Mccrackers
@vehasrez.bsky.social
Father, husband, social worker = tired.
Interests include history, fantasy, and painting toy soldiers.
Interests include history, fantasy, and painting toy soldiers.
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April 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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International tourism is worth $200 billion every year to the US economy.
Sorry, *was.
Sorry, *was.
March 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
International tourism is worth $200 billion every year to the US economy.
Sorry, *was.
Sorry, *was.
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Some international visitors to the USA are experiencing more intense screening upon arrival at airports and border crossings, including a review of social media activity for anti-Trump messaging.
Mine earlier today with Vanessa Feltz on @lbc.co.uk
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/869317...
Mine earlier today with Vanessa Feltz on @lbc.co.uk
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/869317...
March 22, 2025 - International travelers warned of screening for "anti-Trump" viewpoints at U.S. airports
Simon's live update for Vanessa Feltz's Saturday afternoon programme on the UK's LBC.
audioboom.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Some international visitors to the USA are experiencing more intense screening upon arrival at airports and border crossings, including a review of social media activity for anti-Trump messaging.
Mine earlier today with Vanessa Feltz on @lbc.co.uk
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/869317...
Mine earlier today with Vanessa Feltz on @lbc.co.uk
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/869317...
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Peter Osborne, Reform UK local election candidate for Hythe West. We’ve got a mixture of racism and misogyny from this one. Seriously, where is your vetting Reform Uk?
March 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Peter Osborne, Reform UK local election candidate for Hythe West. We’ve got a mixture of racism and misogyny from this one. Seriously, where is your vetting Reform Uk?
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This is a shocking thread even by Reform UK standards
Peter Osborne, Reform UK local election candidate for Hythe West. We’ve got a mixture of racism and misogyny from this one. Seriously, where is your vetting Reform Uk?
March 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
This is a shocking thread even by Reform UK standards
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So uh... how exactly is America going to host the World Cup next year with all these travel and immigration restrictions?
March 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
So uh... how exactly is America going to host the World Cup next year with all these travel and immigration restrictions?
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US ‘deletes evidence’ of Russia’s kidnap of thousands of Ukrainian children
US ‘deletes evidence’ of Russia’s kidnap of thousands of Ukrainian children
Researchers at Yale University had been compiling database of alleged Russian war crimes, including abduction of up to 35,000 children
www.independent.co.uk
March 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
US ‘deletes evidence’ of Russia’s kidnap of thousands of Ukrainian children
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The US government is currently providing more armed support to the DOGE apparatchiks taking over the American Peace Institute and the federal museums and libraries service, than they are offering to Ukraine.
March 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The US government is currently providing more armed support to the DOGE apparatchiks taking over the American Peace Institute and the federal museums and libraries service, than they are offering to Ukraine.
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😔 Trump’s tariffs: a looming disaster?
Trump’s second term begins with tariff threats, but despite his enthusiasm, they pose a real threat to the US economy
By Andy Brown
@andybrown1951.bsky.social
Trump’s second term begins with tariff threats, but despite his enthusiasm, they pose a real threat to the US economy
By Andy Brown
@andybrown1951.bsky.social
Trump’s tariffs: a looming disaster?
Trump’s second term begins with tariff threats, but despite his enthusiasm, they pose a real threat to the US economy
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
March 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
😔 Trump’s tariffs: a looming disaster?
Trump’s second term begins with tariff threats, but despite his enthusiasm, they pose a real threat to the US economy
By Andy Brown
@andybrown1951.bsky.social
Trump’s second term begins with tariff threats, but despite his enthusiasm, they pose a real threat to the US economy
By Andy Brown
@andybrown1951.bsky.social
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NEW: The specialist unit searching for Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia has been AXED by Elon Musk.
Just when you think he can’t stoop lower.
19,500 children have been stolen from Ukraine & sent to Russia. The unit at Yale had already rescued 100s - but its funding has now been halted.
Just when you think he can’t stoop lower.
19,500 children have been stolen from Ukraine & sent to Russia. The unit at Yale had already rescued 100s - but its funding has now been halted.
Musk cuts the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by Russia
Trump’s federal cost-cutting - led by Elon Musk's Doge – has now hit the unit helping rescue Ukrainian children taken by Russia
inews.co.uk
March 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
NEW: The specialist unit searching for Ukrainian children kidnapped by Russia has been AXED by Elon Musk.
Just when you think he can’t stoop lower.
19,500 children have been stolen from Ukraine & sent to Russia. The unit at Yale had already rescued 100s - but its funding has now been halted.
Just when you think he can’t stoop lower.
19,500 children have been stolen from Ukraine & sent to Russia. The unit at Yale had already rescued 100s - but its funding has now been halted.
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Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
March 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
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Ukraine has agreed to a ceasefire without preconditions. Russia hasn't. That's the story.
March 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Ukraine has agreed to a ceasefire without preconditions. Russia hasn't. That's the story.
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Welcome to Donald Trump’s America, where First Amendment lawyers find themselves compelled to advise people that they have no First Amendment rights.
I don’t think I’m going to be sleeping very well for *checks notes* the rest of this administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...
March 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Welcome to Donald Trump’s America, where First Amendment lawyers find themselves compelled to advise people that they have no First Amendment rights.
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I see Chris Philp is now repeating Matt Goodwin's deliberate lie.
The correct figure is 17%, and most of those are long-standing residents (and in many cases will have British spouses/children).
The correct figure is 17%, and most of those are long-standing residents (and in many cases will have British spouses/children).
March 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I see Chris Philp is now repeating Matt Goodwin's deliberate lie.
The correct figure is 17%, and most of those are long-standing residents (and in many cases will have British spouses/children).
The correct figure is 17%, and most of those are long-standing residents (and in many cases will have British spouses/children).
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Permission to laugh
March 11, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Permission to laugh
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It's official: The lunatics are now running the asylum.
March 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It's official: The lunatics are now running the asylum.
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
6
HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
7
HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
11
HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
12
HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm@jpeg)
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They should go on strike for better terms & conditions. I’m sure all the right-wing gobshites clutching their pearls about VAT will be right behind them…
Private school teachers say they are taking second jobs because schools are using the introduction of VAT on school fees to freeze salaries, according to a survey by the biggest teaching union ⬇️
Private school teachers take second jobs as VAT on fees bites
www.thetimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
They should go on strike for better terms & conditions. I’m sure all the right-wing gobshites clutching their pearls about VAT will be right behind them…
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🚨🚨 In not totally unsurprising news, the United States has been added to the Civicus Monitor Watchlist, which identifies countries that the global civil rights watchdog believes are currently experiencing a rapid decline in civic freedoms. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms
Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
🚨🚨 In not totally unsurprising news, the United States has been added to the Civicus Monitor Watchlist, which identifies countries that the global civil rights watchdog believes are currently experiencing a rapid decline in civic freedoms. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Journalist, "Is Putin disrespecting you by attacking Ukraine?"
Trump, "Who?"
J, "'Putin"
Trump, "What did he do?"
Jt, "Attacked Ukraine"
Trump, "Is he disrespecting me?"
J, "Yes"
Trump, "Who are you with?"
J, "Washington Post"
Trump, "You've lost credibility"
Trump, "Who?"
J, "'Putin"
Trump, "What did he do?"
Jt, "Attacked Ukraine"
Trump, "Is he disrespecting me?"
J, "Yes"
Trump, "Who are you with?"
J, "Washington Post"
Trump, "You've lost credibility"
March 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Journalist, "Is Putin disrespecting you by attacking Ukraine?"
Trump, "Who?"
J, "'Putin"
Trump, "What did he do?"
Jt, "Attacked Ukraine"
Trump, "Is he disrespecting me?"
J, "Yes"
Trump, "Who are you with?"
J, "Washington Post"
Trump, "You've lost credibility"
Trump, "Who?"
J, "'Putin"
Trump, "What did he do?"
Jt, "Attacked Ukraine"
Trump, "Is he disrespecting me?"
J, "Yes"
Trump, "Who are you with?"
J, "Washington Post"
Trump, "You've lost credibility"
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Fancy that, eh.
No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils
Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
No exodus to state sector after VAT added to private school fees, say English councils
Most say they have seen no impact on applications for year 7 places, despite warnings from those against policy
www.theguardian.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Fancy that, eh.