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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage this week of Kemi Badenoch, whose party has a truly atrocious electoral record under her leadership, and the utterly dismissive coverage of the Greens, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK

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Why the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green Party

The dismissive coverage of Zack Polanski’s party obscures a far bigger truth about the rise of the left in British politics

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the republicans are wide open on several fronts, historically unpopular president, unpopular war, record high gas. any dem throwing trans people under the bus at this moment is doing it because they want to. not like they need to, do they. even if it worked as a vote winner, which it doesn't

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I don't know if Dolly Parton was the greatest songwriter of all time but I do know that Dolly Parton writing "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You" on the same day is the greatest day any songwriter has ever had.

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jack @jackmlr.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

this is rookie mentality. any home cook should be able to whip up even the most intricate meals in 3-5 mins as long as they have a brigade of chefs de partie and commis in their kitchen

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 10/08/2026

Spare a thought (or don't) for all the mainstream actors who lapped up and amplified the reactionary free speech crisis and now wake up (hopefully) to what was always obvious: reactionaries hate free speech, they just want full control of public discourse www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Reform donor Arron Banks urged to set out extent of surveillance of journalists

Industry body says use of private investigators against reporters is ‘attack on our democracy’ after Banks apparently admitted doing so

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Andy Burnham opts to keep Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary. A big mistake

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jack @jackmlr.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The most telling results here is the noticeably higher "Neither" answer for the Greens. A whole chunk of people who understand perfectly well the Greens stand for common people against the establishment, but refuse to admit it.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like a politician calling a by-election at public expense on the issue of whether or not he should have the right to secretly take donations from Thai-based crypto billionaires and a convicted fraudster

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jack @jackmlr.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Is Jordan Henderson the first player in history to pick up a card & injury without even coming off the bench?!?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

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What the Palestine Action appeal decision tells us about terrorism law

An already broad law is now matched with broad ministerial powers

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elrondcupboard.bsky.social @elrondcupboard.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

How could Britain’s over inflated housing market do this says paper that has facilitated this at every stage?

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Bill Wilkinson @drwilkinsonsci.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I’ve got bad news for Daily Mail readers if Boomers making hundreds of thousands of pounds by living in a house for 30-40 years is a scandal.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

An American just got sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving “Antifa” zines and there’s about 1000x as much media coverage of Trump’s reflecting pool 👍

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Kenny Stewart @kennystew.art · 24/06/2026

When you combine stuff like this with the ongoing heat jamboree, anyone talking about abandoning net zero should be laughed out of town as not just unserious but deeply, deeply stupid.

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jack @jackmlr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Right-wing media types have realized they can gesture vaguely towards "the markets" at the prospect of anyone left of Thatcher's ghost gaining any form of power. It's the new meta

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

If your 'What went wrong with Starmer?' piece doesn't mention Gaza or Palestine once: Then you are not writing an honest or insightful piece.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

the write ups of the pm's fall never mention his biggest reforms—those that made the uk far, far worse for minorities my latest for @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/starmer-out/

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Starmer Out

Starmer did not "do nothing": he made the country radically more regressive. No wonder he fell.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

What are your highlights? I will never forget racist riots taking place where they were trying to burn people alive and he took about 8 business days to call them racist and sent Yvette Cooper out to talk about how much she loves England flags and has them in bunting form

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart

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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I don't feel sorry for Starmer. I feel for the Palestinians whose slaughter he enabled, for the trans people and refugees he's victimised, and my colleagues who've had their careers wrecked by Labour's assault on universities. A record to be ashamed of.

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

what a useless shitbag

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Sadiq Khan, responding to Keir Starmer's resignation says "the local election results showed people are impatient for the change that was promised and a Labour govt that holds firm to the progressive values our party was established to promote. This should be the focus of the next Prime Minister"

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Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

He won’t be remembered for any of the things he mentioned when he looked down at his notes 436 times, he’ll be remembered as someone who lied to become leader, lied to become PM, won an election solely on tory hatred not labour love, backed a genocide, threw trans people under the bus…

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

We are still waiting to see which version of Andy Burnham is going to show up in Downing Street. While he has talked about a change of course, the early indications are not encouraging and suggest more of the same with better communication skills. (3/5)

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Ballot Box Scotland @ballotbox.scot · 22/06/2026

For many LGBT folk like me, and especially trans folk, Keir Starmer will be remembered in the same way as Margaret Thatcher: with deep contempt for having overseen a deeply hostile, queerphobic government, which rolled back human rights and set society back by at least a decade. Good riddance.

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jack @jackmlr.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

This Guardian headline is like saying an Olympic runner has had a great start to the 400 metres race by setting off at 100m pace...

"The initial match selections have been the key to ITV'S success in the opening week. BBC gambled in pre-tournament negotiations with ITV by opting to have more first-pick games in the knockout stages. It will have the first choice of fixtures in the last 32, last 16 and semi-finals, as well as England's second group game against Ghana on Tuesday."

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/06/2026

Exclusive: I have seen OpenAI's audited financials for 2024 and 2025. In 2025, OpenAI had $13.07 billion in revenue and $34 billion in costs. $867 million of its revenue came from SoftBank, and $303 million came from Microsoft. www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...

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Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.

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jack @jackmlr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

As if the presenter of ITV's world cup coverage just announced that "Sweden manager Gareth Southgate" wore a cowboy hat to training in Texas as they cut to footage of Graham Potter...

Sweden manager Graham Potter wearing a cowboy hat to training in Texas (he is not Gareth Southgate)

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Alan Woke 2 @mrpostsgood.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Pro-Palestine marches will openly be called "hate marches" in the press, but these arsonist pogroms, illustrated by a burned-out bus, are simply "disorder"

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jack @jackmlr.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Bizarrely uncharitable thread repeating the same point ad nauseam ("stop letting Labour off the hook!") whilst somehow bereft of the knowledge that Owen Jones is one of the most prominent & vocal critics of Starmer's government on the left in UK political media

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

An event is planned to be hosted in London proudly promoting the sale of land on illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. This is obscene. I've called on @london.gov.uk and @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social to stop the event and for this govt to take real action on illegal settlements.

https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/06/10/zack-polanski-calls-on-sadiq-khan-and-yvette-cooper-to-cancel-obscene-and-illegal-sale-of-settlements-on-palestinian-land/

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country.

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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame

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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I have to say, listening to the Today programme dedicate an entire (context free) section about whether migrants are more likely to be convicted criminals *the morning after* hundreds of non-migrants of my own ethnicity committed a pogrom is blood boiling.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

What are the Government, police and security services doing about the people who are quite clearly in the pay of a hostile foreign state, and using their platforms to whip up actual pogroms on our streets? This is a major national security issue and absolutely nothing seems to be happening about it

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 07/06/2026

Gotta admit after more than two years of being called a crank and a doomer for saying that businesses will flinch when they’re made to pay the real costs of AI it’s nice to see this in the newspaper

The shift to pricing based on usage, and measured by tokens—the basic unit of measurement for AI computing—is creating new challenges for even the most experienced finance teams. CFOs used to paying flat amounts for technology are finding costs more unpredictable and harder to model as they build agents and embark on ambitious AI investments.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Dear BBC journalists, you really do not have to 'debate' every far-right talking point that pops up on your X feed. It is not "deeply contentious" to suggest non-white people can't be English. It's racist. The word you're looking for is racist

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Tony Blair, a lobbyist with close ties to the Trump administration and fossil fuel industries, says the UK should drill more oil and get closer to the Trump administration

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

2% of LE26 Labour voters consider voting for Reform at the next election. Less than 1% of Reform voters consider Labour. Yet, Labour continues to target exactly those voters. Literally, politics for the 1%. Meanwhile, 42% of Lab voters consider the Greens. After already having lost tons to them.

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

optomistic 20th century sci fi writers: the future will have flying cars pessimistic 20th century sci fi writers: the future will be the torment nexus 2026: don't type the word "you" into the search bar or the machine will try to roleplay with you

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

You know, a President accusing a NYT reporter of committing treason just for asking a question is actually quite a big deal, and this bunch just standing there listening to it and doing nothing is not encouraging the public to think of journalism as a serious business or of words meaning anything.

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