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⚫️🐦‍⬛ 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @theskyisnotblue.bsky.social · 23h

#GeorgiaProtests Day 339! 🇬🇪🇪🇺

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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 1d

It's no wonder that Nigel Farage tried to pretend he didn't know Nathan Gill well, though obviously he did.

The bribes Gill took are just the tip of an iceberg of Russian influence, and Brexit fitted the Kremlin agenda of dividing Europe all too well.

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill

How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

www.theguardian.com

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David Wilson @davidgmwilson.bsky.social · 18h

Democrats need to attack Putin on Ukraine and interference in US politics, JDVance for falling for Putin, and Trump for having been his shill all along. It's shocking how Russian talking points pervade US media. If in doubt, talk to the Finns, Latvians, Estonians and Swedes!

David Wilson @davidgmwilson.bsky.social · 7d

And everybody hated them. There was enough trouble without teenagers like that.

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David Wilson @davidgmwilson.bsky.social · 7d

Trump as a pagan god. "Sacrifice, and I might help out." What a shit the man is. And a danger to the American Consitution.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 8d

If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.

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David Wilson @davidgmwilson.bsky.social · 7d

Listening to superlative production of Tosca on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social with Russian soprano Anna Netrebko. It would have been much better, given the controversy to have asked her about the politics of the piece and especially Act III, which is a dead ringer for Putin's Russia inc defenestration.

David Wilson @davidgmwilson.bsky.social · 7d

That's the spirit!

Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 7d

When Democrats hold the majority in Congress, we will hold anyone accountable who aids Trump’s corruption.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8d

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.

Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).

*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”

youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

YouTube video by Reagan Library

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David Wilson @davidgmwilson.bsky.social · 9d

Where can I find authoritative advice about cooking freshly killed meat ie immediately after slaughter? Not asking for a friend, genuine enquiry.

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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 12d

Georgia now refines Russian oil.

Another proof that the Russian takeover of Georgia must be addressed simultaneously with assisting Ukraine, not after. It’s too urgent to wait — and it’s not even costly to pressure the Georgian Dream.

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

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David Wilson @davidgmwilson.bsky.social · 13d

Just in case anyone needed on overview..

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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 14d

#NoKings

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 14d

You know how Trump loves to say, "People have never seen anything like it before..."

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14d

BOSTON… (those are people, not ants)

#NoKingsInAmerica 🇺🇸

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David Wilson @davidgmwilson.bsky.social · 14d

Exactly. Key for all freedom loving Americans is to restore local perspectives and wind back the Washington outlook, and work with people locally to build community etc. Trump is all about demographics, not at all about communities, which he seems to hate, as he might, as an NYC landlord.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14d

So no terrorism then?

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David Wilson @davidgmwilson.bsky.social · 18d

Best analysis of Donald Trump's Presidency I've seen. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Compare Donald Trump with Kissinger and you’ll be lost. But Taylor Swift? That’s more like it | Marina Hyde

As he conducts the symphony of applause for his peace deal, the key to understanding him is this: he’s not a politician, not even close – he’s a star, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 19d

He is far from alone.
Do you know how many people I know, journalists, thinktankers, civil servants, politicians, who always excel at explaining to you why what is currently happening was always bound to happen, from which they conclude that it should happen?

Feelingantsy 🇬🇧🇩🇪. Maker of Puns @feelingantsy.bsky.social · 19d

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 21d

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

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David Wilson @davidgmwilson.bsky.social · 23d

Touche, but 14 is probably the key age and for me that's Sgt Pepper and The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. For you, presumably, 'Chirpy Chirpy, Cheep Cheep'...

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David Wilson @davidgmwilson.bsky.social · 23d

Please don't do irony on here. Republicans don't get it, and think you're agreeing with them. Be basic, factual and brutal.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 24d

Just sent out this free post. Something notable has happened in the last few months (particularly since the Putin-Trump love fest in Alaska). GOP public opinion in the USA, which Trump has almost singlehandedly made Ukraine-skeptical earlier… open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Something Interesting Is Happening With GOP Public Opinion

Hi All,

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David Wilson @davidgmwilson.bsky.social · 23d

I'm confused. Why does everyone claim to love punk so much, when the 1966-7 "summer of love" was so much more subversive? And creative too.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 23d

Chicagoans won a temporary restraining order today that prevents federal agents from using tear gas, pepper spray and other weapons against journalists and peaceful protesters.
We’re fighting back peacefully in Chicago because — unlike Trump — we believe in the rule of law.

Judge Rules Feds Can't Pepper-Spray, Tear-Gas Journalists After Block Club Chicago And Others Sue

Block Club and news organizations sued the federal government for its actions against journalists outside the Broadview ICE detention facility. Four of our journalists have been shot with pepper-spray...

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David Wilson @davidgmwilson.bsky.social · 25d

Says a lot for the Texan sense of humor that they sent these guys.

David Wilson @davidgmwilson.bsky.social · 25d

Always useful, but if you want to explain things, not so helpful. I found Wickham on the onset of feudalism in Lombardy completely opaque. There must be (and there are) better ways of looking at society.