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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3h
Sonia is a reactionary crackpot who is paid to write hit pieces on progressives for a very, very right wing Murdoch newspaper. What is she talking about, here? You openly despise most of the left, you don’t get a vote here!
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x.com
Hope the Green conference today is proving a bit of a wakeup call to those who dream of a progressive coalition. No such thing as a progressive coalition with these cranks.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They’ve come from Palestine to perform this in London - on Saturday - please support , please share www.pleasance.co.uk/event/2077-w...
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2077 who wants to survive | Pleasance Theatre Trust
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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Majority of Labour Friends of Israel's (LFI) leadership board are NOT Labour Party members. The pro -Israel lobby group told the Electoral Commission they make sure they are not Majority-Labour led: If they were, LFI would have to reveal their donors morningstaronline.co.uk/article/frie...
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Friends of Israel are not necessarily friends of Labour
IT IS a “core principle” of Labour Friends of Israel that “support for Israel is a Labour value,” according to the lobby group’s former director Michael Rubin. But, despite its name, being a member of...
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 01/10/2026
I will never forget all the cynical gainsaying and disinformation about the strike on Al-Ahli hospital ten days into Israel’s destruction of Gaza. ‘Fog of war’. Almost three years later, fewer than half of Gaza’s hospitals remain even partially functional and there is no fog. Only dust and rubble.
theguardian.com
New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
bylinetimes.com
Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's a handy guide. If the media are saying a politician is doing socialism, they're not doing socialism. If a politician is doing socialism, the media is telling you they're doing islamic terrorism, destroying western civilization, turning your kids gay and in league with china.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 30/09/2026
Israeli minister calls Shabana Mahmood an Islamist, because erm, erm, erm
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of Britain's leading allies in the Middle East has apparently spent years systematically desecrating one of the most treasured parts of our national culture. Sportswashing was supposed to make it easier for states like the UK to support regimes like the UAE. Clearly this does the opposite.
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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is no oligarch or fascist Burnham won't suck up to.
bbc.com
Andy Burnham 'really concerned' if Man City owners sell up after rule breaches
The prime minister compares the allegations against Man City to the plight of his own club Everton.
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Scarlet 🏳️‍⚧️ @scarlets.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
>Secretary for Labour for Trans Rights, an internal pressure group, puts out a request for reports of transphobia >gets reports of transphobia from a trans woman >blocks her in under 3 minutes cool cool cool cool cool cool cool so how's that pressure group going
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Nathan Ramsden (@nathanjramsden.bsky.social)
If you have experienced transphobic harassment within the Labour Party or if you know someone who has, please get in touch with us by emailing labourfortransrights@gmail.com

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hello i am not a Labour party member but i hope you can help me, my community has been experiencing transphobic harassment from a Labour party member, her name is Bridget Phillipson and she is the current Minister for Women and Equalities, i look forward to your response and thank you in advance 🙏The same post as before, except Courtney has been blocked and the embedded post no longer shows up.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Israel snatched an American teen from his West Bank home in the middle of the night — just days before his birthday and during his critical national exams. He's now been held for 3 months, with no charges. Netanyahu just came to the US for the *eighth* time since Trump took office.
zeteo.com
First Draft: Israel Has Kidnapped Another American Teenager
Abdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi has Texas roots but languishes in a notorious jail, one more victim of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cruel impunity. Donald Trump, meanwhile, is losing some of his most ardent fans.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Suella Braverman was the first MP to be sworn in on a copy of the Dhammapada! That's hardly paying lip service to the supremacy of Anglicanism in the UK, is it.
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Specifics of this story aside, it’s quite something seeing a mainstream journalist using the R word in 2026.
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Rivoluzionario della melanzana @caponatacommie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ahhh Nesil Caliskan, whose family basically run Enfield Labour and deselected all their black councillors in 2018 to be replaced with their own Turkish Cypriot cronies before then herself being parachuted into the evil Margaret Hodge's seat in Barking.
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
British columnists love getting everything they wanted and still moaning about it
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 25/09/2026
🚨EXCLUSIVE: AI safety rules were about to be enacted - then $25 million from OpenAI's president was deposited in Trump's super PAC and the rule disappeared. @levernews.com unearths documents exposing how AI oligarchs got Trump to kill rules they now claim to support. A must-read - pass it on👇
levernews.com
AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.
After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest experiments to national security officials. Now lawmakers are scrambling to catc...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yesterday at the UN Trump said he might decide to annihilate Iran (which as Kevin Maguire points out was a veiled threat to nuke them) Susanna Reid "It is chilling" Gillian Keegan "Everyone's looking at that thinking, you idiot" Kevin Maguire "He's evil & he's out of control"
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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Pumpactionmusket @pumpactionmusket.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Holy shit. All of the submission videos are just being uploaded immediately at the bottom of the webpage without any moderation whatsoever. Somebody is getting fired for this. openforlegends.guitarcenter.com/campaign/ope...
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I’m having severe trouble finding this story on the BBC homepage. How about you
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 17/09/2026
Circling back on this
"It's an honor, isn't it?" Verhoeven joked when asked about the uniforms by the Hollywood Reporter. "When [the Trump administration] talks about Starship Troopers, they should be aware that it's based on the style of Leni Riefenstahl.
I don't know if this president is aware that the movie says these [characters] are fascists without knowing that they're fascists. That's the point."
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Still can't believe Ed Sheeran tried to pull the "there's kids at my show" to the dude who's message was "stop killing kids"
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
*Four* acts have now withdrawn from Ed Sheeran’s tour in rapid succession: FINNEAS Lukas Graham Beoga Aaron Rowe
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 14/09/2026
If a celebrity backs away from supporting certain causes because they perceive them as jeopardising their career or livelihood, but have gladly thrown their weight behind other causes, that should tell you something about the motives behind their support and the depth of their commitment.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Frankly it’s been “fuck Ed Sheeran” ever since he was voted “most influential person in Black music” (LOL) and instead of maybe discussing how white artists often come up on Black music for cool points then drop it when they’ve made it he tweeted “listen with ears not eyes”
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Almost as if it’s not about antisemitism isn’t it
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s apt, today of all days, that there’s a live, very racist international scare about Afghans as certain sex offenders that’s getting Afghan women deported, and the reason for the scare is: lots of Afghan soldiers we gave asylum to could give evidence against special forces in war crimes trials.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How to put this: it’s not the first time that paper has stampeded any old shit into print on the say-so of some crackpot they found who tickled their funny button
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🔴 NEW 🔴 Reform accepted £5 million from international investors in the second quarter of this year - putting further pressure on the party over its foreign donors. 📝 @desmog.com
desmog.com
Reform Receives £5 Million from International Investors
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK received just shy of £5 million from 17 global financiers and businesspeople in the second quarter of this year, DeSmog can reveal. The party has been embroiled in scandal aft...
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW | On a shocking interview… ANALYSING JUSTIN WEBB’S INTERVIEW WITH ED MILIBAND ABOUT SANCTIONS ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS On the absence of balance in an encounter where the Foreign Secretary’s Jewishness was called into question. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/analysing-...
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Analysing Justin Webb’s interview with Ed Miliband about sanctions on Israeli settlements
On the absence of balance in an encounter where the Foreign Secretary’s Jewishness was called into question.
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 08/09/2026
Incredible revelation www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Netanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefs
In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Lauren Starkey @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Men will send me emails like this and then go rampaging on the streets of Dover and Portsmouth claiming they want to keep refugees out in order to “PROTECT OUR WOMEN!” Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Somehow ‘Lord Walney’ on Radio 4 has managed to be more critical of climate protesters this week than the masked street fascists Last few days feel like an exercise in normalisation in plain sight….
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The pro-fascist British press is alive and unwell
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"The ICJ is beginning a second day of hearings over allegations that Germany is facilitating genocide in Gaza through its military support for Israel" Germany is trying to get the case thrown out. They are the 2nd largest supplier of arms to Israel after the US.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yeah, can we decide whether this is 1) a reset of our relationship with Israel 2) a big nothingburger, or 3) a racist attack upon an embattled domestic ethnic group? Because it seems to me that these three things quite obviously will not all fit through the door at the same time.
Alex Wickham
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X.com
Exclusive: British diplomats have privately told the US that the new sanctions Ed Miliband is imposing on Israeli settlements today are largely symbolic and will have no material impact on the UK's wider relationship with Israel on trade or security
A behind-closed-doors diplomatic effort is underway to soothe the Trump administration's response, amid fears that the sanctions could provide the first major setback in US relations for Andy Burnham, people familiar with the matter said
Burnham spoke to Trump by phone on Monday afternoon and told him what was coming
The reality that Britain's relationship with Israel will largely continue as is, despite stronger rhetoric from ministers about a fundamental reset, may disappoint some on the left who the announcement is designed to win over
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.
Facebook post showing the photo of three white women on a train with a group of black-clad, masked men being shared to a group called ‘South east patriots’
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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We have made a full documentary about what really happened at Reform conference. If you only watch a bit of it please make it these 39 seconds. You won't regret it.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Labour has banned peaceful protest for Palestine. It should not be hard for Andy Burnham to condemn thugs.
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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 06/09/2026
Contrast the police statements about the Dover blockade yesterday with the Just Stop Oil protests in 2022
No arrests made during Dover protest, Kent Police says
published at 13:34 5 September
13:34 5 September
Kent Police has issued a statement following the disruption in Dover earlier today.
It says officers "responded to a spontaneous protest" during Saturday morning, adding "no arrests were made".
"Traffic is flowing normally, and all involved had dispersed by midday," it addsThe Met Police said 35 people had been arrested in response to the disruption.
Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the action was "criminality", not protest, and pledged to bring those involved to justice as quickly as possible.
"This was a very significant and co-ordinated effort to cause massive disruption to the entirety of the M25," he added.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Just so: the last police chief who barred fascist football thugs from attending a match was subjected to six months of screaming abuse in parliament and the National press, he was hounded into retirement and he’s now being investigated to find out whether he’s secretly the catspaw of Islamists.
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
John Healey has said "public control" doesn't mean "public ownership". It means "exerting public influence", "fair bills", "better services", "investment", an "active state" and "better regulation". The old adage: "you don't control what you don't own" has never been more apposite
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
On the JLP / Reform polling scandal - and the papers that are implicated: "The polls are not presented as something specially created for this one (fake) rich family. How many other polls were published in similar circumstances, but involving real [secret funders] rather than fake ones?"
theweekinpolls.substack.com
Pollsters and the media also have questions to answer after the Reform donations story
There are questions for the polling industry and the media following the Channel 4 broadcast about Reform.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Labour MP & ex-immigration minister Mike Tapp here, telling the racists they’re right, & criticising them only for going about it wrong & being insufficiently appreciative of the government’s efforts to placate them, and also equating racists with the targets of racism
Dover knows better than most the pressures immigration and border disruption can bring. We have lived on the front line of the small-boats crisis for years. We have also endured queues and gridlock caused by changes to cross-Channel travel.
So the last thing Dover needs is another group deliberately blocking our roads.There is another irony.
Small-boat arrivals this summer were down 46% compared with last year. Government action is starting to work: stronger cooperation with France, more disruption of smuggling gangs, more arrests and more returns.
People have every right to protest about immigration. They have every right to demand stronger borders. But intimidating a town in balaclavas and blocking one of Britain’s most important ports? That isn’t the way to do it.
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
As I recall, she’s very chummy with Aaron Banks. I’ve seen the following also, and I think it is a bit odd that Britain’s big lib paper employs people like this.
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