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Daniel G. Williams

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Athro Llenyddiaeth Saesneg Prifysgol Abertawe / Sacsoffonydd gyda Burum

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
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nawr-abertawe.bsky.social @nawr-abertawe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Rhodri Davies: NAWR Abertawe Volcano Theatre Photographs by Syd Howells
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
More and more, particularly in liberal democracies, we are seeing immigration policies leveraged as a way to punish and censor speech.
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Trump’s Politicized Deportations Are Becoming the Global Norm
The politically driven attempt to deport war critic Leonid Ragozin from Latvia shows that liberal democracies are starting to employ the very Trumpist and Putinist measures they claim to despise.
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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨 Plaid Cymru won't stand by while 2 in 5 children in Wales are living in poverty. That's why we're piloting a child payment for everyday essentials, to give children a better start in life. Now the UK Government must play its part to make sure it works ✊
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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Mae'n annerbyniol bod 2 o bob 5 plentyn yng Nghymru yn byw mewn tlodi. Byddai cynllun peilot taliad plant Plaid Cymru yn cefnogi teuluoedd gydag arian tuag at bethau hanfodol, gan roi dechrau gwell mewn bywyd i blant. Nawr, mae rhaid i Lywodraeth y DU chwarae ei rhan i sicrhau ei fod yn gweithio.
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
✨ NEW BLOGPOST ✨ “A very promising Female attendant.” | Ann Davies. In this blogpost, I explore the life of Ann Davies, an attendant at Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum. hellohistoria.substack.com/p/a-very-pro... #Wales #History #histmed
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“A very promising Female attendant.” | Ann Davies.
In this blog post, I explore the life of Ann Davies, an attendant at Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer was born on this day in 1917. “Nobody's free until everybody's free.”
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Nicki @nickinjr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Far right on the march and Lula’s failures: key drivers of Flávio Bolsonaro’s Brazil surge www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Far right on the march and Lula’s failures: key drivers of Flávio Bolsonaro’s Brazil surge
Experts say strength of evangelical church and stubbornness of Lula, 80, also helped propel Jair Bolsonaro’s son to first-round election win
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Far Right Makes Gains in Brazil in First Round of Presidential Race
“The momentum has been with the right since 2018,” says Brazilian philosopher Rodrigo Nunes.
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Ade Hodges @adehodges.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Steve Reich is 90 today 😍😎 youtu.be/9zPrgy-OhFw?...
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Different Trains: America—Before the war
YouTube video by Steve Reich - Topic
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Fair Trade Wales / Cymru Masnach Deg @fairtradewales.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank you to everyone who joined our 'Meet the Movement' event at the Senedd!🤝☕ With Kenyan coffee farmer Martin Kinyua and Deputy First Minister Sioned Williams MS, sponsored by Kiera Marshall MS. #FairtradeFortnight
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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Westminster has neglected Wales for too long. Plaid Cymru was given a mandate by the people of Wales to stand up and demand the fairness that we’re owed. Andy Burnham must respect that mandate and give our nation the tools we need to thrive.
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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today’s the day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Our Annual Conference is live from Llandudno. Watch all the speeches live from wherever you are 👇 www.youtube.com/live/gQPbnoy...
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Plaid Cymru Annual Conference 2026 – Friday (with English translation and BSL)
YouTube video by Plaid Cymru
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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mae'r diwrnod wedi cyrraedd! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Mae'n Cynhadledd Flynyddol yn cael ei darlledu'n fyw o Landudno. Gwyliwch yr holl araithiau, ble bynnag yr ydych chi 👇 www.youtube.com/live/k0cjQ6e...
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Cynhadledd Flynyddol 2026 Plaid Cymru – Gwener
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dividends paid to UK citizens taxed at rates of 8.75% to 39.35%, lower rate than wages. Dividends mostly go to the top 1%. £6bn a year raised if dividends taxed at the same rate as wages. More if NIC levied. Unlike the US, France, Germany, no UK tax levied on dividends paid to foreign investors.
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This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Fair Trade Wales / Cymru Masnach Deg @fairtradewales.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Diolch i bawb a ymunodd â’n digwyddiad 'Cwrdd â'r Mudiad' yn y Senedd!🤝☕ Gyda Martin Kinyua, ffermwr coffi o Kenya, y Dirprwy Brif Weinidog Sioned Williams AS, a noddwyd gan Kiera Marshall AS. #PythefnosMasnachDeg
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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mae Cymru’n mynnu Bargen Newydd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Mae ein galwadau ar Burnham yn glir: yr un pwerau â’r Alban, mwy o gyllid a hyblygrwydd, a llais cryfach i Gymru. Pwerau at bwrpas: i dyfu ein heconomi a gwneud bywyd yn well i bobl ledled ein cenedl ✊
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Golwg360 @golwg.360.cymru · 02/10/2026
Galw am ‘Fargen newydd i Gymru’ ar drothwy cynhadledd Plaid Cymru Hon fydd cynhadledd gyntaf Plaid Cymru ers iddyn nhw ddod i rym yn y Senedd #gwleidyddiaeth ✍️ Alun Rhys Chivers
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Galw am ‘Fargen newydd i Gymru’ ar drothwy cynhadledd Plaid Cymru
Hon fydd cynhadledd gyntaf Plaid Cymru ers iddyn nhw ddod i rym yn y Senedd
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As the Brazilian presidential election draws closer, Lula is in a very tight contest with Flávio Bolsonaro, son and heir of the Bolsonaro dynasty. The election is a struggle between Brazil’s democratic forces and the return to power of a reactionary bloc.
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Brazil’s Presidential Election Is Going Down to the Wire
As the Brazilian presidential election draws closer, Lula is in a very tight contest with Flávio Bolsonaro, son and heir of the Bolsonaro dynasty. The election is a struggle between Brazil’s democratic forces and the return to power of a reactionary bloc.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.
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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mae'r amserlen nawr ar gael! 📅 Ymunwch â ni yn Llandudno ar 2–3 Hydref ar gyfer Cynhadledd Flynyddol Plaid Cymru - ein cynhadledd gyntaf ers ein buddugoliaeth hanesyddol yn yr etholiad ym mis Mai. Dysgwch fwy 👉 plaid.cymru/cynhadledd Cofrestrwch 👉 plaid.cymru/cynhadledd_flynyddol_2026
Photo of Rhun ap Iorwerth MS walking along the coast in Llandudno, with "Plaid Cymru's Annual Conference - Llandudno, 2-3 October"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump and Republicans are terrified of policies that curb their own wealth and power, and the wealth and power of the oligarchs that bankroll them. That's why they're amping up the fearmongering about "socialism."
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1940, Marxist philosopher Walter Benjamin died while attempting to flee occupying Nazi forces. Benjamin was one of the most influential cultural theorists of the last century, and his Marxist commitments run right through his dazzling intellectual legacy.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"A senator in Vermont has noticed who is buying Reform. Why do you think so many British papers haven't?" via Very Brexit Problems
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 16/09/2026
🐉 | Now we've had the first post-election Senedd polls, I've relaunched the Senedd Nowcast ahead of the 2030 election. For the first time, you can input your own projections just like with the GB Nowcast! electionmaps.uk/nowcast/sene...
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
After socialist party Die Linke won Berlin’s election, centrist politicians lined up to call it antisemitic. The claims are baseless but serve as excuses for the Greens and Social Democrats to refuse a coalition with the left-wing party.
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German Centrists Are Smearing Die Linke as Antisemites
Claims that socialist party Die Linke threatens Jewish life in Berlin are shameful lies. Sadly, many desperate German politicians would rather make cheap antisemitism accusations than address the cost-of-living issues that drove Die Linke’s victory.
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 18/09/2026
Nearly £5m is being provided to councils across Wales to help people struggling with food poverty and the cost of living
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Nearly £5m announced to tackle food poverty and hardship in Wales
Nation.Cymru staff Nearly £5m is being provided to councils across Wales to help people struggling with food poverty and the cost of living. The Welsh Government said the £4.8m funding would support e...
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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This genuinely made me laugh out loud today
HOW AM I DRIVING?
HOW DOES AN ENGINE EVEN WORK?
HOW CAN A LOVING GOD CAUSE SUCH AGONY
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026
I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...
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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed
GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reform leaders in Wales: Mark Reckless: Tory, then UKIP, then Tory (again), then Independent, then Brexit Party, then Abolish the Welsh Assembly (his own job), then Independent (again) and then Reform Nathan Gill: 10 years for accepting pro-Kremlin bribes Dan Thomas: arrested for assault
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Daniel G. Williams @danielgwydion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 15/09/2026
A Reform UK Member of the Senedd has defected to Plaid Cymru, accusing her former party of having ‘no interest’ in governing Wales and being more concerned with ‘division, opposition and headlines’
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Reform MS defects to Plaid Cymru in attack on party's approach to Wales
Nation.Cymru staff A Reform UK Member of the Senedd has defected to Plaid Cymru, accusing her former party of having “no interest” in governing Wales and being more concerned with “division, oppositio...
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 15/09/2026
Reform UK's leader in Wales has stood down after being arrested on suspicion of assault and controlling or coercive behaviour
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Reform UK Wales leader stands down after arrest
Nation.Cymru staff/agencies Reform UK’s leader in Wales has stood down after being arrested on suspicion of assault and controlling or coercive behaviour. Dan Thomas said he was leaving the leadership...
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TAFF 💕🐷🐄🐑🐥🪿🙏Annibyniaeth 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @vegan-4-indy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nothing in the main UK BBC news about Dan Thomas, resigning as Reform Wales leader, after arrest on suspicion of assault! .....after all, that would put reform uk in bad light, wouldn't it 🤦‍♂️!
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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mae gan ein cenhedloedd yr hawl i benderfynu ar eu dyfodol eu hunain. Heddiw, mae Plaid Cymru, yr SNP a Sinn Féin yn ymrwymo i gydweithio i adeiladu dyfodol tecach i'n cenhedloedd a'n cymunedau ✊
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Our newsroom reacts to the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Sinn Fein’s historic agreement 👇 🗣️ 'This must be looked back on as a catalyst'
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Daniel G. Williams @danielgwydion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So sorry to hear this. Get the UCU lawyers involved. I’m not sure that this is legal. Great respect and appreciation for all that you do x
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Newyddion S4C @newyddion.s4c.cymru · 13/09/2026
Mae Prif Weinidogion Cymru, Yr Alban a Gogledd Iwerddon wedi trefnu cyfarfod yng Nghaerdydd er mwyn rhoi pwysau ar Lywodraeth y DU i ganiatáu’r hawl i gynnal refferenda dros annibyniaeth. newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/arwe...
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Arweinwyr Cymru, Yr Alban a Gogledd Iwerddon i gynnal cyfarfod i drafod annibyniaeth
Mae Prif Weinidogion Cymru, Yr Alban a Gogledd Iwerddon wedi trefnu cyfarfod yng Nghaerdydd ddydd Llun er mwyn rhoi pwysau ar Lywodraeth y DU i ganiatau’r hawl i gynnal refferenda dros annibyniaeth
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 13/09/2026
The leaders of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland’s governing parties are set to sign a joint declaration calling for their nations to be given the right to hold independence referendums
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First Ministers to sign joint independence declaration in Cardiff
Craig Paton and Jonathan McCambridge, Press Association The leaders of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland’s governing parties are set to sign a joint declaration calling for their nations to be give...
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Hard to shake the impression that the overriding sentiment in Tories and Labour to the Reform donations was envy rather than concern about our democratic system….
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism
In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13/09/2026
Tens of thousands march across Germany to protest far-right party AfD aje.news/978h6k
Tens of thousands march across Germany to protest far-right party AfD
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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is a lovely sketchbook I was assessing yesterday - by Welsh artist Calvert “Richard the Rev” Jones, largely of maritime scenes. He lived in Swansea so many are of the sea there in 1828-1831, elegantly rendered. But there’s a couple of nice bonuses in the book…
A watercolour and ink drawing of boats at sea, full sails billowing, executed in blacks and greys and pale brown and dusky pinkAnother boat scene, this time monochrome in dark blue-grey
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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 12/09/2026
Amazing. The BBC just led with the £36m donation to Farage without mentioning that the donor is a convicted criminal.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"The Burning Towers Foreshadowed a Burning World – Viet Thanh Nguyen on the 25 Years After 9/11" On this anniversary, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author describes how the horrific 9/11 attacks exposed both the power and vulnerability of the U.S. empire and its imperial citizens.
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The Burning Towers Foreshadowed a Burning World – Viet Thanh Nguyen on the 25 Years After 9/11
On this anniversary, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author describes how the horrific Sept. 11 attacks exposed the simultaneous power and vulnerability of the American empire and its imperial citizens.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New Gallup polling finds that 71% of Americans approve of labor unions and 56 million Americans would join a union tomrorow if they could. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power. If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.
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Unions are extremely popular: 56 million workers would join a union if they could
New Gallup polling finds that 71% of people in the U.S. approve of unions, continuing the highest period of favorability in over 60 years. This coincides with the greatest number of workers represente...
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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Clean, cheap energy - owned by Wales to benefit Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Mae Plaid Cymru yn cynnig cwmni ynni glân newydd i greu swyddi, gostwng biliau a buddsoddi yn ein cymunedau 💪
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 05/09/2026
Predictably, Farage is seeking to dismiss the latest exposé as a left-wing plot, but his position is undermined by the authenticity of the footage. Let’s hope that his nefarious financial dealings lead to his undoing ✍️Martin Shipton wp.me/p8Mk4U-1sum
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