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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 8h

This is not a minor issue: it’s a serious threat to democracy. We’re rapidly transitioning into a world where, as long as you support the president, you can be above the law; if you’re in the opposition, you have a target on your back. Opposition can’t survive under these conditions.

Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 9h

I think at this point it’s fair to say that we’re no longer under the rule of law.

Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

It's important for prominent Democrats, especially those running for president, to loudly promise they'll throw the full weight of the DOJ into prosecuting illegal acts committed by Trump officials during his administration. If people fear a prison cell, they're more likely to abandon the GOP.

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6d

This is like Looney Tunes levels of criminal corruption

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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willp5.bsky.social @willp5.bsky.social · 8d

Our late Queen was more animated when she met incoming PM Liz Truss.

And she died the next day.

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willp5.bsky.social @willp5.bsky.social · 8d

Not a chance.

After the false hope of Mueller, impeachment, Biden’s election etc etc, I refuse to believe any prediction that he’ll finally face a reckoning.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17d

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

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Mark Aitch @ver-bat-man.bsky.social · 10d

Kemi luv, u sure u wnt 2 cut English?

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 10d

Do watch this. It’s very good. Sound absolutely on.

Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 10d

Robert Jenrick and his wiggy puppet

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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · Sep 4

It's incredible to compare The Times' opinion of Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech in 1968 with their current overtly racist stance on Robert Jenrick and Nigel Farage in 2025.

#PoliticsLive

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Sep 4

Case against Powell's Rivers of Blood speech was one of principle - that it was "racialist in tone and liable to exacerbate racial tensions" as the Conservative Party leader said in sacking him - rather than one of politics and popularity of "taking people with you" as Jenrick thinks.

Times leader

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willp5.bsky.social @willp5.bsky.social · 11d

This isn’t real…

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 11d

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

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willp5.bsky.social @willp5.bsky.social · 12d

It’s almost as if they did no research into the council they stood for & got all their information from social media echo chambers 🧐

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willp5.bsky.social @willp5.bsky.social · 15d

On the basis of that - sadly - he’s going to lose seats rather than gain them.

willp5.bsky.social @willp5.bsky.social · 15d

That was a shitshow of an interview from Zack Polanski on #R4Today.

‘These are the questions you should be asking me’ 🫣

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 15d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16d

We are now in the domain of not just illegal impoundments, but targeted illegal impoundments to punish liberal spaces. Not different from what Trump is doing to to universities.

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 16d

OMB Director Russell Voight says that US DOT will announce that the federal government is "pausing" funding for both Gateway and the Second Avenue Subway because of "unconstitutional DEI principles" -- x.com/russvought/s...

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willp5.bsky.social @willp5.bsky.social · 17d

Finally - someone’s saying it publicly.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17d

Trump: I am a very aesthetic person. I don't like some of the ships you are doing aesthetically. They say it is stealth. That's not stealth. An ugly ship is not necessary in order to say you are stealth.

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willp5.bsky.social @willp5.bsky.social · 17d

Perhaps ol’ bone spurs should do a few daily sessions on the obstacle course.

Can’t be having an obese Commander in Chief, can we?

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willp5.bsky.social @willp5.bsky.social · 17d

US public infrastructure - the rail network especially - is worse than any first world country, and beaten by most second world ones too.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 19d

Targeted attack on a dockside restaurant in North Carolina. Three dead. Suspect a former Marine sniper in Iraq and Haiti who tried to sue the US govt for “genocide against straight men by the LGBQT community.”

Flags at half mast? Endless op-eds? Victims’ faces on coins?

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