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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 06/10/2026
The situation in the Black Sea is increasingly concerning. Commercial ships – and innocent crews – are being targeted, with lives already lost at sea. Today, two commercial vessels were hit in Bulgaria’s economic zone in Black Sea.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The 2024 Budget raised the rate of capital gains tax. CGT receipts from that tax year *doubled*. Looks like a triumph - but actually it was a failure. And it means CGT reform is dead. A prudent Chancellor won't touch CGT. A 🧵 on the CGT paradox:
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In the final hours of Kristi Noem's tenure as Homeland Security secretary, the Dept for Homeland Security (DHS) agreed to buy five aircraft from Daedalus Aviation, whose chairman had donated $10,000 to Noem's political PAC. The agency paid substantially above the prices Daedalu... TAT: [Corruption]
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why you can’t trust Grok - or any other LLM which basically tells you what you want to hear and amplifies online echo chambers
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
11/ Orr also connects this story to Thiel. Byline Times documented a Thiel donation offered through Orr while Cambridge was considering him for a job. Orr joined the university in 2019. Again, I cant prove it was pay to get Orr hired but 2+2=4. bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...
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Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 04/10/2026
The Department for Health and Social Care has written to us demanding we take down our video criticising Palantir’s NHS contract – we won’t goodlawproject.org/is-this-the-firs…
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Is this the first ever SLAPP by our own Government? | Good Law Project
The Department for Health and Social Care has written to us demanding we take down our video criticising Palantir’s NHS contract – we won’t
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Good. Juries are important, not so much for the decisions they make, but for the decisions they prevent others form being able to make. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/oct...
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Ministers drop plans to cut jury trials in England and Wales after outcry
Critics say scrapping of plans, which aimed to increase judge-alone trials to deliver swifter justice, leaves court system and victims vulnerable
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
An important thread from the brilliant @joannahs.bsky.social
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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Be under no illusion: this is a significant victory for everyone who stuck their neck out and defended jury trials, day after day, clause by clause. But it is not a comprehensive victory. Magistrates should not be allowed to send people to prison for two years.
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The House and Senate needs to submit STAND ALONE BILLS. None of this bullshit that sneaks in other bills that they KNOW would never pass if it was a STAND ALONE BILL.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Entitled freeloader
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026
this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A partially unsealed court filing alleges that the US Department of Homeland Security built up dossiers on ICE observers—including their photos, license plate numbers, and other information—and stored them in a system called the... TAT: [Nationalism | Weakening civil rights | Undermining democracy]
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm furious about the two Iranians who came across as part of the surge in small boats created by my Brexit and under a Home Office run by my MPs Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Full marks to Bobby J for not bothering to mention that this was entirely due to being given £45 million from the Labour government and told to do it. Even a Reform council couldn't fuck that up.
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Kevin McKenna MP @kevinmckenna.co.uk · 03/10/2026
Sarah’s reaction isn’t surprising. We all know the criteria she uses & that Reform’s constant two-tier refrain reveals rather more about how they see the world than how our police & courts do This incident should have been a much bigger wake-up call to all of us. Instead it was too often downplayed
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Kevin McKenna MP @kevinmckenna.co.uk · 03/10/2026
I was a 2024 London Assembly candidate for this area Anti-ULEZ feelings were running red-hot in some neighbourhoods & across lots of different demographics Threats of violence to me, other canvassers, and Sadiq were more graphic and aggressively over the line than I’ve faced in any other election
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rachel Johnson who was interviewing her didn't push back at all and even seemed to be agreeing with her. Here's a fuller account from the police. Absolutely scandalous that an MP is not condemning this act of terrorism
Detective Chief Superintendent James
Derham, who leads local policing in the
Bexley area, said: "It was miraculous
that nobody was killed or seriously
injured in the large explosion caused
by Rees


"He showed a complete disregard for
the welfare and safety of the people
who live in, or were travelling through,
the area at the time of the explosion -
all because he was unhappy with the
ULEZ scheme


"CCTV from a bus travelling down the
road at the time shows how it narrowly
missed the blast of debris by seconds
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
These two lawsuits brought by Renee Nicole Good’s family are exceptionally well-written and legally compelling. Well worth the read, I promise. I break down both complaints in this episode: youtu.be/2kU7_-Yt-Ig?...
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Trump HIT With TWO NEW LAWSUITS Over DEADLY ICE SHOOTING!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Would recommend watching the full interview with @migueldelaney.bsky.social on the Democracy for Sale YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Be...
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Man City is the biggest scandal in club football history
YouTube video by Democracy for Sale
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🔴 Manchester City is what happens when the rich and powerful believe money trumps any rules or regulations I've written about club football's biggest ever scandal, and interviewed the brilliant @migueldelaney.bsky.social, for Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/manchester...
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Manchester City: club football's "biggest ever scandal"
I spoke to author Miguel Delaney about the UAE, industrial-scale cheating and football's “financial wild west.”
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Pasi Vaaranmaa @vaaranpa.um.fi · 03/10/2026
Excellent piece by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social
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I Am Incorrigible @imincorrigible.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Simon Clarke MP was born on 28 September 1984. That's all you need to know. #r4today
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump likes to leave international bodies. #R4Today
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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 02/10/2026
NEW: Yesterday I interviewed President Zelenskyy. Speaking at a school that had just been hit by a Russian jet drone, he said Ukrainian spy agencies had obtained intel that Putin told his military to remove all constraints that governed earlier air campaigns. “He said there are no rules now.”
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Putin has told military leaders to abandon rules of war, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian leader tells FT his Russian counterpart has given the order that ‘there are no rules now’
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh good grief. I read the @time.com article earlier, and that was bad enough, but check out the transcript of the whole interview. It's like a distracted, mendacious dementia patient with ADHD. Unbelievable that this man is in charge of our country. time.com/article/2026...
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Excellent news. The good thing is that Palantir isn’t unique and there are many options, all of which will save the taxpayer money. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Andy Burnham searches for UK alternative to Palantir
Prime minister’s ‘Buy British’ push triggers hunt to find replacement for controversial US tech group awarded health service and defence contracts
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
‘If you’ve got £1 million or £2 million to spend on political advertising, forget it,…. If you’ve got £8 million, you can make people believe anything you want.’ I wrote about Britain’s broken political finance system for the latest @lrb.co.uk
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 02/10/2026
On August 4, a drone struck the wing of a Ukrainian aircraft at Germany’s Leipzig Airport and fell onto the tarmac. Strapped beneath it was a tin can packed with explosives.
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How a failed attack in Leipzig revealed a wider Russian campaign
Documents obtained by the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network trace drone bombs, incendiary parcels and arson attacks to Russian intelligence.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📌 ICYMI — Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations — Samantha Asumadu The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK…
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Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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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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Informed Takes @peebsy0.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey Americans, You guys shouldn't defend corruption. It's bad for your economy. Nobody's going to want to do business with you.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A *third* Byline Times journalist has now been barred from Conservative conference – Chief Reporter @josiahmortimer.bsky.social. It comes after Political Editor @adambienkov.bsky.social and the late, great David Hencke were barred last year. bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
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Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference
The National Union of Journalists described the bans as a threat to media freedom which "undermines the Conservative Party leader’s repeated pledge to fight for free speech"
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The sign being used in stores across Canada, thanks to Trump. =====================
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
No, the difference between "join" and "rejoin" really doesn't matter, just as in the past it didn't mater if it was an "association agreement" or a "free trade agreement", and it continues not to matter if the EU is or is not the organisation the UK left. Wood. Trees.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...
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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 30/09/2026
“That, to me, was an implicit threat. It feels very Palantir. Very Big Brother”: MP @labourlewis.bsky.social reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
‘We’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir. (l-r): Clive Lewis, Tom Watson and the Palantir logo, against a pink background
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham on Social Care in July: "I ask the media, can we not let the country look at this in a clear-eyed way without all of the overwriting? On this issue, please, can we not have a factual debate? Allow people to weigh up the options and come to a considered view based on the facts?" The media:
Daily Mail: BURNHAM'S TRIPLE SHOCKThe Daily Telegraph: TRIPLE LOCK SCRAPPED BY 2030 (with a monstering photo of Burnham)Daily Express: IT'S A CRYING SHAME FOR OUR NATIONThe Sun: LOCKY HORROR SHOW
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Phil Syrpis @syrpis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I reckon he’s got quite a wide-ranging literature to work through. My TL;DR… for big economic benefit you have to be in the single market. And for ‘control’ to go with that, you have to be in the EU. A whole load of second-best options won’t cut it.
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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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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...
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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ah, Farage’s pic-‘n’-mix bag of ‘truth’ again. Let’s start with you, Nigel… Let’s have the truth about your multi-million donations and gifts and what you have to do for them, about your links to Russia and to Trump’s christofascist crowd, about your real motives for Brexit and leaving the ECHR… Go…
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The fact that the Fairford suspects are all British Nationals proves nothing. I’m a British National and look at the damage I’ve already caused to the UK.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Dear Diary, The police have condemned 'unfounded, malicious speculation' about the RAF Fairford suspects. Fortunately they said nothing about baccy-stained grifters spreading lies to incite anger in a desperate bid to stay relevant"
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