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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 22h

Turning state violence into a public spectacle is a very fascist move BTW.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 23h

Pryluky. Russia killed 22 people in that residential building, 5 of them kids. 54 more people were injured. 📷: evgenymaloletka/Instagram

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🇺🇦 Zelensky: The search and rescue operation in Pryluky has already ended after the Russian missile strike on a five-story building. The death toll has risen to 22 people. 5 of them are children. 54 people were injured, 7 of them children. 15 people have been rescued, including a 5-year-old child.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On a totally different issue, when I & many other women were furious about the Green Party position on reducing c-sections ("we will work to reduce the number of interventions in childbirth" to treat it as a "non-medical event") we were told that these policies sneak in, because of member voting...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reading the details of the US execution story from last night and it is absolute barbarism. Like reading a history of the medieval period.

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Laurence Conneely 🟣🏳️‍⚧️🌻 @lconneely.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This was a fun journey. There are tonnes that I've left off, but these hit that main beats of my gaming life, from getting a Gameboy to playing games with my kids. @robknapp.bsky.social give it a go.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Abolish the Home Office

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 24/09/2026

If Elon Musk and half the Tesla C-Suite were currently in jail because Grok spent weeks generating CSAM-on-demand while they memed about it, Altman and the rest might be a bit more cautious about letting their little robots commit share price friendly press releasable crimes.

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

1)how to create an illicit fags & booze economy run by spivs that'll deprive the Treasury of tax revenue 2)you don't get people "back to work" by making their lives impossible (note cut of a third to long-term benefits). It makes the problem worse 3)you bastards

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

For God's sake, this is craven. The Russians have been trying to obliterate US companies in Ukraine repeatedly and with some success. The US government says nothing at all.

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Kyiv is being hit extremely hard right now.

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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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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It was one of the great joys of my recent life to know Bonnie Greer. A truly remarkable person who radiated such wisdom and intellect. And when she spoke the audience was rapt. A kind, generous, passionate and very funny human. Thank you for giving us you Bonnie. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77

The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on panel shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husband

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Well, yes, it makes sense that Itamar Ben-Gvir would think the question of sovereignty has nothing to do with the people who actually live there

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Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Neo-nazi thug Ryan Ferguson’s latest hate campaign has targeted two RNLI volunteers who helped rescue asylum seekers in the Channel on Sunday, publishing their identities and exposing them and their families to abuse and danger searchlightmagazine.com/2026/09/nazi...

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Nazi thug Ryan Ferguson targets lifeboat volunteers after Portsmouth channel rescue | Searchlight

Neo-nazi thug Ryan Ferguson’s latest hate campaign has targeted two RNLI volunteers who helped rescue asylum seekers in the Channel on Sunday, publishing th ...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026

under remarked on aspect of trump is his deep hatred of natural beauty and the natural world.

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Not that many years since a popular position in right-wing British politics was calling for the police to use significant force to remove protesters blocking roads Of course, that was when environmentalists were doing it

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William Hayes @williamhayes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So if you protest a genocide you are automatically a "terrorist" but hold up a major shipping route while wearing balaclavas and you are a "protester" and the police "engage with you"? www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Disruption at Port of Dover as masked men hold protest

Images appear to show hundreds of protesters, all dressed in black and wearing face coverings.

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Neil Goodrich @ngoodrichhsg.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Response from Burnham will be important. These are actual fascists. They must be treated as such. Not 'concerned citizens'.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Like the Douma, the 2017 Khan Sheikhoun attack was heavily contested by the denialist community, citing the work of Seymour Hersh and MIT's professor emeritus Ted Postol. This new video adds more evidence both were completely wrong about their claims, fuelling conspiracies with misinformation.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.

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Jake Godin @godin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The IDF have destroyed even more of Tallouseh and Bani Hayyan since I shared the below images in July. Between 8-12 and 8-24, Sentinel-2 imagery shows the few remaining buildings in Tallouseh and a large amount of buildings in Bani Hayyan have been demolished. A large burned area is visible as well.

A Sentinel-2 satellite image from August 12 2026 shows an area of southern Lebanon centered on the villages of Bani Hayyan and Tallouseh. The IDF's "Yellow Line" is marked to the west of the villages and the village of Markaba is largely destroyed to the east. Tallouseh has a large amount of destruction visible and Bani Hayyan has a small portion showing demolished buildings.

A Sentinel-2 satellite image from August 24 2026 shows an area of southern Lebanon centered on the villages of Bani Hayyan and Tallouseh. The IDF's "Yellow Line" is marked to the west of the villages and the village of Markaba is largely destroyed to the east. The few remaining buildings undamaged in Tallouseh in the August 12 image have now been demolished and a large amount of buildings previously standing in Bani Hayyan are now destroyed. A large blackened area of about 60 acres is visible to the east of Tallouseh.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

1. AFM, the labor union representing professional musicians in North America, is paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who was a member of its Nashville Local 257 for 58 years. AFM says that for decades, Dolly consistently filed union contracts for her recording sessions, live gigs and tours.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026

This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Holy shit. No wonder Carney told the US to pound sand.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I cannot communicate how shameful and disgusting that is.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

13 years since the huge Sarin attacks in Damascus. It's really hard to underestimate what a huge catalyst that was for a denialist network that has spent the last 13 years twisting themselves into knots to find ways to deny the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Yet another horrific night for Kyiv.A massive Russian attack killed 12 people&injured 33 more. Several districts of the city suffered extensive damage.Residential buildings,a school,a children’s hospital, warehouses,other infrastructure were hit. 📹:libkos /dobronosov/Radio Liberty / SESU /Suspilne

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 19/08/2026

Some outcomes are bigger than politics.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Was admiring this photo below by Paul, and was immediately reminded of Paul Nash's 1918 painting 'We Are Making a New World'. Nash was deeply attached to trees, seeing them as metaphors for people. Image: IWM ART 1146 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

An image of Paul Nash's painting 'We Are Making A New World'. The light of a morning sun spreads across a landscape of shattered trees.

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Laurence Conneely 🟣🏳️‍⚧️🌻 @lconneely.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Can't find much about it online but the shop was called 'Going For a Song' and I remember the toilet having a 'Going for a Piss' on the door which I thought was hilarious at the time. Image from the seemingly defunct website: www.britishrecordshoparchive.org/by-region/lo...

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Laurence Conneely 🟣🏳️‍⚧️🌻 @lconneely.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My dad managed a record shop way back when and let me pick this out after a day of 'helping' in the stock room when I came with him to work for the day. Picked it purely for the cover. Still very affectionate for it many years later!

Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds Front cover artwork by Peter Goodfellow

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Meanwhile, Russia struck Pechenihy in the Kharkiv region this morning: 10 people were killed and 17 were injured. The attack damaged 10 private houses, a cafe, a post office, a store, and at least 7 cars.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The chase was begun by racists, who saw his fabulations and alleged plagiarism as a great chance to slap down uppity Black people, and to advance their efforts to stifle equality of opportunity. Then most of the media seemed to take leave of its senses. How was this a headline story, day after day?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
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4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
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Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…

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Harry Taylor @harrytaylor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Astonishing. The Press Association understands Essex Police did not tell Nigel Farage, or any other Clacton candidate, not to attend the count. This is after after his and Reform UK's claim Essex Police advised him against it due to a "credible threat".

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 13/08/2026

🇵🇸 Gaza beekeeper starts again on rooftop amid ruins of war Perched on the edge of a rooftop high above Gaza City's bombed-out landscape, Ibrahim al-Dabba tends to his community of bees, cultivating a rare source of hope among the ruins of the Israel-Hamas war.

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Dr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This is a dreadful development in our politics, which is bound to see dodgy & illegal lobbying now go unnoticed. And I say this as someone who, 20 years ago, was included in the register of MPs’ staff interests, when I worked for an MP. I never begrudged my inclusion on the register.

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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 10/08/2026

Tuesday's front page: 45 million people in the UK now living in drought Read the full story: trib.al/4Kn3NdO

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

BBC website leading with small boats I see, despite numbers down 43%. Just unacceptable.

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cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social @cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The total amount a UK political party can spend in a General election year across 650 candidates is half that - and this was a single candidate in a single primary.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 05/08/2026

⚡️Update: At least 17 killed, 44 injured after massive Russian missile, drone attack on Kyiv region. Search and rescue operations remain underway after Russia launched 24 ballistic missiles, four hypersonic missiles, and 115 drones targeting civilian infrastructure and residential areas overnight.

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Russian ballistic missile attack kills 17, injures 44 in Kyiv and surrounding area as rescue efforts continue

A massive Russian ballistic missile and drone attack killed 15 people and injured 51 others in Ukraine's capital and Kyiv Oblast as fires engulfed Kyiv and its suburbs, authorities reported overnight ...

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

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