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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12h
US president's comments came after he was asked why North Korea can have nuclear weapons when Iran cannot.
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Trump calls Kim Jong Un a ‘friend' and plays down N Korea's nuclear arsenal
US president's comments came after he was asked why North Korea can have nuclear weapons when Iran cannot.
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Wombat @thewombat.bsky.social · 13h
Odd thing for a crack team of Iranian terrorists to have done www.bbc.com/news/article...
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One of the five men arrested near RAF Fairford called 999 himself
He made the call almost an hour before a farmer also called police after seeing men in balaclavas.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 29/09/2026
The Fairford incident is dominating the news cycle - and the right-wing. Over the past 48 hours we’ve seen speculation, insinuation and implication attempt turn a serious story about security into one about immigration. This is a long one. Make some tea.
bearlypolitics.co.uk
A Dissection: The Fairford Fannywobble
How the right-wing commentariat turned an ongoing investigation into a migrant story before the facts were known.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If the US had such good intelligence on the RAF Fairford suspects, then why did it take a 999 call to arrest the guys? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Rubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford plot
US secretary of state, who offered no evidence for claims, also says many people ‘disturbed’ that five suspects released on bail
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is what the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool looks like today after a $17M deliberate fuck up and the orange felon won’t stop until he destroys everything. Makes me sick to my stomach every day.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Dear Diary, The police have condemned 'unfounded, malicious speculation' about the RAF Fairford suspects. Fortunately they said nothing about baccy-stained grifters spreading lies to incite anger in a desperate bid to stay relevant"
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
JOHN WAYNE’s a Centurion stood by the dying Christ and says - “Truly this man was the Son of God”. Director George Stevens asks him do it again but this time to ‘say it with awe'. Cameras roll and Wayne opines “Awww, truly this man was the son of God”. THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD (1965)
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE, AS WELL......
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Marco Rubio: “Iranians are radical religious lunatics.” Also: Have you met Paula White, the White House faith advisor?
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Scrapping de minimis on imports is good for incumbent multinationals, bad for small businesses. Obvious, but such are the fears of Europe and the US right now that economic self harm is fashionable. @alanbeattie.bsky.social has the receipts... www.ft.com/content/15bf...
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How Trump’s tariff war is clobbering the Hanks of America
The end of the ‘de minimis’ exception can inflict major damage on niche companies
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That thug sabotaging rescue efforts, racist riots, flags on lampposts, pink ladies wanting to burn down hotels, doxxing charity workers, ICE-style deportation plans, threats to scrap the Equality Act and leave the ECHR… “legitimate concerns” No. A tornado of hate and prejudice set off by Farage.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Art of the Deal is buying fertilizer from a Putin-aligned repressive dictator and paying to ship it 6,000 miles from his landlocked and sanctioned country so you can teach Canada a lesson.
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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Happy Sea Otter Awareness Week!
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David @davidpeacock40.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sick and tired of having this families psycho drama stuffed down our throats.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform is owned by a few money laundering crypto billionaires. Farage is their greedy little broker. Happy to sell our country out to make even more money for the global tax-avoiding super-rich. Screw everyone else. Screw our rights. Screw our kids’ futures. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-uk-...
Reform UK Is Now a
Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary of the Corrupt Crypto Industry
As criminal investigations into Reform's funding continue, much of the British press continues to give a free pass to Nigel Farage's shady funders
ADAM BIENKOV
TODAY AT 12:36

Photo: Bitcoin Magazine's Frank Corva holds hands with Nigel Farage as he holds up a copy of his proposed Cryptocurrencies and Digital Finance Bill in Las Vegas.Starmer and Burnham's governments have left the door wide open to Delo, Harborne and other crypto billionaires to sweep in and effectively buy up one of our major political parties.
This in turn has an impact on the reporting, which broadly continues to treat these donations as being a massive boon for Farage, rather than being the incredibly alarming evidence of potentially criminal behaviour that it actually is.
This all really matters.
Because whilst the recent reporting of Farage's funding woes appears to have caused the party to dip slightly in the polls, we are still a long way from the general election, at which point the tens of millions of pounds supplied by Reform's shady crypto donors could prove to be an absolute gamechanger.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 12/09/2026
You can call this legal. You can call it a donation. But please don’t insult everyone’s intelligence by calling it a “level playing field”.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Essential thread.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Really important from Ed Miliband. The Chief Rabbi’s position essentially means there can never be any criticism of Israeli government actions.
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Miliband defends sanctions on Israeli settlements and pushes back against chief rabbi’s criticism – UK politics live
UK foreign secretary ‘regrets’ Israel’s response to ban on trade with illegal settlements but ‘proud’ of his actions
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 09/09/2026
If Miliband's comparatively mild, caveated, and strictly targeted criticism of Israeli settler actions are enough to endanger the UK Jewish community & unleash pogroms then: a) We've passed some point of no return. b) Successive UK governments have utterly failed in addressing antisemitism.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 08/09/2026
The lies about the RNLI aren’t new. Publishing and circulating images of individual volunteers to an already-radicalised audience is. That is where online hatred starts becoming a real-world safety issue. In today's post I address four of the most pervasive myths surrounding the RNLI.
bearlypolitics.co.uk
The Far Right Has Put RNLI Volunteers In The Crosshairs
Online misinformation about Channel rescues is no longer just poisonous rhetoric, it’s putting real people at risk.
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Brown bear floating along in Bristol Bay Alaska: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Chris Mason (BBC) reports on his “interview” with Nigel Farage. It’s not an interview. It’s an idiotic, moany rant from Farage about how he’s being picked on cos he reckons he’s a threat to the establishment. And Mason just folds like a wet cardboard box in the face of this delusional bollox.
Farage pictured with his innocent face on… (it’s hideous - my opinion) 

Nigel Farage insists he's 'broken no rules'He added: "The point is, we live in a complainants' society. If you complain about me, automatically that triggers an investigation."
He said that political parties were "constantly writing to all the authorities", meaning Reform was "under investigation every day for virtually everything we do".
"There's a big picture here. The old two-party system that has dominated since the end of the First World War feels for the first time it faces an existential threat.
"There is a whole ecosystem with a century of development around this. And we come along from virtually nowhere and threaten the whole thing.”
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 26/08/2026
With what army, economy and industrial base is he planning this escalation? Is he President of some other country without petrol queues and where the central bankers aren't giving press conferences that sound like eulogies?
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Donny has clownfucked himself into unwinnable wars against Canada and Iran, and it's broken his what's left of his rotting brain. boo fucking hoo, Donny. thank you for your attention to today's post, in which I mock that shit and also say goodbye to Dolly Parton. link is here: bit.ly/3SWdH7B
Donny no notion of how to defuse a situation. he only knows how to make things worse.

you know, if Donny had spent this much time and expended this much effort into negotiating an actual trade deal with Canada, we’d already have one by now.

but that would have meant doing actual hard work — and Donny doesn’t want to do the hard work. Jon Ossoff had it exactly right: all Donny really wants to do is build his vulgar Epstein Dance Hall, and travel with his beloved Natalie.

here’s the real problem: Donny has no fucking idea how to negotiate. the only language he speaks is bully. everything has to be his way, or there’s no deal at all. that’s not negotiating — that’s just being an asshole.

Canada has figured this shit out, and they — along with Iran — have called Donny’s bluff, told him to go fuck himself, and Donny hasn’t a single clue how to extricate himself from the messes he created.

Canada and Iran have broken what’s let of Donny rotting brain.
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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
That’s how stupid they are…
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Williams: “Although Nigel Farage thought it was worth getting a theologian on board for Reform UK, I don't think he lies awake at night thinking about his soul” No. Just the MAGA money that will roll in if he prances about in some racist fake-religious fervour. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Ex-Archbishop accuses Farage of using Christianity to channel anti-Muslim feeling
Rowan Williams was the Church of England’s leading bishop for 10 years until 2012
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Nigel Farage who was literally given a £5 million gift by a crypto billionaire wants to end "something for nothing" Britain
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The only things this ridiculous Clacton by-election farce have confirmed: 1) Farage is wholly unfit for public office, given his willingness to abuse it 2) Farage is corrupt 3) Farage is an attention-seeking, charmless, lying dickhead 4) Clacton has let us all down. Again. That’s it.
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Protecting whales and dolphins means protecting the seas—and, by extension, life on our planet. Save the Ocean: If the ocean dies, humanity dies.
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Whale Tail Dives in Frozen World
ALT: Whale Tail Dives in Frozen World
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AJfromBrooklyn @ajfrombrooklyn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I dare anyone to come up with a worse album cover than this.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Man who shagged his girlfriend behind his wife's back lectures the Archbishop of Canterbury on Christianity.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Ridiculous Donald Trump called January 6ers the group of people treated the worst in our nation’s history. Former slaves, all women, any people of color, and LGBTQ people might like to have a word. They didn’t ransack the Capitol and smear their feces on its walls.
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Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Our AI Future Follow my cartoons and accompanying written commentary on Substack: nickanderson.substack.com
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Xenta @xenta.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A heartbreaking photo 💔 A tiny puppy is sleeping next to an artillery shell He doesn't know what war is He just found a warm place beside Ukrainian defenders This is the reality of war Where innocence lives side by side with deadly weapons
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Oh well, it seems that *some* people have not been distracted.
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Wombat @thewombat.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
chuffed.org/project/1841...
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Help Mo buy food to keep the shelter cats fed
My name is Jean McCarthy and I live in London. I am raising funds to help Mohammed Sallam look after and feed the homeless cats in his shelter in Gaza City.
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Laura Friedrich Merton @worldlady.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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Xenta @xenta.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Poor Choice couldn't go home today because her blood pressure is too low and the vets are trying to stabilize her Mrs Welcy is still raising funds for her treatment and the supplies that will make her comfortable when she arrives home❤️ Please help directly to PayPal: paypal.me/welcyfernandez
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Pay Welcy Fernandez using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/welcyfernandez and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
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HAL @sperrympe.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
What could go wrong?
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David Hearn @daveyph.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Xenta @xenta.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Stand with Ukraine ❤️🇺🇦❤️
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Matt Carr @mattcarr.substack.com · 12/07/2026
My substack piece on Mosley-Farage's by-election gambit. open.substack.com/pub/mattcarr...
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The Binfire of the Vanities
Mosley-Farage Goes to the People
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Damien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍 @damienmarieathope.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
“For the first time ever, a presidential administration now claims that species protected by the Endangered Species Act shouldn’t be safe from habitat modification that destroys where they live, raise their young, or search for food” -Kristen Boyles Despicable. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Death sentence’: Trump’s EPA to open habitats of endangered species to logging and mining
Habitat destruction strongest driver of species loss, with legislation keeping 99% of listed species from going extinct
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🇨🇦 NanaGale @nanagale.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Trump is incapable of understanding this.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 11/07/2026
There is simply too much focus in the UK media on a puffed up narcissist with a ludicrous title who pops up to spout idiotic soundbites whenever actual adults are trying to discuss the future of governing Britain. For example, here he is talking about Count Binface.
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Sarah Cowley @bournemouth4eu.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Brilliant! 👇👏👏
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