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John Petersen

@gadgerz

Lefty, virtue signalling, snowflake with woke aspirations. Overwhelmed by the state of the UK, USA, and our planet. Easily distracted by dog videos.

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Farage and Badenoch are absolute clowns: startled by the entirely foreseeable series of events they failed to foresee. A demonstration of their total lack of judgement.

10.03.2026 20:59 πŸ‘ 1803 πŸ” 359 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 4
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Warwickshire County Council's Reform leader faces no confidence vote Warwickshire County Council's George Finch is accused of bringing the authority "into disrepute".

Reform UK Warwickshire leader is facing a vote of no confidence after being accused of bringing the authority into disrepute.

10.03.2026 06:27 πŸ‘ 219 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 14

FACTS:

Net Zero barely nudges your bill.

Fossil‑fuel wars send it through the roof.

So when Farage and his ilk slags off renewables while fanning conflict, remember who actually hikes your costs.

10.03.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 1559 πŸ” 446 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 7
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Reporter: You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war. But you're the only person in your government saying this. Why?

Trump: Because I just don't know enough about it.

09.03.2026 22:39 πŸ‘ 4723 πŸ” 1456 πŸ’¬ 626 πŸ“Œ 424

Americans:

06.03.2026 20:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In a world of lies, we need the BBC more than ever. This week could be our last chance to save it | Polly Toynbee As the public consultation on the BBC nears its end, the right will be out in force to undermine it. But its supporters can do their bit – with this guidance, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

In a world of lies, we need the BBC more than ever. This week could be our last chance to save it | Polly Toynbee

06.03.2026 11:48 πŸ‘ 131 πŸ” 68 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 21

Sounds like a return to the golden age of America to me!

28.02.2026 07:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You can make a meal by boiling cereal grains (like oats, barley, or rice) in water.

28.02.2026 00:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Green Party takes Gorton and Denton from Labour in first ever Westminster by-election win Hannah Spencer wins the Manchester seat, ahead of Reform UK in second and pushing Labour into third.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

27.02.2026 05:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m not sure your government has the American people’s best interests at heart.

25.02.2026 22:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump's pick for Secretary of Commerce...

19.02.2026 14:04 πŸ‘ 2916 πŸ” 1371 πŸ’¬ 156 πŸ“Œ 90

β€œHere is a hare for you to cook and eat”

19.02.2026 08:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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😳😳

19.02.2026 07:48 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Delightful. You can also create new toys that definitely won’t scar your children for life.

19.02.2026 07:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's great to live in a country (Canada, Japan, UK, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, etc.) where citizens don't worry about if the next election will be canceled, if they will be allowed to register to vote, if they will have to stand in line for hours to vote, or if their vote will be counted.

15.02.2026 14:26 πŸ‘ 6704 πŸ” 1195 πŸ’¬ 432 πŸ“Œ 152
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The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow (Full Album) - YouTube

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

15.02.2026 17:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Senior Reform UK figures attend launch of How to Launder Money book Co-author George Cottrell is close aide to party leader Nigel Farage and served several months in US prison

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

14.02.2026 20:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This whole Epstein File episode has really brought home how much we’ve lost our empathy on a massive scale. There is actual evidence both documented and verified by survivors of horrific crimes. Committed by people at the highest levels. Yet not one of them has been punished.

14.02.2026 16:34 πŸ‘ 9657 πŸ” 2575 πŸ’¬ 502 πŸ“Œ 110

This is everything it should be - meticulously researched, deeply thought out, uncomfortably probing, scrupulously fair, AND ALSO outrageously entertaining.

This is how progressives should tell stories. An hour flew by.

13.02.2026 18:06 πŸ‘ 438 πŸ” 182 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 1
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β€˜Pulling up the drawbridge’: Alf Dubs criticises Shabana Mahmood’s plans for child refugees Exclusive: Labour peer, who came to UK as a refugee, says some ministers try to show they won’t β€˜just do things because of their background’

Labour still don't understand that you don't beat the far-right by copying their policies.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

09.02.2026 07:10 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What cnut!

07.02.2026 19:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We should all have a think about this.

06.02.2026 18:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
UK wealth tax is inevitable says billionaires nemesis

UK wealth tax is inevitable says billionaires nemesis

The 50 wealthiest families in the UK own more than 34 million people combined.

That level of inequality is totally unsustainable.

A wealth tax isn’t radical - it’s inevitable. And the Green Party will keep making the case.

05.02.2026 15:08 πŸ‘ 1172 πŸ” 348 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 9
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

05.02.2026 11:50 πŸ‘ 32289 πŸ” 13861 πŸ’¬ 589 πŸ“Œ 1595

Noticeable absence of asylum seekers, trans people and drag queens listed as child rapists in the files.

Pretty much all very rich, very powerful and very white men.

Almost as if that’s who the problem has always fucking been, isn’t it?

31.01.2026 23:14 πŸ‘ 704 πŸ” 143 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 7
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Ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon arrested on charges connected to Minnesota church protest Lemon’s lawyer said he was taken into custody after attending protest in which demonstrators disrupted a church service earlier in January

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

30.01.2026 19:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

One of the finest tracks ever recorded. Flippin’ love the Dead Kennedys!

29.01.2026 21:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve just been sick in my mouth! Thanks for that.

29.01.2026 21:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Unfair, twice as many attended the second showing!

29.01.2026 20:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

With the rate of defections, it would have just been easier just to change the party name. It saddens me that anyone would vote for any of them!

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