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David Richardson @abidaga.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

When he says 'and Millibands as a "species"', does he mean 'Jewish'?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

New, from me: Kimberly Guilfoyle was caught soliciting money for government favors. Normally we call that a bribe. If she is corrupt, it is only because she has adapted to Trump's corrupt environment, where everything is for sale. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-paper...

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“Stop Papering Things”: Corruption in Trump's America

Kimberly Guilfoyle is one more symptom of endemic graft under Trump

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is the vice president's guy, no? This should be every headline, it should lead every newscast and EVERY REPUBLICAN SHOULD BE ASKED ABOUT IT.

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David Richardson @abidaga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've been out of the industry for a few years, but I suspect that checking the legality of plates probably is only with reference to defined criteria (style, size, spacing), rather than whether they are camera-readable.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today, in Russian propaganda:

Schaeffer Marlyse. @Schaef... • 6h
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• Translated from French Show original
I am a French mother with beautiful children.
I did not give birth to them for them to be sent to the trenches.
French and Russian mothers do not want their children to fight against each other.
We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemy

Els van Veen O
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@veen_els
I'm a Dutch mother with beautiful sons. I did not give birth to my children to be sent into the trenches. Dutch and Russian mums don't want their boys fighting each other. We are not enemies. #RuslandIsNotMyEnemy

Nadja @EuropaNormal • 9h
• Translated from German Show original
I am a German mother with a beautiful son. I didn't give birth to my child to send him into the trenches. German and Russian mothers do not want their boys to fight against each other. We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemy

Dday @DdayohneZiffern • 12h
I'm a German mother with beautiful sons. I did not give birth to my children to be sent into the trenches. German and Russian mums don't want their boys fighting each other. We are not enemies.
#RuslandIsNotMyEnemy

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

These Rejoin polls seem to be coming up pretty thick & fast these days. Early days one this one with 75% for Rejoin, but we know how these can reverse! www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here it is.

diet. Would it not be better if they spent more money on wholesome things like oranges and wholemeal bread or if they even, like the writer of the letter to the New Statesman, saved on fuel and ate their carrots raw?
Yes, it would, but the point is that no ordinary human being is ever going to do such a thing. The ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on brown bread and raw carrots. And the peculiar evil is this, that the less money you have, the less inclined you feel to spend it on wholesome food. A millionaire may enjoy breakfasting off orange juice and Ryvita biscuits; an unemployed man doesn't. Here the tendency of which I spoke at the end of the last chapter comes into play.
When you are unemployed, which is to say when you are underfed, harassed, bored and miserable, you don't want to cat dull wholesome food. You want something a little bit "tasty". There is always some cheaply pleasant thing to tempt you. Let's have three pennorth

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David Richardson @abidaga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Proposals such as these make me so angry. In the early 90s, I was unemployed for a couple of years after graduating. It was stated government policy "unemployment is a price worth paying". This is on a par with workhouses - deliberate cruelty. But they've calculated there are votes in cruelty...

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1)how to create an illicit fags & booze economy run by spivs that'll deprive the Treasury of tax revenue 2)you don't get people "back to work" by making their lives impossible (note cut of a third to long-term benefits). It makes the problem worse 3)you bastards

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is it time to post that paragraph from The Road To Wigan Pier? The one about how the desperate, pleasureless poor will always refuse to just spend their pennies on cabbage no matter how much you try and insist. This isn’t a thing you can make people do. It’s not how humans work.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So true !!! 💻 Check out this great Norwegian video about how shitty the internet has become 😅

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David Richardson @abidaga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Reminds me of Dyson, who inflicted the Brexit he wanted on the UK, then moved his business to Singapore. It's utterly beyond me why anybody would listen to these people who have actually given us proof of the degree to which they are undependable.

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David Richardson @abidaga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Apparently the UK had to leave the EU because it was impossible to successfully manufacture within the bloc. Fun fact: INEOS assemble the "Grenadier" in France.

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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.

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David Richardson @abidaga.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Everybody knows exactly what NF is like. Unfortunately he's exactly what a lot of people want. It's the same with Trump. I left the UK in 2017, after I saw how rapidly it started changing after the referendum.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026

Kash Patel: "Applicants who have engaged in beastiliaty means they were victims of beastility because they were forced to do so. At this FBI we are not going to criminalize and prevent victims from serving."

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

quite something this paragraph.

After meeting with delegates from the two sides in South Florida, Kushner and Witkoff emerged with a peace plan that would have required Ukraine to accept nearly all of Russia’s demands: ceding territory, promising never to join NATO, and drastically shrinking its army. Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, hailed the proposal as “a good plan for both Russia and Ukraine.” But, when the plan became public, it collapsed under a wave of outrage. Even Rubio reportedly derided it as “Russia’s wish list.”
Some observers suspect that Russia has effectively offered the Americans business deals in exchange for a favorable peace agreement. “This is the generally held view,” the former U.S. official in the region told me. A classified report produced by a European intelligence agency states that Trump and people around him have discussed several potential contracts in Russia. The report is not dated, but the European official who gave it to me said that the details were first discussed sometime after Trump invited Putin to Anchorage, in August, 2025. Twice that year, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was allowed to enter the U.S., where he talked about investment opportunities. “The privatization of American foreign policy is quite far along,” the official who gave me the report said. (A spokesman for Kushner denied that U.S. officials would profit from the deals under discussion.)
The document lists ten potential ventures, which it says appear to “have been originally designed by the Kremlin’s political and business elites.” They include reopening the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under American control, resuming ExxonMobil’s operations in Sakhalin, and drilling for oil in the Sea of Okhotsk. According to the report, there was discussion of unfreezing Russian assets that are held under American sanctions. The document mentions people who might participate, including Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner. It also names Richard Grenell, the former Presidential en…

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David Richardson @abidaga.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

But, speaking as a resident in Romania, it doesn't tell the whole story just looking at income tax. The equivalent of council tax in Bucuresti is about 100€ per year, gas & electricity total about 700€ per year. I'm not asserting it's better or worse, just that one tax doesn't tell the whole story.

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David Richardson @abidaga.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"This never happened to the other fellow'

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David Richardson @abidaga.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Because he is, and has been for a couple of decades, the "far-right daddy". And he funds them. What's crypto for? Money laundering. What's 75 million? 3 fighter jets.

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David Richardson @abidaga.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Unt" is the Romanian for butter. The Romanian for "With butter" is "cu unt". Now you come to mention it, he's popped into my mind too.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 13/09/2026

Two billionaires: £72 million in 24 hours. Millions of trade-union members: £200 million across two decades. Apparently these are now being presented as roughly the same thing. Just fucking marvellous the heroic amount of heavy lifting that’s happening here.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So the ‘negotiation’ involves blowing smoke up Putin’s arse, asking him what he wants then attacking Ukraine for refusing to concede it. Never forget the huge swathe of UK media & political figures who celebrated Trump’s ascent while claiming to care about Ukraine. Absolute heels, the lot of them.

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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

So when Reform accepts £4 million from this man, are they sure of where this money actually coming from? A man convicted of running a platform deliberately designed to hide the origins of money is now pouring cash into British politics. Red flag, red flag, red flag.

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David Richardson @abidaga.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I know this might sound a bit tinfoil-helmet, but why would anyone take it on trust that convicted money launderers who run money-laundering machines are the source for the donations, as opposed to being merely the conduit?

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This is white nationalism, media outlets need to start treating him as one

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David Richardson @abidaga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don't even think they'll be disappointed. They'll forget. And if challenged, they'll say "Yeah, well Biden didn't give me $5000 either - & he didn't give $5000 before Trump didn't give me $5000".

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Chief Rabbi can’t have it both ways: he can’t both condemn those conflating UK Jews with Israel, and then do it himself by claiming UK policy towards Israel will harm UK Jews. Either UK Jews are distinct from Israel, or they’re not. Which is it, Rabbi? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Miliband rejects chief rabbi’s claim that West Bank sanctions put UK Jews at risk

Foreign secretary says Sir Ephraim Mirvis wrong to suggest measures against Israeli settlements will make British Jews less safe

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Tracy @tpine99.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A precis of the conclusion of Tim Bale's research into the personality traits of political party members, stating tgat members of Reform

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🙌 Come on BlueSky 💪 I’m relying on you to ensure this Brexpress poll reflects reality. 🔗 www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is some absolute nonsense impacting one of my favourite sandwich places in Belfast

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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Refukker 'Honest' Bob seems to hate the idea of using old military bases to house asylum seekers that was set in motion by...checks notes...'Honest' Bob. 🤦‍♂️🤡🤦‍♂️🤡🤦‍♂️

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David Richardson @abidaga.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🔴 Gold Firm That Employs Nigel Farage Predicts Unrest and Violence Under a Reform Government EXCLUSIVE: Promo material for Direct Bullion tells savers a Farage-led government could spark riots not seen since the poll tax – while paying the Reform leader hundreds of thousands of pounds

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Gold Firm That Employs Nigel Farage Predicts Unrest and Violence Under a Reform Government

Exclusive: Promo material for Direct Bullion tells savers a Farage-led government could spark riots not seen since the poll tax – while paying the Reform leader hundreds of thousands of pounds

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This really is a remarkably positive story - done in the face of massive right wing media opposition too Burnham should take note

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

ME: Hey AI did you make that breakfast burrito poster for me AI: Sure did, made it look like the skull of Cthulhu splitting in two and revealing the nest of a million eldritch wasps from the dark forest about to hatch and devour your face, your family, your gods, just like you prompted ME: What

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Kelly Kortum @kellykortum.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

On AI

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 20/02/2026

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

BROOKE GLADSTONE:
The Inquiry brought up the case of Denholm Elliott's daughter -
PAUL McMULLAN:
Oh, yeah -
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- which is one case that you truly do regret.
PAUL McMULLAN:
I do, yeah. After Denholm died, she hit rock bottom, was allegedly doing methadone. And although she had, you know, the half-million-pound flat that Denholm had bought her, she didn't have any money to get her ten-pound bag in the morning. So she'd get up and go begging at the tube station.
Here was a young girl crying out to be helped, and she met a police officer who didn't help her but rang up the News of the World and asked for money because he couldn't believe that this is the same girl who'd walked down the red carpet behind Eddie Murphy with Denholm Elliott, you know.

BROOKE GLADSTONE:
And you offered her 50 pounds -
PAUL MCMULLAN:
Yeah.
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
- if she would come to your place and have sex. So you led her into prostitution, which she wasn't in that space for.
PAUL McMULLAN:
No, indeed. But she was in such a bad place that someone offering her 50 pounds for sex. I mean, that's five bags.

BROOKE GLADSTONE:
So how do you justify that? Yes, she was a drug addict, yes, she was begging. Why push her that extra step? Why take pictures of her topless?
PAUL McMULLAN:
I was keen. It was in my first year. I wanted to impress Piers Morgan, who was my boss at the time, and just wanted to say, not only have I caught this girl begging, but l've got pictures of her topless and I've got her offering me sex for 50 quid. How great am I?
BROOKE GLADSTONE:
This is a pretty dehumanizing enterprise, not just for Jennifer Elliott, but for you, yourself.
PAUL McMULLAN:
Yeah, that's why I feel terrible about it, not just 'cause she killed herself afterwards, but I, I actually liked her as a person.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026

One of my favorite rhetorical and analytical moves is joining things (showing that different, seemingly unrelated ideas are part of the same phenomenon) and taking them apart (resolving paradoxes by demonstrating that what appears like a contradictory thing is different things, lumped together). 1/

A collage made of architectural features from 'Variae Architecturae Formae' (1636), a collection of engravings. The architectural arches, buildings, fountains, etc, are layered atop each other and placed around each other to create an infinite, recombinant built environment.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

#TheYearInReform Look, it's very simple. Nothing to see here. Move along. Reform UK is a party - sorry - a company built around British Patriotism and being frank with the public, and it is led by straight-talking anti-elite Nigel Farage.

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