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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 20/09/2026
Hegseth eliminated the reviews and approvals designed to prevent civilian casualties, to avoid culpability for war crimes, figuring "hey, we thought the [boat / school / whatever] was a legitimate target" would be a viable excuse. This can't be allowed.. He must be criminally prosecuted.
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Dave Matthews from the Dave Matthew's Band holds two signs during his concert reading “stop killing children” and “stop the genocide” in solidarity with Palestine
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I haven't listened to his music in a long time, but I'll take Dave over Macklemore or Sheeran
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Surrounded by women, lawmakers, and advocate champions, Gov. Maura Healey signed landmark legislation ensuring full abortion access in MA. Women have the fundamental right to choose for their own bodies. Healthcare is a human right, period!
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
New from 404 Media: ICE to spend millions to buy data from LexisNexis to then feed into a Palantir system. ICE has long bought data from LexisNexis, which feds use to map out a person's addresses, location, assets, etc. But now explicitly want to use with Palantir www.404media.co/ice-to-pay-l...
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ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir
LexisNexis sells a massive amount of data to law enforcement, including ICE. New records indicate ICE wants to feed that data into a Palantir system.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/08/2026
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya: "We shouldn't be keeping kids out of schools because their parents have made different decisions than other parents" (Note that Trump is asleep)
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/08/2026
When Elon took over Twitter he told investors he'd triple ad revenue within 5 years. It's now been almost four years... and he's wiped out 2/3rds of the ad revenue (basically revealed in footnotes to SpaceX's earnings).
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article-14.com @article-14.com · 11/08/2026
Find out how global investment funds, private equity firms & financial conglomerates are moving deep into Indian hospitals, pharma and diagnostics in The Silent Syndicate, written by investigative journalist Ameer Shahul. An exclusive excerpt article-14.com/post/the-sil...
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The Silent Syndicate: How Big Finance Is Destroying India’s Healthcare By Ameer Shahul
Article 14 addresses threats to and failures of justice and deficiencies in the legal system, tracks successes that can be built upon and discerns trends and patterns that require to be brought to the...
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article-14.com @article-14.com · 11/08/2026
What happens when capital, not the patient, is at the centre of healthcare? In The Silent Syndicate, Ameer Shahul examines the financial takeover of hospitals, pharma, diagnostics and health insurance. Read an exclusive excerpt here: article-14.com/post/the-sil...
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The Silent Syndicate: How Big Finance Is Destroying India’s Healthcare By Ameer Shahul
Article 14 addresses threats to and failures of justice and deficiencies in the legal system, tracks successes that can be built upon and discerns trends and patterns that require to be brought to the...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NEW: We’ve spent a year tracking ICE’s massive expansion of detention for people with years-long ties to the U.S. It has strained courts, wrecked lives and been widely deemed illegal. Our report, based on interviews with judges, detainees and attorneys: www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 11/08/2026
Brought to you by the same people who brought back measles. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/10/t...
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Trump signs executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines, falsely linking shots to autism
The order builds on the Trump administration's efforts to reshape the childhood shot schedule under HHS Secretary RFK Jr., a longtime vaccine skeptic.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Capitol Hill reporters should ask every single Republican elected official if they disagree. Just get them on the record.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“At immigration court for detained children in New York City on Wednesday, a boy named Diego represented himself in front of the judge, Lisa Ling.” "I don’t know how to do it,” he said about an asylum form he was asked to fill out in English. “I don’t know if you can help me fill it out.”
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11 Years Old. In Immigration Court. Alone. No Lawyer.
More children than ever before are being forced to face immigration judges by themselves without legal representation, advocates say.
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
On holiday, listened to this short Sunday Times podcast series on Posh George. Amazing stuff. The degree of deep and purposeful criminality in the US charge sheet of the convicted criminial surprised me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
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Posh George: The criminal behind Farage | Times Investigates
News Podcast · Series · Posh George: The criminal behind Farage is season 13 of Times Investigates - bringing you award-winning investigative and true crime podcasts from The Times and The Sunday Time...
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
'Posh' George Cottrell and his mum, once again engaging in finl transactions with Reform UK that look needlessly circuitous, and appear undeclared. www.ft.com/content/4abf...
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Honest-to-goodness, salt-of-the-earth, white, working-class patriots who simply want to display their love of country via the medium of lamppost. And if that means tracking and tracing anyone who stands in their way, so be it... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 bsky.app/profile/oxfo...
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is why we need anti-fascist economics. Avi nails it: The desire to push back against the arrogance and impunity of elites is a defining force in politics today. It will either be harnessed by progressive politics to make a fairer economy for all… Or it will fuel fascism.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 25/07/2026
India youth protesters agree to end protests after talks with government reut.rs/4hwPT44
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India youth protesters agree to end protests after talks with government
India's ​youth protesters ‌have agreed to end ​their demonstration, ​a spokesperson of ⁠the 'cockroach' ​movement told reporters ​after talks with the government ​on ​Saturday.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 21/07/2026
LIVE: India's 'cockroach' movement protests continue in Delhi www.youtube.com/live/nuhWN1Y...
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LIVE: India's 'cockroach' movement protests continue in Delhi
YouTube video by Reuters
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
⏱️https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yv4r5g55do
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Police investigate donations by Richard Tice company to Reform UK
Britain Means Business, owned by the party’s deputy leader Richard Tice, made two donations of £250,000 in the run-up to the 2024 general election.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/07/2026
The Trump administration claims no one died as a result of its slashing of USAID. Our reporters traveled to refugee camps in Africa to find out if that was true. Listen to this conversation from @revealnews.org on “Paper Trail”:
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What Happened When Trump Officials Destroyed USAID (From Reveal)
Podcast Episode · Paper Trail · July 23 · 34m
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Roger @arbejdsmyren.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Fucking sjovt! Britisk sarkasme på højt niveau. Men også et forvarsel om hvad der måske kommer med DD og DF. #dkpol #dkmedier
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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"The Thatcherite presumption was that the private sector would step in and provide better for people than local councils." Time build more council houses again says @danielhewittitv.bsky.social on the latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social podcast @goldbergradio.bsky.social podfollow.com/byline-times...
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BYLINE TIMES PODCAST: Burnham's Priority "Must Be Council Housing"
Adrian Goldberg talks to ITV's Investigations Editor Daniel Hewitt about the dire state of Britain's social housing stock. Dan is the author of "Left To Rot - How Governments Have Betrayed Us And H...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"Overall carbon emissions have increased" in the UK, because of Net Zero, Kemi Badenoch repeatedly tells the BBC, to no pushback. Just completely untrue
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
You’ve got to ask yourself why the most thorough, astute, hard working and revelatory journalist over Brexit, Trump and Russia was the most attacked and mocked by the British media establishment, and hauled through the courts? The answer to that is very damning @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Those who vilified @carolecadwalla.bsky.social over her revelations about Cambridge Analytica, Vote Leave overspending, and Leave EU’s Russian gold and diamond discussions, at least declared their joint project a few years later - the Brexit Battalion Media Corps bylinetimes.com/2026/06/23/w...
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Whatever Happened to the Brexit Battalion Media Corps?
Ten years and six prime ministers on, Byline Times looks at the fate of Brexit’s most prominent media cheerleaders
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partwave∴ @partickle.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
trolololol bsky.app/profile/adam...
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Dan Grey @dangrey.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Badenoch just said, on national TV, that UK's carbon emissions have gone up "in total" because of the 2008 Climate Change Act. They have, in fact, declined by more than half. Did #Kuenssberg break in to point this basic fact out? Of course not
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 19/07/2026
2/ This essential read lays out the story of how Carole has been tracking Nigel Farage since Brexit, how our institutions – including the media – went missing in action, and how being personally sued seemed to have a chilling effect on further scrutiny www.thenerve.news/p/nigel-fara...
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Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial
The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, wh...
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 19/07/2026
NEW: Who funds Nigel Farage? And why has it taken till now for any journalistic scrutiny? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social who has tracked him for a decade exposes how the UK press & regulators looked the other way 🧵👇
Farage the money launderer and me: a decade of denial
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Why is Kemi Badenoch never asked about the hefty funding the Conservative party has taken from the oil industry and its lobby groups whenever she talks about her decision to scrap her commitment to Net Zero?
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
On Tuesday, a New Jersey town pulled $91M out of Citizens Bank over its business with ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic. Yesterday, Citizens announced it was ending its relationships with GEO and CoreCivic. Money managers should DIVEST from $GEO $CXW www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...
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This N.J. town just pulled $91M from Citizens Bank over ICE
Two N.J. municipalities have now pulled more than $330 million combined, according to the De-ICE Citizens Bank coalition.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The US is adopting a strategy of attacking water storage and desalination plants designed to render the region uninhabitable. If continued, this strategy will make the Gulf littoral uninhabitable in the coming decades. Yet there is no discussion of these tactics and their repercussion in the US.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 15/07/2026
Britain’s media barons don’t like a loser: how Farage managed to turn the rightwing press against him This week’s column by @sangitamyska.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/sangita-my...
Hats off to Farage for an incredible achievement: he’s turned the rightwing press against him, by Sangita Myska. Image of Farage looking downcast
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 15/07/2026
President Milei’s plans to turn Argentina into an anarcho-capitalist AI paradise makes him just the latest in the nation’s long history of chancers and dictators, writes Uki Goñi
Peter Thiel, precogs and ‘non-human corporations’. Welcome to the wild world of AI Argentina
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Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Behind the language of protection, India’s new transgender law advances a Hindu nationalist project that recasts gender variance through state classification while deepening exclusions along caste and religious lines. Read Hritik Lalan's piece here: ow.ly/rlsJ50Zn9OA
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Hindutva and the remaking of trans identity in India
Behind the language of protection, India’s new transgender law advances a Hindu nationalist project that recasts gender variance through state classification while deepening exclusions along caste and religious lines
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
🟡 From This Month’s Magazine: Makerfield: Can the ‘Politics of Place’ Offer an Antidote to the Poverty of Possibility? Having been on Reform UK’s target list as a winnable seat, Andy Burnham’s new constituency is a microcosm of Brexit Britain and the failed legacies… Read the full story below.
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Makerfield: Can the ‘Politics of Place’ Offer an Antidote to the Poverty of Possibility?
Having been on Reform UK’s target list as a winnable seat, Andy Burnham’s new constituency is a microcosm of Brexit Britain and the failed legacies of Thatcher and Blair.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 12/07/2026
Nigel Farage says his £5m donation was like a "lottery win", but Emily Maitlis says he only won by having "very rich friends". He has trigged a Clacton by-election, but is it all in the hope of making scrutiny on his finances go away? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/will...
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Will Nigel Farage’s by-election gamble backfire? | The News Agents
Nigel Farage has triggered a by-election in Clacton, which he hopes to win and firm up his support with Reform voters amid an investigation into his finances. Will this work, or has it just exposed…
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 12/07/2026
"Reform started the year by being treated as a government-in-waiting – and might finish the year as a laughing stock." Is there only one outcome for Nigel Farage, Reform UK and his Clacton by-election "circus"? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/is-a...
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Is a Binface humiliation the only outcome for Reform UK? | The News Agents
Robert Jenrick is the latest Reform MP to face serious questions about his funding, with Nigel Farage’s five million starting a “cascade” of investigations into how its MPs are funded. Can the party…
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I went to Porto Montenegro to find out why so many Reform money men have businesses registered to a grubby looking office building a stone's throw from the luxury yachts on the glittering marina. Feat. me visiting my first casino. www.opendemocracy.net/inside-refor...
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Inside Reform and George Cottrell’s world in Montenegro
Why are some of Britain’s most controversial Reform-linked figures all operating out of a grubby office in a town of 11,000 people in the Balkans?
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/07/2026
Two baby beaver kits have arrived at Ealing's Paradise Fields. Reintroduced in 2023 with Ealing Wildlife Group and Citizen Zoo, beavers are already stopping Greenford station from flooding and saving us money on infrastructure. Here’s what they’ve been up to 🦫
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
One from the archives: "A video of Nigel Farage shows him saying that as an MEP he could earn as much as a Goldman Sachs banker through claiming expenses and employing his wife" (which he did) When Farage talks about how much he's supposedly sacrificed financially by going into politics...
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Nigel Farage claims in video MEPs can earn like a Goldman Sachs banker
In footage from 1999 or 2000, the Ukip leader is heard criticising the MEP expense system as 'wrong' and 'monstrous'
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Nigel Farage has built a personal-political fiefdom where positions of power are seemingly handed out to those who give him and his party the most money. That’s ultimately why he’s being hammered by the media and why his support is cratering…
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Nigel Farage: the fall of a mob boss
Why he’s imploding...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Things are starting to look very dark for Farage. He's stuck in a ferocious scandal where he cannot get his story straight and his excuses raise more questions than they answer inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The facade is cracking
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Farage’s appetite for seemingly endless self-enrichment reminds me of a former PM whose greed eventually caught up with him…
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Farage’s Boris Johnson tribute act
💰 And the £5 million gift that keeps giving...
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Candice Holmes @candiceholmes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Farage has been denying, denying, denying – but it's all unraveling. Undeclared benefits from a convicted fraudster, a £5m crypto gift, staff and security covered off the books. Now he's being investigated. The grift is over. The public is watching. 🕵️‍♂️💷
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GHOULrandTheftArtaud @itskristenpaul.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
First the @bylinetimes.bsky.social came for him And he said nothing Then the @theguardian.com came for him, and he said nothing Then Murdoch's News UK came for him, and he realised he was fucked.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The Conservatives are for "the super rich" says Robert Jenrick, whose own campaigns have been funded by a billionaire Israeli mining heir and a firm controlled by a sanctioned oligarch
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