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smeders
@smeders.bsky.social
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Lifelong socialist and Europhile. Septuagenarian. Atheist. Mrs Smeders. 4 kids. 1 grandson. 3 dogs. Like ice cream muchly. Opinions are my own. Am I bovvered though. Am I though. Really, am I.
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smeders @smeders.bsky.social · 9m
The last to decline. Fox News. So brave.

They would not have signed if things were different.
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h
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smeders @smeders.bsky.social · 13m
If he can't see the cruelty being meated out, then he's a darn site MORE cruel.

Still, we knew that already didn't we.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 13h
There is NO line.

newrepublic.com/post/201757/...
Mike Johnson Says ICE Shooting a Priest Doesn’t Cross the Line
The House speaker has yet to see any issue with ICE’s behavior in Chicago.
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smeders @smeders.bsky.social · 15m
Not many British would pass this.

Does it mean they have to leave?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5h
All of this is being put out to placate the right wing press...

In the meantime, it's causing fear & confusion. As I understand it:

● this only applies to some people on skilled visas
● it's not "A level English" it's something called SELT
● much the same requirement exists elsewhere in EU
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 3h
Not A Fan of Christie's, but He's Onto The Chump Regime Tactics...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 2h
“I do not respect Netanyahu — the killer of children.”

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said in a speech
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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 1h
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 2h
Jasmine Crockett Drops Another
Chump Truth Bomb.......
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sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social @sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social · 1h
More implosion of MAGA's hatred of Israel owning America
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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 2h
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❤️Kai in Kanada🇨🇦 @kleinekin.bsky.social · 1d
Well, he and his dear old daddy used to attend KKK "rituals" together, so yeah, def tracks.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2h
“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”
Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents
‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said
www.independent.co.uk
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d
Yes, color me shocked.
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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 2h
If you are watching the Reform Party controlled Councils with their endless mishaps, resignations, fallouts, scandals, mismanagement and sheer comedic idiocy, but still thinking of making these clowns a national government, representing the UK on the global stage, you are literally insane.
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smeders @smeders.bsky.social · 1h
We travelled all over using public transport and walking, and felt safe, so I don’t think the supposed crime wave is anything to fear.

Fran Leach
Plymouth, Massachusetts, US

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smeders @smeders.bsky.social · 1h
Guardian Letters.

We’ve just spent two weeks in London, staying in south Kensington. The only crime we witnessed was being woken up in the early hours by people racing Lamborghini's and Ferraris, with little enforcement by the police.......

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smeders @smeders.bsky.social · 1h
Shooting his ever open mouth off again.

Knows it all, knows F all, as we used to say.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage, not Marxism, risks ‘poisoning our kids’ | Letters
Letters: Dr Jan Udris says the Reform leader represents the antithesis of fairness, harmony and emancipation, while Terry Ward thinks he is confusing Karl Marx with Groucho Marx. Plus a letter from Hu...
www.theguardian.com
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smeders @smeders.bsky.social · 1h
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A lasting peace between Israel and Palestine? We’ve heard that before – the result was more bloodshed | Jason Burke
In 1982, Ronald Reagan picked up the phone to Menachem Begin to tell him to end a war. There are lessons from history and we need to learn them, says Guardian international security correspondent Jaso...
www.theguardian.com
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smeders @smeders.bsky.social · 1h
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Pete Hegseth’s attempt to gag journalism is a resounding failure | Margaret Sullivan
Hegseth wants journalists to only publish ‘explicitly authorized’ information. That is not how the free press works
www.theguardian.com
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 17h
ICE targeted an apartment building near my home. Masked agents in unmarked cars. I've said this before. Democratic Governors & Mayors need to order their local police depts to arrest any & all unidentified & masked alleged ICE agents.

This anonymous denial of due process is deadly.

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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 15h
Incredibly creepy
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Fight 4 Democracy Continues @politically.bsky.social · 1d
Netanyahu is still a war criminal.
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smeders @smeders.bsky.social · 15h
Johnson is so full of do do. Look at what is happening on the streets of America. It is very distressing to watch.

There is no peace in the US. Its citizens are being abducted by masked thugs, under the order of 47.

47 is America's most cruel, vindictive leader.
NO peace medals given to thugs.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17h
I see that this small-minded puritanical pixie is laser-focused on getting the government reopened and the troops paid.
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Tom Calhoun @theonlyrealtmcmaui.bsky.social · 16h
dijit's complaining about hit Time cover photo.
Dude, that's what you look like, and it's only going to get worse.😂 Everybody knows you're bald and have that weird swirl of hair that blows around when it's windy. Sooo strange.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17h
Cartoon by @edwexler.bsky.social.
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