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Penny Ewles-Bergeron @abroadbrush.bsky.social · 17h

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America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

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Penny Ewles-Bergeron @abroadbrush.bsky.social · 17h

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Huge dinosaur trackway uncovered in the UK - BBC News

One of the longest sets of dinosaur footprints in the world has been discovered in a limestone quarry

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 18h

The government’s restrictions on immigration will turn this around any day now.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 18h

Latest YouGov government approval ratings, 11-13 October 2025

Approve: 14% (+1 from 4-6 Oct)
Disapprove: 69% (=)
Net: -55 (+1)

yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 17h

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 18h

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

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Penny Ewles-Bergeron @abroadbrush.bsky.social · 17h

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‘I am the only one that matters’: Trump deals praise and insults at Gaza summit

Self-styled world’s greatest peacemaker calls Meloni ‘beautiful’ and Erdoğan a ‘friend’, but takes jab at Iraqi and Canadian leaders

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

I have no issue with people marking the centenary of the birth of someone no longer alive. But wishing THEM Happy Birthday is weird by any measure.

On which note, Happy Birthday to the very much alive Nana Mouskouri!

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 1d

63 years ago tonight Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? exploded on to Broadway. Uta Hagen played Martha and when she left the show she was replaced by, um, Elaine Stritch. Can you imagine? You don’t have to because 11 years later she recorded the whole damn thing.
AND HERE IT IS.
youtu.be/sx2qZmT4lGc

Whos's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Act 1 (Elaine Stritch)

YouTube video by Vodka Stinger

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LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 1d

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding, writing in her diary.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

This is the way.

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Brian O @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social · 1d

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Audrey @parickards.bsky.social · 16d

This is a crystal clear image of the scumbag Nazi ICE agent that brutally assaulted a mother at a NYC immigration office, while her young daughter watched - and a new photo showing him grabbing her hair before he slammed her to the ground.

Make him even MORE famous.

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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 1d

Kemi Badenoch wants this for the UK.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Penny Ewles-Bergeron @abroadbrush.bsky.social · 1d

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All beliefs are welcome in London – we cannot allow extremists to divide us | Sadiq Khan

Attacks against Jewish and Muslim communities are on the rise, and some politicians are exacerbating tensions by appealing to our worst instincts, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

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Penny Ewles-Bergeron @abroadbrush.bsky.social · 1d

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Released Israeli hostages reunite with families – in pictures

The last 20 living hostages held by Hamas arrive in Israel after more than two years in captivity

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Penny Ewles-Bergeron @abroadbrush.bsky.social · 1d

Bar Italia #Soho

Always a treat.

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Sharon Sharp @asoldiersvoice.bsky.social · 13d

All Trump does is lie and destroy things

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LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 1d

150 children in South Carolina are in quarantine because of measles a disease we beat decades ago. Not because the vaccine stopped working, but because people stopped listening.

U.S. measles cases continue to climb, with outbreaks across the country

In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

... I should probably open a museum of this stuff. Kind of like a less focussed version of The Museum Of Witchcraft in Boscastle, without the quaint harbour and media savvy. bsky.app/profile/dj-a...

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Aug 17

A friend told me he had been clearing out his gran’s house. The most amazing thing he’d found was this knitted effigy of the man who had run off and abandoned my friend’s pregnant aunt. Into the effigy had been stuck twenty knitting needles: one for every year since the man had vanished.

A modern voodoo doll, full of knitting needles

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 1d

Do pop down to an antique market in the south west of the United Kingdom right now if you are looking for a faceless life size child doll to take back home, destroy your regular sleep patterns and transform your house into a place of constant demonic terror.

A scary faceless doll I found at a market in Devon (but didn't buy, as I value my sleep).

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

From this year's Concert for Peace.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

As I note in the article, Thiel literally named his company Palantir after the all-seeing stone used by Sauron in LoTR.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

Somehow taking the work of Iain Banks, Douglas Adams and Alan Moore and turning into a vicious ethnonationalist libertarianism...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

Goes back to the argument I made in the Guardian earlier this year that the world is in danger because the techbros have completely misunderstood a bunch of sci-fi and fantasy...

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

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