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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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WatchYourRepsTN&SC @watchyourrepssc.bsky.social · 13h

Trump said his GOP convention beat the NFL. Nielsen says the Seahawks-Patriots opener drew 25.1 million viewers. Trump’s speech drew about 3.3 million across three networks. Claiming victory after losing by roughly 21.8 million people takes a special kind of self delusion.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 7h

This is testament to No.10's frankly astonishing degree of political competence. A policy which was branded electoral suicide 48 hours ago now showing signs of robust popularity.

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WIRED @wired.com · 7h

Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it. www.wired.com/story/how-is...

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How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank

Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11h

Deloitte paid its UK-based partners £1.125m. Firm has 784 equity partners. Due to self-employed status of partners, employer national insurance (ENI) is not paid on profits shared. 150,000 ENI avoided on every £1m of profits shared. Billions lost across the country. Must end this privilege.

cityam.com

Deloitte UK advisory arm rebounds to growth as new boss insists AI 'can’t replace lived experience'

Big Four giant Deloitte's new UK boss, Darren Graves, insisted AI “can’t replace lived experience” as the firm's advisory arms return to growth.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Despite all the talk about him being 'Starmer with a Northern accent,' Andy Burnham's conference speech suggests he is set to be a very different prime minister from his predecesssor bylinetimes.com/2026/09/29/a...

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Andy Burnham's Labour Conference Speech Offers a Clear Break From the Politics of Despair

The Prime Minister's emotional and expansive speech opened the door to a genuine shift in our politics, argues Adam Bienkov

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

texans, you are going to see this clip once a week and twice on sundays until the election

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The only kind of person who buys a Swasticar

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.

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Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.
Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana
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reforms, which have cut net migration to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Norway produces more oil than Venezuela. And yet, between January and August 2026, electric vehicles made up 97.8 percent of all new cars sold in that country. Moving to EVs is often based on intelligence, not need. Which is why it lags in the notoriously short-sighted and stupid United States.

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pmf @clearlight.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wasn't he the little shit who had some poor woman raided by the cops for emailing him about the Gaza genocide?

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 26/09/2026

I don’t think we should call them Starmerites. That suggests Sir Kier had a philosophy. The better term is Mandelsonians.

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Elayne Boosler @eboosler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The UN: "The US was the ONLY nation to vote "NO" against ensuring & strengthening worldwide access to justice for all women & girls. The resolution passed with 37 yes votes, 6 countries (Côte d’Ivoire, Congo, Egypt, Mali, Mauritania & Saudi Arabia) abstained." Good company, huh? Vote Blue!

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: Gov. Gavin Newsom just signed a sweeping California package cracking down on public corruption, crypto fraud, ticket scams, privacy abuses and more, including a new law barring public officials from launching meme coins.

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Newsom Signs Sweeping Anti-Corruption Package Cracking Down on Meme Coins, Crypto Fraud, and Self-Dealing by Public Officials

Governor Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of anti-corruption and consumer protection legislation, MeidasTouch has exclusively learned, delivering one of

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Who could’ve foreseen that after the Supreme Court gave Trump immunity from prosecution for committing crimes while in office he would commit lots of crimes while in office?

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Trish 🇨🇦 Sorry! 🍁 @trishly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tariffs are changing where vehicles are sourced, such as Mexico. Japan and Canada.

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born2balive.bsky.social @born2balive.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The New Yorker posted exactly how I interpreted the whole visit.

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What happens when citizens use AI and social media to start reshaping their relationships with government? We're seeking novel theory & empirics for our new "Public Policy Journal" Special Issue publicpolicyjournal.org/special-issu...

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Opposite Snakes @oppositesnakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"the division between those who control the infrastructure of prediction and those who are made legible through it."

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another treacherous Starmerite with a ludicrously premature add-on to media whining. “Andy Burnham not doing enough to boost growth, says former business secretary” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Andy Burnham not doing enough to boost growth, says former business secretary

Ex-Business Secretary Peter Kyle calls for more urgency on the economy, as Labour members head to the party's annual conference.

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Katerona @hohnmensontennis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Times are changing as my Mum heard Zack Polanksi on the radio the other day and was really impressed. She believes also in a wealth tax and that both the Tories and Labour have made a mess of governance. She hates Farage. My mum was a right leaning centrist but can see we need change.

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Nico Thæccan @nicothaecan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I can still remember the elation I felt a decade ago when Jeremy Corbyn and Tom Watson were leading Labour. Here at last was a party going back to its roots, a true party for and of the people. Ten years later and Tom Watson goes to work for Palantir. I give up. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir

Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan

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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Millions of graduates are being ripped off by sky-high student loan interest rates. It's time for Andy Burnham to fix this unfair system in the upcoming Budget so balances stop growing faster than they're paid off. Add your name if you agree: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/an...

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Tell Andy Burnham: Fix the broken student loans system in this Budget

Millions of graduates are being ripped off by sky-high interest rates, with balances growing faster than they can be paid off! Add your name to demand fairer student loan terms in the upcoming Budget.

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We Need to Talk About the Apocalypse End-times prophecy, pro-war prayer circles, Democrats as demons: Christian dominionism’s influence is everywhere in the second Trump administration—and increasingly, within America itself. Can democracy survive the assault? newrepublic.com/article/2150...

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We Need to Talk About the Apocalypse

End-times prophecy, pro-war prayer circles, Democrats as demons: Christian dominionism’s influence is everywhere in the second Trump administration—and increasingly, within America itself. Can democra...

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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.

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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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens

Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.

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Jos Gallacher 🕊️ @jos.gallacher.be · 24/09/2026

Yes, but is the law holding accountable the people who own the software for the damage it does?

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mickrab.bsky.social @mickrab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not fucking rocket science. Note date! bsky.app/profile/mick...

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yes, they aren’t even vaguely grateful that two successive government bent over backwards to accommodate their crimes against humanity, putting themselves at risk of future arrest and, in Labour’s case, suffering disastrous damage. They are angrier and more insulting than ever.

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Benjamin Netanyahu turned on Israel's traditional allies, accusing them of hypocrisy in their criticism of Israel's actions in the occupied Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Talarico wants data centers to pay for their own grid upgrades, recycle their water, create real jobs, & get a community's consent before moving in. Paxton took nearly $500,000 from the industry. Texans want a senator who fights for them. That's why we will have a #BlueWaveIn40Days

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Striking change of approach in Labour leaflet No. 5, from “we all love Camden, don’t we? Vote for Camden’s council leader to be your MP.” to one that actually mentions the national government.

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