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D.B.

@mcftw.bsky.social

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Just a dude who likes the calmer and nicer things in life, such as kind hearted people, nature, and animals...oh and medical cannabis. I also hate brexit and right wing nonsense undermining our society and democracy

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D.B. @mcftw.bsky.social · Feb 1

Empathy, just wanting people to be treated like human beings

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D.B. @mcftw.bsky.social · 3h

given the fact those things exist, AND WERE SOLD OUT, I am not convinced the destruction of humanity would be a bad thing... it sucks for the destruction we wrought in the meantime, but truthfully, do you see our elites and politicians changing anything until and unless it is forced on them to do so

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 9h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Mike Johnson refusing to swear her in: "The excuses depending on the day keep changing ... the timing is the fact that I am the 218th signer to the discharge petition for the Epstein files"

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D.B. @mcftw.bsky.social · 1d

i hope we are wrong pal

D.B. @mcftw.bsky.social · 1d

Labour have gone after the elderly and the sick and disabled

with the tax rises coming, who wants to have a bet wether reeves will go after taxing work or wealth?

I hope to be pleasantly surprised, but remain doubtful

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D.B. @mcftw.bsky.social · 1d

all while he is begging for uk gov contracts

I really wish the gov would come out and state categorically musk will never receive a single penny from british tax payers

D.B. @mcftw.bsky.social · 2d

has no one asked chat gpt how this will end?

D.B. @mcftw.bsky.social · 3d

there are a lot of ordinary, joe public, who know you were/are right

there MUST be many others in positions of ability to do something...I do not know why they remain silent, but rest assured, they absolutely know, if people like me know

D.B. @mcftw.bsky.social · 3d

yes, we are just fucking clueless as to why uk gov is seemingly doing shit about it

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d

I find this very touching…& also worrying. Historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social has been an absolutely essential guide to this era. And if he thinks I’m right then we’re in more trouble than we realise

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 18d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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D.B. @mcftw.bsky.social · 3d

2 main reasons

a compliant, client media AND an entire globe, and every system and infrastructure, government, politician, journalist and every member of the public...ITS THE ATTENTION ECONOMY, everything is reduced to clicks and shorts and memes and rw bs...bannons culture war did this

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nypapajoe.bsky.social @nypapajoe.bsky.social · 3d

This is constitutionally an affront to our Rules and Laws that govern our democracy. Demand that MAGA Johnson be impeached for malfeasance and dereliction of his oath of office.

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D.B. @mcftw.bsky.social · 3d

Today I am grateful that both relatively and objectively, living in north western europe, though criminally, not the eu any more, I am one of the most privileged people on earth

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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 4d

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 4d

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

open.substack.com

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D.B. @mcftw.bsky.social · 5d

well it is quite staggering that after 14 years and near decimation at the election, they have apparently learned, the sum total of fuck all

trouble is, largely caused by those shsyters, we are in a period of history where we need a rational balanced decent opposition with the threat of reform...

D.B. @mcftw.bsky.social · 5d

to approach it at face value, it just doesn't make sense on any kind of human level...

Jesus it is dismaying really given the kind of country we could have, none of this divisive shit etc...

i try to remember, concentrate on MY WORLD as opposed the world lol but easier said than done

D.B. @mcftw.bsky.social · 5d

has he looked in the mirror ffs

there aint no real men walking around wearing the shit he does

D.B. @mcftw.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe it is my inherent racism, but I find it particularly obnoxious and galling when the children of immigrants, enter domestic politics, achieve high offices and then become absolute right wing cock suckers

WTF is that about? I have a few theories

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D.B. @mcftw.bsky.social · 7d

there is something deeply deeply morally and criminally wrong with a man who pretends he is a stout christian while defending fascist paedophiles

If he believed in christ he would know he is hellbound...as it is, he isn't religious, he just wants power and money...the two things christ rejected

D.B. @mcftw.bsky.social · 7d

sounds forrin so probably

D.B. @mcftw.bsky.social · 7d

big hard bastards manhandling defenceless women

micro penis set of cunts the lot of em

D.B. @mcftw.bsky.social · 7d

the pub industry is on its arse and its not because you cant open long enough

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Morgan Denman | Space-Focused Designer & Illustrator @morgandenman.bsky.social · 9d

#SpacetoberChallenge Day 7: Space Agency

Bringing back this design from 2022 with what I feel like is a very important addition, especially in these times. Words that define what I’ve always understood the mission of NASA to be. Exploration & science for the benefit of all.

#sciart #spaceart #NASA

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