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Alan Allport@alanallport.bsky.social |
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Dr. Walter Montgomery & Marian Gruber Professor of History, Syracuse, NY. www.maxwell.syr.edu/directory/alan-allport Husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025)
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Patrick S. Tomlinson
@stealthygeek.bsky.social
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If for any reason Joe Biden can't complete a 2nd term, we know who will take over. Her name is Kamala Harris and America already voted for her once. If Donald Trump can't complete a 2nd term, we have no idea who will take over because he TRIED TO HAVE HIS LAST VP MURDERED.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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you are not crazy, this is an entirely true statement that many, many more people need to print out, tape up to their mirror, and ground themselves with every morning. it is fucking JULY. everybody needs to pop an edible and calm the fuck down.
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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One doesn’t like to be mean but it’s hard not to come to the conclusion that many/most political reporters don’t ask questions about policy because they’re too dumb to understand it.
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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The NYT’s new “no-one who has any kind of speech impediment can be POTUS” rule is pretty fucking ableist.
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Miranda Yaver
@mirandayaver.bsky.social
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Siri, show me self-parody.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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I for one am pretty fixated on not having to spend even more years of my life wondering if Donald fucking Trump is going to deploy nuclear weapons
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Willie Fitzgerald
@williefitz.bsky.social
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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest
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Hemry, Local Bartender
@bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared
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Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
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Like two-thirds of the sentences in any given Trump rally literally do not make sense
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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In non-election news … Been reading about the Battle for Athens Dec 1944. 80k British troops in Greece (bigger involvement than in Ardennes Offensive); the last big parliamentary revolt against the wartime coalition; and serious trouble with the Americans. A chapter that should get more attention.
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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My kid was bemused and underwhelmed by Sunak just flatly accepting he’d lost. UK = boooooring
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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The Lib Dems should take advantage of their success last night to full-heartedly adopt a pro-Europe policy and campaign for rejoining CU/SM and take advantage of a big national constituency that’s totally unrepresented right now.
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@jenbmiller.bsky.social
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Kim Atkins is such a clear and sane writer.
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/01/o...
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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Sunak unable to determine wife’s speed and heading, naval warfare experts suggest this may be intentional on her part
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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So I have now voted in a total of two democratic elections 32 years apart and am excited to announce that my failure rate remains 100% (though the winner’s margin of victory was drastically reduced this time at least).
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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Newly elected Member for South West Norfolk thanks the voters, applauds the 2nd place candidate for their grace in defeat
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Alan Allport
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Liz Truss announces that she’s back to wanting the monarchy abolished again.
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Alan Allport
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If Jeremy was still in charge Labour would be on 824 seats
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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Rees-Mogg is leaving politics to mount an expedition to find the northwest passage and a faster route to Cathay and the Japans.
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Claire Cock-Starkey
@nonfictioness.bsky.social
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This is great from the Guardian: Analysis by the Sutton Trust suggests that Keir Starmer’s cabinet will have the highest number of ministers educated at comprehensive schools, and the lowest proportion in modern history who went to private schools.
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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Waking up to see Truss gone … 😘
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Mordant Muppetry
@mordantmuppetry.bsky.social
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Who wore it better?
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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MOGG IS GONE 🙏
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Alan Allport
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MERCER GONE
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Alan Allport
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Jenrick has hung on 😣
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Gina
@brokenbiros.bsky.social
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A returning officer, pictured this evening
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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Rees-Mogg blames tonight’s poor Tory performance for its internal squabbles about repealing the Corn Laws.
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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Mordaunt is rumored to have lost which will allow her to spend more time with her family walking around with a big sword
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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Arrrr
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Alan Allport
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Will win 2nd place in tons of constituencies but with FPTP that doesn’t get you shit
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Alan Allport
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Big shout out to the returning officers who think fuck it, I’m going to be on TV, I’m going to dress up like a pirate.
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Alan Allport
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Confirmed, didn’t even show up for the count apparently #classy
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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Rumors that Galloway has lost in Rochdale 🥳
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Alan Allport
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Anderson wins 🤮. Reform’s success is the grim Plot B tonight
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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24.2% swing to LAB in Telford 😮
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Alan Allport
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Gillian Keegan’s gone
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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Rachel Reeves enunciates oddly doesn’t she
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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16.5% swing to LAB in Swindon oof
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Alan Allport
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Nads and Campbell getting into it
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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It’s all kicking off in the C4 studio
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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The main point of long-term interest will be whether that Reform vote is just a protest against the awfulness of the current govt and will return to the Tory fold next time or whether this is the start of a new party realignment.
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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Hardly a constituency in which any great resources were (sensibly) placed
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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Sunderland South!
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Christopher Federico
@cmfederico.bsky.social
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Big victory for Labour — so big that the NYT just gave Sir Keir his own version of ‘Joe Biden Is Old’
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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Doing some serious drinking tonight 🍷 hic
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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Next up in the NYT: why this is bad news for Biden
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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What distinguishes banana republics from genuine democracies like this is that ex-presidents can actually be held criminally accountable
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Dave Hutchinson
@hutchinsondave.bsky.social
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And the Telegraph winds up its election coverage with one last ‘fuck all of you’.
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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SNP exit poll forecast …. oof
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Alan Allport
@alanallport.bsky.social
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Oh God, Widdicombe doing her fash Hinge & Bracket act too
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