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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 11h
⚡️Latvia's pro-Ukraine party wins parliamentary election by wide margin. "I congratulate Andris Kulbergs on his convincing victory in the parliamentary elections in Latvia ... Ukraine deeply appreciates Latvia's unwavering friendship and support," President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Oct. 4.
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Latvia's pro-Ukraine party wins parliamentary election by wide margin
"I congratulate Andris Kulbergs on his convincing victory in the parliamentary elections in Latvia ... Ukraine deeply appreciates Latvia's unwavering friendship and support," President Volodymyr Zelen...
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 13h
This is depressing. If you are against antisemitism, I am afraid it is now impossible to vote Green. What is happening in Gaza is genocide and in the West Bank ethnic cleansing, at minimum. That does NOT mean that Zionism is racism, or — ffs — that attending a Zionist synagogue makes you a racist*
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12h
My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Something big may be happening: Trump's world-historical misrule may be creating the conditions for the emergence of a coalition similar to the one that ousted Viktor Orban earlier this year: Anti-corruption, anti-authoritarian, pro-democracy. I made this case here: newrepublic.com/article/2161...
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 14h
⚡️ Germany announces $1.46 billion in aid for Ukraine, including interceptor drones. The package was announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at a joint press conference in Kyiv.
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Germany announces $1.46 billion in aid for Ukraine, including interceptor drones
The package was announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at a joint press conference in Kyiv.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19h
The Tory party has killed itself with Brexit. It’s lost its mind chasing Farage into the gutter, saying unserious things, promoting unserious people who stand around in suits, arms folded, talking utter dribble to get a headline. It’s pathetic. We deserve a better opposition. This lot are shite.
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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hammering it into an open goal like Jude Bellingham against a team of 12-year-olds.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A protester interrupted Trump's speech in Ohio, calling him a "rapist and a liar." 🔥 👏
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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Empire of Grift” by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu
Slowly, the Brazilians were learning the same lesson as other American allies around the world: The United States of America is no longer the entity they knew. And American power is no longer deployed solely by trained diplomats and reliable officials, working through state channels. Informal envoys, private companies, online grifters, and hardened ideologues both inside and outside the government matter more. Unlike their predecessors, these people do not talk about spreading democracy, and don’t want to build long-term relationships. They don’t care about America’s reputation. They are deploying the tools of American diplomacy and government for their own purposes, to promote their own business interests or their own ideological goals, because, suddenly, they can.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh, look! The Trump administration is making crossing the US border more onerous for all the millions of Canadians who are no longer doing it. They are smart that way.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Endless corruption.
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It is essential for the sake of the UK's future as a democracy based on the rule of law that the right does not take power in 2029. Nothing - absolutely nothing - is more important than that.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 03/10/2026
There’s a lot of grumbling in London about new flats being sold to Chinese investors. But you never hear from the Chinese buyers. I asked Helen Gao to travel around Beijing property fairs and learn how you sell life in Woolwich to the Chinese elites. www.londoncentric.media/p/london-pro...
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How London flats are marketed in China
Chinese buyers of London homes say they feel like “chives” • Bafflement at Londoners’ love of old homes built during the “Qing dynasty” • Fascination with the enigma of the British electrician
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A comment like this from a UK politician would be career ending.
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t own a diesel car but if I did, I’d be keeping more of an eye on the record profits that Shell, BP et al will be recording over the next months & I’d be thinking these are the people making my life worse. Greedy corporate fbckers. Not people in boats who arrive with nothing but hope & dreams.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You've been had, MAGAs.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/10/2026
Attendees listen as President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Alabama REUTERS/Jessica Koscielniak
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump, You don't get to pick your press corps based on who flatters you Letting Fox in while shutting out CNN, MS NOW & Politico is textbook viewpoint discrimination & the First Amendment forbids it Constitution 101 w/ @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social -TN
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One of two Labour gains from Reform in Northumberland by-elections yesterday. Too early to know for sure we've passed peak Reform, but another encouraging sign.
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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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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Stroke victims are often given leg braces to help them walk.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I strongly believe schools should bring children together rather than try to impose one religious identity on them. If you agree - please add your name and call on the Education Secretary to introduce inclusive assemblies for all, and to keep dangerous Christian Nationalism OUT of our schools.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
bless him
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This can't be talked about enough. "President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal." www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump's aid cut risks causing 14 million deaths, report finds
The figure from the Lancet, a leading medical journal, includes 700,000 child deaths globally a year.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Might you have been dropped on your head repeatedly as a child?
Bizarre speculation from Isabel Oakeshott, speculating that UK national suspects re the RAF base somehow have diplomatic immunity
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'In the letter, Watson detailed Lewis’s interventions on Palantir, writing: “By my count, you’ve spoken about Palantir almost 130 times since 2020; around 50 in the past year alone.” Clive Lewis MP told The Nerve: “ ... That, to me, was an implicit threat"' www.facebook.com/bheardmedia/...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New GB News accounts are out. Here are their losses to date. Or "spent political donations" if you prefer
Line chart titled 'GB News has lost £142m to date', showing cumulative losses in pounds rising steadily from around £3m in 2020/1 to £142m by 2025. The red line climbs most steeply between 2021/2 and 2023/4, reaching roughly £110m, then flattens as growth slows towards £142m. A note states the latest figures cover the seven-month period to 31 December 2025. Chart by Press Gazette, source: Companies House
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
if true this is bonkers for a party supposedly committed to defending free speech
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't know what's worse: your being banned, or the lack of solidarity from fellow journalists. Actually, I do. It's the latter. Because if journalists don't have each other's backs, they can't be surprised if they eventually have enemy knives stuck into them. bsky.app/profile/paul...
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Gavin @gavintc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is truly disgraceful, and particularly so from a main stream political party. But, the greater shame must be applied to the wider journalist community. We must support free journalism not merely those we might like. The option is state controlled propaganda.
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Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸 @alherix.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Solidarity seems to have evaporated with right wing majority ownership of U.K. media - one of the reasons I subscribe to Byline Times
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Well, gee, this certainly makes $6 per gallon diesel worth it
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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.
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Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"No one can quite figure out how Burnham keeps the hope vibe going for three more years with relatively little visible progress...at some point, he is going to need to show us the map and the real destination." This is rather good by @samfr.bsky.social. samf.substack.com/p/a-journey-...
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A journey without a map
Burnham has given Labour a sense of purpose, but what does it really mean?
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This quote (thank you Bettina) is the essence of why I so admired Burnham’s speech. No one is denying it’s going to be incredibly hard to deliver on his agenda, but the UK will never tackle its problems effectively, if it’s not able to discuss them honestly - on the EU and much else besides.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
More broadly, Burnham’s speech marks first serious effort to confront 🇬🇧 problems in years - not blaming it on foreigners, migrants, the EU etc, but decades of poor choices by our own cowardly politicians. His honesty was refreshing, and merits respect - but it’s a HUGE challenge to deliver.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 01/10/2026
French President Emmanuel Macron: "If the British want to come back and if the Prime Minister is moving in that direction, I think that is very good news, both for his country and for the Europeans." ♥️
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Daniel Hannan has been spectacularly wrong about everything to do with Brexit, so this is hugely encouraging for all #RejoinEU voters. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 01/10/2026
It’s been a while since I had a proper Brexit rant. Then GB News’s US Political Editor declared Britain “is not a European country”, completely rewriting reality, and my restraint promptly left the fucking building. How many excuses do Brexit’s champions get before they answer for the mess?
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The Brexit Multiverse of Madness
What happens when reality refuses to cooperate? Simple - you just rewrite it wholesale.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Joe Biden was way more coherent than this even in the debate. time.com/article/2026...
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 01/10/2026
This is a backward step - for investors as much as anyone else. Climate risks are real, they will, can and already do - affect the value of companies. And investors, as well as the public - have the right to know. buff.ly/yQG7Zk5
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And the music was pretty good too.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reconciliation is more a journey than a destination. Our job is to move together as far and as fast down this path as we can.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
As the U.S. military depletes critical munitions and evacuates bases amid Trump’s Iran war, Pete Hegseth is now moving to eliminate 20% of the military’s top brass positions.
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Hegseth Moves To Gut 20% of Top Brass, Calls Press ‘Treasonous’
At Quantico, Pete Hegseth paired a sweeping cut to senior military positions with culture-war rhetoric and an attack on journalists reporting on the Trump regime’s war.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/10/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge just forced Trump’s DOJ to fast-track records involving Trump and the Epstein files, citing “possible questions about the government’s integrity that affect public confidence.” The records being sought are significant.
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Judge Forces DOJ’s Hand in Explosive Trump-Epstein Records Fight
A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to fast-track records involving Trump and the administration’s handling of the Epstein files, finding the fight raises “possible questions about the gove...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are ruining our own institutions, which is sad for us and great for our enemies.
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