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This is what to do with JD Vance in Bluesky

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THE INDEPENDENT: Legal risks loom as UK faces pressure to engage in US-led strikes on Iran, with the attorney general cautioning against involvement unless directly threatened. - by Archie Mitchell

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Instant block for Vance 😡

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Amazing correction in the Telegraph.

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"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

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Governor Tim Walz, "The way our nation moves forward is not through hate. It is not through violence. It is through humility, and grace, and compassion.

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The BBC has many journalists with a deep understanding of the Middle East but insist on using the woeful Chris Mason to interview Starmer using his usual gotcha type questioning.

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Despite being declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern 10 months ago, the mpox outbreak is not over. And in places like Sierra Leone, it is spiralling. ✍️ @pauladepoju.bsky.social reports: tinyurl.com/fn99vt6u

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If like me you've ever been accused of being born in a barn and want to chat about it, remember: my door is always open.

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Here’s the massive, magnificent but very rare Octobasse, invented in 1850. To play it, the musician must stand on a platform. You can hear its rather alarming deep bass tone, and see it being played, at www.youtube.com/watch?v=12X-...

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Turtle Mutual Aid:

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Dreadful and shocking news from Minnesota where Tim Walz is Governor. 🔴 Two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota shot in their separate homes www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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This gives every impression of troops trying very hard not to march in step.

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Listening to an interview of a woman whose husband was taken by ICE. It’s very like the family stories I heard about Kristallnacht, but without the broken glass, and spread out rather than on one day. People desperate to get family members back but no idea how, and opposition at every point.

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Poor old vaccines. Plugging away and saving countless lives for decades, then an incredible success for rapid discovery and deployment for a couple of years. But now for no reason anyone can give, shunned and suppressed, with terrible consequences for illness and death. An America Tragedy.

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"We are the party of fiscal responsibility" says Mel Stride, whose party famously triggered a bond market meltdown which crashed the UK economy and plunged the pound to its lowest ever level against the dollar

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#booksky

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Trump underwater in literally every single issue. 38% approval overall. 27% approval on his spending bill. 40% approval on deportations. Musk also at 30% approval. 38% approval for RFK Jr. 35% approval for JD Vance. Nobody fucking wants any of this. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

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It’s about time.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Best for Britain CEO Naomi Smith: "Leaving the EU, a project spearheaded by Nigel Farage, has been a disaster for Welsh farmers, business owners and young people" 🚨 However, alignment with the EU could provide a 0.36% boost each year for Wales! www.bestforbritain.org/closer_uk_eu...

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🔴Reform UK’s Elon Musk-Style ‘Doge’ Team Is in Turmoil Following Major Resignations The team set up by Nigel Farage to slash spending in the local authorities his party now runs across England is already falling apart bylinetimes.com/2025/06/06/r...

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🚨 Reform UK is in crisis. Again. Just hours after a row over a proposed burqa ban, party chairman Zia Yusuf has quit. He says it’s no longer worth trying to get Reform elected. If Farage’s own chairman has lost faith, why should voters back them?

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On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a series of claims about the BBC's coverage of events in Gaza on Sunday. We've looked at the claims - and the number of misrepresentations and untruths that they contained. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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Ukraine says it has struck bridge connecting Russia to Crimea with underwater explosives, days after its attack on Russian air bases.

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Ukraine used $47,000 in drones to inflict $7,000,000,000 of damage. War changed today. Forever.

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Summer 1974 and the ferry from Burtonport Co. Donegal to Bran Island has made room for a “precariously perched car”. According to photographer Frank Bodson, the whole caboodle “excited no interest” among those on-board. (Observer magazine, 1/9/74.)

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🔥 Because I've not seen it anywhere yet... Here's a map I made of the 4 Russian air bases that Ukraine hit with drone attacks just now (red stars) Look how deeply they penetrate into Russian territory. From the Arctic Circle to mid-Siberia, nowhere in Russia is now safe. Slava Ukraini. ✊

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The shadow justice secretary went head-to-head with Lewis Goodall.

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A thread of notes I've made in my notebook about my dad: 1. The Swimming Pool.

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I still remember my shock as a child when I was told that in America you had to pay for healthcare. “What if you’re really ill but don’t have the money?” I asked. I was answered with a shrug. That increasingly seems to be US official policy on an widening range of issues.

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Rise in crashes caused by tourists driving on wrong side of Scottish roads

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HIV VACCINE sabotaged

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If nothing can be done in America to stop the US government from destroying America's leadership in science and technology then the EU and UK need to be pragmatic about seizing European strategic opportunities that emerge through American decline.

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"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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This sheep I met for the first time today is now in my car with me and we are heading over the border into Mexico, with no firm plans.

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I dreamt I was late for school, panicking, my dad was meant to drive me in but where had he gone, I had no socks, all sorts of issues. Then through my sleep I somehow grasped that it was half-term, so all fine. Then I woke up and it turned out I was 45, so things were much better and much worse.

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“Low-income households in Britain are now 27 per cent poorer than their equivalents in France and a staggering 60 per cent poorer than those in Ireland.” 🔥 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

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Given how unpopular Starmer is this is quite a reflection on Farage and Badenoch.

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