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Jay Plaite

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Farage on his £5 million “gift” from crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne: 14 May 2026: “Frankly, it was given as a reward for campaigning for Brexit for 27 years.” 9 May 2026: “There was nothing political in its nature at all.”
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Andy Squibb @squibbmeisteruk.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This is about the *tenth* time @news.sky.com has posted/reposted this story about Polanski in 72 hours, yet it has reported nothing about Farage's £5m bung/'security fund', or the recently announced #FarageCamps. "Full story" and balanced reporting… not a fucking chance. 🤬🤬 #ComicCast
Image of the profile page for the über neutral/impartial Sky News stating that it provides "The full story, first".
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
US politicians outraged that a statue has been attacked. Not outraged that thousands of innocent human beings have been slaughtered, Christians, Muslims and atheists among them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Outrage over Israeli soldier's vandalism of Jesus statue in Lebanon
The Israeli military says it views with
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Jay Plaite @lebiss.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
‘Vance also spent several minutes instructing bears on appropriate defacation practices when situated in a woodland setting’ www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...
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Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 12/04/2026
Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Jay Plaite @lebiss.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Yes, yes please, cool and yes
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Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
A main trope of the Trump administration's transatlantic enmity is the alleged disappearance of free speech in Europe. Here's a compilation of the words the US administration seeks to extinguish from official documents. (From a year ago, so probably an undercount.) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration (Published 2025)
Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.
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Jay Plaite @lebiss.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Iran’s nuclear facilities obliterated, could suddenly prepare a nuke within weeks. US crush Iran military capabilities and punch when down, Iran now have ability to launch missiles at Europe and UK. All feels a bit Hulky
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Reform’s Richard Tice avoided nearly £600,000 in tax The deputy leader’s property company paid nothing in corporation tax on multimillion-pound profits for most of 2018-21
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Reform’s Richard Tice avoided nearly £600,000 in tax
The deputy leader’s property company paid nothing in corporation tax on multimillion-pound profits for most of 2018-21
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Trump to the UK, 6 March: "We don't need them any longer... We don't need people to join wars after we've already won!" Trump six days later: Publicly begs for the UK to send warships.
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doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
NEW. This is an elementary girls school in the city of Hormozgan in Iran. In the last hour, it was hit by a US/Israeli missile attack. So far, 24 young girls are confirmed dead [SOURCE: Al Jazeera]. The US has just committed a war crime. (🎥 Ary Jeay)
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Jay Plaite @lebiss.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Great decision
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Climate Majority Project @climatemajority.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
We ask teachers to hold the emotional weight of the future — often without the language, support, or permission to be honest. Today, Climate Courage Schools is launching The Hardest Lesson, a short film about that quiet pressure inside the classroom. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H-5...
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The Hardest Lesson | Climate Majority Project
YouTube video by Climate Majority Project
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I see Toys-R-Us are marketing their new Shadow Home Secretary Dressing Up Kit (ages 5-8). It comes with podium, name plate, dummy microphone, smart suit and an idiot.😊
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Carsie Blanton 😎💙👏😂 "Elon Musk"
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ceej @ceej.online · 11/02/2026
having your city noticed by the president is now a natural disaster on par with a hurricane or major flood
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Jay Plaite @lebiss.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The people who denied the existence of the Epstein files are the same ones trying to convince us that man-made climate change is a hoax. End of lecture.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This couldn’t be clearer. Bannon’s texts to Epstein in mid July 2018 - “overthrowing May right now” and in “London with Boris” as well as his appearance on LBC with Nigel Farage are prettying damning evidence of a cross party plot with foreign backing
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Bruce Springsteen is currently number one in iTunes in 19 countries.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Shockingly, the horrific extract published above by the DOJ one hour ago has already been taken down! Additionally these files below alleging crimes committed by Donald J. Trump were also published earlier - and have also now been removed from the DOJ website.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
The Legislation
Upon winning a general election, a Reform government under Prime Minister Nigel Farage will:
1) Leave the ECHR
2.) Repeal the Human Rights Act and replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
3.) Pass The Illegal Migration (Mass Deportation) Bill:
This Bill will:
Create a legal duty to remove illegal migrants for the Home Secretary
The Bill opens with a blunt obligation for the Home Secretary: "The Secretary of State shall ensure the removal from the United Kingdom of each person who does not have extant leave to remain and is not an Irish citizen or otherwise protected by regulations made under this Act."
The following parts of the legislation are introduced on an emergency basis, with an in-built sunset clause after 5 years:
Disapply the 1951 Refugee Convention, the UN Convention Against Torture, the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention (ECAT)
Derogation is justified under the Vienna Convention doctrine of state of necessity: Britain faces a national emergency in which uncontrolled illegal migration undermines public order.
These treaties will otherwise be used by activist judges to frustrate deportations, even after the repeals of the HRA and ECHR.
Create Detention Power Without Hardial Singh Constraints
This means illegal migrants can be detained until they are deported. Activist lawyers routinely use Hardial Singh to secure their client's bail, after which the client absconds.
If you came to the UK illegally, you are ineligible for asylum. End of story
All asylum claims will become inadmissible if made by a person within the Act's scope. If you came to the country illegally, you are ineligible for asylum in the UK. This strips the Home Office, the immigration tribunals and the higher courts of jurisdiction to even consider claims. A claim that cannot be considered cannot suspend removal and therefore, cannot delay a flight.
Re-entering after deportation and destroying ID becomes a serious criminal offence
Re-entry after deportation will be…The Operational Plan
We will create an enforcement unit called UK Deportation Command, including an Illegal Migrant Identification Centre - harnessing cutting edge data fusion
A Reform government will create a cutting edge enforcement data centre to relentlessly identify and detain all illegal migrants in the UK. Using powers granted by the new legislation, it will automatically share data between the Home Office, NHS, HMRC, DVLA, banks and the police. It will power bulk warrants, including mandatory biometric capture during any police encounter. Each power addresses a failure mode observed over the past decade - for example, banks and GP surgeries unaware of a customer's status, or overstayers slipping through because a warrant covered only a single property.
Secure Immigration Removal Centres (SIRC) will be built rapidly to detain up to 24,000
Detention capacity for up to 24,000 will be created within 18 months. The Home Office will build Secure Immigration Removal Centres. This will be modular accommodation built in remote parts of the country. Conditions are basic but not punitive: prefabricated two-person rooms, canteen catering, on-site medical suites. Robust perimeters and internal movement controls prevent escapes.
This enables detention-on-arrest: no more bail. This capacity would allow for up to 24,000 illegal migrants to be deported per month.
Initial Voluntary Return Window
A six-month Assisted Voluntary Return window precedes large-scale raids. Illegal migrants will be offered a financial incentive to self-deport. An app will be launched to facilitate this.
The Deportation Flights
The Home Office will scale up charters to 5 flights per day. To guard against last-minute aircraft unserviceability, the RAF will keep one Voyager aircraft on six-hour 'hot-spare' readiness. If a commercial charter breaks down, detainees can still be flown out that night, preserving operational integrity. The legal reset will mean activist lawyers will no longer be able preven…
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I was invited to give a talk in the community last night on Trump's second-term foreign policy. I thought I'd share my slides and bullet points here too.
Slide with a mural depicting Trump, Xi, and Putin reads:
Foreign Policy under Trump 2.0
Presentation for the Great Decisions program
St. Mark Presbyterian Church, Newport Beach
January 26, 2026

Dr. Erin Lockwood
University of California Irvine, Dept. of Political Science
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Jay Plaite @lebiss.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Everybody should carry a gun to defend themselves against people with guns but if we catch you with a gun we’ll shoot you dead
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AnneMc #FBPE 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🩵 @boof64.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
💯 👇👇👇 youtube.com/shorts/LDETj...
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He was EXECUTED
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
More evidence that the US government are lying liars who will lie about anything, this footage of ICE killing Alex Pretti supports the claim he was protecting a woman from violent ICE agents. The only thing he was brandishing was a phone.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 24/01/2026
UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Left: Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, talking about liberty and freedom in the US in the UK parliament Right: ICE agents attacking a dancing fox
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The president -Is occupying a major city with armed paramilitiaries -Is blackmailing treaty allies to hand over their sovereign territory -Is trying to set himself up as chairman for life of a UN rival with $1B fees for permanent membership -Is talking about canceling elections
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Reminder of the spectacularly poor judgement of these people
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Again it is something that people in previous eras have commented on but I still find it just astonishing to witness in my own: fascism is somehow the natural ideology of loser men, just all of our most pathetic and contemptible instincts rendered into a worldview.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
FOX: Where’s the protest against the regime that's killing people in the street right now? Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests? Trent: No, I think they are talking about the regime that is shooting people in the face
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier
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Phil Burrows @supergm.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Just been handed one of these for using the word Christmas in Birmingham. The Daily Mail articles were true.
A realistic-looking fixed penalty notice printed on white paper with perforated edges. The header features the Birmingham City Council logo in blue.
Text details:
 * Header: BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL – FIXED PENALTY NOTICE
 * Notice Details:
   * FPN No: WINT-XMAS-2023-001
   * Location: Victoria Square, Birmingham
   * Contravention Code: 412 (Use of Prohibited Term)
   * Description: Using the word 'Christmas' in a public space, contrary to the 'Winterval Inclusive Language Directive (WILD) 1998'.
   * Details of Offence: The individual was overheard uttering the phrase 'Merry Christmas' instead of the approved and inclusive term 'Winterval Greetings' or 'Happy Seasonal Holiday'. This archaic terminology is deemed exclusionary and disruptive to the secular winter festivities.
   * Penalty Amount: £100.00 (Reduced to £50.00 if paid within 14 days).
Bottom text (Small print):
FACT CHECK: This document is a work of satire and does not represent real council policy. Birmingham City Council did not ban or rename Christmas. 'Winterval' was a marketing initiative used in 1997 and 1998 to promote a season of public events and festivities occurring between November and January, which included Christmas celebrations. The term has not been used by the council since, but the myth that Christmas was cancelled persists.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 17/12/2025
Poland will on Wednesday kickstart its first offshore wind auction, pressing ahead with plans to ramp up green energy production amid a fast-approaching exit from coal and tender cancellations elsewhere in Europe
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Poland Defies Europe’s Offshore Wind Malaise With First Auction
Poland will on Wednesday kickstart its first offshore wind auction, pressing ahead with plans to ramp up green energy production amid a fast-approaching exit from coal and tender cancellations elsewhere in Europe.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/12/2025
Exam board Pearson fined £2m for ‘serious’ breaches in standards
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Exam board Pearson fined £2m for ‘serious’ breaches in standards
Ofqual issues fines over English proficiency test which some candidates sat at home, A-level Chinese and GCSE English One of the world’s biggest providers of educational services has been fined more than £2m for a range of serious breaches related to examination standards that could have affected tens of thousands of students. Pearson, a FTSE 100 listed company, was hit by financial penalties of £750,000 for each of two cases and £505,000 for a third by Ofqual, the exams regulator. Continue reading...
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
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Jay Plaite @lebiss.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I named my fists Rox and Anne because this is going to sting
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LadyFluffyOrca 🫍📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
From Carole Cadwalladr in the other place. Right. Watch this whole video. The wheels are falling off the Reform press machine. Britain’s students are not tolerating the lies & bullshit about Reform’s relationship with Russia 🔥🔥🔥
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
In the end, it didn’t cut government spending, and there was no promised “savings.” In the end, DOGE destroyed countless lives, ravaged American soft power, killed hundreds of thousands of people around the world (soon millions), & stole your data. Elon Musk should be on trial.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.* The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
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