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Ukraine "defies trump." This is one if the most ridiculous and ignorant headlines I've seen in a long time. trump isn't the king of the world and Ukraine is it's own country, they don't have to do what that squatter in the People's House says. What the actual fuck CNN. Also, Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

It is a mystery to me why some people dubbed Marco Rubio as the one sane, thoughtful and reasonable person in the Trump admin despite not a shred of demonstrable objective evidence to support that position since the day he has been in office.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 7h

There’s too much caution about calling Farage and Reform racist. They have no such timidity when they threaten to strip us of our rights and protections, to mass deport people and kill them at sea. They routinely insult, perv, vilify and hate people. You don’t ‘nice’ that away. You call it out.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14h

Delta Air Lines has chosen not to go with Starlink, and Elon Musk is upset. Musk said that Delta’s CEO would “lose his job” for snubbing Starlink. Nobody should be using any product or service from the US, they cannot be relied on and spy on you.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 7h

It’s now a tsunami of racist, sex-pesting horror from Reform. Nonsense about “unfair targeting”, “disgruntled former employees”, “being provoked”, “vetting issues”, “banter” and being “on medication”… just make it worse. Bye bye Farage. It’s been shit knowing you. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/483...

Reform UK released a statement disputing the accusations, saying they have come from a "disgruntled employee".
The paper reported that tribunal documents showed the woman was laughed at when she was left "visibly embarrassed" after being
"deliberately exposed to naked and sexualised images" on a computer screen in the office by Campbell, a former boxer who won Gold at the London Olympics in 2012.
He was elected mayor of the authority in 2025.

Photo of Nigel Farage and Campbell

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 18h

yet again, I am asking, just how long ago people think the Second World War actually was

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 21h

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

Post from Ezra Levin:

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this.

Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.
3:02 PM · Oct 17, 2026

TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies. The move, which comes just as the Alex Gibney’s investigation into Elon Musk expands to more than 470 screens across North America, raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/musk-movie-tiktok-banned-theaters-showtimes-1236734308/

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 21h

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20h

The Trump administration is proposing that Europe resumes buying Russian gas as part of an Ukraine peace deal, offering Moscow billions in revenue and renewed economic influence, NYT reports.

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Ben Tonra @bentonra.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Elon Musk is actively undermining Ukrainian efforts to defend its civilian population from Russian Federation attacks. He is responsible for civilian deaths and casualties. Support him and his companies/platforms at your moral peril.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

We really have to overcome our fear of FoM. It’s a good thing!!

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Ariana Gic @arianagic.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Stop being "shocked" at Trump helping Putin at every turn, and do everything necessary to isolate the Trump regime. Stop criticizing Zelensky for "speaking out" when Russia - with overt US help - is exterminating Ukrainians and destroying Ukraine, and SUPPORT Ukrainian victory!

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

The slithering back to even vaguely positive or optimistic analyses of Trump’s second term after the abominations of January 6th cleared the way for today’s abject betrayal of the Ukrainian people. It’s astonishing how many public figures on both sides of the Atlantic are complicit in the crime.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

The decline of Newsnight, at a time when we need detailed and decent investigative and foreign reporting more than ever, is so depressing. Marshall is more than an ex singer. He’s Paul Marshall’s son - of GB News, Unherd, Speccie - & is on ARC Forum advisory board

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Producer: “Who can we get to represent the views of voters in struggling working class towns?” Researcher: “How about a London born privately educated banjo player who is the son of the billionaire who owns GB News?” Producer: “Perfect!”

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Musk is an enemy of Europe. There is no justification for continuing to use his products

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Simon James @jim1132.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Theresa May was Home Secretary, then became PM, and will have known all this. She was so keen to push Brexit through, she bunged the DUP £1bn to form a minority government (negotiated with Jeffery Donaldson). She's in the HoL, but still no journalist has thought to ask her anything.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Brexit and Russia… “I think you would have to start with Boris Johnson. “The reason why there is still this confusion is there was no public attempt to establish with confidence what actually happened because successive British governments declined to look closely at what was going on.” (Times)

Russia's Brexit meddling: the evidence

Excerpts

SOCIAL MEDIA
In November 2017, The Times reported that Russian Twitter (now X) accounts had posted almost 45,000 messages about Brexit in 48 hours during the referendum campaign.
More than 150,000 accounts based in Russia that had previously posted about other topics, such as Ukraine, switched their attention to Brexit in the days before the vote, according to data scientists at Swansea University and the University of California, Berkeley.

Russian activity spiked on the day of the referendum and on June 24, when the result was announced. Many of the messages appeared to have come either from fully automated “bot” accounts or from “cyborg” profiles, which have some human involvement.

Most of the posts seen by researchers encouraged people to vote for Brexit, an outcome President Putin would probably have favoured, given that it destabilised the European Union.

PUTIN’S ‘LITTLE GREY MEN’
Russian political technologists operate as a middle tier between state strategy and information warfare, turning politics into managed theatre, fake opposition movements or statedirected social engineering.

One such individual, Yevgeny Minchenko, was “on the ground” in London during the Brexit referendum and shared a photo of a London polling station with his Russian followers on the day of the vote.

A passage in one of Minchenko’s own reports said that, while researching the referendum, he was provided with material from YouGov, the BBC, IpsosMori and Lord Ashcroft Polls.

Minchenko later used his findings to inform a master’s degree course in Moscow aimed at training “specialists in information warfare” — the next generation of election engineers.

THE RUSSIA REPORT
It was only after the hack and leak operation that the British government woke up to the threat Russia could pose to the democratic process, a report concluded in 2020.

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Erich Meier @erichmeier.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Someone tracked the help.. What a f moron this 🍊👑🤬

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Absolutely unhinged rant from Trump: “Biden gave Zelenskyy, I call him P.T. Barnum (Trump earlier said he doesn’t call people names), massive amounts of Patriots (That saved lives, thanks US!), of Tomahawks (what? never happened), of everything. Biden gave $350 billion worth of equipment and cash

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Absolutely crazy that they describe him as a former member of Mumford and Sons rather than an actual son of the owner of GB News.

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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Good, but wouldn’t it be nice if we all had the right to live, work, and retire anywhere on the vast continent we share? Time to #Rejoin

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Russia, Russia, Russia was not a hoax. Trump signed an EO tonight exempting Russia from new sanctions legislation that Congress passed last month. The law was designed to squeeze the financial lifelines sustaining Russia's war against Ukraine. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

😡😡😡 “Meta employees acknowledged in internal communications that the Instagram accounts of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were hindered by ‌restrictions during [Brazil’s] election” & that Meta “recommended the profile of challenger…Flavio Bolsonaro” & “his WhatsApp channel…” 1/

Meta employees said Lula's accounts were hindered during Brazil...
5 hours ago
Reuters

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

At some point, if we survive this, there will be a Dr Strangelove-style movie about how Trump and Putin almost destroyed the world because they were constantly being fed false information of impending success by terrified and cowardly underlings.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/10/2026

so restricting Ukraine's Starlink was Musk's idea, but after Moscow took advantage he became "alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe" to the "night of carnage" and denied responsibility I mean, it sounds like typical Elon

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Elon Musk approached Donald Trump with the idea of slowing down Starlink in Ukraine ‐The Telegraph reports. I don't know what they hope to accomplish here, but they are undermining our nation's ability to defend itself just because they dislike the president.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Zelenskyy simply and accurately explains why giving up the Donbas won’t end the war: "Putin says he wants the Donbas, but why, at the start of the full-scale invasion, was he trying to occupy Kyiv? Is that the east of our country? Is that the Donbas? No, that’s the capital.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 16/10/2026

These are all photos by Heidi Levine, the @washingtonpost.com photojournalist assaulted by Israeli attackers today in the West Bank. She was covering Palestinian families picking their autumn olive harvest. Israeli soldiers did nothing to stop the violence. washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1...

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Eoghan Gilmartin @eoghangilmartin.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I had a fascinating conversation with @connoramulhern.bsky.social about how Vox's electoral strategy has evolved in the last 4 years - few people have such extensive knowledge of the global far-right as he does!

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

We see no indication from Russia that it wants to end this war, or pursue any form of truce or peace. That's why we need to help Ukrainians get through winter and defend their country. Ukrainians need more air defence. We need to increase pressure on Russia to make it clear they have to negotiate.

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sobremesapod.bsky.social @sobremesapod.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

New Episode: Vox's Electoral Strategy with @connoramulhern.bsky.social Far-right Vox is likely to make the most substantial gains in November's Spanish election, having become the party of a radicalised, very online right-wing youth vote open.spotify.com/episode/6xGA...

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Vox's Electoral Strategy

Podcast Episode · The Sobremesa Podcast · 16 October · 58min

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski to Al Jazeera: “Since January of last year, the US has not contributed a single cent to the defence of Ukraine. “We are doing it, Europe.”

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Usual hand-wringing about returning to division and inaction, not getting the same opt-outs etc… but arguments to rejoin trump those what-ifs. Going it alone in a world dominated by Putin, Trump and China is strategically idiotic and economically ruinous. Shaking your head at that is red-flag-dim.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

A new conversation? New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog on the 'national conversation' about Brexit, why Russian interference matters in 2026, and how geo-politics should be the focus if this conversation is to be the genuinely new one we need: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/10/a-ne...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Jenrick on #r4today trying to downplay the raging racism of Reform… by saying “Farage has done more than anyone else to stand up against racism and the far right”. Farage the schoolboy Nazi. Farage the ‘breaking point’ Brexiter. Farage the mass-deportations champion. Farage the far right racist.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Alice Weidel is saying that Zelenskyy “is not interested in peace,” and that in order to have peace in Ukraine, “we need to take Russia’s security interests into account.” She is a straight-out Russian asset. Note how Alice recoils and refuses to acknowledge that Russia rejects making peace

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

“Lula’s Workers’ Party alleges Meta blocked paid promotions and disabled its advertising account on Instagram and Facebook. *** Internal PT data shows Bolsonaro’s page averaged 2.96 times more engagement despite having 17.2% fewer followers than Lula’s.” Meta blames “technical issues” 10/12/26 …1/

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Meta Blames Tech Glitches for Disruptions to Lula's Campaign Reach

Meta faces scrutiny from Brazil's electoral court after Lula's campaign alleged platform glitches suppressed its reach ahead of the 2026 presidential race.

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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 15/10/2026

Ed Balls is a fucking idiot who doesn’t understand how EU accession negotiations work

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Chris Mason doesn’t voice outrage & disgust felt re Reforms rank racism exposed on ITV He amplifies it’s defence FFS Reform "had improved and prioritised its vetting procedures, but from time to time..” Farage ‘wants to get rid of those he has called "bad apples”’ Making it sound like bad luck 🤬

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Reform faces criticism after councillors filmed making racist comments

Reform says all of those people filmed by ITV are under investigation having resigned or been suspended.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Here’s Kash Patel

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Ukrainian presidential advisor Serhiy Beskrestnov confirms Elon Musk's Space X crippled Ukrainian capabilities last night. In other words, the US deliberately sabotaged European defence operations mid-mission. Every country in the world should move away from buying American hardware ASAP.

"I can confirm that tonight SpaceX has implemented a speed limit on Starlink terminals while in motion.

The limit currently applies to the StarShield “military package” and is set at 100 mph.

Our defense forces were not given notice of this limit, and this has resulted in the disruption of a number of missions.

It is clear that this action cannot be a coincidence and is related to the current political situation."

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch spent most of PMQs pouring doubt on Andy Burnham's claims about Russian interference in our democracy, yet her spokesman can't tell me whether she has yet read the Russia report, which was published some six years ago during her own time in Government

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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC

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