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“Donald Trump agrees with the last person who was nice to him” remains undefeated as a way of predicting future events
December 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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hunterw.bsky.social
Good morning Bluesky.

I have received a fresh shipment of #coffeewithhunter

What's everybody drinking?
cans of cafe du monde and a mug from cafe du monde filled with cafe du monde i heard you liked cafe du monde so i put cafe du monde in your cafe du monde
December 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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realtuckfrumper.bsky.social
The dominance of the US dollar appears to be unravelling under Trump
www.alternet.org
The dominance of the US dollar appears to be unravelling under Trump
twp.ai
December 6, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Over on Xitter, Kirill Dmitriev, whose country censors Xitter entirely, is on a 7-plus tweet rant about the EU enforcing transparency rules on Xitter.
Censorship is the EU bureaucrats’ key tool: by silencing critics of mass migration, rising crime and economic decay, they QUIETLY push Western civilization further down the suicide path. Quote Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio · 18h The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on @X, it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments. The days of censoring Americans online are over. Ursula “Pfizer” von der Leyen desperately needs EU censorship to hide corruption. Quote JD Vance @JDVance · Dec 4 Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage. Kirill Dmitriev @kadmitriev · 12h Quote Kirill Dmitriev @kadmitriev · 18h Censorship is the EU bureaucrats’ key tool: by silencing critics of mass migration, rising crime and economic decay, they QUIETLY push Western civilization further down the suicide path. x.com/secrubio/statu… Kirill Dmitriev @kadmitriev · 12h EU bureaucrats have turned into enemies of free speech, enemies of Western civilization — and, ultimately, enemies of themselves. Quote Elon Musk @elonmusk · 12h The EU woke Stasi commissars are about to understand the full meaning of the “Streisand Effect” x.com/cb_doge/status… EU’s fatal mistake: choosing censorship over debate, ideology over reality, mass migration over security and green dogma over industry. Quote Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio · 18h The European Commission’s $140 million fine isn’t just an attack on @X, it’s an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments. The days of censoring Americans online are over.
December 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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bodegacats.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
It’s pretty funny that this is almost the exact same amount of money Netflix paid for Warner Bros and HBO and CNN, all that for this
Zuck as his cartoon avi next to the Eiffel Tower
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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thefarce.org
"Perhaps utterly unsurprising but one of the clear differences between activated and willing but not yet involved is having been personally asked by someone to do a concrete thing."
Anat Shenker-Osorio (@anatosaurus)
All year long we’ve been conducting research into activation. Through dozens of focus groups and surveys, we’ve looked at who is activated, activatable, opposes regime but unwilling to act. We’ve also...
substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
6 December 1911 | A Czech Jewish woman, Vilemina Wittlerová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz

Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/
Podcast: https://youtu.be/ijTxtbNlJO8
Vintage sepia-toned portrait of a woman with styled hair, wearing a collared shirt and a jacket, looking slightly to their right with a soft expression.
December 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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george-station-cat.bsky.social
Good morning and welcome to #Caturday
Let's make positivity louder.

Close the door on yesterday, it’s finished its story.
Today is wide open, waiting for your brilliance.
Tell me: what’s one thing you’re choosing for you today?
December 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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george-station-cat.bsky.social
Night night sweet dreamies

Self-care isn't always bubble baths and wine. It's also setting boundaries, having difficult conversations, and letting go of the past.

Your wounds will never heal if you don't stop touching them.
December 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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markharris.bsky.social
What an immense dipshit. people.com/ruben-galleg...
Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego Groans His Party Doesn't Allow 'Women to Be Hot' in Leaked Texts: 'Dem Women Look Like Dem Men'
Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego, a moderate Democrat, dissed the physical appearance of men and women in his political party in a series of text screenshots. Gallego declined to take back what he wrote, in...
people.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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levin.bsky.social
His wife left him despite having a newborn.
Clearly she had good reason to.
December 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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mikeelgan.bsky.social
Opinions that confirm the public's intuition that Silicon Valley leaders are evil: "legalizing US war crimes would open up a whole new market."
futurism.com/future-socie...
Palantir CEO Says Legalizing War Crimes Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Alex Karp recently rhapsodized that US air strikes on Venezuelan civilians would be good for business, if only it were legal.
futurism.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
It is a truth universally acknowledged that everyone who tries to minimise Palantir's role in public life gets branded as a conspiracy theorist at some point, but look! Yet again! It's all here! Very clearly! And still, govts will
work hard to accommodate and legitimise Palantir
December 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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who.int
Financial cuts to #EndMalaria are disrupting health systems, weakening surveillance, and delaying malaria interventions.

Sustained and predictable funding, including a fully replenished Global Fund is crucial to getting us back on track and maintaining our progress.

Learn more 🔗bit.ly/4pETX34
Graphic showing rows of coin icons. The top rows in yellow represent the US$ 9.3 billion needed by 2025, while the lower rows in grey represent the US$ 3.9 billion actually invested. Text at the top reads: “Malaria funding fell far short in 2024.”
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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eddwilson.bsky.social
I'm a bit older than Farage, but I'm looking back at our shared media history.

Farage was 14 when the Black and White Minstrels ended, and 10 to 17 for It Ain't Half Hot Mum.

And Bernard Manning's main TV platform was ITV's The Comedians.

He asked somebody to compile a list.

#R4Today
December 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Nigel Farage has been a lifelong racist. He's been a racist since his school days. David Lammy was forced to apologise for saying Farage flirted with the Hitler Youth - but what do you call it when someone sings Hitler Youth songs? Read Chloe Deakin's letter on Farage's fascism and racism at school.
From Chloe Denkin 01-734 1717 and 1778 E3 ALBANY PICCADILLY WIV ORH 4th June 1981 Dear Master, I am happy to say that I am not acquainted with N. P. Farage, of ASRY happy, because judging from hereporis i haveter ceived he is not someone with whom I would wish to be acquainted; and becaure I am, therefore, able to write on the ground of no personal prejedice, but on that conceraing p. inciple. You will recati that at the recent, and longthy, moeting about the selection of prefects, the nomads by a hegy that Sara was "a fascist, but that was no reason why ho would not make a good prefect" invoked considerable reaction from members of the Common Room. Another collesgue, who teaches the boy, des-cribed his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he citod a particular inciler in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This mastor stated his view that that behaviour was precisely why the boy should not he made a prefect. Yet another colleague deseribed how, at a CCE camp organized by the College, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shout-in Hitler-you songs; and when it was suggested by a master thie boys who expressed such views "don't really mean them", the College Chaplain himself commented that, on the contrary, in his experience views of that kind expressed by boys of that age are onted, and are mennt, At the end of that meeting I had not a scintilla of doubt that after the facts disclosed to you, Farage's nomination would no longer be considered. Nor, I imagine, had my colleagues; other-wise, we would have expressed ourselves even more strongly. But yesterday I was told by a senior boy, in terms of st that Farage was indeed to be selected; and today, of course, his appointment was announced in Assembly an announcement, I gather, which was met with disbelief and derision. To say that is too late to reverse this decision, or that Farage', acdir 3 will be restricted to particular areas of College te, or that he will be supervised within them, is futile. His appointment will have four immediate consequences. First, it will vastly increase his own confidence, and sense of self-justification. Secondly, he will have the privilege of listing his appointment as a profect at Dulwich College in his uni-versity and other applications. Thirdly, his peers, according to their own views, will either adopt him as an exemplar, or, as is much more likely, regard his appointment with disillusionment and cynicism when Ley observe that his notorious views and behaviour, well known to poth Master and members of the staff, are, as it would aptent, condoned by them. Fourthly, those members of the Common Room, such as myself, who believed that a firm daca fon had been reached through a democratic process, will be shock, saddened, angered, and disheartened. You will appreciate that I regard this as a very serious matter. i have often heard you tell our senior boys that they are the nation's future leaders. It is our collective responsibility to ensure that these lenders are enlightened and compassionate. As you know, the national and educational press has recently given much prominence to the growing concern at the exploitation of school pupils by extremists of all kinds. A school of the stature and high roputation of Dulwich College which openly con-domned the recent troubles in Brixton, and offered its facilities freely to the foreca of law and order, ought not to be seen laside or outside its confines to be giving its endorsement, expressly or by implication, to budding extremists of the opposite kind. A school which is proud of its selectiveness, conservatism, and discipline, cught not to allow these characteristics to degen erate into intolerance, political extremism, or bullying of the nastiest kind, in its pupils. The matter of the appointment of Farage as a prefect may be thought by some to be minuscule against these deep considerations. It is not so. I am by disposition, tolerant; and in politics, moderate. But as a member of the Common Room, I find it distasteful that a boy such as Farage should have bestowed upon him the prestige of office and authority: wore I a parent or a pupil, I would find it profoundly so. In view, as I am aware, of the wide concern within the College about this matter, I am sending a copy of this letter to the chairman of the Common Room. Yours very sincerely, David Emms, Esq., MA, The Master of Dulwich College.
October 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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realtuckfrumper.bsky.social
Is $140,000 the New Poverty Line for Americans?
www.vice.com
Is $140,000 the New Poverty Line for Americans?
twp.ai
December 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Trump's new National Security Strategy: what if groypers cosplayed George Kennan?
www.programmablemutter.com/p/america-ha...
America has identified its greatest enemy: Western Europe
Trump's new National Security Strategy: what if groypers cosplayed George Kennan?
www.programmablemutter.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
"The Trump administration’s vision of American greatness is making the country poorer, weaker, and meaner. The new strategy document will do its own little bit to accelerate that process."
December 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Volkswagen to invest $186 billion through 2030, CEO says reut.rs/4pnj62J
Volkswagen to invest $186 billion through 2030, CEO says
Volkswagen Group plans to invest 160 billion euros ($186 billion) through 2030, its CEO Oliver Blume said, reflecting belt-tightening as Europe's top automakers faces a major crisis in its two key markets, China and the United States.
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December 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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eddwilson.bsky.social
This "Driving test touts" story is a challenge to government.

If this government can't sort out a problem which has built up during the last "14 years", they and we are in big trouble.

Maybe the first vertebra in a backbone?

#R4Today
Driving test touts offer instructors £250 monthly kickbacks
Touts use instructor login details to bulk-book tests and sell them at a huge mark-up, the BBC finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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noelreports.com
62% of Americans want Ukraine to win the war against Russia, and 64% support continued US arms deliveries, up 9 points from last year. Support has grown in both parties: 59% of Republicans and 75% of Democrats back it, according to the latest Reagan Institute survey.
December 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Woman aggressively arrested after speaking out against AI data centers
www.alternet.org
Woman aggressively arrested after speaking out against AI data centers
twp.ai
December 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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noelreports.com
The US confirmed ongoing talks between Special Envoy for Peace Steven Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and Ukrainian officials Umerov and Gen. Andriy Hnatov. It was their sixth meeting in two weeks, focused on securing a just peace that protects Ukraine’s sovereignty and future.

Witkoff envoy for peace?
December 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM