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Once noisy politico who found restraint TV quiz verifier (UK BBC/ITV/C4) 25 years in film and TV Writer/editor/proofreeder Marcomms adviser ♥️ Family Come from the other place Green and pro-European

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Trump Administration Live Updates: Hundreds of Voice of America Workers Laid Off

Why would you shut down America's propaganda voice across the world unless you had plans for a future that you wouldn't want broadcast anywhere?

Trump Administration Live Updates: Hundreds of Voice of America Workers Laid Off www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

20.06.2025 17:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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10.06.2025 22:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don't see an apology. I see an events company telling a woman she doesn't know how to look after her child at an event.

10.06.2025 21:48 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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09.05.2025 10:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

... except the wall bit...

08.01.2025 00:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

... make life genuinely a bit better. So do we want propose invading Belarus or corralling all Brexiters aboard P&O ferries or building a wall around Buckingham Palace just to snaffle headlines and turn the Marshall amps up to 11? I kinda think no...

08.01.2025 00:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Maybe it isn't the rightiness or leftiness of statements that actually gets the amplification: it's the clickbaity batshitiness. And the trouble with progressives is that we don't want to propose batshit craziness that we'd never actually do. We quite like saying achievable things that will ...

08.01.2025 00:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Happy new year 2025, Bluesky.

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