Elkeblom
@ellyblom.bsky.social
Just muddling along.
Banner: The Conjuror by Hieronymus Bosh (1502) - an allegory for our time.
Banner: The Conjuror by Hieronymus Bosh (1502) - an allegory for our time.
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Elkeblom
@ellyblom.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Russia: "The work was completed on time, the asphalt has been laid, the roadway is open to traffic. This is a good example of the implementation of a national project."
If you're in need of a laugh...
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457 British troops lost their lives in Afghanistan.
Trump avoided military service 5 times.
How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.
Trump avoided military service 5 times.
How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.
January 22, 2026 at 8:00 PM
457 British troops lost their lives in Afghanistan.
Trump avoided military service 5 times.
How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.
Trump avoided military service 5 times.
How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.
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We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the increasingly alarming scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.
"Liam’s teacher, Ella Sullivan, teared up when thinking about Liam. 'He’s a bright young student,' she said, 'and he’s so kind and loving. His classmates miss him.'"
www.startribune.com/preschooler-...
www.startribune.com/preschooler-...
Preschooler and three other students detained by ICE, school district leader says
The detentions of Columbia Heights students come after weeks of heightened concern and enforcement presence near and on Twin Cities school property.
www.startribune.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:10 AM
We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the increasingly alarming scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.
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i'm way less scared of civil war ii erupting than i am of absolutely nothing changing as things get worse and worse & the entire media apparatus pivots to pretending that using 5-year olds as bait to try and lure people out of their houses before also arresting the 5-year olds is normal
January 22, 2026 at 1:37 AM
i'm way less scared of civil war ii erupting than i am of absolutely nothing changing as things get worse and worse & the entire media apparatus pivots to pretending that using 5-year olds as bait to try and lure people out of their houses before also arresting the 5-year olds is normal
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New pic: Bannon & Epstein
🔴 Steve Bannon Offered Trump’s MAGA as Shield for Jeffrey Epstein @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
🔴 Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein @peterjukes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
🔴 Steve Bannon Offered Trump’s MAGA as Shield for Jeffrey Epstein @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
🔴 Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein @peterjukes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
December 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
New pic: Bannon & Epstein
🔴 Steve Bannon Offered Trump’s MAGA as Shield for Jeffrey Epstein @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
🔴 Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein @peterjukes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
🔴 Steve Bannon Offered Trump’s MAGA as Shield for Jeffrey Epstein @nafeez.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/14/s...
🔴 Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein @peterjukes.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...
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Hurrah for the Blackshirts
I think the Daily Mail is actually verging into sedition and subversion and treason.
January 21, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Hurrah for the Blackshirts
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In Godalming, the smell is “horrendous”, with floods backing up into drains every time it rains.
But the stench surrounding Thames Water hangs like a cloud over their accounts as well, where the company is drowning in £17.6bn of debt:
https://goodlaw.social/wlua
But the stench surrounding Thames Water hangs like a cloud over their accounts as well, where the company is drowning in £17.6bn of debt:
https://goodlaw.social/wlua
It’s time for Ofwat to come clean on Thames Water | Good Law Project
Thames Water’s creditors are still trying to hang on to their cash – it’s time for the regulator to publish the details of all the bids on the table
goodlaw.social
January 21, 2026 at 7:36 AM
In Godalming, the smell is “horrendous”, with floods backing up into drains every time it rains.
But the stench surrounding Thames Water hangs like a cloud over their accounts as well, where the company is drowning in £17.6bn of debt:
https://goodlaw.social/wlua
But the stench surrounding Thames Water hangs like a cloud over their accounts as well, where the company is drowning in £17.6bn of debt:
https://goodlaw.social/wlua
"The international community continues to grant this regime immunity"
I'm so deeply ashamed of my government's tacit support of this inhumanity.
‘I could not stay silent’: Palestinian prisoner tells of sexual abuse in Israeli jail www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
I'm so deeply ashamed of my government's tacit support of this inhumanity.
‘I could not stay silent’: Palestinian prisoner tells of sexual abuse in Israeli jail www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
‘I could not stay silent’: Palestinian prisoner tells of sexual abuse in Israeli jail
Sami al-Saei has defied social stigma to speak out about what a report calls a ‘grave pattern’ of sexual violence
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:51 AM
"The international community continues to grant this regime immunity"
I'm so deeply ashamed of my government's tacit support of this inhumanity.
‘I could not stay silent’: Palestinian prisoner tells of sexual abuse in Israeli jail www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
I'm so deeply ashamed of my government's tacit support of this inhumanity.
‘I could not stay silent’: Palestinian prisoner tells of sexual abuse in Israeli jail www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Damn, that’s quite a quote from Belgium’s PM Bart De Wever when asked about his upcoming meeting with Trump
January 20, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Damn, that’s quite a quote from Belgium’s PM Bart De Wever when asked about his upcoming meeting with Trump
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Not sure why my governor is being a scold unless he's yelling at billionaires, not European leaders. He needs to yell at billionaires more, including the California tech billionaires backing Trump and his rampages.
>> @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom to world leaders and billionaires at Davos: It’s time to buck up. Stop being complicit. Have a backbone. Trump will play you for fools.
January 20, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Not sure why my governor is being a scold unless he's yelling at billionaires, not European leaders. He needs to yell at billionaires more, including the California tech billionaires backing Trump and his rampages.
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Just reflexively oppositional, YOU NEGOTIATED THIS DEAL! If you'd not held the election when you did, Rishi would have signed it. YOU WERE IN THE FOREIGN OFFICE AT THE TIME.
This is (1) disgraceful at a moment of national danger, (2) laughably unserious and (3) deeply unwise when the President is obviously becoming incapacitated and the most unpopular person in the whole UK. Utterly disqualifying.
January 20, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Just reflexively oppositional, YOU NEGOTIATED THIS DEAL! If you'd not held the election when you did, Rishi would have signed it. YOU WERE IN THE FOREIGN OFFICE AT THE TIME.
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The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
But Americans who want to save the alliance with Europe must have no illusions about how bad a condition this transatlantic partnership is in.
January 18, 2026 at 10:05 PM
The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
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It's that magical time of year when private jets descend on a Swiss mountain village to discuss climate change and poverty! Anyway, here's my annual reminder. I'll stop posting this when they stop avoiding the real issue: their own massive tax avoidance 💰
January 19, 2026 at 1:00 PM
It's that magical time of year when private jets descend on a Swiss mountain village to discuss climate change and poverty! Anyway, here's my annual reminder. I'll stop posting this when they stop avoiding the real issue: their own massive tax avoidance 💰
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Archbishop Broglio is, to put it extremely mildly, not generally viewed as one of the more liberal of the American bishops.
It’s come to this: “Catholic members of the US armed forces could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland if such orders were issued, according to Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the bishop responsible for the pastoral care of US military personnel.”
Military archbishop: Troops could refuse orders on Greenland
Speaking to Britain's Sunday program on BBC, Archbishop Timothy Broglio reiterated that conscience could permit refusal of an unjust military order.
aleteia.org
January 20, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Archbishop Broglio is, to put it extremely mildly, not generally viewed as one of the more liberal of the American bishops.
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Yes, it’s a confirmation of what everyone said would happen. But a confirmation is still useful.
“Foreign exporters absorbed only 4% of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.
“Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.”
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
“Rather than acting as a tax on foreign producers, the tariffs functioned as a consumption tax on Americans.”
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds
New research contradicts President Trump’s claim that foreigners are footing the bill.
www.wsj.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Yes, it’s a confirmation of what everyone said would happen. But a confirmation is still useful.
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I have posted too much today, but cannot get this photo out of my head. This must stop.
Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota.
(Photo via Reuters)
(Photo via Reuters)
January 19, 2026 at 7:05 AM
I have posted too much today, but cannot get this photo out of my head. This must stop.
So what are we going to do about it?
‘Brazen’ political influence of rich laid bare as wealth of billionaires reaches $18.3tn, says Oxfam www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Brazen’ political influence of rich laid bare as wealth of billionaires reaches $18.3tn, says Oxfam www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Brazen’ political influence of rich laid bare as wealth of billionaires reaches $18.3tn, says Oxfam
Governments opting for oligarchy while brutally repressing protests over austerity and lack of jobs, charity report says
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 11:16 AM
So what are we going to do about it?
‘Brazen’ political influence of rich laid bare as wealth of billionaires reaches $18.3tn, says Oxfam www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘Brazen’ political influence of rich laid bare as wealth of billionaires reaches $18.3tn, says Oxfam www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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It's not remotely silly.
It might sound silly, but I mean it: The easiest and most potent way for Europe to hurt Trump this year is to once again use its cultural soft power and to threaten a boycott of the World Cup. It would become a completely meaningless event and would hurt him where he is most vulnerable - his vanity.
January 19, 2026 at 10:40 AM
It's not remotely silly.
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My grand theory of Trump is that he's a narcissistic over-entitled senile old man surrounded by sycophants who tell him what he wants to hear so they can get on with making money, and history will not forgive anyone involved.
January 19, 2026 at 9:16 AM
My grand theory of Trump is that he's a narcissistic over-entitled senile old man surrounded by sycophants who tell him what he wants to hear so they can get on with making money, and history will not forgive anyone involved.
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And while we’re recommending YouTube films, here’s the inimitable @petergeoghegan.bsky.social doing the Lord’s work. Because nothing says ‘free speech champions’ like, erm, going to Court to keep who funds your payroll secret.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP0O...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP0O...
Who Really Funds the Free Speech Union?
YouTube video by Democracy for Sale
www.youtube.com
January 18, 2026 at 1:00 PM
And while we’re recommending YouTube films, here’s the inimitable @petergeoghegan.bsky.social doing the Lord’s work. Because nothing says ‘free speech champions’ like, erm, going to Court to keep who funds your payroll secret.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP0O...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP0O...
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Regular reminder that you can’t just point at the Constitution and assume it will work if the people whose job it is to uphold it are unwilling to do the work expected of them
January 19, 2026 at 7:45 AM
Regular reminder that you can’t just point at the Constitution and assume it will work if the people whose job it is to uphold it are unwilling to do the work expected of them
First companies get rich selling us crap which makes us fat.
Then other companies get even richer with promises of making us thin again.
Sounds about right.
Then other companies get even richer with promises of making us thin again.
Sounds about right.
January 18, 2026 at 4:51 PM
First companies get rich selling us crap which makes us fat.
Then other companies get even richer with promises of making us thin again.
Sounds about right.
Then other companies get even richer with promises of making us thin again.
Sounds about right.
Under Trump's authoritarian rule, the US is no longer a reliable partner.
America, land of the fraudulent and home of the bent.
America, land of the fraudulent and home of the bent.
This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all
January 18, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Under Trump's authoritarian rule, the US is no longer a reliable partner.
America, land of the fraudulent and home of the bent.
America, land of the fraudulent and home of the bent.
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Has anyone asked the arch-appeaser Farage what he thinks of his mate Trump tariffing the UK because we’re defending Greenland from aggression?
A vote for Farage in May is a vote to be ruled by Trump
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
A vote for Farage in May is a vote to be ruled by Trump
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Donald Trump says eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland – Europe live
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the UK, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland will face tariffs from 1 February
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Has anyone asked the arch-appeaser Farage what he thinks of his mate Trump tariffing the UK because we’re defending Greenland from aggression?
A vote for Farage in May is a vote to be ruled by Trump
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
A vote for Farage in May is a vote to be ruled by Trump
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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So reciprocal tariffs and boycotts on all US goods until he stops threatening to colonise a peaceful European-owned country
Trump says he'll impose a 10% tariff (rising to 25% in June) on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, because they've sent people to Greenland, until the US can buy Greenland.
January 17, 2026 at 4:46 PM
So reciprocal tariffs and boycotts on all US goods until he stops threatening to colonise a peaceful European-owned country