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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 17h

Right now, most of the world hates Trump and the US for their feckless cowardly betrayal of Ukraine out of greedy self-interest. And it's a shit deal as well. So much for the champion of the free. 🤮 www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

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Is that it? US to receive '14 hours worth of diesel' from Trump's 'betrayal deal' with Putin

Vladimir Putin will be laughing all the way to the bank - with Trump's dodgy diesel deal barely moving the needle in the US.

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 23h

This is the only acceptable map of #Ukraine. It is all Ukraine, and always will be.

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Trump family is essentially a mafia syndicate.

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Matt Leeds @mleeds2048.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This NYT Article Is Relevant To This Announcement👇🏻 Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Donald Trump is the most ignorant and immoral "politician" to lead any Western democracy in the 21st century. United States, you can and should do better.

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

These ultra-fring parties will happily sell out Western liberal democracy for some cheap Russian gas — if they don't care about Ukrainian democracy, where is there red line? The Baltics, Poland? Eastern Germany? bsky.app/profile/medu...

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

An increasing number of European companies are ditching enshittified data-stealing American tech like Microslop and embracing better European alternatives. You could do the same. itsfoss.com/news/tuta-jo...

itsfoss.com

Tuta Joins Other European Companies Under the Euro-Office Umbrella

The growing coalition is days away from shipping Euro-Office's first stable release.

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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

getartcraft.com

Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools

Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The "Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia" is definitely not a biological weapons research facility. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

AI voice-cloning scams are on the rise. If you receive a call from an unrecognised number and are unsure if it is legitimate, pick up but say nothing - if there is no human voice at the other end it is most likely a scam attempt. Block the number. More advice below: surfshark.com/blog/ai-voic...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There was a time when the Tories, however hypocritically, claimed to want to protect our natural heritage. Now they're just a party of vandals, ripping down the few protections the living world has for the sake of their rich chums. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England

Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So under the leadership of Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth, the US has been forced to withdraw its bombers from the UK and now suffered yet another deadly strike against US forces. I'd say the American leadership is totally clueless. #Midterms - change it. www.independent.co.uk/news/kuwait-...

independent.co.uk

Exclusive: Soldiers and Gold Star families press Army leadership after deadly Iranian drone strike

It's the deadliest strike against American troops during the war with Iran

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Unite Against Book Bans @uabookbans.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Banned Books Week starts today! This year’s theme is: #LetBooksBe What do you think books should be? Share your answer in the comments: ✨ Let Books Be Free 🎉 Let Books Be Fun 🌎 Let Books Be Diverse 💡 Let Books Be Thought-Provoking ❤️ Let Books Be Themselves

Drawn image of a woman reading, surrounded by books, birds, flowers, clouds, vines, stars. Text reades: Protect the Freedom to Read - Let Books Be - Banned Books Week, Oct. 4-10, 2026. American Library Association. ala.org/bbooks

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Some sensible guidelines out political discourse could do well to adopt as well. bsky.app/profile/venu...

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Love this 👇

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot

A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If one legacy of Trump is the final death of oil and gas as an energy (before he is thrown in prison) then well done Mr President.

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GeorgeWeeks2014 @georgeweeks2014.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In 2005, when Hobsonville was being built, it was progressive enough to include cycle lanes, but they were the type where the cyclists protect the parked cars. The rebuilt (2026) cycleway has the parked cars protecting the cycle. Better things are possible! #Cycling #Infrastructure #Auckland

Old-school cycleway located between carriageway and car parking spaces.

Newly-built ycleway located between car parking spaces and footway.

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What a civilised country the US is—professioning to be a Christian state, but their love of delivering death—in the form of war, children accessing & taking guns to school to kill their schoolmates (2026:🇺🇸=288;🇲🇽=8;🇿🇦=6), domestic violence or via capital punishment, all against "thou shalt not kill".

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Putting the vomit-inducing ethno-nationalist claptrap from Suella Braverman for a second; Question Time had YET ANOTHER panel featuring Labour, Tories & Reform—despite Reform having 14 times fewer MPs than the Libdems (+4 who were elected as Tories). Platforming much? www.thepoke.com/2026/10/02/s...

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Suella Braverman trying to convince this man he’s not English is like the very essence of Reform and his A++ response was simply brilliant

Question Time wouldn’t be Question Time without a Reform UK-er on the panel – when are they not? – and this time it was the turn of Tory turncoat, Suella Braverman. And if you want an insight into the...

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

After the Brexit referendum in 2016, Nigel Farage predicted that the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Austria and Italy. 2016 to 2025: each country has become more pro EU 🇳🇱 Netherlands - from 72% to 81% 🇩🇰 Denmark - from 62% to 85% 🇸🇪 Sweden - from 64% to 85% 🇦🇹 Austria - 37% to 51% 🇮🇹 Italy - 33% to 52%

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The whole Right Wing Billionaire world is trying to fix the Brazilian elections so Lula doesn't win. This is their 'democracy' a lie. Make sure Brazil wins, not Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg and Palantir.

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So it turns out that, alongside running a top-to-bottom scheme to evade #FinancialFairPlay rules and gain an unfair advantage on and off the pitch—knowingly cheating rivals of trophies and revenue; #ManchesterCity may also have also been cheating taxpayers and depriving the public purse of revenue.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Andy Burnham has broken the taboo on prime ministers being open to the UK rejoining the EU. It's a really important moment for our country. The inescapable truth is that the UK cannot achieve decent growth and fund the public services the public demands without EU alignment.

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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The one clear fact about these events is that Britain is allowing Trump's bombers to load up on our soil and drop bombs on Iran. That is not staying out of a bad war. If you are paying a fortune for petrol the UK government shares the blame. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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UK believes Iran involved in RAF Fairford incident, Burnham says

Iran's foreign minister has responded, saying the PM was "barking up the wrong tree".

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

WARNING: The Ellison family is about to own CBS News AND CNN. A judge just cleared the deal. Closing: days away. When one family controls what tens of millions watch, democracy loses a watchdog. Independent media isn't a luxury. It's your last line of defense.

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One can only hope that when #Liverpool meet #ManCity on 11/10 that the chants of "Same old City, always cheating" are also interspersed with "no trophies since the 70s!"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A very promising and emotive speech from Burnham which rightly called out the negative legacies of Thatcherism and Brexit—and as usual nothing but smear and waffle in the responses from Badenoch and Farage. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...

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Burnham giving first Labour conference speech as prime minister - watch live

Under the plan, the state pension will continue to rise each year in line with inflation or by 2.5% - but the annual earnings link will be dropped.

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is a new online calendar tracker, AboutTwoWeeks.com, which documents the dozens of times Trump has promised an imminent end to his illegal oil-grab war in Iran. (I'll give you a hint—it's a lot of very frequent dishonesty from Trump). abouttwoweeks.com

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About Two Weeks | When Will the Iran War End?

Explore Donald Trump's videos and Truth Social posts about when the Iran war will end, organized by date with transcripts and original sources.

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Must Vote Blue ♈️ @bewokeresist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

youtube.com/watch?v=B7cL... This is SO GOOD! Worth every moment you ape D listening - reminds you of how it feels to be in the presence of a genuine human being! Time well spent!

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‘The President Can’t Take Criticism’: Obama CHALLENGES Trump Over Media Ban | Democracy

YouTube video by The Financial Express

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Google is celebrating its 28th birthday with a fun retro logo revisit — back in those days their motto was "do no evil". How the mighty have fallen.

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Rah! Well done Trump, you fu*king Muppet, your effort to prop us the death-dealing hand of evil oil is undoing them. Now you can leave us.

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

London is not *LOST*. ... And it certainly doesn't need to "be restored" BY Reform or Restore. You can't find London because it doesn't WANT YOU TO FIND IT. Go back to racistville and leave us to being the best city in the world.

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Record Hatred". But the #Midterms are not going to hobble the worst president ever by themselves! Get out and #VOTE www.the-independent.com/bulletin/new...

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President Trump has reached ‘record hatred’ polling numbers, analysts say

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🇵🇱 Polish FM Sikorski: Russia is escalating because Russia's leadership is panicking. After more than four years of a senseless colonial war, Putin has achieved nothing. He's running out of troops and resources and needs a pretext to mobilize. His war has killed or wounded 1,5 million Russians.

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

End billionaires. There is absolutely no reason a human being needs a billion dollars. The idea that one human (and they're entirely without fail completely unethical people with no morals or respect for fellow humans) needs multiple billions is beyond rational explanation. Just no, never, ever.

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Disgusting scumbags. If it was someone they cared about who died because an ambulance couldn't reach them they'd be ranting at the Daily Mail about it. Absolute scum.

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Gotta say, young angry-looking men dressed all in brand less black head to toe are really catching my eye of late.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If only there was some way of knowing why Nigel Farage is so against a new national centre to tackle disinformation and deepfakes from hostile states such as Russia

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The Listening Politician @barmanpolitics.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes, oil companies SHOULD be held responsible for the damage and costs caused by climate change—and their CEOs should face criminal negligence charges for related deaths. The Western Oil and Gas Association’s 1954 study shows they knew about the harm all along. www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

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An Existential Threat to the Oil Industry

Can the energy giants be held responsible for extreme weather?

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