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@paolathomas.com

Food photographer + writer, about to query a romcom with recipes. In the Cotswolds/London after many years in Seattle. UK/US dual citizen. Follow for pro-EU, anti-Tory ranting and insights into US politics. #FBPE #amquerying

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It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives

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He has no idea and doesnโ€™t care. He just wants the tax cuts and then declare victory. Little else matters to him.

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Are you paying attention?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."

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America has become an authoritarian state

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump threatens to arrest Mamdani and then adds, "a lot of people are saying he's here illegally"

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Over in New Yorkโ€ฆ A left-wing candidate Offered left-wing policies To left-wing voters โ€ฆand won. Any danger @UKLabour?

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Elderly and disabled people told Congress that cutting Medicaid could kill people and in response, they were arrested in their wheelchairs. What the hell are we doing?

Aaron Black@aaronblack.bsky.social

People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

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BRENNAN: Why would Iran agree to any peace deal if the US has already pulled out of one that they had, as President Trump did in 2018, and now launched surprise attacks? RUBIO: The ones that shouldn't be trusted are the Iranians

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Weโ€™ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably wonโ€™t share intel with us. Because people couldnโ€™t vote for a woman.

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It's amazing that any American women are willing to have intercourse at all, there is no 100% guaranteed contraceptive and the stakes just seem far too high to take that gamble. Even those who want to get pregnant have to consider the reality if something goes tragically wrong with the foetus.

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This is completely wrong. I've lived in Europe. They don't want our cars because: 1. Too big for roads and parking spaces 2. Too fuel inefficient in countries where gas is $6/gallon 3. Considered low quality for the cost

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Just six years after his Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered, at MBSโ€™s direction, Jeff Bezos is going into businessโ€”and, thus, helping to enrichโ€”the man who orchestrated it. My latest for @status.news www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos...

status.newsJeff Bezos Abandons Khashoggi to Cut Deal With MBSJeff Bezos once mourned Jamal Khashoggiโ€”now he's making billion-dollar deals with his executioner, revealing more about his values than any vigil ever could.

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A reminder that if the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour.

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So Eurovision is gonna need to have a VERY REAL conversation internally about what to do about a certain country that has phone banked two years in a row because of politics, right? This year was a near miss that could have killed the event. Christ that would have been bad.

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I don't think I have ever felt so stressed at Eurovision voting! #Eurovision #ESC2025 #Eurovision2025

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Massive anti-genocide protest in London today, hundreds of thousands demand justice and an end to Israelโ€™s ongoing genocide of Gaza. #3E #EndImpunity #freepalestine

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hey EBU, if you don't let a genocidal nation take part, you don't have to worry about a genocidal nation winning #Eurovision

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Cannot stand the Austrian song, but genuinely not sure the contest wouldโ€™ve survived had it not won. Soโ€ฆa very 2025 victory, I guess?

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Indeed. Perhaps they should look again at the whole "being able to vote 20 times" rule...

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That Austria entry into this Iceland entry is LIQUID Eurovision

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This ๐Ÿ‘‡

Josh Russell โ†’ @MVTFWD@joshfwd.bsky.social

Canadian and Australian right wing leaders both lose their seats within weeks. Meanwhile UK Labour thinks going to the right is the way to win, even though the right reject them and the left are alienated by them. Read the f*ing room. More importantly, feel the threat from progressive voters.

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Trumpty-Dumpty is defunding PBS. What he calls "bias" some of us call "facts Trumpty-Dumpty doesn't like."

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Funny how when Reform make gains, the media are all like โ€œnow they need to prepare for powerโ€ but when the smartest party in the room, the Green Party, make similar gains, the media ignore them ๐Ÿค”

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Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. Thatโ€™s why Trump is attacking education, science, and the arts โ€“ to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

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Britain's very own Trump. He's never tried to hide it and so here we are...

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social

Nigel Farage, "I would advise anybody who is working for Durham County Council on Climate Change initiatives, or Diversity Equity and Inclusion" "I think you all better really be seeking alternative careers, very very quick"

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I see a lot of people calling Reform voters stupid and I donโ€™t think that is helpful at all. We have to remember that post-industrial communities in the North East have been failed by both main parties and left to decline for decades. Itโ€™s why they voted for Brexit and why they voted Reform.