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James Brownsell

@jamesbrownsell.bsky.social
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Journalist, editor, consultant, occasional DJ Formerly of @the_newarab, @AlJazeera RTs≠endorsement brownsellj@gmail.com PGP key: bit.ly/2epcjnk

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 30/09/2026
1. I'm 2. Joining 3. The 4. Mujahideen
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Catio Miles @catiomiles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And in his previous UKIP version of Farage Party, they were staunch defenders of the £. But now they promote crypto instead.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The "Reform Party" was created in part to make the case for electoral reform... looking at many of their accounts and supporters it would seem that most of them have forgotten that
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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 30/09/2026
Bleak letter to read here. Makes me imagine a version of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers where your friends and family start spouting the corporate spiel, not because of an alien take over, but because it's their job now.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reform UK's Suella Braverman promises ‘consequences’ if pupils don’t sing Christian hymns. That would be policed. So what happens to atheists, agnostics, non-believers and other religious denominations. Will they be persecuted, imprisoned? Reform UK getting desperate and bizarre.
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Over 3500 people have been arrested in the UK for voicing support for Palestine Action. Anti-terrorism legislation was used for these arrests. The result is that one of the largest demographics of terrorist in the UK is now elderly middle class white people.
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James Brownsell @jamesbrownsell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm going to try to remember this metaphor.
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i agree with the key point here and will add to it that there IS a reward, it’s knowing you did one right thing instead of walking around plagued by the nameless shame that afflicts all men who are determined to live the most frictionless lives possible
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ELDAH ONE @adj4life72.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Definitely Javier Bardem, everyone knows that Fairford is no country for old men.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
King Charles took one of his two helicopter's on his visit to one of the two food banks that he opened. These two helicopters cost 20x as much as the Food Banks. And you pay for it all. #NotMyKing
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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We are within a hairs-breadth of a gov't council on physical fitness summit about the benefits of rape for men.
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James Brownsell @jamesbrownsell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Send this judge to the Hague as well.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Rare opportunity to invest in no future.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We must “recognize the evil that is being carried out in our name and fight it…We must recognize that in abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.” — Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...
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On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy Indicts Trump’s War on Immigrants
Preaching on the Good Samaritan for World Day of Migrants, Washington’s archbishop named Minneapolis, a five-year-old used as bait, and a nation that “passed on by.” He told Catholics to fight every d...
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The foreword he wrote to the Immigration Bill was even worse than that speech. bsky.app/profile/snig...
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Remember when proven liar Keir Starmer got up and did his Island of Strangers speech and spoke of the “incalculable damage” migration had done to the country
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Ali @meltedliso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Came here to post that side by side Starmer-Powell clip. Nothing has changed since 2025 under Mahmood, Labour is to the right of every Tory government ever, on almost every policy.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i have published two books on "free speech" and this would be a great opportunity for an impact case study if it were true, but: it's definitely not true
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
New Google Maps satelite photos, you can literally see it with your own eyes now! But it's not a genocide... 🤡🤡
Flattened area
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If only we'd had someone like Chis Philp in government for fourteen years, including being Minister for Immigration...
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta and Xitter, led by reprehensible people, are subverting global democracy. Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are dangerous men with too much power. See: Steve Bannon - MAGA Arron Banks - Brexit 'The Great Hack' shows this has been happening for over a decade. www.netflix.com/gb/title/801...
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Watch The Great Hack | Netflix Official Site
Explore how a data company named Cambridge Analytica came to symbolize the dark side of social media in the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Basing government policy on mindless racism isn't just morally indefensible, but economically illiterate.
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nobody could have predicted this. It’s not as if Britain has a history of damaging its own economy in order to chase the satisfaction of a clutch of racists.
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Maybe people won't be taking those terrorism arrests at the US airforce base quite so seriously now? #MarxistMonday
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Attacking trans women = attacking political organising for all women.
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Michael Legel @mjlegel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Most countries have been slow to realise just how threatened they are by the weaponisation of collective stupidity". This is sharp from @geoffmulgan.bsky.social on why we need "cognitive rearmament" against misinformation and manipulation. www.arguably.uk/p/collective...
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Collective stupidity is a security threat
Why it’s time for societies to take cognitive rearmament seriously
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ᗰoggs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇪🇺🕊️🇺🇦 @moggsee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy #DollyPartonDay to all y’all 💄💅🏼💖
Dolly Parton wearing a leopard print & yellow outfit
Dolly Parton in a pink ruffle & denim blue dress
Dolly Parton in patent leather suit playing guitar
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Room empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.
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Bil Gladen @bilgladen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Putin couldn't deliver a speech at the UN General Assembly due to the ICC arrest warrant. Netanyahu delivered his speech at the UN even with an ICC arrest warrant. The Zionist lobby has total control over the UN and US. Double standards like these will be the end of UN and the International Law.
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Disco Barrington 🏳️‍⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
5 BIPOC books with bisexual MCs: The Black God’s Drums by P. Djeli Clark Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao The Final Strife by Saara El-Arifi Happy Bisexual Visibility Day! 📚💙 📚🏳️‍🌈
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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 23/09/2026
We entered the room with the teacher playing Pride (In The Name Of Love) by U2 on bagpipes. He then lectured us on how it was all about Jesus, whilst my mate, massive U2 fan was elbowing me in ribs and whispering "but it's about Martin Luther King"
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Rob Manuel @robmanuel.b3ta.com · 23/09/2026
Going to shoplift Meal Deals in Sainsbury's and they can't arrest me because it'll make me a martyr. "Free the scotch eggs" I shout on TikTok, with a mouth full of scotch eggs.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Teach the Facts.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23/09/2026
I think once black clad men are interfering with rescues at sea, we are past "legitimate concerns". Once they're attacking boats, and risking the lives of everyone on board, it's just thuggery. The Home Secretary's statement is on the side of criminals. There's no other way to read it.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I watched it live on TV. I'm pretty jaded about watching politicians spew nonsense and make mad decisions, but when Kwarteng announced the 45p rate cut I did shout out loud "what the fuck are you doing!?"
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Welp. I finally read this 🥴 Folks keep wondering why this happens and I absolutely beg everyone to read bell hooks’ “Eating the Other”
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Netanyahu is coming to New York to attend the UN. Zohran Mamdani has called for his arrest. Do YOU want to see Netanyahu arrested for committing War Crimes? I DO.
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Proud Geek LGBTQ+ Bookshop @proud-geek.co.uk · 23/09/2026
Happy #BiVisibilityDay to you and your favourite bisexual! Looking for more bi representation to add to your bookshelf? Here are 20 LGBTQ+ books and graphic novels about bisexual characters available at proud-geek.co.uk now: #queerbooks #booksky
Text reads: 20 bisexual books to add to your bookshelf for Bi Visibility Day20 bisexual book covers:

▪️ Reality Check by Lizzie Huxley-Jones
▪️ Cursed Under London by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch
▪️ Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
▪️ Big Date Energy by Bethany Rutter
▪️ Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar
▪️ Something to be Proud Of by Anna Zoe Quirke
▪️ Punk’n Heads by Dave Baker & Nicole Goux
▪️ The Deep Dark by Lee Knox Ostertag
▪️ Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle
▪️ Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland
▪️ Boyslut by Zachary Zane
▪️ Daybreak by Moosopp
▪️ Tart by Becki Jayne Crossley
▪️ Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning
▪️ Cacoethes by Chloe De Lullington
▪️ The Unsinkable Ship of Fools by Jonas Goonface
▪️ Dead Real by Poppy T. Perry
▪️ My Best Friend's Honeymoon by Meryl Wilsner
▪️ She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran
▪️ Roll for Love by M.K. EnglandStaff pick at Proud Geek - Running Close To The Wind by Alexandra Rowland (18+)
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Israeli Colonel who murdered British Aid Worker in War Crime strike said he's "Not Sorry." If he were from any other country he would spend the rest of his life waiting for a bomb to drop on HIS head. But he is from Israel so it doesn't even get mentioned, just silence.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*
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James Brownsell @jamesbrownsell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Read this thread. All of it.
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James Brownsell @jamesbrownsell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Well, it's a good job they're not saying they support Palestine Action, or prepping for a Just Stop Oil protest, because then the government and police would have to step in.
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migas7.bsky.social @migas7.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And Trump will act like he is doing a great thing.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s the little people who must suffer!
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