Adam Higgitt
@ahiggitt.bsky.social
Irrrepressible idealist trapped inside irredeemable cynic.
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Ted Cruz tor President is the worst idea since Donald Trump for President.
Some of the attention to historical detail in "Death by Lightning" is impressive, but I'm almost certain"gimp" was not in any kind of usage until the 20th century.
November 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Some of the attention to historical detail in "Death by Lightning" is impressive, but I'm almost certain"gimp" was not in any kind of usage until the 20th century.
It also helps that DoD has absolutely no case whatsoever.
I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
It also helps that DoD has absolutely no case whatsoever.
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The 20 biggest political donors on the Forbes billionaires list have collectively given nearly $5 billion between 2015 and 2024.
We must get Big Money out of politics.
No one from either party should be able to buy an election.
We must get Big Money out of politics.
No one from either party should be able to buy an election.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The 20 biggest political donors on the Forbes billionaires list have collectively given nearly $5 billion between 2015 and 2024.
We must get Big Money out of politics.
No one from either party should be able to buy an election.
We must get Big Money out of politics.
No one from either party should be able to buy an election.
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Maybe I'm being complacent but doesn't this nonsense yet thrown out the moment the Judge Advocate realises that the case consists entirely of a video in which the defendant insists that members of the military do not have to follow illegal orders?
Pentagon says it's investigating Sen. Mark Kelly over video urging troops to defy 'illegal orders'
The Pentagon says that it is investigating Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona over possible breaches of military law after Kelly joined a handful of other lawmakers in a video that called for U.S. ...
apnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Maybe I'm being complacent but doesn't this nonsense yet thrown out the moment the Judge Advocate realises that the case consists entirely of a video in which the defendant insists that members of the military do not have to follow illegal orders?
Gosh, I really hope the Trump family doesn't lose its shirt over this one.
Said nobody ever.
Said nobody ever.
The price of bitcoin has plunged by nearly a third over recent weeks.
abcnews.go.com/Business/cry...
via ABC News
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via ABC News
What to know about the crypto selloff
The price of bitcoin has plunged by nearly a third over recent weeks.
abcnews.go.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Gosh, I really hope the Trump family doesn't lose its shirt over this one.
Said nobody ever.
Said nobody ever.
It's like they enjoy being humiliated in court.
November 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
It's like they enjoy being humiliated in court.
I really hope there aren't many serving personnel watching this who believe "do as you're told and don't worry about the law" is good advice.
BLITZER: I want to be precise. Should members of the US military obey clearly illegal orders?
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
November 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I really hope there aren't many serving personnel watching this who believe "do as you're told and don't worry about the law" is good advice.
Alternatively: just don't believe it. Period.
Because you won't see it. Because it isn't true.
Because you won't see it. Because it isn't true.
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Alternatively: just don't believe it. Period.
Because you won't see it. Because it isn't true.
Because you won't see it. Because it isn't true.
Can you imagine if Ronald Reagan was brought back from the dead and someone told him a Republican President was repeating verbatim Kremlin proposals to conquer a pro-western European Ally?
No amount of electricity would keep Reagan's reanimated heart beating.
No amount of electricity would keep Reagan's reanimated heart beating.
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Can you imagine if Ronald Reagan was brought back from the dead and someone told him a Republican President was repeating verbatim Kremlin proposals to conquer a pro-western European Ally?
No amount of electricity would keep Reagan's reanimated heart beating.
No amount of electricity would keep Reagan's reanimated heart beating.
Blue Labour isn't a campaign group. It's a sub-heading for Maurice Glasman's eccentric and colourful observations about the Labour Party.
It's diverting enough if you enjoy that sort of thing, but not to be confused with anything approaching interesting or coherent ideology.
It's diverting enough if you enjoy that sort of thing, but not to be confused with anything approaching interesting or coherent ideology.
In the 15 years Labour have entertained Glasman, I cannot think of one single occasion where he has publicly criticised attacks on working class people, shown working class people solidarity, supported a single working class struggle.
He has enjoyed being a Lord though.
He has enjoyed being a Lord though.
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Blue Labour isn't a campaign group. It's a sub-heading for Maurice Glasman's eccentric and colourful observations about the Labour Party.
It's diverting enough if you enjoy that sort of thing, but not to be confused with anything approaching interesting or coherent ideology.
It's diverting enough if you enjoy that sort of thing, but not to be confused with anything approaching interesting or coherent ideology.
"And then they rewarded me with special lights and music in my head. And voices telling me to invade Venezuela."
November 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"And then they rewarded me with special lights and music in my head. And voices telling me to invade Venezuela."
"I've deleted that post but I'm very much resurrecting the argument here. Let's go, bitches."
I've deleted my post about how I talk about my book Vs how my publishers talk about it because
a) people thought that was a genuine blurb, FFS
b) people told me to stop whining about having a publisher
c) people told me to get better at promo
I have no idea why my post got people so mad
a) people thought that was a genuine blurb, FFS
b) people told me to stop whining about having a publisher
c) people told me to get better at promo
I have no idea why my post got people so mad
November 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"I've deleted that post but I'm very much resurrecting the argument here. Let's go, bitches."
Remind me again when hell is scheduled to freeze over?
🇩🇪 After the G20 summit in, Merz stressed that none of the six G7 countries, except the US, has shown any willingness to see Russia back in the group. A decision is possible only with full consensus.
🇫🇷 Macron said that there are currently no grounds for Russia to return.
🇫🇷 Macron said that there are currently no grounds for Russia to return.
November 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Remind me again when hell is scheduled to freeze over?
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Right wing influencer mocking being a right wing influencer. Embarrassing.
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Right wing influencer mocking being a right wing influencer. Embarrassing.
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Misinformation is one of the world's biggest threats to public health. And governments are not doing enough to protect us.
Social media companies should be held accountable for spreading harmful misinformation in that same way we hold manufacturers responsible for spreading harmful chemicals.
Social media companies should be held accountable for spreading harmful misinformation in that same way we hold manufacturers responsible for spreading harmful chemicals.
November 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Misinformation is one of the world's biggest threats to public health. And governments are not doing enough to protect us.
Social media companies should be held accountable for spreading harmful misinformation in that same way we hold manufacturers responsible for spreading harmful chemicals.
Social media companies should be held accountable for spreading harmful misinformation in that same way we hold manufacturers responsible for spreading harmful chemicals.
Inflation was lower, unemployment was lower, the deficit was lower.
Growth was higher.
Growth was higher.
Brooke Rollins: "What we inherited was an absolute economic mess ... Americans we believe will see real relief very, very soon."
November 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Inflation was lower, unemployment was lower, the deficit was lower.
Growth was higher.
Growth was higher.
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Harriet Tubman was the first woman to lead US Army troops into combat. The battle took place during the Civil War in South Carolina where she lead 150 soldiers and freed 750 slaves.
Since Fort Bragg has some unfortunate naming issues, I want to jump start an effort to someday rename it Fort Tubman.
Since Fort Bragg has some unfortunate naming issues, I want to jump start an effort to someday rename it Fort Tubman.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Harriet Tubman was the first woman to lead US Army troops into combat. The battle took place during the Civil War in South Carolina where she lead 150 soldiers and freed 750 slaves.
Since Fort Bragg has some unfortunate naming issues, I want to jump start an effort to someday rename it Fort Tubman.
Since Fort Bragg has some unfortunate naming issues, I want to jump start an effort to someday rename it Fort Tubman.
The war has intensified under Trump. There is no measure by which he has not been an abject failure over Ukraine.
The latest idea of Google translating Russia's full wish list and handing it Zelenskyy just shows the paucity of imagination or interest in the WH.
The latest idea of Google translating Russia's full wish list and handing it Zelenskyy just shows the paucity of imagination or interest in the WH.
Keep in mind that this serial liar also promised a hundred times during the campaign that he would be able to end the war “in 24 hours” with “one phone call” to Putin because he has “a great relationship” with him, “knows just what to say to him,” & “it won’t even be that hard.”
November 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The war has intensified under Trump. There is no measure by which he has not been an abject failure over Ukraine.
The latest idea of Google translating Russia's full wish list and handing it Zelenskyy just shows the paucity of imagination or interest in the WH.
The latest idea of Google translating Russia's full wish list and handing it Zelenskyy just shows the paucity of imagination or interest in the WH.
Either wrestling has got way more violent since last I checked or that's some harmless slushy-type fluid on the new champ's face.
I LOVE Hangman, and I understand that fans are upset that he lost, but I am not one of them. His reign was all about the quality and he has had some sensational matches. I am now 100% invested in what happens next, and I had a blast watching that main event. #AEWFullGear #AEW
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Either wrestling has got way more violent since last I checked or that's some harmless slushy-type fluid on the new champ's face.
In some ways, Kemi Badenoch is a thoroughly modern politician. She doesn't come with answers or even pretend that she does.
Instead, she brings peevish fury directed at the woke elite.
Like Trump, she's here to be angry on your behalf. Unlike Trump, she's still vaguely expected to have policies.
Instead, she brings peevish fury directed at the woke elite.
Like Trump, she's here to be angry on your behalf. Unlike Trump, she's still vaguely expected to have policies.
It really is so absurd to claim "I get small business because I worked in a MacDonalds once and what business needs is another massive costly upheaval in four years, just as they have absorbed the last change." Even before you add the fact that she is unlikely to be Tory leader by next summer.
Badenoch's arrogantly delivered, noxiously apocalyptic assault on employment rights aside, it's quite something to claim that only you understand business, then ask business, instead of adjusting to a new law, to plan on the remotest chance that you will become PM and undo it all in four years.🤣 ~AA
November 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
In some ways, Kemi Badenoch is a thoroughly modern politician. She doesn't come with answers or even pretend that she does.
Instead, she brings peevish fury directed at the woke elite.
Like Trump, she's here to be angry on your behalf. Unlike Trump, she's still vaguely expected to have policies.
Instead, she brings peevish fury directed at the woke elite.
Like Trump, she's here to be angry on your behalf. Unlike Trump, she's still vaguely expected to have policies.
When business leaders call for "hard choices" they mean "tax someone else and/or cut their services". When they call for "stability" they mean "don't tax or regulate us further - but also do the changes we're lobbying for".
When they call for "certainty" they are asking for that which nobody gets.
When they call for "certainty" they are asking for that which nobody gets.
Chancellor urged to take ‘hard choices’ rather than hit businesses with more tax
CBI boss Rain Newton-Smith called for Rachel Reeves to stand up to opposition to welfare cuts.
www.independent.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
When business leaders call for "hard choices" they mean "tax someone else and/or cut their services". When they call for "stability" they mean "don't tax or regulate us further - but also do the changes we're lobbying for".
When they call for "certainty" they are asking for that which nobody gets.
When they call for "certainty" they are asking for that which nobody gets.
If you set loose on the streets a paramilitary force of untrained masked goons with no IDs, no warrants and no accountability the only thing that should shock you is that people are still shocked by stories like this.
HOUSTON: A church employee pretended to be ICE to extort a masseuse for money who is in the country legally with a temporary visa
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
If you set loose on the streets a paramilitary force of untrained masked goons with no IDs, no warrants and no accountability the only thing that should shock you is that people are still shocked by stories like this.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
Err, he persuaded a million Americans to vote for him.
That points to at least *some* success in assimilating.
That points to at least *some* success in assimilating.
November 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Err, he persuaded a million Americans to vote for him.
That points to at least *some* success in assimilating.
That points to at least *some* success in assimilating.