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@localnotail.bsky.social

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local, no-tail, mostly harmless, bit gonzo, sometimes sweary taking notes, library & research assistant English. From Norfolk, of Birmingham, in Europe, on Earth. Meet me in my pinned if you want. 🙏 ask me #alttxtplz if I missed alt-txt & you'd like it

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Jan 30

I've been Charley on social media for over a decade & I've also had IRL harassment so no personal photo or surname on my profile.

But if you ever want to know what I'm like & who I am, in 2018 I did a video for Final Say for All about me & why Brexit was personal:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-JO...

FSFA Birmingham - Jane

YouTube video by Final Say For All - Beehives

www.youtube.com

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 2m

Thanks, so far she is - but she's also max vaxxed and pretty hardy - she went to Berlin to see family last month and was the only one who didn't catch it then.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 3h

It's like watching an abuser

10 Oct 2925 Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

It has just been learned that China has taken an extraordinarily aggressive position on Trade in sending an extremely hostile letter to the World, stating that they were going to, effective November 1st, 2025, impose large scale Export Controls on virtually every product they make, and some not even made by them. This affects ALL Countries, without exception, and was obviously a plan devised by them years ago. It is absolutely unheard of in International Trade, and a moral disgrace in dealing with other Nations.

Based on the fact that China has taken this unprecedented position, and speaking only for the U.S.A., and not other Nations who were similarly threatened, starting November 1st, 2025 (or sooner, depending on any further actions or changes taken by China), the United States of America will impose a Tariff of 100% on China, over and above any Tariff that they are currently paying. Also on November 1st, we will impose Export Controls on any and all critical software.

It is impossible to believe that China would have taken such an action, but they have, and the rest is History. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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10/12/25 Truth Social Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

Don't worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. He doesn't want Depression for his country, and neither do I. The U.S.A. wants to help China, not hurt it!!! President DJT

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 3h

his mind is going

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Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump

The Ukraine Impeachment (of me!) Scam was a far bigger Illegal Hoax than Watergate. I sincerely hope the necessary authorities, including CONGRESS, are looking into this! Adam "Schiffty" Schiff was sooo dishonest and corrupt. So many laws, and protocols, were violated, and just plain broken!!! President DJT

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10/12/25, 4:04 PM GMT+1

this is bollocks

Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the European Union. He told Congress that he was working at the "express direction" of the president when pressure was put on Ukraine to investigate the Bidens. Mr Sondland added that an offer of a White House visit for Ukraine's president was conditional on the country publicly announcing a probe.

Over two weeks in January and February 2020, the Senate held a trial. A Senate vote requires a two-thirds majority to convict, so a guilty verdict was always unlikely given that Mr Trump's party controls the chamber.

And this is how it came to pass. Mr Trump was cleared - by 52 votes to 48 on one count, and 53 votes to 47 on the other.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49800181

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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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10/12/25, 5:38 AM

[He has forgotten that he was President then so it was his FBI and he's wrong about the crowd number as well

Trump Blames Jan. 6 On ‘The Biden FBI’ In Unhinged Late Night Post
Trump falsely claimed yet again the insurrection was former President Joe Biden's fault despite the fact that Biden wasn't even sworn into office yet.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-january-6-riot-fbi-joe-biden_n_68ebbe4ae4b0abf20b6b1346

Simpson's "Old Man Yells At Cloud" meme but Grandpa Simpson has a red MAGA cap and an orange face and the text says "Old Man Yells At Reality"

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Mar 13

2009 Peter Thiel: The Education of a Libertarian

"I no longer believe that freedom + democracy are compatible"

"Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries + the extension of the franchise to women... have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron"

archive.ph/RSuU8

archive.ph

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hannah Arendt did write lots about lying and propaganda:

"And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please."

(more below)

The closest in spirit and content, and also the most easily available, is from an interview with Roger Errera in 1973, what turned out to be Hannah Arendt's last public interview. Arendt spoke about the importance of a free press in an era of mass manipulation of truth and public lying: She said:

"The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie-a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days -but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows.

And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please."

all 3 s/s taken from https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/on-fake-hannah-arendt-quotations-2024-08-04

The key point in Arendt's statement is that as lies multiply, the result is not that the lie is believed but that people lose faith in the truth and are increasingly susceptible to believe anything.

When cynicism about truth reigns, lies operate not because they replace reality but because they make reality wobble-a phrase Arendt employs in her essay Truth and Politics. In that essay, Arendt argued that mass lying undermines our sense of reality by which we find our bearings in the real world:

"The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world-and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end-is being destroyed."

The Arendtian point is that constant lying by a propaganda machine does not lead to the lie being believed but leads, instead, to cynicism. This is an argument that Arendt made, already, in her first published book The Origins of Totalitarianism. In that book, Arendt writes:

"Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness."

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Aug 7

Seeing this about as a Hannah Arendt quote "This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore"

but it's not real, according to Roger Berkowitz of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics + Humanities

hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/o...

Meme with a fake Hannah Arendt quote and a picture of her.

"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.

A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong.

And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want."

Hannah Arendt

German historian and philosopher

(1906-1975)

by HUMAN REFORM POLITICS: a force for positive change

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1h

'TRUTH social post Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump.

[Shares screenshot from X-Twitter account]

Prime Minister of Israel @IsraeliPM

Give @realDonaldTrump the Nobel Peace Prize - he deserves it! X

[AI image of Netanyahu giving a triumphant Trump a Nobel Prize while everyone celebrates with lots of Israel flags

words in background banner: PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH]

9:41 AM Oct 9, 2025

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, Covid has clearly come again, from cities to villages.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 2h

oh wow so that's Trump sharing both Netanyahu and Putin suggesting he should get the Nobel Prize?

this timeline is unreal.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 8h

"Stand Tall. We Will Win."

#Portland #PortlandFrog
#SavePortland

Glorious beautiful protest art from Nikkolas Smith
www.instagram.com/p/DPmSaYTErw...

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 2h

‘Brummies united against racism and hate crime’: poster campaign takes on the far right

A message of neighbourly solidarity is thriving in Birmingham against a backdrop of racist intimidation.

‘Brummies united against racism’: poster campaign takes on the far right

A message of neighbourly solidarity is thriving in Birmingham against a backdrop of racist intimidation

www.theguardian.com

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 2h

Covid coming round againin my mum's village, like a runaway car, careering through the elderly again.

Mum is asking how people can have forgotten already how bad it can be. Are they mad or just stupid?

Everybody at the indoor bowls night has come down with Covid, and before they'd been vaccinated.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 3h

s/s tweet by MAGA loon Laura Loomer: WOKE MARXIST POPE

May 8, 2025

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 3h

Pope Leo to global news services:

“With your patient + rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,”
“You can also be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth"

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 5h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 3h

2 days ago

Truth Details Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump

It has just been learned that China has taken an extraordinarily aggressive position on Trade in sending an extremely hostile letter to the World, stating that they were going to, effective November 1st, 2025, impose large scale Export Controls on virtually every product they make, and some not even made by them. This affects ALL Countries, without exception, and was obviously a plan devised by them years ago. It is absolutely unheard of in International Trade, and a moral disgrace in dealing with other Nations.

Based on the fact that China has taken this unprecedented position, and speaking only for the U.S.A., and not other Nations who were similarly threatened, starting November 1st, 2025 (or sooner, depending on any further actions or changes taken by China), the United States of America will impose a Tariff of 100% on China, over and above any Tariff that they are currently paying. Also on November 1st, we will impose Export Controls on any and all critical software.

It is impossible to believe that China would have taken such an action, but they have, and the rest is History. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

DONALD J. TRUMP

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

13.2k ReTruths

49.4k Likes

10/10/25, 9:50 PM

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 3h

photo of a cute toy mouse standing upright in a colourful jester's outfit, waving, with the text "The horrors are never ending" above it, and "Yet I remain silly" below.

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 3h

It's like watching an abuser

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3h

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...

www.theguardian.com

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · Mar 22

Journalists are trying to understand Trump’s irrational behavior, and are generally unwilling to consider the possibility that it's not some grand strategy, but a madman with increasingly diminished mental faculties.

There Is No Method to Trump’s Madness. He’s Simply Insane.

His defenders try to apply reason to his erratic, nonsensical decisions. That’s a fool’s errand—but fools abound in this administration.

newrepublic.com

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 9h

#SavePortland

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 3h

his mind is going

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1d

This is my Portland protest 🧵 btw

I don't know if Donald Trump is being fed AI slop of riots in Portland or if he's just seeing the smoke and
gas grenades that the ICE goons Gestapopo are flinging about to try to create panic,

but these are all real people, protesting politely and charmingly

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 4d

#SavePortland

Composite of 4 screenshots (s/s) from the quoted video showing as section of a sarcastic Portland war zone video on TikTok made to mock the latest bout of Trumpian gaslighting of America in using his ICE Gestapopo to target states and cities who did not vote for him, even when crime is far higher elsewhere. But you know this, right?

Someone with a plastic sword in one hand is walking across a Portland street saying "SHOTS FLYING IN PORTLAND GET READY" as they hold an espresso shot from a coffee van behind them in one hand, and then drink it at the end.

From Tik Tok itsrachellecochran, so maybe it's them idk.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 8h

"Stand Tall. We Will Win."

#Portland #PortlandFrog
#SavePortland

Glorious beautiful protest art from Nikkolas Smith
www.instagram.com/p/DPmSaYTErw...

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 8h

🫡🐸 we all stand together, in war-ravaged Portland

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