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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 11h

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mikegeolhorton.bsky.social @mikegeolhorton.bsky.social · 7h

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Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 14h

Headed out into the field. Josh printed out 3D maps of the region for reference. ⚒️

White 3D printed map showing a linear mountain range trending north / south and a little bump to its southwest, and then a lumpy mountain range to the south of both.

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

“Kids”

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 8h

My boss can't work powerpoint so I do all his presentations for him. It really annoys me that he never gives me credit. On 1 slide in a recent deck, I managed to get the first letter of every sentence to spell out his name followed by 'CUNT'. He didn't notice & sent it out

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 12h

Was about to point to this as evidence of Wes Streeting's failure - but then realized his private healthcare investors would regard it as evidence of his success.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 8h

Expect Trump to deploy outside agitators this Saturday who will throw bricks and try to incite violence.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Another $20 billion. That is the face you make when you heist the US taxpayers for $40 billion two weeks before your midterm elections from the most corrupt America Last regime in history.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 23h

Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."

Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first

Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 8h

Yet another lie about immigration from the Telegraph.

Yet another correction.

I explained why the Centre for Policy Studies numbers were nonsense 6 months ago, and the CPS has admitted I was right. Didn't stop the Telegraph from printing the lie.

docs.google.com/document/d/e...

An article “Farage pledges to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants” /”We will stop this scam on the British people” (Sept, 21) stated the cost of 800,000 “Boriswave” migrants gaining ILR will be at least £234 billion during their lifetimes. This figure was from a third party organisation which has confirmed it is disputed and will be updated. We are happy to correct the record.

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 13h

At last a local council in the UK is leading where national government is not

Taxing vehicles on weight - and thereby size - is at least some counterweight against vehicle bloat, and the damage that bigger, heavier vehicles inflict on road, pedestrian and cycle space

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cardiff set to impose SUV parking premium after council approval

Owners of large cars such as SUVs would be charged more to encourage switching to smaller vehicles.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 12h

Populists live on simple answers and cheap applause. When those no longer work and they are confronted by unpopularity, they have nothing.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19h

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 11h

Oh.

Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18h

Reform UK has been forced to reject more unlawful donations than any other British political party in 2025

the party has had to give back almost £200,000 this year from 18 impermissible donors, according to Electoral Commission data

www.ft.com/content/5392...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12h

British.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

FOX: The Washington post said all these terrible fearmongering things will happen if buses are free

ZOHRAN: good news - we did it already and here’s what actually happened

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 9h

"Epstein... walked around his desk, picked up a grainy photograph, and handed it to me. The image had been taken from some distance, but it was unmistakably my little brother. I felt a stab of fear.

“We know where your brother goes to school,” Epstein said."

This man was a monster. I feel sick.

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Thune: "If I were a woman I'd be talking to my doctor and not taking advice from RFK"

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 8h

‪The medieval Palace of Westminster burned today in 1834. Turner was on hand to paint it. ‬

‪The replacement building was supposed to cost £710,000 and take 6 years‬

‪It cost £2.4 million and took 24 years.‬

‪With a decade of snagging. ‬

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 14h

Libraries in Reform UK run Staffordshire are being forced to close.

They are refusing to hire much needed staff and refusing over time or paying for staff to be covered. This is resulting in libraries closing because of too few staff, despite there being available staff to cover.

#Farageheit411

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 14h

I find @tomtugendhat.bsky.social's argument not just ludicrous, but dangerous. Due process is *absolutely* paramount in criminal law - not "whose side you are on".

We don't trample Separation of Powers just because you feel rightly angry and ashamed for being spied on *while Security Minister".

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David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 10h

As a dual Argentinean and American citizen who deeply wants the situation in my birth country to improve, I am skeptical that giving Javier Milei $40 billion is really going to improve anything long term.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

Who’s eating the tariffs? You, mostly.

@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/t...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 9h

Offensive and patronizing, indeed. Describes much of the GOP nowadays, come to think of it.

A screenshot of an X.com post by @BlueATLG
, Blue Georgia, posted 9 hours ago, stating, "Mike Johnson is asked about the delay in swearing in Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva: 'Bless her heart. She's a representative elect. She doesn't know how it works around here.' Grijalva: 'How offensive and how patronizing. Yesterday, my race was certified, and so that's how things work. Your job is to swear me in.'" The post includes a video still from various news networks (Fox News, CNN) showing a split-screen of multiple news anchors discussing the topic, with headlines such as "DEM REP-ELECT RESPONDS TO HOUSE SPEAKER'S 'BLESS HER HEART' DIG" and "DEMOCRATS STORM SPEAKER JOHNSON'S OFFICE," along with a Blue Georgia alert icon.

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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING NEWS: We are challenging the EPA over illegally ending the Solar for All program – a program that would help Oregonians save more than $83 million in energy costs.

Read more about what happened and why it matters.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d

I’m old enough to remember when we had a system of checks & balances that involved Congress, when Congress controlled the purse and legislated, and the president respected the Constitution & rule of law. I’m old enough to remember when a U.S. president wouldn’t want to be King George or a dictator.

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