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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is actually pretty fucking bad: child molestors, public transport sexual assaulters, possibly rapists... What a shame the Telegraph hasn't mentioned May, Patel, Braverman, Jenrick or Cleverly. ^^each of whom were responsible for allowing prisons to get this bad.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Here are 3 persistent skews + flaws in BBC framing, as just predicted this morning, leaving public misinformed about a v salient issue of boats - Report the visible optics - Miss the context & trends - Misattribute causes (weather! What were last 10 days weather)

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

is there a pulitzer for photo captions because if so @theguardian.com just won it

Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the spanish national team.
Photograph: Javier García/Shutterstock

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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Liz Truss says Andy Burnham will cause a financial crash. Reminder that Lizzy refused to let the OBR see her "mini-budget" before Kwarteng announced it. It was uncosted. Bonds investors freaked, sold up, the BoE had to buy back Bonds to synthesise demand for them, that meant jacking base-rate;

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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Alright, listen up - here's what's happened Donald Trump described Keir Starmer as a tough negotiator & his friend Then Putin texted "Agent Krasnov" like "WTF are u doing Help bring him down, u bubonic paedophile" & so began a series of unhinged, factless posts about Chagos, Iran & Free Speech...

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This guy Cody Dahler nails the way MAGA and fascist billionaires are backing the British far-right. Well worth a listen! [SOUND ON 🔊]

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

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Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack

The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country.

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Treblig 🇺🇦 @camtreblig.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Since our political leaders and media have decided that the only reason Henry Nowak died was because the police are too woke, here are my two cents, based on what I've read of the public information 🧵

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Really good thread (and a really good follow also)

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Trump is Dying. www.againstallenemies.net/p/trump-is-d...

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Trump Is Dying

The Walter Reed Lie, for the 100th Time

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

GOD. DAMN. This Louisiana man fucking COOKED like I’ve seen very few people cook before.

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Mat Francis 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺🇨🇦 @718spider.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The very last episode is the best final episode of a show ever.

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Mat Francis 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺🇨🇦 @718spider.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

It's going fine outside of the US. Maybe it's the metric system... 😀

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Pens for everyone (to use on their ballot papers)

Meme seen in Facebook
REFORM UK CANDIDATE ANNOUNCEMENT

PAULINE CAMPBELL-JONES

Royston Vasey

BRITAIN NEEDS REFORM

Promoted by Reform UK Royston Vasey. Not affiliated with The BBC. A fictional character from The League of Gentlemen.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

This is such an insightful, wide ranging and ultimately hopeful interview with @quinnslobodian.com How Elon Musk and the Tech Billionaires Hijacked the State and Our Minds With Matt Gallagher on @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

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How Elon Musk and the Tech Billionaires Hijacked the State and Our Minds

Historian Quinn Slobodian tells Byline Times that Elon Musk's rise tells a deeper story—of fortunes built on state power, and a new politics where humans are treated less as citizens than as systems t...

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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

(🧵) We're in Week 5 of Trump's 2-week non-war. If we give the non-war war 2-3 more weeks it'll wrap up "weeks" ahead of schedule. Trump destroyed 100% of the 1/3rd of Iran's Navy that's non-IRGC and 0.5% of Iran's Army—i.e. all of it. Its nuke program exists *and* doesn't. Questions?

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

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Mat Francis 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺🇨🇦 @718spider.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The media fall for this nonsense EVERY time! Do some bloomin' journalism, CNN.

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Oh, the grand old duke of york He ██████████████████ He ██████████████████ And he ██████████████████

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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

🤣👌🐐

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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Let's hope this positive news gets as much attention as the people who try to convince us that the UK is a murder ravaged hellscape. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Homicides at lowest level in nearly 50 years, ONS statistics show

The 499 homicide cases in the year to September were the lowest in England and Wales since 1977.

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The only surefire way to stop oligarchs buying up the things we love is to drop those things the moment oligarchs buy them & that requires changing habits and massive self-discipline. It means going to alternatives that might not be quite as good or convenient. It’s really hard. But there it is.

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

A firestorm has ripped through the BBC, but no one can quite put their finger on why. An analysis of yesterday's curious hearing into an undoubted PR coup by those who wish the BBC ill www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

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A firestorm has ripped through the BBC—but no one will say why

Called before MPs, none of the characters who supposedly see so much wrong with the corporation would make a case for institutional bias

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Derek Johnson @derekjesq.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

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ChrisInParis @chrisinparis.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

This is obviously true and eventually countries are going to have to address this problem. It's a rigged system and social media rewards extreme behavior. AOC says people are being 'algorithmically polarized' by social media www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-o...

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AOC says people are being 'algorithmically polarized' by social media

"There are people that are living in a MAGA universe online," Ocasio-Cortez said. "And that happens as well in progressive content and algorithms."

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 04/10/2025

President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

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French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE

YouTube video by WION

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 29/09/2025

When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it. Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Great video. Rick is an old friend and he used to be the board chair of NORML.

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

"To the people of the UK who think this Putin-loving free-speech imposter and Trump sycophant will protect freedom in your country, come on over to America and see what Trump & MAGA are doing to destroy OUR freedom" Farage has his arse handed to him on a plate.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

The UK is falling apart and the Media is ranting on about immigration, which hasn't really changed in 5 years, and is in fact going down. Perhaps their obsession is not because it is a big deal, but because the big issue is the rampant profiteering of their billionaire masters?

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

"The truly unnerving thing about the fall of Rome (yes, I’m going there again, sorry) was that most Romans probably didn’t notice it had happened." Morning all!

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The decline and fall of Great Britain

From the graffiti to the economy, a sense of terminal rot has set in.

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Raffie1 @raffie1.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Americans, let there no longer be ANY doubt of ANY kind.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

On 15 March 1939 Hitler and his deputy summoned the Czech President to Hitler’s residence in Berlin and then bullied him to submitting to a German invasion of his country. They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

European Parliament member 👇🏽

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

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Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods

YouTube video by CBC News

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

This.

A quote from the writer AR Moxon from 2017. He wrote:

"Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore. They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after.
Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?"
A.R. Moxon

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 22/01/2025

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin (Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )

Picture of the Tesla gigafactory in Berlin with Elon Musk projected and the words Heil Tesla

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