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RMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · 3h
RMT calls for levy on record rolling stock company profits RAIL union RMT called for a levy on rolling stock companies today (October 2) as new figures exposed record dividend payments and seven figure salaries. rmtunion.org/4ecmv0v
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RMT calls for levy on record rolling stock company profits
RAIL union RMT called for a levy on rolling stock companies today (October 2) as new figures exposed record dividend payments and seven figure salaries.
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Once again, ministers are claiming that a UK/US trade deal has made an innovative medicine available. What deal? All we have is a “preliminary understanding”. www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Arrangement between the United States of America and the United Kingdom on pharmaceutical pricing (HTML)
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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 3h
I never cease to be amazed by how apparently sensible people give time of day to ludicrous arguments by self interested groups. Money not spent on gambling will be spent somewhere else, likely creating more jobs than are lost from restrictions www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Would a gambling tax rise in the budget really shut shops and cost jobs?
Most of the betting industry is urging the chancellor not to double slot machine duty to raise up to £460m more a year
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3h
UK airlines to be banned from charging parents to sit with children. Some people charged up to £104 extra. Neoliberals routinely moan about regulation but are silent on customer rip-off schemes. If businesses were ethical we wouldn't need regulation.
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UK airlines to be banned from charging parents to sit with children
Planned rule change forms part of Burnham’s bid to crack down on the ‘little charges that add up’
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 17h
OpenAI cuts ties with three safety researchers, WSJ reports
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OpenAI cuts ties with three safety researchers, WSJ reports
OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17h
Just had to check
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Met with Camden Leaseholders Forum this morning to hear about leasehold issues in Holborn and St Pancras. I was disappointed to hear they had been promised a dedicated councillor for leaseholders but this was reneged on by Camden Council. As MP I'll hold the council to account.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20h
Loved visiting GoodWork in Camden. Brilliant to listen to amazing young people speak about obstacles they've been facing finding jobs and how much skills and confidence they've gained from being on the programme. Excited to see what they do next!
Zack with staff, volunteers and young people smiling at the camera in front of the Goodwork sign
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump is pushing a massive data-center boom. But there’s another part of the story: his own family has money tied to the industry. Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. launched a data-center company that became part of American Bitcoin.
This image appears to show Donald Trump Jr. (left) and Eric Trump (right).
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 30/09/2026
After two decades, the U.S. formally withdrew from Iraq, leaving behind a battered nation trapped between the U.S. and Iran. The U.S. invasion and subsequent occupation cost nearly 4,500 U.S. lives and killed more than 115,000 Iraqis, according to the most modest counts. trib.al/E3sCiNB
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Absolutely loved visiting the People's Museum in Somers Town - such an important archive of this community's history and a rallying cry for what's possible when we come together to improve people's lives.
Zack with staff and volunteers in the people's museum
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thanks so much to the Camden NEU for having me at your meeting - educators are the backbone of our community but I know so many are struggling with increased workloads, stress and a lack of funding. As MP for Holborn and St Pancras I'll fight for the resources you need.
Teachers, educators, tas, support staff and NEU reps smiling at the camera upstairs in the Pineapple
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In the UK, Prince William has launched an anti-suicide campaign with the Premier League, whose every other ad is for gambling. Hey prince: how about you dust off some old dungeons & fill them with every gambling CEO & the celebs who endorse them & watch suicides plummet? EASY PEASY MATE
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Original Statement: In Summary:
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump is fighting the press, the courts & your wallet all at once, & it's only Monday His bet is that the chaos moves too fast for anyone to keep track We're keeping track. I'll get into it w/ @arimelber.bsky.social on @ms.now at 6:25pm ET -TN
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Trump’s 2024 ‘Final Battle’ Ad Returns, Funded by Public Money
The ad, which ethics experts said could violate federal law, shows Mr. Trump vowing to “expel the warmongers” from the government and fight the “deep state,” even as he wages a war with Iran.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If the last 15 years of work on things like MH17 and chemical weapon use tells me anything is you'll need a lot more than mere evidence to change the mind of any denialist.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Super cool. Here’s a class traitor dispatch: when you start to make more money you start to pay more taxes. The size of the checks you send to the govt have big numbers on them. It’s unsettling. You need a strategy & that strategy is SUCK IT UP MOTHERFUCKER.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Bad language: profane Trump brings presidential swearing out into open
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Bad language: profane Trump brings presidential swearing out into open
President has let rip with swearwords in recent months, redefining norms about acceptable language in public office
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We're having the best time in Holborn & St Pancras! The opportunity to win and push the Government on housing costs, tackling the climate crisis and for international justice. And so much more. We can't stop now. This is it. Sign up for the final 12 days below 👇🏽
Huge crowd smiling at the camera Zack greeting a resident on her doorstepZack walking with Faiza and her absolutely cutie of a child!Zack with the Southampton Greens
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Huge thank you to everyone who told me today they've got a refund for conference or are going to vote online and join us on the streets campaigning. The energy is amazing and we can win this election. But we need your help. Join us in making history: linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP
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ZACK 4 MP | Linktree
Everything you need to get involved! Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of Zack Polanski (The Green Party) c/o PO Box 78066, London, SE16 9GQ
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thank you so much @katiephang.bsky.social. Coming from a fearless defender of democracy & dedicated advocate for the EPSTEIN victims, this means the world to me! Wishing you continued success... Much ❤️ from your fan, Mar🐫
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
THREE WEEKS FROM TODAY!!! Join the MAGA Resistance & make your voices heard. Accountability. Is. Coming.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Labour are planning to extract more oil and gas from the North Sea despite the thousands of deaths from excess heat this summer. We cannot allow them to win in Holborn & St Pancras and think that they can get away with this. Vote Green. For our communities and our planet.
Labour are planning to extract more oil and gas from the North Sea despite the thousands of deaths from excess heat this summer.

We cannot allow them to win in Holborn & St Pancras and think that they can get away with this.

Vote Green. For our communities and our planet.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Labour already have a huge majority. Another Labour MP putting Thames Water "on notice" isn't going to lower our water bills or protect our rivers. Nationalise Thames Water. Vote Green on October 8th. 💚
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is what the path to winning looks like - but only if we keep the numbers up. More people came out to volunteering that there's no way of getting a photo angle to show them all! This is a huge moment - time to get it done. 10 days left. Sign up below 👇🏽
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thank you so much to Camden Muslim Women's voice for your warmth, and for welcoming me at Calthorpe Community Garden today! If I'm elected as MP for Holborn & St Pancras, I promise to always speak with you, not for you.
Zack with a group of women in Calthorpe Community Garden
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘I lost my children, and I’m afraid of losing my baby again’: a day in the life of a pregnant woman in Gaza
Alaa lives in a tent pitched on the ruins of her house, which was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike that killed all three of her children. In one month, she will give birth again
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tilly Norwood has been tried by kangaroo court & executed for putting fentanyl in baby formula in Ohio
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP
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ZACK 4 MP | Linktree
Everything you need to get involved! Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of Zack Polanski (The Green Party) c/o PO Box 78066, London, SE16 9GQ
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Thank you to the hundreds of volunteers for spreading our great energy across Holborn & St Pancras. This election could not be closer and every single volunteer brings us closer to electing our 6th Green MP. We can win this election - but only together. Sunday sign up below!
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 07/09/2026
Bearly Politics is 100% independent and reader-supported. If you value long-form political writing that isn’t dictated by editors, advertisers or whatever fresh hell the algorithm wants today, please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Sarcasm and weird turns of phrase included.
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Bearly Politics | The Bear | Substack
Welcome to Bearly Politics! I'm The Bear, your slightly exasperated guide to the strange world of modern politics. Here, I attempt to tackle the absurdities of power, with claws sharpened by satire an...
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Nihl L'Amas @nih-llamas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 26/09/2026
Bypassing media gatekeepers can give new voices a chance to be heard, but “Trump TV” shows how the equation changes when the powerful do it to control their message and avoid scrutiny. (via Bloomberg Opinion)
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‘Trump TV’ Upends the Media Gatekeepers Debate
Donald Trump didn’t like the news he was seeing, so he decided to create his own. In that endeavor, he joins plenty of others who have capitalized on an evolving media environment to bypass traditional gatekeepers and distribute unfiltered content.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“The fascist loves balance. He won’t admit he does. He’ll rage about the weakness of the liberal media and lying press. But balance is what lets his poison slip into the system so effectively.” ✍️ @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social
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‘Weren’t Those Black-Clad Lads on That Dover Train So Terribly Polite?’ – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
The fascist loves balance. He won’t admit he does. He’ll rage about the weakness of the liberal media and lying press. But he loves balance.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“In spite of the words of the US President, the Russian President does not, in fact, 'want to do a deal.' Unless, of course, that deal is one in which Ukraine simply capitulates.” ✍️ Paul Niland
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Ukraine Comes Under Assault From Putin's Terror and Trump's Delusions
Paul Niland reports from Kyiv as the city comes under attack from Putin’s new strategy of ‘psychological terrorism’
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The magic of an Irish rainforest.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/09/2026
The U.S. strike on the Iranian elementary school was the deadliest American military targeting error of the 21st century in terms of child casualties.   Horrific.   This war needs to end – now.
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SuMo📞Congress 202-224-3121📞CSPAN 202-748-8000 @sumoh7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A child in Abilene wakes up at night thinking it’s morning because a giant data center lights his bedroom window. Ken Paxton has taken half a million dollars from data center interests. Texans shouldn’t sacrifice their homes so Paxton’s donors can cash in. #TrumpsCorruptCongress
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Great to see latest Democracy for Sale and lighthouse reports investigation, into Tony Blair Institute, in @financialtimes.com with @pickardje.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/1ca9...
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Tony Blair’s think-tank offers political access to $25,000-a-year corporate members
BP, Uber and Amazon are among corporate members of the non-profit’s membership programme, the Global Network for Change
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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...
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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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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The love affair continues …
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026
tell me the summit accomplished jack shit without telling me the summit accomplished jack shit
Very productive meeting with President Xi for both the U.S.A. and China. Tremendous things will be happening. Like almost everyone else, he seemed to like calling the poorly and inaccurately named Artificial Intelligence to a far more accurate and important name, SUPER INTELLIGENCE. That would be “SUPER!” Everyone last night agreed, also. President DJT
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/09/2026
The prosecutor at the center of the Broadview Six case just walked away from the DOJ with a scathing accusation against her own boss.
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Broadview Six Prosecutor Blasts DOJ Boss in Scathing Exit Letter
Sheri Mecklenburg says DOJ leadership scapegoated her for the troubled prosecution, then threatened to fire her if she tried to defend herself.
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SlavaUkraini033 @slavaukraini033.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
EU's Kaja Kallas: EU Member States have agreed on the terms for releasing €6.6 billion European Peace Facility funds for Ukraine. That’s good news for Ukraine and bad news for Russia.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Anyone trying to get their country to withdraw from the ICC is almost certainly involved in organised crime. It's a no brainer.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
@democracydefendersfund.org & partners just helped secure an important win against Trump's shutdown mass firings The settlement kills the memo behind them & pulls layoffs out of agency shutdown plans AFGE, AFSCME & their unions never blinked. We are proud to have been a part of their fight👇 -TN
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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