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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 4h

In addition to being the UK's most Kremlin-sanctioned newspaper, Byline Times has now been banned two years running from both Conservative and Reform UK party conferences. Judge us by our critics, and subscribe to support our work: subscribe.bylinetimes.com @peterjukes.bsky.social

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 5h

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.

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Miranda Dickinson @wurdsmyth.bsky.social · 7h

Oh HELL no, #Audible. So you're going to not only steal my characters, infringing my copyright and IP, but you're also going to steal the voices of my brilliant audiobook narrators for your utterly crap AI chatbot? Get - and I say this with my whole heart - IN THE SEA! #NoAI

A headline from an online news article that reads: "Audible will soon let you talk to audiobook characters with a new AI feature."

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BREAKING WSJ: The Trump Justice Department is reviewing whether the special prosecutor's office that investigated Watergate committed misconduct. A revisionist historian went to DOJ HQ to present his case that Richard Nixon and his associates weren't treated fairly.

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Exclusive | Decades After Watergate, Justice Department Reviews Whether Nixon Got a Raw Deal

A revisionist historian went to the DOJ headquarters to present his case that the former president and his associates weren’t treated fairly.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 6h

Suppose my slightly distinctive take is that experience clearly says the UK is in a permanent negotiation with the EU whatever we do, which changes the question slightly to where you want that conducted from, in or out.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 8h

We're pleased to announce that Bellingcat won three awards at the Online Journalism Awards. Congratulations to all of the winners and nominees listed here: awards.journalists.org/2026/10/02/c...

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Congratulations to the Winners of the 2026 Online Journalism Awards! - Online Journalism Awards

As the in-person celebration of the 2026 Online Journalism Awards (#OJA26) comes to a close, we congratulate the winners in the remaining 12 of 28 categories.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 8h

Putin’s speeches should be listened to through a special filter. Criminal&prison language is now the primary language of Putin’s power Therefore,the Valdai speech should be listened to as a kind of street-criminal conflict scenario: "you don’t respect me," "they started it first," "we warned you,"⤵️

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.

Reform UK
Follow
@reformparty_uk
Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
Reform UK.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked

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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban

The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press

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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For Palestinians living under Israeli military rule in the West Bank, Israel’s segregated roads and roadblocks can turn a commute to work into an hours-long journey. @wired.com used 2.6 billion GPS pings to map out exactly how Israeli apartheid choke daily life in the West Bank.

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Torturously Okay: Dead and Loving It @torturouslyokay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Natalie turning up with no previous indication she was there made me literally guffaw

Natalie Harp, without introduction, interjects some details into Trump’s Time Magazine interview

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ACTION STATIONS! A very well timed debate on the UK's membership of the EU takes place on 12th October in parliament. Please ask your MP to be there: bestforbritain.org/take-action/...

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Tell your MP: 628 constituencies want EU membership. Only 4 don't. - Best for Britain

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Variants on the question "would rejoin be difficult / lengthy / painful / controversial"...? Yes to all. Which is why it is only realistic with very strong political commitment from a UK government with a confident Brussels game. Obviously that doesn't exist right now.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Well, we're still at just over 20 months of Trump's second term, and the www.trumpactiontracker.info has reached over 4,000 documented actions :-/

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 01/10/2026

A clip showing NATO soldiers has gone viral. Posts have suggested it is a new video released by NATO. This isn't the case—the video is from 2024. Our fact check below 👇

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Viral NATO video isn’t a ‘new ad campaign’ – Full Fact

A clip of NATO soldiers is being shared with claims it is a new promotional clip. It was actually posted in 2024 to mark the alliance's 75th anniversary.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So Trump has inadvertently launched a government funded and supported real-time fact checker for his own lies at America.gov. Any over/under on how long this lasts before he shuts it down completely? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.com

Trump’s AI chatbot turns on its master

The famously fact-averse president rolled out a new AI tool – but its answers don’t conform to his version of reality

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Free movement *does* benefit migrants by giving them more freedom/options, and improves labour market flexibility overall. These are good arguments for it, compared to a managed system, that I've made many times. Burnham's "it gives us Gastarbeiter" is both false and regressive.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Bad news, everyone - Brexit has apparently caused the entire United Kingdom to detach from Europe and drift several thousand miles west. We are now slowly approaching Newfoundland. Can someone please let Eurostar now there might be some issues.

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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Odd that Mr Thiel's viewing wasn't cancelled instead.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We're repeatedly told that asylum seekers pose a threat to the good people of our country... Reading about the threatening and violent treatment of elderly and open minded locals in Crowborough I get the impression that the real threat comes from closer to home. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

On Facebook and other platforms, people
who are known to support the asylum
seekers have been threatened with acid
attacks, petrol bombs and rape. The dossier.
which has been seen by the Guardian, also
claims that several local businesses have
been threatened by far-right agitators, along
with a church where some asylum seekers
worship. One man was punched in the throat
after he held up a "Love Thy Neighbour"
sign, while an elderly couple were falsely
accused of supporting sex offenders. In yet
another case, a 92-year-old church volunteer
was reportedly woken at 3am for two nights
in a row by a man standing outside her
home, shining a torch through her window
and shouting abuse

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I still worry about the safety of this woman in Crowborough.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New Mystic Meg prediction by Daniel Hannan who famously predicted the ‘blue eyed Sheikhs’ of Iceland Banking would would save us in 2004, Brexit Britain would be booming in 2026, and that Covid wouldn’t kill anyone in 2020 In other words, we will be rejoining the EU

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Imagine being a healthcare provider and a botched “death penalty” victim is brought into your ER. This is so depraved

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

While Pete Hegseth plays at being a tough guy doing push ups for the cameras, basic competence stuff isn't getting done. The Pentagon getting hack is very, very bad. But *unencrypted* data on military servicemembers? Yikes.

Hegseth doing pushups because of his fragile sense of masculinity.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Of *course* the ‘AI boom’ will make us poorer. It’s a ‘boom’ created by tech bros for tech bros, and they’re pretty much the worst human beings on the planet. How could it possibly do anything else?

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a dreadful argument from Burnham. Empirically false - almost 6m people were granted settled status; about 4m are currently resident. More importantly panders to racism/xenophobia, and directly contradicts argument made in his speech about migrant contributions.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We have a real fight on our hands ...... to spread our message of hate and division. Good 👍

Rupert Lowe •

Burnham speaks better than Starmer, he comes across better than Starmer, he connects with people better than Starmer.

That makes him a lot more dangerous than Starmer. Let's be honest - we have a real fight on our hands.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Birmingham City Council at the High Court to seek an emergency injunction to stop more unlawful erection of Union and St George's Cross flags on lampposts and bridges by Ryan Bridge's Raise the Colours The council has acted after many complaints of harassment & anti-social behaviour for over a year

birminghammail.co.uk

Live updates as flaggers face court showdown with Birmingham City Council

It's a day of reckoning for the men who have put flags up all over Birmingham, as the city council seeks an injunction to stop them

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 30/09/2026

#OtD 30 Sep 1973 Chilean army death squad the Caravan of Death flew by helicopter from the south to the north of Chile, and began brutally torturing and murdering around 100 people and dumping them in unmarked graves on the orders of Augusto Pinochet stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1035...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A fascinating new development in us federalism. Unclear whether it will survive constitutional challenges

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 29/09/2026

A video being shared online supposedly shows an “asylum seeker” saying he wants “more money and more freedom”, and isn’t happy with how he’s being treated in the UK. But the clip is AI-generated. Here’s how we know 👇

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Video of ‘asylum seeker’ saying he wants ‘more money and more freedom’ is AI-generated – Full Fact

A clip which has been shared online contains a SynthID watermark, suggesting it was made with Google’s AI tools.

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 30/09/2026

A video shared on social media appears to show a crowd of protesters carrying enormous UK and Palestinian flags. But this isn’t real footage. The video was generated with AI.

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Video of huge pro-Palestine rally in the UK is AI-generated – Full Fact

A video appears to show a large UK march for Palestine. It's fake. Both the audio and visuals carry Google's SynthID watermark.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Macron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.”

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

75% of our leading food crops depend on pollinators. No bees = no tomatoes, no beans, no peppers, no mangoes, no coffee. You think food comes from the supermarket. It comes from a bee that just died from insecticide drift.

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Catio Miles @catiomiles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And in his previous UKIP version of Farage Party, they were staunch defenders of the £. But now they promote crypto instead.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A former Wagner fighter, now in Ukrainian captivity, said Russian mercenaries in Mali used captured Africans as live subjects for brutal "tactical medicine training." In 2023-2024, Russian instructors deliberately maimed African prisoners, after which the mercenaries practiced stopping bleeding.

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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 29/09/2026

A video falsely claiming to show a long queue of Muslim women waiting to sign up for free childcare has been liked thousands of times on social media. But the clip actually shows the women waiting in line for a modest clothing sale in Amsterdam.

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Video shows Muslim women queuing for a clothing sale, not free childcare – Full Fact

The video has been widely shared on social media alongside the false claim that it shows women in headscarves lining up to enroll their children into free public daycare.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The torture and trafficking of immigrant kids continues apace, with plans to remove the 2,500 unaccompanied kids presently held captive. We need a relentless drumbeat: What are they doing to the children? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children

Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist

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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

💥BREAKING: Andy Burnham announces a National Commission on Electoral Reform. This is a historic moment. The era of First Past the Post is coming to an end. It's time to transform politics and make all votes count. It's time for Proportional Representation.

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deck.blue @deck.blue · 29/09/2026

last time the US did this, we had 700k covid deaths because bolsonaro refused to get vaccines in time and before that, we spent 24 years in a dictatorship; our latest democracy is only 38 years old and it's being threatened once again we cannot let another bolsonaro be the president again

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