Luke Russell
@lukerussell.bsky.social
Freelance artist: Illustration, Print Media & oil painting. Sweatshop worker. Union supporter.
SciFi/Horror nerd. Political junkie & history buff.
http://lukerussell.myportfolio.com
SciFi/Horror nerd. Political junkie & history buff.
http://lukerussell.myportfolio.com
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Quotes on the economy, last few days:
* WSJ: “Life felt more doable a year and a half ago.”
* CBS: “Paying for the house, the car — I just couldn’t do it anymore.”
* FT: “scraping for crumbs.”
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/cfa6...
* WSJ: “Life felt more doable a year and a half ago.”
* CBS: “Paying for the house, the car — I just couldn’t do it anymore.”
* FT: “scraping for crumbs.”
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/cfa6...
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Quotes on the economy, last few days:
* WSJ: “Life felt more doable a year and a half ago.”
* CBS: “Paying for the house, the car — I just couldn’t do it anymore.”
* FT: “scraping for crumbs.”
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/cfa6...
* WSJ: “Life felt more doable a year and a half ago.”
* CBS: “Paying for the house, the car — I just couldn’t do it anymore.”
* FT: “scraping for crumbs.”
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/cfa6...
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Pauline Hanson thinks she speaks for the mainstream but her stunt shows she is a bit player with bad instincts
Pauline Hanson thinks she speaks for the mainstream but her stunt shows she is a bit player with bad instincts
While banning the burqa might play with the Sky After Dark audience, it is miles from a broad concern among punters
Nearly 30 years after she first entered politics with a firebrand maiden speech about Asian immigration, Pauline Hanson remains a committed fringe dweller, with narrow political interests and bad instincts.
Suspended from the Senate on Tuesday, her decision to don a burqa in the chamber a day earlier badly disrupted proceedings and drew near universal condemnation. It is only the fifth time since 1901 that a seven-day suspension has been put in place, and the first time since 1979. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Pauline Hanson thinks she speaks for the mainstream but her stunt shows she is a bit player with bad instincts
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It might sound counterintuitive but trying to take Farage, Trump, Le Pen down based on individual flaws without centring the damage their politics do is counterproductive
It opens the way for less extreme actors espousing the same politics while these have become normalised by mainstream actors
It opens the way for less extreme actors espousing the same politics while these have become normalised by mainstream actors
November 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
It might sound counterintuitive but trying to take Farage, Trump, Le Pen down based on individual flaws without centring the damage their politics do is counterproductive
It opens the way for less extreme actors espousing the same politics while these have become normalised by mainstream actors
It opens the way for less extreme actors espousing the same politics while these have become normalised by mainstream actors
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⚡️Romania detects drone incursion during large-scale Russian attack on Ukraine
Romania detects Russian drone incursion during large-scale attack on Ukraine
Romania, a NATO and EU member state located just below Ukraine, reported that it detected two drone incursions this morning.
kyivindependent.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
⚡️Romania detects drone incursion during large-scale Russian attack on Ukraine
I really don't like this guy. Bring back the sentient haystack or the head of lettuce.
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school
@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I really don't like this guy. Bring back the sentient haystack or the head of lettuce.
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Russia hit Kyiv with a double strike overnight, killing six and injuring 13
This attack occurred at same time when the US and Europe were working a 28-point peace deal. The Kremlin already stated that it considers European version of plan unacceptable
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/25/r...
This attack occurred at same time when the US and Europe were working a 28-point peace deal. The Kremlin already stated that it considers European version of plan unacceptable
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/25/r...
November 25, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Russia hit Kyiv with a double strike overnight, killing six and injuring 13
This attack occurred at same time when the US and Europe were working a 28-point peace deal. The Kremlin already stated that it considers European version of plan unacceptable
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/25/r...
This attack occurred at same time when the US and Europe were working a 28-point peace deal. The Kremlin already stated that it considers European version of plan unacceptable
euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/25/r...
Judas dancing at the end of a rope, I am tired of this tankie bullshit.
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Judas dancing at the end of a rope, I am tired of this tankie bullshit.
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November 24, 2025
November 24, 2025
U.S.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 AM
November 24, 2025
Sometimes you just feel when someone is either a lying stooge or has simply never even known someone who gave up everything for nothing, not even respect, in return.
Nothing is forgiven. Especially the Rothrocks of the world.
Nothing is forgiven. Especially the Rothrocks of the world.
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Sometimes you just feel when someone is either a lying stooge or has simply never even known someone who gave up everything for nothing, not even respect, in return.
Nothing is forgiven. Especially the Rothrocks of the world.
Nothing is forgiven. Especially the Rothrocks of the world.
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⚡️Update: Death toll in mass attack on Kyiv rises to 6; Russian drone reportedly enters Romania.
During the large-scale attack, one Russian drone reportedly crossed the border into Romania, Ukraine's Air Force said.
During the large-scale attack, one Russian drone reportedly crossed the border into Romania, Ukraine's Air Force said.
Ukrainian homes burn as Russian missiles hit Kyiv — at least 6 killed, 8 injured in mass attack
Several multistory residential buildings caught fire and at least six people have been killed in what the Energy Ministry called "a massive combined attack...on infrastructure facilities."
kyivindependent.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 AM
⚡️Update: Death toll in mass attack on Kyiv rises to 6; Russian drone reportedly enters Romania.
During the large-scale attack, one Russian drone reportedly crossed the border into Romania, Ukraine's Air Force said.
During the large-scale attack, one Russian drone reportedly crossed the border into Romania, Ukraine's Air Force said.
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Has Ben ever had an actual job?
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Has Ben ever had an actual job?
When I was in high school we attended a lecture by a motivational speaker who said he had witnessed the ritual sacrifice of babies.
This bullshit has been building for quite a while.
This bullshit has been building for quite a while.
November 25, 2025 at 6:09 AM
When I was in high school we attended a lecture by a motivational speaker who said he had witnessed the ritual sacrifice of babies.
This bullshit has been building for quite a while.
This bullshit has been building for quite a while.
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A new feature on X revealed that many influential MAGA accounts are not actually based in the US. President Donald Trump has continued sharing their posts anyway. www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Trump Is Boosting MAGA X Accounts Operating Overseas
A new feature on X revealed that many influential MAGA accounts are not actually based in the US. President Donald Trump has continued sharing their posts anyway.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:43 AM
A new feature on X revealed that many influential MAGA accounts are not actually based in the US. President Donald Trump has continued sharing their posts anyway. www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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You know what, just go for it, Bari.
Let’s speed up this boring era where you have a job and are running things, and get to the part that happens after that.
Give us all of your best ideas, don’t hold back. Who else? Ghislaine??
Let’s speed up this boring era where you have a job and are running things, and get to the part that happens after that.
Give us all of your best ideas, don’t hold back. Who else? Ghislaine??
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:40 AM
You know what, just go for it, Bari.
Let’s speed up this boring era where you have a job and are running things, and get to the part that happens after that.
Give us all of your best ideas, don’t hold back. Who else? Ghislaine??
Let’s speed up this boring era where you have a job and are running things, and get to the part that happens after that.
Give us all of your best ideas, don’t hold back. Who else? Ghislaine??
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I don’t know, man. I don’t know that I’m going to make it out of this insipid ass period. It’s a trial.
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I don’t know, man. I don’t know that I’m going to make it out of this insipid ass period. It’s a trial.
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“At 7, she bore witness to one of American history’s most violent spasms of racial violence. She was 106 when the nation reckoned with the crime.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
“At 7, she bore witness to one of American history’s most violent spasms of racial violence. She was 106 when the nation reckoned with the crime.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
What Americans actually are...
Fucking kids then shooting them.
Fucking kids then shooting them.
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:38 AM
What Americans actually are...
Fucking kids then shooting them.
Fucking kids then shooting them.
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"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 3:37 AM
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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Fuck where America is at. She said she was bringing "punk rock" back to journalism.
This only makes sense if she means to encourage overdoses and blowing your brains out.
This only makes sense if she means to encourage overdoses and blowing your brains out.
When I think "where the vast majority of Americans actually are," I think about the millionaire lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein & Harvey Weinstein & Donald Trump who was recently in the news for threatening to sue a pierogi seller in Martha's Vineyard, where he has one of his homes.
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Fuck where America is at. She said she was bringing "punk rock" back to journalism.
This only makes sense if she means to encourage overdoses and blowing your brains out.
This only makes sense if she means to encourage overdoses and blowing your brains out.
This woman truly does know everything.
Oooooo!! Pick me! Pick me!!! I know why there is an established menu for Thanksgiving!!!
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
This woman truly does know everything.
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I don’t want to brag but someone just tweeted at me that I’m getting weirder and weirder and I was kind of honored?
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I don’t want to brag but someone just tweeted at me that I’m getting weirder and weirder and I was kind of honored?
Samuel L Jackson and Tom Hanks.
thinking about Godot and I think my current fantasy (as in, never done it before) cast is Bob Odenkirk and John Goodman
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Samuel L Jackson and Tom Hanks.
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this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
www.thebignewsletter.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Maybe you're mad that these two met, I'll let New Yorkers decide. I just think it's says a lot about us as a nation that just because they didn't punch each other out must mean they are now best friends destined to become the Temu Voltron of American bad ideas.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
www.thebignewsletter.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Maybe you're mad that these two met, I'll let New Yorkers decide. I just think it's says a lot about us as a nation that just because they didn't punch each other out must mean they are now best friends destined to become the Temu Voltron of American bad ideas.
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The EPA is starting to allow the use of pesticides containing PFAS on food.
The move is part of an effort to roll back the regulation of what are called "forever chemicals" because they don't break down easily in the environment.
November 24, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The EPA is starting to allow the use of pesticides containing PFAS on food.
The move is part of an effort to roll back the regulation of what are called "forever chemicals" because they don't break down easily in the environment.