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Dad to two amazing daughters, cell biologist, uni lecturer, inspired by students often studying in dire circumstances, non-childless cat man (x2), sports (judo, squash, and anything else I can fit in). Glad to have found Bluesky; too much grief elsewhere.
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How The Trumps Brought Death And Destruction To Coney Island | NowThis
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September 1, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Trump’s approval is at 32% (according to reported UMass poll). Really dreadful rating, but seriously who are the 32% who approve?? Approving of what? Iran, Canada, inflation, affordability, suicidal sailors, low munitions, insulting allies, lies, childishness, narcissism..?
September 1, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Trump’s approval is at 32% (according to reported UMass poll). Really dreadful rating, but seriously who are the 32% who approve?? Approving of what? Iran, Canada, inflation, affordability, suicidal sailors, low munitions, insulting allies, lies, childishness, narcissism..?
I occasionally tune into CNN and am soon reminded why I stopped listening. So many issues in the world, but CNN is reporting on Erling Haarland’s hair cut and Gianno Infantino’s fan club. Unbelievable.
August 24, 2026 at 3:06 PM
I occasionally tune into CNN and am soon reminded why I stopped listening. So many issues in the world, but CNN is reporting on Erling Haarland’s hair cut and Gianno Infantino’s fan club. Unbelievable.
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Hegseth- a ‘Christian’ gleefully reading out a list of people who have been killed. I get it: they were considered part of a terrorist regime. I just can’t relate the glee to what I understand, from Christian friends, about how Jesus spoke. If Hegseth’s religion is Christianity, I’m not interested.
April 8, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Hegseth- a ‘Christian’ gleefully reading out a list of people who have been killed. I get it: they were considered part of a terrorist regime. I just can’t relate the glee to what I understand, from Christian friends, about how Jesus spoke. If Hegseth’s religion is Christianity, I’m not interested.
‘We don’t have to be there. We don’t need their oil. We don’t need anything they have. We’re there to help our allies.’
He could have helped allies more by consulting them, not being disrespectful, and not starting a war that’s driven up prices and made the entire world more fragile. It’s madness.
He could have helped allies more by consulting them, not being disrespectful, and not starting a war that’s driven up prices and made the entire world more fragile. It’s madness.
April 2, 2026 at 9:43 AM
‘We don’t have to be there. We don’t need their oil. We don’t need anything they have. We’re there to help our allies.’
He could have helped allies more by consulting them, not being disrespectful, and not starting a war that’s driven up prices and made the entire world more fragile. It’s madness.
He could have helped allies more by consulting them, not being disrespectful, and not starting a war that’s driven up prices and made the entire world more fragile. It’s madness.
Still coming to terms with the fact that he’s not into peace as much as FIFA led me to believe he was!
March 18, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Still coming to terms with the fact that he’s not into peace as much as FIFA led me to believe he was!
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Will we ever really know what Putin has on him? I hope so, and soon…
March 7, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Will we ever really know what Putin has on him? I hope so, and soon…
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At more than $5 billion and counting, the cost of Operation Epic Fury so far could cover SNAP benefits for more than 2 million Americans.
But instead of feeding hungry people at home, we're cutting food stamps in order to lower taxes for the rich and boost military spending to record levels.
But instead of feeding hungry people at home, we're cutting food stamps in order to lower taxes for the rich and boost military spending to record levels.
How We Actually Pay for War and Billionaire Tax Cuts
Trump is launching us into what could be another costly and deadly forever war.Meanwhile, he and Republicans are making
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March 5, 2026 at 4:46 PM
At more than $5 billion and counting, the cost of Operation Epic Fury so far could cover SNAP benefits for more than 2 million Americans.
But instead of feeding hungry people at home, we're cutting food stamps in order to lower taxes for the rich and boost military spending to record levels.
But instead of feeding hungry people at home, we're cutting food stamps in order to lower taxes for the rich and boost military spending to record levels.
Hegseth: we are hitting them surgically…
Those poor schoolgirls are evidence to the contrary.
Those poor schoolgirls are evidence to the contrary.
March 2, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Hegseth: we are hitting them surgically…
Those poor schoolgirls are evidence to the contrary.
Those poor schoolgirls are evidence to the contrary.
Rubio… seriously… so embarrassing that the US tells European countries to reform their social policies and their cultures are ‘failing’. It’s like a belligerent teenager telling their benevolent forebears they need to be less accepting and open-minded in order to belong in the current hateful gang.
February 16, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Rubio… seriously… so embarrassing that the US tells European countries to reform their social policies and their cultures are ‘failing’. It’s like a belligerent teenager telling their benevolent forebears they need to be less accepting and open-minded in order to belong in the current hateful gang.
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Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands….
Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those
Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those
January 25, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands….
Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those
Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those
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Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
January 25, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
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You’re a US citizen, with rights, up to the point where you get shot and murdered. After that, you’re a domestic terrorist who forfeited their rights. It’s dystopian.
January 26, 2026 at 10:54 AM
You’re a US citizen, with rights, up to the point where you get shot and murdered. After that, you’re a domestic terrorist who forfeited their rights. It’s dystopian.
Kinda ‘tough love’ lecture from Zelenskyy just now. I think he’s pissed… I hope world leaders are listening.
January 22, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Kinda ‘tough love’ lecture from Zelenskyy just now. I think he’s pissed… I hope world leaders are listening.
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Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin.
This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.
This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.
January 20, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin.
This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.
This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.
Scott Bessent: ‘the EU projects weakness’. Utter pathetic, patronising garbage. Sycophantic repetition of gross policy and verbal stupidity (that he surely does not believe in) is just disgusting. It all seems to be getting (unbelievably) worse. Where is their backbone? They can say enough already.
January 19, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Scott Bessent: ‘the EU projects weakness’. Utter pathetic, patronising garbage. Sycophantic repetition of gross policy and verbal stupidity (that he surely does not believe in) is just disgusting. It all seems to be getting (unbelievably) worse. Where is their backbone? They can say enough already.
Trump is gross, but Vance is surely worse. Trump operates on greed & what is best for him, but is ultimately dumb. Vance is smarter and more calculating, and knows he ditched his morality. A political chameleon; to feel less irrelevant. He’d probably say Jesus was a radical communist vagrant.
January 9, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Trump is gross, but Vance is surely worse. Trump operates on greed & what is best for him, but is ultimately dumb. Vance is smarter and more calculating, and knows he ditched his morality. A political chameleon; to feel less irrelevant. He’d probably say Jesus was a radical communist vagrant.
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Donald Trump won the first “FIFA Peace Prize” at the World Cup draw – 21 reactions worthy of the Nobel www.thepoke.com/2025/12/06/d...
Donald Trump won the first “FIFA Peace Prize” at the World Cup draw – 21 reactions worthy of the Nobel
Donald Trump, as he tells us repeatedly, is the Peace President (hey, stop sniggering down the back; we said “PEACE” President). As he waits another year to learn if he has won the Nobel Peace Prize, ...
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December 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Donald Trump won the first “FIFA Peace Prize” at the World Cup draw – 21 reactions worthy of the Nobel www.thepoke.com/2025/12/06/d...
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It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
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December 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
So, to be clear, you can call a group of people garbage, summarily execute people on boats without due process, pardon a convicted drug trafficker, appoint a Health Secretary who is on a mission to make the US less healthy through ignorance of established data, and then ‘win’ a peace award?
December 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
So, to be clear, you can call a group of people garbage, summarily execute people on boats without due process, pardon a convicted drug trafficker, appoint a Health Secretary who is on a mission to make the US less healthy through ignorance of established data, and then ‘win’ a peace award?