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once was Twoguns66 on the other thing - account deleted the day it was sold. Mostly here to boost algorithms for things I want to amplify.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Whatever failings he might have, Zelensky will go down in history as the bravest of leaders, repeatedly standing up to way more powerful opponents in the interests of his country. May he ultimately bring Ukraine to victory!
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DESIGN THINKING! Comic @designthinking.lol · 10/10/2026
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nailed it. 🔨
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump has imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, and while his kids "negotiate" a Ukrainian peace deal, he's paying Putin to breach sanctions. Hegseth is live-streaming an execution by firing squad, and gave the UFC a binding contract to train the US military in hand to hand combat.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Aren’t they all repulsive… These corrupt, evil, traitorous men… Farage is particularly pathetic, in his little cap, selling us out to his monstrous sugar-daddy.
Photo of Trump and Putin shaking hands on their deal… 


EUROPE
Zelensky furious after Trump announces deal to buy diesel deal from PutinTrump and Farage grinning to camera. Farage wearing a Trump baseball cap. Loser.


Nigel Farage jets off to meet Donald Trump and 'talk down
Britain' over dinner
Mirror
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Exactly what “standards” are those, Robert? You collude with pornographers over property deals. You take dodgy donations. You whore for racists and christofascists for personal gain. You betray your political allies, friends and your country to sniff at power. You have no standards. You’re poison.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A real welfare state and universal health care require broad taxation, including the middle class. But high end wealth taxation is the kind of tax that protects democracy and the rule of law, and prevents aristocratic dynasties. It keeps us human.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Look at the graph of US support for Ukraine, and how it disappeared when Trump entered his second term. The Russia hoax was never a hoax
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
'Watson told the podcast he would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns if the situation arose, saying: “[Palantir] don’t actually work in that sector, but yes, of course we would"' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts
Former Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Water companies made £340mn last year accepting industrial wastewater they don't have the facilities to adequately treat. “Industrial pollution must not become a lucrative business for water companies" says Amy Fairman of @riveractionuk.bsky.social. Our report: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Revealed: the ‘black box’ wastewater trade that rakes in millions for UK utility companies
Exclusive: Firms made more than £340m last year from processing industrial and commercial wastewater at sewage works that are unable to remove many chemical pollutants
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Glenn with 2 Ns 🎃 🏴‍☠️ ♐ @glennwith2ns.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🚨 Clingy Girl Cat Thread 🚨
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Rob Judge @robjj73.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the UK? Don’t want Palantir to have access to your data? You can opt out … (you’ll need your NHS number) www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-dat...
nhs.uk
Choose if data from your health records is shared for research and planning
Find out how data from your health records can help with research and planning, and choose if you want to share your data.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drax’s planned datacentre to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood to produce its electricity, nearly double the CO2 emissions of all flights from London Gatwick airport. Drax, a highly profitable company gets subsidies to burn wood and produce electricity How many lives will it ruin?
theguardian.com
Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“This is the first time the United States has declined to invite in OSCE monitors since they began observing US elections. The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly president…said that the Trump administration’s decision ‘represents a significant departure from an established democratic practice.’”
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Seriously… how can a party that insists on scrapping all progress with the EU, binning NetZero and leaving the ECHR, so that it can abuse its power without accountability… how can that party claim “the soul of the nation”. The ruin - maybe. The soul - definitely not.
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Football v Homophobia @footballvhomophobia.com · 06/10/2026
Football v Homophobia has issued a statement in response to the Football Association’s 2025/26 season Annual Grassroots Behaviour and Discipline Report. For the fourth consecutive year, the report shows a rise in serious case allegations related to sexual orientation. 1/2
Statement - FvH ‘deeply concerned’ by FA grassroots football data on homophobia
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Large sign at rhe Birmingham Unity Rally 4 October 2026 with 2 pictures side by side and text above and below:
an RNLI crew member and a black-clad balaclava-wearing Patriot Platform Blackshort holding a can.
Text says: Spot the difference: 
Saves Lives - Beats Wives
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Energy suppliers urge UK govt to help households struggling with energy bills. Silence on cutting profit margins, windfall taxes on excessive profits. Household energy debt heading to £7bn. 120,000 a year die in fuel poverty. We can't afford privatisation and resulting profiteering.
bbc.co.uk
Suppliers pile pressure on government over energy bills
Immediate action is needed to help households struggling with bills this winter, says trade body Energy UK.
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The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You’ve been seeing very large #bumblebees on the wing for the past while. Why? Okay I’ll tell you why in this quick thread if you promise to #repost as the more people who know that these are queens the more likely that someone will help some out meaning more colonies next year. Deal? 1/15 #bees
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Capital gains taxed at lower rates than wages. 2024-25: 584000 people paid £24.2bn capital gains tax (CGT) on £127.3bn gains. 45% of CGT paid by those with gains of £5m+, less than 1% of CGT payers. Align CGT rates with tax rates on wages, generate £12bn-£14bn. More if NIC charged.
leftfootforward.org
This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The combination of profound mediocrity and delusions of brilliance is what makes Badenoch so annoying. Not mad like Truss or ruthless like Jenrick, just a vacuous bullshitter with a cruel streak conservativehome.com/2026/10/01/k...
conservativehome.com
Kemi Badenoch tells ConHome - 'It's a new team to face a new opponent. We're ready, you'll see it at Conference, but prepare for hard work' | Conservative Home
Kemi Badenochs talks to our Editor about Conference, her 'new generation, new team, new party' vibe, and tackling Burnham not Starmer. She takes on criticisms from our readers, both Conservative and R...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
South West Water pleaded guilty to sewage dumping, fined £8m, a decade after the events. Yet govt introduced more deregulation. England's water industry controlled by organisations with criminal convictions. None has licence revoked. No exec prosecuted. Customers fleeced.
bbc.co.uk
South West Water fined almost £8m for sewage spills
South West Water previously entered guilty pleas to pollution offences spanning six years.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Only Reform will take £5 million bribes, accept illegal foreign donations, let convicted fraudsters bankroll them, buy houses in their girlfriend's name to avoid tax, help crypto billionaires get richer and do fuck all for ordinary people. 😊
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're repeatedly told that asylum seekers pose a threat to the good people of our country... Reading about the threatening and violent treatment of elderly and open minded locals in Crowborough I get the impression that the real threat comes from closer to home. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
On Facebook and other platforms, people
who are known to support the asylum
seekers have been threatened with acid
attacks, petrol bombs and rape. The dossier.
which has been seen by the Guardian, also
claims that several local businesses have
been threatened by far-right agitators, along
with a church where some asylum seekers
worship. One man was punched in the throat
after he held up a "Love Thy Neighbour"
sign, while an elderly couple were falsely
accused of supporting sex offenders. In yet
another case, a 92-year-old church volunteer
was reportedly woken at 3am for two nights
in a row by a man standing outside her
home, shining a torch through her window
and shouting abuse
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
2016 was built on ridiculous promises of a future that nobody could disprove. 2025 is built on a disastrous history of consequences that everybody can point to. And Farage is volunteering to own it. Burnham must be giving himself a slow, luxury wank tonight. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Burnham’s reopening of Brexit debate is ‘biggest boost in my career’, says Farage
Reform UK leader tells supporters PM’s move has ‘opened up a huge flank to us’
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK public sector bodies spent £17bn with offshore-owned private equity firms last year. The same vultures received £31bn public sector contracts. Profiteering, low wages, tax dodging, asset-stripping is their business model. Enriched by public money. How many have politicians on payroll?
gmb.org.uk
£17 billion taxpayer cash went to offshore private equity last year
We need to buy British, GMB tells Labour conference
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New Mystic Meg prediction by Daniel Hannan who famously predicted the ‘blue eyed Sheikhs’ of Iceland Banking would would save us in 2004, Brexit Britain would be booming in 2026, and that Covid wouldn’t kill anyone in 2020 In other words, we will be rejoining the EU
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The Capybaron, Seasonally Spooky @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Again, much of Pete Hegseth’s deal is the only skill his job demanded for a long time was keeping a trim figure to be conventionally pretty for stay-at-home moms watching daytime tv. His job was “be pretty,” but he knows that’s a girl job, so he’s deeply insecure and is trying to make it a boy job.
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God @thegodshow.com · 30/09/2026
He’s obviously removing all anti-trump leaders ahead of a ‘national emergency’ so they can halt elections and seize permanent control.
Hegseth confirms that the US military will cut 20% of its generals and admirals
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Twoguns @twoguns.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Everyone is wrong. Keith David. 😋
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 30/09/2026
📈 Only one policy option gets £92bn in growth. 💪 Only one policy option boosts our exports by £43bn every single year. 🇪🇺 Britain needs to rejoin the EU. And the EU needs Britain.
independent.co.uk
Burnham says he could go ‘all the way’ and rejoin European Union in Brexit warning
PM said one option was to back George Osborne’s call, made in an interview with The Independent, to rejoin the EU custom
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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
howstop swelfdetruct
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are really good reasons *not* to do it, but both this Labour government and the last are hamstrung by the inability to just clearly state 'Donald Trump is bad and has bad consequences'.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
After heavy lobbying and huge donations from Big Tech, Trump killed a proposed Biden-era rule requiring AI companies to disclose their riskiest experiments to federal officials. Everything is for sale. This is worth a read: www.levernews.com/ai-regulation-was…
levernews.com
AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.
After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest
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Amy @amzomac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How often do you get the opportunity to be part of a luxury Chef-led experience? Or hear the lived experience of a refugee & up-and-coming Chef who cooks in Michelin kitchens? Or have a gorgeous melange of African & European food curated & cooked for you? Come along! ❤️ 🎟 ow.ly/fvPa50ZSJUM
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Police admit NO explosives in Fairford trucks The government narrative around Fairford had already collapsed into farce. Now, it's simply wallowing in ridicule.
thecanary.co
BREAKING: Police admit NO explosives in Fairford trucks
The government narrative around Fairford had already collapsed into farce. Now, it's simply wallowing in ridicule.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
WHOOOP!!!!! This is VERY welcome news - PM will announce a process to introduce PR for Westminster elections: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Andy Burnham expected to say he will push ahead with electoral reform plans
Exclusive: Labour conference speech will kick off process that could replace current system with proportional representation
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 29/09/2026
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It never stops being important that, no matter what the subject, politicians like Farage, Trump & Rubio are entirely untethered from the most basic requirements of honest discourse. They might turn out to be telling the truth sometimes but only ever in the spirit of stopped clocks.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My first day as Social Media account manager for The Independent is going great, guys.
The Independent @the-independent.com

James McEnroe encourages tennis players to boycott the Grand Slam after stars protest Wimbledon and French Open

Why Joe McEnroe insists tennis players boycott Grand Slam

[Photo of John McEnroe]

18:15 28 Sept 2026
Actual report on the Independent Sport > Tennis

John McEnroe insists tennis stars must boycott Grand Slams over prize money

Star players have protested this year as they look to receive a larger share of major tournament revenue

[Photo of John McEnroe]

Monday 28 September 2026 13:15 BST

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/tennis/john-mcenroe-grand-slams-prize-money-b3057583.html
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wow
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Farage honks his mouth off about ongoing police investigations, when told not to. His Welsh leader is in prison for taking bribes from Russia. He whips up riots. He’s in bed with Trump, foreign money, crooks and crypto billionaires…. A massive problem with national security is Farage himself.
sky news

'We have a massive problem with national security': Farage challenged on Fairford speculation
Reform UK leader told his social media followers the five men arrested after an RAF Fairford situation were "Iranian nationals". Sky's Rob Powell spoke to him after it was confirmed the men arrested are British nationals.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Spot on from @johnharris1969.bsky.social - “comfy, cosy, simple two-party politics” is over. Trying to shoehorn the complexity of our society & economy into 2 parties through our ludicrous voting system simply won’t work. Burnham says he still supports PR - so where’s the action?
theguardian.com
Labour is nostalgic for two-party politics. That cosy, simple time is over – let it go | John Harris
Our fragmented political model will endure for the foreseeable future – and Reform will benefit from it until Burnham learns that cooperation is key, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"If your "patriotism" relies on foreign dictators using deepfakes to influence British voters, you aren't a patriot, you're an asset." via Stop Brexit & Restore Hope
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
👏 Sadiq Khan: “We talk about productivity, we talk about growth, we talk about jobs, we talk about wealth. The single best way to get that is by joining the European Union.”
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short
Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’
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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's America's greatest tradition.
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