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Childless catlady 🇫🇷🇪🇺🌍 Vive le Canada, Viva Mexico, etc. No tolerance for intolerance; will not tolerate fascists, racists, fundamentalists— figure it out. I have a right to dislike you. You have a right to exist. Not wealthy, not looking for love.

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meherio68.bsky.social @meherio68.bsky.social · Feb 5

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Jeffries: "I remind all of these corrupt individuals, these sycophants -- the statute of limitations is five years. The American people want accountability, deserve accountability, and will get accountability."

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 16h

Lithuanian National Defence Minister Dovilė Šakalienė:

For Russia,strategic dilemmas are its tools,its weapons…Until Russia feels that it will suffer consequences of its war of aggression that would impair its ability to expand its military power, everything else is just talk.

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EnglishElective (Ret.) @englishelective.bsky.social · 1d

If you don't come home from vacation with a sprained ankle, swollen knee & broken toe, did you even go on vacation?

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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 13h

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Radek Sikorski, presented a Shahed drone to the British Parliament; russia used it to violate Polish airspace.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 13h

Lloyds Banking Group has announced more than 200 branches will shut across the UK by the end of the year – with 20 of them being Bank of Scotland branches

20 Bank of Scotland branches closing by end of 2025 – see full list

www.thenational.scot

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 15h

🇪🇺🦅 The EU will propose launching joint drone and air defense projects in the coming months as part of an ambitious five-year plan to rearm the continent, - Bloomberg.

❗️By the end of 2027, the plan wants the EU doing 40% of its defense procurement jointly.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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meherio68.bsky.social @meherio68.bsky.social · 16h

Miffed over "losing" the Peace Nobel Prize to a Venezuelan woman, are we?

Charlotte Crist @touchesky.bsky.social · 1d

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 1d

UK approves UK’s largest solar farm (in Reform UK heartland Lincolnshire)

- "Solar is our cheapest source of energy - it’s no wonder it's Britain’s favourite" says Paul Morozzo at @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Government has approved enough clean energy to power 7.5 million homes

Government approves Tillbridge Solar Farm, a major new solar project.

www.gov.uk

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 23h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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42itous @rbc42.bsky.social · 1d

Antifa means anti-fascism
Those who villainize antifa
are pro-fascism
You could call them Profa

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bmcarthur17 @bmcarthur17.bsky.social · 1d

A day late, but still an important message. Columbus Day shouldn't be recognized at all.

WATCH:

#Resist

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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meherio68.bsky.social @meherio68.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOoL...

Israel jailed me for bringing aid to Gaza. This is what they did to us | Tadhg Hickey interview

YouTube video by PoliticsJOE

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meherio68.bsky.social @meherio68.bsky.social · 1d

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Dump the Dumb P

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on LA: "They already lost 25k houses to fire because they wouldn't let the water come in from the Pacific Northwest. They didn't do it and we had 25k homes where they had no water in the sprinklers, they had no water in the fire hydrants. We broke in and had the water come down."

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 2d

This is what I pay the New York Times for: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...
[Gift link]

Viktor Orban’s ‘Propaganda State’ Is Starting to Show Cracks

www.nytimes.com

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GG @bigdaddyromance.bsky.social · 2d

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Jennifer Taylor @jtaylor27.bsky.social · 2d

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Lisa Johnson @reportrix.bsky.social · 1d

People have words about Alberta Premier Smith enacting the notwithstanding clause to enforce bills that will affect their kids.

“We'll be moving if she enacts that. For the safety of our child,” says one parent.

People have words.

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/sports/well-...

'We'll be moving': Alberta transgender children, families brace for legal changes

EDMONTON - Football decals plaster the walls of his bedroom. A San Francisco 49ers bedspread and a binder full of trading cards make it clear the seven-year-old loves sports.

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Left: Boris Johnson telling lies about freedom of movement saying the UK had no control of our borders

Right: Aside from being able to remove any criminals coming from the EU, for a longer term stay, EU citizens had to meet certain criteria, if they didn't they could be removed

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 2d

Six years ago, Uganda announced a bill to legalize murdering gay people. The National Christian Organization paid a preacher to go to Uganda and help their lawmakers with the bill. Chick-fil-A funds The National Christian Org.

If you eat at Chick-fil-A, this is what your money goes to.
#Boycott

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 2d

Sierra Johnson, 36, never got to read the story we wrote about her, in which she spoke up for the roughly 1,600 women who sued New York State in 2023 alleging they were sexually assaulted in state prisons.

Sierra Johnson, Who Fought for the Victims of Sexual Abuse in NY Prisons, Dies Waiting for Own Lawsuit to Be Heard

Johnson was one of roughly 1,600 women to sue the state in 2023 under the Adult Survivors Act alleging they were sexually assaulted in state prisons.

hellgatenyc.com

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d

Climate action is the only economic growth story of 21st century, says leading economist Lord Stern

- Fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Climate investment is growth opportunity of 21st century, says economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

www.theguardian.com

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