Brian L Johnson
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Retired, hat wearer. Continuing reader. On my second life and loving it. UK
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Ooh, ooh! I'm going to have to redo my banner photo 'cos I've just acquired a missing book from my Joan Butler collection - "Sun Spots" published in 1942. So, it's 35 down and only 7 to go!
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Which party controls the entire government, you worthless hacks?
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Cab Davidson
4 days ago
We abandoned public health as too expensive due to austerity, and a generation without support, good housing and even affordable food entered a respiratory disease pandemic that we went on and handled like idiots, because we had idiots in charge.
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Shameful. The Law should be The Law, and not something based on a judge's personal prejudices.
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Israel Butler
4 days ago
A new hope. Will it help parties on the left stop being so scared of being... left? This guy and
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
are my antidotes to doomscrolling and are the answer to populist authoritarians. There must be more like these folks out there. We need you.
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New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani challenges Donald Trump in victory speech as Democrats win key US election races – live
Mamdani condemns ‘oligarchy and authoritarianism’ in speech directly talking to Trump as Democrats win California redistricting vote and New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/nov/04/nyc-mayor-election-zohran-mamdani-andrew-cuomo-results-latest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Hans
5 days ago
What Trade War? China’s Export Juggernaut Marches On
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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China’s Global Exports Continue to Grow Despite Trump Tariffs (Gift Article)
As Trump has imposed steep tariffs on China, American importers are buying much less. But China has offset the decline from the United States with breathtaking speed.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/03/world/asia/china-exports-trump-tariffs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yk8.q5Aj.ipowd0rhiV6v&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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The Mighty Jungle💙💛
5 days ago
Zohran Mamdani’s rise from little-known New York state assemblyman to front-runner in the New York mayoral election has sparked a newfound sense of optimism among left-wing politicians in Europe ahead of their own local elections next year.
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Europe’s left flocks to New York to take notes on Mamdani’s meteoric rise
Several European left-wing officials said they had been in contact with members of Zohran Mamdani’s campaign in New York in the hope of emulating his success in future local elections.
https://www.politico.eu/article/zohran-mamdani-new-york-campaign-european-left/
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Mike
5 days ago
The Cheney effect. Grasp for legal rationale for military intervention to drive regime change. Lie to the American people if necessary. Then fail to develop a viable plan with contingencies as this unfolds into a catastrophic shitshow for Venezuelans No paywall
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...
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Trump Weighs Options, and Risks, for Attacks on Venezuela
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/us/politics/trump-weighs-attacks-venezuela.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yk8.siny.Q1u61bhCttak&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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This is a piece of the packaging around some frozen cod fillets. You know how awkward they are to open, don't you? Little hooky flappy bits with Slot A and Tab B style holding the box closed. I've found bits like this in my dinner. I'd rather they just made the boxes easier to open.
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BlueDahlia
7 days ago
President Obama called Zohran Mamdani on Saturday — praising his campaign and offering to be a “sounding board” into the future. Gift Article from New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/n...
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Obama Calls Mamdani to Praise His Campaign and Offers to Be Sounding Board
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-barack-obama-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yE8.ZKKq.wsvrDY6zuyFk&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Sweet Bird of Truth
7 days ago
Why is the richest person in history so keen to pit the rest of us against each other? Oh yes, it's to stop people questioning the current setup, which allows him to accumulate enormous wealth.
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Chuck Darwin
9 days ago
Specialists in law governing the use of lethal force have called Trump’s orders to the military patently illegal. The premeditated extrajudicial killings have been murders — regardless of whether the 43 people blown apart, burned alive or drowned in 10 strikes so far were indeed running drugs.
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The Peril of a White House That Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/white-house-boats-law.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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💠Mare💠
10 days ago
This is almost giving them permission to do this now that they see what others have done.
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Revealed: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks
Guardian analysis finds ICE increasingly keeps people in holding rooms with little oversight, as some facilities see a 600% rise in detention length
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/30/ice-hidden-detention-sites?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Ron Filipkowski
10 days ago
I’m still shocked that stories like this which come out daily still get largely ignored. The most corrupt person to ever hold any public office in US history. I will keep posting them every day and try to amplify them, even when most media doesn’t care.
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Cab Davidson
10 days ago
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984
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Dakyres
12 days ago
www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/p...
Trump personally signed every one of the pardons for the January 6thers, and was totally in his right mind honest. Believe us
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GOP-led Oversight Committee says Biden pardons signed by autopen are ‘void’ in final report | CNN Politics
Former President Joe Biden experienced such “cognitive decline” while in office that it remains a serious question as to whether he was aware of the substance of the various pardons and commutations s...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/28/politics/biden-autopen-investigation-house-oversight-final-report
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ClimateHope
12 days ago
The fossil fuel companies have done this. We are missing the target because of their corruption of politics, their lies, their misinformation and their unwillingness to transition away from their deadly products. They are evil.
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‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/28/change-course-now-humanity-has-missed-15c-climate-target-says-un-head
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Kathleen S. Pearce, Atty
14 days ago
10/23/25: "Gram Slattery & Chris Prentice of Reuters, note that in May, Binance accepted the stablecoin USD1, PUT OUT BY the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial crypto venture, AS payment FOR an investment in Binance, made by an investment firm from Abu Dhabi." Prof Richardson
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Billionaires shouldn't be able to buy a bigger voice in politics. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to cap how much they can donate and get big money out of politics
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Karl Jacoby
22 days ago
Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the
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today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
20 days ago
The festival of lights is truly a magical time 🪔 Let’s take inspiration from Diwali’s central message of light and hope. Happy Diwali to all those celebrating in London and around the world.
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Cab Davidson
23 days ago
...although I guess he could now be the Andrew formerly known as Prince.
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Patrice 🇺🇦
22 days ago
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Joyce White Vance
22 days ago
When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!
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Fed-up Republican
22 days ago
#NoKings
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Acyn
22 days ago
Greenberg: I have got something to say to Mike Johnson who spent all week smearing regular Americans. There are nearly a dozen No Kings protests happening across your district today. Since you have not been doing your job for over a month now, I bet you have got time to stop by.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸
22 days ago
Times Square, NYC.
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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦
22 days ago
🚨What’s up Washington D.C.?!? Message clear: No Kings. 1/2
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Silky
22 days ago
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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Penny P
22 days ago
No Kings protest in The Woodlands, Texas (north suburban Houston). This is the first such protest to occur in the community. I overheard a number of folks telling others that they had never attended such an event before but had gotten to the point of feeling they needed to do something.
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Anonymous
22 days ago
Millions of people have come together across the US to say no to the regime. Scenes from Boston, home of the original No Kings movement for the US.
#3E
#EndImpunity
#EndAutogenocide
#EndOligarchy
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Acyn
22 days ago
Sanders: In my state, people received notices from insurance companies that their health care premiums in some cases would triple or quadruple. That is going on all over the country, at a time when we already pay by far the highest prices in the world for health care…
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Raider
22 days ago
DC STAND UP ✊
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Farrukh
22 days ago
Mehdi Hasan, "Two of President Trump's wives were immigrants, proving that immigrants will do the jobs Americans won't do"
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Farrukh
22 days ago
Mehdi Hasan, "King Charles III has less gold in his palace than Trump has in the Oval Office right now" "Even King Charles has more respect for democratic norms and traditions than the whiney authoritarian man-child trying to send troops into as many blue cities as he can"
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Blue Texas
22 days ago
No Kings-Springfield, Illinois
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Bill Madden
22 days ago
Holy fuck! No Kings protesters are marching through Center City in Philadelphia. 🙌💪👏✊️👇
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
22 days ago
And *this* is why the White House spent all week desperately--and stupidly--trying to undermine No Kings in advance. They had reason to be scared.
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Farrukh
22 days ago
Bernie Sanders, "President Trump grossly violates the constitution by accepting a $400 million plane from the royal family of Qatar"
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22 days ago
HAPPENING NOW: A MASSIVE crowd of protesters flood the streets of San Diego for a “No Kings Day” rally showing their love for America and standing up against the corrupt fascist Trump administration. look how huge it is
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
22 days ago
This pic from Chicago today made me ponder how we see many enormous post-election rallies against Trump, but we never see enormous rallies *for* Trump. Sure, we see a score of people on the roadside with flags every so often, but nothing like this. Maybe he's just not as popular as he thinks he is.
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Mueller, She Wrote
22 days ago
Incredible turnout! We’re setting new records!
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Governor Gavin Newsom
22 days ago
As Californians take to the streets today to stand up against the President’s authoritarian playbook, I urge everyone to stay safe and demonstrate peacefully. Don’t give in to his provocations. Our strength is in our unity and peace.
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Phil Lewis
22 days ago
MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸
22 days ago
Grant Park Chicago.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
22 days ago
Whoever came up with the idea of mocking this gratuitously cruel regime with cute, nonthreatening plastic frogs really hit a gold mine. The clever imagery has made it all the way across the Atlantic.
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David Corn
22 days ago
Bill Nye the Science Guy talking about the possible “end of the Republic” at the DC
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Micah
22 days ago
notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important
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