Reposted by Amyn MerchantPeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 18hBy Braverman’s definition: I am not English (half Armenian) nor is the mother of my kids (parents Welsh). In fact of my kids’ great grandparents — only one is English What do to do, Suella? There are probably 80 or so descendants of my great grandparents which by your benchmark aren’t English 4923556
Reposted by Amyn MerchantRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 7hJust one of many problems with Braverman's definition of 'pureblood' Englishness (all-English parents/grandparents) is it excludes millions of white, English-speaking people with English-sounding names, who she/everyone would just assume are 'English'. #MudbloodsAreUs 5124550
Reposted by Amyn MerchantOutspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Black folks don’t hang themselves from trees. 293136544574
Reposted by Amyn MerchantAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firingstime.comRead TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview TranscriptThe U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections. 65564532482
Reposted by Amyn MerchantPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Richest 1% of Britons owns more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 richest families hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population combined. The concentration of wealth in fewer hands has not provided the necessary economic stimulus. Need redistribution.leftfootforward.orgThis is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardshipSustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population 981884708
Reposted by Amyn MerchantPatriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Our response to Andy Burnham's Labour Party Conference speech 💬 #TaxTheSuperRich 426298
Reposted by Amyn MerchantNigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Thank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt 262635406
Reposted by Amyn MerchantNaomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026bestforbritain.org/fundraising/...bestforbritain.orgHelp us Fight to Restore our EU Membership - Best for Britain 0238
Reposted by Amyn MerchantNaomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Welcome to my daily life, always having to battle tedious doom mongers on our own side, and who get proven wrong again and again. Politics is about the art of the possible, and we campaign day in, day out for something they tell us can’t happen. It will. Believe it, and make it reality. Join me! 🇬🇧🇪🇺 511217
Reposted by Amyn MerchantIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Burnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitment iandunt.substack.com/p/burnham-sp...iandunt.substack.comBurnham speech: An astonishing moment of radicalism and commitmentIt’s easy to be cynical, but it would be false. Something extraordinary is happening here. 54900251
Reposted by Amyn MerchantRussell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Margaret Owen OBE 94 year old human rights barrister Arrested for "terrorism" for protesting against genocide 188
Reposted by Amyn MerchantJohannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Incredible stuff. 12599155
Reposted by Amyn MerchantESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 29/09/2026A galactic house of mirrors 🌌🪞 Webb has captured this spectacular view of the galaxy cluster MACS J0454.1-0300. Its gravity is warping & multiplying the images of background galaxies, which appear like they have stepped into a house of mirrors! Read more 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪 124471
Reposted by Amyn Merchantgamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible. 4621911299
Reposted by Amyn MerchantSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026My immediate reaction is to wonder why the laughing cow is breaking up with me. 2117514
Reposted by Amyn MerchantTheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Chris Mason joins us now with an adorable kitten he claims Nigel Farage rescued from a house fire..." Cartoon: @jonesycartoons3.bsky.social (UK) #BBC #BBCbias 821261
Amyn Merchant @amynmerchant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026@pimlicat.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social @quietriotpod.bsky.social This may be of interest to you? 010
Reposted by Amyn MerchantJaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.devatlas.jazco.devAtlasA living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours. 1171412421
Reposted by Amyn MerchantRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way. 210122523887
Reposted by Amyn MerchantNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Google has started updating satellite images of Gaza. Holocaust. (📸 Barry Andrews MEP, European Parliament) 23762432
Reposted by Amyn MerchantMother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026They're also working with the Trump administration to remove AI regulation and obtain military contracts.motherjones.comRest assured: AI companies say they're investigating tens of thousands of rogue bot incidentsThey're also working with the Trump administration to remove AI regulation and obtain military contracts. 1215179
Reposted by Amyn MerchantSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Also under current proposals they won't be allowed to be social care workers after 2028. Ministers still don't seem to understand their own plan. 1427574
Reposted by Amyn MerchantJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"In order to deliver the PM's promise to save social care we need a permanent class of indentured migrant workers without labour rights". 28462180
Reposted by Amyn MerchantGillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026U.S. ENDS PARTICIPATION IN UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL AND WILL NOT SEEK A FUTURE SEAT. The United States is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council and does not plan to seek another term on the body. The sh@thole president has spoken 21511
Reposted by Amyn MerchantSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Guardian reports Rayner's continued defence of migrants care workers from in Cabinet. Seems to have won that argument for care workers with No 10 + Home Office Big unknown: will anyone protect 250k non-care workers (chefs, vets, architects) from being thrown out www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comAngela Rayner stands by attack on care worker visa reforms ahead of Labour conferenceHousing secretary says Home Office moved goalposts with ‘disruptive’ change to permanent residence rules 16365116
Reposted by Amyn Merchantrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026you guys broke watergate 22889361221
Reposted by Amyn MerchantSir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Hugely wealthy git who donated £3.2m to the LEAVE campaign which succeeded in damaging Britain moans that taxes will need to rise 1124754
Reposted by Amyn MerchantRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...nbcnews.comAmerica had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected. 43261663154
Reposted by Amyn MerchantMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 26/09/2026not often I'd recommend a 25-post thread, but: 1414
Reposted by Amyn MerchantJack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 26/09/2026I disagree with much of this by @modernlockey.bsky.social, but I think the points he makes tell us something interesting about the shortcomings of the Starmer project and the problems that Labour faces today.futureoftheleft.substack.comWhat is politics for?Do we still live in a material world? 26620
Reposted by Amyn MerchantAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/09/2026Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comOleshky: Eating garden weeds to survive in Russian-occupied city cut off from food and waterThe BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they are being "constantly shelled". 7518891170
Reposted by Amyn MerchantOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Small boat crossings account for ca 3% of total net migration to the UK. Watch GB NEWS or Talk or listen to Farage and Co and you'd think it was the majority. 1340793
Reposted by Amyn MerchantPaul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 14/05/2026In 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise. Imagine if we had listened to him them.😒😒😒😪 41762324
Reposted by Amyn MerchantRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Referring to the Chinese president, the host asked “If you were president, would you throw him a big dinner?” “I would not be throwing him a dinner,” Trump declared. “I’d get him a McDonald’s hamburger.” 😂 www.mediaite.com/media/tv/jak...mediaite.comJake Tapper Digs Up Clip of Trump Mocking Obama-Xi State Dinner: ‘Get Down To Work’CNN’s Jake Tapper aired an old clip of President Donald Trump blasting then-President Barack Obama for hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state dinner in 2015. 981787597
Reposted by Amyn MerchantJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026my legit goal with the Untitled History Podcast is to replicate what I had as a kid the first time I discovered In Our Time on the radio. I want people to listen WITHOUT caring about what the topic is. To feel that magic, and thrill, of just trusting it will be interesting. And learning cool stuff. 1012612
Amyn Merchant @amynmerchant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026@quietriotpod.bsky.social A contender for Grin And Share It, perhaps? 010
Reposted by Amyn MerchantRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.theintercept.comDoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam 6574018611817
Reposted by Amyn MerchantSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What’s in those cookies, Harrison?🤔 412523
Reposted by Amyn MerchantAnand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Angela Rayner condemns Labour’s migrant visa crackdown www.thetimes.com/article/385b...thetimes.comAngela Rayner condemns Labour’s migrant visa crackdownSpeaking before the party conference, the housing secretary says Shabana Mahmood’s immigration plans would affect care workers 68319
Reposted by Amyn MerchantAdrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Did the BBC use this heart-rending court sketch to try to portray the thug sympathetically? For me, it didn't work... I just pissed myself laughing 🤣 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukDaniel Thomas pleads not guilty after dinghy slashed in ChannelDaniel Thomas is accused of criminal damage after a video appeared to show him slashing at a dinghy. 5434153
Reposted by Amyn MerchantPhilip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"cognitive surrender" is such an amazing -- and haunting -- term. My vote for @merriam-webster.com's word/phrase of the year. 2132
Reposted by Amyn MerchantSpooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026With the news brilliant singer songwriter Michael Kiwanuka is recovering from a stroke, remember to "Act FAST" and call 999 if you suspect someone has had a stroke. F = Face weakness. A = Arm weakness. S = Speech problems. T = Time to call 999. Don't delay. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...theguardian.com‘Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. So I’m sharing mine’: Michael Kiwanuka on life after his devastating strokeThe Mercury prize winner hasn’t been able to go home since falling ill last summer. In his only interview, he opens up about the ‘poignancy’ of finally releasing the new album his stroke shelved 25022
Reposted by Amyn MerchantMarcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Every year, HMRC, by its own estimates, fails to collect 46.8 billion of tax. See webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/202606... How about hiring more people to retrieve this avoided tax before suggesting funding defence by cutting welfare to the poorest and most vulnerable? Just saying. 9206118
Reposted by Amyn MerchantBen Goldsborough MP @bengoldsborough.bsky.social · 25/09/2026SEND support cannot stop at 16. We rightly talk about giving children with SEND the best start, but what happens next matters too. Sense College Aldeby is doing brilliant work helping young adults with complex needs build independence. I’ll keep shouting about it. 092
Reposted by Amyn MerchantWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Have the BBC forgotten how to do proper reporting? The arrest isn't "over video", it's over the dinghy slashing. 1527761
Reposted by Amyn MerchantBiggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Should be reposted every month.... 338109673831
Reposted by Amyn MerchantMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house. 684249065521
Reposted by Amyn MerchantJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Mind-blowing story in Private Eye about how the Telegraph's chief reporter reached out to James Orr (or meant to) after the Channel 4 donation revelations 11565248