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Reuters @reuters.com · 1h
US Justice Dept tells staff to call AI 'super intelligence' under Trump order reut.rs/4y56aSm
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US Justice Dept tells staff to call AI 'super intelligence' under Trump order
The US Justice Department directed its employees on Tuesday ​to use the words "super intelligence" instead ‌of "artificial intelligence" when referring to the technology in most circumstances, including in court, according ​to a memo seen by Reuters.
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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 8h
Trump and his MAGA cult happy to sacrifice millions of lives, Iranian and American, to boost his ego and election chances
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Quote of the day
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Israel bars British Green Party leader from entering country
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Israel bars British Green Party leader from entering country
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Sunday decided to bar British Green Party leader Zack Polanski from entering Israel, in response to his party adopting a resolution declaring Zionism …
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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 04/10/2026
Zionism is not just about Jews wanting a homeland, it's about wanting someone else's homeland
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Reuters @reuters.com · 04/10/2026
Britain's Green Party votes to class Zionism as a form of racism reut.rs/3Vuk4A2
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Britain's Green Party votes to class Zionism as a form of racism
Britain's Green Party voted on Sunday to class Zionism as a ‌form of racism, drawing criticism from British Jews and from the Israeli government which said it now viewed the party as "a body that gives legitimacy to terrorism".
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A Holocaust survivor has welcomed the English and Welsh Greens’ decision to class Zionism as racism
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Holocaust survivor hails Green 'Zionism is racism' motion
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Judaism and Zionism should never be conflated. “The Green Party is now the first explicitly anti-Zionist party in the West” open.substack.com/pub/councile...
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The Green Party passes motion declaring Zionism is racism
The Green Party has passed a motion declaring Zionism is racism at its annual conference.
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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 04/10/2026
The fact the British media is angrier about a "Zionism is racism" motion than about Zionists committing genocide speaks volumes about the British media
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cable Street 1936-2026: Not Then Not Now roughtradebooks.com/products/cab...
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2660567...
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Greens back 'Zionism is racism' motion after intense debate
GREEN members have voted for a motion declaring that "Zionism is racism" after a fraught internal debate.
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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Be under no illusion: this is a significant victory for everyone who stuck their neck out and defended jury trials, day after day, clause by clause. But it is not a comprehensive victory. Magistrates should not be allowed to send people to prison for two years.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake".
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🇬🇧 LABOUR promised to “Save Grangemouth” at GE2024 🇬🇧 LABOUR then promised to “Save the jobs” at Grangemouth 🇬🇧 LABOUR saved NONE of the Grangemouth jobs, but promised £200M investment in the town 🇬🇧 LABOUR then spent f*** all in Grangemouth 🇬🇧 LABOUR take Scots for absolute mugs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you YES yet?🇪🇺
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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Serves him right www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Man jailed for 15 years over Sidcup Ulez camera blast
Kevin Rees, 63, faces a tougher sentence because the offence had a "terrorism connection".
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
US private equity owner of Boots to sell it to a Canadian private equity firm for $9bn (£7bn). NHS prescriptions are a major money makers. Otherwise its prices are high. No UK tax levied on dividends paid by Boots to its foreign owners.
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Boots owner ‘closing in on sale to Canada’s Weston family for $9bn’
Deal would mark return of Canadian family to UK after it sold Selfridges department store for £4bn in 2022
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 01/10/2026
Gigging, flirting, learning, sharing skills, making friends – none of these comes with an upper age limit. On International Day of Older People, here’s an argument for living, not simply existing. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @celinawords.bsky.social
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In praise of older people
1 October marks the UN’s International Day of Older Persons. To celebrate the occasion, the UK’s theme is ‘What’s on your doorstep?’
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Chris @chrismartinfilm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
He’s spot on. Fuck this timeline we live in.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 01/10/2026
Jürgen Klopp disgusted by claims his Germany team are ‘not white enough’
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Jürgen Klopp disgusted by claims his Germany team are ‘not white enough’
Manager says social media claims are ‘nonsense’ and ‘idiocy’
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: First Minister of Scotland John Swinney has called on Andy Burnham to row back from his proposed changes to the triple lock on pensions It comes after official analysis found Scotland's pensioners could be almost £2000 a year worse off by 2049/50
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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Come on IKEA, either Stop Funding Hate by subsidising Talk Radio or end the Performative Allyship pretence, as thin and artificial as the veneer on your products
Sluta finansiera hat is Swedish for Stop Funding Hate
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Reuters @reuters.com · 01/10/2026
Swiss glaciers lose more than 5% of ice after record heatwave reut.rs/4xO5CAd
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Swiss glaciers lose more than 5% of ice after record heatwave
Swiss glaciers are ​shrinking rapidly after suffering one of their worst years of ice loss during ‌a record-breaking European heatwave.
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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Immunity leads to criminality
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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Come on IKEA, either Stop Funding Hate by subsidising Talk Radio or end the Performative Allyship pretence, as thin and artificial as the veneer on your products
Sluta finansiera hat is Swedish for Stop Funding Hate
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 30/09/2026
A fairer voting system can't wait until after the next general election. We need electoral reform now.
WE NEED FAIR VOTING BEFORE THE NEXT ELECTION
 
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MP FOR NORTH HEREFORDSHIRE
 
"The PM cannot acknowledge the unfairness of a system capable of handing power to a government with a minority of the vote share, and then say the answer is to let that happen exactly once more before he fixes it.
 
Burnham must act with urgency to immediately jumpstart the National Commission, guarantee timely progress, and ensure its recommendations are delivered in time for a fairer voting system to be in place at the next general election."

Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales, c/o PO Box Green Party, London, SE1P 6YL
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Proof Manor Solomon Is Right & Israel Is '10 Times Better Than Ireland' waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/09/2…
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Irish Barbers Opens In Istanbul waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/09/2…
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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Labour's Home Secretary Jack Straw allowed a mass murderer to go free www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-...
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How Britain allowed Pinochet to escape justice for atrocities
25 years ago, the UK government allowed Chile’s former dictator to evade extradition to Spain. Declassified files reveal how the decision was made.
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Fresh quotes are emerging
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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Protect our women" say far-right misogynists and wife beaters, in thrall to fake-tan serial r@pist Donald Trump www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
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‘Fear is part of our life now’: women’s groups thrown into disarray…
Anti-immigration protestors are disrupting services aimed at those they claim to protect
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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Getting high on their own supply
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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kimberly Guilfoyle, ex-fiancée of Donald Trump Jr and now US Ambassador to Greece told the Greek energy minister about the fall of Romania's government “We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here”. Any country they want. Not Russia or Israel. Or Iran, despite months of wanting to
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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"General Motors is building 75% fewer Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles than had ‌originally been planned before federal support for EVs was yanked last year, a union official said." Translation: Trump took federal support for EVs and gave it to the oil industry to keep the US hooked on gasoline
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Schools forced to shut amid burst Thames Water pipe ‘leaking 750 litres a second. TW infrastructure has average age of 79 years. Industry average is 56 years. 40% of TW assets are over 100 years old. Profits siphoned-off, investment neglected, execs rewarded, customers fleeced
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Schools forced to shut amid burst Thames Water pipe ‘leaking 750 litres a second’
Leak causes outages and low pressure in parts of London and Surrey, affecting 6,000 properties and leaving some without water
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Palantir - supported by Labour 👉 helping ICE round up minorities 👉 helping Israel murder Palestinians 👉 harvesting NHS data youtu.be/Z2jCXF6iQnQ?...
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Should Palantir Have Access To NHS Data?
YouTube video by HarryEccles
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Arfur Towcrate @arfurztowcrate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Time to liberate Russia by getting rid of the gremlin in the Kremlin
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/09/2026
Fall Canceled After 3 Billion Seasons theonion.com/fall-canceled-after-3-…
Fall Canceled After 3 Billion Seasons
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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 28/09/2026
They released those five terror suspects on bail quicker than they release grandmas who wave Palestine Action signs
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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Hear me out - the Orange Order parade to be allowed but only if they do it inside Zorb balls, numbered so that bets can be placed on which of the 35 brethren finishes the course quickest.
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No one should be treated as a terrorist for holding a sign. If you agree, add your name to the petition: www.amnesty.org.uk/get-involved...
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End the prosecution of peaceful protestors in the UK
Police have made 2,700+ arrests under terrorism laws in the UK for protesting peacefully against the banning of Palestine Action. This can't go unchallenged. The UK’s chief prosecutors must now decide...
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Protesters were being ARRESTED for HOLDING UP SIGNS outside the Labour Party Conference yesterday! But this is nothing new. In the UK, OVER 3,500 people have been arrested, with MORE THAN 2,250 formally charged under TERROR LAWS for PEACEFULLY PROTESTING the ban on Palestine Action.
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Jack Bailey @jack-bailey.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Sick of work this Monday lunchtime? Or perhaps hungover from one too many on the first night of Labour Conference? If so, distract yourself with ✨ 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱-𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗠𝗥𝗣 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 ✨ Full interactive at: jack-bailey.co.uk/ward2024
Screenshot showing interactive ward level MRP estimates at the 2024 UK general election.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.
Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 28/09/2026
🔊 European seas recorded their hottest summer since satellite records began. Listen to the Reuters World News podcast to hear what fishermen off England’s coast are now pulling from the water as temperatures rise reut.rs/4rxIOmK
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reform figures, including Farage, had ignored police requests to not speculate about the identities of the five suspects, who have since been confirmed as British men in their 20s.
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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
Bryson has forever been against the Good Friday Agreement, all of his activism is designed to bring about its ultimate fall via a never-ending campaign of divisiveness. Political Unionism has been naive in the extreme in not seeing this, being led by the nose by someone who has never got elected.
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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
They grew up enjoying a peace built on the blood and bones of 3,500 dead, forged with political sacrifice on all sides, and they don't even have the brains to realise how hard fought that peace was and what the lives of their children will be like without it.
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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
Fun fact: these three people currently at Drumcree Church in breach of the Parades Commission determination were aged 4, 5 and 10 when the original Drumcree Sunday march issue first blighted us. 4, 5, and 10.
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