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Mike Holland

@thedutchmeister.bsky.social

A big, hairy epicurean dandy. Turns out I’m quite proud to be European. And bloody furious at Brexshit fuckwittery. #FBPE

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This is amazing...

16.10.2025 18:38 — 👍 6307    🔁 1819    💬 296    📌 157

Well, it was Jan 2020, so not quite 9 years - but long enough.

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Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

15.10.2025 16:10 — 👍 34571    🔁 9688    💬 41    📌 538

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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Facts…
The polar opposite of what drives most media coverage of the issue.

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There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

15.10.2025 12:35 — 👍 740    🔁 434    💬 28    📌 43

And can we please start calling him by his actual name, not that pseudo-patriot bullshit moniker he’s adopted?

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👇👇

15.10.2025 12:41 — 👍 17126    🔁 6422    💬 400    📌 214

So much this!

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The ability to discuss Brexit without fear is nothing less than the ability to discuss objective reality inews.co.uk/opinion/labo...

15.10.2025 13:35 — 👍 579    🔁 175    💬 27    📌 7

"There is no doubt that the impact of Brexit has been severe and long-lasting", Rachel Reeves tells Sky News, as she suggests that taxes will now have to go up as a result to "make sure the numbers add up".

15.10.2025 05:15 — 👍 574    🔁 172    💬 76    📌 56
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California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

14.10.2025 17:04 — 👍 27732    🔁 8950    💬 597    📌 430

Apparently, they don’t hand out a Nobel Peace Prize to those who negotiated a ceasefire they had sabotaged a year ago just to get elected.

14.10.2025 12:18 — 👍 16430    🔁 4574    💬 431    📌 140
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German spy chief says Russia won't shy from military confrontation | Euractiv Germany’s foreign intelligence chief, Martin Jaeger, warned on Monday that Russia posed a direct threat and the current “icy peace” with the EU could erupt at any moment into “heated confrontation”. J...

Sobering words from the German intelligence services - “We must not sit back and assume that a possible Russian attack would come in 2029 at the earliest. We are already under fire today.”

For deterrence now we must take the necessary decisions now.
www.euractiv.com/news/german-...

13.10.2025 18:01 — 👍 950    🔁 337    💬 25    📌 7

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just rejected Alex Jones' appeal and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him by the Sandy Hook Elementary School families

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To all you patriots (and UK authorities)

Is this not political interference of the most egregious and socially divisive kind?

14.10.2025 09:16 — 👍 808    🔁 299    💬 52    📌 19

Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
@realchrisrufo
This is great news. We've hired the classicist Spencer Klavan to teach at New College of Florida. Goodbye gender studies; hello, Greek literature.
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Spencer A. Klavan
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Truly excited to be teaching an online survey course in Greek literature this fall semester @NewCollegeofFL. Even more excited that it's open to the public. Please join in here! We'll be reading Homer, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and lots more.

https://ncf.edu/youngheretics/
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Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ @realchrisrufo This is great news. We've hired the classicist Spencer Klavan to teach at New College of Florida. Goodbye gender studies; hello, Greek literature. Quote Spencer A. Klavan @SpencerKlavan · Aug 19, 2024 Truly excited to be teaching an online survey course in Greek literature this fall semester @NewCollegeofFL. Even more excited that it's open to the public. Please join in here! We'll be reading Homer, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and lots more. https://ncf.edu/youngheretics/ 7:36 PM · Aug 19, 2024 · 840.8K Views

Oh, babes. Have you got a big surprise coming...

14.10.2025 09:22 — 👍 1129    🔁 186    💬 80    📌 41
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In case you missed it ...
We never had a ref to leave the Single Market. So we wouldn't need one to rejoin it. You can be in the Single Market without being in the EU. Leaving the Single Market was therefore a POLITICAL decision made by a previous government. Later governments are not bound by it.

13.10.2025 09:12 — 👍 255    🔁 114    💬 14    📌 4
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The Farage staffer, the Russian embassy and a smear campaign against a Kremlin critic Worker for Farage’s group in EU parliament was ‘frequent visitor to embassy’ and accused of role in propaganda stunt

Go on then Nigel Farage, keep telling us you know nothing about Russian influence…

The Farage staffer, the Russian embassy and a smear campaign against a Kremlin critic

www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

14.10.2025 06:52 — 👍 1484    🔁 681    💬 63    📌 13
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Boris Johnson, "I tried to get the scientists to say that lockdown was a bad idea"

*they all laugh*

There were 26,000 covid deaths because Boris Johnson ignored scientists and delayed the first lockdown by a week

14.10.2025 08:51 — 👍 900    🔁 320    💬 122    📌 54

Brexit is Farage and his fellow Brexiters' shitstorm to own. He/they can't be allowed to just pivot from heckle to heckle and bad idea to worse - while blaming everyone else - without consequences.

So the suggestion that Labour are going to amplify that truth is to be welcomed.

14.10.2025 08:26 — 👍 2145    🔁 519    💬 103    📌 13
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Nigel Farage finally admits to knowing Nathan Gill after senior Reform figure repeatedly claimed he didn’t Farage has admitted he knew Gill for 'a very long time' but claims he didn't know anything about his pro-Russia activities...

Nigel Farage has finally admitted to it.

But now there's lots more questions especially considering Rupert Lowes intervention....

leftfootforward.org/2025/10/nige...

13.10.2025 16:03 — 👍 1399    🔁 580    💬 93    📌 25

They’ve leaked this today thinking the country’s eyes are going to be elsewhere. Don’t let them get away with it.

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Trump never would’ve had the same class as Biden did here

13.10.2025 23:36 — 👍 2185    🔁 548    💬 138    📌 37

Really good piece from Jane Bradley and co at NYT.

Earlier this summer Democracy for Sale revealed how anti abortionists, including ADF, were pumping money into the U.K.

Free Speech Union still hasn’t responded to our queries. Funny that…

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/us-antiabo...

13.10.2025 10:02 — 👍 191    🔁 128    💬 7    📌 8
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Farage was promoted by Russian TV. The Kremlin knew he would be a useful tool. He seems to spend most of his time with American kleptofascists. Tommy Robinson shills for Putin. Musk pays his costs.

These traitors are serving a foreign kleptofascist attack on our country.

They are not patriots.

13.10.2025 20:25 — 👍 83    🔁 46    💬 5    📌 0
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I’m glad we can now talk about Brexit damage, says Wes Streeting The prime minister is gearing up to blame Nigel Farage and Brexit for Britain’s expected downturn in productivity at the November Budget

I’m glad we can now talk about Brexit damage, says Wes Streeting

The Prime Minister is gearing up to blame Nigel Farage and Brexit for Britain’s expected downturn in productivity at the November Budget

It’s about time

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

14.10.2025 06:06 — 👍 1465    🔁 386    💬 136    📌 39

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