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Shane Stokes

@shanestokes.bsky.social

Journalist, photographer, cycling writer for Velo, Irish Times, Sticky Bottle etc. http://instagram.com/ssbikephoto/, MSc Ex. Physiology. Own opinions/bad puns here..

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I'm hearing reports that the elderly despotic leader is now afraid to reenter the capital and is attempting to establish a functioning government in a gilded palace located in a remote southern part of the country.

28.02.2026 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2179    πŸ” 399    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 9

Hi, I have diagnosed c-PTSD and this is true and if you suck at tetris, any bright coloured fast game requiring rapid eye movement and decision making will do! it also helps if you witness something triggering and are trying to stave off an episode

28.02.2026 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1358    πŸ” 498    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 20
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Just remember what this is all for…. Distracting from the Epstein files

28.02.2026 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 12659    πŸ” 3919    πŸ’¬ 565    πŸ“Œ 198
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The latest from YouGov (n ~ 1.6k adults):

Approval of Iran strikes: -10
Approval of Trump's handling of Iran: -15
Should Congress approve wars first: Yes +31
Will intervention make Iran better/worse off: Worse off +20

yougov.com/en-us/search...

28.02.2026 18:41 β€” πŸ‘ 607    πŸ” 175    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 60

Bluesky has as much bad news as X but over here, we're against it

26.02.2026 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1715    πŸ” 264    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 2

Today’s military strikes on Iran β€” carried out by the United States and Israel β€” mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

28.02.2026 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 16334    πŸ” 3427    πŸ’¬ 158    πŸ“Œ 205
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From r/xennials…

28.02.2026 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is an illegal, unprovoked and brutal attack that shows once again that the USA and Israel are rogue states.

The UK must end our cosy relationship with the USA and our ongoing support for Israel.

28.02.2026 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3123    πŸ” 926    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 50

There is only one nuclear armed state in the Middle East. It is Israel.

28.02.2026 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 643    πŸ” 129    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 3

In a single statement, Pete Hegseth has declared Anthropic a supply chain risk while *also* insisting it must continue to directly supply the Department of Defense for up to six months.

He's also claiming that designation has powers it doesn't (to cut Anthropic off from all business to suppliers).

27.02.2026 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 297    πŸ” 92    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 7

never mind they're designating Anthropic a supply chain risk and trying to knife the company for refusing to make killbots and domestic surveillance systems for the US government. absolutely insane, shameful, and corrupt behavior

27.02.2026 22:34 β€” πŸ‘ 931    πŸ” 205    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 9
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It appears Trump is upset about Anthropic decision not to obey the Department of Defense.

27.02.2026 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 873    πŸ” 170    πŸ’¬ 110    πŸ“Œ 29

I… actually agree with JD for once.

But I’m not sure he fully gets what he’s saying.

27.02.2026 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Britain is a rich country which has been captured by a small number of it's richest individuals over a number of decades. Its media hunts in packs, creating salience from irrelevancies, generating fears in the population unrelated to their actual problems in life and promoting the scapegoating of minorities while conducting little to no structural assessments of the real problems that the political and social worlds have inherited and intensified.

It is surely of no little significance that it turns out that this model of public capture of political discourse for private gain is one which is revealed by these Epstein documents to have had been a global formula.

Britain is a rich country which has been captured by a small number of it's richest individuals over a number of decades. Its media hunts in packs, creating salience from irrelevancies, generating fears in the population unrelated to their actual problems in life and promoting the scapegoating of minorities while conducting little to no structural assessments of the real problems that the political and social worlds have inherited and intensified. It is surely of no little significance that it turns out that this model of public capture of political discourse for private gain is one which is revealed by these Epstein documents to have had been a global formula.

After today's English by-election result, a reminder;

www.thegist.ie/the-gist-uk-...

27.02.2026 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

It is time we stop this madness. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. We have to stop these billionaires ruining our planet.

26.02.2026 09:12 β€” πŸ‘ 101    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of an X post by Acyn quoting Trump saying β€œSomali pirates who ransacked Minnesota” and criticizing immigration. The embedded image shows members of the audience during a State of the Union address, including a woman wearing a hijab seated among other attendees, with MSNBC Now graphics on screen.

Screenshot of an X post by Acyn quoting Trump saying β€œSomali pirates who ransacked Minnesota” and criticizing immigration. The embedded image shows members of the audience during a State of the Union address, including a woman wearing a hijab seated among other attendees, with MSNBC Now graphics on screen.

This is just straight up racism and xenophobia.

25.02.2026 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1213    πŸ” 168    πŸ’¬ 132    πŸ“Œ 19

Keep 'em coming

"U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy’s final decision invalidates a policy memo last spring from ICE that allows enforcement officers to deport migrants to countries that are not their own with as little as six hours’ notice"

25.02.2026 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Without the dots, it looks like polygraph test results from a pathological liar.

23.02.2026 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 20393    πŸ” 4460    πŸ’¬ 691    πŸ“Œ 204

BREAKING

Charles Kushner, the US Ambassador to France, has been banned from meeting with members of the French government after he failed to show up to a diplomatic summons with the French Foreign Minister.

23.02.2026 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 5574    πŸ” 1749    πŸ’¬ 268    πŸ“Œ 200

People keep debating whether Epstein is more tied to Russia or Israel without understanding it's the same people: dual Russia/Israeli citizens involved in organized crime. The modern roots of this operation, going back to the 1980s, are detailed in the excerpt from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT below.

05.02.2026 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1024    πŸ” 533    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 44
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Ted Lieu: β€œDonald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children … of Donald Trump threatening to kill children. So I encourage the press to go look at these allegations.”

18.02.2026 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 9644    πŸ” 4138    πŸ’¬ 395    πŸ“Œ 400

look, man....just get Luigi in front of a jury and he walks

18.02.2026 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 120    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

After blaming a (non-existent) staffer for the Obamas-as-apes video, this is quite a remarkable statement by Leavitt.

18.02.2026 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 651    πŸ” 174    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 2

Add another view. Pass it on

15.02.2026 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Words fail me...

13.02.2026 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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13.02.2026 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 22436    πŸ” 9480    πŸ’¬ 940    πŸ“Œ 562
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EXCLUSIVE: Lawmaker Says 1.5 Million Results For Redacted Trump Name in Epstein files The cover-up of the Epstein files continues.

BREAKING: I have just confirmed with a member of the House Judicial Committee, who has spent numerous hours searching through the unreacted Epstein files, that there were approximately 1.5 million redactions in the Epstein files, with Trump’s names.

krassencast.com/p/exclusive-...

13.02.2026 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1012    πŸ” 519    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 31
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Donate to Support Konstantinos' Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation, organized by Kirstin Lowe On 29th January 2026, Konstantinos suffered a severe skiing accid… Kirstin Lowe needs your support for Support Konstantinos' Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation

Please read and share - a close friend’s daughter’s boyfriend suffered a horrendous skiing accident, insurance company being shit with a β€œtechnicality” anything you can do to help is greatly appreciated

www.gofundme.com/f/support-ko...

13.02.2026 21:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>>

floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...

13.02.2026 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 693    πŸ” 333    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 31