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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
What can be more despicable than profiteering from dementia but that's the result of 16 years of Tory & Labour austerity making the rich millionaires & poor destitute "Kirklees council pushes through privatisation of dementia homes" www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...
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Kirklees council pushes through privatisation of dementia homes
The council won on legal technicalities, not on the morality of selling off these dementia homes to a failing private provider.
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Albino Badguy @albinobadguy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Most honest reporting in the past few weeks.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
via Andy Henderson updated his cover photo.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
How can anyone support a Labour Party leadership which made a conniving, lying, paedophile friend & convicted fraudster a Lord and top British Ambassador ...
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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@1961COYS @1961blanchflower.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Right you are....
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Whatever’s in these Epstein Files (and we have some idea) must be really bad.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Nadim Zahawi has said that one of the things that attracted him to Reform UK was a belief in freedom of speech… but he has shown very little enthusiasm for free expression when journalists scrutinised his own conduct. ➡️ Watch Page 94 on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V59b...
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member
new yorker cartoon by bernstein. watercolor of a middle aged white dad holding a cord up from the cord box in a heavenly light in triumph. title reads THE BEST DAY OF MY FATHER'S LIFE. caption reads “Did you say you needed a six-pin-to-eight-pin FireWire for a 2006 MacBook?"
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Left: Yvette Cooper calls for the release of political prisoners Right: But is silent over the 8 political prisoners in the UK
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
The government is letting the hunger strikers die. This is a national scandal - and should be on the front-page of every newspaper in Britain. morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gove...
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Government risks letting protesters on hunger strike die, Corbyn warns
JEREMY CORBYN warned today that the government risks letting jailed Palestine protesters on hunger strike die in prison.The former Labour leader and Your Party MP said that he had visited one of the h...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 11/12/2025
Watch this. Then remember that the president doesn’t care. He cares that his old ass gets richer in the hand full of years he may have left. And his sick rich friends. The most corrupt evil man to ever serve as president is ignoring real evil
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The Justice Secretary is refusing to meet me to discuss the well-being of my constituent, Amu, who is 40 days into their hunger strike. I have written to express my dismay over the government's lack of urgency, care and humanity toward people at risk of death.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 07/12/2025
Israel is not allowing antibiotics, IV solutions or surgical material to enter besieged Gaza despite 2-month ceasefire.
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No essential supplies in truce: Gaza’s healthcare system broken by Israel
Israel is not allowing antibiotics, IV solutions or surgical material to enter besieged Gaza despite 2-month ceasefire.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
this story isn’t going away www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The year StopAntisemitism's Antisemite of the Year Award has nominated Ms Rachel for treating Palestinian kids like human beings...but hasn't nominated Nick Fuentes, a literal Nazi with a massive platform PS StopAntisemitism isn't even a group, it's one person.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/12/2025
“The decision was made to exclude me from the filmed production of Swan Lake because I was told my brown skin would disrupt the aesthetic.” ~ Misty Copeland When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling” Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Israel has allowed tents into Gaza that will house 12,000 people. There are 1,900,000 displaced people in Gaza because Israel has destroyed 92% of all homes and currently occupies over 50% of the strip.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
“Speaking outside his chateau in France…” I kid you not. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 28/11/2025
Members of Gaza’s Civil Defense force describe pulling decomposing bodies from collapsed buildings, and digging in hopes that someone remains alive.
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Gaza’s Civil Defense Forces Keep Digging for 10,000 Missing Bodies
Gazan civil workers describe pulling decomposing bodies from collapsed buildings, and digging in hopes that someone remains alive.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
"This is a field execution.. this is a war on occupied people, a war on civilians" Mustafa Barghouti on the footage that shows Israeli forces executing two unarmed Palestinian men who've just surrendered
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Steve Morgan @steveve.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
"Israel passed 30 laws 'deepening apartheid’ since 7 October, legal centre says" 'Adalah says counterterror laws, emergency measures and Jewish-only benefits drive surge in discriminatory legislation' www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...
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Israel passed 30 laws 'deepening apartheid’ since 7 October, legal centre says
Adalah says counterterror laws, emergency measures and Jewish-only benefits drive surge in discriminatory legislation
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.” It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
'On Thursday, Jon Cink became the fourth Palestine Action-linked prisoner to refuse food, joining prisoners Qesser Zurah, Amu Gibb and Heba Muraisi in an open-ended hunger strike over what they describe as “systematic abuse” by the prison authorities.' via @bheardmedia.bsky.social
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 02/11/2025
The UK has become a genuine multi-party country – but our voting system hasn’t caught up. The Dutch elections this week show how proportional representation can give everyone a voice, while keeping extremists out of power. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
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How to tame the populists: lessons from the Netherlands
Recent elections in the Netherlands show how a proportional voting system can prevent extremists from taking power. Lessons for the UK?
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia. Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?
Nigel Farage on Russia Today.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The Hind Rajab Foundation have identified the IDF soldiers who murdered 6 year old Hind and her family, & their names have been submitted to the ICC. Professor William Schabas discusses the possibility that they'll face prosecution.
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FreePalestine @savesjarrah.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
#GazaGenocide, 22 Oct 2025 Major Sean Glass a US Navy Seal who joined the IDF has been named as the man who ordered the murder of Hind Rajab and caused 355 bullets to be put into her. This is him: #NetanyahuWarCriminal #TrumpWarCriminal
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Today, England's water companies received their worst pollution ratings since records began. Rising bills. Soaring profits. Sewage in our rivers and seas. Enough is enough. Bring water back into public ownership, now.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Nigel Farage promised that Reform councils would cut local government "waste" in order to slash taxes. Now the party's flagship Kent administration is set to actually raise taxes and has just started asking opposition parties for help after failing to identify the millions in savings they promised
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Reform Council Asks Opposition for Help Making Cuts After ‘Desperate’ Search for Savings Falls Short
Exclusive: Nigel Farage's struggling flagship Kent administration is now reaching out to other parties, after failing to identify the millions of pounds in savings they promised
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The government and the media have been lying to you over the Maccabi Tel Aviv ban. We will not let these lies and smears go unchallenged.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Left: Lisa Nandy, "It is unprecedented in modern times that all away fans have been banned because of the behaviour of a small minority" Right: West Ham fans banned from Europa League Game, Barcelona fans banned from UEFA Champions League tie Shouldn't she correct the parliamentary record?
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Watch @zackpolanski.bsky.social talk with @graceblakeley.substack.com and question what exactly is economic growth, how does it relate to power, is it sustainable? Why are the rich still getting richer, while wages stagnate? m.youtube.com/watch?v=ojrr...
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Why Rachel Reeves Is Obsessed With Growth At Any Cost | Grace Blakeley | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/10/2025
Not today, Satan‼️
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Can you imagine if Russia attacked and seized a UK vessel in international waters & kidnapped the people on board, including UK citizens, and the only response from the UK govt was to say that's "a matter for the Russian govt". No, me neither.
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Scott Christian Sava @ssavaart.com · 04/10/2025
She's 22! She's autistic Where are the people who are supposed to defend her? Where are the governments who should be outraged by the abduction of their citizens? Why is no one doing anything to stop the abduction of the flotilla members? Why aren't governments standing up for their citizens? 1/2
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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Yes, ma'am. I don't give a shit about any of this nonsense, either. 🙌🙏☺️👇
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Stuball6251 @stuball6251.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
If you think that adults taking Tylenol hurt kids, just wait until you read what the adults in the Epstein Files were doing to them.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/09/2025
Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Sadiq Khan condemns Nigel Farage's threat to deport hundreds of thousands of Londoners with settled status. “They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city. “Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.”
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 22/09/2025
Donald Trump's UK State Visit Diary "Greeted by Viscount Hood. Never heard of him but he bows low enough. Introduced to a man called Andrew. Can’t place him. He asks if I’ve seen the hologram of Epstein flickering on the walls. Melania says he’s projecting." open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
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Donald Trump’s UK State Visit Diary
Prelude to Pomp
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
"Its a bloodbath. You'll walk into the resus area.. bits of flesh everywhere.. the horror of it all.. limbs missing.. I've lost count of the amount of multiple amputations I've done.. there's no words.." Dr Saya Aziz speaking from Al Shifa hospital ion Gaza city
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