Bear-Poker

Bear-Poker

@simonsez.bsky.social

Father to two kids and two dogs. Godless and happy to be so. Philosophy rocks! Advanced bullshit detector. Amateur astronomer. Long time feminist and atheist. Wine, food, movies, travel, rugby, F1, track athletics.

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Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

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"If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride. If turnips were swords, I'd have one at my side. If 'ifs' and 'ands' were pots and pans, There'd be no work for tinkers' hands." —Scottish Proverb, 1628 Donald Trump is an insane liar.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump claims the US has "the best economy we've ever had"

I know that America is run by a true kakistocracy, and that once proud institutions like the FBI are becoming a running joke, but I seriously did not have Kash Patel and bestiality on my bingo card for today!

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Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Apparently it is of no concern to any Republicans that Trump and Bessent are taking in billions of dollars from plundered Venezuelan oil and nobody knows where the money is, where is has been going, if anyone is getting proceeds, with no accounting of any of it made available.

Never thought I’d have to say this, but f**k Ed Sheeran. You “can’t take sides” when faced with a genocide?! Yeah buddy, by refusing to do that, you are in fact taking a side. The wrong one. There is no middle ground, no being apolitical on this one. Grow a spine.

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Even in the Trump era it somehow seems unreal that this dimwitted crackpot is the top public health official for a nation of 350 million people.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social

This is a very dangerous lunatic. RFK Jr: “The polio vaccine "killed many, many more people" than polio ever did.”

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Thank you Stephen Miller for logging on to make sure everyone knows you're behind this racist effort. Shame on you, the President, and your klan of bigoted henchmen. America has always, and will continue to be, a nation of immigrants long after you and your cronies are gone.

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"Gasoline wars" is probably the best way to describe what's happening at gas stations across Russia right now. After 26 years of Putin's rule, Russia is bankrupt - a corrupt, impoverished country that is running out of fuel. It is hated across the civilized world.

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CNN put together a montage of Trump officials, including Trump himself, saying over and over again for nearly three months now that gas prices are about to drop, any day now

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strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

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#C4News last night reported on the wholesale targeting of ambulances & paramedics in Lebanon by Israel, including the recent 'triple hit', when Israel attacked an ambulance, then attacked paramedics who went to help, and then attacked further paramedics also trying to help.

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brilliant -- Morning Joe put together clips of Pete Hegseth reciting a fake Bible quote from Pulp Fiction, along with the Samuel L. Jackson scene from the movie

At this point, barring a hell of a batting display, it’s safe to say that Harry Brook dropping that absolute sitter off Samson has cost England the match. And I’m here for it. India vs NZ for the final! #T20WorldCup #Cricket

The decision to call a valid catch on Aidan Markram, when the replays clearly show that the catcher’s fingers were NOT under the ball, is a joke! Nitin Menon: Do better. #T20WorldCup #SAvsNZ

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A special relationship is built on mutual love and respect. An abusive relationship is when your partner belittles you, gives nothing back, threatens you, keeps negatively comparing you to an ex partner and despite it all assumes you'll always be there for them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.ukTrump belittles Starmer with 'no Churchill' jibe but can the special relationship recover?The remarks came amid a row over the refusal to permit the use of UK bases for the initial US-Israel strikes.

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Kaja Kallas in Munich: "The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield." Exactly. For a year, the USA has been pressuring Ukraine to surrender in a war it hasn’t lost, and those

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I like the government pivot to reminding voters that Farage is an avowed enemy of NATO & Europe & an ardent admirer of Vladimir Putin, who routinely orders the murders of critics & opponents. It is politically effective & morally essential.

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Stunned to discover that this guy is an antisemite

The New York Times@nytimes.com

Breaking News: The Border Patrol leader Greg Bovino mocked the Jewish faith of the U.S. attorney in Minnesota during a call with lawyers, according to several people with knowledge of the conversation.

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100% Reliable Rule of Thumb: Don't believe a goddamn word said by the administration that told us Alex Pretti was an assassin.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

SHAHEEN: It's been reported that the oil sold for $500 million and $300 million went to Venezuelan government. What happened to the other $200 million? RUBIO: It's still sitting in the account is my understanding SHAHEEN: The account in Qatar? RUBIO: Yes

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"I was only following orders" wasn't an acceptable excuse at the Nuremberg trials & won't work now. #AccountabilityIsComing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"

Republicans trying to defend ICE against accusations of being the Gestapo by then enumerating all the ways in which ICE is exactly like the Gestapo is a whole new level of batshittery. #ICE #Gestapo #MinneapolisMurders

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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

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One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

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Satire died a long time ago. This seems to be the day when they flush it's ashes down the toilet.

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com

BREAKING: Israel’s ‍Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ⁠has accepted an invitation from United States ​President Donald ‍Trump to join the “Board of ⁠Peace” aje.news/hw7tfo

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Vikings began settling Greenland around 980 CE - roughly 20 years before they reached North America. Maybe Denmark should lay claim to the USA and go full Mouse that Roared.

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She was making a three point turn. She told him she wasn’t mad. He shot her in the face three times

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

That was my takeaway too. She's clearly turning the wheel to her right. I've slowed the video down here.

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She is aggressively trying to turn the wheel AWAY from the ICE agent. It is her very last action. They provoke her, surround her, then kill her in cold blood. I have barely slept since this happened and I don't think I'll ever stop being angry about this.

ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social

i have watched the shooter's video. it's going to make you way the fuck madder.

If the Tangerine Toddler is having a go at you for doing or saying something, you’re almost guaranteed to be doing and saying the right thing. #ToddlerTantrums #Trump

POLITICO Europe@politico.eu

U.S. President Donald Trump last night slammed actor George Clooney and wife, human rights lawyer Amal, after the couple acquired French citizenship.

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Zelensky's statement about hypocrites like Modi of India who react to Putin's lies about a Ukrainian drone attack on one of his many residences but stay quiet about the citizen adults and children who are murdered in Ukraine every day by Putin's war crimes. (Transcrip in Alt text) #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦🕊

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As a man of the people, I will always defend trail hunting, which I know is a top priority for all my working class constituents who own horses and enjoy simple pleasures like ripping foxes apart for laughs.

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His entire rant had to be fact-checked to see if there was any truth in anything he ranted about. As usual, if his mouth is moving, he's lying.

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Their demands are reasonable, their treatment is disgraceful. The government's intransigence is killing the #PalestineAction hunger strikers. Just as its complicity has assisted the genocide in Gaza. It needs to wake up right now to the moral consequences. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

theguardian.comTwo Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers taken to hospitalMPs and next of kin of prisoners Amu Gib, 30, and Kamran Ahmed, 28, call for immediate government intervention

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A few reminders about the SCOTUS immunity decision for Presidents: It does not provide immunity for prior crimes. It does not provide immunity to the President's cabinet. Similar to Roe v. Wade, it can be overturned in the future.

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I have a problem with this statement. If people “knew nothing”, why did they cut ties “before his crimes came to light”? Seems like an admission that many of them knew full well what was happening and did nothing, even if they wanted nothing to do with his sordid activities themselves.