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#European #FBPE #HumanRights #ReJoinEU “There is no God and we are his prophets.” Cormac McCarthy. “A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits is not open to things as they are.” Shunryu Suzuki

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The free weekend update is out. The big story of the week is that Ukraine reached out and touched Putin--twice. Once militarily with long-range strike and second diplomatically. It is a sign of initiative changing. Of course Putin still has Trump in his pocket. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Weekend Update #188: Ukraine Reaches Out And Touches Putin--Twice
Trump Is Helping Putin As Much As He Can
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
No Kings. Find your event for this Saturday, March 28th. www.nokings.org #NoKings
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
✋ #PresidentPedoPutinPuppet
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Just sent out free midweek update #2. We are not seeing one war between the US/Israel and Iran--but two very different wars. In that way both sides can be winning and losing simultaneously. Also, what is happening in US strategic thinking. It’s not pretty. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Midweek Update #2: The Two Wars
Also: What Might Be Happening In US and Iranian Strategic Thinking.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Free weekend update is out. This week the big story is what Ukraine can do, particularly for Europe. People must stop about talking about Ukraine as some state that only needs help. Ukraine has huge strengths that can protect European freedom, if Europe is smart. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Weekend Update #176: Ukraine Is Showing Its Value, Particularly For Europe
Also: Trump Throws Putin A Lifeline While Putin Helps Kill Americans; Hungary Steals Ukrainian Gold.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Richard Tice loves Britain. Just not quite enough to pay his fair share towards all the public services he benefits from.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
That's funny, I could have sworn he said something about not needing Royal Navy vessels because the war was already won. You broke it Don, you fix it.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
This isn’t a hallucination, Michael Gove. You’ve never explained the millions you disbursed to buddies with your crony Covid Contracts. Cashing in on the worst public health crisis in a century should disbar people from public life permanently. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/we-need-to...
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The White House position is that it is no big deal that Putin is helping Iran try to kill US soldiers. Always remember rule #1. Putin can do no wrong in Trump’s eyes. Wonder why that is?
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Just sent out a free piece to expand on my article in @theatlantic.com yesterday. The signs of rot in US military and diplomatic capabilities are real and even more extensive than I could say in that article. Here are more-and a gift link to the original article. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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The Rot Is Real And There Is More To It
The Atlantic Piece Just Scratched The Surface
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot
Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
"Nobody over the last quarter of a century has done more to defeat the genuine, intolerant, abhorrent, extreme, far-right than me," says Nigel Farage, as he announces plans for the mass deportation of hundreds of thousands of people and a visa ban on anyone coming from six Muslim-majority countries
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The only question worth asking at these incredibly flash Reform press conferences that take place every week now, is who is paying for all of this and what do they want in return bsky.app/profile/pete...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Nigel Farage tells GB News that Keir Starmer's decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador shows his judgement is "seriously wrong" and he should stand down as Prime Minister. Here's what Farage said when Mandelson was appointed
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Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Fintan O'Toole's latest. This is excoriating. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Fintan O'Toole: Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson will go down in history as crawlers and creeps
If we want to understand why democracy is in such trouble, we can learn plenty from the careers of two men who were once stellar figures in democratic politics
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I hope people understand what happened here. Yesterday in the late afternoon, Trump said that Putin had promised not to attack Ukraine in such a way that it would damage their heating. Then a few hours later, that is exactly what the Russians did in a massive attack.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Drug laws have never stopped people from using drugs. They've stopped people from using drugs safely. It's time to legalise *and* regulate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Drugs policy approach needs to change, Zack Polanski says
The Green Party leader of England and Wales says there needs to be a
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Once you understand that the administration is a criminal enterprise, you can grasp that there is no way to serve it with honor. If you are in it, it’s impossible not to be at least an accessory to many crimes.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
here's tonight's FT splash, fresh from the Epstein files
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The corruption went into overdrive even before the inauguration. People saying that the American system of checks and balances is holding are detached from reality. When it comes to checking corruption, they don’t seem to exist. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company
$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
So Trump is now deploying ICE to protect government property in Democratic cities? How does that have to do with Immigration and Customs? The growth of a personal paramilitary force continues unabated.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Richard Littlejohn wrote about fly-tipping in yesterday’s Mail, today Boris Johnson turns his attention to a bus driver sacked for beating up a thief. Anything, literally *anything*, to avoid addressing the now utterly undeniable shame & humiliation of their pathetic cheerleading for Donald Trump…
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I’ve written this lengthy FT analysis overnight about the multiple multi-thousand pound Epstein payments to Mandelson’s husband these particular paragraphs are worth reading slowly www.ft.com/content/608a...
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files more to follow www.ft.com/content/c950...
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Jeffrey Epstein sent £10,000 to Mandelson’s husband, emails show
Epstein sent Reinaldo Avila da Silva payment in 2009
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Worth noting that the @wsj.com has joined with the @nytimes.com and Bellingcat to say that ICE is lying in its description of the shooting of Alex Pretti. The video evidence more and more supports the view that this was a gratuitous execution. www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
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Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents
See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation on Saturday.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This perfectly demonstrates the pernicious nature of BBC two-sidism. It almost always benefits the side with the most power. In this case that's the side which is murdering peaceful protesters in the street, on camera, and then lying about it
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 24/01/2026
Board of Peace - Season 1
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
She nailed Jennings to the wall with this. Good for her.
Screenshot of an X post by Acyn. The post quotes a dialogue: “Jennings: Let’s not get our knickers in a twist here” followed by “McGowan” saying the attitude is “insane,” calling for bringing people down regardless of party, and alleging a “giant cabal” that doesn’t have to listen to the law. At the bottom is a TV clip still with a man on the left and a woman speaking on the right, with on-screen text including “SUDDEN REVERSAL.”
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/01/2026
The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/01/2026
accurate headline: "Greenlanders in tears, Ukrainians die, Kremlin in joy" euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/19/g...
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Greenlanders in tears, Ukrainians die, Kremlin in joy: Sowing discord in West is Putin's core idea - Euromaidan Press
Moscow deeply interested in US-EU conflict: Greenland dispute weakens Ukraine's support base, says the expert.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Trump sent out a batsh!t crazy letter yesterday and people once again fell for it. The real story is not the letter, its just another tactic to get what he wants. It shows how he despises Europe and is helping Putin. Yet people comfort themselves by mocking him. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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People Are Still Not Getting Trump Right
His Letter Was Not And Is Not The Story
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/01/2026
There is no strategy www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
For well over a decade, Nigel Farage criticised Davos and just two years ago criticised Starmer for going and calling him a "full-on globalist, hanging out with his mates at the World Economic Forum." So, question. Where do you think Nigel Farage is going today?
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Just sent out my free weekend update. The joint Trump-Putin (or US-Russian) campaign to torment Ukrainians by depriving them of power and heat, reached a crescendo. It cannot be denied that Trump/USA has made the situation worse. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Weekend Update #168: The Trump-Putin Plan To Torment Ukraine Reaches A Crescendo
Ukraine Gets A New Defense Minister; Russia's Slow Crawl
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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
We had to build an SPS border (and other goods, with zero compensation)) and now we're dismantling it again. If we have to build it again we should be compensated (an apology for the original harm would be nice) Frage will refuse to pay, and will relish the row 1
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I BEG every smug commentator who praised Mahmood for doing the “tough but necessary thing” to read this. All the disadvantages of plummeting immigration for the economy & public services, for NO POLITICAL GAIN. Labour in DESPERATE need of a 180 change of course on immigration
Guardian article screen shot saying 2/3 Brits wrongly think immigration is still rising
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/01/2026
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A 34th accuser. 34. ‘Go back home’: Farage schoolmate accounts bring total alleging racist behaviour to 34
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‘Go back home’: Farage schoolmate accounts bring total alleging racist behaviour to 34
Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries say Reform leader often used antisemitic language and racial epithets
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/01/2026
try to make sense of it
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Good Morning and welcome to another episode of regime change by the USA. The US seems to be militarily trying to get rid of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro right now. There are reports of US ground forces in action. However, watch the Cubans too. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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The US Is Attempting Regime Change In Venezuela
Watch Cuba
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
On the last day of 2025, I tried to sum up in this free piece the big stories of the year. Boil it down, however, and one story surpasses all others, be that for the Russo-Ukraine war or global geopolitics overall. 2025 was the year when the USA changed sides open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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2025 In Review: The Year The US Changed Sides
Amongst many stories, one stands out
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Brexit superfan, convicted fraudster, now advocating mass deprivation of citizenship for people he disagrees with. Charming.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The story was always already about an impoverished unmarried couple facing a pitiless bureaucracy, having a baby in a barn, and then having to hide from a tyrant. The baby grew up to say that the poor were blessed and the neighbor is he who shows mercy. You can’t hide from the politics of all that.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
When I wrote in April that Trump was helping Putin kill Ukrainians by weakening Ukrainian air defense, some people got upset and said I was being too harsh. Guess what happened in 2025? US aid to Ukr withered and at the same time, Ukrainian civilian deaths rose steeply. news.un.org/en/story/202...
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Ukrainian civilian casualties rise 27 per cent compared to last year
Civilian casualties in Ukraine were 27 per cent higher from January to October 2025, compared to the same period last year, according to the latest UN human rights report on the situation in the easte...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 20/12/2025
Who chose Steve Witkoff? Putin www.wsj.com/world/putin-...
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How Putin Got His Preferred U.S. Envoy: Come Alone, No CIA
The Kremlin fueled the rise of Trump’s friend Steve Witkoff with a prisoner release, sidelining career diplomats.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Great article by @johnsipher.bsky.social . People like to call Trump erratic or mercurial. However when it comes to Putin and Russia…he is eerily consistent. tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-tempting-m...
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A tempting mark—why is Trump behaving in ways that benefit Moscow?
Moscow appears to have used these vulnerabilities to influence Donald Trump, and, unfortunately, has done so with considerable success
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Davenumb @justdavelabs.com · 16/12/2025
#R4today - This guy should be working for the BBC - youtu.be/DriMNklN5Io?...
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British men are moving to Russia and having a total nightmare
YouTube video by Caolan Robertson
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Just sent out this free piece. Its being said that what Trump is doing with Putin is similar to what FDR did with Stalin at Yalta. Nothing could be further from the truth. Trump could easily weaken a dictatorship and strengthen a democracy if he wanted. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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What The US Is Doing To Ukraine Is Far Worse Than Yalta
How the great GOP bugbear of the past puts Trump to shame.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
This is the same group that seems to have an open invitation to appear on every single BBC political programme going, without ever declaring their funding
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