Sign in

Bruce Annett

@bruce22.bsky.social
11K followers 18K following 931 posts

Scots pensioner watching Democracy dying in the USA and the UK. Would like to make a difference before it's too late.

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4h
Long tribute from Kemi Badenoch in her conference speech to Jeffrey Archer, complete with round of applause. The world is a "less colourful" place without him, she says, which is one way to describe a serial fraudster, fantasist and liar who wrecked several lives in the process.
22582171
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 7h
Israel is responsible for a 58 year occupation, ethnic cleansing, brutal oppression, imposition of apartheid & now genocide. Its leader is wanted for war crimes Wilfred Frost asks an Israeli spokesperson if the country has begun to heal following the attack in Oct 2023
2016064
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21h
Sarah Pochin raised "concerns" in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Two days later she purchased an £800,000 second home on Anglesey. Remarkable stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities
1501712706
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 21h
Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.
311322419
Bruce Annett @bruce22.bsky.social · 3h
Birds of a feather.
020
Reposted by Bruce Annett
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h
The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸
23570512985
Bruce Annett @bruce22.bsky.social · 7h
She sounds over 100 years old.🤨
000
Bruce Annett @bruce22.bsky.social · 18h
Ran the country into the ground!🤨
000
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Journalist, "You called Margaret Thatcher a genius. Was one of her biggest mistakes the privatisation of England's water networks?" Kemi Badenoch, "Privatisation was a success" She then explains exactly how privatisation was not a success - shameless gaslighting, utterly disgusting.
92595169
Reposted by Bruce Annett
BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ireland is pushing a motion to ban Israel from FIFA and UEFA. It has made JD Vance very mad. It's time to remove Israel from world sport, don't you agree?
1232321579
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just perfect
3628256
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own
451338554
Bruce Annett @bruce22.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Assisted dying would be more appropriate.
000
Bruce Annett @bruce22.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A racist audience, as usual.
010
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
238101993244
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
13348911576
Bruce Annett @bruce22.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How the people of Maine can't see through this grifting cow, is beyond belief.
110
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)
41997403543
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He’s been saying this for 11 years. Obviously if the cultists still believe this BS they are just hopelessly lost to an alternate reality.
79559451507
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve known many other defense secretaries, starting with Cap Weinberger, who served as defense secretary under Reagan. I can say without fear of contradiction that Pete Hegseth is the stupidest and least qualified of them all. He is a danger to the entire world. He must be impeached.
15253661542
Reposted by Bruce Annett
BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
6636231
Bruce Annett @bruce22.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A pathetic coward trying to sound like a hard man. Just like trump.
010
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pathetic…..
1530222605796
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside andy burnham's Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
11237921405
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/09/2026
☠️☠️☠️
21639301757
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
693279219541
Reposted by Bruce Annett
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
😕
16650372159
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
17341621400
Bruce Annett @bruce22.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lots of discussion about the triple lock on UK pensions today, but not a word about how it is the lowest in the civilised world! 🤨
051
Bruce Annett @bruce22.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What an arsehole!
010
Bruce Annett @bruce22.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"For morons only" certificate.
011
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"The one thing your viewers can know for sure is that we believe in controlling spending and reducing taxes, not increasing taxes," says Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, whose own government raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years, just two years ago.
78942295
Bruce Annett @bruce22.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
He thinks Xi will be impressed by a fake assassination attempt.Couldn't be further from the truth.
011
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
321009544
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
21188173854
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Life comes at you fast
662454616
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was told by a guy on Truth Social who wears orange makeup that leaking to the press was treason and people should be prosecuted for it.
454138444317
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sounds guilty to me.
8424249948
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/09/2026
Paxton won’t agree to debate Talarico, and we all know why. He doesn’t want to answer these questions: “Why did you give an Epstein-style sweetheart deal to an admitted child predator? Why were you impeached… by your own party? Why do you own 15 homes on a government salary?” James Talarico
234113403691
Reposted by Bruce Annett
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I had a massive bust-up over North Sea gas and oil with Lord Jackson on Politics Live today. "It shocks me to the core that sopmeone so ignorant, so ill-informed, sits in the House of Lords." I just wish I could figure out how to clip it. From 20'47" www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
bbc.co.uk
BBC Two - Politics Live, 23/09/2026
The big political issues of the day.
93852218
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
👉 Brendan Carr (Trump's FCC) was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group some labeled a ‘cult’ for 9 years. They abused & trafficked teenage girls and young women. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
theguardian.com
Brendan Carr was a member of a rogue Alcoholics Anonymous group some labeled a ‘cult’
Carr was a member of the group in his teens and 20s. There is no evidence Trump’s powerful FCC chair participated in any inappropriate conduct
14177125
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted.... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984
387154445801
Reposted by Bruce Annett
MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/09/2026
Ashley Hinson voted repeatedly against efforts to end U.S. hostilities with Iran while taking more than $217,000 from oil and gas interests, including $38,500 since the war began. Meanwhile, Iowa gas prices have surged 60% since the start of the war as major oil companies report soaring profits.
meidasnews.com
Ashley Hinson Got Big Money From Oil Companies After Repeatedly Voting For the Iran War
The price of gas for her Iowa constituents has risen by 60% since the start of the war, while oil companies are making record profits
32974083702
Reposted by Bruce Annett
migas7.bsky.social @migas7.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And Trump will act like he is doing a great thing.
1052204812
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you're advocating dismantling the triple lock on British state pensions rather than greater taxation on the super-rich or rejoining the EU then you I'm afraid are part of the problem in this country no matter how liberal you might pretend to be. You're just another cosy middle-class useful idiot.
89136
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Resistenza @resistenza.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
More corruption.
691120414945
Reposted by Bruce Annett
David Combest @decombest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
711856738
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is going to infuriate Donald, especially with Fox joining the boycott. Donald as a little boy never got enough attention from his wary, selfish parents. As an adult, he is so thirsty for attention—and watches for himself on television CONSTANTLY—being ignored by media is kryptonite.
2473492846
Reposted by Bruce Annett
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
720160466064
Bruce Annett @bruce22.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Getting old is now being treated as a burden on the unemployed and benefit scroungers, it seems. Most have worked and paid their tax for 50 years, not all have private pensions,(on which they pay tax), and they receive the lowest pension in the civilised world. But government spending, eh?
021