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Elke Smalley

@elkerose.bsky.social
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Birds, cats, nature. Norfolk. Politics. EU #FBPE. British-German. Feminist. Blue Side. Interested in nearly everything, pls no OF accounts

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"Barack, you gotta look at me." At the grand opening ceremony of the Obama Presidential Center, former First Lady Michelle Obama delivered a speech that brought the former president to tears. This is love. Love of husband, love of a president, love of a country.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
the FT column in which @edwardluce.bsky.social explains why Elon Musk is a “monstrous human being”
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The world's first trillionaire received 38 Billion Dollars from the US government. But, no, we won't have enough money to pay for school lunches for your kids. Or give you healthcare. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 13/06/2026
There is something terribly wrong about an economy that produces its first trillionaire, but cannot provide health care for its people. Or one in which the richest handful of families have the combined wealth of almost forty percent of the rest of the country.
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 11/06/2026
"Keir Starmer should tell people if they're worried about small boats and immigration now, see what Belfast looks like today." "That's what the entire UK will look like when Nigel Farage is prime minister" www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/if-n...
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‘If Nigel Farage was Prime Minister, all the UK would look like Belfast today’ | The News Agents
Broadcaster and journalist Mehdi Hasan tells The News Agents why he believes violence in Belfast is part of a concerted plan by people such as Elon Musk to push the far-right across all of Europe.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 04/06/2026
Some seaside towns have used hawks to scare gulls away from nesting in urban areas. At the same time, as their numbers plummet, some of Britain’s most threatened gull species are increasingly relying on urban colonies to survive. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @btobirds.bsky.social
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Gulls: on the make or in decline?
New research reveals steep declines in several familiar gull species despite growing tensions in some seaside communities
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
It appears Buckingham Palace were given controversial emails about Andrew’s financial dealings as UK trade envoy SIX YEARS before the rest of us saw them via the release of the Epstein files. What did they do with them? 👇
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 29/05/2026
“The companies say ‘if we create AI, we will give you access to this heaven’", says Karen Hao ‘If you don’t allow us to do it, a bad actor’s going to it instead, and it’s going to decimate humanity’”
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
If you're still trying to figure it out after a decade that might be a clue....
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
NEW: The Crypto Connection. @thenerve.news brings you…Part 1 of The Harbourne Receipts. A forensic examination of the cryptobillionaire’s donations & Farage’s crypto announcements. And guess what? There’s a pattern. Starting with the now infamous £5m gift. www.thenerve.news/p/investigat... 1/
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Billionaire Christopher Harborne donated millions to Farage and Johnson. Then the pro-crypto announcements began. Is there a connection?
The crypto investor’s £5m gift to Reform’s leader coincided with the party’s new-found advocacy for digital assets – part of a pattern of significant political donations that also included £1m to the ...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/05/2026
This is how to defeat Vladimir Putin | Timothy Garton Ash
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This is how to defeat Vladimir Putin | Timothy Garton Ash
The Russian dictator’s dreams of greatness threaten Nato and the EU, not just Ukraine. Here are eight ways in which he can be thwarted, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
OK. Let's share, share, share this baby! Show it to anyone who says there is too much immigration, who witters on about migrants and "small boats". Net migration has DROPPED, but voters (thanks to the UK media and our politicians) think it is rising. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
theguardian.com
Voters across parties believe UK net migration is rising despite sharp drop
Study, published as latest migration figures are released, shows incorrect perceptions driving immigration debate
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Axios @axios.com · 18/05/2026
BREAKING: Elon Musk loses landmark AI trial to Open AI, Sam Altman
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Jury rules against Musk in landmark AI trial
The billionaire entrepreneur suffered a staggering setback.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
ZDF is now broadcasting the documentary I prepared with Johannes Hano and David Frum concerning the Russian influence operation targeting Musk, Thiel and other Silicon Valley South Africans, which was personally overseen and run by Vladimir Putin and was deemed hugely successful by the Russians.
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Rücken Trump und sein Umfeld näher an Russland? Bedrohen Autokraten und Tech-Oligarchen die liberale Ordnung?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/05/2026
‘Green card for the planet’? Fifa’s World Cup is on pace to be a climate catastrophe
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‘Green card for the planet’? Fifa’s World Cup is on pace to be a climate catastrophe
The 2022 World Cup failed to deliver on its environmental promises. From air travel emissions to heat-related dangers, the 2026 edition will be even worse
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20/04/2026
The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism

in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X."Your Account is Suspended" Message on X
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 20/04/2026
Palantir’s deranged manifesto shows why it should be nowhere near our public services. This is not a normal company, it's Trump's favourite tech firm and a danger to our NHS.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X
Because we get asked a lot.

The Technological Republic, in brief.

1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible.

3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public.

4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed. We must get rid of Palantir altogether. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
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Because we get asked a lot. by @PalantirTech(Palantir) | Twitter Thread Reader
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affir...
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Dawn chorus this morning from an Irish Atlantic rainforest. 🌍
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Richard Tice deputy leader of Reform ran four shell companies which did not pay any tax on profits between 2020 and 2022. He's now offering to "put things right". Go on then Richard - resign. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Tice ‘happy to put things right’ after ‘he failed to pay £100k in corporation tax’
Mr Tice said last year Angela Rayner would resign if she had “any moral decency” after admitting to underpaying stamp duty
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Al Toth @atoth99.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Friday Favs @herdleader1.bsky.social @atoth99.bsky.social @crankyoldcrackpot.bsky.social @50501supporters.bsky.social @trwbbr.bsky.social @merlinmm.bsky.social @j1j2.bsky.social @pattyger.bsky.social @jackiefromtexas.bsky.social @waysideleslie.bsky.social @terryleigh.bsky.social
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ArizonaTerry.bsky.social @arizonaterry.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The Economist nailed it. #TrumpIsAnIdiot #TrumpEpsteinFiles #TrumpDistractions
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Elke Smalley @elkerose.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Absolutely unhinged from Melanie Phillips in The Times and not worth paying for: "Pope Leo's attitude to the Iran war is shocking", here free to read archive.is/Cyy5a
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 14/04/2026
"With me to discuss whether foaming psychopaths should be treated as public intellectuals, on this week's Moral Maze we have Melanie Philips..."
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 13/04/2026
It matters how a president speaks. Because their words don’t just persuade — they set the boundaries of what feels possible, acceptable… even inevitable. That’s how the unthinkable starts to sound normal, according to a scholar of presidential rhetoric. tcnv.link/LAlAuNj
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Holger Stark @holgerstark.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Der Export der #MAGA-Ideologie nach Europa ist vorerst gescheitert. Diese Wahl in #Ungarn ist ein Stop-Signal an die #USA. Sie ist ein Stop-Signal an #Russland. Und sie ist ein Stop-Signal an die #AfD und die extreme Rechte in #Europa. Was für große Botschaften an einem einzigen Tag! #Orban
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Wendy Thurm @wendythurm.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.
A series of posts from journalist Mark Chadbourn reporting on the acceptance speech of Péter Magyar after Hungarian elections:

Péter Magyar: "Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again."

Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 24m
Magyar's speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: "He's basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired."

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Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 22m
He's announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged.

Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 21m
Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions."

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Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 20m
Magyar says he's starting work with the EU and NATO immediately.
"The EU doesn't have to worry anymore."
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Xenta @xenta.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
And here are my Easter cakes after decorating them🩵💚💗🩷🤍 As usual, I took one to my neighbors They love my Easter cake
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The wrong question is dominating the energy crisis debate. Every interview starts the same: where do we find replacement fossil fuels and what happens to prices? In this BBC interview I push back. This is the moment to talk about escaping fossil fuel dependence - not the daily market noise.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/04/2026
Artemis II splashdown: Orion capsule scheduled to land off California coast at just after 5pm local time – live updates
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Artemis II splashdown: Orion capsule scheduled to land off California coast at just after 5pm local time – live updates
Follow the latest updates as astronauts prepare for fiery re-entry in Earth’s atmosphere after 10-day mission to fly around the moon * Artemis II crew to end record-setting mission with splashdown * Sign up for the Breaking News US email The crew of Artemis II traveled farther from Earth than any humans before them, reaching 252,756 miles, more than 4,000 beyond the previous record set by the Apollo 13 crew in April 1970. “We do so in honoring the extraordinary efforts and feats of our predecessors in human space exploration” mission specialist Jeremy Hansen said from space. Continue reading...
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Sky News: While Trump, the so-called leader of the free world, sits rage-posting on SM like a man screaming into a void, France, Japan, Philippines, & UK are quietly, methodically cutting deals with Iran. The world has moved on. US Mainstream Media is not covering a bit of this.
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Volcaholic @volcaholic1.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
🚨 The emperor penguin is now officially endangered. Climate change is shrinking the sea ice they depend on to breed, and when it breaks too early, chicks drown before they even have a chance. Some colonies are collapsing completely.
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Volcaholic @volcaholic1.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Trump is overhauling the United States Forest Service. Dozens of research sites, including 6 in California, are shutting and offices merging. That means less science, fewer people on the ground, weaker planning, and potentially slower, harder-to-manage wildfires.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
This slaps.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Trump lost this war in every possible sense — morally, legally, politically, economically, reputationally, and strategically.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
If the ceasefire holds (big if), the fairest way to “score” the war in Iran: - clear operational successes. Large number of IRGC killed, Iranian Navy largely destroyed, etc. - a massive tactical failure. 1/4
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 08/04/2026
What is in Iran’s 10-point ceasefire plan, and will the US agree to it? This "plan," in light of a new day, looks less like a plan & more like a maximalist list of demands and ultimatums. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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GoBlue @blu2b4u.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
An expletive-ridden post on social media shamed the office of the US president. Its substantive message, if acted on, would be a *war crime*. | Editorial | The Guardian
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The Guardian view on Trump’s apocalyptic threats: a sign not of strength, but of moral and strategic weakness | Editorial
Editorial: An expletive-ridden post on social media shamed the office of the US president. Its substantive message, if acted on, would be a war crime
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Paul @irishpaul68.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
So the world waits to see if a unhinged lunatic will unleash catastrophic force to annihilate Iran whilst Republican Congress men and women stand in adoration to this ignorant, intellectually inept, semi literate buffoon who couldn't point out Iran on a map. Insane stuff.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
War crimes are morally and legally wrong. But they also don’t win wars or get us beyond politics. Insofar as there is a logic to this it is to provoke the Iranians and then act shocked and go for a coup domestically. See my essay "The Next Coup Attempt" snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...
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The Next Coup Attempt
And How to Stop It
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Mike Jay @mikejay.link · 07/04/2026
Music quiz anyone?
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80s Music Quiz – Easy #1
Ready to get your Quiz on? <h2>To Participate…</h2> You must choose either Guest mode (using the toggle) to not share any data, this also stops your score from being recorded.<…
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I have read a statement that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” and as I read that statement and as I reread that statement I cannot shake the feeling that the civilization from which that statement comes is one that is already dead.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 07/04/2026
This is absolutely insane and 25th amendment grounds in and of itself
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Listen to @timothysnyder.bsky.social. This is the time to say no and refuse to comply.
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
The question now is whether or not the Republican Party is comprised of lemmings willing to follow Trump over the cliff.
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Congresswoman Nikema Williams @repnikema.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Donald Trump is unfit to serve as the leader of the free world. That's why I have cosponsored H. Res. 939 Articles of Impeachment to remove him from office.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Another brilliant @martinrowson.bsky.social editorial cartoon: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Martin Rowson on Trump’s bunker – cartoon
As his own deadline looms, the US president threatens ‘a whole civilisation will die’ if Iran does not make a deal on reopening the strait of Hormuz
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 07/04/2026
Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.
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Trump warns ‘a whole civilization will die’ if Iran doesn’t make a deal
The president had issued a deadline of 8 p.m. Eastern time for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz, pledging destruction by midnight if leaders don’t comply.

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