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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 8h
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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 9h
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'Big Short' Investor Explains How the AI Bubble Will Burst
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11h
We absolutely deserve an antiracist quarantine against the Greens that then allows a Tory/Reform stitchup government on possibly the most fantastically racist political platform ever put to the public. If we tolerate this shit, we will get exactly what’s coming to us.
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The question that will now rightly be put to Labour is: would you form a coalition with the Greens at Westminster? There should only be one answer to that question.
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 19h
Matthew Syed reckons we need "more bouts of unemployment" to make "the economy more vital and dynamic". You first, mate. I hope your unemployment will make you "happier and healthier". Or did you only mean other people?
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There is nothing neoliberal about our culture of debt and bailouts

Andy Burnham's analysis of the country is completely wrong. We should be waking capitalism from its comaWe need more boom and bust. More economic turbulence. More bankruptcy. More bouts of unemployment. I mean this literally. Everyone will be richer, happier and healthier, and the economy more vital and dynamic.
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 15h
396 years ago today, Giuseppe Maria Desa—who’d been born in a stable, the son of a carpenter—had a remarkable day out. He’d been having trances and visions since he was 8, and now, at 27, during a procession through town, “rose up off the ground ... hovering above an astonished crowd”
St Joseph of Cupertino Levitating, ca. 1762 by Felice Boscaratti, in the church of St Lawrence in Vicenza, Italy.
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Steve @stephenh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... When does reporting become propaganda? Badenoch is increasingly irrelevant but LauraK will always be on hand to support the tories. Still can‘t believe that she knew nothing about the No10 Covid parties despite all her “access” to Johnson
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Laura Kuenssberg: Kemi Badenoch has cemented her image. Now she wants to take her party back to its roots
The Conservative leader is expected to set out a return to core conservative principles at the party’s annual conference.
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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 02/10/2026
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Judge Michael Luttig: The Loophole in Article I That Could Freeze America
In 2021, Judge Luttig told Mike Pence to certify the election. Now he's sounding the alarm about a scheme aimed at the new House.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Matt Salomone @matthematics.com · 01/10/2026
This really is Fox News' bread and butter
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweet from 2018 sharing a Fox News graphic with the smiling faces of her and her "Squad" colleagues Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley with the headline "RADICAL NEW DEMOCRATIC IDEAS" and bullet points for "Free college for all, Free healthcare for all, Abolish ICE, and Green New Deal". "Oh no!" she tweets, "They discovered our vast conspiracy to take care of children and save the planet"
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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 01/10/2026
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Russia Faked Election Fraud. Then America Dismantled the People Fighting It.
While Washington hunts for noncitizen voters, it is dismantling defenses against a threat we already know is real — foreign election interference
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.
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The Deportation Project Map
Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is it me, or does Michaelmas start earlier every year?
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Guardian Sport @sport.theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
David Squires on … the Manchester City verdict and Nations League tensions
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David Squires on … the Manchester City verdict and Nations League tensions
Our cartoonist on the Premier League’s ruling finally being revealed and Israel v Republic of Ireland * Buy a cartoon | Some of David’s favourite works * And his latest book, Chaos in the Box: get it now Continue reading...
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Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fair play to Arsenal skipper Martin Ødegaard's father, he refused an offer from a law firm to set up an offshore company in a tax haven to manage his son's image rights when Martin signed for Real Madrid, saying everyone should pay taxes. 🔴⚪
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Chris Weatherspoon @cweatherspoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In three seasons Manchester City won the Premier League, 2011-12, 2013-14 and 2017-18, they recorded £360million in commercial income from Abu Dhabi-based sponsors The independent commission found that just £43m of that was actually paid to City by those sponsors
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mass arrests of 150 Palestine Action protesters at UK Labour Party conference, as total nears 4,000 www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/28…
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Mass arrests of 150 Palestine Action protesters at UK Labour Party conference, as total nears 4,000
The Burnham government is backing the genocide in Gaza and criminalising opposition to it at home every bit as brutally as Starmer, despite his crocodile tears.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 28/09/2026
I am a barrister who once spent time seconded to the CPS serious crimes unit making charging decisions. Today, you can pretend to be one too and work through the decision-making framework in a very serious case. The police have multiple suspects in custody and the phone just rang. 👨 👨 👨 👨 👨 📱 👮‍♀️ 🚨
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kidnapped their president. Snatching up their oil, and now their gold. At this point, I’m amazed that the ballroom/bunker isn’t inside a volcano. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w...
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Trump Brought Venezuelan Gold to the U.S., but Refiners Won’t Touch It (Gift Article)
The administration is brokering deals in a notoriously corrupt industry, including one with a company that the United States deems a security threat.
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Andrew @andydownie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So the BBC continue to quote Farage, who is now bellyaching on about National Security (he is the expert and the only MP quoted - so must be). Oddly enough he’s now silent about the ethnicity of the terrorists.
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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 27/09/2026
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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan
How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Farage (et al) literally panting for Fairford to be linked to asylum seekers and, as usual, the ludicrous demand for immediate information with totally irresponsible implication that the absence of such information is suspect.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Experienced FBI counterterrorism experts were punished for refusing to investigate something that, at most, warranted the attention of the DC Metro police.
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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 27/09/2026
Never Let a Mobster Pay for Your Wedding thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/never-let-...
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Never Let a Mobster Pay for Your Wedding
Mario Puzo and my grandma have some notes on generous friends.
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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 27/09/2026
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Your regular reminder that the media is under absolutely no obligation to use right wing slogans & frames to cover Every. Single. Issue. In. American. Politics.
Court packing 
Entitlements
Big government 
Law and order
Bailouts 
Tax relief
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The name of the extreme far left Home Secretary at the time? That’s right, Theresa May.
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Noa Hoffman @ @hoffman_noa • 4h
I have been ranting for such a long time that the influx of Islamists into the country, aided and abetted by the hard-left and their accomplices in the charity sector, is becoming an existential crisis.
The far-left who cheerlead Islamist entryism because of their extreme privilege and lack of having a big fat Jewish ethnic minority target on their back are putting Jewish lives in extreme danger.
And, obviously, once they are done with us Christians, LGBT groups etc are next on the hit list.
This is so obvious to anyone with a brain cell but the amount of people who refuse to reckon with it is so depressing.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 27/09/2026
Burnham, as expected, fuelling far-right narratives instead of addressing them He knows painting these as "legitimate concerns" will only embolden and legitimise them He knows they are minoritarian but he makes them "the people" He's comfortable for the rest of us can suffer the consequences
Burnham says concerns of women in Piddington about camp for asylum seekers 'understandable'

Q: What would you say to the women of Piddington concerned about having a camp for asylum seeker near their village, or women in other villages with similar concerns?

Burnham replied:

    Those concerns are understandable and they have to be addressed in whatever solution is finally agreed.

    There were also concerns expressed about the use of hotels and the reason why the nature of accommodation is changing across the country is because a commitment was given to end the use of hotels, and that was what many people were calling for a few years ago.
Burnham says he will be 'relentless' in dealing with small boats, but sidesteps offshore processing question

Q: Would you consider more radical policies, such as sending asylum seekers to a country like Albania to have their claims processed there?

Burnham avoided the question, but stressed there was some evidence that “things are going in the right direction.”

He said he would be “relentless” in addressing this issue.

And he praised what Shabama Mahmood, the home secretary, is doing on this.

    She’s got a strong grip on this issue. What we have been doing is working, but more is needed and more will be done.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely fascinating to see Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Burnham, flailing to adjust her stance to a politician with a moral argument and a positive message, who stands up for his policies and answers her questions clearly. She is getting so agitated at him not playing the game by the 'rules'.
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 27/09/2026
What this skeet doesn't say is that it's Burnham's condemnation of *immigrants* that is unequivocal.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Condemnation is pure hot air if in the next breath you’re telling everyone you’re doing your best to give the fascists what they want, just without the masks
In fact, these are scenes we have not seen on British streets. Immigration needs to be deal with, I will be the first to say that and we are dealing with it. The boat crossings have been halved since six years ago, net migration is down massively.
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is 1) very late and appears somewhat cynical, responding to the outrage at his lack of response 2) it's just words 3) we also have the Home Secretary's words, which are somewhat different, and the fact that she's still in her job.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Instability in the M/E is whats caused the [energy] price hikes.. & one of the things this Lab govt has done is facilitated the increase in instability.. by allowing Trump to use our bases to bomb Iran" Well done to Sharmen Rahman from the Greens for making this point
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two-tier British citizenship latest.
 Conservatives to strip migrant criminals of British citizenship

Dual nationals serving sentences over five years could lose passports under the proposals
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Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A deal that's the same as what was already on the table, for the low low price of ruinously undermining your most important alliance. Such diplomacy, much coercion, wow. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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US and Denmark reach deal over Greenland's security after Trump threats
Denmark and the US have reached an agreement after months of threats from Donald Trump to annex the territory.
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Christopher 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇮🇪 @christophert42.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So Andy Burnham gives facts on boat crossings and immigration so #bbclaurak tries to shut him down, he ignores her and carries on.
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Suzanne Brown @suzannebrown.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Question for Farage on next week's #bbclaurak: Do you think Russian agents like yourself should have a role in British politics?
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Come on Laura - stop letting Farage get away with grotesque lies on #climate - the green economy is growing 3 times faster than rest of the economy. The green transition is in our *economic interests* & it’s Farage who’ll de-industrialise the UK, not green policy #bbclaurak
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Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com · 27/09/2026
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All the President’s Pardoned Men
How a power meant to heal a nation became a marketplace for the well-connected
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Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Jesus Christ, BBC News is so fucked up.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
By the way, this is the same CEO that didn't want to move to Seattle where the company headquarters is located, so they got him a private jet to commute back and forth between his California home and Seattle Office. www.cnn.com/2024/08/23/b...
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Starbucks is giving its new CEO Brian Niccol a private jet to commute between his California home and Seattle office | CNN Business
Newly named Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol won’t be a constant presence at its Seattle’s headquarters when he begins the job next month. Instead, he’s going to commute weekly from his California home.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Even the GB News presenter is thrown by his guest's suggestion that all asylum seekers be castrated. This is what happens when the narrative marches ever rightwards. It drifts out of everyone's control and requires individuals involved to suddenly realise 'no wait, f***, that's mad'.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The way sources are attributed in this article is an absolute masterclass in Westminster code/speak. "one cabinet minister" "Another minister" "one MP" "one senior figure" "a minister" "an insider" "One influential figure" "One prominent figure" "one senior figure" "A senior source" One minister"
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How long can Labour's feel-good factor last?
The party’s spirits have been transformed since Burnham became PM, but what's coming down the tracks, asks Laura Kuenssberg.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In what world is it the purview of the President/Executive branch “to force conservative cultural changes on academia‘? And why end the paragraph without noting that there is no legal justification whatsoever for Trump and his minions to “force cultural change” on institutions of higher education.
Inside the White House, some of Mr. Trump’s top lieutenants have expressed frustration about a perceive slowdown in the adminstration’s attempts to force conservative cultural changes on academia.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
People say Bluesky is a bubble, but mostly it's because the entire rest of the internet is an absolute sewer
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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