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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 7h
We just want healthcare
New York Times for today 
Superpowers race to put nuclear reactor on the moon
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 7h
A pint of Nottingham history: the forgotten bridge returning as a beer A new Nottingham beer revives the story of Hethbeth Bridge – and the remarkable woman who rebuilt it
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A pint of Nottingham history: the forgotten bridge returning as a beer
A new Nottingham beer revives the story of Hethbeth Bridge – and the remarkable woman who rebuilt it
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 11h
Progress…
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 23h
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Malcolm D. @mdpb53.bsky.social · 21h
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14h
So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements… Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…
Tories would reverse steps to undo Brexit
Alex Burghart, the deputy leader, also says his party is wedded' to triple lock and electoral reform is doomed
Ben Riley-Smith - Political Editor

Photo of Burghart, arms folded, looking absurdly self important
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 9h
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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FRANCE 24 English @en.france24.com · 10h
West Bank: Palestinians ‘harassed’ by settlers’ increasing use of drones
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West Bank: Palestinians ‘harassed’ by settlers’ increasing use of drones
Palestinians and activists report an increased use of drones in the occupied West Bank, particularly by the army and settlers, to whom the government supplies the drones directly. The drones are used to intimidate, monitor, demolish and make daily life unbearable.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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Sonnet @sonnet-lumiere.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you don't feel like writing (for yourself) because you believe everyone else will cover for you. Think about your grandchildren (who would write if they could) and do it for them. *You can also add text that you think is also important to mention.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Ed, do the right thing, do it this week: lift the ban on Palestine Action, agree with UN Enquiry, the ICJ, the many lawyers all over the world: Israel is guilty of genocide. Stop all arms sales, use all diplomatic & economic powers to show that we're no longer complicit in this horrific genocide"👇
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In short: Fuck that, and fuck them. iandunt.substack.com/p/some-dispa...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A few voices - almost all former Brexiters - are now popping up to issue warnings. Oh you don't want that debate again, we'll fuck you up. But in fact the position of the reactionary right is as weak as its been for years and the position of progressives is shockingly robust. If not now, when?
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🎯 @georgemonbiot.bsky.social was spot on ….
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Griffin @gryffgroff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What an absolute fucking idiot. But that’s what happens when the BBC platforms these reform shit-heads.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hope not hate just exposed a group that was planning to attack an anti-racist march on Sunday hopenothate.org.uk/2026/10/02/n... @hopenothate.org.uk
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National Socialist Collective exposed: Nazi militants set to target anti-racists on Cable Street anniversary – HOPE not hate
HOPE not hate blows the lid on a new outfit uniting some of the most active and extreme neo-Nazis in the country. The National Socialist...
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Carlton Boyce @motoringjourno.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here's an explainer if, like me, you don't really understand the Manchester City kerfuffle.
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The Man City scandal explained ⚽️💰
YouTube video by SportsBall
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Picking on Byline Times sends a message to other political journalists: Be careful. Don't be too critical. We can do the same to you." @adambienkov.bsky.social speaks to LBC's @mrjamesob.bsky.social about Byline Times' ban from Conservative Party Conference.
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lukewarm24.bsky.social @lukewarm24.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Irony is dead Didn’t Farage ask for Cold, raw rage…. ?? He also incites hate weekly and has done for years !!! #farageriots Were everywhere from Sunderland to Portsmouth and many place in between like Southport He’s a toxic cancer to the uk And a Russian asset So a security risk
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Woman walks into a Hull hairdresser and asks for a perm. Certainly, he replies: 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' #NationalPoetryDay
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“There is a harvest of greed and corruption and cruelty that’s cropped up in the last ten years, lovingly tended by those who were supposed to strike it down.” New interview! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zswl...
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Trump Created a CRISIS that Half the Country Doesn't Know About! (feat. Sarah Kendzior)
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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peter-l.bsky.social @peter-l.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And yet most of the world remains silent. Protestors against genocide and war crimes are assaulted and arrested. Benjamin Netanyahu is invited to speak at the UN so he can boast about killing Lebanese people with pager bombs. Accountability? Hah.
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Sato Juniper @satojuniper.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What will this do to the minds of people who have been claiming for years that the tales of wholesale death and demolition in Gaza are false and that the Gazan people are actually living their best lives on the generosity of Israel?
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 28/09/2026
Google is updating its satellite images of Gaza. The comprehensiveness of effort required to reduce an urban landscape to this is beyond imagining. Literal carpet bombing.
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1. It's not a war. Little actual fighting was involved, as evidenced by the low IDF casualties. 2. It's not 'mere' carpet bombing. Much of the destruction was by deliberate, hand-placed demolition charges. 3. It's also clearly population displacement, probably genocide. A court will decide.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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Hands @anem.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"No one knows why there has been a huge drop in international tourism for the country that is currently kidnapping tourists and threatening to military action against the neighbours responsible for most of it's tourism."
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Basso Discontinuo @falsobordone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My mind stubbornly refuses to be boggled by the idea that people would avoid visiting a country where people are regularly treated as criminals if they even look like they might be foreigners.
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Hellanal Boner-Farter @weedlordmegadoodoo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Imagine being so dumb you don't understand why people aren't traveling to the nightmare fascist hellhole country that proudly advertises they will torture and sex traffic tourists to undisclosed locations.
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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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Bob of Bobington @mrweekender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thatchers cool aid still being consumed by the faithful then… someone just needs to say to these morons; ok lads, explain why almost every public service that was privatised is now on its fucking arse. Tell us all again how this free market economy “just works”.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Our full report, which goes into much more detail on the law and the facts: taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/10/01/m...
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Did Manchester City cheat HMRC out of £12m?
Manchester City’s sham consultancy raises questions about £12m in unpaid UK tax. We examine the evidence - and the case for a criminal investigation.
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Bob Ballentine @raballentine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A private equity firm wants its own road into Yosemite. We're 115 letters from 18,000 telling Congress no way. Be one of the last 115: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway
Contact Congress today!
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James Dart @jamesdart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Asked to respond to whether his team were 'not German enough' or 'not white enough', Klopp said there was no point in giving room to 'such people and their utterances', adding: 'I have little time in everyday life for idiocy'. Story: @kateconnolly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Jürgen Klopp disgusted by claims his Germany team are ‘not white enough’
Jürgen Klopp has reacted with disgust to a social media debate questioning whether the Germany team he is in the process of forming are ‘white enough’
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Mrs MoonCakes. @helsmels.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
But they are a third world country. Women are not equal, they have a pedophile rapist in charge… I mean… 🤷‍♀️ I would not travel to the US , ever again. Why would you? 🤷‍♀️
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Virginia @virginiagjh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
‘Protecting our women’ …just not this woman or me or thousands and thousands of women who despise these odious racists
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I really don't think polls tell you much on this? As I said, if Rejoin can't make the argument "we will sign up to the exact same thing as Sweden who have not joined the euro in 20 years and aren't going to" then they don't deserve to win!
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban 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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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've been blocked from attending Conservative Party conference. Just a few weeks after Badenoch blasted Reform for doing the same thing... bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...
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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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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So let’s see practical steps to rejoin asap. As global insecurity grows, anything less simply won’t do
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
Finally, a Prime Minister has admitted Brexit has done 'more harm than good'. Burnham has promised to lay out "the different options" for what a new UK-EU relationship would look like. EU membership is the only option that delivers £92 billion of growth. Help us ensure Andy takes that option. 👇
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Help us Fight to Restore our EU Membership - Best for Britain
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Suella De-Vil Shadowy spokesdemon for learning stuff @suellade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah People tend to be released on bail to give police time to gather and assess evidence But when you are so fucking stupid as to film and live stream yourself committing the crime…..
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⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (Stina Marie) @stinasdemons.com · 28/09/2026
It's that day again. Use any and all resources available to help you through it. (And, as always, #FuckAI)
Reminder to treat your body like a data center:
1. Consume as much water and literature as possible 
2. Upset the local city council with your existence
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For all we know at the moment, the 5 men arrested near RAF Fairford might have been on a stag night. But the wild claims by Trump and Rubio suggest that, if they'd been apprehended in the US, they would have been denied due process. I hope our government tells them to butt out of our justice system.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.
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a1957.bsky.social @a1957.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is a genocide- pure and simple. The UN calls it as such and so do most of the world’s countries. It’s those under the twisted minds of the Israel govt incl many in Britain who take the Netanyahu view.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These anonymous MPs saying it's 'electoral suicide' to tinker with the triple lock. Exactly the type who got us into this mess: unwilling to lead, unwilling to recognise reality for fear of offending voters, unwilling to solve long-term problems if it presents the slightest short-term risk.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It never stops being important that, no matter what the subject, politicians like Farage, Trump & Rubio are entirely untethered from the most basic requirements of honest discourse. They might turn out to be telling the truth sometimes but only ever in the spirit of stopped clocks.
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