irksome.bsky.social
@irksome.bsky.social
No dm please
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December 8, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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This is why I’m cautiously optimistic — in the long run.
December 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation.

In public ownership that would have gone into infrastructure, lower bills.

Privatisation delivered low investment, high bills, no tax on dividends to foreign investors.

No end to nightmare without public ownership.
UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation
Analysis reveals ‘privatisation premium’ of £250 per household per year paid to owners of water, rail, bus, energy and mail services since 2010
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Follow up: it doesn’t say it’s illegal to fire on incapacitated shipwrecked. It just says it’s illegal to fire on the shipwrecked. Where’d you get “incapacitated” and why are you such an asshole?
Q: "The Pentagon's Law of War manual…says 'Orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.' Given that, how was that follow up strike on the two survivors legal?"

Tom Cotton: "They were not incapacitated… They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat."
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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The most depressing lesson of the Trump era is that scandals don’t matter if the perpetrator and their supporters don’t feel shame.

Shamelessness is now a political superpower.
December 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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You can be the most loving, compassionate person in the world... but... if you’re not actively guarding your mind...you will become desensitized to human suffering...in ways that are far beyond what you would ever consider acceptable.
They’re not hiding the brutality anymore.
They want you to see it.
They want you to get used to it.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Last night something happened in the community chat that stopped me in the quiet way made me feel less alone for a second.
You Are Why I Do This
I love you too.
www.thegodpodcast.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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"Organisations including Samaritans, Mind, Centre for Mental Health and the Royal College of Psychiatrists have written to the equalities minister, Bridget Phillipson, to express their “deep concern” about guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Rules on single-sex spaces pose risk to trans people’s mental health, UK charities say
Fifteen organisations sign letter expressing deep concern over EHRC guidance being considered by ministers
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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Tom Cotton would not even be in Congress, were it not for the huge defense contractors supporting him from the beginning and keeping him flush with cash.
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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This is disgusting. There’s nothing clever or patriotic about it. It’s cruel, it’s un American, and it tells you everything you need to know about the people who think this is acceptable.
The president of the United States’ son
December 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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I just want to let Sean Duffy know that I didn’t dress up for my flight today. Yoga pants. Tank. Slippies. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
December 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Please do not take medical advice from this administration. Listen to the actual experts.
Kressly: So let’s talk about the contagiousness of hepatitis B. It can live on surfaces, and it can be spread through touch—from someone who is shedding the virus to someone else.

So when we’re in situations where we can’t know 100% who is at risk, the right answer is to protect everyone.
December 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Great from @roberthutton.co.uk on the Truss clown-car, as she repeatedly drives it into the wall of shame.
This time with her own YouTube show. Most of us would have tired of the indelible humiliation by now. Not Liz.

liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/408...
December 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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December 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Biden: So, folks, that's my message to all of us today, to all who love our country, to all of us are dismayed by the present state of the union: it's time to get up, get up and fight back. Get up. Continue to fight. What's the fight all about? Protecting the constitution.
December 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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WATCH: “What kind of boat was it, a canoe? 🛶 The whole thing is so ridiculous. They’re just killing people. It’s extrajudicial murder off the coast of Venezuela, full stop.”

@timmiller.bsky.social & Tommy shred🔥 @SenTomCotton’s explanation

Full @thebulwark.com ep: youtu.be/wC8f8Vjx8SU?...
December 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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I don't know how Sen/Dr Cassidy can stand himself.
He chose death over life for Americans when he voted to confirm Kennedy.
Cassidy could have stopped Kennedy but made the cynical choice to kill Americans, even infants, instead.
December 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave.

www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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41 minutes of watching two shipwrecked men trying to flip a boat and signaling for surrender/help before firing on them again reminds me of the 9.5 minutes Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd’s neck, in that it’s an agonizingly long time to be killing helpless people who clearly posed no threat.
December 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Just sayin’, Bernie is 83. He has never fallen asleep in public.
December 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?

TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded

BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
December 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Typical CEO In Chumplandia......
December 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM