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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h

Traitor.

Donald J. Trump I @reaDonald Trump
I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin, of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter. Additionally, based on the condition of their Diesel Refineries, Russia will then deliver, within a short period of time, 3,000,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel. Between our TOTAL CONTROL of the Strait of Hormuz, and this great announcement on Russian Energy, Diesel Prices for Americans and, indeed, the World, will be COMING DOWN, IN RECORD NUMBERS, AND FAST! Lower prices for Americans, especially our Great Farmers, Ranchers, and Truckers, is my Greatest Priority. This is a very big and important announcement. Additionally, it must be understood, that Iran will not have a Nuclear Weapon! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16h

Shell’s refineries expected to make record profits. Profit margins of $42 a barrel, up from $24 a barrel. Cashing in on global conflicts. Bumper payouts for execs and shareholders. Misery for households and businesses. Millions plunged into poverty. Must levy 100% windfall tax.

theguardian.com

Shell expects refineries to almost double the profit from every barrel of fuel made

Record prices caused by global shortages amid shutdown of war-damaged refineries in Middle East and Russia

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 17h

Congratulations to lawyer and human rights activist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay on her Nobel Peace Prize. Few have devoted their lives to justice, peace and human dignity like she did.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11h

Axios reports AI companies are preparing for a catastrophic event in the next six to 12 months.

Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAl and other Al companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event.
Why it matters: These officials anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not something a civilised country does. The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be live-streamed, the Defense Department said. “People need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.

washingtonpost.com

Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says

“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.

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Britain Elects @britainelects.com · 09/10/2026

‼️ Labour HOLD Holborn and St Pancras Labour: 45.0% (-3.9) Green: 32.7% (+22.3) Conservative: 7.0% (-0.2) Reform: 5.9% (-0.2) Liberal Democrats: 3.4% (-2.4) Restore: 2.5% (+2.5) Workers: 1.1% (+1.1)

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/10/2026

Pete Hegseth says Americans will be able to watch a Trump-approved firing-squad execution. If he follows through, the U.S. could join a disturbing club of countries known for public executions—including Iran, Afghanistan, and North Korea.

meidasnews.com

Hegseth Turns Trump’s Firing Squad Into a Public Spectacle

The Army has scheduled Nidal Hasan’s December 3 execution at Fort Hood — the first military execution since 1961 — while the Pentagon still will not explain how the firing squad will operate.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Utter barbarism. Like watching the reverse evolution of man into beast.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wall-to-wall praise for the policy in today’s papers but they either don’t understand it or don’t care. We’ve been here before, of course. Bexit, Boris Johnson, Truss… all bigged up by the media despite, all obviously awful.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A new statue titled “The Orange Plague”, also known as “King of Injustice”, by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt has been unveiled inside the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, where it will remain through 8 October. Remember to stop by for a selfie if you have a chance. 😏📸

This sculpture is a satirical piece titled "[The Orange Plague] created by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt.

The Imagery: The 2.6-meter-tall, gold-plated bronze sculpture depicts a naked, oversized Donald Trump riding on the back of a smaller man. He is holding a golf club in one hand and a pair of scales in the other.

The Meaning: According to Galschiøt, the piece is a satirical commentary on modern political power, climate policy, and the subversion of the rules-based international order.

Recent Exhibition: In October 2026, the statue drew global headlines when it went on public display inside the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France, organized by Danish MEP Per Clausen.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hats off to the Eye (as ever), for flagging the Conservative hypocrisy over our conference ban

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

UK govt plans £1bn energy bills help for poorer households. How about cutting energy profit margins, 100% windfall tax on excess profits before turning to the public purse. UK energy sector is mostly foreign-owned. Dividends paid without any UK tax deduction. End this perk, raise billions.

theguardian.com

Chancellor plans major intervention to help poorer UK households with rising energy bills

Exclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

‘Now we turn to the controversy that is what is it to be English?’ Nick Robinson says on radio 4 today before talking about Badenoch and Braverman Couldn’t turn the dial quick enough

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“But what I can tell them is: come back, anytime." Lescure said being in the bloc enables members to better address the challenges facing the world.

bbc.co.uk

'Come all the way' back to EU, French finance minister tells Britain

Roland Lescure tells the BBC that being in the bloc enables members to better address the challenges facing the world.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/10/2026

This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.

Margaret Hamilton with printed computer code in 1969. Credit: NASA/Alamy

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters.

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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Privatisation in a nutshell: 1) Steal from us something we own. 2) Sell us back an inferior service 3) Charge us a higher price. The pattern is the same everywhere: royal mail, water, railways, the NHS, public services, council services…

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Private equity owners of Boots sell it to another PE group from Canada for £6.74bn. Debt-laden PE has no long-term interest. Everything is a commodity. No UK tax levied on dividends paid to foreign owners, which sweetens cash extraction. PE dominates town centres, when it crashes ...

theguardian.com

Canada’s Weston family buys Boots for $8.9bn

Former Selfridges owners buy UK high street institution from long-term backer Stefano Pessina

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is such a great technique. No buttons, no zippers, straightforward. You can even adapt it to knitted or crocheted pillow cases. Love it. #handmade

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A fortnight ago, Kemi Badenoch described the single market as 'a great thing'. Now she can't say that Brexit has been good for London. Probably just Kemi being Kemi. But still.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The alarmists have yet to be wrong 😕🇺🇸

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A naked, gold-covered Trump statue has been unveiled inside the European Parliament in Strasbourg. It’s called “Orange Plague,” also known as “King of Injustice,” and shows him sitting on another man’s shoulders holding an enormous golf club. Covered in reportedly 23-karat gold, of course.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Fuck me

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Leader of party - that sold its own shrivelled soul to the devils of austerity and Brexit - will use her conference speech to slag off Labour (yawn) and make the only promise the Tories ever make - cutting taxes… They have nothing new or credible… or just plain nice… to say any more.

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Badenoch promises tax cuts in 'battle for the soul of this nation'

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My Novara Media interview just reached half a million views In case you are at a loose end, you can still watch here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee9f...

youtube.com

Natural Disaster Expert: Elites Have NO PLAN for Climate Collapse | Aaron Bastani meets Bill McGuire

YouTube video by Novara Media

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Voters loathed the Tory party when they booted them out in 2024.They really needed to shake off their disgrace with humility and better ideas. They haven’t. They’ve doubled down. More Brexit, more austerity, more anti-immigration ugliness, more tedious arrogance… and no good reason to vote for them.

Party seems to have learnt nothing from 2024 defeat
John Oxley

The Conservative Party is keen to show it is now ready to return to government, two and a half years after a
historic defeat.

Their self-soothing explanation posits that defeat came from not being able to do what they wanted

No such pivot is happening at the current conference. The Tories have come to Birmingham calling for a return to orthodoxy, with similar lines about cutting benefits and regulation. Even so, they seem trapped by the same contradictions
- pledging to cut benefits, but not the winter fuel payments and triple lock on pensions that go to their voters.
There is no "hug-a-hoodie" moment in Birmingham. The Conservative Party is not indicating that it has changed or seeking to broaden its appeal. It is doing the opposite: it is a party returning to its core, restating all the old ideas voters have rejected but louder.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You should NEVER speak ill of the dead. Fortunately you don't have to, because everybody spoke ill of him when he was still alive. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.com

Jeffrey Archer, former Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86

Lord Archer died peacefully at home between writing sessions, his publisher said

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I cannot tell you how many times in the last year I have said to folks here: Politics changes very fast nowadays; do not pledge devotion from party to party easily; leave yourself the intellectual and emotional space to assess things in the round much closer to an election, armed with more data.

Alex Andreou
@sturdyalex.bsky.social
As you know I have huge reservations about moving expectations of saintliness on to anyone. It is very much the left's MO. We set ourselves up for disappointment, our politicians for failure, then become furious when they fail. The experience with Tsipras in Greece was instructive.
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Alex Andreou
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To me it is a reason not take the entire stack of chips and go all in on someone else, but to distribute eggs in as many baskets as possible and avoid taking an absolute position three-and-a-half (probably) years from a general election.
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Alex Andreou
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I love the Greens and really like Zack, but I need to see a bit more detail and sustained success before going all-in. I see an awful lot of enthusiasm for him and sometimes it feels a bit brittle and manic. I worry that inflated expectations set politicians up to fail and voters to be disappointed.
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Alex Andreou
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I am fully supportive. I think you may be on to something. My fear is that a lot of people have simply transferred their impossible expectations to someone new and the moment Zack takes a position on which they disagree, which is bound to happen, he will become another never-could. Let's see.
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Alex Andreou
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As you know, I'm a fan of Zack - he's been on QR twice. But I am worried that a lot of people are transferring extremely unrealistic expectations to yet another politician they want to hail as a saviour - based on a very short period - and, in doing that, setting up yet another good person to fail.
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Alex Andreou
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I love the Greens and really like Zack, but I need to see a bit more detail and sustained success before going all-in. I see an awful lot of enthusiasm for him and sometimes it feels a bit brittle and manic. I worry that inflated expectations set politicians up to fail and voters to be disappointed.
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Alex Andreou
@sturdyalex.bsky.social
The pattern people in the progressive space must break (I include myself):
I support Leader A; all teams except A are evil.
A has disappointed me.
I am transfering wholesale huge expectations overnight to B.
I support Leader B; all teams except B, especially A, are evil.
B has disappointed me, etc.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social.
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I am genuinely just trying to interrogate the frame of mind. Critical voters are great - a crucial part of democracy. But to me "critical" includes rationality. I worry that social media encourages people to take extreme emotional postures as a way of absenting themselves rather than engaging. 2/
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Like there is a race for who will throw up their hands highest and quickest. That is a horrible strategy for wellbeing. It is to resign oneself to anguish for the next X years. And the only thing with which I can explain such an extreme reaction is the dashing of pretty inflated expectations. 3/
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Now, of course, one can choose individual totally unpalatable policies - I would accept and agree with most - and say "I don't think that was unreasonable to expect Y" but an inability to find *anything* that has improved, results in a really lopsided and nihilistic view. 4/
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And I worry about what I see happening then: this entire menu of demands just transfering onto some other political leader or entity - The Greens, or Your Party, or Reform - and really the voter has just set themselves up for another massive, crushing disappointment. 5/
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And I wonder if this cycle then becomes BOTH the result AND the source of the politics we see. If progressive or left-leaning voters make ourselves, essentially, impossible to please and very easy to lose forever, doesn't that make it rational for parties to compete for right wing votes? 6/6
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026

An American president is encouraging an enemy to destroy American cities. This is treason, though he will claim we are not at war.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026

Gov. Josh Shapiro: "Measles was eliminated back in the year 2000. And now, 26 years later, we’re dealing with it coming roaring back. Pennsylvania has now eclipsed 1,000 cases across 39 counties, with five deaths." Shapiro says amid the outbreak, vaccinations have now doubled.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just the dumbest collection of halfwit confetti emerging out of that conference. Tax cuts everywhere, paid for with imaginary spending cuts. Huge spending projects with precisely zero utility, except to anchor their 'defence day' narrative. Clowns.

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Guys and gals you have until 30th October to get your vote in It seems to be a bit under covered this year and that would be a worry because the Tufton Street lot are working on the basis that people can be worn down Show them your metal!

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reading has become an endangered species. Which is half the problem with American political life. Maybe more than half. If you can't read, you can't think. Then you can fall for anything. The idea, for instance, that the truth is fake news.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Journalist, "You called Margaret Thatcher a genius. Was one of her biggest mistakes the privatisation of England's water networks?" Kemi Badenoch, "Privatisation was a success" She then explains exactly how privatisation was not a success - shameless gaslighting, utterly disgusting.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Trump talking gibberish at the White House: “Canada charged us a lot of tariffs that nobody knew about, except me.”

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 05/10/2026

European Greens not fucking around here: this is a very strong statement.

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Mrs B 🐧🇪🇺 @mathsgeeky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This sounds all too familiar for comfort.

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Mrs B 🐧🇪🇺 @mathsgeeky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Shortage of antibiotics incoming....

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England

Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

England's water infrastructure at breaking point. Large part of water network installed 130-150 years ago. Thames Water infrastructure has average age of 79 years; industry average 56 yrs. 40% of TW assets are 100+ yrs old. Must end privatisation, remove profit motive.

standard.co.uk

MP says London water network is 'at breaking point' with two incidents in a week

London MP Paul Kohler said the two incidents highlighted the poor state of the region's water infrastructure

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Hadn’t realised that you could ‘attend’ GPEW conference - and seemingly vote - remotely just by being a member and paying a fee. Can’t see what might go wrong with that, at all….

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)

Value of the
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Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.

As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.

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God @thegodshow.com · 05/10/2026

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion

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Mrs B 🐧🇪🇺 @mathsgeeky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thanks to Tories, tiny violins have made a comeback.

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