Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialTony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 12/09/2026If an Irish newspaper doesn’t run a “Senior Orangeman Calls For A United Ireland” headline, then the newspapers are dead. 7565163
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialJessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"The role has led to death threats, attacks from the president, and heated on-air arguments. And yet, she’s not going anywhere." I'm not going anywhere. And in fact, I'm telling you the secrets for doing my job. I Disagree out this week! www.marieclaire.com/politics/jes...marieclaire.comFox News’s Favorite Nasty WomanAs the lone liberal on the network’s most-watched show, Jessica Tarlov has survived death threats and attacks from the president. She’s not going anywhere. 2141964
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage. 93934452234
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Think about this guy a lot www.youtube.com/shorts/HD6kw...youtube.comSurprise, AZ City Council meeting hearing on the proposed ICE facility.YouTube video by ToTheOthermoon 16421
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026It is true that Arday’s various lies should have been a niche story and not the subject of an intense media mobbing. But also he shut down attempts at investigation by *reporting them to the police for racism* and employing one of the UK’s most infamous and aggressive lawyers. 3075273
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026New post: "Was Thatcher a Thatcherite?" Much of what Thatcher (and New Labour) did was adapting to economic circumstances they didn't fully understand leading to outcomes they didn't expect. And why we risk making the same mistakes again. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/was-thatch...samf.substack.comWas Thatcher a Thatcherite?The hidden history of "neoliberalism" in Britain 2615127
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialYours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂 194136023862
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Here's the Iran-US MoU, and it's pretty much a severe strategic defeat and capitulation for the US and a massive strategic and economic victory for Iran. Really an utter humiliation for the US thanks to Trump's naked incompetence. edition.cnn.com/2026/06/17/m... 651282521
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialLiberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 17/06/2026Read more and back our campaign: www.libdems.org.uk/Europelibdems.org.ukA New Deal with EuropeLiberal Democrats are calling for the UK to join the single market and customs union, to fix the damage done by Brexit and get our country back on track. 11711
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialLiberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 17/06/2026Today, we are calling for a bold new deal with Europe that will make Britain richer, safer, and stronger. A Customs Union. Taking Britain back into the Single Market. Tearing down barriers to trade. It’s time to end the chaos and put Britain back at the heart of Europe. 513360
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/06/2026This is an incredibly revealing chart about group-based political identities in American politics today. Via @today.yougov.com @dhmontgomery.com 20294106
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialRob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social · 16/05/2026As of today Ed Davey's European policy is *less pro European* than the two leading Labour contenders to be Prime Minister. This is an utterly mad bit of positioning. We Liberal Democrats are a pro-European party - so why on earth don't we say that we want to rejoin the EU? 58121
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 11/05/2026The problem for Starmer is that Starmer is right. The era of managerialism is dead. But he can't move Labour beyond it. Piece from me on today's speech. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...open.substack.comThe Problem For Starmer Is That Starmer Is RightThe PM knows that managerialism has been tested to destruction. But manager is what he is. 1812622
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026De Niro: Every morning when I get up, I reach for my phone to look at the headlines of the day, and for some time now, I start every morning depressed about the latest outrage from our would-be king. I mean, it’s amazing—every fucking day there’s something new and crazy, but it’s different today… 953304906
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialFella Jeff 🌻 @bonkologist.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Sitting here in my chaise lounge chair, these are the questions I've been considering too. #iran #iranprotests #iranrevolution www.iranintl.com/en/202601137...iranintl.comA letter from Iran: I don’t trust those who say they have the answersI am writing this from Tehran after three days of trying to find a way to send it: things may get a lot worse before they get any better. 142
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialA Christian Resistance @xianresistance.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Re-posting with alt-text: 02350611
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/01/2026A few thoughts on this important NYT analysis: First, the officer who killed Good is shown running up the *passenger* side of the car seconds before he killed her. He shot her first from the front, then the driver's side. This means he *put himself* in the path of the vehicle when he shot her.nytimes.comVideo: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in MinneapolisAn analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire. 311282424
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Make it viral. 3594741321266
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny. 517326959196
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Raju: The Speaker and others have said that this driver was weaponizing her vehicle. AOC: Their editorializing of this event to justify a public murder is disgusting. It is horrifying. Watch it for yourself and make that assessment for yourself on which of these leaders are lying to you. 278131253866
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialLiberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 07/01/2026"The way Ed Davey said it was much better" Ed Davey challenges Keir Starmer over Trump at #PMQs 27939
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialJules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Senator Mark Kelly on Pete Hegseth. The Senator definitely has that #FAFO energy and I’m here for it. 24796289
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialIT Army UA @itarmy-ua.bsky.social · 06/01/2026I can’t imagine Hitler calling Roosevelt to whine that Churchill tried to bomb his bunker.😒 Putin has sunk to a new low - even by the standards of history’s most disgusting and dishonest villains. Some call him Hitler; that’s generous. He’s far closer to a Pablo Escobar type (but greedier) 🤢 0111
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialDaniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026*Laughs hysterically* 1174
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialJohn West @jwestjourno.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Days like this are a stark reminder that the UK undertook Brexit at historically the worst possible moment. Bloc politics is here to stay and fiddlearsing about with 2mm advances towards smoother customs arrangements with the EU is not the leadership Britain needs. 11512138
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialWarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Americans and Ukrainians with flags gathered on the bridge leading to Mar-a-Lago to show support for Ukraine. 243168
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/12/2025I'm once again politely asking Bluesky developers to allow us to attach multiple photos and videos in one post. 475399747
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialMax Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · 19/12/2025The EU never gets praise even when it acts. There is so much constant EU negging that commentators struggle to praise when it delivers. The EU did what it needed to do. Take the win. Last night was a big step for Ukraine and the European project. First, the EU got the money for Ukraine 1/ 23583214
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialBNO News @bnonews.com · 14/12/2025WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney 2054188925
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialJohn Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Good Christmas card from Ed Davey this year 727766
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialRob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 13/12/2025WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN 1613857727
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialLiberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 09/12/2025🚨BREAKING🚨 MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union. The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU. 56949341
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialLiberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 06/12/2025This is wake-up call for Labour MPs. 👋 Vote for our EU customs union bill on Tuesday so we can start to undo the damage done by Brexit. 13344113
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialKYGrace💙 @kygrace.bsky.social · 05/12/2025This is an American patriot. 20478241951
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialKaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 26/11/2025We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate. Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓ 631829543
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialRutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1 337100445078
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialSenator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 19/11/2025Melissa Tran came here on a Green Card at age 11. She's since raised 4 kids, started a business, & is a beloved member of the Hagerstown community. Trump is deporting her, despite a judge saying she poses no threat. Is she the "worst of the worst"? Do you feel safer yet?thebanner.comHagerstown mother and nail salon owner set for deportation to VietnamMelissa Tran’s six-month legal battle has highlighted the impacts of President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign on longtime residents and their families. 36777325
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19/11/2025John Major, "Our links to Europe and America may be loser now than once they were and that is a loss" "The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year" "That's a tax yield of £40 billion" "How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?" 29924356
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 10/11/2025This looks rather meaningful. 814565
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 10/11/2025I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said 20830153
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-... 117102825624
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialAnton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 02/11/2025Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the Center for Civil Liberties, spoke at De Balie in Amsterdam about the role of citizens in war, Russian aggression, and the fact that occupation is not peace. 📹 Center for Civil Liberties/Facebook 13594227
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20/10/2025EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna... 1500220686844
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialMark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 17/10/2025How it started vs How it's going. More details: buff.ly/GbIKw4P 830390
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialHelen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social · 16/10/2025"Sometimes you have to ask yourself: How did I get here—sitting in Saudi Arabia, listening to Louis C.K. do jokes about Barely Legal magazine?" I went to Riyadh to see the transformation of a country with the world's biggest cultural chequebook. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comHow Many Comedians Does It Take to Change a Country?What it’s like to watch Louis C.K. do stand-up in Saudi Arabia 37392107
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialThe Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10/10/2025George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away. 379142997149
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 08/10/2025JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2014...newrepublic.comInside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator RuleHe wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this. 13836691468
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialFranken-Pattern @franken-pattern.bsky.social · 24/09/2025If you have never seen this, it's truly a must-watch. From 1947:youtu.beDon't Be a SuckerYouTube video by US National Archives 45518
Reposted by @strafio.bsky.socialJohn Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 24/09/2025“As Yuri Andropov once put it, “We just need to plant the seeds. Others will harvest and re-plant for us.” Useful idiots abroad—politicians, activists, or commentators—spread and legitimize Russian narratives…” tomorrowsaffairs.com/putins-lies-...tomorrowsaffairs.comPutin’s Lies Hide WeaknessRussia has thrived on lies for centuries; its undoing will come when truth proves more powerful than the fictions it desperately spins 16627207
