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My boys back! And so far this is as close to a cuddle as I’ve got. He’s been sparked out for the last hour, snoring his wee head off. I’ll give him another half hour before I demand attention. #dogs #dogsofbluesky #masterbruno

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A new podcast series has revealed what would happen if Russia attacked Britain

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BREAKING: The full bench of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has just DENIED Donald Trump’s appeal of E. Jean Carroll’s win against him in court that found he was liable for sexual abuse against her as well as defamation.

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Good news, it doesn't seem likely there will be a regional war. Iran doesn't seem capable or willing to follow through on its retaliation discourse, and the United States backpaddled hard after the initial Israeli strikes.

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She’s utterly illogical

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This is "The Thames at Rainham" by Walter Steggles from 1933. Wally had painted there in the late 1920s & also, with his younger brother, Harold, at Grays, a little way further out to sea on the Thames estuary. #WalterSteggles #Rainham #Essex #EastLondonGroup

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Kemi Badenoch will today announce that she would ditch the windfall tax on fossil fuel companies that have amassed massive profits in recent years. In other news, the Conservative Party recently received £250k from oil investors and climate science deniers…

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she’s such a legend

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It doesn't seem great that we have an MP - albeit one estranged from Reform - who is now promoting explicit Powellite racism and hanging out with white nationalist accounts on X.

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Good morning everyone I hope you all have a magnificent day Every day you give a bit of yourself to others It’s a good day to give yourself all of you Do something for yourself for a change You deserve it ❤️❤️❤️💙❤️❤️❤️

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Fiona Bruce, "We have a lot of Reform voters in the audience, I want to hear from some of them at least" If the #BBCQT audience is based on voter share at the election, how can there be so many Reform voters in the audience if Reform only got 14% of the vote share in the 2024 general election?

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2025: Zia Yusuf says it's not true that Nigel Farage is on the record saying to scrap the NHS #BBCQT 2012: Nigel Farage on the record saying he'd scrap the NHS and replace it with an insurance-based privatised health care system

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🚨🚨 #Russian losses in #Ukraine hit a massive, and grim milestone on June 12 — 1 million Russian soldiers killed or wounded during the 39-month-long full-scale war, according to figures from Kyiv but there are little evidence Russia will retract its war efforts.🧵 kyivindependent.com/as-russian-l...

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I mean they’ve been going down hill ever since ‘78 in Argentina But Jeeeez this is gonna be a whole other level of shit & piss.

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#WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #Feminists #feminism #HumanRights #women

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‘Windmills are killing our country… they’re going rusty and getting old’ Donald Trump will fail to recognise the irony in the second part of his statement Here in Fuerteventura we have island wide clean energy from wind turbines and my highest utility bill ever was €22 for a month including water

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"Barbara Santini is a psychologist who has been quoted hundreds of times in news publications around the world - including the Telegraph, BBC and Independent - and who, I can now state with certainty, does not exist." pressgazette.co.uk/news/fake-ex...

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Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner reacts that "this is jsut not ok" over video of a car plowing through protesters in Chicago, but not because it was trying to hit "anti-ICE demonstrators." "There is law enforcement on the ground, too!"

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#Labour #KierStarmer

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BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

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All the stage names that Sheena Easton debated and discarded ! 😁

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Truly shocking even by Reform standards

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I am at Tiverton Parkway. 'Parkway' is an English word that means 'not very close to'.

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HEGSETH: We wore a patch on our shoulder that said ISAF -- International Security Assistance Force. And you know what the joke was? That is stood for 'I saw Americans fighting.' COONS: Let's just make clear for the record that our military partners in Afghanistan included many who served and died

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James Comer engages in some make-believe on Maria's show: "The possibility is there that there were deep state bureaucrats in the WH that were just using that autopen to sign major legislation that Biden had no knowledge of" (Note how Maria immediately tries to clean up Comer's racist dogwhistle)

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STEVE

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These pogroms in Northern Ireland are really sad... What are we becoming 😥

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For the duration of his term, Nawrocki’s five-year presidency will significantly hinder, and may even entirely block, the resolution of the constitutional crisis in which Poland has been mired since a decade - my take for @revdem2020.bsky.social revdem.ceu.edu/2025/06/11/r...

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Sometimes, the New York Times, gets it exactly right: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

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Embarrassingly Biased & Economically Illiterate. Today’s alternative paper review: youtu.be/JZN0FbPwXUo

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Rachel Reeves should ditch Labour's foolish election promises and increase income tax. It's a much fairer way of raising extra revenue than freezing tax thresholds, which hits people on low incomes hardest.

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What they aren’t showing on Fox News

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Some culture in a country without culture.

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Vietnam was allied with the USA in their war against Japan,expecting their independence.USA gave Vietnam to France. Iran was a democracy whose prime minister wanted to nationalise oil so the USA installed the Shah & his Secret Police.The people in their desperation turned to Islamic extremists.

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1,000,000 – occupiers' losses 🇺🇦Glory to Ukraine! Source: x.com/GeneralStaff...

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The news from India is deeply distressing. My thoughts are with the family & friends of those on board the Air India flight—I can only imagine how devastating this must be. I’m in close contact with the Government & Indian High Commission. More information from Air India:

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'Acton W3, London, United Kingdom' (from 'Isolation Views' 2020) by Frank Laws franklaws.com/shop/isolation-views

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Watters: "They need to clean this up before the World Cup and the Olympics, because Trump wants to light the torch — and if there are riots going on, which you know there will be, it’s not going to look good with the eyes of the world on us.". #BlueCrew #ProudBlue #Resist #TruthWarriors

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