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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 54m

Reform's deputy leader on Solihull Council quit to be an independent yesterday, saying it was for personal reasons by mutual consent. It came a day before ITV news broadcast his racist comments when filned undercover. He says mass deportations must make Britain 99% white

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17m

It’s sad that this is necessary, but we’re glad to see action being taken to protect our elections. More than 100 Democratic Senate staffers will head to key polling locations this November to observe the election process as part of a new, first-of-its-kind Senate Election Observer Program.

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Padilla, Schumer Announce Recruitment of 100 + Senate Staff and Plans to Deploy to Nine States Ahead of Midterms - Senator Alex Padilla

First-of-its-kind Senate program will put trained congressional observers on the ground to document any voter interference or threats to election workers in 2026 midterm Senate contests as Trump escal...

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Richard Pierce @tettig.bsky.social · 54m

Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... It's time the UK govt proscribed Far Right organisations and removed proscription from Pakestine Action.

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Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support

Irish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales and she cancelled UK trip due to fear of arrest

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Richard Pierce @tettig.bsky.social · 1h

The eyes have it: Reform politician’s ‘smart glasses’ prompt calls for ban in Westminster www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Ban the fuckers, not just from parliaments, but from the world. No place for AI except in medical research.

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The eyes have it: Reform politician’s ‘smart glasses’ prompt calls for ban in Westminster

Jason O’Connell’s suspected use of the specs to aid his speech in Senedd reignites debate over AI-enabled devices

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."

In conducting this hearing, the Court is not called upon to resolve factual disputes between
the parties. The facts set forth in this Memorandum Opinion and Order were proposed by the
Plaintiff, unobjected to by the Government, and then deemed admitted by the Court. Dkts. 74, 75,
77.2 These facts establish that high-ranking government officials, including then Secretary of DHS
Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, engaged in a coordinated public relations campaign to impugn the
personal and professional integrity of Ms. Comans. For reasons unfathomable to this Court,
officials chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an
impeccable record of public service. In short, Ms. Comans was professionally targeted and
personally attacked by government officials for no legitimate reason. The attacks against Ms.
Comans were based entirely on false information, and many government officials knew the
accusations were untrue at the time they were made. With no regard for the truth and with no
consideration for the personal and professional effect on Ms. Comans, government officials
exploited their access to mass media outlets to broadcast false information. These false
statements reached hundreds of millions of people. The purpose of this Order is, to the best of
this Court’s ability, to correct the public record and establish as a matter of law that the
statements made by these officials about Ms. Comans were objectively and demonstrably false.

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm so pissed off that I've taken to ranting into my empty kitchen cabinet. Here's me on why Farage is wrong about everything. Thank you for listening.

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Richard Pierce @tettig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Too kind, Mikey. You should be plugging your writing not mine!

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Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ukraine drone hit forced Yandex to suspend its Vladimir data centre near Moscow, the third strike this week on Russia’s Google, knocking services offline as Kyiv hits revenue streams fueling the war machine. #ServerDownForEmpire

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

At last! Big congrats to all including @carolecadwalla.bsky.social As MP I was proud to join a court case to try to force ministers to hold an inquiry into the impact of Russian disinformation on the Brexit vote & other recent elections - their lack of curiosity, from Boris onwards, was stunning …

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

just when you thought it couldn’t get worse

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Signs you’re a war criminal: You attack the court that goes after war criminals

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Police in Bristol said they asked organisers of a far-right protest in city centre to move it or reschedule, because the big Shine Night Walk big cancer charity 10K fundraising walk of 2,000 people - mainly women - was planned for Friday night. Police confirmed the group refused, so walk postponed.

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Far right 'were asked to move' protest for cancer charity fundraiser

Police say they asked far-right Bristol Rises protesters to change their plans but 'an agreement could not be reached' so now the big Cancer Research event has been postponed

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Richard Pierce @tettig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#NewMusicFriday live on www.radiostradbroke.co.uk at 10am on 09Oct26. Inc: Land of the Giants; Nalgo Bay; Shoun Shoun; Celestial Skies; Escape Goats; Jake Kotschy; Beat The Drum; Geraint Rhys; Egoism; Crybaby; Ultra Violets; Life Underground; Dogviolet; Moody Moody; Takeda; Blenko; & more. Be there.

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Radio Stradbroke

The Website of Stradbroke Village Radio Station.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Sagal Abdi-Wali came to the UK aged 7 having fled the war in Somalia with her family. She has thrived. Leader of Camden council and now the MP for Holborn and St Pancras. A narrative that runs counter to all we are told about refugees. Congratulations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Labour fends off Green party to win Holborn and St Pancras byelection

Victory by Sagal Abdi-Wali in north London seat will be a relief for Andy Burnham in high-stakes battle for the left of British politics

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Richard Pierce @tettig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A really excellent piece. Chapeau.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The government has declared datacentres “nationally significant infrastructure projects” that can be forced through the planning system. This means getting preferential access to water. Yet it has no idea what they're used for. Our dwindling supplies might be prioritised for nudifying celebrities.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The threats to our resilience are the same as the threats to our democracy: corporate lobbyists shaping policy, with dire consequences for our ability to withstand crises. Burnham seems to want to change this. But is he aware of scale of the task? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Stockpile food – and wash your hands: is that really how to prepare for environmental catastrophe? | George Monbiot

The UK state is dumping its responsibilities on our doorsteps, while green-lighting policies that lead us closer to crisis, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A naked, gold-covered Trump statue has been unveiled inside the European Parliament in Strasbourg. It’s called “Orange Plague,” also known as “King of Injustice,” and shows him sitting on another man’s shoulders holding an enormous golf club. Covered in reportedly 23-karat gold, of course.

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Richard Pierce @tettig.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

www.theguardian.com/science/2026... “Looking back, we were the luckiest people in the world; there was no choice but to be pioneers; no time to be beginners.” Women are always and should always be respected as equals. Fuck the right-wing patriarchy.

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Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90

MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission and earned Presidential Medal of Freedom

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Election Day is 30 days away, and the fight for free and fair elections is here. In some states, early voting has already begun, and nearly every state has sent out mail-in ballots. newsletters.democracydocket.com/youve-stood-...

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You've stood with me. Here's what's next.

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

These days there’s so much talk of a nightmare waiting for Kyiv: we’ll freeze with no water or electricity, and strikes on bridges connecting the two banks will cause a logistical collapse… I don’t say times are or will be easy. But I stay in Kyiv. This panic benefits russia.

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Kyiv. Early Sunday evening. I went to have warcoffee at my favourite place. Drones? Frequent uninvited ‘guests’ during the day. One of the bridges was hit earlier. People are out, doing the same as I do: living their lives.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Palantir is working with ICE, it uses AI drones to kill innocent Palestinians in Gaza. Why the hell are we giving Palantir our NHS information. Palantir need to be banned from UK Goverment, just like the Swiss banned them from theirs

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TheBionicBee 🐝 @suewho82.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good morning! ☕️☀️💙 31 Days! #vote

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

WE ALL HAVE TO VOTE BLUE FOR CHANGE.......💙

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EUvsDisinfo @euvsdisinfo.eu · 02/10/2026

The Kremlin wants the world to forget who started the war. On 24 February 2022, Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, launching the largest conflict on the European continent since the Second World War. The war was not ‘forced upon’ Russia. Russia chose to start it.

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David Hearn @daveyph.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have done this - it took two minutes. Please do this and share.

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Richard Pierce @tettig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#NewMusicFriday live on www.radiostradbroke.co.uk at 10am on 02Oct26. Inc: Hometime; My Best Unbeaten Brother; Short Sharp Scrach, Artes; Dogviolet; Sawtega; The Number 20; Cutty; Kitty Perrin; Amelia & The Housewives; Kayble; Weather Happy; first swim; Low Battery; Weave; & more. Be there.

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Radio Stradbroke

The Website of Stradbroke Village Radio Station.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Braverman blathering on about who can be English, Farage starting his me-me-me tour of the country telling audiences he’ll fix the country in 100 days or they’ll all sack themselves… apart from him… and Yusuf fanboying that racist thug who got refused bail… A moron festival. Come on, UK. Enough now.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is *not* the result of "the success of Mahmood's reforms", but of earlier measures/other factors. Her proposals could make it considerably *worse* in future years. A few other points linked below.. archive.ph/0psJ8

Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.

Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration significantly undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).

The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana Mahmood’s reforms, which have seen net migration cut to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.

Labour sources familiar with the budget process, however, said that the figure was now closer to £6.5bn. The OBR’s migration forecasts have been consistently higher than real numbers in recent years.

Treasury officials, who have long expected Mahmood’s reforms to cause a hit to headroom, described the number as “pure speculation” but did not deny that Healey would have to contend with a larger funding gap than expected because of falling migration

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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Thank EU for The Music @thankeuforthemusic.com · 26/09/2026

The @telegraph.co.uk decided not to publish our response to Tim Stanley’s 13 September piece, in which he called those organising the EU flags at the Proms “sad sack Remainers”. We believe in open dialogue and free speech, so we’ve published our response here... #LastNightOfTheProms

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Tom Tugendhat in Sunday Times insists on leaving the ECHR to tackle “soaring” immigration. What a miserable rat. Lying to us all. Betraying our country’s best interests. Threatening to flounce out of our human rights framework, trashing our treaties and torching our protection from abuses of power.

The Tories are planning to make the ECHR a dividing line at the next election. Last week the party announced plans to deport every foreign criminal, apart from those convicted of the most trivial offences, and said their plan for ECHR withdrawal meant only the Conservatives were equipped to take on the problem of soaring immigration. One of the problems withdrawal would create is a legal dispute over whether it breaches the Good Friday agreement, which committed the UK to fully incorporate the ECHR into Northern Ireland's justice system. Tugendhat said the issue had not yet been raised in his conversations with lawmakers in the US, adding:
"There's a lot of work to be done."

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