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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸

@ithacanexile.bsky.social

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Good old fashioned social democrat. Born in the US, raised in Britain, Ireland and Italy and consider myself all of the above. AS Roma, PAFC, 49ers, Star Wars, Tolkien, SPN & Liberty - All this will pass one day. #TeamPete - Sic Semper Tyrannis

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · Dec 11

Here is a starter pack of voices I have come to trust on Syria. People who actually know about Syria including Syrians themselves. BTW you can ignore me, I just made the list! go.bsky.app/Af2Tt8g

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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 19h

What happens when Republicans shut down the government…

They break things. Take thing away. Fire fed employees simply because they’re Dems. Refuse to pay our military.

Literal party poopers…
The blue angels didn’t make it to Fleet Week in SF—but the Canadian Snowbirds did.
🇨🇦🙌🏼 youtu.be/AFIIR_eqJ0Q

Canadian Snowbirds air show thrills SF Fleet Week spectators, despite no Blue Angels: 'Spectacular!'

YouTube video by ABC7 News Bay Area

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 23h

One of the writers best explaining Trumpism right now is not a full-time writer, but @donmoyn.bsky.social, an academic and professor. The Times should give him a column. But for now, you can read his great stuff via his newsletter. Another sharp piece here.

donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

I'm only half-joking when I say that maybe this is the way to tackle older Faragist men: Get a smart attractive younger woman to listen to them and then charmingly point out why they're wrong.

LBC @lbc.co.uk · 2d

'The majority of immigrants contribute more than they take.'
'You sound a lot smarter than me.'

Caller Gary vows to 'rethink' his support for Reform after @natashadevon.bsky.social explains her 'lack of faith' in Farage.

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 21h

Parabens Cabo Verde!

FotMob @fotmob.com · 1d

🇨🇻🎉 Cape Verde have done it!

In the end, they didn’t even need a win thanks to Cameroon’s result but the islanders qualify for the World Cup in style anyway!

They become the second smallest nation (by population) ever to reach the finals!

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

Respect to those who got here first.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 1d

“The very machinery designed to guard the homeland ended up treating Black dissent as a domestic threat…America has recast its gaze and fear to a new subject: the immigrant…

Black People Knew This Would Happen

Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us.

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 1d

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

ok.co.uk @ok.co.uk · 7d

Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.

Rylan Clark slams 'misogyny' in British witch hunt as he fronts new Sky show

Rylan Clark shares the spotlight with professor Alice Roberts in The Witches Of Essex, where the pair delve into the dark history of witch hunts - and one discovery rattled Rylan.

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 1d

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

Gaza Strip: Israeli army has withdrawn to the 'yellow line'

AFP Infographic with map of the Gaza Strip showing the 'yellow line' where the Israeli army has withdrawn its forces as of October 10, according to US envoy Steve Witkoff

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 1d

Cowards, the lot of them.

Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 1d

It’s an act of sheer cowardice to attack Kamala Harris right now.

You know what? Protest at the White House, protest outside Mike Johnson’s, but don’t attack your own side right now, because it means you are too much of a coward to go after the fascists that are doing the real damage.

Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 3d

Kamala Harris has HAD IT.

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Corey King @bushea76.bsky.social · 1d

Protesting Kamala Harris when she’s not the President is some performative bullshit, and I can’t take you seriously! 🙄🙄🙄🙄

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 1d

Well done Jen!

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JoeinNJfightsfordemocracy @progavalanche.bsky.social · 1d

When dictators try to silence us we fight back louder!

This Saturday,
Oct 18, millions of Americans in 1000s of communities will speak up for decency, equality, and justice for ALL!

Join us at an event near you…

#NoKings social.demcast.com/s/bFqE9hjQ

Find And Event Near You!

social.demcast.com

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 1d

The founding member of antifa and his girlfriend…

Chris Evans as Steve ‘Captain America’ Rogers and Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter.

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marikosegawa.bsky.social @marikosegawa.bsky.social · 3d

#ResistanceUnited #DV1 #ProudBlue
Shutdown 5WHs

Who? It’s on Republicans

What? At stake: Your
Healthcare &
Federal workers'
jobs

When? Right Now

Where? Republicans are MIA

Why? Republicans seek no
solutions

Congressman Eugene Vindman @repvindman.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve gotten a lot of questions about this government shutdown.

Who? What? When? Where? Why?

Every answer points to the same thing — Republicans’ inability to do their jobs.

I’m still in D.C., working to pass a budget that puts hardworking Virginians first.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

He speaks like a poet.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 1d

This is why we have to do all we can to ensure the No Kings protests next weekend are nonviolent and peaceful. Everything is in the balance now and one small thing kicking off could end our republic.

But turn out nonetheless, we need everyone out there.

#DemVoice1 #DV1 #NoKings

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

Welker: "Are you seriously considering invoking the Insurrection Act?"

Vance: "Well, the president's looking at all of his options right now."

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.bsky.social · 2d

Heartbreaking that the people who need the most care are the ones being abandoned.

It’s all about cruelty for them. 💔

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

The unstated purpose of AI is to allow capital to acquire skill while taking away the ability of those with skills to acquire capital.

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 1d

I always switched to the timeline every time I used that app, my neurodivergent brain had issues with the random, haphazard ‘For You’ feed that just pissed me off.

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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 3d

Exposing Reform’s Oil Ties Significantly Reduces Party Support, New Research Finds

Voters recoil at Farage’s fossil fuel funding.
Via @desmog.com @writesbright.bsky.social

Exposing Reform’s Oil Ties Significantly Reduces Party Support, New Research Finds

Reform UK’s oil industry interests are a major turn-off for voters, new research reveals. The think tank Persuasion UK tested five anti-Reform messages on 6,000 adults. According to the research, “by ...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

"Slashdot: What's the reason OneDrive tells users this setting can only be turned off 3 times a year?

[Microsoft's publicist chose not to answer this question.]"

Microsoft's OneDrive Begins Testing Face-Recognizing AI for Photos (for Some Preview Users) - Slashdot

I uploaded a photo on my phone to Microsoft's "OneDrive" file-hosting app — and there was a surprise waiting under Privacy and Permissions. "OneDrive uses AI to recognize faces in your photos.....

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Sarah J McLellan #FBPE 🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ithacanexile.bsky.social · 2d

I come from a family of pipers and this guy is a damn fine piper as well as a fine fellow. The pipes are as hard as the violin to master so he’s great.

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ticosfrancisco.bsky.social @ticosfrancisco.bsky.social · 2d

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