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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/09/2026
It is incredibly important that political violence does not succeed. The far-right mob that shut down Portsmouth wanted this outcome. If the state wishes to avoid more of these actions, it needs to make sure this RNLI branch reopens *immediately*, or as close to that as humanly possible.
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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We loved this so much we just had to put English subtitles on it, apologies to the French speakers for our translation. But this is what it would look like here in the UK if Farage or Lowe or another of their ilk got their own way.
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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This. Is. Not. Journalism. - It's letting Farage shine. I genuinely do not understand why the BBC does not seem to be able to competently challenge Reform and Farage.
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Reform up against 'complainants' society', Nigel Farage tells BBC
The Reform UK leader said a "whole ecosystem" didn't want "new kids on the block succeeding".
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Half an hour after publish this, get an email from Reform saying can’t come to this year’s conference 🤔
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🔴 Reform UK Paid £440,000 to Firms Linked to Party Insiders Exclusive: Electoral Commission filings reveal payments to companies run by Reform activists, donors and a former party chairman bylinetimes.com/2026/08/14/r...
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Reform UK Paid £440,000 to Firms Linked to Party Insiders
Exclusive: Electoral Commission filings reveal payments to companies run by Reform activists, donors and a former party chairman
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Esse House UK @essehouse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We need your support to continue our amazing progress - please follow and share our posts, donate your time, or even your spare pennies to protect the UK trans community from harm, provide opportunities, and increase well-being. www.essehouse.co.uk/donate
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Esse House UK
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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
In case you missed it - we've created a new animation about #WoodBurning. Thinking of installing a wood stove? Take two minutes to watch this first! Burning wood and solid fuels at home releases tiny particles of soot and dust that go deep into our organs, causing us #Health damage.
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Do you know the hidden cost of wood burning?
ResearcherDrMathySannasiandgrassrootsairpollutioncampaigngroupMumsforLungshavecreatedthisshortanimationonwhathappenswhenwoodorsolidfuelisburntinastoveoropenfireplace.Beforeyoustartburningorconsiderin…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/08/2026
Russia-linked accounts spread far-right narrative online during Ceuta migration crisis, analysis finds
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Russia-linked accounts spread far-right narrative online during Ceuta migration crisis, analysis finds
Counter-disinformation group says social media channels connected to Pravda network helped amplify message Accounts with links to the Russian military promoting far-right messages reached more than 500,000 people in the early days of the Ceuta migration crisis, according to an analysis done by 411, a counter-disinformation group. Russia-linked social media accounts frequently spread destabilising narratives in Europe, often promoting far-right talking points about immigration. Continue reading...
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 05/08/2026
🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇
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We’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law Project
The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 02/08/2026
Please share with all women (yes it affects cis women too) and trans + people. goodweeplace.com
EHRC's Sex
Segregation starts on 5th Aug. . Be careful how you respond.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
RefUK, RW media, & Eurofash are plainly trying to whip up a panic about this. Any serious report must begin by explaining that Ceuta is in Africa - not mainland Spain - and 48k+ of the 50k crossers were already returned. It is frightening how many still don't know this. Please share on all socials.
Map showing the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa.Screengrab from Politico piece that explains, citing Reuters, that 48,300 of the 50,000 recent crossings have already been expelled or voluntarily returned to Morocco.BBC report on Friday, still echoing the RW disinformation - or at the very least not challengning it sufficiently.

"Spain's PM blames traffickers after 60,000 migrants reach Ceuta from Morocco
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What triggered the mass migrant crossings into Ceuta?
Sofia Ferreira Santos and Sarah Rainsford, Southern and Eastern Europe
correspondent
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Spain's prime minister has blamed trafficking gangs after about 60,000 migrants crossed into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco. At least 57 people died during the surge, according to local media."Daily Mail and Daily Express from this weekend, with front page headlines "Ministers MUST stop the Spanish border invaders reaching UK" and "SPANISH BORDER CRISIS IS 'WAKE-UP CALL' FOR UK", respectively.
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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Europe Announces World Cup Boycott Over FIFA Investment Deal With Kushner Family
UEFA nations will not participate in FIFA events until the investment deal is scrapped
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
25 tonnes of nurdles, more than 1 billion nurdles, were spilled into the Tyne last week and are washing up on our beaches, north and south of the Tyne. Likely one of the largest ever plastic pollution events in the UK. There is remarkably little mention of this on here.
Guardian headline from Weds 22nd July reading:

“One billion plastic pellets spilled into River Tyne after two ships collide
Up to 25 tonnes of nurdles, the raw material for plastic manutacturing, have spread further than initially feared”

With an image of a beach covered in nurdles.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 27/07/2026
"What Féile an Phobail row has shown is that women’s rights are at risk — just not from a tiny trans minority" great piece from Allison Morris in the Belfast Telegraph. Please support Allison as she will no doubt be targeted now. Archive link below. archive.ph/oQ2Cs
What Féile an Phobail row has shown is that women’s rights are at risk — just not from a tiny trans minority
Belfast Telegraph27 Jul 2026ALLISON MORRIS
I’ve thought long and hard about commenting on the controversy over the cancellation of the Women’s Rights Network (WRN) event at Féile an Phobail — not because I don’t have an opinion, but because it is a debate that attracts the most toxic elements.

WRN NI was not a group I was familiar with beforehand, so I did some research.

No speakers were listed in the Féile programme for the planned event, which in itself is odd as there are for almost every other of the 90-plus debates and discussions.

The group has since announced who its speakers were to be in a series of online posts.

My research took me down quite the rabbit hole — a who’s who of the anti-trans movement not just on this island but Europe-wide.

I don’t pretend to understand their motivation.

In fact, I remain baffled as to why in one of the most dangerous places for women to live in Europe, the group — which has spoken out about femicide before — is obsessing about a small minority instead of the actual dangers we face from domestic violence and femicide.

I have worked for decades covering violence against women and girls in all the distressing forms that takes.

I know the names of every woman and child murdered in Northern Ireland in the last 10 years without even having to look them up.

Not a single one was caused by a trans woman — I checked the list twice just to be sure.

None of them were murdered in a public toilet either, which having looked at the online posts of WRN and their many affiliates, is apparently the most dangerous place on earth for women, with trans predators lurking in every cubicle.

Apart from the absurdity of much of the group’s argument regarding the perceived dangers of trans women, the claim that women are being silenced by Féile is the most disingenuous of them all.
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The country has been damaged due to lies and misinformation, spread by media (hence the need for media reform) but mostly by politicians and right wing pundits.
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James Walker @jameslwalker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Newly appointed Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has taken tens of thousands of pounds from donors with links to arms firms and controversial US tech firm Palantir, The National can reveal👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2640176...
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Wes Streeting took thousands from donors with links to arms firms and Palantir
WES Streeting took tens of thousands of pounds from donors with links to arms firms and controversial US tech firm Palantir, The National can reveal…
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This feels like it got buried amid all of the mounting allegations around Reform and Farage's funding. Farage leases property that he owns, to his own company, at exactly £10,000/year. That's a penny under the "over £10,000" rental-income declaration threshold. What is he trying to hide?
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Nigel Farage paying himself £50,000 in rent for studio at own property
The arrangement, which could enable the Reform UK leader to lower his tax bill, falls outside parliamentary transparency rules
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The grasshopper gets it — divide and conquer. Today's oligarchs use the same playbook. But together, we have all the power. Watch.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Trump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young. All part of a right wing coup. Foreign money to spread Trumpism, subvert UK public choices. Puppets wrap themselves in the flag.
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Trump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young
Exclusive: Controversial grants are part of package criticised as misuse of public money to influence European politics
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TransLucent @translucent.org.uk · 13/07/2026
TransLucent is proud to confirm a new match-funding initiative. Appalled by the ongoing rollback of trans rights in the UK, a generous Canadian benefactor has pledged to match every donation made this week (max £5000) Please donate and share. www.crowdjustice.com/case/challen...
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Challenging the EHRC Code of Practice: A Judicial Review
Challenging the EHRC Code of Practice: A Judicial Review.
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Anne-Marie Silbiger (happimess73) @happimess73.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Please head to St Mary's Welcome Centre in Walthamstow if you can help/donate food and water to residents being evacuated due to the fire in Wood St, Walthamstow.
fire on embankment at Wood St, Walthamstow
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
A six-month investigation by Byline Times reveals that with the support of Palantir's Peter Thiel, Reform's policy chief James Orr has used the University of Cambridge as a student recruitment ground for a hard-right, theocratic political project aimed at bolstering talent in Farage’s party
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Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
EXC - The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money, the Guardian can reveal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns
Exclusive: Latest Guardian revelation about gift from cryptocurrency tycoon comes as Reform UK leader forces byelection
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nigel Farage vs "the establishment" He went to private school, worked as a stockbroker, has been a professional politician for 31 years, has his own TV show, is a brand ambassador for gold, is mates with POTUS, accepted a secret £5m gift, and owns five houses bought outright with cash What a rebel
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Left: Nigel Farage, "Over the last two years I've really enjoyed the job of being an MP" Right: Nigel Farage has missed 63% of Commons Votes
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Just to remind ourselves, here are our initial @bylinetimes.bsky.social's investigations into Cottrell's role in helping Farage become a true 'Man of the Paypal' er.... checks notes... 7 years ago
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
In this remarkable image of white supremicists on a subway train in Washington I see cowards afraid to show their faces and a strong woman who shouldn't have to put up with this shit. (Photo: Cheney Orr - Reuters)
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 04/07/2026
More than 11,000 signatures, and counting, in a single day. Please sign this. And share it through your networks. Stand with trans people. Let's show them how many of us there are.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
All MPs' outside earnings by party: The Conservatives come out top at 66% of total earnings from second jobs, while Reform (with just eight MPs) account for 20%, and Labour (with 400+) just 7%. But taking into account their size, Reform has by far the highest outside earnings per MP of any party.
Table:

Party	MPs	Seat share	Earnings share	Index relative to party size (earnings ÷ seats)	Approx. avg. per MP
Reform UK	8	1.2%	20%	16×	£275,000
Conservative	117	18%	66%	3.7×	£62,000
Labour	403	62%	7%	0.1×	£1,900
Other parties*	122	18.8%	7%	0.4×	£6,300
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Ian Moody @ianmoody.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Nigel Farage received £270,000 from gold marketer he promotes. Reform UK leader’s Direct Bullion payment is double his fee from 2025. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Nigel Farage received £270,000 from gold marketer he promotes
Reform UK leader’s Direct Bullion payment is double his fee from 2025
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
NEW: Boris Johnson failed to declare to parliament a gift of private jet flights from the same cryptobillionaire, Christopher Harborne who gave £5m to Nigel Farage, leaked documents reveal. New #HarborneReceipts investigation from @thenerve.news. 🔗 below 1/
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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Pass this on. You never know who might need it and it could make a huge difference if someone is struggling for whatever reason
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Strange that Reform ex-Tory Suella Braverman chooses to ignore that Nigel Farage never bothered with the inconvenience of a leadership election when he became leader of Reform. Or when Malcolm Offord was imposed as leader of Reform Scotland & Dan Thomas in Wales by Farage.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A man has been running around stabbing people on the streets of a UK city and large elements of the nation’s media are strangely not interested The Mail ranks a story about Gordon Ramsey’s daughter being pregnant higher. The Telegraph is more interested in a voracious pufferfish. I wonder why?
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Prof Stephen Whittle @profstephenwhittle.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
As a matter of URGENCY, PLEASE could 100,000 of you sign this petition in the next week: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Disapprove the draft Equality Act 2010 guidance laid on 21 May 2026
I want the House of Commons to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for services, public functions and associations, 2026 laid on 21 May 2026.
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Nigel Farage has confirmed during an interview with LBC that one of his first priorities were he Prime Minster would be to scrap the Human Rights Act. Here are the rights British people would instantly lose if he did that…..
Core Protections
• Right to Life: Protects your life from being ended unlawfully.
• Freedom from Torture and Inhuman
Treatment: Protects you from abuse, torture, or degrading treatment.
• Freedom from Slavery: Prohibits slavery, servitude, and forced labour. (
EHRC +2
Liberty & Justice
• Right to Liberty: Ensures you cannot be arbitrarily detained or arrested without legal cause.
• Right to a Fair Trial: Guarantees the right to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal.
• No Punishment without Law: Protects you from being convicted of a crime that was not illegal at the time you committed it.Everyday Freedoms
• Right to Privacy and Family Life: Protects your private life, home, and communications from unwarranted interference.
• Freedom of Thought, Religion, and Belief:
Allows you to hold and practice any religious or philosophical beliefs.
• Freedom of Expression: Protects your right to voice your opinions, share information, and access a free press.
• Freedom of Assembly and Association:
Guarantees your right to peaceful protest and to join trade unions or other groups.
Right to Marry: Protects the right to marry and found a family.Public & Social Rights
• Protection from Discrimination: Ensures your rights are applied without unfair discrimination based on sex, race, religion, or other status.
Protection of Property: Protects individuals and organizations against arbitrary state interference with possessions.
• Right to Education: Guarantees that no child can be denied access to the educational
system.
• Right to Free Elections: Ensures that elections must be free and held by secret ballot.
• Abolition of the Death Penalty:
Permanently outlaws the use of capital punishment.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 09/06/2026
The EHRC Code of Practice risks entering an unacceptable era for LGBTQ+ rights and encourage gender policing. MPs can still oppose it. Ask your MP to support EDM 240: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk
Email your MP to reject the Code of Practice and support EDM 240
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The road to Gilead ….
Farage's £83k earnings from events linked to US anti-abortion supporters
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
None of these tax dodging, foreign-based crypto billionaires and moneymen give a single shit about our country or democracy. They’re buying Farage power so he’ll remove our rights and protections to maximise their profits. It really is that simple and that corrupt. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Reform UK handed another £3million from crypto billionaire as donations soar
Figures from the Electoral Commission show Nigel Farage's party is raising millions more than their political rivals through private donations, including £3million from Christopher Harborne
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
61% of all political donations in the last quarter came from just 14 people Reform took in £9.3m from a handful of super rich donors British democracy is being bought. We urgently need action to take the money out of our politics
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 02/06/2026
If you want something to do: energy would probably be better placed making sure that MPs sign this 👇
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Nigel Farage registered ‘absent’ from the last 77 votes in Parliament Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks... www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/whe...
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Working hard? Nigel Farage registered 'absent' from the last 77 votes in Parliament
Official Parliamentary figures reveal that Reform leader Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote for anything in the last 11 weeks...
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I don’t think enough cis women appreciate how much all of this noise around ‘bathroom bans’ will affect us. (I also think it’s notable that after a chat between me, a cis woman and Steph, a trans woman, a correspondent text in to ask ‘why wasn’t there a woman in the conversation, for balance?’)
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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
KEEP REFORM OUT!! Fantastic site to help stop Reform by tactical voting: stopreformuk.vote/elections Search by postcode! stopreformuk.vote #Reform #VotingReform #FairVotes #ProportionalRepresentation #Labour #GreenParty #Sunderland #SAFC #NUFC #YourVoteMatters #NorthEast @reecedinsdale.bsky.social
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Stop Reform and the Tories
Stop Reform and the Tories in the UK Parliament, Local Elections, the Senedd, and the Scottish Parliament.
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform has received £24 million – two thirds of its income – from fossil fuel interests. Farage’s pro-oil party wants to scrap clean energy projects and massively expand North Sea exploration. 📝 @desmog.com analysis with @adambarnett.bsky.social
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Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests
Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal. Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea o...
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