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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖 🌊 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 4h

I said that it would be a Republican that would take your guns.

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 2h

And that none of the factors that brought him down have been resolved. He is the problem, not the solution

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 2h

Elder by name 🤣 - but I meant the fact they are replaying the 2010 playbook because they don't know anything else

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 2h

Very old, trying to get the gang back together

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 3h

It's Steve Price, who is always wrong about everything

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Prof Matt Haggis 🐀 🍉 @matthaggis666.bsky.social · 12h

James Paterson is a nepo-baby Liberal since he was 17, an IPA disinformation stooge, and hasn't had a real job in his life. Why anyone platforms him is a mystery. #auspol

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

My belief is that Kamala would have won last year if they’d let Tim Walz keep calling Vance and Trump “weird.” But the professional Dem consultant class closed off the one attack that actually resonated with voters.

Fyodor @fyodor.bsky.social · 1d

Endlessly attacking Trump as depraved and support for him as a form of moral failure actually made people stop supporting him. Shame and disgust are very powerful weapons.

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 6h

Spain, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, UK are in fact kingdoms, and Canada is a constitutional monarchy whose head of state is a king

Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 17h

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 6h

Who pays the armed forces directs where they go and what they do...

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 15h

It’s a res publica, not a democracy, say people who support the wealthy demagogue ruling without the senate or popular assembly and suggesting paying the army from private funds.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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FrodoLove @frodolove.bsky.social · 1d

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 18h

Imagine a bunch of bright folk who considered it their sacred duty to challenge conventional wisdom, hold the powerful to account, correct lies, bring new voices to the fore, add nuance to debate and never defend the indefensible

And then write about it with style

That's called a functioning media

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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social · 14h

being a writer is wild like yeah i just invented a guy. now he’s crying in a church. i don’t know why exactly. we’re both figuring it out.

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Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social · 1d

It's just as well that William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings. With a name like that, it would have been embarrassing if he'd lost. Lucky bastard.

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Erin Cook @erincook.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨🚨 Indonesian coffee brand Kopi Kenangan has opened in Australia 🚨🚨🚨 after years of watching Australia coffee culture influence Indonesia it's so interesting to see it go the other way!
www.instagram.com/kenangancoff...

www.instagram.com

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 7h

Well the initial promise was a cure for cancer, so it looks like this is the next best thing 😜

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 7h

Plenty of people employed as journalists but work as influencers. This is why there's a crisis in journalism

Amber Speaks Up @amberspeaks.bsky.social · 17h

Influencers want attention.
Journalists want accountability.

There’s a difference, and it’s life or death in some parts of the world.

There’s no “affiliate link” or sponsorship for integrity. Follow journalists. Not political influencers.

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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.bsky.social · 7h

"Does he or or does he not have a brain worm?”

“It ate just a little bit of his brain and died,” Hines said. “So don’t worry."

deadline.com/2025/10/the-...

‘The View’ Grills Cheryl Hines On Husband RFK Jr.: “He Has Spread A Lot Of Disinformation”

Cheryl Hines, the Curb Your Enthusiasm star married to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., squared off against the co-hosts of The View today.

deadline.com

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 20h

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. Included AI-generated robot porn.

www.404media.co/man-stores-a...

Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of ...

www.404media.co

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 7h

Bloody Poms, when they say English degrees are irrelevant they actually mean the opposite

The Independent @the-independent.com · 22h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Ken Shinn @kenshinnhorrorbuff.bsky.social · 23h

Is all my brain and body need

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 8h

The current U.S. President straight up hates America and roots against us. We should talk about that more. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/o...

Trump threatens removal of World Cup games from Boston, Olympics from LA

Blaming Boston street takeovers and LA wildfires, the US president said both global sporting events could be moved for supposed safety reasons

www.theguardian.com

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Sydney EV @sydneyev.bsky.social · 1d

Every day, and night, there is a conga line of trucks leaving Oberon with timber products headed to Sydney... destroying roads, costing the community in maintenance, and health impacts,
meanwhile, there is a rail link directly from the timber mills to Sydney. abandoned, unused. why #auspol?

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 8h

Chicago is 231 square miles. You never know in what neighborhood where the kidnappers will pop up next. So people literally track the military helicopters always thundering overhead to try to figure it out.

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 8h

There is only one Coroner in NSW. She has numerous employees who work in her office but there is only one Coroner, in the same way Chris Minns is the only Premier

Voices of Wentworth @voicesofwentworth.bsky.social · 8h

“The state’s top coroner has taken the rare step of issuing an open letter after NSW reached the “profoundly distressing milestone” of recording the highest-ever number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in custody in a single year”

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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Coroner’s extraordinary public letter after shock number of deaths

The state’s top coroner has issued a rare statement after NSW reached a “profoundly distressing milestone”.

www.smh.com.au

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 9h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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