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Paul McO'Smith III @pavsmith.bsky.social · 1m

Alaska getting hit by a hurricane at all is bad enough. In mid October it is ridiculous. Yet nobody will blame the climate. Just another outlier. Like all the others we've been having recently.

Mickey Rottinghaus @golfsobad.bsky.social · 10m

Does Murkowski have anything to say?

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More than 1,500 people displaced after typhoon remnants devastate Alaska villages

At least one person was killed and two were missing after weekend storm battered two Alaska Native communities

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Paul McO'Smith III @pavsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Silent disco last eve: photos.app.goo.gl/t3BVsTYtMayi...

New video · Tuesday, Oct 14 🎬

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 1d

you're right. the UK, after joining the EEC, became a very influential & powerful member of the international community...not just in the EEC/EU but elsewhere.

Suez & the fall of empire forgotten - britain was back as a key player on the world stage.

Fintan explains well where they are now 👇

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Rubicon1313 💕Safe 4 LGTBQ💕Vets @rubicon1313.bsky.social · 1d

Well, we saw what happened to speech now they’re going after our free press. The new policy states the Pentagon must pre-authorize any stories. CBS is refusing as is AP, the New York Times and others fuck Trump keep him out of the news. He loves attention. Let’s deprive him of it. TikTok, MF!😡😡

News outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon press rules

YouTube video by CBS News

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Paul McO'Smith III @pavsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Critically, the UK lost it's unique ability to put a brake on EU policy when it went counter to the national interest. Look at that sideways and being part of the EU protected UK sovereignty and national interest when it came to the EU.

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Paul McO'Smith III @pavsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, and it is simple to argue that all supranational organisations like the UN, IMF, NATO, etc. siphon off some sovereignty, but in return you get bunches of advantages.

Sadly the thing the #brexit brigade didn't realise is that they also provide influence that you lose from the outside.

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Paul McO'Smith III @pavsmith.bsky.social · 1d

My young brain met the stories with incredulity. It never struck me at all that these stories were supposed to be taken as faith. Brain analysed them and went... nahhhhhhh... I don't recall attending Sunday school for very long!

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Paul McO'Smith III @pavsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Still, back when I was a wee atheist, and we did RI in primary school, the classes were very strictly split into the different sects so that we all got the correct version of god's instructions. Everyone else got it wrong.

a group of people are sitting on a set of stairs and one of them is wearing a hat

ALT: a group of people are sitting on a set of stairs and one of them is wearing a hat

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Paul McO'Smith III @pavsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Ain't got time to check facts. Only got time to be outraged!

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 1d

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Paul McO'Smith III @pavsmith.bsky.social · 1d

It would become a GE campaign point. Another bad year? Blame the EU! Leave!!!

But whenever I hear sovrinty coming out of the mouth of a politician I actually hear I want no impediments to my rule over the UK.

The fact that the populace lost so much with zero gain but no pushback... bamboozled!

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Paul McO'Smith III @pavsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Great thread then. Great thread now.

I'd always read Starmer's comment as there's no route back to the EU in his lifetime. The EU won't countenance the idea of the UK being a member again if another change of government is all that's needed to march the UK out again.

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 1d

for those wondering why labour criticise brexit yet have pro brexit policies like "EU? Not in my lifetime", here's perhaps why.

Tony Benn 50 years ago, just before the 1st brexit referendum 👇

GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · Jun 5

Tony Benn, whom I would rank as a principled person & politician - as opposed to a grifter - outlined labour's stance against the EEC on brexit 50 years ago.

TL;DW: "our rules, our laws, sovvringty, innit?"

They failed. Brits voted remain.

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Paul McO'Smith III @pavsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Baby pizzas...

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 1d

Yes, Trump REALLY doesn't like this photo of him on the cover of Time Magazine, but on the plus side, his neck now has the fastest growing channel on P*rnhub.

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 1d

That £900k house in Frinton. Has anyone mentioned how it was paid for yet? Any laws broken, or all above board?

Anyone investigating? Media grown a conscience? Any journalist working for the British people? Anyone?

Half way through another week of silence then.

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Paul McO'Smith III @pavsmith.bsky.social · 1d

Some kind of weird sacrifice thing?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing

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Paul McO'Smith III @pavsmith.bsky.social · 2d

Having a drink in the Big Canary...

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Paul McO'Smith III @pavsmith.bsky.social · 2d

A good article on the don't mention the war dogma that pervades the Tories. Where have all the serious politicians gone? Simple. They're just not bothering to turn up any longer. Thus we end up with the current Tory MPs.

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

“An essential condition today for entry into the upper echelons of Conservative party politics is being willing to at least pretend that you think taking Britain out of the EU was a good idea. This is a never-ending lobotomy for the Tories”

Brexit will always ruin you in the end.
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