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Amanda Wilson

@mcallister1.bsky.social
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Politics - especially local libdemery, education, books , theatre and opera, #vanlife shortly to be retired so not only in school holidays. #TheArchers

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I sometimes think Suella's real definition of Englishness is... White, English-speaking people with English-sounding names, and that she and other headbangers are just trying to put some kind of rules & genetic science around it. But it doesn't work. And it remains blatant racism.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
According to Suella Braverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. FUCK HER 🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕🏽🖕🏼
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Best thing a Pope has done since the Cadaver Synod
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🔴 NEW Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years
Exclusive: Reform UK's Sam Journet branded "Britain's worst councillor" as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/10/2026
they're my favorite of the AI cults. yhey didn't sign up to make productivity software, they signed up to make the machine god!!
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.
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Jenn 🎶 🌿 🪻 🧶 🧵 ☮️ @swanljenn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It is only recently, after 53 years, that I've realised the trauma I experienced having a prem baby 2 weeks in an incubator and the shit way I was treated by so-called caring staff. Stuck in a side room thinking my baby had died. Amber did ok really.
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I need to smile more.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Last night I planted an olive tree at Gracie Mansion with Palestinian families from Gaza.  May peace be our future.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Fantastic news Latest records show that RNLI donations have increased by 5000% over the past couple of weeks after far-right backlash. The RNLI is on track to record its highest annual fundraising total in its almost 200-year history" via Daniel Lismore Donate here rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Man shows ignorance of entire of human history - very particularly ignorance of entire female human history - film at 11.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We really are getting into 'The Death of Stalin' and "Der Untergang' ('Downfall') territory.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A major fire 1am last night at a big hotel, the Great Burstin Hotel in Folkestone is being treated by police as having been started deliberately. 280 people evacuated. 26 fire engines attended. Minor injuries thankfully. No police statement about potential motive yet www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Fire Folkestone's Grand Burstin Hotel treated as suspicious
About 280 people were evacuated from the premises at Folkestone's Grand Burstin Hotel.
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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ratcliffe reckons the welfare bill should be cut. I find welfare reform a minefield, but always interested in reform ideas. Worth remembering welfare bill is largely State Pension fullfact.org/economy/welf...
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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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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A fundamental tenet of MAGA and all the other "populist" parties (Reform UK, RN, AfD, etc) is that global warming is a hoax and we must not believe the climate scientists. But the evidence is unequivocal.
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Brian Wernham C.Eng. @brianwernham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Fancy becoming a Lib Dem Councillor? DM me
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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“In 2024 Trump won the white evangelical vote 82% to 17%. He lost everybody else 58% to 40%... That’s what the white evangelical church did.” - @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social (via @rickpidcock.bsky.social) White evangelicalism has a lot to answer for. baptistnews.com/article/what...
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What’s so upsetting to evangelicals about Kristin Du Mez?
Unfortunately, not everyone in evangelicalism receives Du Mez’s scholarship with such openness, says Rick Pidcock.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"Where Reformers stand out is in the lack of public spirit. They are more inclined than traditional Tories to think that most people would cheat an honesty box, and twice as likely to say they themselves would keep a bag of banknotes they found in a bush". www.economist.com/britain/2026...
economist.com
The misanthrope party
Reform UK’s miserabilist streak is Nigel Farage’s asset, and his problem
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Not to be pedantic but Christopher Harborne has already given £25 million to Reform and Ben Delo £8 million. So the figure isn’t £72 million - it’s £105 million.
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Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Not everything ages well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026
mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
NEW Why holding a placard is a terrorist act, while causing disruption in a balaclava is not The mess caused by ministers and the police not taking terrorism law seriously By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Recent events in England now reveal the practical difference between terrorists and protesters. It would seem that terrorists peacefully hold placards and get immediately arrested, while protesters wear black uniforms and balaclavas and disrupt infrastructure and do not get arrested.

How did we get into this mess? How have we placed ourselves in the position where terrorism legislation is used to detain and prosecute peaceful protesters, while those adopting the terror tactics of private armies seem to be free to do as they wish?

The reason is that for some time British politicians have not taken terrorism legislation seriously, and that ministers have got into the habit of misusing terror laws for easy targets.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Criminal investigation launched into Reform UK donations www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Police launch criminal investigation into Reform UK donations
The investigation, which follows a broadcast by Channel 4 News, is being folded into the inquiry that has been underway into other donations.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Tomorrow night, Channel 4 Dispatches airs the findings of a year-long investigation into Tommy Robinson’s finances. Watch it. Then come back here. We’ve got more to show you.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Two RNLI volunteers were pictured in Portsmouth this weekend while responding during the Patriot Platform protest. The far right responded by identifying them and branding them “traitors”. This is what the far right’s “peaceful” activism looks like.
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Maybe Orr should be dragged like Arday was
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Amanda Wilson @mcallister1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
You think you've seen the worst of it but there is no limit
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25
Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kevin Rowland and Dexy's Midnight Runners are very unhappy that Nigel Farage used their music at the Reform party conference.
Tweet from the official Dexy's Midnight Runners account

I, Kevin Rowland (the son of Irish immigrants) and the main songwriter of ‘Come On Eileen,’ am disgusted to learn that Nigel Farage has used our song to make his entrance for his party conference. Myself, and all of Dexys are passionately against Farage’s politics.

@ByDonkeys .
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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 05/09/2026
Pretty sure if you arrested them all domestic crime rates would drop.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
ChatGPT was responsible for the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting in Canada, leaving 9 dead & 27 Injured ChatGPT provided "substantial assistance and encouragement" to the shooter, and even though workers saw the messages - they didn't call the police GPT-4o tendency to agree lead to other similar cases
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OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits
OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Kent police said 'no arrests were made' of the people who blocked a port and roads. There's your two-tier policing, folks www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...
bbc.co.uk
Port of Dover delays: Disruption as masked 'stop the boats' protesters block roads
Hundreds of demonstrators, wearing black with their faces covered, caused delays to traffic reaching the port.
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Amanda Wilson @mcallister1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I was booked on a ferry today but moved it forward, thank goodness. But disruption like this is FAR worse than anything eco or Palestine protests have done
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Worth noting this would not be Reform's response if it was JSO or XR disrupting major infrastructure
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They are also stopping road traffic - we are told that this is a serious act of "terrorism", entailing long prison sentences, when done for environmental reasons?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is deeply shocking.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"If there there was a window it was not broken, but it if was broken it was not by Nigel Farage's ball, but if it was his ball he certainly did not kick it, and if he did kick it, it was an accident and he knew nothing about it" said a Reform spokesperson.
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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Farage and his grubby party see electoral law as an inconvenience and something to be circumvented at every opportunity.
Picture of the Frog Faced fűhrer holding a sign "will do absolutely anything for money", wearing a shocking pair of pink chinos, pale jacket and sunglasses smiling sweetly at the camera.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
So many laws potentially broken re. the Reform secret donations story... s.16 of the National Security Act 2023 on foreign interference in elections Potentially deception offences under the Fraud Act 2006 PPERA s50 and s54 on impermissible donors and donations in kind (Cont...)
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/09/2026
This is absolutely incredible. Farage thought he was talking to an American and his UK son about funneling foreign donations through the son and instead he was talking to investigative reporters wearing wires.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My fear is that it's going to happen in the middle of the night and there will be several hours when I'm sleeping and have no idea it's happened already
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Rep. Debbie Dingell @debbiedingell.house.gov · 25/08/2026
Let’s just call it Lake Natalie so we know you’ll start protecting our Great Lakes.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton invested the royalties she earned for writing ‘I Will Always Love You’ in Nashville’s Black community www.washingtonpost.com/arts-enterta... "This is the house that Whitney built" - DP 🥺🙏
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Avoiding AI is about to be a superpower.
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