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Bat Brewer

@batbrewer.bsky.social
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Egham, Birmingham (UK), Warwick, Tokyo, signal processing, evidence, inference, beer. UK/US politics. Resist RW populist idiots trashing everything of value. Rejoin EU ASAP. PR4UK. Tokyo, Japan, where shit mainly still works. No unsolicited DMs, thanks.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/05/2026
NEW: I've filed a claim with Todd Blanche for compensation from the $1.776B slush fund for the unlawful investigation by the government into my podcast in August 2019. I'm seeking $8.647 million in compensation for weaponized lawfare - the equivalent of punitive damages, lost pay and retirement.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Farage just said “I didn’t wear a mask last time and I won’t wear them this time. This is nonsense.” Here he is, not only wearing a mask, but also getting vaccinated…
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
🔴 REVEALED 🔴 The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. 📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
desmog.com
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Rant alert: Trump’s national security strategy trashing the EU and core values at heart of transatlantic alliance makes it all the more urgent for Starmer to pursue bolder reset with EU. His timidity loses valuable time and risks leaving us even more subject to events rather than shaping them. 🧵
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Your regular reminder 👇 🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS 🏫 78% want publicly owned schools 💧 73% want publicly owned water 🚂 70% want publicly owned rail ✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail 🚍 67% want publicly owned buses 💡 65% want publicly owned energy
leftfootforward.org
EXCLUSIVE: Poll shows huge support for nationalisation of key industries and utilities
Privatisation has failed.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
This man ripped off teachers, nurses, small business owners - people from all walks of life and professions. Some lost their life savings. Not only did Trump let him out of prison, he also doesn’t have to pay back the victims.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 04/12/2025
arstechnica.com
12 former FDA chiefs unite to say agency memo on vaccines is deeply stupid
Prasad’s arguments “misrepresent both the science and the regulatory record.”…
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 30/11/2025
An official government account using the word “remigration” is not normal. It’s an imported term from European far-right movements that refers to mass expulsion. Democracies do not use population-purification language. #holdfast #SteadyState
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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Approaching 90,000 now, can we get this to 100,000 signatures - the threshold for a debate in Parliament - this week?
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Nicky Schwenzer @nickyschwenzer.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
November 28 marks one year of Georgia's daily protest and continues resistance. This is a photographic chronology of the past 12 months, captured by photographers working on the ground. As of Friday, 28/11/2025, Georgians have been protesting continuously for 365 days. 🇬🇪 #WeAreEurope 🤍♥️🤍
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🇵🇱🇺🇸 Polish media illustration: White House briefing: “Ushakov and Witkoff will take part in the U.S.–Russia negotiations.” Question from the press: “And who will represent the American side?”
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I know how they got to that point. Because we’re a few steps behind, living through the “getting to that point” right now in the UK.
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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Love and solidarity this morning to the right-wing rags clutching their pearls about the possibility of tax rises after championing Brexit, which has left the Exchequer £40 billion worse off than it would otherwise have been.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Draft Tory legislation on removing indefinite leave to remain is insane. Would chuck out those not earning over £38K - including many pensioners! + social protections seems to include child benefit, so load of people with (British!) kids! They'd remove my sis & mum who've been here 50 years.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 11/10/2025
Anti-vax onstage, Pfizer backstage.
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zeno @egrettt.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
"Foreign-born UK residents are much more likely to be of working age than the UK-born — and thus less of a fiscal burden. They tend to be healthier than the UK-born, and are much more likely to have a university degree. 75% have lived in the UK for more than 5 years and 90% speak good English."
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Privatisation of UK industries driving cost of living crisis & inequality. People ripped off by water, energy, rail, mail companies. Profiteering at care homes, dentists, GP surgeries, cataract clinics. Social housing destroyed. Privatisation is a scam. Delivered low investment, poor service.
theguardian.com
Privatisation of UK industries is driving cost of living crisis, says Greens leader
Zack Polanski calls mass privatisation a ‘failed experiment’ as report finds it has cost UK households £250 a year more
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Exactly this
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stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Straight outta #Project2025! They're looking to end tax exemptions on left leaning NPOs, arrest leaders, and basically shutdown half of the country's beliefs! And it has NOTHING to do with ck! It's been the plan all along! Totalitarianism is here! Be as courageous as you can and PUSH THE FUCK BACK
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God @thegodshow.com · 06/09/2025
Reminder: At the start of his legal career, RFK Jr. failed the bar, was forced out as a D.A., and got arrested for heroin. Without the Kennedy name, that story ends there.
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Bat Brewer @batbrewer.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Great piece on the fash asylum hotel protests, which are tiny but being covered as incipient civil war, even in the fairly-sane press, like they're some massive wave in popular opinion.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
If 'common law rights' were equivalent to ECHR rights, then the UK would never have lost a case in Strasbourg. But it has. 1/
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
‼️🇺🇦 We understand that today we cannot restore borders only with weapons, we lack the strength, but Russia will not be able to occupy us, — Zelensky
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/08/2025
You’re not dropping a single, asshole. If you’re actually knew anything, it would be criminal not to reveal it now. But of course, this is a bullshit publicity stunt.
THE HILL
HEALTH CARE
RFK Jr. says agency will reveal causes of autism in September
BY JOSEPH CHOI - 08/26/25 4:01 PM ET
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
'Immigration doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else' – Everyone. This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Peter Thiel, Musk, Stephen Miller, and Russell Vought realize their King is sick and dying. This is why they're ramping up towards a dictatorship. To ensure their groomed boy toy, JD Vance, has all the power to do their bidding.
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 24/08/2025
Historian here…WW2 ended with that amazing negotiation called…”unconditional surrender.”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
I honestly don't know what I did to deserve this incredible tribute. I can only say I'm honored, flattered, and humbled—and, of course, deeply grateful to everyone who made this accolade possible. I pledge to do my utmost to live up to it. 🙏🏼🤗
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Dear @washingtonpost.com: these two paragraphs are absolute malpractice. Utterly disgraceful. You use total counts, not rates … for the THIRD BIGGEST CITY IN THE US. Of COURSE it has a high total. And rates “have come down” … with a link, but no number. Down FIFTY PERCENT IN FOUR YEARS.
“You look at Chicago, how bad it is. You look at Los Angeles, how bad it is,” Trump said. “We have other cities that are very bad. New York has a problem. And then you have, of course, Baltimore and Oakland. We don’t even mention that anymore. They’re so, so far gone. We’re not going to let it happen.”
Chicago, a city of about 2.7 million people, has had the most homicides in the country in each of the past 13 years, with 573 in 2024. Like D.C. and many other major cities, it had a spike in homicides and other violent crime during the covid pandemic, though rates have come down since.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 21/08/2025
Wrote this analysis on the asylum hotels court ruling yesterday morning for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. It’s mostly held up but for one thing: the pressure on the councils has come even more quickly than I thought, and among those inflaming it is Kemi Badenoch, who’s urged Tory councils to act.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
"Asylum seekers should not be allowed to work!" "Asylum workers should not be subsidised at the public expense!" - and loop.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I’d be interested in knowing the difference between this and actual martial law?
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
It sounds conspiratorial to suggest that Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump behind closed doors to launch an assault on mail-in voting in elections administered by the states, and Trump immediately set about mobilizing federal power to do it… but that is literally Trump’s account of what happened.
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Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
More than two-thirds of the 60 people arrested after the 'Stop the Boats'/'Save Our Kids' protest turned violent in Bristol last August had previous reports, flags, convictions for domestic abuse &/or violence. Read the full story here: www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
bristolpost.co.uk
Two thirds arrested at 'Stop the Boats' protest had domestic abuse allegations
41 of the 60 arrested for the 'Stop the Boats' protest had previously been reported for domestic abuse allegations
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Andrew Chakhoyan 🇺🇦 @andrewchak.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Here is THE PEACE PLAN 👇
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
This fucking sentence
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Jordy 🇺🇸🦅 @meidasjordy.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Explain to me how ICE agents decimating restaurants in the local Pittsburgh area is “good for this country.” What happened at Emiliano’s Mexican Restaurant & Bar this week was downright disgusting. 16 hard working individuals violently ripped from the restaurant during business hours.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/08/2025
Extraordinary resilience. Andry was thrown into a hellhole and subjected to physical and psychological abuse and sexual assault—and has come out on the other side optimistic and forward-looking.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
We have concentration camps in America and it still has not truly hit public consciousness or the level of discussion we see around other subjects. This is how these things become normalized. We simply cannot let ourselves become desensitized, we *have* to keep pushing the discussion.
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
"New executive order puts all grants under political control - All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants". Purpose? Make scientists and institutions conform to political narratives. Most will. History will remember. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com
New executive order puts all grants under political control
All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.
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Fair Political Coverage - we want to hear from ALL our parties @fairpoliticsnow.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
There’s a quiet revolution of British voters who have had enough of the over platforming of one party in a multi party democracy & want to see/hear ALL their parties covered in the broadcast media. Letters to broadcasters are increasing &so are signatures here petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media at all times
We want to ensure that a plurality of views from all political parties in Westminster are represented and the nations parliaments are heard all year round, not just election times. The rules for cover...
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I would say this beggars belief, but there's nothing in this that remotely surprises me. This is fuel for the new left party.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
weird how the guy born into obscene wealth, bailed out repeatedly, allowed to fail upwards forever until he fell ass-backwards into the presidency, and then was declared by the Supreme Court to be a Very Special Boy Who Can Crime Forever never stops whining about how everything is rigged against him
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Southern Water applies for permission to draw water from rare chalk stream. Macquarie controlled company loses 91m litres of water per day to leaks. No new reservoirs built since 1989. Dumped sewage for 300,000 hours into rivers. Customer bills up 47% this year. End fleecing. Nationalise water.
theguardian.com
Southern Water applies for permission to draw water from rare chalk stream
Environment secretary urged to stop drought order that could damage the ecology of River Test in Hampshire
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
On left: ABC: Ghislaine Maxwell told "Blanche that Trump had never done anything in her presence that would have caused concern." On right: Maxwell said same about Epstein, under oath. DOJ 2022: "Simply put, the defendant lies when it suits her." Whatever is the truth, she's no source for it.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The family of Virginia Giuffre: "Missing from this group is, of course, any survivor of the vicious crimes of convicted perjurer and sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. Their voices must be heard, above all. We also call upon the House subcommittee to invite survivors to testify."
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.
Serve your country! Defend your culture!
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
If you agree water should be public, add your name to the People's Plan for Water: actionnetwork.org/forms/water-...
actionnetwork.org
Water Belongs to All of Us - Back the People's Plan for Water!
Privatisation has broken our water system. Evidence shows public ownership can bring fairer, cleaner and cheaper water. That’s why I'm backing the People’s Plan for Water. Join me:
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Crypto is not a socially useful industry. The most innocent side of it is a form of gambling. UK could make money by hosting and facilitating it, but it does so at the expense of global society and should no more do this than it should help illicit arms sales.
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