SteveM
@scmatthews.bsky.social
Follower of politics. Deep dislike of the current iteration of the Tories. Cricket and Rugby lover.
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I wrote this yesterday. This is how predictable you are
September 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I wrote this yesterday. This is how predictable you are
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*DOG: “You're finally back! I missed you so much!!”
September 3, 2025 at 12:29 AM
*DOG: “You're finally back! I missed you so much!!”
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Meanwhile over on X.
September 3, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Meanwhile over on X.
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Well that's basically the point isn't it?
Who is he talking about?
I believe he is referring to 'unsuccessful asylum applicants', those in review/appeal on their claim and/or ppl he personally doesn't believe are refugees.
But actually none of those are illegal.
The 'illegals' aren't in hotels.
Who is he talking about?
I believe he is referring to 'unsuccessful asylum applicants', those in review/appeal on their claim and/or ppl he personally doesn't believe are refugees.
But actually none of those are illegal.
The 'illegals' aren't in hotels.
August 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Well that's basically the point isn't it?
Who is he talking about?
I believe he is referring to 'unsuccessful asylum applicants', those in review/appeal on their claim and/or ppl he personally doesn't believe are refugees.
But actually none of those are illegal.
The 'illegals' aren't in hotels.
Who is he talking about?
I believe he is referring to 'unsuccessful asylum applicants', those in review/appeal on their claim and/or ppl he personally doesn't believe are refugees.
But actually none of those are illegal.
The 'illegals' aren't in hotels.
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Benny Johnson, a right-wing podcaster, is among the new media figures who enjoy rare access to the Trump administration in exchange for their promotion of the White House’s agenda to millions of online followers. He stands out for his record of plagiarism and promoting false claims. nyti.ms/4gb5yn1
August 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Benny Johnson, a right-wing podcaster, is among the new media figures who enjoy rare access to the Trump administration in exchange for their promotion of the White House’s agenda to millions of online followers. He stands out for his record of plagiarism and promoting false claims. nyti.ms/4gb5yn1
This is what Reform want to do to the UK. The Tories, the same. Someone in the Labour Party needs to wake up and find their minerals, before it’s too late. Their current strategy is playing right into the hands of fascists like Jenprick, and Fartrage.
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the immigrant who was wrongfully expelled to El Salvador in March and then brought back to face criminal charges, was detained again on Monday after the Trump administration indicated that it planned to re-deport him to Uganda, his lawyer said. nyti.ms/4myTSgr
August 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
This is what Reform want to do to the UK. The Tories, the same. Someone in the Labour Party needs to wake up and find their minerals, before it’s too late. Their current strategy is playing right into the hands of fascists like Jenprick, and Fartrage.
America stopped being “a free country” the second Trump won the 2024 election.
August 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
America stopped being “a free country” the second Trump won the 2024 election.
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A landlord turned off Tenant Client's family's heat upon learning Client was an immigrant.
Landlord hired three different law firms to argue this was legal, then fired each one after they couldn't get our case dismissed.
This week, landlord settled for enough that Client will buy a house.
Landlord hired three different law firms to argue this was legal, then fired each one after they couldn't get our case dismissed.
This week, landlord settled for enough that Client will buy a house.
Tell me something that brought you joy this week.
Any old thing will do. Small joys are as good as big ones—sometimes even better.
Any old thing will do. Small joys are as good as big ones—sometimes even better.
August 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
A landlord turned off Tenant Client's family's heat upon learning Client was an immigrant.
Landlord hired three different law firms to argue this was legal, then fired each one after they couldn't get our case dismissed.
This week, landlord settled for enough that Client will buy a house.
Landlord hired three different law firms to argue this was legal, then fired each one after they couldn't get our case dismissed.
This week, landlord settled for enough that Client will buy a house.
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If there are kids in your life, do the world a favor, hug em a lot. Then, give them books about things they’re interested in
Too many people wandering around who very clearly did not get enough hugs as children, and never read a book in their damn lives.
Too many people wandering around who very clearly did not get enough hugs as children, and never read a book in their damn lives.
August 17, 2025 at 10:51 AM
If there are kids in your life, do the world a favor, hug em a lot. Then, give them books about things they’re interested in
Too many people wandering around who very clearly did not get enough hugs as children, and never read a book in their damn lives.
Too many people wandering around who very clearly did not get enough hugs as children, and never read a book in their damn lives.
Sky Arts is a fab channel on Sky. Just run a show on the life of Steve McQueen - airbrushed of course - and now running the Great Escape. Coinciding with me finishing a Chicken Parmigiana, and half way through a wonderful bottle of Merlot. A happy Sunday night bunny, indeed.
August 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Sky Arts is a fab channel on Sky. Just run a show on the life of Steve McQueen - airbrushed of course - and now running the Great Escape. Coinciding with me finishing a Chicken Parmigiana, and half way through a wonderful bottle of Merlot. A happy Sunday night bunny, indeed.
All of this.
This short Twitter exchange illustrates perfectly just how far the Tories have fallen compared to even a few years ago...
August 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
All of this.
I’m now wondering who Erasmus is going to blame for his team having their pants pulled down, in such wonderously spectacular fashion today? Australia were fantastic in that last quarter. They are really going to miss Joe Schmidt. #RSAvAUS
August 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I’m now wondering who Erasmus is going to blame for his team having their pants pulled down, in such wonderously spectacular fashion today? Australia were fantastic in that last quarter. They are really going to miss Joe Schmidt. #RSAvAUS
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Just going to reiterate that in 2016 Trump inherited the lowest murder rate of any president in 50 years. He set reality aside, gave his “American Carnage” inaugural address, and was then the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher murder rate than when he started.
...Voters really, really care about controlling immigration and crime. They just do. And if voters don’t think Democrats will take those issues seriously, they elect a garbage human like Trump who will seize the opportunity to expand his own power.
August 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Just going to reiterate that in 2016 Trump inherited the lowest murder rate of any president in 50 years. He set reality aside, gave his “American Carnage” inaugural address, and was then the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher murder rate than when he started.
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We can no longer say, "This isn't who we are," because this IS who we are. 😞
As the United States becomes more brazenly corrupt, we have reached the stage where meetings to plan cover-ups of crimes are not done in secret, but are announced, and are not done in remote parking decks, but at the Vice President's home.
August 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
We can no longer say, "This isn't who we are," because this IS who we are. 😞
Andy Farrell should be grateful he came up against a coach who approached this series as a warm-up for the Rugby Championship, rather than a massive event in isolation. Lions were underwhelming for huge swathes of this 6 weeks.
August 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Andy Farrell should be grateful he came up against a coach who approached this series as a warm-up for the Rugby Championship, rather than a massive event in isolation. Lions were underwhelming for huge swathes of this 6 weeks.
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He's a genius just like trumpf.
August 2, 2025 at 2:59 AM
He's a genius just like trumpf.
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Bless this family. I just wrote about monster Ghislaine Maxwell and Virginia Giuffre and her family (bless them) in my new Democracy essay (with a couple shots fired). Also linked to @macfarlanenews.bsky.social's sensitive work on this tragedy.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democracy-th...
www.mississippifreepress.org/democracy-th...
August 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Bless this family. I just wrote about monster Ghislaine Maxwell and Virginia Giuffre and her family (bless them) in my new Democracy essay (with a couple shots fired). Also linked to @macfarlanenews.bsky.social's sensitive work on this tragedy.
www.mississippifreepress.org/democracy-th...
www.mississippifreepress.org/democracy-th...
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Former Tory MP Adam Holloway has defected to Reform. As someone who 'mistakenly' overclaimed £1,000 on expenses, defended an MP who sexually assaulted a 15 year old and tried to influence a judge over another MP charged with sexual assault, he should fit in perfectly.
August 2, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Former Tory MP Adam Holloway has defected to Reform. As someone who 'mistakenly' overclaimed £1,000 on expenses, defended an MP who sexually assaulted a 15 year old and tried to influence a judge over another MP charged with sexual assault, he should fit in perfectly.
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In a bold jounalistic move, the Daily Mail has paid an unemployed scarecrow a small fortune to write irrelevant drivel.
August 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
In a bold jounalistic move, the Daily Mail has paid an unemployed scarecrow a small fortune to write irrelevant drivel.
Far easier to heap further misery on the disabled and unemployed, obviously. This isn’t, in any way, a legitimate Labour government. It’s Tory lite, even less Labour than the Blair Rich project.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has appeared to rule out a wealth tax, suggesting that levies on private jets and second homes, as well as increased capital gains tax, had already made those with the “broadest shoulders” pay enough
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Rachel Reeves rules out wealth tax: People have paid enough
Rachel Reeves has faced calls from her party to tax property and savings, but says she has to ‘get the balance right’ to attract jobs and investment to the UK
www.thetimes.com
August 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Far easier to heap further misery on the disabled and unemployed, obviously. This isn’t, in any way, a legitimate Labour government. It’s Tory lite, even less Labour than the Blair Rich project.
To the pundits on Sky. It’s LIVING WITH LIONS, there is no “The” in the title of that iconic DVD.
To Will Greenwood, Martin Johnson didn’t get stitched up without anaesthesia, as clearly shown on that iconic LIVING WITH LIONS DVD.
Here Endeth today’s lesson. 😂😂
To Will Greenwood, Martin Johnson didn’t get stitched up without anaesthesia, as clearly shown on that iconic LIVING WITH LIONS DVD.
Here Endeth today’s lesson. 😂😂
August 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
To the pundits on Sky. It’s LIVING WITH LIONS, there is no “The” in the title of that iconic DVD.
To Will Greenwood, Martin Johnson didn’t get stitched up without anaesthesia, as clearly shown on that iconic LIVING WITH LIONS DVD.
Here Endeth today’s lesson. 😂😂
To Will Greenwood, Martin Johnson didn’t get stitched up without anaesthesia, as clearly shown on that iconic LIVING WITH LIONS DVD.
Here Endeth today’s lesson. 😂😂
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I appreciate this and it reminded me how how many role models young white men could have if they learned to think of guys like this instead of billionaires and movie stars as the prototype
My Life in Protest From Vietnam to No Kings
I was 17 at my first protest. Now I’m 77 and still taking to the streets.
nymag.com
July 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I appreciate this and it reminded me how how many role models young white men could have if they learned to think of guys like this instead of billionaires and movie stars as the prototype
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Look, you can say a lot about Hogan's legacy: he was racist, he was terrible to his colleagues, he put himself above other people, he firmly believed in the supremacy of white people, he was a bad wrestler, his life was a net negative for society.
That's it. That's the post.
That's it. That's the post.
July 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Look, you can say a lot about Hogan's legacy: he was racist, he was terrible to his colleagues, he put himself above other people, he firmly believed in the supremacy of white people, he was a bad wrestler, his life was a net negative for society.
That's it. That's the post.
That's it. That's the post.