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Gamer Shanksi

@shanksi.bsky.social

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Professional clickerer and presser of buttons. I count stuff in London. Things that make me ick: Trump, Putin, Brexit, Elon, Farage, the Tories, cults and above all, liars. The truth matters.

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Gamer Shanksi @shanksi.bsky.social · Sep 14

The best description of #Trump so far this year imo.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Fee, fi, fo…Trump: how an ogre won back the White House

Large, fearsome, gluttonous and cruel: Donald Trump is the archetypal ogre. So how did he manage to stomp back for a second term?

www.theguardian.com

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: We need to talk about Russia.

So, yes, that's why we need to talk about Nigel Farage.

My personal newsletter on the story behind the story. Brexit, Trump, Russia & now...Nathan Gill.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 8h

President Trump posthumously awarding Charlie Kirk with Presidential Medal of Freedom,

"We've watched legions of far left radicals resort to desperate acts of violence and terror because they know their ideas and arguments are persuading no one"

"They have the devil's ideology"

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Gamer Shanksi @shanksi.bsky.social · 8h

Turning Point is a cult.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8h

Trump gives Charlie Kirk a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, highest honour the White House can bestow on a civilian.

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WATCH LIVE: Trump awards Charlie Kirk posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Donald Trump will honor influential conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Tuesday with a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the White House can bestow on a civilian.

www.pbs.org

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 9h

President Trump will be awarding the Presidential medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honor — to Charlie Kirk in a few moments.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 10h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 9h

Whats this.

Fox News is reporting that "South American cartels are placing bounties on ICE agents in Chicago".

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 11h

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes:
- inflatable frog suit
- cape
- pepper spray filter
- a thirst for the blood of the innocent
- air pump

batteries and Molotov cocktails not included

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 12h

RIP legendary illustrator Drew Struzan.

US one sheet: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h

Trump blows up six more civilians.

Trump Administration Strikes Another Boat It Says Was Trafficking Drugs — The Wall Street Journal

President says that six are killed in latest military action off the coast of Venezuela

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump on immigrants: "They send up their worst people. They send up people that are criminals. They send up people from jails. And the best ones they send are people that don't work very hard and that are on a social form of welfare."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

the Republican party of the future may not find a figurehead that can replace Trump but it's getting worse by the day, the next generation thinks Stephen Miller is a squish

these are very, very bad people

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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cultnews.bsky.social @cultnews.bsky.social · 11h

The Guardian: New allegations of sexual and domestic abuse made against Jesus Army cult
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

New allegations of sexual and domestic abuse made against Jesus Army cult

Survivors fear closed church’s £25m in assets could end up in abusers’ hands

www.theguardian.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11h

Many focusing on the hubristic blasphemy of “we’re saving God”—and fair enough—but also, Kaepernick?

All he did was exercise his 1A right to expression in a calm, quiet, unobtrusive way. And he last played Jan. 1, 2017!

How lacking in real problems that this was ever a grievance, let alone still.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ITALIAN PM GIORGIA MELONI COULDN'T GET AWAY FAST ENOUGH.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

So, Reform would rocket-boost austerity, slash welfare *but not taxes*, cancel net zero progress, do mass deportations, huff out of the ECHR (torching the Brexit deal and our human rights)…
And to top it all off, there’d be this gem of US-funded christofascist authoritarianism on offer too.
Grim AF.

Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 1d

If you wondered why Nigel Farage turned up in US Congress in September speaking about "freedom of speech", this story has the answer

His appearance was orchestrated by a powerful American anti-abortion group that is trying to increase its influence in the UK by influencing the free speech debate

Jane Bradley @bradleyjane.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: How a U.S. anti-abortion group has quietly positioned itself as a powerbroker between the Trump administration and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

UKIP's new logo looks a bit Far Righty.

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Gamer Shanksi @shanksi.bsky.social · 3d

He was so, so full of life and He wanted to bring it to others. So sorely missed.

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James Kennedy ✊️ @jameskennedy.bsky.social · 3d

I agree, Stop The Boats

Bloody oligarchs coming over 'ere on their mega yachts, stealing our public assets, influencing our government, exploiting our work force, dumping their waste into our rivers & expecting the tax payer to foot the bill for their billion pound government contracts & bail outs

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 3d

What with all this the UK should emulate Dubai stuff, following hot on the heels of Singapore model, are there any other niche authoritarian city states we could go for? Brunei? Machiavelli’s Florence? Ancient Sparta?

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Gamer Shanksi @shanksi.bsky.social · 3d

Losing one of our best thinkers, Benjamin Zephaniah, hit me hard and Zack Polanski referencing Him brings me hope.

I do hope that trumpism and farage get silenced into oblivion.

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