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🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

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When the bees go, we'll be not long to follow.

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Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.

submitted 74 days ago • 702 comments

Tomorrow, February 28th, is the day.

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Remember their faces, remember their names, download and post it on your fridge, come election time, you know what to do!

submitted 74 days ago • 153 comments

I've been MIA on social media lately. My husband needs a shoulder replacement, so I've been taking on all his responsibilities around the house (shopping, animals, yard work, etc.) around my full-time job. Tl;dr: Pls buy my books: www.tfrohock.com/fiction2

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It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now is political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Republican Senators who voted for RFK Jr. have the best healthcare in the world, paid for by you. They don’t care about what’s going to happen to your kids, your parents, or you.

submitted 80 days ago • 226 comments

“I wanted to make that very clear to the council that in a normal city council meeting this shouldn’t be happening,”

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This would be completely illegal. But you wouldn’t know that from reading this post, the headline, or the lede. Unbelievably bad.

submitted 80 days ago • 965 comments

He's 4 mths older than me & I (fortunately) still have ALL my marbles - enough to say he's already declined into stupidity 😟

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Just to remind people that tomorrow is the 3rd anniversary of Putin’s unlawful invasion of Ukraine. His planned 3 day “special operation” is still being slogged out, costing Russia about 1 million men (dead and injured) courtesy of Ukrainian courage. Be there if you can to support them 🙏

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This is significant. Farage is meeting Musk’s preconditions for bankrolling Reform UK.

submitted 81 days ago • 6 comments

And here you have it ladies and gentlemen The truth

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As I keep saying - Musk will do to the US state what he did to twitter. Only this time it's people's lives he's playing with not just blue ticks, disinformation and impressions.

submitted 82 days ago • 36 comments

"They are not on Twitter, but they are in local communities" The Lib Dems could not have paid an agency for a better slogan.

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The media are crying out for a serving politician to decry Trump, so here goes: he’s a lying, corrupt, incompetent criminal who is a useful idiot to Putin. Together they are literally destroying the fabric of western democracy and European security. Is any MP prepared to agree?

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Sound on 🐾🐾🤍

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DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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This Byline Times story on Farage pictured with far-right activists has not been picked up by any established media outlet - including liberal/democratic/left publications. Why? Because people like being comfortable in their own power and status. The newspaper I edit will keep sounding the alarm.

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The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks – Byline Times

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Next Tuesday Jamie is playing his final gig with the GT Big Band in Saltaire. He's been with them for 3 years, playing most Tuesdays, and he's had a ball. His sight reading is now second nature after all the practice he's had. I've seen him with the band, and they are great, maybe your last chance.

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Most of the UK farmland sold last year went to tax-dodgers, not real farmers. They exploit inheritance tax breaks, pricing farmers out while barely using the land. They “farm” just enough to meet loopholes, cashing in on rising land values. It’s not about food, it’s a scam for the wealthy.

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Right, social media site. Today is the day that the lovely people at @picadorbooks.bsky.social reveal the cover for my first crime thriller, The Cut Throat Trial. So here it is. And I think it’s rather splendid. If anybody wishes to preorder, links are below. bio.to/7zNmPU Eek.

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Wilp. Written by Satan & Lee Wilson. Think you know the world? Think again. satan-speaks.com/wilp leewilson.uk/wilp/ #BookSky #WritingCommunity

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The measles outbreak in Texas has expanded to a neighboring county in New Mexico. The virus must have learned to build an interstate highway to travel this fast.

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Well, who'da thunk it?

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Spot on Stella. “And so it begins” indeed. Vance and his thug mates are so dangerous to women in the USA. And the UK.

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Have written about JD Vance’s Munich speech. In what may prove to be the biggest week for European security since 1991, it’s time Europe listened to what Trump and his Vice President are telling us. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

submitted 86 days ago • 159 comments

I am hugely grateful to these well-informed fantasy fans for taking the time to write these letters rebuking The Guardian for that asinine 'romantasy' opinion piece. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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"The UK is a nation of animal lovers and so its people need a national animal to love; it's been my privilege to fill that furry brief for 14 years and counting." #Larryversary

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ATTN HHS EMPLOYEES: Firing notices are going out. I am in receipt of an email saying they will revoke your access as soon as you read the email that you've been fired. Please download everything you need before you open that email. SHARE FAR & WIDE. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/attn-hhs-e...

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Donold now has a framed picture of his mugshot hung up inside the White House.

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🚨🚨 "There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing How regime change happens in America". Stellar piece by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social making sense of the dramatic constitutional crisis which is underway under the new Trump administration. 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Guess who’s going to be interviewing @lordgrimdark.bsky.social about #TheDevils in Edinburgh on the 10th of May? (Me. It’s me.)

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People on X are calling for AOC's arrest for posting this.... so I am posting it everywhere!

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