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Nico

@incognicolondon.bsky.social
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US/UK politics junkie (or at this point let’s just call it what it is- masochist), animal lover, I’ve never met a pizza or glass of wine I didn’t like

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Just a reminder that the senator who sponsored the bill which became law with broad bipartisan support that states a president cannot pull the US out of NATO without congressional approval was … Marco Rubio.
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Nico @incognicolondon.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
One of these has passed the Turing test
Picture of a robot and Melania, wearing matching white outfits, walking. Robot is on the left, Melania on the right. I think.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
After working with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal died in the country he spent years of his life helping. The cruelty is endless.
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Afghan asylum-seeker dies after less than 24 hours in ICE custody
Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, a father of six who worked with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, had no known health iss
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer has made us an irrelevance on the world stage...
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Neil Lewis @neil-lewis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
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Nico @incognicolondon.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Took them long enough, but thank goodness for the verdict itself (Gift link)Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Sweeping Tariffs www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...
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Live Updates: Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Sweeping Tariffs
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 13/02/2026
Hey there Pam Bondi if you have nothing to hide why were you tracking what congressmen were searching on the Epstein files? Why uh…. Why…. Why so nervous?
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
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Ashlie Weeks, Esq.--"Mo" @ashlieweeks.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Remember when we thought Sarah Palin was the dumbest person in politics Good times.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Not sure ‘botched’ Brexit is the way to go. Particularly as Farage agrees, blames the Tories and threatens to make it even worse. At some point you need to tell the truth. It’s not botched. It’s exactly what you get when you prioritise prejudice over pragmatism. app.independent.co.uk/2026/02/01/2...
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Starmer signals closer alignment with EU's single market to ease harm caused by Brexit
Starmer attacks Farage over
'botched' Brexit
The Labour leader has outlined the party's ambition for closer cooperation with Europe"He said if we left the EU there would be less red tape for trading into Europe
- try telling that to any business that is trading into Europe.
"He said if we left the EU regular migration would go down - it quadrupled under the Boris wave. So I wouldn't listen too much to what Nigel Farage has to say about this."
Sir Keir described the previous government's Brexit deal as "botched" and highlighted Labour's efforts to negotiate new arrangements, including on food and agriculture, which he said
"lead to lower prices in our supermarkets".
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CallieBalloo @redsoledgooner.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The US is close to being lost so let us not forget Farage will stop at nothing to import these exact same Trumpist policies here in the UK. A vote for Reform is a vote for fascism, tyranny and blood on our streets.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/01/2026
ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
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Amra Watson @amrawatson.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I know I keep writing about this,but the level of delusion is staggering. How do so many people think Reform will 'save the country' when it’s led by defected Tories from the worst cabinet in UK history?It’s not change, just same failures,new logo,and people cheering like it’s a revival,not a rerun.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
"Under the weather" is a funny way to spell "chicken"
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The Rejoin EU Party @therejoineuparty.com · 14/01/2026
🚨🇪🇺 Brexit WOW moment 🇪🇺🚨 The Brexitgraph Telegraph published a full-blown obituary for Brexit: 📉 GDP down 8% 📉 Investment down 18% 📉 Productivity down 4% 📉 Employment down 4% ❌ No trade benefits ❌ No regulatory freedom ❌ No upside whatsoever Do you agree it’s time to end Brexit?
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Nico @incognicolondon.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Some good news for a change: 3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
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3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
We cannot become numb to the outrage of this. The wife of the President’s Senior Advisor threatens a sovereign nation.
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Nico @incognicolondon.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
theonion.com/merriam-webs...
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Merriam-Webster Accused Of Bias After ‘Dictionary’ Named Word Of The Year
SPRINGFIELD, MA—Facing intense backlash and scrutiny from critics who say the reference book publisher had failed to take all words into consideration, Merriam-Webster was accused of bias Monday after...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.
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Nico @incognicolondon.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Apple pie done and dusted! Went with the ever trusty Rose Levy Beranbaum for the recipe (Pie & Pastry Bible) 😋
Freshly baked homemade apple pie
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/11/2025
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
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Nico @incognicolondon.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Just made this for my friend’s birthday, hope it’s a hit!!!
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP. Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people ...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business" It's £10ph FFS! Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger DO YOU SEE IT NOW? Spread far & wide. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/03/n...
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Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People
The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/11/2025
it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"
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Brett Meiselas @bmeiselas.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
If I see as much as a single video edit I’m suing for $10 billion. Your move, CBS.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
So no terrorism then?
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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
“Swear her in! Swear her in!” #TrumpEpsteinCoverup
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Solidarity is the only way
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13/10/2025
The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!! Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I'm sure BBC investigative documentary strand Panorama is even now working on an incisive exposé of Reform's financial links to Russia and it's just that they haven't announced it publicly yet
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Imagine that
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.
Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls  while praying outside an ICE facility.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.
SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 08/10/2025
Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean. If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
So, Sunday Times runs with latest poll showing Farage winning if there was an election now. But makes NO mention of Reform’s collusion with Russia. And this is how democracy gets beaten to death in the dark. Voters are not being told the truth. Reform is given the stage but is NEVER held to account.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Keir Starmer's aides are reportedly telling him not to go to the COP30 climate conference, because Reform would attack him for it. Yes, they might. And he should wear it as a badge of honour. Standing up for humanity, for science and a habitable planet. Where's the hazard in that?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 13/09/2025
The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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