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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 4h

Kharkiv today after a Russian strike on the flea market. I have no words. These terrorist bastards do this every day to Ukrainians, and somehow we are still blamed for it. This is insane.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 4h

Zelenskyy simply and accurately explains why giving up the Donbas won’t end the war: "Putin says he wants the Donbas, but why, at the start of the full-scale invasion, was he trying to occupy Kyiv? Is that the east of our country? Is that the Donbas? No, that’s the capital.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 4h

Ukraine stands against such a powerful enemy as Russia. We stand, otherwise we will be destroyed. It’s always difficult, you know, in communications with partners, to find the right words, the warnings that they will truly understand. Putin wants to destroy us.

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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 15/10/2026

“That is the language of child abusers, frankly.” The shocking footage unveiled in ITV’s undercover investigation into Reform that made Emily's “flesh crawl”…

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

1) Same 2) Zoe is the first person I've seen refer to it as an incest comment rather than "sexism". But that was my instant reaction too. He's not just degrading her and being creepy, he's joking about a scenario of incestuous child abuse. That's not "banter", and it's not normal

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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Maryam Ghanen is now a WCNSF, amongst many others. There is not one western media outlet that covered this story.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This is a Russian jet-powered Shahed drone striking a supermarket in Odesa in broad daylight today. This is terrorism. Terrorists shouldn't be rewarded with lucrative business deals. They must be repelled, arrested, and prosecuted.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22h

Kroger just announced the largest layoffs in its history, with plans to cut 3,000 employees as it ramps up use of AI. Reminder that Kroger has spent $12.3B on stock buybacks since 2019 and paid its CEO $14M last year — 417x its median worker's pay. AI is turbo-charging corporate greed.

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Kroger plans largest layoffs in its nearly 150-year history

The company's CEO said it was committed to "simplifying" operations and "deploying more resources where they matter most

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 15/10/2026

This is the fight of our lives. We can’t let Trump’s America become Farage’s Britain.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Extraordinary undercover reporting in Reform by ITV, uncovering what many of its councillors and activists are really like, when they think the cameras are off. A racist party which attracts racist people. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

FT: Isn’t it better for you to make unilateral declaration that you will not strike Russian refineries, even if Russia continues striking your energy infrastructure, in order to get Trump administration back on side? Zelenskyy: “If such a moment comes and such a deal requires Ukraine not to respond

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Powerful message from @jim.londoncentric.media here - investigative journalism costs £ and so do consider a subscription to @londoncentric.media if you can www.londoncentric.media/p/prince-cha...

London Centric hit its second birthday this month and I wanted to give you a quick peek behind the curtain on how things are going.
What you see: Award-winning investigations. Follow-ups in prestigious news outlets.
Mentions in parliament. The Instagram and YouTube accounts.
Readers' comments that are consistently some of the best discussions on the internet.
What you don't see: The tips we spend months investigating that don't result in stories we can publish. The dozens of emails and WhatsApps from sources that we receive every day but can't look into because there are only three of us and we can't afford more reporters. The legal threats that can bog us down in correspondence for weeks on end.

How a story that lands in your inbox can take a year to publish.
The two months this summer during which London Centric was run from a laptop without a working backspace key. How, in an age of AI, this is very much a boots-on-the-ground operation that relies on a lot of hard human labour, late nights and standing in the rain knocking on people's doors.
Investigative journalism costs an awful lot more money to produce than spouting opinions on podcasts - which explains why there's an increasing number of media outlets that produce lengthy discussions and far fewer that find out fresh facts.
Everything on London Centric is funded by readers who have signed up as paying subscribers.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

No wonder Badenoch and Farage are shitting bricks at the suggestion that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum. Their whole business model relies on Brexit and the racist anti- immigration bomb that it detonated. Their next bright idea - to leave the ECHR - would delight Putin too.

Gazette
ECHR withdrawal 'gift to Putin'
By Jonathan Rayner | 22 March 2012

Britain’s withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights in favour of a British bill of rights would be Vladimir Putin's
'best present ever', an East European delegate at a Council of Europe event for lawyers told the Gazette last weekend.

The source, who asked not be named, said that Putin, just re-elected as president of Russia, has always said that the Strasbourg court's policing of human rights was ‘meaningless'.
Another unnamed source, a former north European government lawyer, described the UK government's attitude to the Strasbourg court as 'Britain shooting itself in the foot. If the British don't engage with Europe, they'll lose influence and shouldn't be surprised if
Germany and France fill the vacuum?

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 14/10/2026

Ed Davey told the Commons in July what Reform activists were saying on doorsteps. Tonight, we saw ITV went undercover and got Reform councillors and candidates on tape.

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Cab Davidson @gnomeicide.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Not a rhetorical question. What do you do in this scenario?

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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

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Martin @martinsaet1.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It's we who should thank Zelenskyj

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Jesi🃏♠️🔥 @luciferjesit.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 14/10/2026

⚡️Russian attacks kill at least 10, injure 91 across Ukraine over past day as ballistic missiles strike Kyiv for second straight night In total, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia struck Ukraine with 39 missiles including Iskander-M, KN-23, S-400, Zircon, and Onyx missiles.

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Russian attacks kill at least 10, injure 91 across Ukraine over past day as ballistic missiles strike Kyiv for second straight night

In total, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia struck Ukraine with 39 missiles including Iskander-M, KN-23, S-400, Zircon, and Onyx missiles.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Trump and Musk going all out to protect Putin

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Call me a masochist, but I'm returning to this issue, as I feel it has been poorly understood. Please read the whole thread before responding. First, I hope we can agree that the Israeli government is committing genocide in Gaza and horrific crimes in the West Bank and the wider region.

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Francis Chubb @francischubb.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Exactly this. And if other European countries couldn’t help Ukraine with ballistic missile warning, they are as dependent on the US as Ukraine.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Trump declared an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. So now, Russia is bombing Kyiv’s energy system with missiles, plunging the city into a complete blackout, while Ukraine isn't bombing Russian oil refineries. Very interesting, very cool.

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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Thank you." Andy from Warrington has a simple message to Andy Burnham. It's refreshing to finally have a Prime Minister who takes our democracy seriously. Now it's time to take the next step and fix the voting system.

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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 14/10/2026

NEW: Ukrainian troops were caught off guard by restrictions on Starlink satellite internet systems that disrupted frontline operations, as Kyiv received no advance warning from its partners of a Russian missile attack on its energy facilities for the second day running, Ukrainian officials tell me.

ft.com

Ukraine blindsided by Starlink restrictions and intelligence gaps during Russian attack

Moscow ignores Donald Trump’s ‘energy ceasefire’ while Kyiv’s forces experience connectivity problems on Elon Musk’s satellite network

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

There's a possibility that both of these were technical issues, but if they were not we have just entered a truly catastrophic phase of the Trump administration's international realignment. Initially catastrophic for Ukraine, but inevitably also for Europe as a whole.

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Francis Chubb @francischubb.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yes, I see. Thank you. All good questions. But hitting back is very good for morale for those under attack, so we should have courage and confidence as well, I think.

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Francis Chubb @francischubb.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Oh dear. Is it too much to ask for some contingency planning?

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Professor Daniele Albertazzi @dralbertazziuk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's pretty simple, really: Representative A makes outrageous statement. Media, naturally, give it wall-to-wall coverage. A day or so later, Representative B steps in to explain that the statement was 'misinterpreted.' Media then churns out even more coverage on how we ought to 'interpret' claims.

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is the technique they’ve been using so successfully to achieve thisese grim outcomes, and it continues, and it continues to work with a media and social media environment that pays dividends for it rather than shunning them as the fascist crackpots they are.

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is part of a methodology I’m going to call Fascist Edging. It’s deliberate, to move the Overton Window. It’s speculative. Can we go this far yet? What’s the backlash? From whom? Did anyone support/excuse? It’s seeding the idea. Get it talked about. Absorb the initial shock. Normalise.

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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

First major AI company collapses. Valued at a billion dollars this time last year, just sold some assets to Disney for $20m.

The first machine army faction has been wiped off the map. ONWARD!

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

2026: Labour MP Jonathan Hinder says 'nobody thinks that was going to happen,' that Brexit would mean, instead of migrants from the EU, we'd get migrants from outside the EU 2016: Labour's Heidi Alexander explained exactly that; one of many politicians and commentators to do so

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

President Zelenskyy: "Since yesterday evening and up until now, Russia has attacked Ukraine with more than a hundred different weapons, including jet-powered drones, loitering munitions,&ballistic missiles. A significant number of these weapons were shot down. But unfortunately, not all of them⤵️

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In Kharkiv, an ordinary residential building was destroyed. Rescue operations continued practically all night as rescuers searched for people under the rubble. Four people were killed in the strike on the building in Kharkiv. A total of 41 people were injured in Kharkiv alone in just one evening.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

People are under the rubble here. This is an ordinary apartment building in Kharkiv. Russia collapsed it onto People within tonight.

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Francis Chubb @francischubb.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Remarkable graphs in this thread:

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I've just added my name to the call for the UK to join the European Union by 2036. A stronger economy, more jobs, greater security, and a louder voice in the world. Add your name: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/join_eu_by_2...

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Add your name - Let's join the EU by 2036

Add your name to back the ambition for the UK to join the European Union by 2036. Join thousands calling for a confident future at the heart of Europe.

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Francis Chubb @francischubb.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A policy for liberals to adopt everywhere:

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Helen Maguire MP 🔶 @helenmaguiremp.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Lifting sanctions on Russian diesel only bankrolls Putin’s war and leaves Ukraine to pay the price - all for a temporary boost in the polls before the midterms. It’s a pathetic, transparent manoeuvre from Trump. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky calls it a 'gift to Putin'

Ukraine's president sharply criticised the move, calling it an "investment in war that must be ended, not prolonged".

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Times from ten years ago this week. They were wrong. In fact Brexit is costing the UK economy roughly £100 billion a year. #ProjectFear

Hard Brexit
could cost
£66bn a year

Leaked Treasury papers reveal lost revenue

Sam Coates Deputy Political Editor
Ollver Wright Policy Editor

Cabinet ministers are being warned
that the Treasury could lose up_to
£66 billion a year in tax revenues under
"hard Brexit", according to leaked
government papers.

GDP.could fall by as much as 9.5 per
cent if Britain leaves the single market
and hastorely on WorldTrade Organi-
sation rules for trading with the conti-
nent, compared with ifit stayed within
the EU,theforecasts show.Such a steep
drop in revenue would force ministers
to slash public spending or raise taxes.
The £66 billion drop, contained in a
draft cabinet committee paper seen by
The Times, is nearly a tenth of the
£716 billion that the government is pro-
jected to collect in taxes this year,and is
equivalent to 65 per cent of the annual
budget of NHS England.

Business leaders are_increasingly
worried that the UK could fail to nego-
tiate a deal with the 27 remaining EU
members by the time it leaves the
union, and will face a "cliff edge" of
trade tariffs and barriers,

Several cabinet ministers who sup-
ported Remain are stepping up efforts
to prioritise business concerns and the
economy in Brexit discussions, fearing
that Leave supporters fail to realise the
scale of potential damage, It comes as:;
○ Theresa May faces a potential legal
challenge by a group of Conservative
MPs over the decision to begin Brexit
negotiations without parliament's
approval. The prime minister's spokes-
man ruledoutgiving MPs a voteyester-
day,saying thatitwould"second guess'
the will of the British people.
○ Dominic Grieve, the former attor-
ney-general, said that unless the gov,
ernment could agree,a deal supported
by parliament it would not survive.
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A Tory backbencher suggested that
British companies should hire disabled

Tuesday October 11 2016 | thetimes.co.uk | No 72038

people to do the work of EU migrants
after Brexit.

Mrs May visited Denmark and the
Nethe…

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Andy Burnham confirms what previous PM's - May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak and Starmer - failed to, that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum.

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Lady Macbeth @notinstructed.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

There is something particularly ugly about an institution polishing its own historical halo while omitting the journalists who actually did the work — especially when one of them then endured years of legal threats and abuse. Credit is not a decorative extra in journalism.

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Lady Macbeth @notinstructed.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

For years Carole Cadwalladr was mocked, threatened, sued and treated as though asking inconvenient questions were the offence. Now we are told there was clear Russian interference in the Brexit vote. How terribly awkward for everyone who spent years trying to discredit the woman asking why.

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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nothing is more important than intimidating asylum seekers

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Lady Macbeth @notinstructed.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

There is something deeply indecent about institutions rediscovering the truth only once the people who pursued it have already paid the price. Carole Cadwalladr deserved support when it was difficult, not vindication when it became convenient.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

‘For years the Observer tried to get to the truth of Russian interference until we sacked the reporter involved for participating in union activities’

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