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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 06/10/2026
A former FBI supervisor has come forward to allege that President Donald Trump pushed the bureau to investigate anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles after agents found no evidence they had committed a crime.
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Whistleblower Alleges the FBI Carried Out an Illegal Probe of ICE Protesters
The disclosure also alleges that personnel were diverted from investigations involving violent crime, drug trafficking and transnational criminal organizations.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 06/10/2026
In the last few weeks Labour have reversed that, taking away the obligation to feed kids with food we know to be bad for their health, schools have been given back control - and the Tories shameless dictation is in the bin.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drax’s planned datacentre to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood to produce its electricity, nearly double the CO2 emissions of all flights from London Gatwick airport. Drax, a highly profitable company gets subsidies to burn wood and produce electricity How many lives will it ruin?
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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sarah Pochin raised "concerns" in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Two days later she purchased an £800,000 second home on Anglesey. Remarkable stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
For all the puffing up of Conservative chances under Kemi Badenoch, I just can't see how the party comes close to winning a majority while Nigel Farage is still on the scene.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
When highly unpleasant people die, it is polite not to remark upon their great unpleasantness. But we do not have to pretend to think that they were a decent person.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 06/10/2026
America - "do you want us to help with your Plague?" Russia - "do you want us to help with your Measles?"
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Big Oof Size Meme
Alt: Big Oof Size Meme
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks again to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for highlighting Kemi Badenoch's banning of journalists she doesn't approve of, which very few other journalists in the country seem willing to mention for some reason inews.co.uk/opinion/bade...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When they lied about policy or statistics repeatedly or tried to shift blame elsewhere they fooled a lot of gullible people. But when they started lying about things that even the cult knows more about than these out of touch weirdos, that’s when they lost the plot.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Honestly her brain should be studied. Why is she incapable of going 'this nuts politician has said something nutty and vile?'
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Does Kemi Badenoch agree with Suella Braverman that she 'can't call herself English'?
YouTube video by Good Morning Britain
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Voters loathed the Tory party when they booted them out in 2024.They really needed to shake off their disgrace with humility and better ideas. They haven’t. They’ve doubled down. More Brexit, more austerity, more anti-immigration ugliness, more tedious arrogance… and no good reason to vote for them.
Party seems to have learnt nothing from 2024 defeat
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The Conservative Party is keen to show it is now ready to return to government, two and a half years after a
historic defeat.Their self-soothing explanation posits that defeat came from not being able to do what they wanted 

No such pivot is happening at the current conference. The Tories have come to Birmingham calling for a return to orthodoxy, with similar lines about cutting benefits and regulation. Even so, they seem trapped by the same contradictions
- pledging to cut benefits, but not the winter fuel payments and triple lock on pensions that go to their voters.
There is no "hug-a-hoodie" moment in Birmingham. The Conservative Party is not indicating that it has changed or seeking to broaden its appeal. It is doing the opposite: it is a party returning to its core, restating all the old ideas voters have rejected but louder.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Badenoch says her air defence plan "is not going to be exactly like the Irone Dome. We haven’t called it an Iron Dome." Except this is what it said in the press release. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
On the left: President Trump false claims of violent crime in Chicago (as prelude for laying a pretext) On the right: Most recent official stats showing Chicago success in back-to-back years of historic reductions in violent crimes
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New YouGov. Trump unpopularity in Europe: Denmark: -91% Germany: -78% Italy: -76% UK: -75% Spain: -74% France: -67% And it’s getting worse.
Chart showing Trump unpopularity in Europe.
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don't mean to make waves or anything, but as a journalist, I am definitely opposed to the president talking about arresting journalists.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As Nick later says he "WAS" the Tory Mayoral candidate and indeed it was as a result of running for the gig that he was ultimately brought to justice. This wasn't "a thing that happened"
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
6 October 1908 | A Pole, Juliusz Kolaczek, was born in Dziedzice. An engineer. In #Auschwitz from 29 May 1941. No. 16845 He perished in the camp on 8 November 1941. --- Online lesson "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_pol…
A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As ever, and for the last time in connection with lying shit Jeffrey Archer, we remember Monica Coghlan, whose life he destroyed.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/10/2026
California leaders condemned President Trump on Monday night after he appeared to suggest that Iran could “take out” Los Angeles and San Diego if it develops a nuclear weapon.
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Fury in California After Trump Suggests Iran Could ‘Take Out’ L.A. or San Diego
Gov. Gavin Newsom called the president “dangerous and deranged” after his remarks at a political rally, where Mr. Trump said the Iran war was necessary to “keep the world safe.”
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Chris Washington @cwashington.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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HIGNFY Mastermind
YouTube video by Steve White
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
President Trump, "They (Iran) could take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego" "That, this is a very small price to pay" My view: What an astonishing thing to hear from a US president. How is this patriotism?
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Elon Musk used X to suspend the UK British Consulate’s account in Jerusalem after it called out the systemic abuse of thousands of Palestinians who were detained without trial. youtu.be/G6dRdO1I9WA
youtu.be
Ex-Diplomat Reveals Who Is Quietly Replacing Governments
YouTube video by Dr Myriam François
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 05/10/2026
More than 122,000 cases of Gatorade have been recalled for failing to declare the presence of synthetic food dyes. The recall affects 28-ounce bottles of Gatorade Lemon Lime, Lemon Lime Zero, Orange and Orange Zero, according to the FDA.
washingtonpost.com
More than 122,000 cases of Gatorade recalled for undeclared food dyes
The drinks contain Yellow No. 6 and/or Yellow No. 5, which, in rare cases, can trigger allergic-type reactions.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Put it this way: if the Greens, Kneecap and Gary Lineker are prompting enraged all-channels screaming fury but e.g. an army seizing, depopulating and ethnically cleansing southern Lebanon of its racially undesirable populace doesn’t make anyone blink, then I am going to conclude - bullshit
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Despite all the fire and fury the Luftwaffe was only able to put a major RAF airfield out of action for a matter of hours.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
IF the strike aircraft were driven out of RAF Fairford by an enemy threat, then that enemy has enjoyed more success than the Luftwaffe during the whole of the Battle of Britain.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As always, Trump has no respect for the deals he signs
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You should NEVER speak ill of the dead. Fortunately you don't have to, because everybody spoke ill of him when he was still alive. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Jeffrey Archer, former Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
Lord Archer died peacefully at home between writing sessions, his publisher said
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You think you know what you are about to read...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026
REPORTER: Why are you telling your supporters to vote by mail if you think it's fraud? TRUMP: I'd rather have them vote in person, but they can vote by mail if they want. But there is a lot of cheating in vote by mail. REPORTER: There's no evidence TRUMP: You are fake news
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Fed. judge accuses ICE agents of "apparently perjurious testimony," fabrication of evidence, false statements, fundamental misconceptions about ICE agents' authority, and more. Case involves the accidental arrest of a U.S. citizen who had to get stitches. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
So, the thought is that after issuing a fraudulent arrest warrant stating that petitioner’s information was part of the system when it was not and indicating that he could be biometrically identified even though they had not collected the information to make a positive match, Cuni attempted to reconcile these falsehoods by subsequently collecting the information, adding it to those systems and, after issuing the warrant, searching the databases again to “find” him.
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AliceK @coalisdead.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The maths lecturer calculated he could use 12 groups of 6 out of 72, arm them with hammers axes & guns, then coordinate simultaneous attacks on Palestinian communities “to cause mass casualties and spread fear” He now ‘wants out’ - “he has exams to grade” www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...
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Israeli lecturer charged over plot to kill hundreds of Palestinians and force mass expulsions
Bar-Ilan University mathematics lecturer planned to recruit 72 Jewish attackers who would have been armed with firearms, axes and hammers, indictment says
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Peter Montgomery @petemontdc.com · 05/10/2026
Trump administration corruption runs deep newrepublic.com/post/216198/...
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Kristi Noem Has Some Explaining to Do
The former DHS secretary appears to have gotten a sweetheart deal for one of her biggest donors on her way out the door.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Letter printed in The Times today
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dr Ellie Chowns, "If we're talking about security against things that kill many people, covid, killed 250,000 people in this country and cost us hundreds of billions" "But I don't hear anybody in this country talking about pandemic preparedness - why is that?"
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hmm, seems like the kind of thing Head of Money would say
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Angry goose meme. The goose is asking the fleeing WSJ what the prison sentence was for.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And by "violating banking laws" CBS News means former Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert molested boys he coached for wrestling in high school, boys as young as 14. To-may-to/to-mah-to!
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Thomas Penny @thomaswpenny.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's not "penalising the aspirational", it's asking people who have achieved their aspiration to contribute a bit more!
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Christina Jewett @by-cjewett.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW: Ken Paxton's office is investigating pediatricians for vaccinating children. He alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
nytimes.com
Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 05/10/2026
Audit chaos continues at Middlesbrough Development Corporation This latest official report by Alan Layton on the dire state of affairs at MDC comes eight months after North East Bylines reported an audit and governance breakdown in Tees Valley northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
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Audit chaos continues at Middlesbrough Development Corporation
This latest official report by Alan Layton on the dire state of affairs at MDC comes eight months after North East Bylines reported an audit and governance breakdown in Tees Valley
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
All these reported 'suicides' of people who exposed the crimes of people on the Epstein List are as believable as if they claimed the rich all guillotined their own heads off in the French Revolution.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich: “The thorough cleansing that we are carrying out now in southern Lebanon is unprecedented. “They have nowhere to return to. Look at how it looks. “And by the way, the world isn’t stopping us.”
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In the first round of overseas Brazilian votes, Lula has won 1078 votes in Palestine, Bolsonaro got just 46. In Israel, Bolsonaro got 523 votes, and Lula 92. That tells you who the right candidate is.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For anybody who doesn't know AI is only free because they need you to use it. Once they have everyone dependent on it, it will become really expensive really fast. Just like Uber, Netflix, Groceries...
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