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Born 327.34 CO2 ppm [now 427.47...] teach / hockey / paint / cycle / sail / act / GreenParty / #RejoinEU Clipper Race Crew 2023-24 on-board 'Perseverance'. Blue Bird ex-pat, rebuilding a network in the sky... Not keen on unprompted DMs

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Alex Bellars 🇵🇸🇨🇦🇬🇱 @alexbellars.bsky.social · 10d

I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Mike Johnson refusing to swear her in: "The excuses depending on the day keep changing ... the timing is the fact that I am the 218th signer to the discharge petition for the Epstein files"

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 4h

Keys to the office? Check! ✅
Sworn in as Congresswoman? Not quite 🙅🏻‍♂️

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 4h

When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 3h

In an interview with Bloomberg, Farage has said that Nathan Gill was "one bad apple" - unintentionally being accurate because he forgot the rest of the proverb.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 3h

Wait, what?

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4h

lol, now they're saying the Nazi flag is an "optical illusion"

Swastika” Flag In Office of Rep. Dave Taylor (R-OH) May Be An “optical illusion” and “easy to miss”

The weird story about an aide to Rep. Dave Taylor (R-OH) having a flag in his Capitol Hill office with a swastika on it, has just gotten weirder.

Multiple sources tell Fox – including those investigating the issue – the flag in question is an American flag – but with a swastika embedded into the ink or weaving. And here’s the strange part: the swastika is not obvious to the naked eye. But is more visible when captured on video or by a still photo.

One source described this as an “optical illusion.” Another said the swastika was “easy to miss.”

Fox has learned that dozens of Congressional offices received these American flags from an undetermined group who brought them around Capitol Hill early in the year. One office tells Fox that the swastika on their flag was clear, so they tossed it out. But the flag in the office of Taylor was not visible until captured on camera.

It is not known what group brought the flags around. That is under investigation. The US Capitol Police are also conducting an inquiry. Fox is told that that the group brought the flags to multiple offices. At issues is if the group knew the swastika was embedded into the flag. It is also unclear if this was an effort to covertly deliver American flags to lawmakers with swastikas on them. Or, if this was an effort to deliberately embarrass offices by bringing them an American flag – which featured a swastika which wasn’t obvious to the naked eye.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3h

On or about January 16, 2017, in a media interview, BOLTON stated in response to
a question about allegations that a senior U.S. Government official had communicated sensitive
government information using a personal email account, "Look, as I've said before, I believe it still
to this day, if I had done at the State Department what [senior U.S. Government official] did, I'd be
[imprisoned] right now."

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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 6h

Unfortunately our media ….
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 5h

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Alex Bellars 🇵🇸🇨🇦🇬🇱 @alexbellars.bsky.social · 3h

Such a nobel gesture.

UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 3h

⚡️Trump says he told Putin he might give “a couple of thousand Tomahawks” to Ukraine and that Putin “didn’t like the idea,”

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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 4h

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Diane Messias @comedywriter.bsky.social · 4h

#ReformUK

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 9h

Libraries in Reform UK run Staffordshire are being forced to close.

They are refusing to hire much needed staff and refusing over time or paying for staff to be covered. This is resulting in libraries closing because of too few staff, despite there being available staff to cover.

#Farageheit411

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Alex Bellars 🇵🇸🇨🇦🇬🇱 @alexbellars.bsky.social · 4h

Literally *no* clue where he got the inspiration for this idea...

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 5h

I think we know where this is going:

A tiny Stonehenge descends in This Is Spinal Tap.

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David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 7h

So...DT says he is going to meet Putin in Hungary.

Hungary, although it has begun the withdrawal process from the ICC is still technically obligated to its terms until June of 2026.

I just don't see Orban and co living up to their legal obligations...

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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 12h

When Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed in Syria, many of the officials who enabled and enforced his brutal regime disappeared. Our reporting uncovers who they are, what they did and where they fled. nyti.ms/3J1W5Cs

The Vanishing Act: How Assad’s Top Henchmen Fled Syria, and Justice

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 4h

Chris Murphy gets it. I wish everybody did.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Chris Murphy: "This is a country that's falling apart because Trump is in the middle of an authoritarian takeover. We're not on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We're in the middle of it ... I have no moral obligation to vote for a budget that literally funds the destruction of our democracy"

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Krista Fordham @zallgoodbaby.bsky.social · 10h

Great shot of his perfectly healed right ear. But also notice the ear crease in the lobe and the lines near his ear on his face…

How’s the old ticker doing, Donald??

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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 17h

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 6h

US Academia Be Like

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 6h

“Dear Leader also got a hole in one the very first time he played golf at the age of four.”

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tomwellborn3rd @patriotprogressive.bsky.social · 6h

Johnson blocks Grijalva to keep the Epstein files buried. That bless your heart sneer drips with misogyny. Seat her, release the records, stop shielding predators, and quit silencing 812,000 Arizonans.