@wordywhiskers.bsky.social Hello.

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Philip Glass pulls new symphony from Kennedy Center after Trump takeover

I can hear my neighbour crying “I Can’t Breathe” Now I’m in the struggle I can’t leave Calling out the violence of the racist Police We ain’t gonna stop … til people are free We ain’t gonna stop … til people are free 💥 Samuel L. Jackson

The thing to remember about Suella Braverman is that not only is she nasty, untrustworthy, and full of hate and anger, but she's also abominably stupid.

@polphilpod.bsky.social Just listened to your episode "It will be worse in the UK" and—to be clear—I take it seriously, but I believe you are wrong to be so doomy. Resistance in the UK may well come from factors outside conventional politics, in a zone which might, more fairly, be called "culture".

"Writers may feel more creative when they use artificial intelligence for brainstorming, yet the range of ideas often becomes narrower." theconversation.com/more-than-ha...

Reminding you all that Nigel Farage has proudly claimed he is going to be setting up a British version of ICE here in the UK to terrorise us just like American ICE if he ever becomes PM. He has openly said he wants to deport legal migrants.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

All 10 shots were fired AFTER they removed the gun from Pretti’s waist. Every single shot was fired after he was disarmed.

They owe her, and all of us, an apology.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

in case you missed it - new episode, continuing the 'fascism mini series'

It’s “really important to get analysis of events like today out to the public quickly, especially when it’s clear the US government, ICE, and DHS are willing to immediately start lying about what’s happening,” edition.cnn.com/2026/01/24/m...

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The Tories once understood we couldn’t just stop the world and get off. They understood what the EU flag represented and that we should take pride in it. Here it is emblazoned on the backdrop to their ill-fated 1984 Brighton conference under Margaret Thatcher.

Jared Huffman, "If we're real and honest about what's going on, we have a madman in the White House" "Trump is running the biggest most corrupt criminal grift in criminal history, out of the White House" "We take an oath to the Constitution, but it seems all of you took an oath to Donald Trump"

(by the way this picture is from the times, not me) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...

Both staggeringly stupid, and staggeringly clever, he lurches from dunderheaded buffoonery to ingenious machiavellianism and back, sometimes in moments. I no longer believe that he's a genuinely conscious entity—he's a flailing, reflexive, predatory system that echoes his context. You know who.

"No Kings" in bright lights above the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

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Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…

'Don't support your own leader, support the foreign leader who wishes you harm.' @mrjamesob.bsky.social reacts to the Daily Mail columnist who would 'take Donald Trump, warts and all, over our hopeless lawyer of a PM'.

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Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

All of these people - Mogg, Farage, Carswell, Jenrick, Hannan and the rest need to be forever reminded of what they backed and supported

There is an area in the ICE detention center in Minneapolis designated specifically for American citizens. Contemplate that for a minute.

I think AI is making it harder for journalists to research, not easier. I was using Google - not ChatGPT or anything - to look up a book & it gave me a quote it said was key. Anyway, I bought the book & read it & there is no such quote, it's not even close. But it was detailed & convincing.

Just visiting a small town in the Midlands. Half an hour spare, so dropped into a local cafe. Looking out of the window at the local shopping street, watching the world go by. Immediate impression? A huge proportion of people I see are disabled. Difficulty with mobility seems endemic.

"In a sane society, investors, analysts and the media would never trust a single word out of Mark Zuckerberg’s mouth ever again." www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffl...

This memory loss is called "Griftitus ' where the big payments of money for saying a lot of stuff your rich sponsor tells you to and doing very little. This results in inconvenient facts being forgotten in the memory and a small rash of hypocrisy.

🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

ICE officers are publicly stating that Renee Good was killed not because an officer was threatened but because they were made at her for not instantly following every order issued. The new ICE threat to protestors is: "Have you not learned? This is why we killed that lesbian bitch."

Some people are afraid of cats. Occasionally, Bongo hints at why.🐆

Some Tories, after 14 years in power… …are saying nothing now works in the UK. So they’re joining Reform, so they can complain about the Tory record - and you can vote them right back in, in a few years’ time, under new anti-Tory branding. 🤷🏻‍♂️

It's all about this. Rampant impunity everywhere. Men who think rules are for other people. Because they are rich. Because they have nukes. Because they own the tech. Sometimes all three.

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As you can probably tell, my masterplan is to fill Reform UK with the fetid dregs of the Tory governments that tanked the economy, gave us record NHS waiting lists, the highest tax burden since the War, soaring energy bills and rivers full of shit.

this is how to get missiles fired at airliners

I've played TTRPGs a lot. My characters have been involved in explorations, investigations, discoveries, rescues, raids, brawls, battles, rituals, revenges, chases, escapes, confrontations, opportunities, duties, vows… But not shenanigans. They're shenanigan-free. Are TTRPGs all about shenanigans?

Spotted in Minneapolis today

Don’t stop talking about the Epstein files—the U.S. Justice Department has released less than 1%.

BREAKING: Staggering scenes as brave Iranians stand up to their illegitimate government in Tehran... um, hang on, I'm being told this is actually Minneapolis. Forget I said anything...

When did it become the case that if you save data locally, suddenly you're in the category of radical paranoid or computer hacker? For goodness sake people! Don't trust the cloud! Have at least one—no, two—local devices to save your stuff to. "Whooo! Local devices?" I mean a frikkin' USB stick FFS!

They’re not even trying to hide the white supremacy any more.

A young mother tells an ICE agent: "That's fine dude, I'm not mad at you." Then the ICE agent shoots her 3 times in the head and says "f*cking b*tch". That’s it, right? The tipping point?

I think I'm starting to sense a change. Now, it feels like the truth is half way around the world before lies have got their boots on. Even so, there are a lot of lies and a lot of boots.

Trump fans spread fake AI footage of ICE shooting www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...

Anarchist. (2026)