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Rob Massam 🔸

@rmassam.bsky.social
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Former Export Sales now retired. LibDems supporter actively engaged in UK issues and challenges. #FBPE Tactical voter in 2024; actively campaigning for return to EU located in the UK of course

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3h
Was just on LBC with @mrjamesob.bsky.social to discuss Kemi Badenoch's banning of @bylinetimes.bsky.social from attending Conservative conference after calling such bans by Reform "authoritarian" and an assault on free speech bylinetimes.com/2026/09/30/k...
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block 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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Harvest @harvestime.bsky.social · 3h
No - they were in place to stop a succession of footbal club bankruptcies/near bankruptcy such as as Leeds, Portsmouth and others and create stability and sustainability. The number of English clubs in European competition shows that our clubs can significantly outspend other clubs bar a few
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h
Under Marco Rubio, the State Department is being by pro-Russian Nazis using State to foster fascism worldwide. edition.cnn.com/2026/10/02/p...
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Trump administration shifts funds from human rights to supporting far-right causes | CNN Politics
The US State Department directed millions of dollars originally earmarked to promote human rights to promote far-right causes including Afrikaner rights in South Africa, safeguarding “Western civiliza...
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AnthonyF272 @anthonyf272.bsky.social · 2h
It's a barbaric country being led by madmen. I for one will not set foot there ever. If this lady is in a coma, they could well carry out the death penalty in her hospital bed to avoid being taken to court and sued. Barbaric is the only word applicable.
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 2h
Christa Pike is in a "critical condition, receiving life-saving care". Seems it was decided, not that "she must die" but rather "she must only die in a formal, state - sponsored ritual, to make us all feel better"? Strikes me as bizarre and perverse, to say the least. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Christa Pike in critical condition after surviving two lethal injections, lawyer says
Pike’s lawyers have asked for her death sentence to be commuted following the botched execution.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 2h
Burnham has called for proportional representation. SV is absolutely not a proportional representation system. It is not clear if Burnham knows this but it is pretty certain that those appointed to an electoral reform commission charged with considering a move to PR will know this.
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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 2h
Can i call her a Racist too? And an insensitive female canine totally lacking in decency. Can I?
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 2h
Truth 💥 👏
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netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik.org · 03/08/2026
Interview: „Palantir is really toxic“. Resistance against #Palantir in Europe is growing. We speak with US activists from @purgepalantir.bsky.social about why and how they organize protests against the corporation netzpolitik.org/2026/intervi...
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir
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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 2h
#KeepPalantirOutOfUKData ⛔️✊
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 15h
US deploys Roosevelt strike group and 2,000 Marines to the Middle East as part of a wider buildup around Iran.
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Trump deploys 2,000 Marines to Middle East, supertanker struck in Hormuz
US deploys Roosevelt strike group and 2,000 Marines to the Middle East as part of a wider buildup around Iran.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 3h
Change doesn’t happen because those in power suddenly decide to be bolder - it happens when. Greens push them to be better. And on climate, that couldn’t be more urgent. Vote Green to keep fossil fuels in the ground, where they belong
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 2h
💥 Drones of Special Operations Center "Alpha" together with SBS, SSO and GUR struck the linear production and dispatching station "Samara", as well as the pumping stations "Samara-1" and "Samara-2" in Prosvet. 💥 Volgograd refinery was also hit together with GUR.
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 18h
The #BBC strange idea of "balance" continues. #bbcqt continue their promotion of Reform: a party with a mere eight MPs: four of whom were elected as Tories and defected post-2024. Meanwhile the Lib Dems with 71 MPs: the third force in the UK Commons barely get a shout in.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 2h
The unemployment rate climbed from 4.1% to 4.2%, and average hourly earnings grew more slowly than expected. Yet, Donald tells us we have the BEST ECONOMY in the history of the word. deadline.com/2026/10/jobs-report-se…
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B heard media 💚🇵🇸 @bheardmedia.bsky.social · 5h
A lobbyist for Palantir had key role in helping Andy Burnham become PM. Martha Dalton, whose company Lodestone worked for Palantir, worked closely with Burnham’s team in the byelection. In other news.. A motion to kick Palantir out of our NHS was blocked at Labour conference.
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mariaevajarrous.bsky.social @mariaevajarrous.bsky.social · 2h
We've paid enough for his illegal involvement in our government. Nobody wants this bastard in there. We have enough of them right now. Call your representatives.☎️
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1h
A couple of additional points. 1. Trump is intrigued by the Insurrection Act, and loyalists are urging him to invoke it. He might try to. Are we ready? 2. Hegseth is a man of overweening ambition. He wants to be president. He'll try, by means fair or foul. www.thebulwark.com/p/not-to-ala...
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Not To Alarm You, But Trump’s Brain Is Melted
And Hegseth’s neo-fascism is out in the open.
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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 6h
August 2025 EV figures were 21,969 Even more exceptional. Aug 2025 with 22k EVs vs Sept 2026 99k EVs
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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 6h
This Iran war is helping in some ways I guess. UK EV sales; August 2026: 28,063 September 2026: 99,163 In the UK September is always a good month for car sales but 28k to 99k is still exceptional.
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thxchef.bsky.social @thxchef.bsky.social · 2h
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 1h
While ordinary families struggle to afford the essentials, the super-rich continue to grow their wealth to ever-more obscene figures, propped up by our unfair tax system. I've written to the Chancellor pressing him to follow the Green Party's example and take urgent action to tax wealth fairly.
While ordinary families struggle to afford the essentials, the super-rich continue to grow their wealth to ever-more obscene figures, propped up by our unfair tax system.

I've written to the Chancellor pressing him to follow the Green Party's example and take urgent action to tax wealth fairly.
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2h
Not just Jude Bellingham - but many of the most iconic English sporting figures of the past few decades; Moeen Ali Maro Itoje Maggie Alphonsi Lewis Hamilton Ian Wright Paul Ince Martin Offiah Ugo Monye Kelly Holmes Katarina Johnson-Thompson Harry Kane Lennox Lewis Mo Farah Good luck chaps.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1h
@zackpolanski.bsky.social: "Across the world, the ravages of the climate crisis have been taking lives and destroying livelihoods for years. "But this summer, the destruction reached our shores like never before."
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 1h
Palantir protesters didn’t expect to see a counter-protest yesterday: “This is not the software that the NHS needed,” one protester said, "it's the contract they wanted and got after years of lobbying." 📩 Sign up to our free newsletter to receive this weekend’s latest investigation into Palantir.
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Rob Massam 🔸 @rmassam.bsky.social · 2h
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Some disparate thoughts on a historic speech
For the first time in two years, we freed ourselves from the far-right’s strangle-hold over the news agenda.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 6h
Sadiq Khan in The Guardian: "We must be honest about the fact that reversing it is the best chance we have to get Britain back on track." www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 4h
Trump blows up in TIME interview on DC makeover, Iran and cost of living: ‘I don’t know what the hell’s wrong’
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Takeaways from Trump’s latest TIME interview on DC makeover, Iran and affordability
Trump-in-denial grows defensive and curses at a reporter when confronted with straight-forward questions about his second term
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Scottish Liberal Democrats @scotlibdems.org.uk · 4h
🚨 Lib Dem GAIN Wick and East Caithness Congratulations to our newest councillor Julie Calder! A stonking victory in the SNP council leader's own ward🔶
LIB DEM GAIN.

Julie Calder.

Wick and East Caithness.
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 5h
Wick & East Caithness (Highland) Council By-Election Result [1st Prefs]: 🔶 LDM: 50.4% (+20.6) 🙋 Ind: 23.6% (New) 🎗️ SNP: 14.0% (-11.3) ➡️ RFM: 9.4% (New) 🌳 CON: 2.6% (-12.5) No Inds (-12.8, -10.5) as previous. Liberal Democrat 'Gain' from Independent - Stage 1. Changes w/ 2022.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 5h
⚡️Ukraine nets 2.9 billion euros from EU after passing reforms "This is very timely support, which will help ensure Ukraine’s macro-financial stability and strengthen our defense capabilities," said President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Ukraine nets 2.9 billion euros from EU after passing reforms
"This is very timely support, which will help ensure Ukraine’s macro-financial stability and strengthen our defense capabilities," said President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 6h
"Ed, do the right thing, do it this week: lift the ban on Palestine Action, agree with UN Enquiry, the ICJ, the many lawyers all over the world: Israel is guilty of genocide. Stop all arms sales, use all diplomatic & economic powers to show that we're no longer complicit in this horrific genocide"👇
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 4h
In total, in September, Russian army lost 600+ units of motorized and motorized vehicles and about 50 units of armored vehicles. In addition, the Ukrainian military eliminated and wounded more than 3 thousand occupiers. This is about 6.5% of all occupiers' losses at the front in the previous month.
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nickinbelfast.bsky.social @nickinbelfast.bsky.social · 8h
Saw this posted on Reddit last night. Digging deeper it looks real. If this is the case it's really getting to the breaking point.
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670rv @670rv.bsky.social · 8h
They are repeating what they did in Syria for 10 years. But in Ukraine they have suffered more casualties in the last 4 and 1/2 years but the atrocities they induced on Ukraine are similar!
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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 4h
Would not want to melt Braverman’s brain further but just throwing us mixed race/heritage folk into the mix…👋
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18h
Forget Milk Snatcher, Margaret Thatcher literally sold orphans for profits. She is the Child Snatcher. The forced privatisation of Children Home's is Margaret Thatcher's most evil legacy. Even though she has so, so many.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 18h
OpenAI’s data hacking worse than previously known and also tried to cover up the hacks ““Asymmetric Security, a digital forensics company, found OpenAI’s models pulled data from 55 websites belonging to businesses, non-profits and government agencies” & medical clinics www.ft.com/content/1150...
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OpenAI’s agents obscured hacking activity in government site breaches
New findings by Asymmetric Security provide further evidence of novel tactics AI tools use to conduct hacks
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18h
That Trump-created bomb in the US economy is ticking.
FT front page: Global bond sell-off leaves
US trapped in
'vicious loop'
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 8h
In a matter of days Ukraine has retaken land on the frontline that it took Russia a year and tens of thousands of lives to occupy. Putin is on the back foot and desperate. Ukrainian intelligence says he’s now removed restrictions on the air campaign so they can target schools and hospitals.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7h
Brazilian President Lula: “If it weren’t for me confronting these fascists, they would win the election easily. So I am an obstacle to them. “As long as I am alive, I will work to make sure fascism does not return to this country.”
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 7h
Of course 🇺🇸 did. It IS a corrupt state
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7h
Lots of restlessness in Lib Dem ranks about Ed Davey’s leadership. One of his MPs spoke out against him yesterday, while an internal document has just been leaked, Sky News reports.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 7h
Trump would rather help Russia than Ukraine
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 6h
What’s going on behind the knees/ upper calves. Almost looks as if he’s wearing calipers or support of some kind. Or something! Not socks!
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Father Jacks conscience. @justdave1973.bsky.social · 5h
Does that Include Amazon or American money? I don't see British billionaires buying premier league clubs! Except vile tax dodging scumbag Ratcliffe.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 5h
UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 5h
Ukrainian intelligence says Putin communiques tell military leaders to abandon the rules of war. “Ukrainian spy agencies had obtained information that the Russian president had scrapped the constraints that governed earlier air campaigns. “He said there are no rules now,” Zelenskyy said
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 8h
On August 4, a drone struck the wing of a Ukrainian aircraft at Germany’s Leipzig Airport and fell onto the tarmac. Strapped beneath it was a tin can packed with explosives.
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How a failed attack in Leipzig revealed a wider Russian campaign
Documents obtained by the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network trace drone bombs, incendiary parcels and arson attacks to Russian intelligence.
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 8h
Rejoining the Single Market, a Customs Union or the EU as a whole looks like becoming a key campaigning topic for more than one party.
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