Reposted by Sam's friendRob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 11hThree noteable trends here: 14 point Reform to Labour swing, Restore vote much larger than Labour’s margin of victory, large Con vote clearly unwilling to tactically vote Reform on seat latter was defending 1617547
Reposted by Sam's friendIan Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 10hEvery claim Trump makes here is false. He swims in a sea of Kremlin disinformation & his own fantasies. I know why European leaders, having failed for years to invest in defence, feel they have to keep in Trump’s good graces; but they shd see now they can't rely on him, & accelerate rearmament. 29535159
Reposted by Sam's friendRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 14/10/2026A useful reminder from the 2016 referendum campaign. 49933
Reposted by Sam's friendDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It’s all just so tawdry and embarrassing this administration. Scary and dangerous because of the power wielded but also tacky and pathetic. A formerly great country soiling itself every day, revelling in mediocrity and incompetence 925735
Reposted by Sam's friendAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/10/2026He lives in a fantasy world 2192679566
Reposted by Sam's friendAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations... It’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from." 332554816
Reposted by Sam's friendDr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Absolute scenes…this…it seems to me…is a conviction position… 919513
Reposted by Sam's friendDr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 11/10/2026If Russia is engaged in a huge online influence campaign against European states then it might not be entirely surprising that Ukrainian strikes are targeting that capability. 1527947
Reposted by Sam's friendIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Trump is a goddamned coward and a traitor to his country 521328195
Reposted by Sam's friendAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports 348352631095
Reposted by Sam's friendJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes 871039242
Reposted by Sam's friendPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This proves only two things. The Ukrainian campaign against Russian refineries is causing serious damage. Putin has asked Trump to help him out and the US president obliged. 951355450
Reposted by Sam's friendDarth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Russia Feb 2022: We need to invade Ukraine as they have biolabs producing Russophobic weaponised bats that make people gay. Russia Oct 2026: Someone died at one of our biolabs that makes the bubonic plague. 301105342
Reposted by Sam's friendRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding. 541904772
Reposted by Sam's friendRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Someone should note to Suella that if this idea of Englishness wins (along with all the other Hard Right ideas that come with it), then either... a) the mob she has enabled will come for her – 'not one of us'. b) the mob will celebrate her as their greatest useful idiot. What a position. 6024051
Reposted by Sam's friendemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Remind me never to get on the wrong side of Paul Krugman. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-beclow... 1431768
Reposted by Sam's friendSahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A phenomenal moment in the Senate. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., claims he has evidence Jack Smith went to a HAWKS game in Atlanta. Smith denies it. Schmitt declares he has busted Jack Smith for perjury. Smith, vexed, says he went to HAWKEYES game in Maryland. WATCH IN FULL, UNINTERRUPTED 62069751568
Reposted by Sam's friendemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Another of my periodic posts about how Maggie Haberman writes herself as a character in her own coverage. emptywheel.net/2026/09/22/a...emptywheel.netA Player To Be Named Later - emptywheelIt turns out Maggie Haberman is not the only storyteller who tells Trump what he wants to hear; so does Gary Player's caddy! 419865
Reposted by Sam's friendSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026First the real extremists are the actual Nazis you fucking idiot. Secondly how is "radical right" more "Orwellian" than "far right"? That doesn't even make sense. 64943174
Reposted by Sam's friendDave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 17/09/2026"...We should move toward seemless digital trade in non-agricultural goods in a wide range of services. We should deepen our people-to-people ties, allowing our youth to work study and live on either side of the Atlantic." Big applause from MEPs for this last point. 16711
Reposted by Sam's friendSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Really is amazing how many Reform and UKIP elected officials have been arrested over years. So unlucky. 691527266
Reposted by Sam's friendAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026Your 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. 5943728613399
Reposted by Sam's friendJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026So the ‘negotiation’ involves blowing smoke up Putin’s arse, asking him what he wants then attacking Ukraine for refusing to concede it. Never forget the huge swathe of UK media & political figures who celebrated Trump’s ascent while claiming to care about Ukraine. Absolute heels, the lot of them. 681195311
Reposted by Sam's friendemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I think this too. Trump wants to sustain Mercator bc if he doesn't everyone will understand how stupid his pursuit of Greenland is. 1433650
Reposted by Sam's friendTony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Already a historic story for the ages. America reduced to being ruled by an imbecile, sending two other imbeciles to fawn over a dictator who invaded a country that would have been a US ally in more normal times. 718956
Reposted by Sam's friendChannel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:channel4news.substack.comExclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donationsUndercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 46694613996
Reposted by Sam's friendEd Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 03/09/2026This is racism, straight out of the Trump playbook. Reform are trying to turn our great country into a franchise of Trump's America. There are countless British patriots who came here from overseas, many of them refugees we proudly welcomed. That's the kind of country we are. 701700479
Reposted by Sam's friendParody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Yes, Iceland are an independent sovereign state. Who also happen to be in the Single Market, the EEA and the Schengen zone, with freedom of movement for people, goods and services. But if the UK did that I'd be screaming about Brexit betrayal and being an EU puppet. 361752484
Reposted by Sam's friendRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I think the general consensus of people around the world is that Americans can get fooled by a con man once, but to return him to power a 2nd time after having seen his corruption, incompetence, ignorance, & buffoonery, the problem isn’t just Trump it’s the American people. 76485101788
Reposted by Sam's friendemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Really a great report. As you read how Trump is making millions using crypto to hide the foreigners who are donating heavily, remember that Todd Blanche immunized any tax crimes associated with much of this. 11481191
Reposted by Sam's friendAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/08/2026Devastated. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comDolly Parton, country music icon, dies at 80Her death came after in May 2026 she announced she was canceling a Las Vegas show and said she’d been undergoing treatment for kidney stones for several years. 443105931351
Reposted by Sam's friendRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/08/2026With each passing day, there's more and more fighting and bad blood among the parties of the Right. They are starting to hate each other more than they hate the Left. 1291240269
Reposted by Sam's friendThe Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 13/08/2026“An actual king... had to come back here to remind us to wake the f**k up” Jon Stewart 18840149
Reposted by Sam's friendMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026A hugely embarrassing win for Farage in the Clacton by-election. Reform had been touting a 79% victory. Instead he got 63% against Count Binface who pulled in nearly 27%. Petulantly Farage didn’t turn up for the count to give a speech. The investigation into his finances begins again. 1232914596
Reposted by Sam's friendSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026This is clearly a concerted effort and I'm not sure if it's due to the threat Restore pose to Reform/Tories or because of the new German owners not being fans of Lowe's antisemitic mates. 2730458
Reposted by Sam's friendPBS News @pbsnews.org · 31/07/2026The State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI. 2032636974
Reposted by Sam's friendIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Totally normal thing to do, nothing to see here www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comRevealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UKExclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son 27519144
Reposted by Sam's friendIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Burnham: "Social care in England is as unfair as American healthcare." It's a very good line. 491965372
Reposted by Sam's friendDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules: 41885384
Reposted by Sam's friendCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface 11188462999
Reposted by Sam's friendDom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 24/07/2026Many people in Europe don't have AC because they haven't NEEDED to have AC Climate change has been so rapid and so severe that it's taking entire continents by surprise and leaving communities unprepared Instead you have this jackass making the argument that addressing climate change is pointless 318728
Reposted by Sam's friendEuan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 24/07/2026This really shows the value of propaganda: As soon as the Kremlin’s “Russia’s victory is inevitable” narrative was broken, minds started to change. 1620551
Reposted by Sam's friendAnthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026We're just at the end of your last ten year plan. Not gonna lie, the results ain't that great. 1422530536
Reposted by Sam's friendemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026It was only a matter of time until Whiskey Pete embraced gender affirming care. 39649160
Reposted by Sam's friendIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Starmer really was brilliant on Ukraine. Holding the line and providing solidarity and practical solutions when America fell away. 411130201
Reposted by Sam's friendAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/07/2026The thing about Kemi Badenoch's purge of any Conservative member to the left of Enoch Powell is that she's so close to a Tory revival if she only realised it. All she needs to do is to lead a party that is not obviously mad and wait for Reform to crumble, but she can't even manage that 621129201
Reposted by Sam's friendRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 11/07/2026To the likes of Hannan, it didn't really matter that we chose the steak & mushroom pie over the ham & eggs. It was just a preference of taste. No, it actually really mattered, to the point that if you got it wrong, Brexit was damaging, pointless and idiotic. They *still* don't get that. 6805
Reposted by Sam's friendRobert Smith @bondhack.ft.com · 09/07/2026Read every word of the latest from the great @annaisaac.bsky.social carefully and closely. Journalism at the highest level. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comMillions of pounds and many, many questions: the untold story of why Reform figures face NCA scrutinyExclusive: The details behind the financial transactions that bankers have flagged up to the National Crime Agency 3184101
