is this so hard?

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 9h

Because of the unforgivably appalling decisions of the Charity Commission, these hate groups, Sex Matters and LGB Alliance, are funded from your taxes.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 10h

Ha! I can only imagine.

Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 10h

It’s going to be so good. I’m massively over excited by it.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 10h

I really don’t like reality TV. I don’t really watch any of it. Except two things - Great British Bake Off and the UK’s version of Traitors. Which is why I’m slightly obsessed by the upcoming celebrity traitors youtu.be/qEvRY6nwl6g?...

The Celebrity Traitors | Official Trailer - BBC

YouTube video by BBC

youtu.be

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