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Jeswings

@jeswings.bsky.social
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North London Forever. Retired CEV Socialist #FBPE No unsolicited DMs, please. You'll be blocked

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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 4h
Be aware that the squeaky clean reputation of the new UK Prime Minister isn't to be relied on. He does seem to be rather inclined to turning a blind eye to unpleasant regimes and businesses so long as they invest enough money. inews.co.uk/news/how-man...
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How Man City's owners wooed Andy Burnham, from property deals to football chats
The former Manchester mayor praised the club's owners for their investment in the region, saying he was 'concerned' they might leave the UK over cheating case
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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 6h
🎯 @georgemonbiot.bsky.social was spot on ….
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 3h
@rachelmillward.bsky.social : "[Burnham] is not tackling extreme wealth inequality, so he's talking about the odd tinkering here & there but we need wealth taxes & rent controls" Rachel is right. Burnhams rhetoric is great, but you're not going to end 40 years of neoliberalism by tinkering
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T-Rexit @t-rexit.bsky.social · 15h
Chortle 🤭 Cr…found in the wild
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 15h
“Hospital trusts have admitted there are a litany of errors in the data behind one of NHS England’s headline claims about the benefits of Palantir’s technology after an FT investigation identified irregularities.” #NoToPalantir www.ft.com/content/977a... #NoToPalantir
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 18h
Massive crowd outside Palantir’s HQ. Throw this evil corporation out of our public services.
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haversack @hsack121.bsky.social · 18h
ICE agent threatens to kill a man for recording
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 17h
The Geran-5 jet-powered drone is Russia's latest attempt to destroy civilian life in Kyiv and force Ukraine to capitulate, as Russian offensives stall and Moscow's forces lose ground on the battlefield.
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Ukraine's interceptor tech outpaced by Russia’s jet-powered Geran-5 drones
The jet-black Russian munition slammed into the Presidium building of Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences, an iconic Tsarist-era structure right in the center of Kyiv, setting the building on fire....
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK public sector bodies spent £17bn with offshore-owned private equity firms last year. The same vultures received £31bn public sector contracts. Profiteering, low wages, tax dodging, asset-stripping is their business model. Enriched by public money. How many have politicians on payroll?
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£17 billion taxpayer cash went to offshore private equity last year
We need to buy British, GMB tells Labour conference
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LuxJude352 @luxjude352.bsky.social · 20h
Menacing 92 year olds in the middle of the night, whose side do these people think they’re on? #Fascism #Crowborough
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 21h
“The town of Oleshky and the surrounding district in southern Kherson Oblast in Ukraine are under a total blockade imposed by Russian occupation forces,” write Elise Lauriot Prevost, Nadiia Vaskivska, and Anastasiia Vorobiova from Global Rights Compliance, in this op-ed.
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Russia's methodical use of starvation in Oleshky
The town of Oleshky and the surrounding district in southern Kherson Oblast in Ukraine are under a total blockade imposed by Russian occupation forces. Since May 26, 2026, no humanitarian aid has rea...
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 21h
The world is gonna pay as much attention to this as it did when we starved Yarmouk.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🔴 Protests against Palantir across England today. In July, we published this deep dive into Palantir, its lobbying in Britain and the myriad problems NHS staff have had with its software. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...
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"It's just a waste of time": inside Palantir's £330m NHS failure
Our new investigation reveals the problems with Palantir’s NHS tech - and the unrivalled political access that fuelled the firm’s march into the British state
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George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well… The FC and I have just had a bit of a moment. 🥹🧡 After all the writing, photos, checking and pawing over every little detail… MY BOOK IS ACTUALLY LIVE ON AMAZON! 🐈📚 Just George: The Autopawography of a Station Cat 📚 amzn.eu/d/0dpaMVO7
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Alan D Alien @alan-d-alien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Trump was rescued multiple times from multiple bankruptcies by boatloads of Russian cash laundered through his real estate in the 1980s and 1990s When Trump became President, it was time to pay the piper and Trump gave Putin everything he wanted, Unger writes"
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How Russia began 'grooming' Donald Trump 40 years ago
American Kompromat How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery by Craig Unger is out January 26.
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I asked some friends of mine to do a few lines of my poem ‘Ode To Square Chapel’ in support of my quest to help #SaveSquareChapelArts in Halifax. Without hesitation… they all chipped in. 🙌 It’s what friends are for. Please re-post if you enjoy! x
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CharmaineScammell 🌱🇬🇧 @charmainescammell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank you #PlymouthWestDevonHuntSabs wildlife heroes👏 #DartmoorHunt finally given Community Protection Warning, Hunt Master #HarryGosling lies "I don't know what you're talking about" no longer believed, people had enough of hunts savagery #HuntsCustodialSentences www.facebook.com/share/p/19kC...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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thegladerunner.bsky.social @thegladerunner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Five years ago, when a Seattle burger chain raised employee wages & benefits the Reicht wing lost their minds, screaming the result would be $20 burgers & the company would end in bankruptcy. Today, the chain is even more popular than ever. Never let them try to tell you a living wage can’t work.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That expression you have while witnessing spectacular incompetence.
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JR Tomlin (she/her) @jrtomlin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
MP sent ‘threatening’ letter warning against criticising Palantir www.thenational.scot/news/2659581...
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MP reveals he was sent ‘threatening’ letter warning against criticising Palantir
A LABOUR MP has accused former party deputy leader Tom Watson of making an “implicit threat” after he sent him a letter detailing his repeated…
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John Chambers @jowicha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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“Good” Cashmere Isn’t Good Enough — H&M, Protect Goats from Suffering
Please join Species Unite in calling on H&M to stop using new cashmere entirely and to transition fully to recycled or animal-free alternatives. Building on its historic decision to cut ties with new ...
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Hunt Saboteurs Association @huntsabs.org.uk · 30/09/2026
📣 READ MORE HERE! 👇🏼 www.huntsabs.org.uk/eggesford-in... Two Eggesford hunters pleaded guilty in court - one to illegal hunting offences, and the other to associated offences. Paltry fines are no deterrent for a rich man’s illegal “sport”.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
First thing I saw outside Labour conference today, mobile sign calling on Burnham to ditch Palantir…
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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haversack @hsack121.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Doctor Sued More Than 700 Patients Over Medical Bills as Low as $101, Now He's a Republican Senator www.medicaldaily.co.uk/roger-marsha...
medicaldaily.co.uk
Doctor Sued More Than 700 Patients Over Medical Bills as Low as $101, Now He's a Republican Senator
Records show Senator Roger Marshall sued more than 700 former patients over medical bills, while 81 people were arrested after missing related hearings.
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sanneru.bsky.social @sanneru.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#Cornell #WestandwithJaneDoe
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Imagine the front page outrage if 7 gay men drugged and raped a straight man for 7 hours. I expect the victim in that case would be believed without question. #Cornell7 #CornellUniversity #sexism #misogyny #VAW
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nigel Farage has deleted this post But not before it's been shared widely showing him to be either a serial liar or delusional and either way, unfit for public office
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mark Butcher is Reform UK's candidate in Claremont, Blackpool, standing tomorrow. He's seen here with a group intimidating a council worker taking flags down. A worker, just doing his job. That's him climbing the ladder. Just think how a he would treat council staff if he was a councillor.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/09/2026
Jesus Christ Cornell
What use was it to bring the writer and activist Chanel Miller to campus in the spring just for fraternity brothers to scroll, bored, on their phones as she movingly shared her experience as Emily Doe, the victim of Brock Turner? As I wrote at the time, I was floored and dismayed as I sat in the audience with one of my brilliant undergraduates; we heard Miller’s shattering account of being sexually assaulted by Turner behind a dumpster at Stanford University after a fraternity party. Her talk was riveting, and there was so much to learn from it. And yet many of the male students who hailed predominantly from fraternities — 15 percent of each chapter was required to be in attendance — were so tuned out that Miller commented ruefully: “You know, this has been my hardest gig, because they didn’t turn down the house lights. I’m not sure how you professors do it, because it’s so hard looking out at this sea of mildly disgruntled faces. I mean, I’m sure you’re all very moved, but …,” Miller smiled. The implication being, it didn’t seem like it, from her angle.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
thenerve.news
They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here’s the moment @labourlewis.bsky.social read out the letter at a fringe event at Labour conference hosted by @the-citizens.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/the-...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s pretty nuts. Tom Watson’s very first intervention in his new job at spytech firm Palantir is to write a letter to his former colleague @labourlewis.bsky.social detailing all the times the firm has monitored his anti-Palantir activities
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Lea Zengage @leazengage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maximum monthly State Pension. Luxembourg £5,426 Norway £1,839 Switzerland £1,657 Denmark £1,486 Sweden £1,373 Belgium £1,338 Netherlands £1,322 France £1,254 Spain £1,238 UK £997 Guess which is unaffordable?
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Odd to think that this headline might have appeared decades ago because he was deep in the jungle or polar wastes but now it’s just a sad case of elder abuse.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
According to unnamed Arab officials, Egypt repeatedly warned Israel that an attack from Gaza was coming, while UAE reportedly warned Netanyahu directly that Hamas was planning major action weeks before the Oct. 7 attack. Netanyahu denies receiving them.
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Egypt's spy chief reportedly warned Netanyahu multiple times before 7 October massacre
Netanyahu secretly met UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed on 27 September amid reports he sought a denial of a pre-Oct. 7 warning. Hours later, new claims emerged that Egypt had also warned Israel. Netan...
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André van Es #FBPE @andrevanes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
While the whole world converts to hybrid or electric #Trump is relaxing fuel efficiency requirements. He probably has stock in oil companies. www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...
scientificamerican.com
Trump rolls back fuel economy standards for cars, breaking with 50 years of policy
Environmental advocates have decried the move
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Investigation of alleged gang-rape at Cornell University fraternity house reopened
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Investigation of alleged gang-rape at Cornell University fraternity house reopened
Outrage over treatment of alleged offenders, members of Chi Phi fraternity, has grown since lawsuit was made public
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auntyr.bsky.social @auntyr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know what? I have absolutely no problem posting this. I hope it follows them for years.
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Xabier Ostale @embers1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Covid everywhere again... high fevers, coughs, and I've heard already of two cases of vertigo (probably ear-related or brain-related). People are not being told, and they don't tell themselves either, that there is not such a thing as acquiring immunity to sars2.
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Pam Nash @pamnashes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pal sent me this, I haven’t seen it on here so….
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ĐɇȺđȻɇłł ☣ @deadcell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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T.I. with a Skeptical Look
ALT: T.I. with a Skeptical Look
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Krister Danielsson @kristerdanielsson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What these people are made of is beyond me but they are the frontline of liberty and all that is decent.
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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And she says ppl claiming PIP to get to work is too much. Scrounging Tories.
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The Phantom Judge You Harshly 🎃💀🦇🧛‍♂️ @judgeyouharshly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy first day of Fall/Autumn to everyone, but especially to Stella.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#GetGreensElected - a crucial 10 days to get out the message: #VoteGreen for Zack Polanski
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