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Avalanche #BrainInjury survivor wheelchair / trike using East Londoner from Burnley. Love this blue planet, wish more felt the same, sick of Tory / Reform BS, #TaxTheRich #TaxMusk #TrumpIsACunt #ProportionalRepresentation #RejoinEU #VoteGreen #UTC #Clarets

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17h
Reform UK councillors and candidates filmed making graphic threats of extreme violence, expressing racist and misogynistic views. Bromley councillor calling for King Charles to be killed. That's the kind of people Reform attracts. It has normalized hatred. What would a Reform govt unleash?
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Reform UK councillors and candidates filmed making racist and misogynist comments
Party faces fresh crisis as three councillors quit after ITV undercover filming exposed violence, misogyny and racist views
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17h
UK households paid extra £13961 on bills since 2021 amid soaring inflation Has your net income risen by the same? Income tax personal allowance frozen since 2021. Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in direct/indirect taxes than the richest 20%. Hitting the less well-off is normalized.
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UK households have paid extra £13,961 on bills since 2021 amid soaring inflation, TUC says
Trades Union Congress urges chancellor to tackle rising additional living costs in this month’s budget
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17h
Ukraine's drones made inoperable by restrictions on the speed permitted by SpaceX's Starlink network. Musk blames Trump. Any country relying the US or foreign tech companies will be held to ransom, can't defend itself. Need own satellites and systems to fight new imperialism.
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Starlink: Musk says US government may be behind slowdown of Ukraine drone speeds
Ukraine says Starlink access has improved but it is still facing speed limits which are disrupting its battlefield "missions".
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You can read more of my interview with Frances Haugen here. It's taken Hollywood a full DECADE to even try to tackle Silicon Valley. The Social Reckoning is long long overdue & a chilling reminder of why we HAVE to regulate these bros. 6/ www.thenerve.news/p/frances-ha...
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‘We have a $1tn company acting desperate’: Frances Haugen on The Social Reckoning, Zuckerberg, and Facebook's growing fragility
The whistleblower whose explosive revelations about her employer inspired Aaron Sorkin’s new film tells Carole Cadwalladr that, despite Silicon Valley’s power, ‘we have the ability to change a lot of ...
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Frances Haugen: "The problem we're experiencing today is that we are missing an infrastructure of accountability."
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
God. Since @carolecadwalla.bsky.social left it, even the @theguardian.com gets it wrong. There weren’t just four meetings between Banks/Leave EU and Kremlin officials during Brexit: the judge in the libel case concluded at least a dozen
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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 8h
Andy Burnham must reject the Rosebank oil field
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 6h
Public sector workers are warning that they are already on the frontline of extreme weather: “Approving Rosebank would not be ‘pragmatic’, it would outright arson”👇
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 8h
Whether it was the insistence that Thiel is just trolling, or the incredulity that Trump would actually interfere in elections, or the apparent ignorance that fascism is a *right-wing* project, this interview was a trip. As comedy, it's gold. www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
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BBC Audio | Radical with Gabriel Gatehouse | End Times Capitalism: How Much Wealth Is Too Much Wealth? (Activist Naomi Klein)
The author and activist on her career and fears about the end of the world
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today is the day! A journey that Astra and I started as an essay in The Guardian is now officially out in the world. End Times Fascism – And the Fight for the Living World is in bookstores now. If you are inclined, please buy one from an indie bookseller or borrow it from your local library.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3h
George Monbiot explains why the UK should rejoin the EU, "There's a reason why Russia tried to intervene in the Brexit vote, they knew that it would harm the UK and the EU if we left" "They were very clear about that and boy have they been proved right"
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johnsoonaye.bsky.social @johnsoonaye.bsky.social · 2h
"There's a reason why Russia tried to intervene in the Brexit vote. They knew it would harm the UK and harm the EU if we left. They were very clear about that, and boy, have they been proved right!" ~ @georgemonbiot.bsky.social #JohnDrawsBBCQT #BBCQT #BBCQuestionTime
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Ruth Tingay @ruthtingay.bsky.social · 17h
Natural England can't bring itself to say "persecution" or "illegal killing" is still constraining Hen Harrier population recovery. Instead it calls it, "conflicting land management priorities". Nope, it's crime, committed by criminals, on grouse moors. raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/10/15/n...
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Natural England publishes 2026 Hen Harrier breeding attempts – only 9 (of 45) were on grouse moors
Natural England has finally published data for the 2026 Hen Harrier breeding season, showing yet again that Hen Harriers are not tolerated on most English grouse moors. Of 45 recorded breeding atte…
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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 17h
Absolutely....anyway shooting grouse is very far from being a priority!
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Grumpy Says @grumpysays.bsky.social · 1h
Just signed this petition demanding real climate action at COP31, join me: act.350.org/sign/cop31/?...
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Tell the COP31 Presidencies: Phase Out Fossil Fuels and Deliver a Just Transition
In November, Türkiye and Australia will host this year's UN Climate Talks (COP31). For two weeks, they'll steer the negotiations that decide how fast and how fairly the world moves off coal, oil and g...
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Just a thought about the FBI director and Russia… Now Wikileaks is back, has it got another October surprise via Russian intelligence services? Assange keeps banging on about the Epstein files. Have the GRU given him something which would make Trump comply with Putin? Just a thought
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
So Trump not only disarmed Ukraine by removing the Starlink/Starshield capability with defensive drones (the system only operates in Ukraine), he blinded it too with withholding advanced warnings of Russian missile attacks. How evil, cowardly and craven. Is Kash Patel still in Moscow
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 20h
Here’s Kash Patel
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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 18h
Democracy In Danger: #Brexit wasn't the start or the end of Putin's election meddling... Latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social pod @peterjukes.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social Listen: pod.fo/e/6ab1ad Watch: youtu.be/M8hVq-skssI?...
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Russia's Brexit Meddling Proven
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Steve @stephenh.bsky.social · 16h
Putin has decided that his asset is likely to be rendered powerless after the elections and is now “sweating the asset” to get the maximum return before he is impeached.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 3h
This is fun. The Critic Magazine - funded by some right wing billionaire, has teamed up with another criminally convicted right billionaire, to investigate Jason Arday (rather than their two writers prosecuted for sex offences). Oligarch media, and la trahison des clercs
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 8h
🐝 JUST $940 LEFT TO COMPLETE THE ENTIRE CAMPAIGN! Only the final station remains, and we have until October 18 to fund it before Wild Hornets move on to their next fundraiser. ⬇️⬇️⬇️We’re incredibly close now. Help us finish this together! ❤️
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 3h
🐝🐈 WE DID IT! CAMPAIGN COMPLETE! Thanks to an incredibly generous final $1,000 donation, we’ve officially closed our joint raffle fundraiser with Wild Hornets! 🎯 Over $17,600 raised for 3 Hornet Vision CTRL remote-control stations for the 12th Special Operations Center!
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 14h
AviVector has published satellite imagery showing the aftermath of Ukraine’s Neptune missile strike on the Russian Su-34 parking area at Borisoglebsk airbase in Voronezh region.
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 12h
🛰️New high-resolution satellite imagery shows the aftermath of Ukraine’s Neptune missile strike on Borisoglebsk airbase in Russia’s Voronezh region. The wreckage of two destroyed Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers is clearly visible.
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
One of the Russian Pantsir air defense systems destroyed in the SSU’s strike compilation has been geolocated to Sochi’s Olympic Park, built specifically for the 2014 Winter Olympics. A perfect demonstration of just how much sport is really “outside politics.”
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
And now, onboard footage from a Ukrainian B-2: drone’s appearance causes a traffic accident as drivers get distracted, then it flies directly over the heads of a Russian mobile air defense team, which fails to stop it, before slamming straight into the windshield of a Russian military truck.
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🐝 JUST $2,850 LEFT! We’re getting closer to completing our $17,600 campaign! These stations will help STING operators intercept Russian Shaheds remotely and more safely. ⏳ Deadline: October 18. Let’s finish this!⬇️⬇️⬇️
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Don’t show this to Trump. A Ukrainian FPV drone strikes a concealed Russian fuel stockpile near the front line
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A Ukrainian soldier shot down a Russian jet-powered Geran-4 drone using an Igla-1 MANPADS over Ukraine’s Rivne region this morning.
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Video shows a Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 shooting down a Russian jet-powered Geran-4 drone at point-blank range with its onboard cannon, then flying through the resulting fireball. The footage is so clear that even the muzzle flashes from the cannon on the MiG-29’s left side are visible as it fires
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Interception of a Russian Shahed drone over the Black Sea as it approaches Odesa’s coastline
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Just your average morning news from Russia: In occupied Donetsk, a drug dealer with seven previous convictions, recruited from a prison, is on trial for killing six fellow Russian soldiers, including a former FSB specialist and a unit commander.
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Look who’s still out there! Two years after we raised funds for this van, it’s been spotted on the front lines, still running and serving our Ukrainian defenders. And a big salute to everyone who helped us get it there! 🫡🇺🇦
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: The big new Aaron Sorkin film The Social Reckoning opens tomorrow with a plot centred on Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen....but we need to talk about *another* Facebook whistleblower, Sarah Wynn-Williams. And why Zuck is gunning for her.. 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?is=NP3...
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THE SOCIAL RECKONING – Official Teaser Trailer (HD)
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
But partial truths only from the Observer, who fails to report WHO revealed the Arron Banks/Leave EU emails (me and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social ) and that she, unlike me, suffered years of legal threats, online abuse (including Andrew Neil) and then was peremptorily sacked by the Observer
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Peter Jukes (@peterjukes) on X
But partial truths only from the Observer, who fails to report WHO revealed the Arron Banks/Leave EU emails (me and @carolecadwalla) and that she, unlike me, suffered years of legal threats, online ab...
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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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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Burnham first PM to confirm Kremlin role in Brexit vote The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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From Russia with interference: Burnham first PM to confir...
The prime minister has revealed UK authorities told him there was ‘clear evidence’ that Moscow meddled in the referendum
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🔎 From the archive: Putin’s Plot Against ‘Great’ Britain – And How He Got Away With It Now Andy Burnham has revealed there was key evidence Russia interfered in the Brexit Referendum
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Putin’s Plot Against ‘Great’ Britain – And How He Got Away With It
Peter Jukes tracks Vladimir Putin’s long war against the West and the allies he has found in the pro-Brexit establishment in the plot to derail Britain
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Eight years ago
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My take with @goldbergradio.bsky.social and @bylinetimes.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social on Andy Burnham and why it took so long for the British Government to come clean about Putin’s role in Brexit youtu.be/M8hVq-skssI
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Russia's Brexit Meddling Proven
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Croydon For Europe @croydonforeurope.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Us Remainers/Rejoiners are also Reminders: we won’t forget the fantastic work @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and @peterjukes.bsky.social have done all these years! Brexit is Russian Foreign Policy!
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Compass @compassoffice.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Britain is facing a crisis of trust and power. That's why today we're launching Better! - an alliance to remove the grip on power, wealth and information by the few - and return it to the many - for a better future for all. 🧵1/4
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"Seamus O'Reilly" 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇮🇪🇦🇺🇬🇱 @jimbobuk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
In the observer; Andy Burnham has said "UK authorities are “clear” that there was Russian interference in the Brexit vote: this is the first time a prime minister has confirmed Kremlin involvement in the 2016 referendum." Finally.... What we all knew...
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
So, finally, a PM who admits there **was** Russian interference in the Brexit Referendum — after all the evidence amassed by myself @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social Sergei Cristo, J Patrick et al — dismissed as conspiracy for ten long years Truth is the daughter of Time
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
At last! Big congrats to all including @carolecadwalla.bsky.social As MP I was proud to join a court case to try to force ministers to hold an inquiry into the impact of Russian disinformation on the Brexit vote & other recent elections - their lack of curiosity, from Boris onwards, was stunning …
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Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
10 years too late is still better than never Burnham needs to conduct a rapid and thorough review and then put the evidence into the public arena We can't let Putin decide weather or not we are members of the EU That he has had a long-term project to destroy www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Andy Burnham says it is clear Russia interfered in Brexit referendum
PM says he asked question upon entering No 10 but does not reveal who gave him ‘clear answer’ Russia meddled
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
More information on the Bureau of Investigative Journalism website. Abramovich’s inner circle presented high court with sham documents and misleading testimony Documents faked by Deloitte staff were used to help fend off a lawsuit. 👇👇👇👇
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Abramovich’s team presented sham documents to London high court
Documents faked by Deloitte staff were used to help fend off a lawsuit from rival oligarch
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Look at the graph of US support for Ukraine, and how it disappeared when Trump entered his second term. The Russia hoax was never a hoax
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