Craig Balnave
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Craig Balnave
@cbalzaretti.bsky.social
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Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.

List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
September 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
September 18, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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in Disney’s next Marvel film the hero won’t criticise the villain or even stand up to them
September 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
www.yahoo.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Unprecedented, wildly illegal & unconstitutional corruption, happening in broad daylight. Things that would have immediately ended any presidency from Truman to Obama. All for this One Special Boy, because nothing matters anymore.

A Republic. If you can keep it.
Ah- Trump is apparently going to be the guest of “Rolex, the Swiss watchmaker which may be looking to curry favor with Trump during his visit to their luxury suite in hopes of lowering the high tariffs he has imposed on imports from Switzerland.”
What the actual fuck.

US Tennis Association: “We ask all broadcasters to refrain from showcasing any disruptions or reactions in response to the President’s attendance in any capacity, including ENG [Electronic News Gathering] coverage.”
September 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.
Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."
September 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Among other things: Christian, who has been in government for 14 out of the last 15 years, and how many of the major decisions they made did you support?
August 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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The standout madness in the general madness are the enormous tariffs on South East Asia which, if these stick, is going to magnify China's sphere of influence. Geopolitical lunacy.
April 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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it’s so funny to be like “we don’t need diverse spies”
The CIA has moved to dismiss an unspecified number of officers who were working on recruiting and diversity issues, according to former officials, in what would be one of the largest mass firings in the agency’s history.
The C.I.A. Is Planning Its Largest Mass Firing in Nearly 50 Years
The possible purge of officers working on recruiting and diversity comes as the agency moves to comply with the spirit of an executive order banning efforts to diversify the federal work force.
www.nytimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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Delicious
December 1, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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There it is
November 15, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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Whether it works will depend on whether there are even homeopathic levels of shame left in the Republican party.
November 15, 2024 at 10:58 PM
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Quite embarrassing that the National Team of the National Sport isn’t available to watch on linear television.

A cheap YouTube stream with poor bitrate with commentary only and no presentation or punditry is an embarrassment in this day and age.
November 13, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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I haven't seen a single "we have to understand the concerns of Trump voters" take reckons with the fact that a huge percentage of their concerns are based on false information. You cannot "address" a concern about a fake thing!
This is how I feel discussing inflation.
MAGA person: Biden doesn't care about bread and butter issues like inflation.
Me: He signed the Inflation Reduction Act and we have lowest inflation among OECD.
MAGA person: But what about inflation?!
November 7, 2024 at 11:06 PM
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NEWS! ”Fascism, please” confirms America
”Fascism, please” confirms America
America has looked at the options of either a woman of colour or a felonious fascist and opted for the fascist, it has emerged this morning.
buff.ly
November 6, 2024 at 2:58 PM
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oh NOW you can say this?
November 6, 2024 at 1:13 PM
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they actually LIKE that he’s a cunt, because they think he’s just going to be a cunt to *other* people
This time it cannot be that they don't know that he's a c*nt. This time it must be that they don't care that he's a c*nt.
November 6, 2024 at 7:45 AM
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I'm sorry but I don't think you can do "oh the Dems didn't talk about this one issue I love so that's why they lost" in *this* election, democracy was and is on the line, Trump is a horrible man who ran a horrible campaign, sometimes you have to just face the reality of the electorate being awful
November 6, 2024 at 6:09 AM
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The FT editorial board on the US election: "This is no apple-to-apple comparison. This is an election in which one candidate accepts the US constitutional order. The other wants to overturn it."
America’s fateful choice between Trump and Harris
The Democratic candidate stands for continuity of the values that underpin US prosperity
www.ft.com
November 1, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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I started a Twitter account for London Centric and it doesn’t follow anyone and this is the content it was served by default last week. It’s a long way from when you’d get NBA players and Stephen Fry stuck in a lift.
October 29, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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This is, unfortunately, real — Danielle Allen of Harvard, who has thought a lot about ethics and democracy
October 28, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM
October 26, 2024 at 10:50 PM