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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk asks “What are we becoming? We’ve turned ourselves into a population where the bravest people in the country are being terrorised and closed down by the biggest cowards, the people who won’t even show their faces.” Fascism in action.

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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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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Damning silence from Labour on their Napoleon III exhumation policy

Tom Harwood tweets:

BREAK: Nigel Farage says under a Reform government the body of Napoleon III could be returned from England to France.
The last French emperor's final resting place is in The Imperial Crypt at St Michael's Abbey in Farnborough.
He died in exile in England in 1873 following the fall of the Second Empire. His body was never returned to France because they didn't want it, and due to his wife's wishes. She was later buried alongside him.

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James @wearejames.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

In today's Observer, Tim talks to Miranda Sawyer about the release of James: Getting Away With It. Read it here: observer.co.uk/culture/musi... NBL x #James #GettingAwayWithIt #FilmPremiere

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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social thanks a bunch, James... now it's going to be the world infamous bury market...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.

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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Good morning James. Switched on this morning (Thursday 9th July) Honest Bob in the hot seat. He's campaigning. Lasted 8 minutes before switching to BBC 6music. Do I hold the longest listen record?

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

He will not, dear readers, fight to win. He will fight to lose. This is nothing more than a rousing speech to call out every other party to throw everything they have to ensure his loss, so he can keep earning the money as a private citizen, and still have enough clout to chirp from the sidelines.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Lee Anderson deletes a post in which he calls people thick for posting an AI image, when in fact it was a genuine image and the one he posted was fake. To the surprise of nobody, it turns out that he was the stupid one.

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

These people despise Europe. They are determined to see far right parties elected to government…an official pillar of Trump’s National Security Strategy. Vance is likely to be targeting this message at voters in Makerfield in a brazen effort to interfere with the UK’s democracy.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The UK government and the EU need to do something together about X. Now. It is pushing racist nonsense that is now bleeding into the mainstream media.

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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social why would the reform candidate for Makerfield's new X account be based on the United States? 🧐

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/05/2026

the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real

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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Hi James, i wonder if you have seen Mr Tice's recent Facebook post regarding an apparently pregnant elderly person?

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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Slightly increase a band: Country house of pain

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Andy-Luke @andy-luke.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Monday election update: 1 Reform councillor fired, 1 Reform councillor ran away, and 1 Reform councillor might not exist. Waveney Valley's George Alexander Jonathan Boyd is an AI generated image. No A-V, no sightings, no trace except for agent's address. Why aren't the news media all over this?

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Mum's the Word @exuk.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

(Taken from Facebook) I’m trying to find out who the new Reform councillor is in Waveney, Norfolk. His name is George Boyd; he seems to have no online presence. Even with a reverse photo check, I could not find any trace of him other than a suggestion that the image was AI. Does he exist?

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Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Farage’s crafty crypto fortune. Full version: youtu.be/SqObceUurRs?...

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shardcore @shardcore.org · 06/04/2026

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I share this warning most years. I just want young journalists to know. On April 1st some PRs publish ‘hilarious’ press releases. In my first year of journalism no one told me there was this magical day where they simply lie. And that is how I came to write an article about condoms for dogs.

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ALT: a close up of a dog 's face with a collar that says ' collars ' on it

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Civilians among the rubble following airstrikes in Tehran. (Photos by Mehdi Ghasemi)

Woman calls for help from a hole in the wall of a bombed out building

Man helps a woman covered in dust navigate rubble in the street

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/03/2026

I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Farage has sold videos of himself endorsing a neo-Nazi event, repeating extremist slogans supporting a man convicted over his involvement in a far-right riot etc But don't worry Nige will be along in a moment to blame it all on the BBC, or Coutts, or refugees... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

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Newly unearthed Nigel Farage videos reveal support for rioter, neo-Nazi event and far-right slogans

Exclusive: Analysis of more than 4,000 of Reform UK leader’s paid-for Cameo videos also shows they contain misogynistic remarks and antisemitic conspiracies

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Last Post on this. Churchill has only been on the £5 since September 2016. Before that it was Elizabeth Fry the prison reformer. Did Farage call her removal woke too? This isn't some ancient tradition but Farage is ridiculous. And that statement is timeless

The Bank of England is replacing
Winston Churchill with a picture of a
beaver on our bank notes.

This is the definition of woke.

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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Put Trump’s criticism of Starmer and other democratic leaders against his consistent syrupy praise for authoritarian, brutal leaders. Starmer is in good company. Just remind yourself how Trump praises authoritarian antidemocratic leaders in this thread. It’s an eye opener 🧵 1/

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Feel like I'm going crazy. Holocaust survivors spent decades telling everyone, "The fascists will come back. When they do, first you will see this, then they will do that, then this will happen," and so forth. And it's all proceeding exactly as foretold. After they died, everyone just . . . forgot.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

There is no Andrew Windsor. He is Prince Andrew. Everything he did in his life was enabled, covered up or ignored by the Royal Family. They cannot cast away what they did. If he hadn't been a Prince he would never have gotten away with any of it

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

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Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.)

But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Reform are bunch of idiots 😂 Jenrick and Braverman ended up WITH LABOUR MPs in the AYE lobby on lifting two child benefit cap.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Trump knows the Republicans are heading to defeat in 2026, he also knows it will be a catastrophe for him if this happens. Therefore, he will try to corrupt the election. It’s simple logic. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

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Trump says Republicans should ‘nationalize’ elections

The comments come less than a week after the FBI raided an elections facility in Georgia.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

He tried both Labour and Conservative then became a Fascist - sound familiar?

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God @thegodshow.com · 29/01/2026

Donald has now been covering up the Epstein files for 40 days past the date they were legally due. He’s a pedophile protector. a a Donald also pardoned several J6 terrorists that have since been re-arrested for child molestation. And many of his supporters and pastors have been arrested as pedos.

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/01/2026

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The nationalist right - our high streets are empty and it's killing communities The government - let's explore making them more attractive and easy to navigate destinations The nationalist right - woah, that is akin to the mass murder of millions of people by a totalitarian dictator

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.

7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.

13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bear

witness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials

Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Last night, GOP members were cutting up a cake of Greenland covered with an American flag. Today, they are all praising Trump for caving.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.

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God @thegodshow.com · 17/01/2026

It’s been 28 days since the Epstein files were supposed to be fully released.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 15/01/2026

Robert Jenrick: an apology. thecritic.co.uk/fran...

Ishould begin with an apology. Last month, I described Robert Jenrick as “the most shameless man in parliament”. His office complained at the time, but I was stubborn and refused to back down. Well, it’s never too late to say you were wrong. Robert Jenrick is not simply the most shameless man in parliament. He is the most shameless man in Britain, the most shameless man on Earth. Quite possibly the most shameless man in history. It is not simply that Jenrick has no shame. He is like a black hole for shame, sucking in the embarrassment of people around him. Which will be quite handy in his new party, Reform.

Nothing became Jenrick’s time in the Conservative Party so much as the leaving of it. For years he had eased his way up the greasy pole, switching positions when necessary, a heating-seeking missile for whichever pose could help him advance, poster boy for the importance of self-belief over ability or integrity. And finally he was undone because he forgot to pick something up off a

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James @wearejames.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

James are coming to the BBC Radio 2 Piano Room month, performing with the the BBC Concert Orchestra on Wednesday 4th February NBL x #James #PianoRoomMonth #NothingButLove

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🤬

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Make this go viral. Labour MP Louise Haigh.

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Mbsolheim @mbsolheim.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

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