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Ian Slater

@iansslater.bsky.social
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Scot and new citizen of Germany, living in Cologne. Trying to escape from political economy, passionate about music, interested in literature, photography, travel, and culture generally.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1h
This is nothing less than a battlefield intervention by the US in favour of Russia.
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munky @themunky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Ian Slater @iansslater.bsky.social · 2h
Ukraine has no voice about “whether it can take on Russia”, which invaded it FFS! All decent nations must give Ukraine their full support.
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Tim Featherstone-Griffin @timfg.bsky.social · 2h
Seriously America, what the fuck has your country become?
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2h
The slithering back to even vaguely positive or optimistic analyses of Trump’s second term after the abominations of January 6th cleared the way for today’s abject betrayal of the Ukrainian people. It’s astonishing how many public figures on both sides of the Atlantic are complicit in the crime.
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Ian Slater @iansslater.bsky.social · 2h
Many large American companies did business with Nazi Germany during WW2. Plus ça change…
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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 4h
I doubt any of those on X will see that he lost the court case, they'll just see his original defamatory post. The way the information flow is being controlled by malicious anti-democratic agents, means the truth is having a difficult time getting through to the people who need to see it.
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 6h
Where are the Loyalist riots after Jeffrey Donaldson the leader of unionism was convicted of rape & sexual abuse of two children. Loyalists & their balaclava cheerleaders exploited alleged sex offences by migrants to whip up racial hatred. Where are they now? Why are they not out on the streets
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Old Hippie On Line Activist 🦋 @teresalynnkocsis.bsky.social · 5h
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Claas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · 7h
Die neue Pressesprecherin ist da. 🩷
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Ian Slater @iansslater.bsky.social · 5h
How many Americans still think that they live in a Democracy?
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 18h
Elon Musk has spent $158 million backing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the state’s Senate race.
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Elon Musk Is Single-Handedly Lifting A Uniquely Flawed Candidate
Elon Musk has spent $158 million backing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the state’s Senate race.
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Kit Hartop @bandwagonkit.bsky.social · 6h
It’s so insidious. My parent’s generation will hoover up GB “News” propaganda and when challenged on its credibility, will default to the BBC for “balance”. Between that, and billionaire psycho owned social media apps, they’ve created an almost impenetrable, far right, disinformation bubble.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
I want to believe in “a better America” and to agree with those who say “this is not who we are as a country.” But, hope is not a strategy. It’s not enough to say it, it has to BE it, and until then, the world must treat with 🇺🇸 as it currently IS - depraved, disloyal, disruptive and dangerous.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
“In essence the book outlines a Master Race, humans as gods that prey on everyone else.”
chadbourn.substack.com
Musk’s Personal Bible
The terrifying book that explains everything going wrong
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 12h
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Ian Slater @iansslater.bsky.social · 6h
It will take more than deposing him, much more. If Americans don’t understand that yet, they are truly fucked.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 8h
Latest piece (mostly free). The great Graham-Blumenthal con comes to an end. This bill was never going to hurt Russia or help Ukraine. Trump just made that explicit. Shame on those who pretended otherwise. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/trump-prot...
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Trump Protects Putin From Graham-Blumenthal
Stop Saying He Is Pivoting
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Ian Slater @iansslater.bsky.social · 6h
The BBC has been captured by the radical right and it’s beyond belief that Labour has done nothing to *reform and *restore public broadcasting.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 7h
The decline of Newsnight, at a time when we need detailed and decent investigative and foreign reporting more than ever, is so depressing. Marshall is more than an ex singer. He’s Paul Marshall’s son - of GB News, Unherd, Speccie - & is on ARC Forum advisory board
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Trump, Musk, Weidel, Le Pen: These are collaborator-populists who triumph at the ballot box and yet would sell their country to a Russian despot iandunt.substack.com/p/these-are-...
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These are the men and women who betrayed Ukraine
Some of them are fascist collaborators. Some of them are self-interested Machiavellians. Some are merely cowards. All of them have blood on their hands.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h
Friends — It's time to defund Elon Musk. robertreich.substack.com/p/defund-m…
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Defund Musk!
Friends,
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10h
Trump wants us to pretend he’s on the ballot, but in fact Putin is. If you vote for the people with R after their name, you’re voting for the Russians.
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Trump waives Russia-related sanctions before they even kick in as Ukraine ties worsen | CNN
US President Donald Trump has waived a further slate of sanctions related to Russian fossil fuel sales, days before they were to take effect under a bill he signed into law last month.
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California Dreamin’… 😎 @jerasikehorn.bsky.social · 8h
Putin’s Puppet is at it again…👇 Are you actually SURPRISED?! Well, of course you’re not, because he is a Russian tool… And, nothing more. IMPEACH. THE. MOTHERFUCKER. AGAIN. 😎🇺🇸✨
nytimes.com
Trump Signs Order Exempting Russia From Sanctions Law
The sanctions were part of a measure that was named after Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who died in July.
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NatalieNM @secretagent39.bsky.social · 9h
This is absolute bullshit. Congress!!! Remove him! He sides with dictators and terrorist. R.E.M.O.V.E. HIM
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 16h
The only minor redeeming feature of this foulness is that someone around Trump still has enough awareness of how bad this looks to brief against Musk.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15h
If you're still on X ... now my friends is the time to pull that plug. This very dangerous man needs to be stopped, not enabled www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
telegraph.co.uk
Exclusive: Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in Ukraine
SpaceX founder had publicly blamed president for chaos over restrictions, but sources say he initiated them
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 9h
In news that will surprise nobody who watched Trump's open embrace of Putin, Trump has waived the mandatory sanctions which were to be imposed by the Graham Act 30 days after signing. What a sadly predictable choice by him. I hope Americans do something about it in the Midterms.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
“Donald Trump is a traitor. And he’s not simply a traitor in the loose sense of someone who commits an act of betrayal…Trump is a traitor in the very particular sense laid out in the U.S. Constitution…’adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.’” www.americaamerica.news/p/donald-tru...
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Donald Trump Is a Traitor
And in a sane world, he would be removed from office now
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19h
Sad. But at least she can go back to not being a lawyer.
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Manuel Salgado @manuelsalgado.bsky.social · 21h
I feel that mentally, for me but I suspect for a lot of others as well, one of the hardest things to deal with currently is not simply the fact that there are so many bad actors in the world doing bad things but that they are largely getting away with all these bad things with no consequences.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
🤛🏽💯💥☮️💜👏🏽
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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Absolutely “Until you succeed in definitively ending these grotesque actions, definitively holding the perpetrators accountable, and definitively ensuring such actions cannot be repeated, collectively, this IS who you are, IS how the rest of the world sees you, and IS how it will need to treat you.”
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
“Look in the mirror, 🇺🇸”. No matter how many times you say “this is not who we are as a country”; right now it IS. 🇺🇸 has twice elected a corrupt, selfish bully who abandons allies, deals with enemies, rejects science and medicine, attacks other countries, harms the vulnerable and pardons criminals.
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Meanwhile in Indiana… @robertlandrumjr.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
That’s wealth redistribution there!
Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders

Total Wealth of Bottom 50% of U.S. households
1989: $317.8 billion
2026: $313 billion
Total Wealth of Top 0.00001% (20 households)
1989: $88.6 billion
2026: $4 trillion
This is insane!
We need a wealth tax on billionaires NOW!
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Donations to Labour Govt ministers by Israel : Andy Burnham £393,346 Lisa Nandy £184,219 Rachel Reeves £348,652 John Healey £39,216 Shabana Mahmood £137,168 Wes Streeting £459,182 Yvette Cooper £144,650 Angela Rayner £86,800 Chris Bryant £130,940
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
UK ‘an outlier in Europe’ for letting Farage and other politicians present TV shows. GB News, owned by hedge fund manager, is the propaganda arm of Reform/Farage. Politicians must be scrutinized, and not allowed to present news or current affairs programmes.
theguardian.com
UK ‘an outlier in Europe’ for letting Farage and other politicians present TV shows
Analysis of countries’ broadcasting rules confirms Ofcom code is highly unusual, amid concerns about impartiality
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Cat Skoor 🌱 💙🐕🌷🌲 @bluecatherine.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
“A tiny nuclear bomb?” End this monster’s reign of terror NOW!
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Andrew Richards @andrewwr235.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
The difference is, if you strip away these attitudes from Reform or Restore, there's nothing else. For them, the racism, the homophobia, the demeaning of women, that's the entire package. At least, say, with Conservatives, there are some genuine economic beliefs alongside the racism.
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Judy Weston @westonjk.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The extent to which Trump's embrace of Russia runs counter not only to the US electorate, but relative to the entire Free World is quite stunning when mapped. With rare exceptions, only hellish kleptocracies that support Russia over Ukraine. America's new kindred spirits..
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/10/2026
🚨 BIG: A new request for a State Bar investigation targets Trump's new press sec Katie Zacharia, over allegations she held herself out as a practicing attorney without a license. Michael Popok: “We have a word for that in my profession. It's called the unlicensed practice of law. It is a CRIME!!”
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Prosecutors are seeking LIFE in prison for the Alexander Brothers after they were found guilty on all counts for their decades of sex trafficking & rape of young women & girls. I detail the Govt’s sentencing memo & how Trump World is connected to the Alexander Brothers. youtu.be/sSHOelxzDnI?...
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Trump World ROCKED As Alexander Brothers FACE LIFE In PRISON!?!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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SeaYou #FBPE 🇪🇺 @seayou.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
2022 ... 2027 On prend les mêmes et on recommence! 😡 Je trouve que depuis 5 ans la France 🇫🇷 et l'Europe 🇪🇺 n'ont pas mobilisé suffisamment de moyens pour BLOQUER systématiquement ou au moins freiner significativement cette #ingérence russe qui nous pourrit la vie Quand allons-nous réagir? RAZ LE BOL
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Saint Helena Island Info @shislandinfo.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
If the BBC is ever going to recover its credibility Chris Mason needs to go (as do some others).
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Chris Mason doesn’t voice outrage & disgust felt re Reforms rank racism exposed on ITV He amplifies it’s defence FFS Reform "had improved and prioritised its vetting procedures, but from time to time..” Farage ‘wants to get rid of those he has called "bad apples”’ Making it sound like bad luck 🤬
bbc.co.uk
Reform faces criticism after councillors filmed making racist comments
Reform says all of those people filmed by ITV are under investigation having resigned or been suspended.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Short version: Russia was never a hoax
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The European Union should respond to the Trump administration's request to unfreeze Russian assets by seizing the entire €238 billion and using it to fund Ukraine's defence against Russia.
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