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The ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ near the end yesterday, when all was obviously lost, was particularly poignant #LFC #YNWA
November 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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The last frontier of empathy: why we still struggle to see ourselves as animals | Megan Mayhew Bergman
The last frontier of empathy: why we still struggle to see ourselves as animals | Megan Mayhew Bergman
Champions of exceptionalism say humans hold a unique moral status. Yet there’s only one species recklessly destroying the planet it needs to survive
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
‘Wine for my men. We ride just after dinner’ #LFC
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Sometimes way up on the steepest of mountain passes, above you in a very rare break in the clouds, the highest of peaks can occasionally be just glimpsed, dazzling, blinding white in the sunlight.

Primeval gods dwell up there.

And just sometimes they are called to Anfield….And they come.

#LFC
November 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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October 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Yep, it’s the food stamps.
October 24, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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#ICYMI: Among the citizens detained by immigration agents are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Stephen Miller's grim threat that Democratic officials could face arrest for "seditious conspiracy" if they try to hinder President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown was met with widespread backlash Friday night.
'We’re going down the rabbit hole’: Stephen Miller’s dark new threat stuns experts
Stephen Miller's grim threat that Democratic officials could face arrest for "seditious conspiracy" if they try to hinder President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown was met with widespread backlash Friday night.During a conversation with Fox News host Will Cain, Miller threatened that any offici...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Sad to see Rhoda Dakar has had to cancel her Scottish tour - non mainstream artists have more and more of a battle to sell tickets - our world is becoming banal and tediously fascistic (because that has the simplicity of lazy thinking)
October 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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October 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Only a few tickets left for Winchester show in Monday

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ice-cream-...
Ice Cream For a Broken Tooth: readings with Robin Ince
Robin Ince reads from his debut poetry collection. As part of Winchester Poetry Festival 2025.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Judging by their speeches, neither Trump nor Hegseth has paid the slightest attention to how actual wars are being fought in the actual world. The “war fighting” and “lethality” they plan is inside their own country and comes from conflicts inside their own minds.
September 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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“I’m really good at this stuff.* Your countries are going to hell.”

— President tRump, speaking the United Nations.

*Except for pronouncing "Acetaminophen"
September 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Genocide is Genocide..
September 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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September 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Everything is worse under Trump.
September 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Florida going for a statewide Darwin Award.
September 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch.

Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
September 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
#LFC have put a deal sheet in for Guehi, which gives them until 9pm to get all the signed paperwork in
September 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM