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Martin Cook

@cookieaob.bsky.social

340 followers 360 following 2K posts

Interested in gardening, politics, art, cryptic crosswords, sport, wine and funny stuff, no particular order. Very proud grandad to Sid and Penelope Jane. Possibly a retired skier.

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Martin Cook @cookieaob.bsky.social · 9h

Lovely

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

Martin Cook @cookieaob.bsky.social · 11h

They are just filthy grifters.

Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 18h

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

Martin Cook @cookieaob.bsky.social · 12h

Zero integrity, tons of greed.

JohnWest_JAWS @johnwestjaws.bsky.social · 14h

These 2 speeches, which, as Nick points out, on the same day, precede what Gill has pled guilty to by 4 years, are more damning for Farage as they also precede Brexit.

All European secret services would have been alarmed by this & would/should have been investigating.

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Martin Cook @cookieaob.bsky.social · 14h

Did the same with FB, Insta and Twitter. I feel so much healthier.

Martin Cook @cookieaob.bsky.social · 1d

I'd drink myself to death if Nelson was my only friend.

Martin Cook @cookieaob.bsky.social · 1d

Difficult to top monster munch. It's the way it sticks to your teeth I like.

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Martin Cook @cookieaob.bsky.social · 1d

He needs Bush Jr to stand alongside him and shout this out.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

Speaking with democracy activists recently from Hungary and Poland, former President Barack Obama warned about the "rising wave of authoritarianism sweeping the globe," even in countries once believed unsusceptible to an erosion of liberties.
https://cnn.it/3W0ma7O

Martin Cook @cookieaob.bsky.social · 1d

Make the proof that suits your cause, fuck science.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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tomwellborn3rd @patriotprogressive.bsky.social · 1d

Trump humiliates RFK Jr. by snagging a surprise COVID booster while his anti-vax HHS boss throttles supply. Elites secure shots, the public gets ration lines. Health policy has been reduced to petty theater and power worship, not care for people.

Trump Humiliates RFK Jr. With Surprise COVID Booster Move

The president got all of his shots while his administration restricts the availability of vaccines.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Martin Cook @cookieaob.bsky.social · 1d

How does this lying filth sleep at night?

Martin Cook @cookieaob.bsky.social · 1d

Where's the tomato?

Martin Cook @cookieaob.bsky.social · 1d

Farage is a lifelong white supremacist. He must have had dreadful parents. Or perhaps he was such an awful child they sent him away to school to be rid of him.

Martin Cook @cookieaob.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago having none of his nonsense.

Martin Cook @cookieaob.bsky.social · 2d

Tingly.

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 2d

One of the things I find most frustrating in politics is why the American opposition stubbornly refuses to notice RFK Jr.'s friendship with convicted pedophile and Russian asset Scott Ritter. Kennedy has also linked up with Russell Brand, who has also shilled for Russia.

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Martin Cook @cookieaob.bsky.social · 2d

These filthy lying bustards.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump administration is REALLY allowing Qatar to build an air base in the US after they did a $5.5 billion golf resort deal with Trump and gave him a jet.

MAGA can take their ‘America First’ flags and wipe their asses with them. He is Trump First, and you are suckers.

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Martin Cook @cookieaob.bsky.social · 2d

His mate Jamie is short.

Martin Cook @cookieaob.bsky.social · 2d

A very nice visit to the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow today.

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Martin Cook @cookieaob.bsky.social · 2d

Every year my Cercis forest pansy gives such joy.

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BIG D GRANDROYAL @bigdgrandroyal.bsky.social · 3d

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Martin Cook @cookieaob.bsky.social · 2d

A nice spot.

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3d

A poem that manages to be both powerful and a balm for the soul:

eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 4d

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

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Martin Cook @cookieaob.bsky.social · 2d

Tune!

Martin Cook @cookieaob.bsky.social · 3d

We grow Chinese artichokes, looks a bit similar.