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Dom Simmons

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What is the impact of the Ukraine war on US gasoline and diesel prices? None.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Shameful: Britain is no longer worthy of helping the American government commit the most serious war crimes. How can we prove to (checks notes) uh, Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth that we can be trusted to (squints at notes) assist in the commission of crimes against humanity
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"By pulling its bombers from RAF Fairford, our most powerful ally has shown it doesn't trust our intelligence services to deter Iran."
David Blair examines what Britain needs to do to rebuild America's trust in its intelligence services following the US withdrawal
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Dom Simmons @loop16.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I just donated to @GlobalJusticeUK’s campaign against Palantir. Will you join? act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4878
act.globaljustice.org.uk
Boost the campaign against Palantir
The UK government will soon decide whether to terminate Palantir’s £330 million NHS deal. Your donation today could help fund coordinated UK-wide lobbying, strategic media efforts and briefing of key ...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔴 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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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Long read, but worth your time.
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The Eight Stages of Civilizational Collapse
I’ve been watching things fall apart for a while now.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Confessions of a genocidal Zionist ... via Khalid Zar
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When it’s left-wing protesters, Home Secretaries have changed the law so they are now criminals. When far-right criminals break the law, they’re asked not to break the law again 🙄
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 16/09/2026
The government has three months to decide whether to cancel its £330m NHS contract. We want Palantir out, join us 👇 goodlaw.social/658abc
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🔴 The £72million pound question - how worried are you about big money in British politics? Democracy for Sale is running a survey to find out what the public thinks about money in politics - and what we should do about it Please take it!! And share widely!! thx! 😀 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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How concerned are you about UK political funding? – A Democracy for Sale survey
We're Democracy for Sale, a newsletter covering dark money and influence in UK politics. We're trying to better understand our readers' and the wider public's opinions and concerns about political fun...
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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband; son of a man who had to flee the Nazis: I'm Jewish BBC News: 😠 are you, though? You're doing it wrong Fascist Daniel Thomas, in between attacking teenage cricketers and rnli volunteers: I'm Christian BBC News: 😊
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Spooky Old Mark Monro | He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Need to harness the power of Bluesky, so reposts are appreciated. If anyone here, or anyone you know attends Bangor University (the Welsh one) and needs a room for the upcoming year, get in touch. One of my son's housemates has dropped out at the last minute, so their house is one short.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Did Kent Police ignore Dover blockade 999 call? We can reveal the story that undermines the public statement of Kent Police. 🧵
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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 07/09/2026
Big fan of how Russia can shut down a major UK port for half a day with just 5kg of cocaine and 100 severely divorced men.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Public Order Act 1936 makes it illegal to wear political uniforms. Indeed, the legislation was designed specifically to prohibit Blackshirts. Just saying.
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Dom Simmons @loop16.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil - and both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out! www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...
foxglove.org.uk
Andy Burnham: no gas power stations for data centres
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil. Both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Fed up with people shirking responsibility by arguing that the UK causes just 1% of emissions? Here are two fantastic analogies from a primary school teacher, Mark in Coventry, who called Sheila Fogerty on @lbc.co.uk - one involving dog poo 😆 Other arguments here: www.nebriefing.org/mp-dialogue
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habakkuk1.bsky.social @habakkuk1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It’s hellish cleaning rooms in 30+ heat, I’ve had to just lie on the floor for 10 minutes at times to stop myself from passing out
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The world is on fire - if only the scientists had warned us about single use barbecues while there was still time.
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Dom Simmons @loop16.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Yeah this Prime Minister is crap, can we try another new one? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Andy Burnham moves to cut new EV sales targets
Possible cut from 80% down to as little as 50% could add millions of tonnes of CO2 to emissions and comes amid UK heatwaves
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
England's New Forest is burning But the New PM has absolutely nothing to say
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels
independent.co.uk
Andy Burnham warns of summer ban on disposable barbecues
Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Andy Burnham says the bigger questions of oil and gas will come "at the right moment in time." On the eve of another heatwave when thousands of people have died already, when is a better time to rule out drilling for new oil and gas?
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Do you want to hazard a guess at what this “jaw-dropping” list of freebies included? What luxuries asylum seekers might be being given “for free” in Thetford? Xboxes? Plasma TVs? iPhones? Ferraris? Let's take a look👀 🧵 1/22
Express headline: The jaw-dropping list of everything asylum seekers in Thetford were 'given for free'.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Nigel Farage's approval ratings have now sunk even lower than Keir Starmer's before he resigned, yet we're still being encouraged to believe he has some kind of magic connection with the British public
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Elaine in this article "can't remember the last time she used her oven" but also spends £200 a month on petrol (so driving probably ~50 miles a day?) (she's also a professional old person; she was on Good Morning Britain last year, and then also at the Nov budget, and the year before lmao)
bbc.co.uk
'I can't afford to turn the oven on': 7.4m households struggling to buy essentials
As Andy Burnham promises “breathing space” for households, millions are unable to buy items such as clothing, heating and food.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Susanna Reid: "You've been in govt for 2yrs. Why has it taken you 2yrs to decide that you can do something for bus fares?" Heidi Alexander: "So we actually did make some changes with regards to bus fares under the previous govt" Yes, you raised the bus fare cap from £2 to £3!
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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 21/07/2026
James Lovelock is one of the greatest climate scientists that ever lived. We're about find out how on point his statements from over 18 years ago were.
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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Surely we need this too?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
England & Wales water firms lose 2.87bn litres a day, 20% of all water pumped through network. Hosepipe ban would save 577m(4%) litres a day. Violating hosepipe ban is a criminal offence, potential penalty of £1,000. No water execs fined or prosecuted. No new reservoirs built since privatisation
theguardian.com
Water firms in England and Wales ‘leak five times what hosepipe ban would save’
Greenpeace UK says 2.87bn litres lost daily, a fifth of all water pumped through network
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The victims minister is asked why sexual offenders aren't excluded from its early release scheme Atkinson: "I want to ensure that there are prison places available when people are sentenced to custody" Got to free the rapists to make room for people who oppose genocide, I guess
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 09/07/2026
“Mass murder is the policy that has been stated for decades to make the Cuban people suffer & overthrow their government.” Abby Martin, Director of ‘Cuba After Castro’ & the first American journalist to interview Cuba’s president, discusses the dire situation in Cuba. 🔗 zeteo.com/p/death-and-...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Despite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot
There are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies instead, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Atul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This government can fuck right off. Tax breaks for nazis but these are the "difficult decisions". www.opendemocracy.net/exclusive-ho...
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Exclusive: How Palantir harvested millions in UK tax breaks
In 2024, Palantir’s effective tax rate was just 8%, far less than the usual 25%, despite £25.3m of pre-tax profits
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like a politician calling a by-election at public expense on the issue of whether or not he should have the right to secretly take donations from Thai-based crypto billionaires and a convicted fraudster
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Devonians were horrified to learn last week of plans for a massive AI data centre near Great Torrington, north Devon. The proposals from company XLinks Ltd would cover 850 acres of farmland. But who owns the land? I decided to investigate. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Plans for massive data centre near Great Torrington in Devon
Xlinks wants to build a Devon data campus but is facing opposition from residents.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
This is absolutely terrifying The Nino 3.4 forecast temperature anomaly mean is now at 4C, when even the biggest historical super ninos have seen less than 3C I really have no idea what this is going to bring over the next 12 months, but it will be very, very, grim
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"Patriotism is a mass psychosis meticulously engineered by the ruling class. They artificially inflate your pride for a dirt patch you do not even own, just to ensure you will gleefully murder a terrified stranger across an imaginary line the second they snap their fingers." Leo Tolstoy
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
1/ These are the images the Israeli military voluntarily shares with the world. An Israeli soldier posted this horrific photo of a Palestinian man abducted, bound, and blindfolded in an intentionally degrading and abusive manner. By the way, the Hebrew caption reads, “Good morning.”
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
Telegraph headiline:

"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Climate emergency cancels Reform's "cancel the climate emergency" meeting - council members were due to vote on Thurs on a Reform motion to rescind the climate emergency.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff. In earlier incarnation, he supported the Iraq invasion; was chairman of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants. What next?
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Andy Burnham picks former Blair minister James Purnell as chief of staff
Decision is one of Makerfield MP’s most significant since his Westminster return as he builds his team for government
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Reminder: -Our farms are no longer yielding -Heatwaves -Advancement of desert is alarming -Our rivers are drying -Proliferation of pest and pathogens -Development of tropical diseases. -Our crop are dieing out. Climate change is a reality we must fight.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5



Brexit will REDUCE food,
wine and clothes costs
by 20% - Rees-Mogg
fires back at Remainers
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
In the past 72 hours: 1) An Israeli government official has called for the burning of all of Lebanon including Christian communities and churches 2) An Israeli media figure has suggested that the US should receive a 9/11 terror attack Because they were told "no" once
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Dom Simmons @loop16.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Loving the autodubbed highlights in Spain 😂
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Utter monstrous genocidal intent. As horrific as anything uttered by any other monster in history. And a UK ally.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"This government is treating Palestine Action as equivalent to Islamic State or Al Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. Frankly I'm deeply ashamed" Labour peer Peter Hain in the Lords in July last year
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