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Jeff kaye

@jakdaw09.bsky.social
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Writer, anti-corruption, PR, LibDem. Former trustee TI-UK, Spotlight on Corruption, TJN. 5 yrs at Global Witness after career in hi-tech.

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Jeff kaye @jakdaw09.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Excellent @financialtimes.com @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/84d6... on Kissinger and Brzezinski. A sad reminder of the total loss of brains, statesmen, even sanity in American leadership.
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The last grand strategists: what Brzezinski and Kissinger could teach Trump
Living parallel lives, they counselled presidents and changed the course of the cold war. How would they steer America today?
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The White House OBVIOUSLY leaked the rumour of tariff pause to test how markets would react, when there was a brief surge based on tweets (because apparently this is how shit works now) they had the green light to proceed with insider trading. This is all unbelievably illegal.
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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · 08/04/2025
Social media & search engine platforms are enabling the manosphere's extreme misogyny. The hateful ideologies spread by manosphere communities online can radicalize young men and lead to real-world violence. Learn more in our explainer 👇 counterhate.com/blog/inside-...
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Inside the manosphere: understanding extreme misogyny online
The manosphere is a network of online communities promoting misogyny and toxic masculinity. Learn more about their extreme ideologies.
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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Trump is making a nonsense of all the old beliefs in the power of corporations and the superrich. They don’t control him. No one controls him. And as a result, America looks more like a dictatorship than a democracy. nickcohen.substack.com/p/a-mad-king...
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A mad king humbles American capitalism
And why you ought to be terrified
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Jeff kaye @jakdaw09.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen! Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...
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Put Public Ownership of Water Back on the Table
Privatisation of water isn’t failing - it is the failure. The Government is mid-way through a major review of the water sector. But so far, it has refused to consider a potential solution that’s backe...
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Glad to hear Jeremy Bowen on @bbcradio4.bsky.social Today speaking bluntly about Trump’s envoy Witkoff and his love-in with Putin
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
It’s clear that the brainless estate agent Trump picked as his special envoy is a Russian asset - why else would he speak to Tucker Carlson, the Kremlin’s number one useful idiot? Don’t be surprised if US defence contractors end up supplying Russia under the deal he fixes www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump envoy Steve Witkoff dismisses Starmer plan for Ukraine
Steve Witkoff says the UK plans for an international force to support a ceasefire are a "posture".
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"the administration was making progress “that no one thought was possible” with Russia". True. Nobody thought they would just say that the aggressor should just have everything they wanted. And the US would basically surrender to Russia.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Xavier transitioned and became Vivian Jenna Wilson. She is alive and well and lives in Japan. No loving parent would ever write such a disgusting thing as this, and it speaks volumes.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 14/03/2025
The Rusich unit has previously been implicated in war crimes in Syria and Ukraine, including torture and mutilation. www.theguardian.com/world/2022/o...
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Pro-Kremlin neo-Nazi militia inciting the torture and murder of Ukrainian prisoners
Task Force Rusich, linked to the Wagner Group, advises its fighters not to report the capture of Ukrainians to Russian commanders
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 14/03/2025
Yan Petrovsky "Vojislav Torden" has just been sentenced to life in prison for war crimes in Ukraine. He is a former commander of the Rusich paramilitary group, a unit affiliated to the Wagner mercenary group that fought against Ukraine on the side of Russia-backed separatists in 2014.
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Lisa ’Mockingjay’ Newens @perfumeflogger.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Trump declares Chuck Schumer 'not Jewish anymore' in Oval Office tirade Trump insisted that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was "not Jewish anymore" because he was critical of Israel's war in the Gaza Strip www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...
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Trump declares Chuck Schumer 'not Jewish anymore' in Oval Office tirade
President Donald Trump insisted that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was "not Jewish anymore" because he was critical of Israel's war in the Gaza Strip.During an Oval Office rant on Wednes...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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The Trump Slump is now
You can't take a battering ram to every major institution in America and expect the economy to do well
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Jeff kaye @jakdaw09.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
100% from Michael Heseltine @the-independent.com edition.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c... With the likely death of NATO, Europe has to stand up to Trump.
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If you don’t speak up against Trump, you are complicit
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
🧵 This is a perfect example of what I've be describing as disordered discourse, and it's threat to democracy. Politicians are afraid to speak openly about key issues. Why? Because disordered discourse has captured the system itself—forcing obedience, punishing dissent, and making truth irrelevant.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Let’s go for it! Tell everyone you know to join @bsky.app and TOGETHER let’s send them packing
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
The last *seven days*? What *we* have *always feared*? What an irredeemable fraud he is. Gets a whole chapter in ‘How They Broke Britain’. And here he is now, ‘seeing the light’. Danny Dyer voiceover: “Twat.”
Andrew Neil’s latest column of shitspangle. This time ‘explaining’ that Donald Trump’s depravity has only become clear in the last week.
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Jeff kaye @jakdaw09.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Just caught up with this from the always great @rbreich.bsky.social robertreich.substack.com/p/the-end-th... Shows how Americans can be wise and for democracy rather than the Trump/Musk distatorship that is under way.
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The End of the Trump Honeymoon | Coffee Klatch for March 8, 2025
With Michael Lahanas-Calderón and yours truly, Robert Reich
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
HERO vs ZERO I'm in a state of shock & still trying to process yesterday's shameful, traitorous debacle in the WH: A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY. Our standing in the world has plummeted overnight, but the repercussions will be felt forevermore. #SlavaUkraini🇺🇦 #ShameOnUS🇺🇸
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Jeff kaye @jakdaw09.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Cutting through the disaster of Trump - @timothysnyder.bsky.social on how Trump/Vance were were anti-semitic in their meeting with Zelensky snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
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Antisemitism in the Oval Office
A confrontation seen with a historian's eye
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Jeff kaye @jakdaw09.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Do the Democrats in US have a pulse? @rbreich.bsky.social in his call to action says they do but it is very faint. robertreich.substack.com/p/democrats-... The world needs Trump to face a robust opposition!
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Democrats! Wake the hell up!
Boycott Trump’s address to Congress tonight. If you must go, make good trouble.
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Transparency International UK @transparencyuk.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🗣️ "This step of triaging [contracts] by politicians was brought in and fundamentally didn't work." Ahead of his evidence to the Covid Inquiry this morning, @danieljbruce.bsky.social spoke to @bbc5live.bsky.social about when the UK's pandemic procurement failed.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
This unspeakable piece of shit has been sucking up to Putin since the early 'don't-poke-the Russian-bear' days of the invasion. It seems he's now set on torching his own domestic reputation as part of his slavish devotion.
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Jeff kaye @jakdaw09.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Leaving a high-control religious group can be incredibly difficult and even dangerous. Humanists UK's powerful new animation lets those who leave know they're not alone, and that help is out there! Support #FaithtoFaithless and watch today. humanists.uk/faithtofaith...
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Introducing Faith to Faithless | Helping people leaving high-control religious groups
Leaving a high-control religious group can be one of the most challenging and painful experiences anyone can face. Humanists UK's new animation brings these deeply personal stories to life.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Great news for money launderers!
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Dump the taco @demosunita.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
farage is a rat...the worst type of asshole one can find in the world.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
NEW: This is a powerhouse summit gathered in London. Starmer has confirmed UK & France are now leading the peace process, with Ukraine. Trump has disqualified himself & the US. UK has also agreed to use profits from seized Russian assets to fund Ukraine 👏 Leaders attending: 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦🇪🇸🇵🇱🇩🇰🇳🇴🇫🇮🇸🇪🇳🇱🇨🇿🇷🇴🇹🇷🇪🇺
A picture of the world leaders at the summit in Lancaster House in London. The from row has Starmer in the middle flanked by Rutte from NATO, Macron, Zelenskyy and Scholz
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Trump's enablers have made a Faustian bargain to advance their particular agendas, but they are as likely to find themselves at each other's throats www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...
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The Coming Showdown in Trumpworld | by Dani Rodrik - Project Syndicate
Dani Rodrik points out that a coalition comprising incompatible financial and ideological interests cannot last.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Seeing Kemi Badenoch respond to matters of unprecedented geopolitical importance reminds me of an anxiety dream I used to have about agreeing to play drums at a charity concert with the Rolling Stones & remembering on the night that I can’t play the drums.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
It was never America First. It was always Trump First.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is the problem with the timidity and fake balance of BBC political coverage. A historic betrayal of Ukraine to Russia by Europe's former ally is boiled down to an utterly superficial row about a man's clothes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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How Zelensky's lack of a suit may have fuelled Oval Office spat
The Ukrainian president's military-style attire came up before he was upbraided by President Trump and JD Vance.
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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
11 weeks apart. They were willing to overlook the lies, Jan 6th, fraud, the arrest, the charges & the rape to celebrate his return to the White House. Now they feign surprise that the sociopath we all warned was a sociopath is indeed still a sociopath.
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Jeff kaye @jakdaw09.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Many good analyses of the demise of USA into a Putin-backing demagogery This is one of the best www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @davidfrum.bsky.social Trump/Vance were elected but represent the worst of Americans.
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At Least Now We Know the Truth
It’s ugly, but necessary to face.
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Jeff kaye @jakdaw09.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The shame of USA robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-ser... @rbreich.bsky.social
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The shame of it
But it’s not our shame.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Extraordinary quote from the German president about Trump/Vance's ambush of Zelensky: "I would never have believed that we would ever have to defend Ukraine from the United States.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/w...
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Shocked by Trump Meeting, Zelensky and Ukraine Try to Forge a Path Forward
After President Trump’s rebukes, President Volodymyr Zelensky tried to repair the relationship with his counterpart while also reaching out to European allies.
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Jeff kaye @jakdaw09.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
5 failures of Trump/Vance by Tim Snyder snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu... USA made the decision to elect Trump/Vance. They have to live with it, but so does the rest of the world. 5 failures but making them right is a massive task.
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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
At least we now know the truth www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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At Least Now We Know the Truth
It’s ugly, but necessary to face.
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Ben Dickenson @benjitoon.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Shared @heidireports.bsky.social. Read it people!
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
FACTS AND TRUTH MATTER NOW MORE THAN EVER
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Jeff kaye @jakdaw09.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
As so often, @iandunt.bsky.social says it better than the rest of us: Trump's fascism is destroying democracy. Time for all democrats to stand up. Tha includes Democrats in USA - where are you? iandunt.substack.com/p/some-dispa...
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Some disparate thoughts on a horrifying day
American leadership is over. Ukraine has been betrayed. What happens next is up to us.
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Jeff kaye @jakdaw09.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Annelise Dodds shows she is a woman of moral courage www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The reduction in foriegn aid to fund armaments in UK to appease Trump is a sorry story. Starmer is losing ministers.
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International Development minister Anneliese Dodds quits over aid cuts
Earlier this week, the prime minister said he would be cutting the budget to fund a boost in defence spending.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 27/02/2025
In a special podcast, Alastair Campbell takes down the "Trump-MAGA eco-system" where lies are normal and politics is an insult. But there is an alternative - good citizen journalism at the Bylines Network. /5 🧵 Listen to the full interview here 👇 @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
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Bylines Reports: In Conversation With Alastair Campbell
The Bylines Network Podcast · Episode
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Jeff kaye @jakdaw09.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
UK lobbying laws are totally ineffective democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ruling-on-... Excellent @petergeoghegan.bsky.social showing how www.global-counsel.com shows UK as open for lobbying. Trump will learn from UK on this one!
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Ruling on Peter Mandelson’s firm shows Britain’s lobbying laws are a farce
The lobbying watchdog has cleared almost every case it has investigated. Why? Because our laws are designed to be ineffective.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 24/02/2025
latest from the 'reclaim our sovereignty' campaigners...
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Jeff kaye @jakdaw09.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
As always, good article @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social 2025 could be as big a year to remember like 1968 or 1989 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 2025 will be remembered for Trumpmania destroying the US place in the world as the fount of law & freedom based on that law. Toxically incompetent.
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John Simpson: 2025 could be year for the history books
Like 1968 or 1989, this could be a year when the world changes in a fundamental way.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
It’s quite simple. President Zelenskyy is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign country who is bravely standing against the illegal invasion of Ukraine by a murderous ACTUAL dictator called Vladimir Putin
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Reform UK's plans to increase taxes and make people pay more for their energy bills goes down like a tripe cake and an axe wielding horror clown at an eight year old's birthday party. www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...
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Reform UK finally proposed a policy - and it’s an economic disaster
This week, Reform had its first stab at new policy since the last election hoping to provide some answers to the UK’s high energy prices.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Well let’s face it Farage showed the same degree of economic ignorance as Truss when he raved about her budget👇🏼😂 So any policies of his will have more flaws than diet water❗️🙄
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The sheer number of hitherto unbelievable things that indicate this is a a US government gone rogue under the influence of right-wing techbro cultists.
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