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Tyler_The_Wise @tcoop6231.bsky.social · 2m

a man with long black hair is wearing a hooded jacket and gloves .

ALT: a man with long black hair is wearing a hooded jacket and gloves .

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Tyler_The_Wise @tcoop6231.bsky.social · 32m

How did this man get passed over by the Nobel committee?

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 3h

TRUMP: DISARMING HAMAS WOULD HAPPEN QUICKLY AND PERHAPS VIOLENTLY

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Tyler_The_Wise @tcoop6231.bsky.social · 38m

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Tyler_The_Wise @tcoop6231.bsky.social · 45m

This isn’t news to anyone who has spent time around young Republicans

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 13h

ew post: Populism and Economic Prosperity
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/10/popu...
We would expect populist governments to damage the economy, and the evidence suggests that they do so in a big way. But we know from Brexit that the media typically nullifies the impact of this evidence on voters.

Populism and Economic Prosperity

Mainstream political parties normally claim that populist parties, if they ever got to power, would damage the economy. We have clear evid...

mainlymacro.blogspot.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6h

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Tyler_The_Wise @tcoop6231.bsky.social · 1h

Is Putin really paying for trolls on Bluesky now too?

Tyler_The_Wise @tcoop6231.bsky.social · 1h

You’re repeating Putin’s propaganda to me

Fuck off

Tyler_The_Wise @tcoop6231.bsky.social · 1h

Starmer sucks. I agree.

He seems unable or unwilling to fix the structural problems holding back the British economy

I’m skeptical a Green Party with 11% of the vote and 10 seats is going to help anything

Tyler_The_Wise @tcoop6231.bsky.social · 1h

And what do you call Russia’s invasion? Is that dabbling?

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Tyler_The_Wise @tcoop6231.bsky.social · 1h

She is a far right populist

She’d be a disaster for France

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 2h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 2h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Tyler_The_Wise @tcoop6231.bsky.social · 1h

The most likely replacement is LePen

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Nate's Myth @natesmith.dev · 2h

if you don’t believe in intelligent design, then why do you think we have hands we can trace to quickly and easily draw a turkey? explain that, smartypants

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Tyler_The_Wise @tcoop6231.bsky.social · 1h

Want to avoid that mess? Labour needs to agree to proportional representation

Otherwise, currently polling suggests a Reform government with backing from the Tories

That’s probably the PR outcome too but at least there’s a chance to keep Reform out with a grand coalition

Tyler_The_Wise @tcoop6231.bsky.social · 1h

Unless the Greens can take seats from Reform or the Tories the growth of the UK Green Party is just padding Prime Minister Nigel Farage’s eventual victory over Labour in the next general election

UK Green Stats @ukgreenstats.bsky.social · 3h

The Green Party has never seen membership growth at this scale. Ever.

5,000 members per day is becoming an ordinary figure.

Next goal: The Tories.

Graph showing an upward trend in members in October of 2025, showing the scale of the growth

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Tyler_The_Wise @tcoop6231.bsky.social · 1h

No, the real trick is allowing lots of high end office development in one corner of the city but then refusing to let anyone build houses

Now you can tax the offices to pay your bills and have high quality schools for your tiny population while your service workers commute in from the East Bay

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

Who’s Eating the Tariffs?

(via Goldman) @scottlincicome.bsky.social

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2h

You pay taxes so he can illegally weaponize that money against you and your community

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump and Bessent clarify that they will only help out Argentina as long as Milei is in power. Trump adds that the same thing goes with NYC, where the White House will hold up funds if Mamdani wins.

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Tyler_The_Wise @tcoop6231.bsky.social · 2h

^ overall I think you’re onto something here

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Tyler_The_Wise @tcoop6231.bsky.social · 3h

Harris didn’t lose because Biden supported Ukraine by the wrong amount

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Tyler_The_Wise @tcoop6231.bsky.social · 3h

My initial dislike of her has been vindicated

Politico @politico.com · 3h

Katie Porter’s PR meltdown last week has Dems keeping their distance.

We approached more than a dozen current and former Dem lawmakers from California. The vast majority declined to comment on their interactions with Porter.

Katie Porter’s spiral has Dems keeping their distance

POLITICO approached more than a dozen current and former Democratic lawmakers from California. The vast majority declined to comment on their interactions with Porter.

www.politico.com

Tyler_The_Wise @tcoop6231.bsky.social · 3h

A real missed opportunity to expand housing supply in that area :/

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21h

This guy has, inadvertently, identified the exact process that has driven our nation insane, which is that you’re increasingly allowed and encouraged to make up whichever facts make you angriest, and then insist they be treated as true, in the face of any evidence to the contrary.

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