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Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE

@pearsereynolds.bsky.social

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Irish, European, Londoner. US traveller. Alarmed at growth of fascism worldwide, but particularly in the US. History teaches. Cares deeply about funding for public education and healthcare. Liberal Democrat. Never voted Tory: never will.

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Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 7d

Pritzker is right. But this is just one piece of the playbook now in motion.

It’s not difficult to see. It’s all been done before

Reichsleiter Miller has a plan. The ICE/army invasion of the cities will provoke a Reichstag event (they’ll create one if needed). Then it all will fall into place👇
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 4h

The Kirk generation. 🙄

Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 4h

So this is how “Young” Republicans (18-40yo) talk when they think no-one else is listening.

How much more of this is there?

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 1d

Now where did I see about a notorious felon do exactly the same thing …. and get away with it?

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Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 1d

Why was she singled out to receive these documents from the Russians (assuming they exist)?

How has she gained their trust? What did she give them?

We should be told. 🤔

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 1d

“They make a desert and call it peace”
I am reminded of these words when seeing photographs of the long, sad column of Gazans returning north to see what, if anything is left of their homes

northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...

“They make a desert and call it peace”

I am reminded of these words when seeing photographs of the long, sad column of Gazans returning north to see what, if anything is left of their homes

northeastbylines.co.uk

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Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration has been making assertions all year about Antifa being a paramilitary terrorist organisation.

Yet they have not provided a single piece of evidence that would answer any of these basic questions.

They are creating enemies to stoke fear and hate, as fascists always do.

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Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for including me.

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Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 3d

Right again, General. 👏

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

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Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 3d

👀😕😲
Has the mainstream media picked this up?

Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 3d

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

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Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 3d

Trouble in Chicago. 👏😀

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 3d

I hear the Portland Frog has been nominated for next year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
#PortlandFrog

Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 3d

The North Korean TV announcer doesn’t need math.
Why should Karoline? 🙄

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 7d

Make it make sense, Karoline. www.comicsands.com/leavitt-drug...

Karoline Leavitt Schooled After Spouting Out Bonkers 'MAGA Math' About Drug Prices

The math ain't mathin', Karoline.

www.comicsands.com

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Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 3d

The situation in Portland is so grave …. 🐸😂

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 4d

I’m baffled by that. From this side of the pond, it seems as if the US media has totally succumbed to Trumpism.
This is very dangerous for America.

Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you for including me.

Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you for including me.

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Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 5d

The difficulty will be that it needs the approval of all 27 members to accept Britain’s application to rejoin.
That is far from a given. They don’t want to go through all that shit again.
I believe they will insist on some major changes to improve Britain’s political stability (eg PR voting)

Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 6d

When did Fetterman become a fascist promoter?

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Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 6d

The Nobel Peace Prize is for those who courageously resist authoritarianism as this says, those who defend human rights and freedoms.

Dictators need never apply, no matter how deluded they and their promoters and supporters may be.

Kevin St. Alder @kevinstalder.bsky.social · 6d

Statement from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee 👏 🙏

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Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 6d

Her story is it was an Antifa operative.
How convenient to have an Antifa activist around when you need them.

Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 6d

A right bunch of lying career grifters. 🙄

Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 6d

The way things are going, it wouldn’t surprise anyone.

Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 6d

I take it back.

Not just for his grubby career. He’s been a committed fascist for the whole of his grubby life. 😖

Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 7d

So what’s the point? There’ll be nothing incriminating left by the time the files are opened up.

And the great orangutan will declare it all a hoax. Fox and the cult will agree.

And within a day, we’ll all be preoccupied withe the next shitstorm coming our way

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Pearse Reynolds 🇮🇪🇪🇺🔶💙 #FBPE @pearsereynolds.bsky.social · 7d

I’m old enough to remember AG John Mitchell’s secretary “accidentally” wiping out 18 mins of Watergate tapes.

Ok, it didn’t work then. Mitchell went to prison and Nixon was forced to resign.

But that was then. We’re in a whole new era of dictatorship now. So what if a few files go missing? 🤷🏻‍♂️