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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 42m

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 53m

Government finally acknowledges ‘severe’ economic impact of Brexit

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/gov...

Government finally acknowledges 'severe' economic impact of Brexit

It looks like Keir Starmer's government is finally acknowledging one of the main reasons behind the UK's malaise: Brexit.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

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L Bennett 🇨🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇦✌🏻#TeamCanada #ElbowsUp @thatgenxwidower.bsky.social · 58m

How did you go broke?
First is was slow, then it got fast. #uspoli

J.P. Morgan strategist David Kelly warns America is ‘going broke slowly’ as federal debt spirals | Fortune share.google/XvoUqpuWkhlF...

America is ‘going broke slowly’ says J.P. Morgan, as national debt balloons and tariff revenue looks shaky | Fortune

Even with Trump’s tariffs and Musk’s spending cuts, J.P. Morgan’s David Kelly warns, America is “going broke.”

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🎉 ZELD🅰️ 🎊 @zeldazellzelda.bsky.social · 1h

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Rip Cusslick @rip-cusslick.bsky.social · 25m

Yes, that didn't happen overnight.

This is a good read about this if you're not familiar with it.

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 19h

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver
Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive. www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Rob Reiner Fan @rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social · 12h

🚨Democratic Governor of Maine Janet Mills just announced her campaign to defeat Susan Collins.

This is big. Winnable race now.

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Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 18h

Please join us for this webinar on 28 October, 1-2pm UK time, on 'Modern Slavery and Human Rights: Migrant Workers in the Agricultural and Care Sectors in the UK,' with Prof Tomoya Obokata, the current UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery since 2020
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Modern slavery and human rights: migrant workers in the agricultural and care sectors in the UK - Durham University

www.durham.ac.uk

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Route60Plus @route60plus.bsky.social · 1d

And this…

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Elizabeth Pearce @elizabethpearce.bsky.social · 1d

Congress needs to open an investigation into Vought

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Patrick Henry 48 @patrickhenry48.bsky.social · 1d

We no longer have separation of powers. That ended when Trump took over Congress and the Supreme Court.

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Hfb @hfb7.bsky.social · 1d

But WHO will stop it?

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AHumanBeing @hard2phathom.bsky.social · 1d

Congress doesn't exist, but we still have to pay for it. Mikey J makes $223,500 per year for thwarting the will of the people and pandering to a pedophile. $223,500 of our money to harm America.
Base salary for member of House: 174,000.

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Ben - F1 - Ferrari 🇺🇸 🍁🇨🇦 @canadianroots.bsky.social · 1d

But the spineless repubs won’t object to being made completely irrelevant! They will allow the dictator to do whatever he wants because they sold their souls and moral compass! History will never forget their subservience to a lying, convicted felon, pedo, conman!

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EDP @elizdp.bsky.social · 1d

It’s time for the Blue states to form an economic alliance that cuts out the federal government. Starve them. We can provide our own services and protections.

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Average Jane @glorialandy19.bsky.social · 1d

Blatant manipulation of the electorate by DJT. While campaigning he repeatedly denied knowing anything about Prj 2025 or its authors. Now he touts his friendship & cooperation with Prj 2025 architects & is actively instituting its plan.

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Original Cat Dude @jon639.bsky.social · 1d

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Original Cat Dude @jon639.bsky.social · 1d

Curtis Yarvin—the anti-democratic ideologue who helped shape Donald Trump’s approach—now believes American democracy will outlast this administration.

He’s so sure democracy will survive that he’s already planning his exit: www.theframelab.org/good-news-jd...

Good News: JD Vance‘s Favorite Blogger Plans Escape from USA

“I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.”

www.theframelab.org

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manchester18.bsky.social @manchester18.bsky.social · 1d

#Maine Sen Susan Collins voted for architect of Project 2025 Russ Vought to head OMB

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GhostMachine @jhinano.bsky.social · 1d

Republican Congresspeople are equally responsible for this heinous chaos The Orange Menace is inflicting. Let us never forget this.

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victorytwin.bsky.social @victorytwin.bsky.social · 1d

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victorytwin.bsky.social @victorytwin.bsky.social · 1d

they had intended in gutting what Congress has appropriated by statute but now

#MandateofLeadershipProject2025

Tap on the chapter and it takes you there👇🏼

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Comen-tator @comen-tator.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe the GOP Officials will realize the problem with them abandoning their Constitutional Authority, when trump's stooge eliminates THEIR support staff & all the rest of the Capitol employees who make their daily lives easier, like the maintenance workers who empty their trash, & all other staff!

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Andrew St James @untenuredprof.bsky.social · 21h

I am currently reading a book by Inge Scholl, sister of Hans and Sophie of the White Rose.

Here, today, in 2025, in the USA, we are living through Nazi Germany, the sequel.

If you know anyone who can't see it, those folks are ...

- woefully stupid;
- willfully ignorant;
- part of it.

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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 1d

AN IMAGE OF RUSSELL VOUGHT
WITH THE WORDS.
THE
BANALITY
OF
EVIL
HAS
NEVER
LOOKED
SO
BLAND.

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