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Benjamin Thomas

@siamanti.bsky.social
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Politics, Scotland, dogs and Borussia Mönchengladbach

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Benjamin Thomas @siamanti.bsky.social · 7h
Equally depressing is that the weakest are flocking to support those most unlikely to give a shit about them.
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Benjamin Thomas @siamanti.bsky.social · 8h
It’s so utterly depressing that about fifty nasty human beings devoid of ethics and empathy are determining the fate of a planet on the brink.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 8h
I love talking our country down While offering no solutions Because I’m a grifting gobshite Who likes to incite unrest Small boat crossings are down 44% Deportations are the highest in 10 years Immigration is 82% lower But who needs facts When you can make up lies
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 13h
When did it become so normalised to describe often far right thugs attacking people as "scuffles" but make out anyone just trying to seek safety is a threat to national security?
The Guardian

Anti-migrant protesters scuffle with police in Gosport after Channel rescue

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Protesters scuffle with police as migrants brought ashore on south coast

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Protesters Scuffle With Police as Migrants Brought Ashore

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The i Paper

Three arrested at Portsmouth anti-migrant protest as scuffles break out

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tories to hand free childcare to those earning more than £100,000, would cost £700m to the public purse. Previously, they pledged cuts to universal credit, housing benefit, support for the long term unemployed. Continuation of the Tory war on less well-off.
theguardian.com
Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says
Kemi Badenoch says those earning more than £100,000 should not be discouraged from working more
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
RIP to everyone punished by their gods for their hubris, but I'm different, and better..maybe even better than the gods?
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Bob Owen @etotheipiadd1.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Who is brave here, a lone woman speaking out against xenophobia or the gangs of black clad men in masks, you decide.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump refuses to rule out declaring a national state of emergency over the midterm elections. I'm live with Andrew Marr on @lbc.co.uk at 6.30pm UK time.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Don Jr. & Eric have investments in data centers and AI infrastructure. Don. Jr's firm 1789 Capital also has shares in tech companies working on AI. Donald's own stock portfolio itself is heavily invested in Big Tech. When Trump calls reasonable AI safety concerns a "hoax," follow the money.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 01/10/2026
The far right thrives on lies and disinformation. We’re debunking some of the most common myths they peddle, exposing the harm they cause, and showing why their claims don’t stand up to scrutiny. Read our new report: hopenothate.org.uk/2026/10/01/f...
hopenothate.org.uk
Far Right Fact Check
Disinformation Debunked - What the data actually says.
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Benjamin Thomas @siamanti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Unsere japanischen Neuzugänge und Verletzungen sind mittlerweile eher lächerlich.
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Benjamin Thomas @siamanti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every day now, more concerning news regarding AI but we continue to move towards our own annihilation with open eyes and full speed ahead.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Andy Burnham is coming for your pension! By... er... increasing it by slightly less. Whereas Reform will scrap it completely.
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 30/09/2026
bro are you five
Greg Brockman’s signature. Imagine if a kindergartener wrote the letters “gdb.”
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s pretty nuts. Tom Watson’s very first intervention in his new job at spytech firm Palantir is to write a letter to his former colleague @labourlewis.bsky.social detailing all the times the firm has monitored his anti-Palantir activities
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Lynn Miclea @lynnmiclea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Imagine sympathising with someone who encouraged more violence while riots were taking place
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The fact that the Fairford suspects are all British Nationals proves nothing. I’m a British National and look at the damage I’ve already caused to the UK.
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yk6623lm.bsky.social @yk6623lm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Maybe time to ask Farage why he judged them to be Iranian agents who arrived on small boats? Can't see Iranian spies being let out on bail, somehow.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
3 people drowned today in the English Channel, the Right Wing Media have been allowed to twist the narrative so much that no one will mention their deaths except to blame 'evil people smugglers'. They devalue the lives of 'immigrants' to devalue yours too. Hate breeds hate, for everyone.
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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To be fair, you honestly can’t say that Enid Blyton isn’t prepared to move with the times.
BBC headline: Five arrested as counter-terror police investigate major incident near RAF Fairford
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Benjamin Thomas @siamanti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Have a word with your online “journalists” Almost every headline is incorrect these days or misleading Wes Streeting is not a “she” Honestly, what has happened to your organisation?
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The police have asked everyone to please not speculate about the RAF Fairford incident, so naturally I'm going to waste no time in making up total bollocks to suit my own agenda.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A former staff member of Tony Blair Institute said they had serious concerns that this was “very much trading money for access”, but was instructed by a colleague not to describe it that way. ‘They were saying you have to be really careful not to make it seem as if they’re paying money for access’😬
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Benjamin Thomas @siamanti.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ah well, nothing to see here
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes, it's that time again when the Fascism scene returns to London and this year black is very much in vogue. From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🔴 NEW Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000 By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Read below. ↓
bylinetimes.com
Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000
The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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Benjamin Thomas @siamanti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ich find es einfach absolut unsportlich. Simples
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Benjamin Thomas @siamanti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hmmmmm mit Klopp kehrt das Glück zurück
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Benjamin Thomas @siamanti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Verteidigen wie Gladbach und Ter Stegen oooooooh
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Who do Reform put up on their latest internal crisis? Jaymey McIvor, an ex-Tory councillor who left the party when accused of sending an unsolicited image of his ‘private parts’ & is now a Reform councillor. #BBC #PoliticsLive
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Benjamin Thomas @siamanti.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bei AFD Wählern wird es so ähnlich aussehen mit weißen Männern und auch bei Reform in Großbritannien.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Holding Govts to Ransom. Global banks warn UK windfall tax will trigger shift away from London. None complained about bailouts, £100bn UK subsidy in last 3 years. Banks profiteering, higher interest rates/charges, measley return to savers, speculation on price of energy/food. archive.ph/gQKNT
ft.com
Global banks warn UK windfall tax will trigger shift away from London
Chancellor John Healey is looking for revenues in next month’s Budget to compensate for hit from higher borrowing costs due to Iran war
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The law Andy Burnham wants to change? Drinking at football matches The law he hasn't shown an interest in changing? The one Cooper and Mahmood rolled out and enforce that has seen thousands of non violent protestors being arrested, including the daughter of a Holocaust survivor
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good. Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson. And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel
Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is disgraceful and wilfully misleading that the BBC do not report that Danny Tommo was filmed slashing the boat.
bbc.co.uk
Migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea
Protesters gathered in Gosport after initial reports the small boat would be brought further west.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
something has gone very, very wrong with the UK
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We're almost certain she won't end up going to prison for taking Russian bribes or being arrested for assault and coercive behaviour, which will be a huge improvement on her predecessors.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yes, I'm pretty sure everyone can see what's happening. Rich, privately, educated entitled tossers who could not be more part of The Establishment do not think they ought to have to play by the rules.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Legitimate concerns don’t require politicians to agree with them. They require politicians to investigate them honestly, explain what the evidence says, fix the problems that are real, and stop feeding the fears that aren’t." No paywall russincheshire.substack.com/p/legitimate...
russincheshire.substack.com
Legitimate Concerns
How politicians turned migration into a permanent panic — and why the facts tell a different story
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Jim Ratcliffe, tax-dodging Brexiter billionaire living in Monaco, says the poorest and most vulnerable should have their rights & benefits removed to bolster our economy. Don’t bother telling us this rancid man’s opinions unless you say how much he’s avoided in tax and what Brexit is costing us all.
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Benjamin Thomas @siamanti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Gladbach stemmt sich einmal zum Ausgleich um dann völlig unnötig wieder lethargisch zu werden. Zum zweiten Mal klappt es nicht. Alles in allem absolut enttäuschend mit zehn Spielern die defensiv überfordert sind.
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Benjamin Thomas @siamanti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Im Übrigen ist es auch frappierend das die Mannschaft als Mainz gewackelt hat das Fußballspielen wieder eingestellt hat. Null Gespür für die Situation. Das Stadion war wach und man hat Mainz wieder aufgeweckt
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Benjamin Thomas @siamanti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hoffen auf Castrop,vielleicht Konoplaya und Uno und Hashioka, aber das Sind Strohälmchen zum klammern. Ich befürchte auch der neue Trainer wird mit diesem Kader an seine Grenzen stossen.
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Benjamin Thomas @siamanti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wieder gebettelt. Sie kapieren gar nix. Mainz wackelt. Was macht Gladbach——schaltet zurück und na Klar Stöger der andere der immer wieder Geschenke verteilt
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Benjamin Thomas @siamanti.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Wenn ich Gladbach wäre, hätte ich nicht wieder zurück geschaltet, denn Mainz hat gewackelt
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