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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 10/10/2026

Trump saying Ukraine needs a new leader because Zelenskyy “cannot make a deal” is outrageous. Ukraine is sovereign, not Washington’s puppet. Ukrainians decide who leads their country. Russia started this war, and that fact does not change because Trump finds it inconvenient. Get lost. Idiot.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure

The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trump keeps stealing money from the government to bolster his political prospects. It should be seen as a crime spree not legitimate actions of an American government.

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Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 01/10/2026

As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats.

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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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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📌 ICYMI — Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations — Samantha Asumadu The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK…

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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations

The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said

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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I do wonder what some politicians are scared of ….

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh...

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 27/09/2026

After receiving an award from the owner of The Telegraph, Politico, Business Insider, etc. Peter Thiel said Pope Leo XIV is a "useful idiot" for the Chinese because he dares question Thiel's glorious AI future. The 120 schoolgirls in Minab killed by Thiel's Palantir were not available for comment.

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“A Useful Idiot for the Chinese Communists” — Peter Thiel Attacks Pope Leo XIV for the Third Time

The billionaire who bankrolled JD Vance’s Senate race, and whom Vance credits with reopening the door to his faith, went after the American pope again on Thursday in Berlin. The vice president has sai...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Russia strikes apartment buildings. Ukraine strikes refineries. Trump is angry at Ukraine and calls for them publicly and privately to stop bombing refineries while saying nothing about Russia killing children.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 22/09/2026

You can easily now see how he could bankrupt two casinos.

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DEF-G @scriban.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In Trump’s America, we would rather enrich the sanctioned enemies of democracy than engage in free and fair trade with our closest ally.

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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

American academic abroad finds that foreign countries have their own currencies. And then explains it to the rest of us.

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Jack Mendel @mendeljack.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And obviously social media sites aren't taking action: bsky.app/profile/amrk...

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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Isn’t Sir Jim Ratcliffe an immigrant to Monaco? Happy to be corrected on this of course …. And do British people abroad only consider themselves “expats?” And never “immigrants?”

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Hans van de Koot @hansvandekoot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... “Google confirmed to the Guardian that the hacks occurred, but that the company did not feel it required public disclosure because the models did not damage the companies.” 😳

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Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies

Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/09/2026

Elon and the free speech bros are gonna be FURIOUS when they find out about this!!!

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This still gets me every time. Albert Camus' letter to a teacher after he'd been awarded the Nobel Prize.

19 November 1957

Dear Monsieur Germain,

I let the commotion around me these days subside a bit before speaking to you from the bottom of my heart. I have just been given far too great an honor, one I neither sought nor solicited. But when I heard the news, my first thought, after my mother, was of you. Without you, without the affectionate hand you extended to the small poor child that I was, without your teaching and example, none of all this would have happened. I don’t make too much of this sort of honor. But at least it gives me the opportunity to tell you what you have been and still are for me, and to assure you that your efforts, your work, and the generous heart you put into it still live in one of your little schoolboys who, despite the years, has never stopped being your grateful pupil. I embrace you with all my heart.

Albert Camus

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

applying "Make ___ Great Again" to Germany really does kinda give the game away

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

One of those two looks like an invasion to me.

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

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: “The word "remigration" is nothing other than a synonym for ethnic cleansing based on origin and skin color.”

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think the worst part of Labour's response to the fascist mobilisation is Andy Burnham's absence. He's the most popular politician in the country, with social media reach and actual powers of persuasion, and he's saying nothing in public. He can actually be of use here but he's choosing not to

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Compare and contrast.

Photo: Four police officers carrying an elderly woman
More than 500 people arrested at Palestine Action protest in London
Arrests and detentions took place at first mass demo since group's ban was ruled unlawful by high court
More than 500 people have been arrested at the first mass demonstration opposing the proscription of Palestine Action since the group's ban was ruled unlawful by the high court.

"The ‘spontaneous’ protest was broken up by midday on Saturday and no arrests were made"
Police face questions over Dover disruption caused by masked protesters
Up to 500 activists dressed in black brought part of UK port town to a standstill on Saturday

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Half-expecting government to announce VAT cut on balaclavas to help with cost of living.

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randy r. potts @thephatic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

FDR knew that you push to the LEFT and give people real, material benefits if you want to neutralize a rising fascist threat. Sadly, contemp centrists in the US and Europe have not learned this lesson.

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What terrifies me is if turns out that James Orr is a creepy bagman for a deeply corrupt & criminal organisation. Imagine the backlash against honest & law-abiding Professors of Divinity at Cambridge University.

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Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Amazing. It seems that plagiarism is only a problem for The Times when black people do it

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Can't believe these Ivory Tower academics left merely because the American government decided it should arbitrarily revoke research funding and visas, dictate what scholars publish & teach, and send students & assistants to concentration camps.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I know this isn't terrorism. You know this isn't terrorism. The authorities know this isn't terrorism. But, once again, they have labelled protesters "terrorists", as part of the long-running programme to ensure that no one dares protest about anything any more. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’

Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is Olena Bila and her 4-year-old daughter, Zhanna. On the morning of August 26, russians struck Chernihiv, destroying a residential home and killing them both🕯💔 Olena’s older daughter, aged 14, remains in the hospital.

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Hans van de Koot @hansvandekoot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

“There are currently 315 datacentres in the queue to connect to the UK’s electricity grid, representing 73GW of demand. This is almost double the peak winter energy demand for the entire UK.” (from today’s Guardian) This is madness.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Quite right @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social, now time for UK government to show leadership and leave X.

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

where are the 500 professors signing an open letter about a professor being fired for talking about gender?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This article must have been written at least a couple of hundred times now, without anyone ever making a convincing argument for it. £100,000 puts MPs comfortably in the top 4% of earners. How would putting them in the top 0.5% instead make them any better representatives of the remaining 99.5%?

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Poet Sue @poetsue.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I think the Guardian along with other press organisations need to hold their hands up to journalism on Jason Arday being not about truth but about an anti DEI agenda of most right wing newspapers. 188 articles in 9 days would not have happened if Jason was white. This fact needs to be prevalent.

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Jo S. Pumpkins @ikilledtheradi0.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It doesn't matter if Jason Arday was guilty of everything he was accused of. The British press went after him to a degree it wouldn't have done to a white academic. That's the problem most people who object to how you covered this story have. Read the (online) room already.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Love how this dude discovered the cheat codes of "what if I listened to constituents" and "what if I modeled good behavior" and "maybe I behave like a normal person should." These are apparently dark secrets that have been hidden from other politicians.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Downing Street's press release for Burnham's "emergency" Cobra meeting on the drought didn't even mention climate, with the Prime Minister blaming the growing numbers of wildfires on disposable barbecues. He's since appeared on GB News this afternoon to talk about migrant camps

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 09/08/2026

If you have concerns with Muslims in politics … you should see the Christians

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 08/08/2026

I check Facebook 1-2x a month for family stuff. Turns out a few days ago my dad made a long post begging for understanding about trans people by his fellow boomers. Last paragraphs are below. Dad doesn’t always get it 100% right. He doesn’t need to. He loves and defends me; that’s all that matters

H. I have a trans daughter. She struggled to learn who she was.
She finally " got it" several years ago and has transitioned into a beautiful adult woman. I've seen the struggle up close. She has been mocked and beaten for being herself. I love her.
Personally I dont think I have the strength of character to do as she has, should I have been in that circumstance.
G. And finally..l just had to get this off my chest as I read, see and overhear uneducated, bigoted posts, stories, and conversation. Here's a testimony of a parent of a beautiful child..there are more of us than you know.
Hope this helps.
If I offends you..buh bye.
If you learned something..youre welcome.
IYKYK. PEACE AND LOVE ARE THE ONLY ANSWERS.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

SKY NEWS: “Trump says you’re a gift to the Republican Party.” @abdulelsayed.bsky.social: “I’m a gift to the state of Michigan, God-willing.” SKY NEWS: “He says you’re full of shit.” ABDUL: “At least I don’t let mine go in the middle of the Oval Office.” 🔥 🔥 👀

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Whilst Andy Burnham has found the time to opine on such vital issues as 'vertical drinking', and whether a bread roll should be called a ‘barm’, he has not found the time to comment on some of the worst racist violence on Britain's streets in the postwar period www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/illegitima...

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Illegitimate Concerns: Andy Burnham's Non-Response to the Thetford Pogrom Is His First Big Failure

Whilst happy to opine on 'vertical drinking' and whether bread rolls should be called 'barms', our new PM has had nothing to say about three days of horrific racist violence on our streets

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