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Joyful Trouble @mini-marshmallows.bsky.social · 3h

Another photo of Doug Emhoff at No Kings in Santa Monica yesterday.

If Kamala had won we’d be at brunch. 🤭

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Paula @pauladunstable.bsky.social · 1h

I thought Yaxley was a Luton Town fan….? Just another glory hunter jumping ship.. he will be supporting Man Utd next !

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.

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Jim Cox @bisasquatch.bsky.social · 15h

#Seattle #NoKings

Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 16h

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19h

Philadelphia Freedom. 🇺🇸 #NoKings

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Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · 22h

Mehdi Hasan: 2 of Donald Trump's 3 wives are immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that even Americans are not willing to do.

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Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · 22h

Mehdi Hasan: "I refuse to let our Constitutional Republic be destroyed by the guy from Home Alone 2."

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Paula @pauladunstable.bsky.social · 22h

#PUSB … and that is another clean sheet … And scoring for fun the other end … 2-0… we figured out their block and our work rate that FL has achieved from these guys is immense .. 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵 #COVBLA #SkyBlues

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 1d

Short version:

Lowe-life doesn't like paying taxes (but is happy to receive taxpayers' cash).

And he dreams of a deregulated nation, where employers are free to exploit worker and where human rights have been stripped away.

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Paula @pauladunstable.bsky.social · 1d

The Emerald 🟩 (Mien Firhuer ) Spoon …..

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 1d

That GB 'News' graphic looks like b*ll*ocks, if that's the correct economics term.

They ignore the exit fee paid to the EU, ignore the EU rebate we used to get and ignore the lost tax revenue to the Treasury due to Brexit.

Factor all that in and Remaining would mean we were £83bn better off.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

Reform candidate visibly squirms as he's confronted by a local family in Caerphilly.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 3d

👏 "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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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 3d

👏 "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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

Portland has fallen!

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 3d

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3d

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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Paula @pauladunstable.bsky.social · 2d

A split Blue Vote then .. #FPTP

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 4d

The thing about young republicans is they grow up into old republicans

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4d

One of many alarmed reports from the 1963 Young Republicans convention where John Birchers seemed to be in ascendancy.

Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, July 7, 1963
'MOB RULE' TACTICS CITED
YGOP Convention
Shocked Ex-Leader
By MERCER CROSS
Minneapolls Tribune Staff Writer
Leonard Nadasdy said Sat-
rushes at the podium to take
urday he is "still in a state
the gavel away from me."
of shock"
because
of the
"There
Young Repub-
the floor!" Were fistfights on
lican
Nation-
At one point the national
al Federation
anthem had to be played to
convention
in
make the delegates sit down.
San Francisco,
and police were summoned to
Calif.
keep order.
"The whole
Radicals distributed scurri-
thing has been
lous printed matter attacking
very
disillu-
Nadasdy.
sioning. for
McDevitt's hotel room was
me,"
said the
immediate
Nadasdy•
broken into
and campaign
past president of the 500,000-
literature, two typewriters
member federation.
and some
briefcases: were
elected. to suc-
ceed Nadasdy for the two -years was Donald Lu;
Washington, D.C.,
who campaigned as
porter of Sen. Barry Goldwa-er R-Ariz., for president. beleated was Charles.Me Devitt, 30, Boise, Idaho, who took no stand on a GOP presidential candidate. McDevitt had the unantmous support of the 15-member Minnesota
McDevitt had the edge go: ing into the YGOP conven-tion, said Nadasdy,
32,
General Mills public rélations san who lives in Plymouth.
But, he said, Lukens' supporters
"used the old Communist technique of causing a lot of dissension and a lot of furor, at which they were eminently successful."
THEIR PURPOSE, said Na-
dasdy,
"was to completely
ensnarl the convention and confuse everyone.
All this
was accompanied by scream-oing and hollering."'
At the center of the confu-
sion
were members of the John Birch Society and the radical right, Nadasdy said.
Two years ago the Minnesotan was elected chairman as a member of the Young Republicans'
moderate fac-
tion. As convention chairman this year, he said:
Right-wing delegates shouted at him to "go back to Russia."
"They made a couple of
• "Tve never seen such violence at a Young Republican affair," s…

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Paula @pauladunstable.bsky.social · 3d

PIAT spotted

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Katrina @katrinabryce.bsky.social · 3d

Looks like JK Rowling and Sex Matters have overplayed their hand perhaps?

EHRC Interim Guidance has been withdrawn. The Final Guidance hasn't been laid before Parliament because the EHRC hasn't done an Equalities Impact Assessment on it.

EHRC drops interim trans advice and urges ministers to act fast to approve its guidance

Equalities watchdog removes interim response to supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman from its website

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 3d

John Solomon didn’t stumble onto a secret — he recycled one. The Jan 6 committee’s phone-metadata subpoenas were public and reported years ago. This is how the right keeps the outrage machine humming: rename oversight as spying, erase timelines, and sell déjà vu.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

The Right’s Favorite Magic Trick: Turning Old News Into New Scandal

John Solomon’s “discovery” about Jan 6 phone records isn’t a scoop — it’s a rerun dressed as revelation.

open.substack.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 3d

Keep at it! Republican leaders have doubled down. Just tie it around their necks.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4d

Democrats shouldn't let go of these Young Republican messages.

Have the right-wing defend it. The VP, JD Vance, already has, and the talking points have been delivered to the MAGA base.

They keep deflecting and doing both sides, but nothing is comparable.

Just keep it in the news.

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Paula @pauladunstable.bsky.social · 4d

You wrote this with AI before #PMQs didn’t you … 😂😂😂
Bedenough is joke

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 4d

📜 PMQs scorecard:

While the British leader stuck to his script, blaming the Tories will only work for so long when Labour is in power. Meanwhile, Kemi Badenoch did a decent job of attacking the holes in the government’s answers.

Here are our scores 👇

PMQs: Starmer tied in knots over collapsed China spy case

The PM conceded witness statements in the failed investigation about individuals accused of spying for Beijing would be published.

ow.ly

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johnliverpool.bsky.social @johnliverpool.bsky.social · 4d

Reform Candidate for London Proper F****N Robot.

The Amazing Worlds of Doctor Who @worldsofdrwho.bsky.social · 4d

"WE ARE CALLED CYBERMEN..."

"Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet" episode 2 (1966). #DoctorWho

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