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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 14h

"A list obtained by The Washington Post reveals all the major donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project.... Tech giants Nvidia and Apple each committed $25 million....Absent from the list is Trump himself, who has said that he is helping to pay for the project."

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Secret documents reveal donors behind $330 million for Trump’s ballroom

The records offer a panoramic view of a fundraising campaign that is extraordinary for its size and opacity.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 22h

“We're not f****** stupid enough to p*** off the entire woke south or centrist south really of the country,” “You need to seem palatable to everyone...We just need to get f****** elected, that’s all that really matters. We won't necessarily say what we are doing, part of the point is to not [say].”

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 21h

‘We don’t have the money for that’ says the former Chancellor who cut NI twice when we couldn’t afford it for purely political reasons.

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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

More proof that anyone who says "I'm not racist" is absolutely a racist.

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

One metal magazine of the 90s actually coined the phrase "Hetfield Effect" to describe the tendency of rockers to switch from "anti-war / anti-establishment" to "patriotic / conservative" pretty much the second they passed draft age

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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

While Russia struck the CHP-4 power station in Kyiv, Ukraine, last night and in doing so once again violated the inexistent energy truce, Starlink has been throttled over Ukraine.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Guilfoyle has now reached the stage where Trump pretends he doesn’t really know who she is.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13/10/2026

Mike Johnson: "The nightmare scenario…If this group took over, heaven forbid, they would turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body. They'd spend every day investigating the president, the first family, the Cabinet, donors to the party."

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

NEW: The US theft of Venezuelan oil resources appears to bring the Pentagon its own source of money — something that should be understood as another milestone in the collapse of constitutional government.

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The Dawn Of The Self-Funding Pentagon

It's not like the military is cash-starved from Congress. But it looks a lot like it's going to make money off Venezuelan oil

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

1/ It looks like Putin told Trump that Ukraine was causing high gas prices, a lie that is convenient for Trump.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

OOPS GOP ad buyer mixes up Portlands, spends money meant to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins in Oregon The PAC boosting Collins is "absolutely furious" at the "ridiculous error" made by the buyer, which takes blame and has refunded the money. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

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GOP ad buyer mixes up Portlands, spends money meant to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins in Oregon

An outside group mistakenly spent nearly $25,000 to boost Collins in Portland, Oregon, rather than Portland, Maine. The buyer admitted to the error and refunded the PAC.

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Is ‘whisper it’ just Telegraph speak for ‘I’m probably wrong’?

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This is flatly untrue. As of July 11th more than 70% of people detained had no criminal record. The data is here: tracreports.org/immigration/...

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Losing count of how many times Russia has rejected a ceasefire because it hopes to conquer all of Ukraine. Putin is incapable of making peace.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"Do you know why I am furious right now? [Plaintiffs said that this would happen]... I said repeatedly no, I trust the government. I trusted you all not to do precisely what you have done."

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 12/10/2026

The plot is a golf course that has been derelict since 2017. There are 21 golf clubs within 10 miles. The land has been classed as grey belt. The council has designated the site for housing in its local plan. So, when a plan for 660 homes came to planning committee, it was, of course, DENIED.

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Sevenoaks’ Nimbys prefer a derelict golf course to housing

Local Plans are failing to build the homes they promise

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

UK plc is being had by the biggest raft of political grifters in modern history & they just keep getting away with it

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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 12/10/2026

Exclusive: Do you remember the polling company Redfield and Wilton, which appeared from nowhere in early 2020, whose polls quickly appeared in lots of publications? The company’s director is a registered solicitor, prompting questions over where the polling expertise came from. Here’s the answer…

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Nigel Farage adviser had unpublicised role at polling firm

Exclusive: Chris Bruni-Lowe used Redfield & Wilton Strategies role to develop potential campaign tactics, sources say

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Countries that do what Trump wants get lucrative business deals; those that don’t get higher tariffs. Trump is pursuing his own version of “dollar diplomacy,” a term coined during the Wm Howard Taft administration. The problem is there’s little evidence that “dollar diplomacy” works. wapo.st/47gE6Rf

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Opinion | ‘Dollar diplomacy’ doesn’t work. Yet Trump keeps using it.

Trump administration pursuit of profit and peace blurs line between public and private interests.

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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Putin hopes to dangle development deals in front of Kushner and Witkoff to lift U.S. sanctions. He made some progress when Trump announced that the US would be importing diesel fuel from Russia. But most sanctions remain in effect, and Congress passed legislation to strengthen them. wapo.st/47gE6Rf

wapo.st

Opinion | ‘Dollar diplomacy’ doesn’t work. Yet Trump keeps using it.

Trump administration pursuit of profit and peace blurs line between public and private interests.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Old school Little Englander nonsense about regulations. The reason the UK didn't massively deregulate after Brexit was 1/ because regulations and standards are international norms, and 2/ the people and more importantly politicians even businesses of the UK want them.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The correct response to this would be to make all the evidence used to draw the conclusion public, then challenge Farage to respond, otherwise people will just pick their opinions on the matter based purely on who they trust.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation.

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Why on earth does this BBC piece on Burnham telling an interviewer the UK security services confirmed Russian interference in the Brexit referendum require a response from a pro Brexit pressure group? It's literally our Prime Minister telling us about election security. It's nothing to do with them.

The prime minister told The Rest is Politics podcast that upon arriving in No 10, he had asked about possible Russian interference in the 2016 vote, adding: "I've had the clear answer that, yes, there was."

"I think we've been too much on the back foot on that actually and we haven't informed people sufficiently about the extent to which people are seeking to disrupt the political process from overseas," he added.

Burnham did not provide further details about the type or extent of Moscow's activity during the Brexit referendum.

Britain Unbound, a pro-Brexit campaign group, said Burnham's comments were "another crude attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the decision that the British people made in 2016".

It said that foreign interference in UK elections was "obviously unacceptable" but added: "There is no good reason to believe that Russian intervention influenced the outcome of the referendum in 2016.

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"Seamus O'Reilly" 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇮🇪🇦🇺🇬🇱 @jimbobuk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In the observer; Andy Burnham has said "UK authorities are “clear” that there was Russian interference in the Brexit vote: this is the first time a prime minister has confirmed Kremlin involvement in the 2016 referendum." Finally.... What we all knew...

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Well, there goes lifelong learning. Absolute bastardry.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026

good morning, today is October 9 and Alex Gibney's documentary film "MUSK" is now playing at select theaters in New York and Los Angeles it's happening!

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Third Labour gain from Reform in by-elections in the last fortnight.

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Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk · 09/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch’s inheritance tax proposals are myth-based policy making at its worst. That's the verdict from @jillongovt.bsky.social following the leader of the opposition’s conference speech this week. Read the full comment here: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/kemi...

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Kemi Badenoch’s inheritance tax proposals are myth-based policy making at its worst | Institute for Government

The leader of the opposition’s conference announcement was not well thought through.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Trump: "We could fix Chicago in literally three, four weeks. We'd bring in the military."

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Ciaran @ciaranmcgurdy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The UK's "not very strict welfare system" in action yet again

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Trump: "We demand that Christopher Columbus be put back into the heart of Columbus, Ohio. We want it back. I see my Italian lawyer over here. We gonna win the case? The monument! We're building a military complex, uh, it's a arch. A triumphal arch."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

New in PN: Trump’s meme coin grift hits a new low "It’s the certainty of staggering losses that makes clear this is nothing but a festival of bribery. No one who spends millions to attend these tacky dinners expects a return. They’re just giving the president money in hopes it'll buy them favors."

publicnotice.co

Trump’s meme coin grift hits a new low

Buyers have lost almost everything. He keeps pumping them anyway.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

it's roughly a standstill result for the Greens when including Feinstein's vote, which would be fine given the Burnham bounce - except they decided to stand their party leader in it, who's meant to be a big draw. It's a poor result given they played supposedly their strongest card

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Our full report: buff.ly/OVR9hrU With full methodology, references and links to the modelling code

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

But if growth is the priority, we shouldn't be looking at IHT at all. Evidence suggests that cutting IHT boosts growth less than cutting other property/wealth taxes. There's evidence of negative effects (because heirs receiving inheritances have a reduced incentive to work).

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch wants to exempt the family home from inheritance tax. But that creates a perverse incentive for elderly people to *upsize* to save IHT. That could double the cost of the policy, and push £100bn+ from savings into housing. A 🧵 on bad tax cuts.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 09/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn… …seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error

Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error. Same error amplified by right-wing think-tanks, press It suited their ideological leanings. Future historians might say - planet earth and human life was shattered by a spreadsheet error.

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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error

Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026

FOX NEWS: 77% of voters say the economy is only fair or poor. How does this bode for the midterms? KEVIN HASSETT: People feel that way because of Biden

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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

31 years ago today, Bart Simpson pranked his church into singing “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.” #TheSimpsons episode “Bart Sells His Soul” first aired October 8, 1995.

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