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Dan O'Neill

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Politics, Culture, Humour, no particular order

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15h
Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists
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Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists
Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase The owner of a recruitment firm has been accused of being at the centre of a so-called “doxxing” campaign against the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), anti-racism activists and business executives who recruit black, Asian and minority ethnic workers. Tom Watson, from Worcester, is alleged to be behind an X account calling itself “Big Time Charlie”, which was deactivated shortly after he was named by the campaign group Hope Not Hate. Continue reading...
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 15h
Possibly the most sad and pathetic we’ve yet seen him - and that’s saying something. Embarrassing.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, massively overreaching for someone with tiny arms: “Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC. “And we expect our allies, many of whom are part of the ICC, and that rely on American service members for their defence, to rein in this rogue court.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Not something a civilised country does. The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be live-streamed, the Defense Department said. “People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.
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Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says
“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.
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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ever since I first saw it, this scene has epitomised Amerlcan elegance for me. I wrote a short story about it for Radio 4 (never broadcast) and it's why I drink Gibsons even though nobody who works in a bar these days knows what they are. A perfect scene - RIP Eva Marie Saint.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hugely dishonest to pass off a sentence for setting off a bomb as "destroying a camera"
Misleading statement by "journalist" Andrew Pierce
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This guy has been doing everything he possibly can every day to use his position of SecDef to tamper with the midterms, from speaking at Republican campaign rallies, to giving partisan political speeches to troops, to this. Do all federal employees get a day off to vote?
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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most disappointing video you’ll see today.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"A big petro-state did it and ran away"
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They will cut all non-MAGA-loyalists. That’s the goal.
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Tuffy @smtuffy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeah it’s a real mystery
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it might backfire horribly on him but if so, boy is Andy Burnham going out with a bang. Do wonder if that speech could only have been made by someone who was out of Westminster for the madness years & isn't as scared of the public - he's gambling on them still grudgingly respecting conviction
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don’t understand this “very British/very English” framing. According to the Today programme it was “very English” that a member of the public called the police on seeing something dodgy. I’d no idea this is a specifically English thing. Perhaps we can encourage other countries to adopt this idea?
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Man City being guilty of 115 charges is serious business. 115 slaps on the wrist is gonna leave a bit of a bruise.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The absolute funniest way for Liverpool to win more domestic leagues than Manchester United.
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Dr Chris Smith @spyhistorian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Two-tier policing anyone?
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If you think Trump wouldn’t demolish the Kennedy Center, that this is all some kind of bluff or only a calculated distraction, you clearly haven’t been paying attention all this time.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Perhaps the UK government should take Piddington at its word. It could set up border posts around the village & arrest any residents who try to cross as illegal immigrants. There would be tariffs on goods, of course, and no access to the NHS or UK schools, police, fire, pensions or utilities.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 16/09/2026
Let me guess - the village that has voted to leave the UK still wants all the benefits of being in the UK?
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: The Kennedy Center board votes to close over financial woes and branding dispute with President Trump, AP sources say.
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Live updates: Trump goes after Supreme Court for rejecting his push to restrict mail ballots
President Donald Trump criticized the Supreme Court on Tuesday after it rejected his push to let the US Postal Service restrict mail-in voting in this year’s midterm elections.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 14/09/2026
US President Donald Trump's administration is expected on Monday to scrap limits on carbon emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants, the source of nearly a quarter of the country's climate pollution u.afp.com/SjnE
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UK Prime Minister Updates @downingstreet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🕊️ "Downing Street is saddened to announce the death of Roy Burnham, following a battle with dementia. The Prime Minister has cancelled all engagements for today and tomorrow."
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
MAGA and Trumpism in a nutshell. He ruins everything. Congrats, America. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
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Kennedy Center could close as early as Tuesday, warns of bankruptcy, documents show
Officials said the center is facing “certain financial collapse” within weeks, insist that adding President Donald Trump’s name may be the only way to avoid bankruptcy.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Isn’t it interesting though that Mike Johnson shrugs all this off as just provocative things said just to create a “persona online” from one of his ACTUAL NOMINEES FOR CONGRESS, but Hasan Piker, who isn’t running for anything, supposedly represents the entire Democratic Party.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The way British democracy is being bought by crypto billionaires is simply obscene - and a direct result of Labour’s unforgivable inaction
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Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/09/2026
I think it's under-appreciated how much the threat of physical violence by Trump supporters is an undercurrent in our politics, keeping a lot of people who might otherwise speak out quiet.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Party of Thugs.
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Robert Jenrick Says Reform Supporter Who Attacked Woman At Party Conference 'Should Get A Medal'
He previously said the heckler should “get a life”.
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
While warning about communism, Trump vows to bribe Americans with their own money (borrowed from China) so that he can keep control of Congress and get even richer. And he calls this proposed budget-destroying bribe a "dividend". Read David.
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My first viewing of this, before bingeing was a thing, was finding myself watching the whole series on DVD during a sick-day from work. Greatest day ever.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If Democrats get to 50 or 51, he's going to flip. Which is why if they get to 52, they should strip him of his committee assignments and exile him from the party. No tolerance for this shit. Democracy is on the line.
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Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The data was always in plain sight.. bsky.app/profile/dunc...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I bet the NYT would've given Mamdani the same benefit of the doubt if he'd said he'd gone down to Ground Zero as a child to dig people out of the rubble.
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David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In the Before Times, this would have been not only a career-ending lie for any American politician, but for practically any American employed *anywhere.*
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A moment that has stuck with me for a decade was the day after trump won in 2016, a colleague walked into our dc office expressing some skepticism at our editor in chief’s claim that this was “political 9/11” and that nothing would ever be the same, suggesting it was hyperbolic or at least…
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/09/2026
Journalism's most heroic moment is back in print. Become an Onion member, and get a reissue of our historic 9/11 edition at membership.theonion.com/totepromo/?….
Journalism's most heroic moment is back in print. Become an Onion member, and get a reissue of our historic 9/11 edition at link in bio or membership.theonion.com.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 08/09/2026
Three years on from the ULEZ expansion, the evidence is clear: cleaner air, healthier children, fewer lives cut short.
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
wake up, EU politicians - get off twitter at the least
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/09/2026
We are currently clean on OPSEC!
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Channel 4 expose on Reform is telly ecstasy. Prestige TV is great but can it beat watching Nigel Farage, James Orr and James Johnson getting stitched up for blatant corruption? No it cannot
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 03/09/2026
8yo: how much will you get paid to write your book Me: uh, I don't know. Authors are paid in royalties so each time someone buys the book they get like $2 8yo: that seems like a bad deal Me: I dunno, what if my book sells a million copies? How much would I make? 8yo: well that's not gonna happen
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 03/09/2026
BREAKING: Gloria Steinem, the potent voice of the U.S. women’s movement and a co-founder of Ms. Magazine, dies at 92.
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Gloria Steinem, a potent voice of US feminism and co-founder of Ms. Magazine, has died
Gloria Steinem, the most visible symbol and potent voice of the U.S. women's movement in the '60s and '70s and a fierce advocate for feminist causes for the rest of her life, has died at 92.
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