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Deborah Holland

@cugnijack.bsky.social
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Lefty-ish, escaped to Sicily. Happy but find it hard not to be a worrier

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A professor writes: (Jason Stanley) The problem is that journalists failed to do basic journalism. Not a single reporter seems to have checked’ Jason Arday’s citations. The ‘quantifiable metrics’ of his work. Prof Stanley did: ‘Arday is easily comparable to the leading scholars in the field’
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Miss Candy had outfitted the Blue Angels for 43 years. The Navy was paying her $127,000 per year for the contract. Without telling her, the Trump regime gave the contract to a white man 900 miles away and paid him almost triple. Original post: www.instagram.com/reel/Db8Yh5b...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Happy 10 year anniversary of the best mic drop on Twitter. Hard to believe it’s been so long! Congrats @astrokatie.com

Katie Mack @AstroKatie
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Honestly climate change scares the heck out of me and it makes me so sad to see what we're losing because of it.

Gary P Jackson (RAT) @gary4205
@AstroKatie Maybe you should learn some actual SCIENCE then, and stop listening to the criminals pushing the #GlobalWarming SCAM!

Katie Mack @AstroKatie
@gary4205 | dunno, man, I already went and got a PhD in astrophysics.
Seems like more than that would be overkill at this point.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
🔴EXCLUSIVE🔴 I worked with @georgegreenwood.bsky.social & Tom Ball at the Times to expose how Farage’s “personal friend” John Mappin was a member of a far right conspiracist crypto scheme later accused of scamming investors www.opendemocracy.net/nigel-farage...
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Nigel Farage denies link to crypto conspiracist John Mappin
New investigation into Scientologist and QAnon enthusiast John Mappin raises fresh questions about Farage's allies
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
#TheYearInReform Look, it's very simple. Nothing to see here. Move along. Reform UK is a party - sorry - a company built around British Patriotism and being frank with the public, and it is led by straight-talking anti-elite Nigel Farage.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A reality check to the Government on the climate crisis. Heatwaves this year estimated to have killed thousands of people. The BBC didn't stream this emergency conference at all despite the urgency & their constant coverage of Reform - thank you to Sky. www.youtube.com/live/QnygX67...
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Green leader Polanski delivers 'urgent message to Burnham'
YouTube video by Sky News
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Just sitting on the pavement and clapping is now terrorism. Not saying anything, not holding or displaying any signs, just sitting on the pavement & clapping. Andy Burnham can stop this. But he isn't. Reporting by Steven Methven for @novaramedia.com
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 Did you know that Puerto Rico became a U.S. laboratory for reproductive control, sterilization, eugenics—and the birth‑control pill? It's true. Pull up a seat🪑. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory digpodcast.org/2019/05/12/c...
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Choice, Sterilization, and Eugenics in Twentieth Century Puerto Rico
In 1968, researchers found that one-third of all Puerto Rican women of childbearing age were surgically sterilized. This ignited the U.S. reproductive rights movement and the political demand to en…
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
looks like Thames Water has given a 14% pay rise to its chief executive and a 26% rise to its finance director
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 12/07/2026
I guess this year's Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree won't be one of the better ones.
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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
🧵I’d rather spend my weekends doing something else than post about Nigel Farage’s murky finances, but his behaviour poses such a threat to our democratic norms that I wanted to flag a number of points in the public interest.
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Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal
The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Guess why “There will be no more HPC reminders of “high pay day”, well-reported as “fat cat day”. This year it calculated that it took the median FTSE 100 CEO less than two and a half days in January to be paid what a median full-time employee earns in a year.“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This thinktank exposed fat cats and obscenely high pay. Guess what has happened to it? | Polly Toynbee
The High Pay Centre revealed the excesses of CEO wages. But then anti-diversity winds blew in from across the Atlantic, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 09/07/2026
ICE fascists killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo on Tuesday morning. His son Ronaldo didn’t recognize the man in the video by his face, he recognized his father by his voice, crying out for help. That’s how Ronaldo learned ICE fascists had killed his father 💔 open.substack.com/pub/letsaddr...
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Lorenzo Salgado's Son Learned ICE Killed His Father by Recognizing His Cries On a Video
ICE claimed Lorenzo tried to ram their vehicle and run an agent over, but footage from a nearby business shows otherwise.
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: the ONLY video of David Hearn's arrest. ABSOLUTELY UNREAL. They're throwing the book—TEN YEARS—at an Olympian over a REFLECTING POOL. Meanwhile actual crime runs rampant and THIS is what DC prosecutors call justice?! Wake up. This is what "law and order" looks like now.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
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What the Palestine Action appeal decision tells us about terrorism law
An already broad law is now matched with broad ministerial powers
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 26/06/2026
Ever climbed into a car that's been baking in the sun and wondered why our biggest car parks don't have roofs? The Government was considering exactly that. It has now quietly parked the idea. Here's why it matters.
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As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports
Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Farage’s “Like A Son To Me” and convicted wire fraudster/ money launderer George Cottrell has launched a political strategy and polling firm, Geostrategy International UNLIMITED, at a time when Reform is in the midst of a major fundraising push. www.opendemocracy.net/en/george-co...
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
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"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Just a normal morning in our police state
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 18/06/2026
Outrageous. The ones who put American lives – and the lives of countless others – at risk were Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth and Benjamin Netanyahu. Don’t blame the UK for your catastrophic blunder.
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
What if you were abducted & detained & you had no idea when or if you'd ever get released & you feared being sent to a country on an entirely different continent? That's what immigrants are fearing! All immigrants, regardless of status are at risk in this administration. #ICELawlessness
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Since Russia‘s full scale invasion of Ukraine in Feb 2022 it is estimated that Russia has made 654 billion $ in revenues from oil and gas and 75% of that has been transported on shadow fleet tankers. 🇬🇧 coastal waters esp English Channel =vital conduit for mobilising 🇷🇺 huge fossil fuel reserves
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Misinformation is everywhere. Listening to Hannah Spencer you realise how cynical & targeted it is. Confirmation bias of all who oppose her leads to most believing fake news without even an attempt of double-checking the 'info' they read. All it takes is a screenshot of her shirt & a reverse search.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 13/06/2026
The British state is handing contracts for increasingly sensitive elements of the Defence/Security apparatus to a man who has repeatedly tried to stoke open insurrection while aggressively backing British politicians who receive shady foreign funding and a guy who is currently in Moscow.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/06/2026
Award-winning Somali referee, Omar Abdulkadir Artan, has been removed from the World Cup roster after being denied entry to the US despite holding a valid visa.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We're at the point where the Telegraph are literally making up quotes. I said when veg is sold for pennies in supermarkets, it's a sign someone's not being paid properly. Farmers being paid a pittance for their produce. Workers on less than a living wage in supermarkets.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Two-tier outrage When 'r*cist kids killed an OAP in an act of terror, there was ... "- No extra funding for Muslims or minority communities despite the rise in hate crime - No MP's whipping the nation up into a frenzy with encouraging 'rage' of any type ..." www.facebook.com/ExposeRaciis...
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Did… did wasps write this?
Nature trail information board: 

“Wasps... the gardener's friend”
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 On the ground and in the skies—Black servicemen exceeded expectations during WWII. Did you know that they had to take a reduction in rank to fight on the frontlines? Yes. It's true. Pull up a seat🪑 my friends. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Reform UK’s former Leader Ian Cooper resigned after we expose him as a white suprematist. The party is trying to let him return to the party stating they have investigated him and cleared him. Here’s a reminder for them why he resigned: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/12/03/r...
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Revealed: The Online Activity of Staffordshire Council Leader Ian Cooper – HOPE not hate
Reform UK’s Cllr Ian Cooper has posted dozens of racist and bigoted posts to YouTube and X/Twitter under his personal accounts. When it comes to...
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
⚠️ Warning — disturbing imagery. #ICELawlessness needs to be exposed because very few are talking about it anymore. Don't turn away. Please help shine a light on Trump's evil thugs & their brutality. They are continuing their rein of terror & the media is barely covering it. It's up to us!
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The UK government should do something about malevolent foreign interference in British democracy. Urgently.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Kind-hearted Sarah Pochin posted a video with an elderly woman and the caption "helping people like Ethel is why I love my job". The fact that the woman was a notorious benefits cheat who claimed her father’s pension for 12 years after he died is neither here nor there. www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Yesterday Israel ordered the inhabitants of Nabiteh to leave (population of 100,000) They then ordered the inhabitants of Tyre to leave (pop of 200,000). Now they've ordered the entire south to leave - up to 300 towns & villages. Alex Crawford reporting from Lebanon today
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
NEW: Brothers Delivering Water in Gaza for UNICEF Killed by Israel Mahmoud Abu Warda and his brother Eid Abu Warda, residents of Gaza City’s Jabalia al-Nazla, were killed by Israeli soldiers on April 17 while driving a water truck for @unicef.org. More: unicornriot.ninja/2026/brother...
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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Things I called a cunt or cunts on my morning run: a hill; my legs; a moor; some willow warblers; a fell runner (quietly, under my breath); a rock in the path; my ankle; a golfer; a trig point.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
The way you're frustrated about the silence over the £5m gift to Farage @mrjamesob.bsky.social Is the same way so many British Muslims are also frustrated at the silence of the British Muslim who was also stabbed, but it was only the two Jewish victims who got walk to wall coverage
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 04/05/2026
Comparing people’s living conditions in 1901 to now is already silly & serves no meaningful purpose so let’s talk about numbers that matter to Alive People In 2016 Elon Musk’s wealth was 11 billion dollars. Today it is 800 billion dollars. Federal minimum wage in 2009 was 7.25. Today it is 7.25.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5
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Mr Bumpton 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @ivorbumpton.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
#EarthDay 🌍🌎 Take a moment to listen & share ..AI is here to stay But I keep thinking about our children's future RAPID EXSPANSION of AI DATA CENTERS has happened & there is NO COMPREHENSIVE FEDERAL LEGISLATION for concerns to the impact of ENERGY, WATER, & TOWNS A disaster in the making
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 20/04/2026
If they’re doing this to Christian statues on camera imagine what they’re doing to Moslem civilians off camera.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Why the f*ck must everything I hold dear be subject to the whims of a demented shitposter with no emotional regulation? Why can I not book a holiday or make a financial decision, without first stopping to think about that guy? Why should I have to wake up every morning to find out what he’s done?
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The World Holds Its Breath
This week: I hate him I hate him I hate him. Also: a map of the horrors; and some notes on the Moon.
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Bolt451. He's Our Bastard ❤️ @bolt451.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch
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alialiafro.bsky.social @alialiafro.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
It looks like you're trying to utilise a buggy Microsoft application for a mission critical action while piloting a rocketship to the moon - would you like some help?
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ALT: a drawing of a paper clip with eyes and eyebrows
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 01/04/2026
A longer one today - bring coffee. Labour has driven down migration dramatically - but it’s hitting care, the NHS, housing and the wider economy, while Reform voters remain unmoved and Labour voters become pissed off. A losing strategy on every front.
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Deep Dive: Labour’s Immigration Crackdown Is Hurting Britain - and Won’t Win Them Votes
An 80% drop in migration is deepening crises in care, housing and higher education - while Reform voters remain unmoved and Labour’s base drifts away
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Mack Butterfield @mack2114.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.
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