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Geraghd

@dgeraghty.bsky.social
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News and politics junkie. Liberal. Rejoiner. City professional so a lot of that goes with the territory 🤦🏻‍♂️. Love art, culture, gym, jousting with the inevitable feeling of existential dread. Oh yeah, refugee from Twitter.

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Gavin Sheridan @gavinsblog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ok Bluesky it's rare I ask for help. But this time I need huge help from the #osint community and #speirgorm #speirghorm, and everyone who follows me. I have a goal to raise up to €100,000 for a long time friend and colleague who is going to leave us.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Dear BBC News, If you'd like to actually fulfill your mandate to inform the public of the reasons people take small boats please feel free to invite me onto any of your shows. I'm a world expert in this with an award winning book on the topic. Or you can just have a man stood shouting in the sea.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 28/08/2026
Some of London’s detractors are determined to paint a picture of a city becoming less safe. The facts tell a different story. These crimes are down ⬇️
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Nigel Farage Listens to the News
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I love and respect this scientist. Carl Sagan answers a question about creation vs evolution.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 15/01/2026
Flying to Minneapolis tomorrow to cover the ICE raids for News Agents, what is unfolding and the politics which flows from it. If you’re there or know the city and know people/organisations we should be speaking to, please get in touch. DMs open.
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Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @ukrainesol.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...
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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
1/Striking speech by Macron: The future of European democracy depends on taking back its digital information space. A remarkable turn from Silicon Valley as source of enlightenment to being a purveyor of slop. And the stakes aren't just ad revenue but the nation. defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
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"Europeans, let's wake up!" — Defend Democracy
“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” President Macron on the occasion of German Unity Day, 3 October 2025.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
This thread is a *very* short summary of our full report, which is here: taxpolicy.org.uk/uk-wealth-ta... The full report contains all sources and references, linked where possible, plus additional detail of the arguments and counter-arguments.
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Geraghd @dgeraghty.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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a man in a grey shirt stands in front of a crowd
ALT: a man in a grey shirt stands in front of a crowd
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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Night of the Long Tweets.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
give Nathan Newby a knighthood, what an absolute hero
Patient praised for talking down lone hospital bomber
Duncan Gardham
a knife and a handgun that fired blanks. He waited outside the en-
A judge has praised a patient who
trance to the hospital.
persuaded a trainee nurse to abandon
Newby was returning from a walk
a suicide attack with a home-made
when he saw Farooq. He later told
bomb on the hospital he worked at.
police that he appeared "depressed
Mohammad Farooq, 29, was arrested outside St James's Hospital in
and upset" so he tried to cheer him.
"T'm quite good at reading people's
Leeds with a bomb made from a pres-
body language," he said. "I thought
sure cooker and low explosives.
would go over and see if he's all right."
Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb
Newby said they had a "totally nor-
praised the patient, Nathan Newby,
mal chat" before Farooq opened a
when she sentenced Farooq to life in
bag to show him the pressure cooker
She said he was a man ero a man,
and wires. He moved Farooq to a bench away from the hospital en-
"prepared to do the unthinkable".
trance and, after three hours, con-
Sheffield crown court was told he
vinced him to let him call the police.
had followed a terrorist manual for
Newby later told officers: "I was
"lone wolf mujahedeen" and created
shocked I had managed to talk him
a device similar to the bomb used at
out of it. I gave him a hug and said
the Boston Marathon in 2013, which mate you've done the right thing."
killed three people.
Detective Superintendent Paul
Farooq had first planned to attack
Greenwood, a head of investigations
the listening station at RAF Menwith
for counter terrorism, said Newby
Hill in North Yorkshire but found
had performed an "act of real brav-
that the security was too tight.
ery".
". He added that the explosion
Jonathan Sandiford KC, for the would have been devastating.
prosecution, said he then went to the
The judge told the court that New-
hospital "to commit a terrorist atroci- by was a
"modest and gentle man,
ty and seek his own martyrdom".
whose evidence was…
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Geraghd @dgeraghty.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Free speech latest www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/n...
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How a Columbia Student Fled to Canada After ICE Came Looking for Her
Ranjani Srinivasan’s student visa was revoked by U.S. immigration authorities. That was just the start of her odyssey.
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Libro.fm @libro.fm · 07/03/2025
When Amazon launched in 1995, there were 5,500 indie bookshops in the U.S., with 7,000 locations. By May of 2023, that number had decreased to 2,185 indies & 2,599 locations. When you purchase audiobooks via Libro.fm vs. Audible, you directly support indie bookshops. Let's make that number grow ❤️
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Amazon boycott starts this Friday, March 7 and lasts until the end of the month. No Prime… No Amazon… No Whole Foods… And, absolutely NO excuses.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
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Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @ukrainesol.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
🚨 EMERGENCY DEMO – US EMBASSY, LONDON 🚨 🛑 Stop Putin – Stop Trump 🇺🇦 Stand by Ukraine 🌍 Europe, wake up! 📅 Wed 5 March ⏰ 5:30–7 PM 📍 US Embassy, 33 Nine Elms Lane, SW11 7US (Vauxhall) Called by USC, Ukrainian orgs & @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social Be there with us! ✊ #StandWithUkraine
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Geraghd @dgeraghty.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Just did the same. Encourage others to do this- you can also choose between donating to defence, medical/humanitarian, or rebuilding Ukraine.
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ Slava Ukraini.
war.ukraine.ua
Donate to Ukraine’s defenders
The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I just donated
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Murielle S @frenchieinlimbo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
A mass consumer “ #economicblackout,” launched on social media, proposes a boycott of major megacompanies for all 24 hours of #February28 because those firms bowed to a Donald Trump edict and retreated from DEI policies to endorse racism while continuing to raise and/or fix prices.
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North Atlantic Fella Organization @official-nafo.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
What can you do? THIS. Be there next Saturday - and show the world, America included, that Europe is united with Ukraine. 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺
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Geraghd @dgeraghty.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Incredible thread. Hopefully it’s over-reacting but I fear not. God help Americans and others where it’s fall may have similar impacts.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🚨Let’s protect democracy by tightening the rules on political donations. Please sign this petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Tighten the rules on political donations
We want the government to: Remove loopholes that allow wealthy foreign individuals to make donations into UK political parties (e.g. by funnelling through UK registered companies). Cap all donations ...
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vitkor arnell @vitkor.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
If you mirror it…
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
By the way, if you happen to have Audible (I know) then may I INSIST that you find and listen to Hugh Grant's peerless reading of A Christmas Carol. Far and away and by several parsecs the best imaginable performance. There should be awards.
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Thomas O Mahony @omathuna89.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
A photo to be proud of. Ireland will always stand with Palestine. And indeed, all who fight back against the cancer of Imperialism. An Phoblacht abú 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Dunno about Lee Anderson, but I just about manage my monthly Battle of the Somme with mega doses of ibuprofen
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Se7en is a Christmas movie because people talk about the Bible and Brad Pitt gets a present at the end.
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Geraghd @dgeraghty.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
An interesting article (behind a paywall) on Musk the ‘poster boy’ that has one of the most fascinating graphs I’ve seen in some time. Elon Musk’s transformation, in his own words www.economist.com/briefing/202... from The Economist
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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
And this is why Democrats failing to master the politics of climate change will be fatal to the party. They have to figure it out asap. Things are going to suck, and they have to start "a story about who to blame for things sucking." Continually waiting for the next election won't cut it.
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