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Andrew Luck-Baker

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great thread. Most racists are "genuinely concerned" because they are genuinely prejudiced. Their sincerity is not the issue
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children. He praises Stalin on social media www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Andrew Luck-Baker @andrewl-b.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform is the richest party in Britain. Its leaders are almost all millionaires. It is funded almost exclusively by billionaires. It has a supportive TV station and widespread media backing. So naturally, this donation comes with the usual attack on "elites". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire
Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump
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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 31/03/2026
I can now reveal that crypto billionaire Ben Delo—pardoned by Trump after a conviction for anti-money-laundering violations—privately funded the failed libel action brought against me by neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists Nina Power and Daniel Miller to the tune of at least £300,000.
Ben Delo, Nina Power and Daniel 'DC' Miller.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 09/09/2026
How much warmer was summer 2026 than 1976 for the UK? Interesting differences between daytime (Tmax) and nighttime (Tmin). 2026 was much warmer than 1976, including in rural areas. (The only exception is daytime temperatures in Scotland.)
Temperatures in 2026 were much warmer than 1976 except for daytime temperatures in Scotland.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is deeply shocking.
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Oliver Morton, Eater of Sun @eaterofsun.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Renewing Gernot's gift link www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I keep seeing all these articles saying that the "real" reason behind Ratcliffe's "secret" trip to Moscow was to warn RU against attacking Europe in the next few years. I don't believe it. First, why a rushed "secret" meeting on that? Second, why so many leaks? My guess is that the focus was Iran.
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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I googled her name and she’s a health policy researcher who writes think tank reports about gambling harms, we have found the patron saint of UK Bluesky
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Ulez has delivered remarkable public health gains in a short period. Sadiq deserves more credit than he’s had for defying Labour pressure to U-turn after Uxbridge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds
Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Incredible Awkwardness of Being Zia Yusuf.
Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK REFORM 

The British government learnt of the data leak in August 2023.

24k Afghans secretly granted asylum, costing British taxpayers up to £7 billion.

The government covered it up.

Who was in government?

Home Secretary: Suella Braverman

Immigration Minister: Robert Jenrick

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Should Ben Wallace be prosecuted for treason for importing thousands of unvetted Afghans to Britain - including Taliban fighters and rapists - and taking out an injunction to keep it secret?

Yes
55.3%

No
44.7%

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Final results

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Andrew Luck-Baker @andrewl-b.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Former Director of BBC News on the BBC’s seemingly partial coverage of Reform’s welfare plans this morning
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Nature @nature.com · 02/08/2026
“We can almost look through the eyes of [Europe's earliest Homo sapiens] and see how they viewed the environment around them” go.nature.com/4xdqTmX
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40,000-year-old bird carvings provide clues to how ice age humans flourished
Nature - Newly discovered figurines point to skills that might have helped shape early humans’ expansion across Europe.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
RefUK, RW media, & Eurofash are plainly trying to whip up a panic about this. Any serious report must begin by explaining that Ceuta is in Africa - not mainland Spain - and 48k+ of the 50k crossers were already returned. It is frightening how many still don't know this. Please share on all socials.
Map showing the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa.Screengrab from Politico piece that explains, citing Reuters, that 48,300 of the 50,000 recent crossings have already been expelled or voluntarily returned to Morocco.BBC report on Friday, still echoing the RW disinformation - or at the very least not challengning it sufficiently.

"Spain's PM blames traffickers after 60,000 migrants reach Ceuta from Morocco
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What triggered the mass migrant crossings into Ceuta?
Sofia Ferreira Santos and Sarah Rainsford, Southern and Eastern Europe
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Spain's prime minister has blamed trafficking gangs after about 60,000 migrants crossed into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco. At least 57 people died during the surge, according to local media."Daily Mail and Daily Express from this weekend, with front page headlines "Ministers MUST stop the Spanish border invaders reaching UK" and "SPANISH BORDER CRISIS IS 'WAKE-UP CALL' FOR UK", respectively.
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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Natural England forced to admit 'Every White-tailed Eagle death in Dorset linked to rat poison'. #RaptorResearch raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/08/01/n...
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Natural England forced to admit ‘Every White-tailed Eagle death in Dorset linked to rat poison’
Last week, the independent group Wildlife Poisoning Research UK (WPRUK) issued a press release confirming the poisoning of more White-tailed Eagles in Dorset, following the high profile poisoning o…
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
No one thinks they will have to pay for social care. Until they find they do
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
BOUIE: ".. Musk spends a large part of his free time fomenting violence and spreading .. hateful ideology .. ".. It is that fact, and not the cars he builds or the rockets he launches, that ought to define his place in public life." @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...
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Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The Times corrects its splash story headlined "Migrant care workers bring dozens of family members." The Times got this totally wrong. It then used its own error as the basis for an editorial calling explicitly for forced expulsions of people living here legally. www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...
In a headline and a leading article we said migrant care workers were each bringing up to 15 family members with them (News, Comment, Jul 6). This was incorrect. The ratio of 15 to 1 was that of new visa approvals for Cameroonian care workers to visa approvals for family members of all Cameroonian care workers already in the UK in 2025-26. The same applies to arrivals from Ghana, Bangladesh and India. There is no connection between new visa approvals for care workers, who are not allowed to bring any dependants at all, and visas issued to the family members of care workers who were here already.
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Andrew Luck-Baker @andrewl-b.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/07/2026
1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.
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Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This week's column explains how successive Environment Secretaries in the UK have been actively facilitating ecocide on behalf of industrial lobbyists. Charged with protecting the living world, one after another has been working for the enemy. This has to change.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot
Industrial poultry farming is killing our rivers. But rather than stop it, the government has been facilitating it. Will Andy Burnham end this ecocide, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
You wouldn't know from these Tweets by a BBC reporter that small boat crossings are down by almost a half compared to the same period last year
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
All you can do with the right-wing press is ignore it and get on with the job. Never try to appease these ghouls and their sundowning readership. They’re the people who thought Liz Truss was a good idea
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Andrew Whiteley @andrewwhiteley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
A man is known by the company he keeps Here's Nigel Farage with Nathan Gill (back right) a paid Russian agent, and George Cottrell (front right) a felon convicted of money laundering, fraud, extortion and blackmail.
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𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕪𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕤 @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
His name was Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old originally from Colombia. He had a wife, a young daughter, and family that loved him. He had the legal authority to be here and to work here. ICE murdered him after he left for work that morning. #ProudBlue #ICEshooting #Maine
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Mike Spangenberg @mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Monstrous
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JointheDots @joiningupthedots.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Who doesn’t rent their spare room back to themselves to offset tax, keeping it £1 less than the amount which would trigger a required to declaration according to Parliament's reporting standards. Working class hero.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Jamie @fctwentebenson.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Look none of us like it but you have to tick the I Don't Want To Be Sucked Out The Window To My Death box and pay the extra €25
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Edit Szegedi @eszegedi.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
What Rutte is doing is the equivalent of tossing a bunch of bananas in front of a rabid baboon.The bananas may distract him for a minute.But in the end you’ve still got a rabid baboon on your hands @djrothkopf.bsky.social hit the nail on the head-perfect summary www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-unhin...
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Trump’s Unhinged NATO Stunts Turned a World Summit Into a Zoo
When I say the president showed his ass, I really mean it. He’s a baboon.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Never underestimate the self-pity of the ruling classes.
Photo of Nigel Farage during his lament.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I hope Trump’s efforts to cheat in November work as poorly as his effort to cheat for the US in the World Cup.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5



Brexit will REDUCE food,
wine and clothes costs
by 20% - Rees-Mogg
fires back at Remainers
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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The complete loss of cold years in the Arctic since the 1980s is astounding. The last "blue" stripe was 1992, following the Pinatubo Volcano eruption in the summer of 1991. #ShowYourStripes #Climate #Arctic
Climate stripes for the Arctic (land and seas north of 60ºN latitude), 1900 to 2025, showing the annual average as a single bar. Colors ramp from blue for the coldest year to bright red for the warmest year.
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I’m going to focus most of my social media posts on Bluesky and Instagram. I feel increasingly that X is no longer valuable as a journalist. You can follow me on insta @paulbrandtv - join me there too! www.instagram.com/paulbrandtv?...
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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Andy Burnham is now MP for an important constituency of Willow Tits! Key areas of Amberswood Common and the Flashes of Wigan & Leigh NNR are in Makerfield, where our study was based. There's dozens of Willow Tit territories there, and likely hundreds in the wider area. doi.org/10.1080/0006...
Willow Tit territories (and dots showing nests) in an area of Makerfield, Wigan.Willow Tit by Philip Schofield
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
CNN has confirmed that the draft MoU released previously by the Iranians, and denied heatedly by JD Vance, is in fact an accurate document. From this point, we should perhaps refer to it as Trump's Instrument of Surrender rather than as an MoU. Read it here.
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Read the 14-point draft agreement between the US and Iran | CNN
The agreement between Iran and the US lays out the terms of the ceasefire between the bitter rivals, the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, some financial relief for Iran and a reiteration from Tehran...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 17/06/2026
Does it change our perception of our society to know that a fair chunk of extremist behaviour is in fact a Russian sabotage campaign? www.ft.com/content/8fa3...
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Russian saboteurs hired third operative for UK attacks
Footage points to the role of an unidentified man spraying anti-Muslim graffiti in London
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Andrew Luck-Baker @andrewl-b.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A Garish Spectacle of American Decline www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...
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Opinion | A Garish Spectacle of American Decline
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This is the thing with the BBC. One section of it will cover the far right disastrously while another is diligently digging out the truth. It runs the gamut from courageous gold-standard reporting to Justin Webb
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Can we finally get an apology from all the oh so sensible commentators who have spent the past ten years insisting Nigel Farage isn't part of the far-right
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
For years the growing national security threat to the UK caused by the global far right has been either ignored, tolerated, or actively cheered on by mainstream politicians in the UK. After the horrific scenes in Belfast last night it can be ignored no longer www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
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Nigel Farage and the Far-Right Are Now the Biggest National Security Threat to the UK
It's time the Government woke up to the growing threat posed by the forces of hate seeking to incite violence on our streets
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.
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