Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And the rest of the world can't trust the US. Things will never be the same again. We (outside of the US) can't shackle ourselves to such an unstable partner. 000
Reposted by Dave Berkeley 💙😷By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026For Obama, the grassroots were useful for one thing: getting out the vote. The last thing he wanted was for millions of activated voters to turn into activists who'd flame him and harangue him and picket him if they didn't like his compromises. Boy, did Obama ever compromise. 312116
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The woman in the foreground is Joan Ryan. She was Chair of Labour friends of Israel. She negotiated the £1M from the expelled Israeli spy, Shai Masot. There's a video of it. She's now a full time Israel lobbyist. Starmer gave her a peerage. 000
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Israel shoot children for throwing stones. In fact they shoot them regardless. Just for being Palestinian. It is Israel that needs disarming. A rogue nuclear state committing genocide. Asking the Palestinians to surrender their arms would be like demanding that the French Resistance surrender theirs 051
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026bsky.app/profile/dave... What I'd like to see is an end to politicians who are corrupt or who support genocide. Most of the cabinet are both. 020
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Here's Tom Watson with Regev. Watson was given a peerage by Starmer. He now works for Palantir. He received a £500,000 bung from Max Mosley, son of the leader of the British Fascist Party, Oswald Mosley. 151
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026LFI member Thornberry with Mark Regev. Now Netanyahu's advisor, when he was Israeli ambassador to the UK he ran a unit that bribed MPs. One of his staff, Shai Masot, was expelled after an Al Jazera sting caught him bragging that he could bring down cabinet ministers. 171
Reposted by Dave Berkeley 💙😷Rachel Burch @rachelburch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Here’s the final selection of my photos for my 2027 Dartmoor calendar, I chose the December picture, frosty Tavistock not on Dartmoor, but I do live here ..£16 each inc postage available from me direct via PayPal or bank transfer or my Etsy shop. All profits to Tavistock food bank. only 50. 12014
Reposted by Dave Berkeley 💙😷Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 29/09/202694-year-old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen OBE, arrested under the Terrorism Act outside @labouruk.bsky.social conference. Her crime? Holding a piece of cardboard with the words “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on it. She was among hundreds doing the same. 17192127
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I once lived on a Tudor house that had pine trunks at the centre of a pair of spiral staircases. There was another older building nearby with the same arrangement. It was probably meant as a mast from the local shipyard, but probably new, not reused. 010
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A colleague kept pigs. He had a picture of one as his desktop. I asked him about it. He said "we ate her sister & now we're eating her children". Then he gave me some sausages. 010
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The government is arming a genocide. A criminal offence under the Genocide Convention. They are the criminals here. Not those who oppose war crimes. 0161
Reposted by Dave Berkeley 💙😷The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For Decades Doctors Thought Post-Infection Syndromes Were Hysteria, Then Stress, Then Trauma, Before Finally Discovering They Were All In The Mind 313844
Reposted by Dave Berkeley 💙😷Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/202694 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. 11237891405
Reposted by Dave Berkeley 💙😷flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Welcome I suppose, but look: the time to recognise that most of these people work for gambling outfits, privatised utilities and tech companies, and that they protect those interests in exchange for sweet private sector jobs further down the line, was fifteen or ten years ago. It is too late now. 59617
Reposted by Dave Berkeley 💙😷BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Reminder more bombs have been dropped on Gaza than Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Dresden combined. It is a far worse War Crime than any of them. 24805400
Reposted by Dave Berkeley 💙😷Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026BREAKING: 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. 18872113004
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A "contested issue" just means that he's still negotiating the bribe. 000
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politic... The £650,000 profit Chris Bryant MP made from selling flats the taxpayer helped fund Rhondda MP Chris Bryant even rented out one of the flats when the rules changed and claimed £84,350 from the taxpayer to live somewhere else. Bryant is a crook. Like most MPs.walesonline.co.ukThe £650,000 profit a Welsh MP made from selling flats you helped fundRhondda MP Chris Bryant even rented out one of the flats when the rules changed and claimed £84,350 from the taxpayer to live somewhere else 061
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Lord Walney" is John Woodcock. Ex Chair of Labour Friends of Israel, given a peerage by the Tory PM Boris Johnson (a very unusual occurrence) for services to undermining democracy. He's a paid lobbyist for the arms industry. An agent of Israel who should be in prison. 002
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Can't the timer h/w PWM it so you don't even need the interrupt? 110
Reposted by Dave Berkeley 💙😷Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Last June, Andy Burnham was on a platform with Del Naja in support of the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty, praising his ‘clarity and leadership’. Today, he’s having Rob arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding a piece of paper. 3320107
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026In the 2019 general election a small group of us did banner drops saying "Save the NHS. Vote Labour". We were then threatened with legal action by the thugs at Plymouth Labour. It is what made me finally decide to leave the party. I wouldn't vote for them again under any circumstances. 010
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026People being paid huge bungs for speaking is generally a cover for bribes. Truss made a few people rich. She's being paid. Blair did this a lot. 081
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026www.theguardian.com/education/20...theguardian.comPPE: the Oxford degree that runs BritainThe Long Read: An extraordinary number of Britain’s elite studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford. But does it produce an out-of-touch ruling class? 000
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026In Yorkshire they still call children "young'uns" which is pretty much Jungens. Just as further North they say "bairns" which is like the Norwegian "barns". 2140
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026bsky.app/profile/dave... Westminster & the media are irredeemably corrupt. 021
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Smith became a lobbyist for the water industry when she lost her seat as an MP. Starmer gave her a peerage. Yet another corrupt politician pushed into the House of Lords. 131
Reposted by Dave Berkeley 💙😷A Voice Crying in the Wilderness @cryingwilderness.bsky.social · 24/09/2026 53493463229
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026They were ravens. This one is a hooded crow. Can't comment on the child. 080
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Is that Smeeth? The Israel lobbyist? The one who's mentioned in wikileaks as a CIA informant, leaking Labour Party info to the CIA? Why isn't she in prison? Rhetorical question of course. The party is completely corrupt & she's there to make sure it stays that way. 030
Reposted by Dave Berkeley 💙😷Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Around 40% of the world's dirty money, proceeds of corruption and crime, is laundered through the UK, its Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories. Successive govts promise new laws and enforcement but they make little impact. Why do govts continue to fail? Watch the Minister's reply. 19306152
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The head of the UK branch of Palantir is Louis Mosley, who is the grandson of the renowned British fascist OswaldMosley. Palantir have your medical records. 022
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Here's Thornberry with her friend Mark Regev. When he was Israel's ambassador to the UK he ran a unit that bribed MPs. A member of his staff boasted he could bring down cabinet ministers. Regev is now Netanyahu's adviser. 120
Reposted by Dave Berkeley 💙😷Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026There is a lot of misinformation about the UK social security spending. The chart below shows Total UK social security spending as a percentage of GDP, 2013/14 to 2030/31 (spending & forecast) 55% goes to pensioners, the remainder covers everything else. lordslibrary.parliament.uk/welfare-refo... 21317189
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The pin oak has huge leaves. I've seen one at Kew. There are lots of Holme Oak where I live. Is this one of the 2 you mention? I know it isn't a native species, it's Mediterranean, but it thrives here in the South West. 000
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The only difference is that the Nazis were actually from their Fatherland. The Zionists had to steal someone else's. 020
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The arms industry is awash with cash. Westminster is awash with dirty money. The arms industry is notoriously corrupt. Westminster is notoriously corrupt. The state is intertwined with the arms industry. 020
Reposted by Dave Berkeley 💙😷Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Large part of the UK press has been on the wrong side of history, fuelling hatred, social divisions, supporting authoritarianism. Their support for the current Blackshirts has a history (see below) as they continue to support the far-right stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8672... 30514255
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Both are public subsidies without addressing the underlying problem : excessive profits in privately owned energy & bus companies. Pollard's "solution" is just another way of transferring public money into private pockets. 010
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Qinetiq was formed by the privatisation of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency. It was sold to US private equity house Carlyle Group, which has links with former US president George Bush Sr and former PM John Major (their European Director). 000
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Make a robot to keep pressing the buttons? 010
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The UK has just doubled its defence budget. There is plenty of money for killing people, but none for stopping them getting sick. These are political choices. 000
Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The questioned was clearly framed to expect a yes or know answer. 000