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🐧 IT. Old. Gay. Rejoiner. Essex to Newcastle to London. If I can't make Italy would try Scotland next. @[email protected]
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What do you do about fascism?

In my early teens I learned about Hitler and Chamberlain and Churchill in a formal education setting.
The desperation to keep medicine as a private sector profit generator while even the worst of the right can no longer deny the obvious benefits of single payer schemes and bargaining at scale.
Rand Paul on his healthcare plan: "What if you could join Costco? Costco has 44m members and if one person negotiated for all 44 and they bought a group plan like Toyota or General Motors does, they would be the largest collective entity in the country. They would drive prices down by sheer might."
December 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Northern Itay again. There's snow all around, just in case you forget that it's The North and not The South.

I'm really tired of cops who do stupid things to spin out the drama, but still 8/10⭐

www.imdb.com/title/tt1951...

#TV #Drama #Italian #detective #thriller
Fiori sopra l'inferno: I casi di Teresa Battaglia (TV Series 2023–2024) ⭐ 6.9 | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Fiori sopra l'inferno: I casi di Teresa Battaglia: With Elena Sofia Ricci, Gianluca Gobbi, Giuseppe Spata, Luigi Petrucci. Profiler Teresa Battaglia from Travenì is tasked with tracking down a mysteri...
www.imdb.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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“It confirms what we already knew — this was not about public safety, it’s about stoking chaos and fear and terrorizing communities,” said state Sen. Royce Duplessis.

www.nola.com/news/catahou...
Records reviewed by AP detail online monitoring, arrests in New Orleans immigration crackdown
Records reviewed by the AP show that few of those arrested have criminal histories beyond traffic violations.
www.nola.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.

@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
‘For the Reinvention of Man’: How a Conservative Debating Society at Harvard Pushed Women From Its Ranks | News | The Harvard Crimson
The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
www.thecrimson.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Good grief, even for a Conservative that's an astonishingly stupid take; or maybe Hoare indulges in a spectacular degree of self delusion.
'Simon Hoare, a Conservative, is speaking now. He says he does not accept the Lib Dem argument that Brexit has led to Britain losing influence in the world.'
You're in a minority of one Simon - the Russians especially know how it diminished our influence in the world.
December 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Grilled cheese and caramelised onion.

#fpooc #cooking #sandwich #lunch
December 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Le Mot (@WordleFR) #1430 2/6

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wordle.louan.me

#games #WordGames #French
Le Mot - Wordle en français
Wordle, mais en français. Devinez le mot du jour ! Totalement gratuit, en ligne, et sans pub.
wordle.louan.me
December 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
December 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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True to their name, the ICE Gestapo are not just detaining people, they're also, allegedly, torturing them too.
There has to be accountability for this.
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Pete Hegseth deleted video evidence… then got caught!

youtu.be/PZ8lmUzL7M0?...

#Pentagon #drunk #Trump #Politics
Pete Hegseth DELETED Video Evidence... THEN GOT CAUGHT!
YouTube video by Keith Edwards
youtu.be
December 9, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Kudos to the student paper at the U of Utah for this great piece of reporting. And kudos to several faculty openly speaking out about an institution that is increasingly different from the one that wowed me 7+ years ago
December 9, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Largely ostracised, trans women in Neuquén were often sex workers, addicts and homeless. Monica Astorga welcomed them to the church and created an innovative housing project especially for trans women.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

#CatholicChurch #TransRights
Outlook - I was a nun, the late Pope helped me support trans women - BBC Sounds
Despite having friends in high places Monica Astorga’s mission was never easy
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 4:33 AM
The Incel's Incel?
December 9, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The peace activist group Standing Together has received criticism from both sides of the conflict; with Israelis calling them traitors and Palestinian calling for a boycott of the movement.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

#Israel #Palestine
Assignment - The struggle of Israel's peace movement - BBC Sounds
The Israeli and Palestinian activists who defy threats to dare to call for peace
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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This is the best analysis I’ve read about Trump’s alignment with Putin, and the future for Ukraine and Europe

And it accords with my optimism. On the ground, Ukraine and Europe can resist the globalist oligarchs

arthursnell.substack.com/p/americas-w...
America's Weakness, Europe's Strength
The 'new' national security strategy is the admission of defeat from a declining country
arthursnell.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM
But Putin isn't waiting, he's a real threat now and the US encourages him.
This is why I’m cautiously optimistic — in the long run.
December 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Having seen the terfs' mantra of "the Supreme Court has been very clear" repeated a gazillion times this year it really is delicious to see the SC's words specifically used against them!
December 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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This now blocked account, "sffreviews" (@sffreview.bsky.social) is very much a bot, as I will demonstrate with four screenshots. More in the alt-text.
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
If the US is under threat from terrorists then it is the ones it created itself: ICE.

kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

#politics #USA #Trmp #ICE
Augsburg University officials say ICE agents detained student without warrant, sparking campus concern
According to Augsburg, ICE agents in an unmarked car tried to detain a student who officials believe was followed and targeted before arriving on campus.
kstp.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Best friends forever 💙💛
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
"This bothers me"

youtube.com/shorts/eV65l...
This bothers me
YouTube video by Renus Delph
youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Cypress trees in fog reflecting on glassy water

#photography #naturephotography #landscape
December 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Micklegate Bar - one of York’s four main medieval gateways. The lower sections date to the C12th, while the upper stories are C14th in date. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #York
December 8, 2025 at 7:31 AM