Shmort
@shmort.bsky.social
20-something. Politics, football - let’s see what this is all about.
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loving all the things people come up with
November 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
loving all the things people come up with
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Keir Starmer: “Think about it- when was the last time Nigel Farage said something positive about Britain’s future? He can’t. He doesn’t like Britain. he wants to turn our proud country into a competition of victims. “
September 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Keir Starmer: “Think about it- when was the last time Nigel Farage said something positive about Britain’s future? He can’t. He doesn’t like Britain. he wants to turn our proud country into a competition of victims. “
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Dutch late night TV has its take
September 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Dutch late night TV has its take
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Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief
September 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief
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Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
OREM, UT—As law enforcement officials search for a person of interest in the assassination of 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, witnesses on the scene at Utah Valley University ad...
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September 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
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If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
September 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.
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A full circle moment for Eberechi Eze as he rejoins his boyhood club as Arsenal's new No.10.🔟
August 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A full circle moment for Eberechi Eze as he rejoins his boyhood club as Arsenal's new No.10.🔟
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I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.
June 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I need all of #lawsky to see this video from a Colorado appeals court livestream yesterday. I am in actual tears. Sound *incredibly* on, the subtitles will not help.
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Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
Breaking News: Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller who is running for mayor, was detained by ICE agents at an immigration court as he tried to escort a migrant out of the courthouse to prevent his arrest. nyti.ms/4jWkANE
June 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
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FULL clip of agents throwing Sen. Alex Padilla to the ground and handcuffing him.
Officers threw him and held him to the ground even while he is seen as not resisting.
Footage from Sen. Padilla’s staff
Officers threw him and held him to the ground even while he is seen as not resisting.
Footage from Sen. Padilla’s staff
June 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
FULL clip of agents throwing Sen. Alex Padilla to the ground and handcuffing him.
Officers threw him and held him to the ground even while he is seen as not resisting.
Footage from Sen. Padilla’s staff
Officers threw him and held him to the ground even while he is seen as not resisting.
Footage from Sen. Padilla’s staff
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12 June 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Anne Frank, was born in Frankfurt.
In 1942 on her 13th birthday she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)
In 1942 on her 13th birthday she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)
June 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
12 June 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Anne Frank, was born in Frankfurt.
In 1942 on her 13th birthday she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)
In 1942 on her 13th birthday she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)
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The problem with that "First they came for" poem is it makes a lot of unlikely assumptions. For example it assumes they would ever come for me
March 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The problem with that "First they came for" poem is it makes a lot of unlikely assumptions. For example it assumes they would ever come for me
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Arsenal have held their opponents to 0.3 xG or below in seven games this season. They've averaged 1.61 xG in those games.
They've won three of them and drawn the rest.
Sometimes it isn't your year.
They've won three of them and drawn the rest.
Sometimes it isn't your year.
April 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Arsenal have held their opponents to 0.3 xG or below in seven games this season. They've averaged 1.61 xG in those games.
They've won three of them and drawn the rest.
Sometimes it isn't your year.
They've won three of them and drawn the rest.
Sometimes it isn't your year.
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Oh my God, I just had a full night’s sleep and Cory Booker is still going…
www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...
www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...
LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
YouTube video by Associated Press
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April 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Oh my God, I just had a full night’s sleep and Cory Booker is still going…
www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...
www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...
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Some figures in this SEND investigation are mind-boggling:
- Private companies charging councils £350k a year to provide for one child
- Total local government spend on private SEND provision has risen 300% in 8 yrs
- Children taking 4hr taxi journeys to receive care
A system totally broken
- Private companies charging councils £350k a year to provide for one child
- Total local government spend on private SEND provision has risen 300% in 8 yrs
- Children taking 4hr taxi journeys to receive care
A system totally broken
Inside The Special Educational Needs Crisis Forcing Councils Into Bankruptcy
A dramatic increase in children judged to have special educational needs has created another dysfunctional market driving councils into insolvency,...
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March 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Some figures in this SEND investigation are mind-boggling:
- Private companies charging councils £350k a year to provide for one child
- Total local government spend on private SEND provision has risen 300% in 8 yrs
- Children taking 4hr taxi journeys to receive care
A system totally broken
- Private companies charging councils £350k a year to provide for one child
- Total local government spend on private SEND provision has risen 300% in 8 yrs
- Children taking 4hr taxi journeys to receive care
A system totally broken
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Reeling from learning today that hippopotamuses have 2% body fat. Every hippo you've ever seen has been absolutely jacked
March 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Reeling from learning today that hippopotamuses have 2% body fat. Every hippo you've ever seen has been absolutely jacked
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I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.
February 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.
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quite simply we need to stop pretending there is any salvaging US foreign policy
start assuming they are at best an uncaring neutral party, at worst actively opposed
recognize we are at war, rearm across Europe, give the Ukrainians everything they need to keep the beast from our door
start assuming they are at best an uncaring neutral party, at worst actively opposed
recognize we are at war, rearm across Europe, give the Ukrainians everything they need to keep the beast from our door
February 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
quite simply we need to stop pretending there is any salvaging US foreign policy
start assuming they are at best an uncaring neutral party, at worst actively opposed
recognize we are at war, rearm across Europe, give the Ukrainians everything they need to keep the beast from our door
start assuming they are at best an uncaring neutral party, at worst actively opposed
recognize we are at war, rearm across Europe, give the Ukrainians everything they need to keep the beast from our door
I was filling some gaps between bricks with mortar the other day. A bloke stopped and was looking at me, disgusted.
“What’s the matter?” I said.
He replied “Don’t you know it’s rude to point?”
“What’s the matter?” I said.
He replied “Don’t you know it’s rude to point?”
February 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I was filling some gaps between bricks with mortar the other day. A bloke stopped and was looking at me, disgusted.
“What’s the matter?” I said.
He replied “Don’t you know it’s rude to point?”
“What’s the matter?” I said.
He replied “Don’t you know it’s rude to point?”
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this just in from new york city: we’re hearing that eric adams just signed an executive order making it illegal to NOT stand at your window and fold your arms and say “wow, it’s really coming down out there”
January 6, 2024 at 9:56 PM
this just in from new york city: we’re hearing that eric adams just signed an executive order making it illegal to NOT stand at your window and fold your arms and say “wow, it’s really coming down out there”
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I agree wholeheartedly.
December 25, 2024 at 3:04 PM
I agree wholeheartedly.
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Dear Santa,
You didn’t get me the thesaurus I asked for and now I’m mad. You made me really mad. I’m mad at you
You didn’t get me the thesaurus I asked for and now I’m mad. You made me really mad. I’m mad at you
December 25, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Dear Santa,
You didn’t get me the thesaurus I asked for and now I’m mad. You made me really mad. I’m mad at you
You didn’t get me the thesaurus I asked for and now I’m mad. You made me really mad. I’m mad at you
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your true love gave you eight maids a milking? cool. just one question. what the fuck are you talking about
December 14, 2024 at 3:58 PM
your true love gave you eight maids a milking? cool. just one question. what the fuck are you talking about