Rob Fitzgerald

Rob Fitzgerald

@robfitzgerald.bsky.social

🇮🇪 🇪🇺 Button clicker. Oligarchy is bad. Слава Україні!

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1/ Donald Trump's interview with Newsmax yesterday shows very clearly that he subscribes to many false Russian-originated claims and conspiracy theories about the war in Ukraine and has a strong personal dislike of President Zelenskyy. Here's a full transcript:

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wife: honey, can you read to the baby? husband: grok, do a vulgar roast of the baby grok: hello baby, your mind is not fully developed yet husband: no, more vulgar, use a gilbert gottfried voice

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Putin claims Russia allegedly has no plans to fight Europe, Baltics included, but says Russian speakers’ rights are violated in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Moscow knows how to respond under "international law". But he seems to forget he said the same about Ukraine before the aggression.

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really enjoyed the NY Times profile of the latest submissive blonde whose energy will be fed to the golden throne that keeps our decaying pedophile emperor alive

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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞@jacktindale.bsky.social

I have checked what the Japanese media are saying and there seem to be competing names for the man. Some are going with ゴミ箱伯爵 (Gomibako Hakushaku - Count Trashcan) whilst others are using the katakana that you have for foreign loan-words and opting for ビンフェイス伯爵 (Binfeisu Hakushaku).

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THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

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They put one of yours in the hospital, you put out a statement about how disappointed you are. That’s the centrist way.

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"Do you regret your heated rhetoric?" "No. Do you regret your chilled rhetoric? Do you regret sitting on the sidelines as norms fell away and so many laws were broken? Do you regret pretending like this was all normal and you alone were savvy enough to see that Both Sides Are To Blame?"

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The thing about the right is, they want to be able to attack their opponents as if politics were an existential battle of good versus evil they are on the right side of, but demand to be treated by them as if politics were a good faith disagreement among gentlemen about optimising the tax code.

Andy Burnham Earnestness Enjoyer@jorisbinned.bsky.social

Sorry but it is genuinely creepy that this (engaged,36yearold) guy spends his time getting angry that Gen Z women are "intolerant" for not wanting to date someone who supports a sexually abusive, racist misogynist who is destroying the fucking world and making it more expensive to live as we speak

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What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

inquirer.comThe hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will BunchAn internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

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[watching curling] after 1 min: ugh this is dull 10 min: spin on that stone is off 30 mins: three in the house means nothing if your centre guard is ripe for a pick and roll 1 hour: SWEEP BITCH SWEEP

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As public opinion turns, reports from within Mount Doom suggest Orc Lieutenant Gothmog is to be relieved of command and withdrawn from Gondor back to Minas Morgul where he is expected to soon retire. Sauron hopes this ends the matter and the Fellowship will now go home and stop blowing whistles.

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Nick Miroff@nickmiroff.bsky.social

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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Replying to @pascallth.bsky.social

The position coming out of Washington today is that Greenland is critically exposed to threats from Russia and China And also that any other country that tries to improve Greenland's security will face tariffs

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If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Homan: "We gotta stop the hateful rhetoric. Saying this officer is a murderer is dangerous. It's just ridiculous. It's gonna infuriate people more which means there's gonna be more incidents like this."

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I HOPE YOU BOYS LIKE MEXICO. NEVERMIND. I MEAN PANAMA. WAIT. I MEAN GREENLAND. WAIT NO I MEAN TEHRAN. HOLD ON. VENEZUELA. FORGET THAT. NIGERIA. OH WAIT. TEHRAN AGAIN.

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Replying to @jpuglierin.bsky.social

PS: But in the NSS there is reason for „great optimism“ because the patriotic parties of Europe will save Europe. So don‘t you despair, my fellow European!

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Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."

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OTD in 2008 Georgia decided to invade itself before voluntarily moving its border away from Russia which remains peaceful country surrounded by ceasefires & special military operations proving western appeasement works.

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See also: 'At least the fascists got the trains running on time!' No they didn't, they just shot the people who pointed out they *weren't* running on time.

Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social

The President sees a bad jobs report, and responds by getting rid of the person in charge of the statistics. This is how America becomes a third-rate country.

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It’s a golden age for Cassandras.

Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social

My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good

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Restaurants are not always owned by evil corporations, they are more often owned by people who are in the process of making the worst financial decision of their life.

C.A. Pinkham@eyepatchguy.bsky.social

Restaurants are in fact one of the businesses statistically *least* likely to be owned by a giant evil corporation

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Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

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John: so it's agreed. We all lean heavily into the psychedelic movement. George: yeah, with strong Indian influences Ringo: and doggerel about groovy peaceful undersea adventures Paul: I want to write Oompah songs John: ... Paul: you know, brass band music that grandads like

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🧵 I argue that we can understand the functioning of democracy through 3 core ideals, verification, deliberation and accountability. While no democracy fully achieves those ideals, this thread explains how MAGA destroys all three and inevitably results in democratic regression into authoritarianism.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

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They were careless people, Elon and Donald. They smashed up things and people, and then retreated back into their money and their vast carelessness.