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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There is literally no pressure group small or mad enough that the government won't indulge them if they oppose immigration.
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Defector @defector.com · 02/09/2026
It's time to grow up: defector.com/its-time-to-...
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It’s Time To Grow Up | Defector
HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but…
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I invite followers to ask themselves: how does Britain putting sanctions on violent fascist militias in illegal West Bank settlers negatively impact British citizens? How does that work.
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The JLC is deeply concerned by reports that the government is preparing to announce measures to prohibit or restrict trade with Israeli settlements. Throughout the summer, we have urged the government to avoid irreversible steps that could further damage the UK's relationship with Israel and have a harmful impact on the UK Jewish community.
We share concerns about settler violence and extremism. However, there is a deeply troubling question of why Israel is being singled out for this form of economic action. If the government proceeds with this approach, it would be the latest in a series of punitive acts taken towards a supposed ally of this country. The harsh reality is none of these actions have had any influence on the situation on the ground. As Israel approaches pivotal elections on 27th October, we urge the government to carefully consider that the only impact of further interventions will be to embolden extremist factions within Israel.
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Aya @melangell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"I’m not talking because every time I talk, blood comes out of my mouth and makes my dress dirty, and I don’t want my mom to have to clean it” is the last thing Hind Rajab said to the paramedics before Israel shot the car she was in 355 times.
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
BBC invited Palestinian writer, researcher and analyst Muhammad Shehada on to talk about Israel’s decision to investigate the killing of Hind Rajab. Below is Muhammad’s account of what happened next. Full disclosure: I know him years and he’s a regular on the pod. So naturally I believe him 100%.
@muhammadshehad2
Disappointed the BBC cancelled my interview on
Israel's killing of Hind Rajab
2 producers eagerly reached out. They confirmed the time & one called to prepare a brief for the anchor
She asked me whether Israel's announcement is positive, I explained in detail it was a cover up.
The IDF is blaming the killing of Hind, her uncle, aunt & 4 cousins on the family itself for trying to flee by car & on the ambulance sent to rescue her for "failures in the co-ordination of the movement."
None of this is remotely true! The Red Cross immediately informed the IDF about 5-year-old Hind who was hiding in that motionless car, & they requested permission from Israel to allow an ambulance to rescue them.
After multiple long hours, Israel granted greenlight to the ambulance & provided them with a designated route on a GPS to drive on.soon as the ambulance reached Hind's car, the IDF ambushed & bombed them immediately with an American made anti-tank missile then opened fire on Hind's car. The car was hit with 355 bullets.
Israel then kept that area under lockdown for 12 days, & prevented anyone from approaching.
Hind's mom went daily to the Ahli baptist hospital hoping to find her daughter, until her lifeless body was brought in along with the charred remains of the ambulance men.
Israel then claimed after an "initial investigation" that its troops were NEVER in that area to begin with. They maintained that claim for 2 years despite ample recordings & satellite images debunking this lie.
The only reason Israel is now making this new announcement of a deeper investigation is to shield its soldiers & generals from the International Criminal Court by invoking the principle of "complementarity;" that the ICC cannot investigate a state that is already investigating itself in good faith.I told the BBC producer Israel today also quietly shut down the investigation into the triple tap killing of American, Canadian, British, Australian & Polish citizens in the WCK massacre. Israel blamed the massacre on the aid workers themselves for "deviating from the predesignated route" & for hiring an armed security guard "without informing the IDF" (both claims where debunked by WCK themselves, who had coordinates their every step with the IDF).
I told the producer the Israeli commander responsible for this massacre, Nochi Mendel, is a fanatical settler who had signed a petition calling for starving Gaza & that he was celebrated by settler leaders & supported by Israeli government leaders after what he did.
Mendel even received a box of chocolate from the settler council's leader & a letter of support for what he did.
Mendel was initially dismissed by the IDF & blamed for the massacre, but was quickly & quietly reinstated & promoted in the Defence Ministry as the head of the settlements and notionol infroctrunturo unitIt's abundantly clear Israel is NOT serious about prosecuting any of the atrocities committed in Gaza. Since the genocide began, only two soldiers were punished by the IDF; one for microwaving a living frog & another for cooking sausages in the army kitchen on Shabbat.
The producer asked me: What about the 150 cases the IDF said are pending review?
I answered: it's just a number designed to give the appearance of seriousness, but it's essentially meaningless.
If it took the IDF two whole years to admit the simplest of facts that the entire world had already known, which is that their troops were the ones who fired on Hind Rajab's car, how do you expect them to do with the remaining cases that are not as high profile?
Five minutes after the call, the producer wrote me that they decided to cancel the interview & will not even host anyone else to comment on the issue, & instead they'll play archival footage!
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Nate Bethea @inthesedeserts.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
So today is a Bandcamp Friday which means that, if you are so inclined, you can purchase any release on Bandcamp and the artist will receive all of the sales proceeds without any Bandcamp fees. My band's album is of course the one I am going to plug but there are plenty others!
secondhomesband.com
Find a Way to Hate It, by Second Homes
9 track album
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
To explain for foreigners: our energy regulator rubber-stamps price rises; the water regulator tuts while rivers fill up with human shit; the press regulator wags an occasional finger, and the national equality body enforces press campaigns against groups of people they hate and wish to damage.
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Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️ @arif.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
this shot is so bleak lmao
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.
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End Political Homelessness Now @raaleh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
What she lacks in experience and credibility she also lacks in a vision for the future
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 14/07/2026
Winning at all levels, growth rate, foreign policy, immigration policy, energy policy, list is long
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The politics of the National Front do not become more moderate just because you have a lawyer read them out in front of a big flag. Quite the opposite: it’s now you that’s extreme, it’s you who are the extremists.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 05/05/2026
Again, cannot be stressed enough, mere months into Starmer’s premiership, hundreds of radicalised right-wingers attempted open pogroms, attacking places of worship and hotels housing people coded as brown and Muslim, and our he has shown zero interest in interrogating what catalysed those actions.
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Not everything that breaks is technically the fault of vibe coding but the kind of culture that would foster vibe coding is the kind that produces a lot of shit that breaks.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns
A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.
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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
I'm glad the US pilot is safe but the sheer discrepancy shown by most Americans of all political stripes between the value of the life a soldier who *literally signed up for this shit* and the value of the lives of thousands of civilians who didn't is indefensible under any coherent moral code
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Here's what Keir Starmer doesn't want you to know about the war on Iran:
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cozy @bimbotheory.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
couldn't come up with better PR for transgenders than "underground transgender mafia successfully heisted 12 tonnes of Kitkats"
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
www.thedial.world/articles/new... - new from the always-excellent @justinsalhani.bsky.social
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Israel's Digital Occupation — The Dial
Lebanon has become a laboratory for a new age of warfare.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
shockingly people are capable of simultaneously, 1. Hating their government 2. Hating the people who bomb and sanction their country, making regular life impossible and murdering members of their family, even more
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
More like Matt Badloss.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
It's Reform Vs the Green Party. Vote for the Green Party. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour must search its conscience if Reform wins Gorton and Denton, says Green leader
Zack Polanski says Labour deliberately splitting left vote as voters head to the polls
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Been working on this little project with @phoeberoi.bsky.social for a while now and couldn't be more excited to get it into production - a kids' history podcast by people who know history and like talking with kids about history!
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 13/02/2026
It brings me great amounts of joy to announce that Labour voters are going to need to vote tactically and get behind the clear left front runner if they want to keep out Reform
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Picture 1: Two plain clothes police officers during a search of Peter Mandelson's home Picture 2: Police search Nicola Sturgeon and Peter Murrell's home
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/02/2026
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Ain’t I been telling you the reactionary backlash was driven by the very rich and powerful watching regular people use social media to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sex crimes, then watching him dragged sobbing to jail, unprotected by his enormous wealth? What do you think the cancel culture panic was.
ohhhhhh okay so what we've learned from the epstein mail drop is that the entirety of the fascistic culture war since the 2010s onward was basically wholesale consolidated through the anglosphere bourgeois old boys club network of pedophile rapists
Possum A-ko @kaiserbeamz.b... • 5h
So apparently I was right to shittalk mOOt this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Bovino’s retirement needs to be a cage. His command environment yielded Renee Good’s death, Alex Pretti’s death & Julio Sosa-Celis’ shooting. Failure to prosecute Bovino & everyone else materially responsible for these atrocities will be understood by ICE, CBP, etc as a green light for the next ones
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 22/01/2026
Help us make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Kurdish-majority communities are under attack in North East Syria from the Damascus regime. Rojava must not be abandoned
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Shabana Mahmood here, and the vibes are not getting better.
'Harness power of AI to get ahead of criminals
In an interview with Sir Tony Blair last month, she said:
"AI and technology can be transformative to the whole of the law and order space.
"When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times.
"Similarly, in the world of policing, in particular, we've already been rolling out live facial recognition technology, but I think there's big space here for being able to harness the power of AI and tech to get ahead of the criminals, frankly, which is what we're trying to do."
Bentham, an 18th-century philosopher and social theorist, promoted the Panopticon as a circular prison with a central inspection tower from which a single guard could observe all inmates all the time while unseen.
A government source said: "This doesn't mean watching people who are non-criminals - but she feels like, if you commit a crime, you sacrifice the right to the kind of liberty the rest of us enjoy."
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Important context to "more/better training" arguments: the murder of Renée Good was a product of that training by someone who has trained others. (I've seen same in civil rights cases; by moving where he did, he was intentionally generating a pretext to shoot her without genuine risk to himself.)
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Move slightly to the side or murder someone, tough choices ICE officers have to make daily.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 03/01/2026
if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Again: Ta-Nehisi Coates was not wrong - people who do not draw a line at genocide, will not draw a line at democracy. They are extremists by their nature.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.
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A Criminal Empire
The United States launches a conquest and occupation of Venezuela to extract its oil wealth. The neocon dream is the America First dream
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 03/01/2026
"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 03/01/2026
There's your Nobel Peace Prize winner, btw. Hats off to everyone involved. Great job.
FORTUNE

Nobel Prize winner says Venezuela has a ‘unique’ $1.7 trillion opportunity to privatize over 500 companies and reverse socialist ‘disaster’
Nick Lichtenberg
By Nick Lichtenberg
Business Editor
October 27, 2025, 9:39 AM ET
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The PM and Foreign Secretary should be condemning this illegal strike and breach of international human rights law. After years of arming a genocide and worshipping the “special relationship”, Trump now believes he can act with impunity.
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Attractive Nuisance @junebug.northsky.social · 02/01/2026
A comic: the top reads “Journalist visits Twitter” and shows a figure traipsing along while other figures shout things like “black people suck” and “trans people suck”. The figure is unaffected.
The lower half is labeled “Journalist visits Bluesky” and the figure’s traipsing is interrupted by someone shouting “you suck!”  The final panel shows the figure cold, sad, and fetal in a dark alley, along with a hand written note saying “Today, I went to hell…”
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
I can't wait to recreate the meme in reverse. every naval engagement from 2043 onwards gonna be like The USS Sword Of The God-Emperor vs. fifteen identical copies of the PLAN '我们昨天建造了它' supplied by a ship that does nothing but make hot pot for the other ships
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
It is simply unacceptable for anyone to endorse violence, I tell military personnel at the Cyprus airbase where America has flown in a gajillion tons of cutting edge weaponry for use on undesirable civilians for over two years. Of course, I can’t talk about what you’re all doing here, but it’s great
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Can I just shock you? I think public transport infrastructure is good and these people should fuck off.
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