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Jean

@monrouge.bsky.social
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Pro-Democracy, Pro-EU Detest Tories, Reform & Trump. Stripped of my European citizenship, but always European at heart.

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 07/10/2026
27 days to go.
Meme shows the American flag  behind the words

Trump: “We have some big surprises coming up in another few weeks.” 

Trump: “Rule out declaring a state of emergency before the midterms? I don’t rule anything out or in. We’ll see.” 

Trump: “Can I use the Insurrection Act? I could use it. A lot of people think I should use it some times.”

27 days to the midterms
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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kaybell27.bsky.social @kaybell27.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The truth that Reform hides, it isn't migrants that are the threat to women and children, it's white males like these and the Tates.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Seriously… how can a party that insists on scrapping all progress with the EU, binning NetZero and leaving the ECHR, so that it can abuse its power without accountability… how can that party claim “the soul of the nation”. The ruin - maybe. The soul - definitely not.
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Jean @monrouge.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Very Trumpish.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pryluky. No words. Nine people killed by the Russian strike on the residential building. Three of them children. A Russian war crime of horrendous scale that will be overlooked by the international community once more.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Does very much feel like the Badenoch Tories are a busted flush.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you believe this, I have a bridge to sell you. The prime directive of the Conservative Party is to get and hold power. The idea that it would risk throwing away the opportunity merely because it involved an albeit uncomfortable arrangement with another right-wing party is clearly for the birds.
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Kemi Badenoch: I'd rather have another election than do a deal with Reform UK
The Conservative Party leader also pledged to cut the cost of hiring 21 to 24 year olds.
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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
👇🏼👇🏼
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"The prosecution case is that Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate used and threatened physical and sexual violence in order to maintain control and compliance." Where are the voices from the self appointed defenders of women and young girls who would usually be on this? www.reuters.com/world/uk/tat...
reuters.com
Tate brothers used 'lover boy' model to exploit women, Britain says
Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate used a "lover boy" model to lure women with the ‌promise of romantic relationships before coercing them to create online pornography, British law enfor...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Can you imagine any other...ah, nevermind. Should be leading news for a week, a month, a day? But, nah, nothing. The President of the United States openly talking about taking out major American cities and the millions that live in them.
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Well, then.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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MrPassportKing @mrpassportking.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What a difference a decade makes..... especially for foreigners meddling in US elections.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I also see that Greg Hadfield was a supporter of this. He is one of only two people I regret ever having had cross paths with. Former Daily Mail journalist, Rabid Corbynite. Suspended by Labour at least twice. Leading voice in Brighton and Hove Labour during the Corbyn years who made things hell.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 05/10/2026
Spirit Halloween finally found something scarier than the prices.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As Nick later says he "WAS" the Tory Mayoral candidate and indeed it was as a result of running for the gig that he was ultimately brought to justice. This wasn't "a thing that happened"
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Treason!
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'd have more respect for racists if they just said "I am a racist." All this dancing around "they won't integrate" and "legitimate concerns" is mealy-mouthed bollocks. Just grow a spine. Have the courage of you fucking awful convictions, and stop assuming we're all as stupid as you are.
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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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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Perfect reply 👏👏👏
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m sure Republicans will find a way to blame the Russian pneumonic plague issue on Fauci.
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AnthonyF272 @anthonyf272.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Very little press coverage of this. www.thebanker.com/content/0228...
thebanker.com
Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies
The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide
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Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You can support net zero, LGBTQ+ rights and a Palestinian state. But if you attend a synagogue or partake in almost any aspect of communal Jewish life, the Green Party now considers you a racist.
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Jewishness itself is now the offence
The Green Party votes to say “Zionism is racism”
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I wish there were a way of explaining this to progressives. It just does not occur that seeking to impose a largely-white-rich-Western-party dicta halfway across the world is not somehow made ok because your intentions are kind. It's a sort of foreign policy version of white saviour complex.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm sure this'll go down great at conference. I am absolutely not sure that scrapping an organisation called Natural England will go down so well at the election.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
On current trajectory the EU won't want the UK back or even much closer. Thus the challenge for Andy Burnham is not just building the domestic case, but also one that works across the EU. My considered response to that bit of the speech... ecipe.org/insights/uk-...
ecipe.org
UK Rejoin Requires a Bigger European Story
Rejoining the EU is formally back on the UK political map if not yet a government commitment. Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s speech offering the possibility responded to pressure within his party, but ...
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What does it mean to be a member-led party when the Greens have 230,000 members but only 1835 voted on the Zionism Is Racism motion? Doesn't seem like you can claim the result as the iron-clad democratic will of the membership while dismissing the concerns of actual democratically elected MPs
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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
ECHR
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.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Sir Max Hill
Independent reviewers of terrorism legislation, 2001-18
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As a Jew I think what the Greens have done is appalling. As a political commentator I think Andy Burnham is a lucky man.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Ninety years ago [yesterday], Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police clearing the way. But the people of the East End got there first. Jewish ..." via Hope Not Hate www.facebook.com/hope.n.hate/...
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enrich12 @enrich12.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The MAGA wet dream:
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements… Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…
Tories would reverse steps to undo Brexit
Alex Burghart, the deputy leader, also says his party is wedded' to triple lock and electoral reform is doomed
Ben Riley-Smith - Political Editor

Photo of Burghart, arms folded, looking absurdly self important
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..


Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tucker Carlson is a sick Nazi fuck. Prove me wrong.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You've been had, MAGAs.
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Jocky Wulsin 🌹 @britainscot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is bloody funny.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Braverman blathering on about who can be English, Farage starting his me-me-me tour of the country telling audiences he’ll fix the country in 100 days or they’ll all sack themselves… apart from him… and Yusuf fanboying that racist thug who got refused bail… A moron festival. Come on, UK. Enough now.
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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
While it may not be to everyone's taste, sincerely very impressive that @thenewworldmag.bsky.social is 10 years old with 500 issues under its belt. Launching a print weekly in 2016 must have sounded completely insane. Congrats to the whole team.
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John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Now that Andy Burnham has reopened the Europe question, free movement will be at the centre of debate. For @arguablymag.bsky.social I argue that it's a big benefit, not a price to be paid for a better trade relationship. www.arguably.uk/p/eu-free-mo...
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EU free movement is an opportunity, not a threat
Progressives need to rediscover the positive case for immigration
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Jean @monrouge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So what is he? The back end of 60+ pushing 70?
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
⚓️ Russia creates new "shadow fleet" to circumvent sanctions, - 🇬🇧British Foreign Office The Kremlin is building and requisitioning new tankers to transport liquefied natural gas through the Arctic to preserve export revenues to finance the war.
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SweetWitch2697🔮🎱🪄-MY OPINIONS ARE MY OWN BEASTLY CONCOCTIONS! @sweetwitch2697.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Start out October with an American horror story about Trump's "shadow president" Russ Vought in the new episode of PAPER TRAIL, @propublica.org's podcast! Beware; contents will disturb you!💀 www.propublica.org/podcast/who-...
propublica.org
Who’s the Shadow President?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah right… Says man with net favourability rating of minus 45, a shitload of investigations into possible corruption, a team of utter inadequates and with every constituency bar 4 favouring rejoining because we all know how crap Brexit is now. Bore off. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Burnham’s reopening of Brexit debate is ‘biggest boost in my career’, says Farage
Reform UK leader tells supporters PM’s move has ‘opened up a huge flank to us’
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
hilarious
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Jean @monrouge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Millions of the intellectually challenged all over the US still believe him.
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
While Trump is merely a corrupt, racist, misogynistic, sexual predator and would-be dictator, his core guiding ideology is his narcissistic self interest. JD Vance on the other hand is, at his most essential, a Christian Nationalist and a Nazi.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most corrupt administration in the history of the US by far. You could add up all instances of corruption by every other admin in US history and it will not equal the amount of corruption perpetrated by this one in less than 2 years.
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