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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11h
🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said
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Progressive News Service @prognews.bsky.social · 23h
New Gaza satellite photos show catastrophic level of destruction. "With neighborhood after neighborhood reduced to rubble and little left but the faint outlines of main roads, it is now almost impossible to tell one part of Gaza from another." www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
aljazeera.com
Satellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel’s genocidal war
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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IPBES @ipbes.net · 17h
The fourth Research Grant Competition run by @gcbcbiodiversity.bsky.social calls for research proposals that address the underlying drivers of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation in the Amazon, the Congo Basin and the Coral Triangle. Applications open on 19 October.
Banner for the fourth Research Grant Competition run by the Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate. The image shows two outlined images, depiciting two continents, and in the middle, text: Three regions. One drive for transformative change.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 29/09/2026
Fossil fuel giants behind hundreds of programs targeting Australian children
abc.net.au
Inside the fossil fuel industry's push into Australian classrooms
At least 260 educational programs in Australia are sponsored by fossil fuel companies, according to a report by a climate advocacy group.
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
People vs Palantir – International Day of Action 🌎✊ Thursday 1 October 2026. We are saying NO to Palantir! Find a UK action near you 👇🏽 www.amnesty.org.uk/issues/inter...
Activists at Parliament Square, London holding up a banner that reads NO PALANTIR in our public services
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tomorrow's front page 📰 New satellite pictures lay bare Israel's destruction of Gaza
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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Let's do a Musk-Starship thread (not an expert, just a news-reader with a memory longer than a journalists, ie two weeks). In 2016, when the Starship idea was unveiled, he would have an uncrewed landing on Mars in 2022, and crewed by 2024.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 27/09/2026
The UN has updated its list of companies found to be intimately involved in the sustaining and expansion of Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine, universally recognized as illegal. The list has 214 companies and firms, almost all Israeli, but at least 10 from France, Germany, China, & the US.
ohchr.org
UN Human Rights updates list of companies involved in Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory
GENEVA – The UN Human Rights Office today issued an
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Chris Mason joins us now with an adorable kitten he claims Nigel Farage rescued from a house fire..." Cartoon: @jonesycartoons3.bsky.social (UK) #BBC #BBCbias
A BBC news reader with a background image of Chris Mason holding a kitten into the camera.
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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don't have the raw data, but sounds about right.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 27/09/2026
Swiss voters overwhelmingly reject far-right plan to toughen neutrality
lemonde.fr
Swiss voters overwhelmingly reject far-right plan to toughen neutrality
Final results from the Swiss government showed over 70% of voters, and a majority in all 26 of the country's regions, rejected the plan championed by a right-wing populist party.
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BC Wildfire Weekly - Wildfires + More @bcwildfirewkly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Some TV meteorologists want to talk about climate change. Not everyone wants to hear it” www.cbc.ca/radio/whaton... - CBC Radio #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather
cbc.ca
Some TV meteorologists want to talk about climate change. Not everyone wants to hear it | CBC Radio
Broadcast meteorologists usually talk about the weather, but as the planet warms, many weather presenters feel they must talk about climate change. It can be a tough balancing act — and it can have pr...
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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
These men drugged a young woman and took turns raping her. In a group chat, they took a picture of her and invited others to come over and rape her. Only two of them were expelled, while the others had to write an ESSAY. You should be outraged by the outcome. #CornellUniversity
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The MAGA US Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle has blurted out how America interferes in European politics. At a private dinner in Athens in March 2026, Guilfoyle said of the collapse of the Romanian government: “We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here”, the WSJ reports.
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Should the U.K. rejoin the EU and reverse Brexit? Get voting! www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access" Full story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
democracyforsale.substack.com
BREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”
Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs...
carbonbrief.org
Analysis: EVs are now nine times cheaper than petrol or diesel to drive in the UK  - Carbon Brief
The latest surge in fossil-fuel prices means it is now up to nine times cheaper in the UK to drive an electric vehicle (EV) than a petrol or diesel car, shows Carbon Brief analysis.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 24/09/2026
This is absolutely deranged: Months before murdering 6 people and injuring 27 more, ChatGPT told the teen school shooter in Tumbler Ridge, BC that using a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun is “brutal” in a “hallway, indoors or a crowded classroom” because “close quarters” is that gun’s “playground”
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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 24/09/2026
Instead of giving your workers coupons to use at the grocery store you own, how about paying a fair wage your workers can actually live on instead? www.washingtonpost.com/food/2026/09...
washingtonpost.com
With more Amazon workers on SNAP benefits, company offers Whole Foods discounts
The company said the discounts are a response to employee feedback, not a reaction to a recent government report.
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My old boss has asked me to give his new book a social media bump, because he has wisely chosen never to set up his own account! So I’m happy to announce that ‘Britain’s Slave Traders: A Hidden History’ is available today in all good bookshops! www.penguin.co.uk/books/460026...
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 24/09/2026
"Shabana Mahmood is the cabinet minister responsible for the UK’s policing and its national security – as well, of course, as managing the country’s borders…I include this reminder because Mahmood increasingly seems to be operating under the assumption that her job only concerns the latter."
thenewworld.co.uk
If Shabana Mahmood is tough, why is she so slow to crack down on Danny Tommo and the far right?
Weeks of what looks like blatant lawbreaking have finally resulted in an arrest. But the home secretary seems happy to look elsewhere
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Futurism @futurism.com · 24/09/2026
Wait, why did fridges need AI in the first place?
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Software Update Turns Samsung's "AI Fridges" Into Useless Bricks
Many unfortunate owners of a Samsung "Bespoke AI" fridge were in for a rude surprise after an update turned them into a brick.
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meta glasses are being used for covert harassment and group stalking. Women and girls are being secretly filmed in streets, schools, restaurants and on dates, then uploaded for millions of strangers. Police inquiries now span worldwide. #OpDeathEaters
yacnews.com
Meta glasses used to film women and girls without consent from Seoul to Barcelona as police cases mount worldwide
Police and prosecutors across France, Spain, South Korea, Japan and the U.S. have opened cases against men accused of secretly filming women and girls with Meta glasses. The only warning victims have ...
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Semafor @semafor.com · 23/09/2026
Kalshi will now let users juice their bets with borrowed money. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
semafor.com
Kalshi to allow trading on borrowed funds
Only some of the bets will allow margin trading, showing where the prediction-markets platform thinks its future lies.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Why Is a Labour Lord Now Paid by Palantir – and What Does it Mean For Our Democracy?" Ex-Labour deputy leader Tom Watson just got hired by a controversial US tech company seeking taxpayer-funded state contracts. @graceblakeley.substack.com for Zeteo UK on the corrupting of our politics:
zeteo.uk
Why Is a Labour Lord Now Paid by Palantir – and What Does it Mean For Our Democracy?
Ex-Labour deputy leader Tom Watson just got hired by a controversial US tech company seeking taxpayer-funded state contracts. The intermingling of politicians and corporations corrupts our democracy.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 23/09/2026
Europe's most important inland trading waterway, the Rhine River, dries up
abc.net.au
Australia 'exposed' as Europe's most important trade river dries up
While the eyes of the world remain fixed on geopolitically charged blockades in the Strait of Hormuz, a bottleneck has been choking another of the globe's critical shipping routes.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🥔😅 Lukashenko: Even if we wanted to supply potash to Western markets today, we simply don’t have the volumes. Everything is already contracted.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 21/09/2026
For years, Stephen Lennon has asked his supporters to trust him, defend him and put their hands in their pockets. Now the game is up. We're calling on the Government to refer the evidence to HMRC for a full investigation. Add your name to the petition ✍️ secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/199860/...
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CALL FOR AN HMRC INVESTIGATION INTO STEPHEN LENNON
A year-long Channel 4 Dispatches investigation has raised serious questions about Stephen Lennon’s finances. Add your name and call on the Government to refer them to HMRC for investigation.
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Exmoor National Park @exmoornp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Exmoor National Park Supported Internship Vacancy Does your young person have an EHCP or additional needs and dream of working outdoors? This internship could be a fantastic opportunity to get started! find more info www.sslcourses.co.uk/school-leavers/supported-internships/
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Frans Bouma @fransbouma.com · 18/09/2026
techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/m... So, Microsoft, you're going to remove the stolen data from Copilot and by admission ChatGPT, right? Oh haha of course not. Big corp can steal whatever they want and call it a product. Fuck you
techcrunch.com
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal | TechCrunch
Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it woul...
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Kevin☮️🌎☀️🌕⭐️🌈🌊 @hamkold.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Governor Hochul: Ban Octopus Farming Now🐙🐙🐙🐙🐙 action.eko.org/a/governor-h...
action.eko.org
Governor Hochul: Ban Octopus Farming Now
Octopuses are among the most extraordinary animals on Earth. They solve puzzles, use tools and even recognise individual people. But octopus farming would subject these intelligent animals to a lifeti
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The Verge @theverge.com · 21/09/2026
As revealed in recently unsealed court documents, Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science calls ChatGPT and Copilot’s harvesting of data the “largest theft of labor in human history” and says that Microsoft’s defense makes a “complete mockery of the idea of ‘fair use.’”
theverge.com
OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were driving us toward Google Zero, and they did it anyway.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports - Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’ #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports
Guardian investigation reveals fossil fuel links of IPCC authors, with experts declaring the body’s conflict of interest policy ‘not fit for purpose’
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The entire #Brussels-Capital Region will become Europe's largest #car-free zone on Sunday. #Pedestrians and #cyclists will have the opportunity to take over streets usually congested by traffic. www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/232... #cleanair #cycling #ActOnClimate #ClimateActionNow
brusselstimes.com
Brussels goes car-free on Sunday: Everything you need to know
Brussels will go car-free on Sunday, with free public transport, activities across the capital and special events marking 50 years of the Brussels Metro. Here's everything you need to know.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hidden Harvest Ottawa rescues fresh fruit from urban trees, collecting over 120,000 pounds since 2012 #Canada donating the produce to local food agencies, you can register your local trees for harvest Link ottawa.hiddenharvest.ca
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...
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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed
GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 18/09/2026
@lbc.co.uk and @mrjamesob.bsky.social thank you for the time and the coverage of the story as well as listening to the stories. rnli.org/support-us/g...
rnli.org
Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Revolving doors and political auctions. Labour peer and former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir. Palantir is trying to save its £330m NHS contract, wants more public contracts. Nick Clegg, Rishi Sunak, George Osborne and others have taken similar jobs.
theguardian.com
Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is straight out of Handmaids Tale. A high school trying to force girls to disclose the dates and lengths of their menstrual cycle. Don’t comply? You lose a grade. There’s absolutely no reason a school needs this information other than to exert control over our bodies.
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Rose❤️🇨🇦Part owner of Canada.🇨🇦❤️ @scotfreeme.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
China is cutting out the middleman's USD, for countries in Africa. About time. Africa can't catch a break from the white colonizers.
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dindin6.bsky.social @dindin6.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
People are organizing to make a human chain around the building. Emergency hearing before a judge in the morning. THIS ALL ENDS WHEN ENOUGH OF US SAY NO!
This is brutal. The final scene of a Narcissist is always a descent into Madness.
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Res Creativa @rescreativa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
WASHINGTON, DC - #HandsOfftheArts invites you to join Hands Around the Kennedy Center, Fri, Sep 18, 6:30 p.m. Participants will create a “human chain” around the Kennedy Center to voice their objection to the call to possibly demolish the #KennedyCenter. actionnetwork.org/events/hands...
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The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Best-selling car in France vs. USA in 2023. The Renault Clio's MPG is 53 to 67 MPG (about 4.2 to 5.3 liters per 100 km). The Ford F-150's MPG is 10-26 (9 to 23 liters per 100km).
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