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Peter Sefton 🇪🇺🇺🇦

@peterjsefton.bsky.social
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#Humanist, Liberal, reader of #SciFi, user of #Linux and #Amiga, #EU citizen in #Ireland, retired firefighter. Just because I look old doesn't mean I think old! Banner photo is the lake at Mount Stewart, County Down. No unsolicited DMs please.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 1h
Once again institutions like the police are failing women facing abuse. We need to come together to stop perpetrators getting away with abuse in all its forms - and demand better from the institutions that are supposed to protect us. Help us hold them all to account ⬇️ goodlaw.social/ouzo
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 1h
Moscow has already drawn up an "indictment" against the Baltic states. Russia is following exactly the same stages as it did with Ukraine. The final stage is the announcement of a "denazification" operation. We have already seen and heard all of this in 2014 and 2022.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2h
BREAKING Reform UK's internal inquiry says the party did not break the law over the donations sting 🤔
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2h
“Whether policies, polls or performances, the gulf between the reality I think I inhabit and the world according to Kemi seems almost inconceivably enormous, and yet so complete is her belief in her own brilliance that I frequently find myself checking whether my own memory of events is accurate.”
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 3h
Spot on 🎯 "There are several reasons for the UK to adopt a more proportional voting system of which the most important is the moral one: it’s fairer."
theguardian.com
Why a PR voting system is the best bet for Britain | Letters
Letters: Tom Walker responds to a letter that said first past the post is the lesser of two evils for voters. Plus lette
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 2h
Wrote a thing about Budget Day. Did you know yesterday was Budget Day? It would be easy not to. gavreilly.substack.com/p/if-a-budge...
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If a Budget falls in a forest and nobody notices it, did it really happen?
From Budget Day to a budget daze.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2h
Starting from Monday, 5th October 2026, the Russian Federation has started a new phase of the war in the Black Sea and is hunting for vessels owned by Turkish owners: 📹: a drone strike on the Royad Mammadov vessel on Monday. It sailed out of Izmail, carrying grain and sank in the Black Sea.
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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social · 2h
For those from outside NI, the first L in "lawful 35" is silent.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h
No better case for the billionaire tax than how hard they’re working to defeat it
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The Rest Is Politics @therestpolitics.bsky.social · 22h
What would happen if the Europeans were to lock Trump up?
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 4h
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social: "The biggest reasons for the shift are the economy-shrinking, trade-undermining, rights-losing facts, which so powerfully spell out the scale of the mistake the country made in cutting ourselves off from our nearest and biggest trading partner."
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Alastair Campbell's diary: The door that leads back to the EU is finally open. Now let's walk through it
How fitting that new talk of joining again coincided with the 500th issue of The New World, originally founded to oppose
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 4h
This isn't just about FKA Twigs. This is a huge win for women who speak up about their abuse. Women should be able to tell their story without powerful men using the law to shut them down. So we're working to stop men abusing the law to gaslight and silence women 👇 goodlaw.social/db8s
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 4h
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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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨 In case you hadn’t noticed… …mainstream media is rapidly getting replaced by alternative and grassroots news efforts. That’s a combination of citizen frustration with mainstream media - an increased ability to DIY in digital media. So where is it all going? And how do we ensure standards?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6h
Seems that the person who drafted the Green party motion came via Your Party and joined - by her own admission - to press this simply because the Greens had a bigger platform. Classic bit of entryism which now threatens the future of the movement.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 5h
Pryluky 💔 Rescuers getting people out from the residential building that Russia destroyed. People were sleeping when Russia attacked.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18h
The Trump administration’s actions resulted in the destruction of the largest ancient Cottonwood tree on Indigenous territory in Arizona. This tree, known as the “Grandmother Tree,” was 250 years old.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 18h
It's almost like putting a quack anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge of the nation's health policy has consequences. "The United States has now had more measles deaths in the past two years than we have had in the previous three decades combined...": www.ms.now/news/pennsyl...
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Pennsylvania’s measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the U.S.
The state has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, health officials said Monday, making it the largest outbreak in the U.S. in more than three decades.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 18h
Yeah, it’s exactly what he said, but in this case the White House knows it was a colossal screw up, so is lying its ass off.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18h
For all the Cornell 7 investigation news in one place, subscribe (for free) to @dailybeanspod.com. Never any paywalls. Women owned and operated independent media. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Never Trust Alito (feat. Janet Reitman)
Podcast Episode · The Daily Beans · October 6 · 54m
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19h
www.ms.now/news/reflect...
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Attorneys for David Hearn call for probe into Reflecting Pool vandalism case
In a letter to the inspectors general of the Justice and Interior departments, Hearns’ lawyers demand answers as to who is responsible for the “gross incompetence, negligence, and misconduct.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21h
If Joe Biden got one word out of place, Jake Tapper would write a book about it. If you’re tired of the double standard- try independent media. It’s free. It’s award-winning. It has swearing. substack.com/@muellershew...
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Headlines for October 6, 2026
The Daily Beans podcast headlines sourced and cited
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h
JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h
notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts. Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.
notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts.

Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 20h
NEW: The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is likely gaining critical insights for future warfare from Russia. The PLA appears particularly concerned about how to conduct mechanized maneuvers in a drone-saturated environment. Read the full report: isw.pub/ChinaTaiwanU...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20h
Sarah Pochin raised "concerns" in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Two days later she purchased an £800,000 second home on Anglesey. Remarkable stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities
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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 06/10/2026
The PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES stood on a stage and said: “Let ’em take out Los Angeles. Let ’em take out San Diego.” And people CHEERED. I’m sorry, but what the actual fuck are we doing?
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Democrats have to explain what we're trying to build, not just what we're trying to block.
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David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social · 23h
A free 2000 word post on the sad irrelevant history of the 'Zionism is racism' debate davidaaronovitch.substack.com/p/the-anti-z...
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The anti-Zionism of fools
On the Corbynising of the Green party
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 23h
🎯 @pimlicat.bsky.social: "Half-baked calls to enter a customs union or join the single market won’t bring the economic heft to avoid further decline or the political payoff to prevent Nigel Farage’s Reform UK gaining power. "The choice Burnham must face is whether to go big – or go nowhere at all."
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Could the UK really return to the EU? | Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Brussels office - European Union
Britain’s new prime minister has said that Brexit was a mistake and Britain should have a much closer relationship with
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
IT’S PRIVATE EYE WEEK! £2.99 in shops, £2 for subscribers, and only 20p for Emirati sponsors of Man City… Sheikh Mansour will cover the rest.
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Nicholas Pegg @nicholaspegg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch continues: ‘I can see why so many people were very fond of Jeffrey Archer. You know, we wanted him to be our mayoral candidate, and then yet another thing happened.’ Happened? He didn’t sit on a box of chocolates. He was sent to prison for perjury and perverting the course of justice.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
German FM Wadephul on the horrible consequences of Russian occupation: It’s not as if, the moment the Russians arrive, the Ukrainian flag simply comes down and the Russian one goes up and life just carries on as normal. Instead, the Russians abduct children to Russia, simply taking them away from
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/10/2026
🎯 "Burham has to decide whether Britain’s security, in an increasingly turbulent world, can best be protected through the obsessive pursuit of some purist notion of sovereignty, or through pooling some sovereignty with like-minded allies in pursuit of greater collective resilience."
bylinetimes.com
'Why Andy Burnham Will Ultimately Back Rejoining the EU'
The logic of the Prime Minister's argument that Brexit has done more harm than good only points in one direction, argues
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 06/10/2026
'It's all about power and control'. The far right's campaign against migrants was never about protecting women. www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oc…
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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As well as a Britannia Magic Dome, Tories will build a Halo Array, a Stargate, a Dark Tower, and a Death Star - named respectively Spirit of the Blitz, Maggie's Opening, Boris-Dûr, and Churchill's Clacker - funded by sales of a new wellness smoothie made with carrot, ginger, and poor people's tears.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/10/2026
More than 9,600 have already taken action and called on Ofcom to investigate Nigel Farage's GB News show. A party leader and sitting MP should not be allowed to host their own news show. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. ⬇️
bestforbritain.org
Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Russia and North Korea are allies. South Korea sent fuel to Russia via sanctioned vessels. Is South Korea now an ally of North Korea and Russia?
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/10/2026
I wonder why Badenoch couldn't say that London benefitted from Brexit 🤔 The reality is that neither London nor any other region in the UK has benefitted from Brexit - the opposite is the case. That's why our polling with YouGov shows that 628 out of 632 constituencies want to rejoin the EU.
independent.co.uk
Kemi Badenoch refuses to say if Brexit has benefitted London
The Tory leader insisted that voters were not interested ‘in having a row’ over the debate to rejoin the EU
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As early as next year, Russia could make a new technological leap that would give it an advantage in the war. And China is helping it with this. We see serious signs of cooperation between Chinese companies in the design of Russia’s “Rassvet” network.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/10/2026
A newly elected Reform UK councillor has been arrested on suspicion of making false statements in nomination papers. Reform UK is haemorrhaging the people it recruits. We keep track of all of them: bestforbritain.org/reform-uk-defect…
independent.co.uk
Reform councillor arrested over election paperwork
Elected representative for Nigel Farage’s party arrested on suspicion of making false statements in nomination papers
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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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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Losing a parent to Alzheimer's is a double loss and it's bleak as hell. Good people don't joke about things like that. But Archibald Graham long ago gave up on being a decent human being. metro.co.uk/2026/10/04/m...
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Mike Graham filmed making 'hideous' jokes about Andy Burnham's dad's death
His comments were 'the lowest of the low'.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
OMG it’s like @snellarthur.bsky.social is in my head, answering all the questions I have. This time on undersea cables and how much of a global shitshow a big attack on them would be.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Driver-volunteers go to homes to drop off diapers, baby formula, toilet paper, groceries... "Drivers switch routes and cars, write addresses on paper, and carry a water bottle so they can drop the paper in water and obscure the addresses if stopped... kansasreflector.com/2026/10/02/t...
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Trump's immigration sweeps leave southwest Kansas communities looking for way forward • Kansas Reflector
DODGE CITY — Southwest Kansas communities reeling from President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown — which included random stops to check status — are looking for ways to recover as fear continues ...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a really good piece by @natashakorecki.bsky.social at NBC News: "Many Latinos were better versed in the details of Salgado Araujo’s shooting death than in the names and backgrounds of those running for some of the highest-profile offices in their state..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
nbcnews.com
How the shooting death of a Houston father is igniting Latino politics in Texas
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed on his way to work by ICE agents, who said he used his vehicle as a weapon. An outraged community is demanding justice — and change.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Job creation numbers: "The blue columns point to Biden’s presidency, while the red columns point to Trump’s..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026
In one week, MPs will debate rejoining the EU in Parliament. Rejoining the EU would boost our economy, and the majority of Brits want it. Use our tool to ask your MP to attend:
bestforbritain.org
Tell your MP: 628 constituencies want EU membership. Only 4 don't. - Best for Britain
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Fairly huge if true.
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