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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Cartoon by Bill Bramhall
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
For those who feel bad for people sanctioned by EU countries or the EU, remember that Russia is at war with us, and we can't afford to have a fifth column
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Why European countries must ban pro-Russian political parties substack.com/@joniaskola/...
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Why European Countries Must Ban Pro-Russian Political Parties
Updating Democracy to Survive Foreign Interference
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This looks like a crucial investigation to me, building on an essential body of work by @bylinetimes.bsky.social Please help to support it. subscribe.bylinetimes.com/lightuptheda...
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#LightUpTheDark – Byline Times
Dark Enlightenment: The US Far-Right War on British Institutions Help Byline Times Fund aN URGENT New INVESTIGATIVE SERIES #LightUpTheDark What is the Dark Enlightenment? The extraordinary anti-DEI me...
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Mummy From the Private Eye archive.
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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 19/09/2026
Moscow: Western elections cannot be trusted.   Also Moscow: no OSCE observers, severely restricted independent monitoring, anti-war opposition removed from the federal ballot.   Thank you for raising the subject of election integrity.
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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Survey completed. Short - can take just a couple of minutes. If I get permission from Peter, I'll share my responses here.
Text:  DEMOCRACY FOR SALE // How concerned are you about UK political funding? –  A Democracy for Sale survey // Your response has been recorded. // Submit another response // This form was created inside democracyforsale.uk. - Contact form owner // Does this form look suspicious? Report // Google Forms.
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today is little Emilia Bazylevych's birthday. russia stole this beautiful, innocent life, along with the lives of her mom and two sisters, in 2024. Every victim of russia's unjust and savage war of aggression is a wound in Ukraine's heart that will never heal 💔
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 19/07/2026
NEW: Who funds Nigel Farage? And why has it taken till now for any journalistic scrutiny? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social who has tracked him for a decade exposes how the UK press & regulators looked the other way 🧵👇
Farage the money launderer and me: a decade of denial
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 19/07/2026
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Steve B @stevebasnett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Pierre Polyester spot on with this post and its timing.
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Jessica Berlin @berlinbridge.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Drones over Lithuania, flares fired at Danish aircraft, the Polish border strike. These attacks are a direct result of Europe’s weak response to Leipzig & all other provocations. It’s past time. The EU must ban Russian tourists. NATO must help defend western Ukrainian airspace.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
He IS an emotionally unstable grifter and White supremacist.
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"He's worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Why did someone else have to pay for his son's wedding?" General Ben Hodges' reaction to a sanctioned Russian oligarch, Umar Kremlev, paying for President Trump's son's wedding. @general-ben.bsky.social
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"The President of the United States openly sides with the Russians. It's embarrassing and it's disgusting." General Ben Hodges gives his reaction to Trump demanding Ukraine stop attacking Russian oil refineries and energy targets. @general-ben.bsky.social
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Greg Morosoff @gregmorosoff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"Flying Cats" Art by Aleks Klepnev Just because #MenWithCats
"Flying Cats"
Art by Aleks Klepnev
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 09/09/2026
Even the crickets were embarrassed.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A new video from Syria shows M4000 chemical bombs being disassembled. These bombs were used in 3 attacks in 2017, including the notorious Khan Sheikhoun chemical attack. After that attack I pieced together their identity back in 2017 using open source evidence www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/04...
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
AMANPOUR: Zelenskyy has said that Russian airspace will be effectively closing. Putin called that "state terrorism." 🇨🇿 PRESIDENT PAVEL: Strange to hear talks about "state terrorism" from a man who directly orders to commit state terrorism on other countries, including my own.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 25/08/2026
❤️‍🔥 On Ukrainian Independence Day, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham chose Kyiv for his first overseas visit. The trip featured a musical exchange as a soldier handed Burnham a guitar to play The Smiths, followed by Ukrainian troops singing Oasis.
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Ukrainians are rallying across dozens of countries through 24 August. Europe holds €210 billion in Russian central bank assets, yet backed a €90 billion Ukraine loan with its own budget. Russia’s money remains frozen; Europe carries the financial risk. euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/22/u...
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Ukrainians rally in 11 cities worldwide on 22-24 August to demand Europe use Russia’s frozen billions
Ukrainians and their supporters are holding rallies in 11 cities across 10 countries from 22 to 24 August, marking 35 years of Ukrainian independence with four demands—including that Europe use…
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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/08/2026
White House Taps Mean Teen In Zara Fitting Room As New Press Secretary
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White House Taps Mean Teen In Zara Fitting Room As New Press Secretary
WASHINGTON—Touting her overall cruelty and particular delight at making others feel miserably self-conscious, the White House on Monday tapped a mean teenager from a Zara fitting room as its new press...
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Private Eye tells the story of the political, institutional, professional and personal failures, written in the hope that the lessons of the Post Office scandal will guard against such abuses in future. With a foreword by Sir Alan Bates.
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A Russian drone knocked out the robot sent to evacuate two wounded Ukrainian assault troops. So their company commander went in himself. Vladyslav Polskyi drove an unarmoured pickup into the kill zone, without body armour, and carried both men out. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/17/a...
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Farage didn't turn up to the result because he didn't want to look like an idiot. He now looks like a liar instead. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Police contest Nigel
Farage's 'credible threat'
claim as Reform UK
leader avoids Clacton
count


Nigel Farage told supporters at an all-night 'Farage-
fest' event organised by Reform in Essex he would not
be attending the count


Harry Taylor
Friday 14 August 2026 06:49 BST
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
If you want to understand the twisted, sick, imperial and sociopathic mindset of Russia read this. The former Prez is using the anniversary of the Georgia invasion to threaten that Armenia will have the same fate. All while they are carrying out a genocide in Ukraine
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Russia Uses Its 2008 Invasion of Georgia to Threaten Armenia
While Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine, Moscow marked the 18th anniversary of its invasion of Georgia this weekend by boasting about how successful it was.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Reform fixer Arron Banks hired private investigators to look into a journalist investigating Farage’s finances.
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Exclusive: Brexit “bad boy” Arron Banks launched secret probe into Sunday Times star reporter
The prominent Reform member paid investigators to look into Gabriel Pogrund after his reporting on Nigel Farage's finances
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Thsts why after Moldova when we were invited into G7 we didnt butcher Chechnya. And why we didnt then invade Georgia. And why aftrt getting Nordatream 1 & a "reset", we then didn't invade Ukraine. And we when we got Nordstream 2 we didnt then invade Ukraine more. But the USA did some stuff.
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Chris Kendall @ottocr.at · 31/07/2026
This is beautiful Charlie 💋👌 this is going to mess with their heads so badly 😂
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It was 'odd' how the Tories got so furious with Starmer over the Chinese mega-embassy, perhaps forgetting that their very own Boris Johnson had approved it in 2018.
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Luke Harding @lukeharding1968.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I got back from Ukraine to find copies of my new book, "Betrayal: Trump, Putin and the New Age of Conquest" waiting for me! It's my tenth non-fiction work, published by @faberbooks.bsky.social on August 27th, with international editions to follow
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
📌 ICYMI @nafeez.bsky.social Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how his former boss in the City became the party's treasurer vetting…
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‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder’s Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures
Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how his former boss in the City became the party's treasurer vetting donations
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 22/07/2026
This could very well be the most important story in politics for the last decade and a half. Please read and share this equally harrowing and illuminating account by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social of just how dark the money in politics pit really goes. Absolutely mind blowing.
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Farage, the money launderer and me: a decade of denial
The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity finally appeared to be coming to an end. Carole Cadwalladr, wh...
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Thank God common sense prevailed, and President Zelenskyi listened to the calls of the army and society, appointing Mykhailo Drapatyi as the new AFU Commander-in-Chief. Drapatyi is a man of honor and grace, a battle-grown and hardened major general, who cares about human lives.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 21/07/2026
Breaking news: President Volodymyr Zelensky ousted the commander of Ukraine’s armed forces, days after abruptly dismissing the country’s defense minister, who won praise as the architect of Ukraine’s increasingly successful drone assaults on Russia.
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Zelensky ousts Ukraine’s military commander as major shake-up continues
The dismissal of Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky came days after the Ukrainian president fired Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 13/07/2026
Explain it to them, like a four-year-old.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 18/07/2026
⚡️Botswana warns Russia trafficking its citizens into Ukraine war at 'alarming rate.' "These individuals are often promised employment opportunities, only to discover upon arrival that they are being forced into active combat," Botswana's International Relations Ministry said on July 18.
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Botswana warns Russia trafficking its citizens into Ukraine war at 'alarming rate'
"These individuals are often promised employment opportunities, only to discover upon arrival that they are being forced into active combat," Botswana's International Relations Ministry said on July 1...
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 07/07/2026
This is the story of Norwegian volunteer Ole Kvåle, who helped deliver 500 vehicles to Ukrainian defenders. 🧵 1/14 ⬇️
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Tact and Diplomacy @tactanddiplomacy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Congratulations to all my US friends on making it to the end of your epic 250 year experiment with democracy! May the subsequent imperial phase be mercifully brief and the aftermath painless.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Spyware used against MEP investigating Pegasus abuses, report finds www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Spyware used against MEP investigating Pegasus abuses, report finds
Researchers say Stelios Kouloglou’s device was compromised after he joined European parliamentary committee
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The famous "Wedges" paper was used repeatedly to shut us up when we argued against the continued use of fossil fuels, and, esp, against carbon capture and storage and the mass use of bioenergy. "But these eminent scientists say ..." Now we learn BP co-authored it. www.propublica.org/article/wedg...
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How BP Execs Influenced a Climate Study That Shaped a Generation of Global Policy
BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” guided climate discourse for a generation.
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
GREAT SCOOP from @michaelscherer.bsky.social: National Park Service projects are now being defunded to cover President Trump’s Washington renovation spree. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A White House Makeover, Brought to You by Struggling National Parks
Park projects are being defunded to cover President Trump’s Washington renovation spree.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Well, to be fair, he is an expert on politicians with tiny minds.
Boris Johnson
@BorisJohnson


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A decade after Britain's momentous
Brexit vote, any politician would
have to be out of their tiny mind to
campaign for Britain to rejoin the EU


We send the EU £350 million a week
let's fund our NHS instead Vote Leave


Let's take back control


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JOHNSON: Any politician would be out of
their mind to rejoin the EU
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