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Graham C Lester

@grahamclester.bsky.social

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From Furzedown, Southwest London. Living in the US since 1983. Currently in Kansas. Interests: culture, arts, science, humor. Been against Trump since the 1980s!

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Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 2d

That's Why I Stole Your Dog (Song of the Week)
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That's Why I Stole Your Dog

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

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Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 7h

ICE is "picking up" good vibrations.

Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 7h

Chicken and egg puzzle. You need to find the girlfriend to find the founder, but how do you know whose girlfriend to look for if you don't yet know who the founder is?

Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 7h

This "All options are on the table" rhetoric is usually used against places like Iran and North Korea, not against the American people!

Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 9h

I have not been a strong believer in the Trump dementia hypothesis but it seems to me that it is very difficult to explain a post like this without attributing it to some sort of cognitive decline, either because Trump thinks it's true or because he is telling a lie of such poor quality.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h

This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.

Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 9h

Tourism Gets Trumped

"US is predicted to lose around $12.5 billion in international tourism dollars this year, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council.

International visitor spending in America is projected to fall to just under $169 billion this year, down from $181 billion"
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Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 10h

People are using ChatGPT deceptively to impress potential romantic partners, who are often also using ChatGPT. It's all very dystopian. Make it all stop!
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

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Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 10h

I have an uneasy feeling that Hamas will get all its prisoners released and return the hostages and then renege on the agreement and we will all be back to square one. But it's right to try for peace and who has a better plan that is realistic?

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 19h

Incredible. Exonerated after 43 years of being falsely imprisoned, rather than releasing him to his awaiting family, the police released him to ICE, beginning deportation proceedings.

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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

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Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 23h

What if the Wichita lineman is *still* on the line?

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Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 23h

@rightwingwatch.bsky.social has been reporting on this guy for years and he is the same every time. He is very unwell -- the sort of guy who should not be managing other human beings at any sort of level, let alone running a church.

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Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton has died
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Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79, PEOPLE can confirm exclusively. The Oscar award-winning actress was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' ...

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Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 1d

'Biden was diagnosed in May with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer that had spread to his bones, his personal office had announced.'
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Joe Biden receiving radiation therapy for prostate cancer

Former president was diagnosed in May with ‘aggressive form’ of cancer and was already taking hormone medication

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 1d

History doesn't repeat itself but it sometimes rhymes and these days it has been rhyming in ways that are so unimaginative and predictable that it's starting to look like repetition, or perhaps plagiarism.

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Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 1d

Where are states' rights when the president gets to order one state to invade another?

Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 1d

It's not really Antifa unless it has its roots in the Außerparlamentarische Opposition of the 1960s and early 1970s; otherwise, it's just common decency.

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Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 1d

Great that Tron is trending. Forty years ago I was the only person who liked it. Then Al Gore jumped onboard. And now everyone!

Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 1d

It's deplorable that we all fall for such utter bullshit so easily but, on some strange level, it's also kind of sweet and hopeful that we are all still so innocent.

Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 1d

That's a great photo.

Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 1d

Amy Winehouse a few days before her death

Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks. I knew that. God knows why I wrote Oregon!!!

Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 1d

When Trump is dead: "Considering his recent demise, the President continues to be in the greatest health possible under the circumstances, indeed the First Coroner has declared that he has never seen a corpse like it & that, "The bone structure is magnificent, better than Obama." We rest our case."

Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing to think that it would take *less that an hour and a half* for a Qatari F-15 fighter jet to fly from its base in Oregon to New York City. They would be better off bombing Kansas City, or Chicago, either of which would only take about 45 minutes. But Trump has his jet, so. . .

Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 1d

Trump keeps telling that story about how he aced the cognitive exam and doesn't have dementia. He keeps telling it every fifteen minutes. And he doesn't remember that he just told us that story. And fifteen minutes later, he tells it again. Nothing to see there, folks!

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