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Just muddling along. Banner: The Conjuror by Hieronymus Bosh (1502) - an allegory for our time.

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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For Schmitt one can only feel pity: an unintelligent man, out of his depth making an idiot of himself. Kennedy otoh cosplays a Hicksville moron, but has a 1st class law degree from Oxford (as well as other prestigious institutions). He knows so much better. So we should feel nothing but contempt.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Brazilian intelligence officials have briefed French and German officials on US and Russian interference ahead of Brazil’s presidential election, Reuters reports.
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Birds of a Feather 👇 👇 👇 👇
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here is how politics, in most cases, works: Rich and powerful interests, whether in fossil fuels, finance, big tech, media, meat, pharma or foreign governments, make a demand, and use their sophisticated tools to persuade a government to adopt it. The government adopts it. Please read whole🧵
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
According to unnamed Arab officials, Egypt repeatedly warned Israel that an attack from Gaza was coming, while UAE reportedly warned Netanyahu directly that Hamas was planning major action weeks before the Oct. 7 attack. Netanyahu denies receiving them.
yacnews.com
Egypt's spy chief reportedly warned Netanyahu multiple times before 7 October massacre
Netanyahu secretly met UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed on 27 September amid reports he sought a denial of a pre-Oct. 7 warning. Hours later, new claims emerged that Egypt had also warned Israel. Netan...
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Elkeblom @ellyblom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
theguardian.com
NAZA film-makers address threats at documentary’s New York City premiere
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor defend findings on Israel’s killing of Palestinians amid threats from Israeli officials
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics. Like Blair, Cameron, Clegg, Mandelson, hired to open govt networks to companies and corporate capture of the state. They sell political capital built with public money. What do we get in return?
theguardian.com
Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis
When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Elkeblom @ellyblom.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Powerful.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just as well those committing wrongs against the RNLI are not holding placards supporting a proscribed organisation, else they would really be in trouble.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026
Good morning @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social Your journey from MP who most understood the Cambridge Analytica scandal to paid-up Palantir apologist is really quite the journey. Hope the pay packet is worth it. 💰 Here’s some background reading ahead of your first day 🧵👇
A throwback to Tom Watson’s days as the MP fighting back against Facebook after the Nerve team published the Cambridge Analytica investigation at the Observer 
(Tom’s standing, with investigative reporter Carole Cadwalladr on right and whistleblower Chris Wyler 2nd from left)🏁
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
United Healthcare is supposed to provide healthcare cover for 50 million Americans. UnitedHealth Group brought in $447bn in 2025, Makes the £258 bn (€345 bn) we spent on the NHS in 2025 for 67 million patients look like rather good value, doesn’t it?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
CNN, MSNOW and Politico are suing the Trump administration after the White House revoked their press access, arguing the move violates the First Amendment, CNN reports.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Duty". Jacob Rees-Mogg. A man who has spent his life, literally since childhood, in the sociopathic pursuit of wealth, and the opportunity to cosplay the kind of Edwardian buffoon who set the stage for the carnage of the First World War. Not worth your spit, frankly.
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It is time for US courts to question presidential determinations of national security. Otherwise you let Trump build ballrooms in violation of the law claiming they‘re military installations and triumphal arches claiming they‘re for drones. All of this is so stupid it is laughable.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Dave Granlund
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Swathes of UK economy are owned by foreign investors. No tax is deducted from billions paid to them in dividends. USA, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden have a dividend withholding tax for foreign investors. UK could do the same, generate billions. Why are super-rich privileged?
leftfootforward.org
Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 17/09/2026
One of the key problems with AI is that the AI bros and their behemoth companies have absolutely no governance or guardrails. It's not that the AI is conscious or going rogue or whatever. It's that it's run by feckless arseholes. www.ft.com/content/2c34...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For 33 years, McConnell has voted against family and medical leave for working Americans. Then he disappears from the Senate for 92 days and keeps collecting his full paycheck. Apparently, paid leave is only a problem when someone else gets it.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
inquirer.com
A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Safe to say the people of Kentucky are not being represented properly
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Elkeblom @ellyblom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Absolutely outrageous. We are not dealing with a democracy. We are not dealing with a civilised country. We are dealing with a corrupt, theocratic ethno fascist state. We should treat it as such.
theguardian.com
Israeli minister threatens to strip Israeli film-makers of citizenship over Gaza documentary NAZA
Miki Zohar accuses Oscar-winning directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor of ‘treason against the state’
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
For some reason the BBC chose the most miserable headline from an optimistic speech which said Ukraine had “already won” and that talk of Russian escalation was "not a problem" but a "sign of success".
bbc.co.uk
PM's top security adviser says Europe faces hard winter to keep pressure on Putin
In rare public remarks, Jonathan Powell said now was not the time for European nations to take their "foot off the gas".
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Mass protests in Ireland telling Trump to "go fuck himself" and to "get the fuck out".
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform is going to be defending so many investigations it won’t have any time left for its core mission of spreading hate.
mirror.co.uk
Farage accused of failing to declare donors from events in the Middle East
EXCLUSIVE: The Electoral Commission has confirmed it will look into hospitality heaped on Nigel Farage and senior party figures in Dubai last January by mega-rich supporters
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Neoliberals want to cut social security, silent on subsidies to banks. Since 2006, Bank of England has paid interest on central bank reserve deposits to commercial banks. The EU & the Swiss stopped similar practice in 2023. UK still paying, £100bn in last 3 yrs. There are better uses of £100bn.
leftfootforward.org
Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
On the £36m donation to Reform UK from Ben Delo... Lib Dems: "Farage wants to bring Trump's America to our shores by buying his way into power. He's trying to get into No 10 as if it's a stop on a monopoly board" The PM "needs to introduce a cap on political donations. Our democracy depends on it"
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When they allege that the 2020 election was interfered with, they have no proof. When we allege that the 2024 election was interfered with, THEY are our proof.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
youtu.be
Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Elkeblom @ellyblom.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
theguardian.com
Secret systems used by Israel in mass killings of Gaza civilians revealed in new film
Testimony from Israeli military insiders involved in surveillance and remote killings features in documentary produced by the Guardian
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
George IV was a drug addled, capricious, delusional monster obsessed with hyper gaudy interior design. He retreated from the real world and became convinced that he had defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Worth recalling that the Cameron government privately warned Israel that it risked being treated as a pariah as far back as 2014 if it continued on its course re occupation and settlement. Miliband is not making Israel a pariah state, successive Netanyahu governments have done that
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This Neo-Nazi is attempting to target RNLI volunteers. The police have to act, and the Prime Minister should be making a public statement.
Neo Nazi attempts to target RNLI volunteers
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"Meet Trump’s Censor-in-Chief" Brendan Carr, FCC chair and loyalist to the president, is now tasked with preventing cable hosts from criticizing the Dear Leader. What happened to the GOP loving free speech? From Zeteo's 'Ragebait' media column:
zeteo.com
Meet Trump’s Censor-in-Chief
Brendan Carr, FCC chair and loyalist to the president, is now tasked with preventing cable hosts from criticizing the Dear Leader. What happened to the GOP loving free speech?
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I worry that they are moving so fast—and that the media has been so bizarrely silent—that the “new global order” (Pax Silica) will be in place (& impossible to unwind) before the public knows anything about it. Thread. #PaxSilica 1/
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Blödfisch 🥳 @blurtfish.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
@chadbourn.bsky.social .... Just a little balance.... Basically these are the percentages NOT voting for the AfD .... Isn't this the story?!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If the police & security services didn't see this coming, it was a massive intelligence failure. If they did, but still gave the impression of being caught on the hop, it's something worse.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026
Perspective.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 06/09/2026
Patriot Platform, the far-right group whose black-clad masked members caused hours of disruption in Dover yesterday, calls itself a Christian “army of patriots” dedicated to protecting women and children. There’s a problem with that story.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Netanyahu's best friend protecting one of Jeffrey Epstein and Jared Kushner's top billionaire friends, Leon Black.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The “old enough to remember why Nazis are bad” demographic at the end there
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Elkeblom @ellyblom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
By Ella Baron.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Our undercover reporter @scatatkins.bsky.social posed as a far right journalist at the Reform Conference, and got thrown out for asking difficult questions about Farage's corruption scandal.
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