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Knitter, reader, swimmer & walker. Avid podcast listener (often on the walks!) But mostly layabout. Loves to sing. Atheist. She/her. πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

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We should all be very afraid of what this idiot president is willing to do to save his polling numbers, with the understanding that he was dumb and dangerous enough to start the war without realizing Iran would close the Strait. END/

13.03.2026 15:33 πŸ‘ 1037 πŸ” 300 πŸ’¬ 47 πŸ“Œ 14
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Pentagon Sends Marine Expeditionary Unit to Middle East The Pentagon is moving a Marine expeditionary unit to the Middle East, as Iran steps up its attacks on the Strait of Hormuz, according to two U.S. officials. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approve...

BREAKING: BOOTS ON THE GROUND. The pentagon is sending a Marine Expeditionary Unit of up to 2,500 to Iran. 1/ www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

13.03.2026 15:20 πŸ‘ 2394 πŸ” 1429 πŸ’¬ 448 πŸ“Œ 279
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Winston Churchill sums Trump and Republicans up quite nicely.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

13.03.2026 18:27 πŸ‘ 362 πŸ” 163 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1
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Here we go again

Matt Vickers MP made a Conservative party video about the removal of Churchill from the fiver... and Vickers says:

"As Churchill himself once said 'a nation that forgets its past has no future.'

It's a FAKE QUOTE Churchill never said that.

Vickers is a shadow minister

13.03.2026 10:04 πŸ‘ 864 πŸ” 271 πŸ’¬ 147 πŸ“Œ 24
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Leavitt Admits SAVE Act Will Make It Harder for Married Women to Vote Karoline Leavitt accidentally admitted what opponents of the act have long warned against.

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β€œShe admitted that the bill actually would require married women and anyone else who has changed their name to re-register before they vote….
It is easy to imagine how state agencies such as the DMV or Social Security offices, which already…

newrepublic.com/post/207593/...

13.03.2026 03:51 πŸ‘ 184 πŸ” 142 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 10
Passing Notes - SNL
Passing Notes - SNL YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

article about snl and mock the week: CAN SATIRE BITE BACK?

snl's best sketch last week: "can we make our guest host corpse?"

13.03.2026 11:27 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜The law changed around me’: top Sudanese students blocked from UK universities by visa ban [FREE TO READ] High-achieving applicants’ educational plans derailed by β€˜emergency visa brake’

I'm trying to think who this idiocy is for, who would say: I wasn't going to vote Labour but now they've blocked a clearly exceptionally bright Sudanese woman from doing a postgraduate course in computational biology at Cambridge, I'm all in?

www.ft.com/content/4493...

13.03.2026 10:31 πŸ‘ 372 πŸ” 154 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 14
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YOU WILL NEED A $160 PASSPORT TO VOTE IF TRUMP'S BIG FUGLY SAVE AMERICA ACT PASSES!

It's a poll tax!

In America, you shouldn't have to pay $160 in order to vote!

ALSO, obtaining a passport CAN TAKE MONTHS!

10.03.2026 21:10 πŸ‘ 118 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3
But Badenoch sees things in absolute terms and she has had enough of what she calls β€œseparatism”. Her new Commission will tackle this perceived evil. It β€œwill set out the culture that we want people to assimilate into. What we expect and what we will enforce”.

While that last word might come as a shock to sensitive souls, the Conservative leader relished it. β€œConference, we are bringing enforcement back to this country,” she trilled. β€œWe tried to be nice to everybody, avoided tough decisions and it didn’t work. No more.”

But Badenoch sees things in absolute terms and she has had enough of what she calls β€œseparatism”. Her new Commission will tackle this perceived evil. It β€œwill set out the culture that we want people to assimilate into. What we expect and what we will enforce”. While that last word might come as a shock to sensitive souls, the Conservative leader relished it. β€œConference, we are bringing enforcement back to this country,” she trilled. β€œWe tried to be nice to everybody, avoided tough decisions and it didn’t work. No more.”

Crikey (Source: reporting from the Tories' Spring Conference in Harrogate - www.thenewworld.co.uk/patience-whe...)

12.03.2026 18:29 πŸ‘ 169 πŸ” 53 πŸ’¬ 57 πŸ“Œ 73
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#ResistanceUnited #ProudBLUE
#DV1 #ONEV1
The Save Act discourages you from registering:

😧Your driver's licence won’t do
😧Passports take time & πŸ’Έ
😧Birth certificates aren’t enough if you changed your name.

πŸ™Call your Senators at (202) 224-3121 to resist!

13.03.2026 09:34 πŸ‘ 143 πŸ” 133 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 7
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The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America β€” And Why Europe Is Next

I don't usually care much for conspiracy theories, but that is usually only because they aren't so extremely demonstrably true.

We are actually witnessing a coordinated attack on all our democracies by the richest people in the world.

World War 3 is a class war!!!

www.authoritarian-stack.info

07.11.2025 00:56 πŸ‘ 147 πŸ” 71 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 52
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

12.03.2026 18:17 πŸ‘ 2116 πŸ” 1350 πŸ’¬ 197 πŸ“Œ 689

We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.

13.03.2026 02:03 πŸ‘ 1852 πŸ” 676 πŸ’¬ 92 πŸ“Œ 28
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Taco is an increasingly unhelpful way of looking at the Trump administration open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

13.03.2026 08:15 πŸ‘ 410 πŸ” 115 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 20
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In two minutes this doctor explains why anti-trans hysteria is completely unscientific and based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how transitioning facilitated through the medical system actually works

12.03.2026 22:34 πŸ‘ 565 πŸ” 216 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 6

It's quite incredible how it's somehow taboo to say the obvious truth about the UK, which is that it's a well integrated society where most people just get on with their lives no problem. Apart from a core of extremely insulated journalists and politicians who refuse to be integrated.

12.03.2026 21:45 πŸ‘ 256 πŸ” 69 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

Catching up with #Ellis & it's great. But just wish they'd actually filmed it where it's supposedly set. The buildings just don't look right.

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Lincolnshire council approves AI datacentre despite emissions warnings Campaigners say campus near Scunthorpe could generate emissions close to those from all UK domestic flights

Oh, fucking marvellous. First I've bloody heard of this

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

12.03.2026 22:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Stephen Miller – American Fascist Welcome to a bonus episode of Origin Story. Sometimes we profile people who are psychologically complex, who have undertaken fascinating intellectual journeys, whose sins and achievements are intertwi...

Origin Story | Stephen Miller – American Fascist

on Podbean

www.podbean.com/ea/dir-5zsjf...

12.03.2026 15:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This woman is amazing. Listen to her.

12.03.2026 14:53 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œShe’s the exception, I am the rule.”

Such articulate cutting through of the nonsense around puberty blockers and eg Keira Bell’s detransitioning from Stephanie Lynnette on GMB this morning. It is also a refreshing relief to see a trans person actually being allowed to speak for once!

12.03.2026 09:25 πŸ‘ 2091 πŸ” 749 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 42

The irony of a draft dodger telling anyone to show some guts makes me sick.

12.03.2026 14:28 πŸ‘ 158 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 4
A screenshot of a post by Maya Forstater on X (formerly Twitter). The main image is a dark, blue-tinted selfie of Forstater in the foreground, wearing glasses and a patterned scarf. Behind her is a large, crowded concert arena with a brightly lit stage in the distance. Below the photo is a quote-repost from "The Lies They Tell" (@sarahstuartxx) which reads:
​"Join me tonight as I cover live the thrills and spills of the Trans Mission Live concert. Turns include Zack Polanski, Beth Ditto and a bunch of people you’ve never heard of. Literally hundreds of people attending the #FoxKillersVanityProject"

A screenshot of a post by Maya Forstater on X (formerly Twitter). The main image is a dark, blue-tinted selfie of Forstater in the foreground, wearing glasses and a patterned scarf. Behind her is a large, crowded concert arena with a brightly lit stage in the distance. Below the photo is a quote-repost from "The Lies They Tell" (@sarahstuartxx) which reads: ​"Join me tonight as I cover live the thrills and spills of the Trans Mission Live concert. Turns include Zack Polanski, Beth Ditto and a bunch of people you’ve never heard of. Literally hundreds of people attending the #FoxKillersVanityProject"

A screenshot of a post by Julie Bindel on X featuring the hashtag #TransMission. The image shows a candid, side-profile photo of a woman with short dark hair wearing a long-sleeved green shirt. She is leaning against a black metal railing in what appears to be a dimly lit venue with purple ambient lighting.

A screenshot of a post by Julie Bindel on X featuring the hashtag #TransMission. The image shows a candid, side-profile photo of a woman with short dark hair wearing a long-sleeved green shirt. She is leaning against a black metal railing in what appears to be a dimly lit venue with purple ambient lighting.

It's really funny how Maya Forstater and Julie Bindel spend all their time online fearmongering about how trans people are dangers to women and children yet they went to a stadium full of 10k trans people and nothing at all happened to them.

Thanks for the donation, hope you enjoyed the show!

12.03.2026 11:05 πŸ‘ 1170 πŸ” 208 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 23
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A brilliant night at Transmission live to show solidarity with the trans community - raising money for @notaphaseorg.bsky.social and @goodlawproject.org

12.03.2026 10:22 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

BTW, the 'consultation' about having 'greater Lincolnshire' & a mayor' received 0.03% responses, mostly against. Many of us never knew about it till it closed, bc nothing as sensible as leafleting each home was done. Complaints were ignored.

12.03.2026 11:10 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Perfectly obvious he first became aware of them after the bombing started.

11.03.2026 23:51 πŸ‘ 187 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œWe can take them at their word.”

10.03.2026 17:17 πŸ‘ 281 πŸ” 71 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 9

So to summarise: You failed to take out the regime. You failed to destroy nuclear material. You failed to eradicate Iran's retaliatory capacity. You brought chaos to the Middle East. You killed god knows how many people. You destabilised your own economy. All for nothing, but the ego of madman.

12.03.2026 00:47 πŸ‘ 1636 πŸ” 581 πŸ’¬ 93 πŸ“Œ 27

Fuck my bastard Christ these people are such gullible lickspittle morons.

12.03.2026 00:38 πŸ‘ 302 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 1

There’s something sublimely Badenoch about raging at a new design for banknotes when the war that she does/does not support is about to make banknotes worth a lot less

12.03.2026 08:35 πŸ‘ 151 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0