Trying to reconcile competing demands of my 4 passions: surfing, the mighty reds, product management &, foremost, my wonderful family. Pls expect the eclectic.
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26 Sep 2021
Brexit has emphatically NOT failed
It has massively increased the wealth & control of those that planned, funded & enacted it
Putin’s beyond chuffed with a UK fractured from both EU & US
And the vulture capitalists are loving the bargains & emergence of a N Altantic sweatshop
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Jun 11
#TaylorCharlton, 14, missing from #Barnstaple #Devon since 7/5: Please call or text 116 000. We'll listen, not judge or tell you what to do.
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Jun 11
💯% this 👇🏻
Jun 11
The problem was never Trump.
Trump is the readable version of a text that was always there, written in language most people couldn't access.
The problem is the system that produced him, that uses him, that will survive him, and that will next time find someone equally willing to do what he does but competent enough to do it quietly.
The competent version is more dangerous.
The competent version rebuilds the language. Restores the branding. Hires the speechwriters who know how to say "shared values" and "rules-based order" while executing identical policy.
And the people who spent four years appalled by Trump's vulgarity will feel the relief of good grammar and take it for moral improvement.
The empire doesn't need Trump specifically.
It needed what he provided: a stress test. A period of operation without the usual ideological cover, to see what held and what didn't.
What held: the sanctions. The bases. The vetoes. The dollar. The weapons sales. The regime change operations.
What didn't hold: the manners.
And when someone comes along who can restore the manners while keeping everything else, and they will, they always do, the people who thought the problem was the manners will call it a recovery.
The rest of us will know what it actually is.
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Jun 10
This is why Sullivan and his bent law firm used every trick they could find to keep the stories about him out of the press,
It’s also why our laws shouldn't permit it.
Jun 10
Essex Police given new information about West Ham co-owner David Sullivan following BBC Panorama investigation bbc.in/4olc0f7
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Jun 10
That Pepsi ad featuring David Beckham is banal garbage in over 50 languages
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Jun 9
CNN = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
CBS = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
FOX = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
WaPo = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
WSJ = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
Ah yes, tell me more about how the mainstream media is “far left.”
🚨 BREAKING: Trump Ally Bari Weiss set to take over CNN after Paramount-Warner Bros merger is complete.
Bari Weiss currently leads CBS, and is expected to serve as lead for both media organizations in the future.
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Jun 10
Well spoken Ruud. And this before the debacle of the acticle tournament has yet begun.
Like his kindred-spirit Trump, Infantino is a narcissitic profit-maximiser so evidently totally wrong to lead the world's most loved sport.
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Jun 9
The corruption is of Olympic proportions. And not a peep from the GOP
Jun 8
BREAKING📷 A woman donated $1 million to Trump's super PAC. Three weeks later, her son a convicted tax criminal was pardoned. His pardon application literally mentioned her donation.
Her name is Elizabeth Fago. Her son, Paul Walczak, had pleaded guilty to federal tax crimes. The pardon application filed on his behalf explicitly cited his mother's million-dollar donation to MAGA Inc. as a reason he deserved clemency. Trump signed the pardon. Walczak walked free and was relieved of more than $4 million in restitution he owed.
That is one entry on a donor list of 58 people who gave a million dollars or more.
MAGA Inc., Trump's super PAC, has now raised over $305 million since the 2024 election five times more than any presidential super PAC in history at this stage. The Brennan Center called it "completely unprecedented." Ninety-six percent of it came from donors giving $1 million or more. Sixty-two percent from those giving $5 million or more. This is not a grassroots operation. It is a pay-window.
Here's what the donor list actually shows.
Crypto.com's parent company, Foris Dax, gave $30 million — while it was under SEC investigation for allegedly trading unregistered securities. The SEC investigation was quietly dropped in March 2025, two months after the donation.
The Winklevoss twins gave $1 million — also while their crypto platform Gemini was under SEC investigation. That investigation was dropped in February 2025.
Energy Transfer, the Texas pipeline company, and its CEO Kelcy Warren gave a combined $25 million — while Energy Transfer was actively suing a federal regulatory agency in court.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman and his wife gave $25 million — as the Trump administration was actively shaping AI policy in Silicon Valley's favor.
Then there are the appointments. Benjamin Landa gave $5 million then became Trump's ambassador to Hungary. Kelly Loeffler and her husband gave $5 million she now runs the Small Business Administration. Warren Stephens gave $2 million now ambassador to the United Kingdom. Jared Isaacman gave $2 million now NASA administrator.
And Isabela Herrera, a 25-year-old self-employed financial consultant whose only prior political donation was $20 to Pete Buttigieg in 2020, somehow contributed $3.5 million to MAGA Inc. Her father a Venezuelan billionaire facing federal bribery charges was pardoned by Trump in January 2026. Campaign Legal Center has filed a formal complaint with the FEC alleging she was a straw donor for her father.
This is not dark money. This is public record.
Every dollar, every favor, every pardon. Filed with the FEC. Sitting in plain sight.
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DC, we've arrived... along with all 3.5 million pages of the publicly-released Epstein Files.
The DC Reading Room opens today.
Reserve your spot: trumpepsteinreadingroom.com
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SurfingRed retweeted
Jun 9
Sections of the media are just absolute bullshit.
They've always been a problem - but now they're literally lying and making up things that have never been said.
The only way to defeat the billionaire media is to organise around them.
Join us:
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Jun 7
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The UK is spending £369m refurbishing Buckingham Palace for King Charles, who has £22bn and gets £500m more a year.
He can pay for his own renovations, £369m is more than England spends on building Social Housing in an entire year for the whole country.
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Jun 5
A message to JD Vance from Britain:
Even if you stopped your ICE Gestapo from murdering US citizens
Even if you learned that guns = dead kids
Even if Trump wasn't a rapist
We still wouldn't care about your opinion, you backwards, guyliner wearing, hillbilly couch fucker.
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"Picturesque river polluted with sewage just 13 days after being given official bathing status."
Yep the River Avon at Salisbury was designated as a bathing spot on 15th May and just 13 days later on the 28th the EA have to issue a pollution warning due to E. coli levels. What a shambles.
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The residents of Auchtertool in Fife are campaigning against a monster AI data centre that is being planned next to their village.
It’s estimated that the 600MW energy consumption with be 20% of Scotland entire energy consumption.
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The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.
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These are basic truths within UK geopolitics. If we had media that were in anyway concerned to defend U.K. prosperity and democracy, all news stories would be narrated through the lens of these facts 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Jun 6
This is your reminder that JD Vance is the lapdog of Peter Thiel, a multi billionaire tech bro whose ideology involves the complete removal of democracy, in favour of a technocracy.
This is your reminder that Vance was linked to Georgescu in Romania who was arrested for collusion with Russia.
This is your reminder that Nathan Gill, Reform’s leader in Wales, was jailed for ten years for taking Russian bribes.
This is your reminder that the British frontman for MAGA is Nigel Farage.
This is your reminder that the US government has fallen to authoritarian far right extremism and is openly engaging in foreign interference.
This is your warning that tech billionaires are the only dangerous minority that anybody who calls themselves a patriot should be concerned about.
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Jun 4
As someone works in human rights, I’ve never seen anything like the Epstein files in my 15-year career
Raped
Cannibalized
Trafficked
Filmed
Terrorized
Tortured
Murdered
13, 14, 15 year children
Jeffery Epstein has every major politicians and billionaires on video doing something terrible to a child or to multiple people.
THOUSANDS have been arrested for criticising Zionism.
THOUSANDS have been arrested for social media posts.
ZERO have been arrested for raping children.
The bottom line here is the world system has become so corrupt that the time has come I think to clean the crap out of the stables and start over.
I don't understand how we're not having a global revolution right now.
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If Keir Starmer, Ed Davey or Zack Polanski or even Badenoch took a £5million bung or used the language Farage has twice..
They would be GONE. The media alone would have hounded them out of their job within a week.
There's your two tiers alright.
And it is the media.
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Now that Gaza lies in ruins—shattered, like a beloved face after a long brutality—Israel moves with a terrible confidence to the next act: The act of leaving every soul there not merely wounded, but permanently disabled. Injured, sick, hungry, homeless, without work, without hope. This is not war’s collateral damage. This is design.
As my friend Gideon Levy writes—and he knows, he knows—this is the prelude to expulsion. Think of it: a society without teachers, without doctors, without social workers, without engineers, without clerks. That is not a society. That is a holding pen. A slow erasure. And when nothing functions—no school, no hospital, no office, no heart—then it becomes ‘easy,’ they tell themselves, to scatter the people to the four corners of the earth. Like seeds from a broken pod, except no soil will take them.
We must name this. Not with rage alone, though rage is honest. But with the cold, clear tears of recognition: they are making life impossible so that departure becomes the only ‘choice.’ And the world watches, adjusts its spectacles, and calls for restraint. Restraint! There is no restraint in a slow drowning.
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Jun 3
It's been 23 days since Ben Habib said a foreign based crypto billionaire gave Boris Johnson £1m
Why haven't any of our journalists asked him about getting money from a foreign based billionaire while complaining about foreign interference in our democracy?
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