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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

half of them defectors from the former Natural Party of Government

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William Snyder @profsnyder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Beyond parody.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Trump's AG Todd Blanche just filed a misconduct complaint against two Minnesota federal judges for telling the NYT that the 3,000-agent immigration surge there threatens democracy. Their crime? Documenting 96 violated court orders. Punishing judges for truth is how democracy dies.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Faragists rely on the narrative of "men on boats" creating a de facto Fifth Column in the UK to feed their agenda and to stir up hostility and to win votes and ultimately power. Suckers fall for it. Media boosts it. We've been here so many times before and you'd think we'd all wise up but hey ho

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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What exactly is "election fraud by jury"? How do juries influence elections?

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The BBC news summary this morning went seamlessly from "critics warn PM scrapping triple lock would be electoral suicide" to "critics ask if PM has nerve to make tough decisions" and I don't think it's a particularly pro Burnham stance to suggest he might not be the entire problem here.

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Kristy Greenberg @kristygreenberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When will this war be over? It’s gone on so long Alina Habba got divorced and married again.

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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Choose one of these possible @telegraph.co.uk answers 1. Keir Starmer 2 Woke Socialists 3 ECHR 4. Immigrants

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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

He's going to "expel the warmongers" from his cabinet? Does he really think Netanyahu will quit? Whiskey Pete aint going nowhere either

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Joe Walsh Is Right......

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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I very much await the rise of the Pictish Peoples Party

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wow Rory Stewart. Just wow. What a horrible misrepresentation of how it all works and why it doesn’t. Put asylum seekers in prisons? Refuse to share the responsibility for this human tragedy with our European neighbours who are accepting more refugees than us already? Fgs. What’s wrong with you?

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Why don't refugees stay in France?
They do and France actually receives a much larger number of asylum claims than Britain - around 167,000 in 2023, compared to 67,000 in the UK.
Those who arrive in France often choose to remain there and a relatively small proportion of the asylum seekers intend on moving on to the UK.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Tories disgust me in opposition as much as they did in power. Driven mad chasing Reform votes. Incapable of decency and responsibility. And so goddam wet. Not one of them prepared to admit they got it wrong, that Brexit is a shitshow and more of that ruinous EU-phobia is the wrong way to go.

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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What's the point of owning an £80,000 suv if you can't drive it over 20mph?

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Kuenssberg couldn't sleep last night, imagining how she would spring "Santa Burnham" on the PM. She is crestfallen that he actually has a cogent answer, that is not a version of "it's true, poor people are wicked and must be punished".

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"The one thing your viewers can know for sure is that we believe in controlling spending and reducing taxes, not increasing taxes," says Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, whose own government raised taxes to their highest level in more than 70 years, just two years ago.

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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

With Up Chuck Schumer and Hakeem the Bad Dream in charge, they'll do nothing

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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Everyone thought Dutch football fans were the coolest for doing this

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

theintercept.com

DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.

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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So much winning...

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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ten years on and he's still blaming Gideon Osborne and Theresa May and Covid (and somehow praising "Let The Bodies Pile Up" Boris). Worse than Trump blaming Obama and Biden for everything he's screwed up.

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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Guess who can count on CNN support moving on to 2028?

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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people." ~ Howard Zinn @deadder.bsky.social

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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Belarus slapping down Moscow's man

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fox spends day after day, show after show, demonizing Mamdani as a dangerous communist un-American radical jihadist who wants to destroy America, then every 3 months Trump has a love fest with him and praises him for doing a great job.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Whenever Republicans say gas prices spiked “under Biden” they always fail to mention that it coincided with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But Trump promised dozens of times during the campaign that he had a secret plan to end the war in 24 hours & said it “wouldn’t even be hard.”

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Jayne4Freedom @jayne4freedom.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So Trump makes a post that he's buying Potash from Belarus at a cheaper cost than Canada and then Belerus puts out a statement that they aren't selling to the US. This president does nothing but Bullshit. Stop paying attention.

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...

wsj.com

Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount

The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

They lied during their Senate confirmation hearings. They should be impeached; lying constitutes perjury and/or high crimes and misdemeanors.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/09/2026

JD Vance Booed By Own Reflection In Mirror theonion.com/jd-vance-booed-by-own-…

JD Vance Booed By Own Reflection In Mirror
Image Calls VP ‘Loser’ Right To His Face

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Actually, the Democratic mayor of NYC meeting with the Republican President of the United States is *not* remotely comparable to the Democratic House Minority Leader meeting with the unelected, unappointed, unofficial grifting son-in-law of the president.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

From Andy Borowitz: “Court orders Kennedy name removed from RFK Jr.”

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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gee Chuck really gets to the investigative core of this - IF this is a real thing because of course Chuck doesn't want to step out on a bothsides limb where the usually reliable Trump is concerned

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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The RNLI volunteer has told us that donations usually run at £20,000 per day. Currently running at £100,000 per day! Bloody brilliant!

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Nina Zeelen @ninazeelen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

New World Order "The best way to confront China & Russia is to abandon multilateralism, Pompeo said. EU, UN, WB & IMF should be reformed or eliminated. They are fetters on our freedom of action. He listed the treaties Trump has abandoned. WTO would be next. He called for a new global order." (2018)

ft.com

The double life of Trumpian nationalism

Pompeo’s speech in Brussels showed the dissonance that runs through the administration

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Nina Zeelen @ninazeelen.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The ICC is under U.S. Siege

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Nina Zeelen @ninazeelen.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Nederland Sloopt ICC

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Nina Zeelen @ninazeelen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

War on ICC Secretary Rubio "We have lunatics and crazies involved in the ICC."

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Michael Carlson @micarlson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

These are like empty net goals for him! Canajan Carneyage!

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CaroleOntheGo🇨🇦 @caroleonthego4u.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

BEFORE AMERICA’S ANTHEM, BUFFALO HEARD CANADA’S. 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Before the Bills and Detroit Lions kicked off on September 17, 2026, the brand-new Highmark Stadium welcomed Toronto’s Barenaked Ladies to perform “O Canada.” 🙏🙏♥️

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“There can be no more trying to pretend there’s a respectable anti-immigration position which is meaningfully distinguishable from far right thuggery” We must actively make racism shameful again. Because this is where it has led and it’s unforgivable. No more indulging ignorance and hate.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Good letters in The Times on Canada’s moves towards the EU. Seems we’re far happier to discuss the strategic sense of Canada rethinking its allies and trade arrangements, than we are to discuss our own not-so splendid Brexit isolation. Looking very foolish again, UK.

EU suggestion of Canadian membership

2 of the letters

Sir, Gerard Baker is right ("Grin and bear it, Andy, and stick with Trump", comment, Sep 18)……

….The problem is that the US is neither as reliable nor as reliably friendly as it once was. If it is willing to impose tariffs on friends, that economy becomes rather less reassuring. If the US prevents the UK regulating to protect our children, those new industries are not as positively transformative as we may have thought. And if Washington no longer thinks European security is its concern, then all that military might counts for little as far as we re concerned. Ultimately, the UK has little choice but to try and limit its dependence on a partner that is far less reliable than it was, and to do so, in part, by working more closely with its European neighbours. Managing this without further irritating the US president must be the ambition.
Anand Menon
Professor of European, KCL; director, the UK in a Changing Europe

Sir, Mark Carney's address to the European parliament was
extraordinarily impressive. It was a vision of what politics can be when it looks beyond the next poll, election or headline. Carney spoke of Europe and Canada building something together based on democracy, freedom, sovereignty and resilience. He offered both a dream and a practical route towards it: co-operation in defence. energy, critical minerals, technology, Al, trade and education. What struck me most was the clarity and scale of his thinking. He spoke of the challenges confronting western democracies but did not simply complain about them: he asked what could be built in response.
His metaphor of the forest was particularly memorable: a single tree mav be brought down by the storm. but a forest will endure because its roots are interconnected. I am 80 and I cannot remember recently hearing a western political leader speak with quite this combination of ambition, seriousness and intellectual clarity.
Thomas Kendall

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