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Rejoin. Historian. Likes Doctor Who, hockey, rugby & history & flags. Really should be writing. Quokka Facts. He/him. 🏴🇪🇺
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Scotland's first deputy first minister Lord Jim Wallace dies, aged 71. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Scotland's first deputy first minister Lord Jim Wallace dies, aged 71
The former Scottish Liberal Democrat leader was undergoing a procedure at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Scotland's first deputy first minister Lord Jim Wallace dies, aged 71. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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LATEST SUBSTACK: Why does Kemi Badenoch want…fewer voters? And what does it tell us about the British party system?
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
Good Luck Daily: Kemi Badenoch wants fewer voters
What her speech told us about the fragmentation of politics
open.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:34 PM
LATEST SUBSTACK: Why does Kemi Badenoch want…fewer voters? And what does it tell us about the British party system?
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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"I want to protect the people that for the first time in their lives feel good about themselves, they feel like they've - that they're wealthy people."
He is literally unable to imagine someone who is not rich having a fulfilling life.
He is literally unable to imagine someone who is not rich having a fulfilling life.
Trump: "People that own their homes -- we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard can buy a home."
January 29, 2026 at 7:28 PM
"I want to protect the people that for the first time in their lives feel good about themselves, they feel like they've - that they're wealthy people."
He is literally unable to imagine someone who is not rich having a fulfilling life.
He is literally unable to imagine someone who is not rich having a fulfilling life.
Tammy Duckworth is a wounded US armed forces veteran.
Marco Rubio sold his soul to Dorito Don.
Vance is not allowed within 200 metres of a DFS
Marco Rubio sold his soul to Dorito Don.
Vance is not allowed within 200 metres of a DFS
January 29, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Tammy Duckworth is a wounded US armed forces veteran.
Marco Rubio sold his soul to Dorito Don.
Vance is not allowed within 200 metres of a DFS
Marco Rubio sold his soul to Dorito Don.
Vance is not allowed within 200 metres of a DFS
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Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota announced she will run for state governor after Gov. Tim Walz said earlier this month that he would not seek a third term. 🔗 on.wsj.com/3OdoHdW
Klobuchar Officially Runs for Minnesota Governor: ‘We’ve Been Through a Lot’
In her campaign video, the Democratic lawmaker references the recent killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal officers.
on.wsj.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota announced she will run for state governor after Gov. Tim Walz said earlier this month that he would not seek a third term. 🔗 on.wsj.com/3OdoHdW
Mmm, gamone
January 29, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Mmm, gamone
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"Stop being mean to me and Donnie Wonnie. Or we will brutally murder you in broad daylight"
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 2:36 PM
"Stop being mean to me and Donnie Wonnie. Or we will brutally murder you in broad daylight"
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Finishes with a delicious paradox:
January 29, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Finishes with a delicious paradox:
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I think not enough white people are taking the voting rights issues seriously enough. They are killing people and then offering to stop killing if the state gives up the voter registration data. This should be setting off massive alarms for EVERYONE. (I’m looking at you, white people.)
January 28, 2026 at 5:26 PM
I think not enough white people are taking the voting rights issues seriously enough. They are killing people and then offering to stop killing if the state gives up the voter registration data. This should be setting off massive alarms for EVERYONE. (I’m looking at you, white people.)
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Usual reminder that the Confederacy had to implement an effective Police State behind the lines to keep men in its ranks, and that much of the civilian population of the South was effectively at war with the CSA, for that reason & many others.
www.jstor.org/stable/26381...
www.jstor.org/stable/26381...
The Confederate Army couldn’t even beat a math teacher.
January 29, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Usual reminder that the Confederacy had to implement an effective Police State behind the lines to keep men in its ranks, and that much of the civilian population of the South was effectively at war with the CSA, for that reason & many others.
www.jstor.org/stable/26381...
www.jstor.org/stable/26381...
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Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
January 28, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
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Ok. And? What's your point?
BBC News says it has authenticated a video that shows Alex Pretti kicking and damaging a vehicle used by federal agents nearly two weeks before he was fatally shot in Minneapolis. [Mediaite]
BREAKING: BBC Confirms Authenticity of Viral Video Appearing to Show Alex Pretti Kicking Agents’ Car 11 Days Before Shooting
After much speculation online, the BBC has confirmed the authenticity of new viral footage appearing to show Alex Pretti kicking an agent's car on Jan. 13 — 11 days before he was shot to death by Bord...
www.mediaite.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Ok. And? What's your point?
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“In America’s anti-ICE mob, the Founding Fathers’ worst fears are being realised
The country is teetering on the edge of ‘mobocracy’, where ignorance and harassment trumps reasoned debate and freedom”
An insane take by
Simon Hankinson
(Heritage Foundation)
apple.news/ARwbxEP8pRJW...
The country is teetering on the edge of ‘mobocracy’, where ignorance and harassment trumps reasoned debate and freedom”
An insane take by
Simon Hankinson
(Heritage Foundation)
apple.news/ARwbxEP8pRJW...
apple.news
January 29, 2026 at 1:31 PM
“In America’s anti-ICE mob, the Founding Fathers’ worst fears are being realised
The country is teetering on the edge of ‘mobocracy’, where ignorance and harassment trumps reasoned debate and freedom”
An insane take by
Simon Hankinson
(Heritage Foundation)
apple.news/ARwbxEP8pRJW...
The country is teetering on the edge of ‘mobocracy’, where ignorance and harassment trumps reasoned debate and freedom”
An insane take by
Simon Hankinson
(Heritage Foundation)
apple.news/ARwbxEP8pRJW...
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The First Minister has said he will "consider" calls from the Scottish Greens to evict American troops from Prestwick Airport
John Swinney to 'consider' calls to evict US troops from Prestwick Airport
www.thenational.scot
January 29, 2026 at 1:30 PM
The First Minister has said he will "consider" calls from the Scottish Greens to evict American troops from Prestwick Airport
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@rafaelbehr.bsky.social is always insightful. This is the original sin of Starmer's premiership.
Labour should have been honest with the electrate about the costs of Brexit, the costs of ploughing a lonely furrow on the world stage.
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Labour should have been honest with the electrate about the costs of Brexit, the costs of ploughing a lonely furrow on the world stage.
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January 28, 2026 at 3:10 PM
@rafaelbehr.bsky.social is always insightful. This is the original sin of Starmer's premiership.
Labour should have been honest with the electrate about the costs of Brexit, the costs of ploughing a lonely furrow on the world stage.
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Labour should have been honest with the electrate about the costs of Brexit, the costs of ploughing a lonely furrow on the world stage.
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I see Reform are reporting hurty social media posts to the Police now.
Hmm…
Hmm…
January 29, 2026 at 11:53 AM
I see Reform are reporting hurty social media posts to the Police now.
Hmm…
Hmm…
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An essential dissection of the Gorton & Denton contest by perhaps the best-placed observer on Earth, @robfordmancs.bsky.social
New Swingometer post now out - my look at the Gorton and Denton by-election, taking place down the road from me swingometer.substack.com/p/the-gorton...
The Gorton and Denton by-election: a tale of two Manchesters?
Unpopular incumbent + fragmented opposition + unusual seat = unpredictable contest
swingometer.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:51 AM
An essential dissection of the Gorton & Denton contest by perhaps the best-placed observer on Earth, @robfordmancs.bsky.social
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There are many sensible, moderate voters who took a chance on the Conservatives but are dismayed to see the party lurching to the extremes, reduced to being Reform-lite.
They are looking for a new home and they are finding it with the Scottish Liberal Democrats.
They are looking for a new home and they are finding it with the Scottish Liberal Democrats.
January 29, 2026 at 11:16 AM
There are many sensible, moderate voters who took a chance on the Conservatives but are dismayed to see the party lurching to the extremes, reduced to being Reform-lite.
They are looking for a new home and they are finding it with the Scottish Liberal Democrats.
They are looking for a new home and they are finding it with the Scottish Liberal Democrats.
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this also raises the frankly wonderful prospect of some Uruk Hai running a nice little boulangerie deep in the bowels of Isengard
much is made of "meat's back on the menu boys" but personally I'm quite compelled by the Uruk Hai complaining about days-old bread, man's been alive for at most two weeks, was grown from some revolting fleshy underground alien womb and already he yearns for a warm baguette
January 28, 2026 at 10:28 PM
this also raises the frankly wonderful prospect of some Uruk Hai running a nice little boulangerie deep in the bowels of Isengard
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That’s not even the most shocking line of the scene!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This season of #TheNightManager is so exquisitely gay. Hugh Laurie just leaned across a table and said to Tom Hiddleston “because you dream of me every night just as I dream of you.”
January 29, 2026 at 10:31 AM
That’s not even the most shocking line of the scene!!!!!!!!!!!!!