David P. Carey
@dpcarey123.bsky.social
Neuropsychologist working at Bangor university. Perplexed by marketisation of universities, Brexit, Farage, Trump and neoliberals in general.
Breaking exclusive: New images obtained from a service member show the real truth about what happened in Kuwait: Iranian strikes destroyed America's base. Meanwhile, Trump just banned CNN, Politico, and MS Now from the White House, and the Pentagon is lying about the true death toll from Iran.
Major Update: Exclusive Videos Expose Army Base Destruction as Trump Bans Major Media Companies and Buries the Real Death Toll
Good afternoon.
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I watch Canada ( and now potentially Australia ) getting closer to the EU, and I weep. We’ve cut ourselves off, we’re billions £ poorer as a result, we’re struggling and our government seems impotent or ignorant of fixing it. Start with rejoining trading agreements we lost. At least that please.
Byline Times@bylinetimes.bsky.social · 2d ago🔴 NEW Why Canada Could End Up With a Better Deal With the EU Than the UK By Alexandra Hall Hall Read below. ↓
Boykin: The Republicans control the entire government. They control the white house. They control the house. They control the senate. They control six of the nine seats on the supreme court. If you're not happy with the way the country is running America, blame the Republicans.
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk says 'consistent and convincing' intelligence suggests Russia planning hybrid strikes against Ukraine's allies. American intelligence corroborates that of their European allies. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Poland warns Russia planning ‘hybrid strikes’ against countries supporting Ukraine – as it happened
Donald Tusk says ‘very consistent and convincing’ intelligence assessment point towards Russian plans for strikes
theguardian.com
Mark Carney and his creative approach provide inspiration not merely for the EU, but also for the UK. Andy Burnham is well advised to follow in Carney's footsteps. He'll also find that standing up to Trump will do wonders for his numbers at home. www.ft.com/content/c70c...
On the EU, let Canada and Odysseus inspire Burnham
This wily prime minister can find a way to take advantage of new possibilities for a ring of outer nations
ft.com
🚨BREAKING: A group of pro-voting and civil rights organizations is asking a federal court to prevent the Trump administration from using federal law enforcement to intimidate voters during the midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Pro-voting groups sue to prevent Trump admin from sending federal agents to intimidate voters
The administration's "conduct has transformed voting and voting-related activities—ordinary acts of civic participation—into sources of anxiety, uncertainty, and fear," plaintiffs say.
democracydocket.com
Instead of debating “should we do what Canada is doing” (which is, so far, unclear), the debate could be: “how has the world changed that the EU and Canada are considering this, and how do we want to deal with this situation?“ Just a suggestion.
The Attorney General of the United States, working overtime to ensure that justice is subverted.
Todd Blanche swore an oath to defend and protect the Constitution and laws of the U.S., and not an oath of fealty to Trump. Todd Blanche repeatedly violates his oath of office. He needs to be disbarred.
Talk about a dream 😍 In conversation with Margaret Atwood at our shared alma mater, Victoria University, on October 20
His dad definitely paid someone to take his SATs.
It is the year 2028. JD Vance is polling 73 points behind AOC and her running mate, an AI of Karl Marx’s Collected Works. Gasoline costs 95 RMB a litre in New San Francisco. President Trump is live-streaming a bathroom remodel.
This is the name and face Republicans want on money, on airports, on Mount Rushmore
That's a load of crap. Trump only thinks in terms of winners and losers.
I hope this has the same effect that Trump trying to squash Jimmy Kimmel's interview with James Talarico had: Bring attention to it and then release it to YouTube where it will get a *much* bigger audience.
NOTE: Judge Sullivan makes it a point to remind Todd Blanche in this order that the "courts have the inherent power to enforce compliance with their lawful orders through civil contempt." Sullivan writes that violating an order that is "clear and unambiguous" can give rise to a contempt finding.
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · yesterdayEXCLUSIVE: In a 20-page order, the judge in my lawsuit for the Epstein Files just ordered Todd Blanche to produce to him, in chambers & by 9/24, the unredacted handwritten FBI notes implicating Donald Trump in the sexual & physical abuse of a 13-year-old girl: youtu.be/Yo1ZUGe_O4o?...
The Kennedy Center is a huge, glowing white reminder that the man has no class, no taste, frankly no interest in the arts at all, and couldn’t even manage to do the part he thought would be easy: to run the place as a for profit business. So the only thing to do is to tear it down.
Infantile, or what? 'Donald Trump has been condemned after he threatened to cut off US trade with Europe over the EU’s attempts to have closer ties with Canada.'
So basically Trump’s new rap is that prices are high now and they are likely to get even higher between now and the midterms, but if you vote for them prices will immediately drop like magic after the election and everything will be pretty much free and we will live happily ever after.
Be thankful for high gas prices is a hell of a closing message for the midterms.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump on his Iran war: "You have a higher gas -- it's a very inexpensive price to pay for what we've done. Remember that. It's a little more. Frankly, even if it was a lot more."
An Oxfordshire Policeman prepares to search a tractor just outside Piddington after a tip off it may be transporting migrants from the Principality to Bicester Shopping Village for a day out “We have a zero tolerance approach on this, the Dopes chose to leave UK, it’s what they want #StopTheDopes
Reform MS who defected to Plaid Cymru says Nigel Farage’s party is ‘falling apart’ Sarah Cooper-Lesadd quit Nigel Farage’s party following the resignation of Reform UK’s leader in Wales www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Reform MS who defected to Plaid Cymru says Nigel Farage’s party is ‘falling apart’
Sarah Cooper-Lesadd quit Nigel Farage’s party following the resignation of Reform UK’s leader in Wales
independent.co.uk
The GOP has collapsed so far into far right authoritarianism that it has lost <checks notes> Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, George Will, & Bill Kristol, & yet somehow our National Conversation™️ remains focused disproportionately on whether Democrats are veering too far left into socialism 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d agoKarl Rove comes off the sidelines www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...
🤦🏼 no wonder everything he touches goes bankrupt He literally thinks buying stuff from someone is the same as losing money, and nobody around him has corrected him
EXCLUSIVE: The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe told Democracy Docket that it hasn’t received an invitation from the Trump administration to observe the midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Exclusive: These international observers have monitored US elections for decades. This time, the Trump admin didn’t invite them
It’s the latest ominous sign that the U.S. is backsliding on democracy — and adds to concerns that the administration wants to undermine the vote.
democracydocket.com
The New Yorker has some concerning reporting in its deep dive on Jared Kushner suggesting that a future Russia/Ukraine peace deal could be tied to potential Russian business deals for Trump, Kushner and Witkoff. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
