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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 47m

Tommy Robinson is spreading misinformation again with 'white knifeman' tweet

Robinson isn't posting to be correct; he's posting to feed raw meat into the anger machine - and his racism was on full display again
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Tommy Robinson is spreading misinformation again with 'white knifeman' tweet

Tommy Robinson isn't posting to be correct; he's posting to feed raw meat into the anger machine - and his racism was on full display again

www.thecanary.co

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 12d

Top comment on the #farright riots in the Netherlands by 2 top people

What Mainstream Parties and Media Should Learn from the Dutch Extreme-Right Riots illiberalism.org |

Stijn van Kessel and Andrej Zaslove on the far-right riots in The Hague, the reaction from political leaders, and lessons for preserving liberal democracy and liberal democratic principles.

www.illiberalism.org

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2h

Not sure why it has taken until late 2025 to see this, but this is how you do it. Every time. For every one of these guests.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

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

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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 1d

Today Leeds followed our forebears who kicked Oswald Moseley and his Facists out of the city at the Battle of Holbeck Moor and stood up to racism, the far right and said loud and clear”Refugees are welcome here”. This is Leeds

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SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 3h

Love that Chicago is getting in on the Portland humor bandwagon! Hard to say it’s a warzone when this is happening!

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 6h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2h

Portland, OR, 2025

Protester in frog costume stands in front of tank (meme of Tiananmen Square “Tank Man”)

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 2h

'Angry middle-aged white men' abuse woman at Gary Neville's hotel

The grimmest people in the country are on the march because Gary Neville pointed out how grim they are - yet they say they're 'protecting are women'??? @willem-moore.bsky.social gives up.
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'Angry middle-aged white men' abuse woman at Gary Neville's hotel

The grimmest fucking people in the country are on the march because Gary Neville pointed out how fucking grim they are

www.thecanary.co

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 3h

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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 3h

You can’t be both pro farming and a climate change denier in the face of the overwhelming scientific consensus

Britain’s second worst harvest on record has been caused primarily by extreme weather conditions, particularly the hottest spring and summer ever recorded and the driest spring in more

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Daniel Swedin @danielswedin.bsky.social · 4h

Är det nån som vet om det är en partiledardebatt i kväll där energiministern helst inte vill prata om att EU-kommissionen drar Sverige inför domstol för att inte fullt ut ha infört nya regler om enklare och snabbare tillstånd för förnybar energi?

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Lena Hansson @lenahansson.bsky.social · 3h

Precis. Eller dra ett skämt?
Rubbad inledning av en konversation i verkliga livet, tydligen helt normal i sociala medier.

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Lena Hansson @lenahansson.bsky.social · 3h

Har alltid uppfattad den där hållningen som en kompensation för att egentligen känna att ingen alls i hela välden bryr sig ett skit om vad man tänker och tycker.

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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 3h

Show this to a flagshagger. They’ll hate it.

Reform isn’t a party. It’s a pyramid scheme. Farage and his billionaire donors aren’t patriots. They’re con men up to their BALLS in foreign money.

This explains how they do it.

Stop believing the bullshit.

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The Farage Con Explained: Send This To A Flagsh*gger. They’ll Hate It

YouTube video by Supertanskiii

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Lena Hansson @lenahansson.bsky.social · 3h

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Erik de la Reguera @erikdelareguera.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 5h

Fullständigt bisarrt och helt oacceptabelt att Israel fortfarande inte släpper in internationella journalister i Gaza, annat än enstaka team inbäddade med israeliska militären. Full access nu! #pressfrihet