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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 3h

I don’t imagine any UK press will be covering the massive march protesting the #GazaGenocide in London

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.bsky.social · 3h

Uni professors should start wearing hi-viz vests so the PM can pose with them as he bails them out.

QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 8h

*FIFTEEN THOUSAND JOBS LOST*.
If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.

LopaLeach @lopa.bsky.social · 20h

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq...

Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.bsky.social · 3h

I love that I'm hearing 'there won't be any delays' while at the same time the port has admitted processing will 'take six times longer per car'.

1 x 6 = 1

We shall see.

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Michael @vivamjm.bsky.social · 13h

All this extra cost (time & money) for *less* fucking access to our continent. Brexit is such ridiculous "self harm"
For god's sake UK, stop with your Gammon Curtain & do what rest of Europe doing: join the EU/reciprocate FoM; join Schengen. Embrace freedom
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Overflow sites lined up in case ESS brings Port of Dover delays

Port of Dover bosses insist there will not be delays due to the new system on day one.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

😭

IG newberlinlibrary

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 21h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.bsky.social · 5h

Good news 👍

Any idea when work might start?

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Progressive Politics NI @ppni.bsky.social · 6h

Aye, dead on 🤔
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Shankill arson ‘not racially motivated’, says DUP MLA

A DUP MLA has said that he is “confident” that an overnight arson attack and daubing of “locals only” on a house in the Shankill area of Belfast was not race-related.

m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.bsky.social · 7h

Racism UK are rattled.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 9h

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · Feb 2

88 companies have delisted or moved their primary listing from London’s FTSE in 2024.

Once the world’s largest financial centre, London now struggles post-Brexit. Such is the scale of self harm of brexit, it's comparable to the financial crash of 2008.

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London stock exchange is on course for it's worst year for departures since the financial crisis.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.bsky.social · 7h

I have lived there and driving 15 mins because of the one-way systems, to make what should be a 200m walk, because no one walks in 45°c and no footway, then leaving your car idling outside the 7-Eleven because of a/c, is a mad way to live.

You actually see cars idling outside restaurants.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d

Naoise's brother is asking Irish people to please contact the government #Speirgorm

My sister @NaoiseDolan, alongside other members of the Thousand Madleens flotilla, has been abducted by Israeli forces while on a humanitarian mission to break the illegal siege and deliver aid to Gaza.
Please join me in urging the Irish government to demand their safe return.

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HalloweeNKBTN @nkbtn.bsky.social · 1d

This is an interesting listen. Favourite bit was pointing out when Theresa May announced making it easier for gender recognition certificates to be had a few years ago, nobody cared. Nowadays the right would be apoplectic. Amazing what Tufton Street can achieve when they put their awful minds to it

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

I don't do many podcasts any more but this, with ‪@peteryork.bsky.social, was a lot of fun covering the decay in British public life, the fight for dignity for trans people, the need for a wealth tax. podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

Peter York's Culture Wars House Party: Jolyon Maugham, Good Law Project Founder, on Fighting Power and the Decay in Public Life

Jolyon Maugham KC, founder of the Good Law Project, is one of the UK’s most prominent—and provocative—legal campaigners. Jolyon reveals how, as a high-flying tax barrister, “I knew where th...

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 9h

Yeah, I’m sorry, these black shirt clad evangelicals can fuck right off.

Evangelical, right-wing 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 9h

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 21h

Inflatable frogs are going to be this Halloween’s costume de rigeur aren’t they?

They seem to be about £25 but I suspect that if you want one you’d better er hop to it

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🦇🧛‍♂️Bram Stoker’s GuitarMoogula🧛‍♂️🦇 @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 20h

A step closer to requiring exit visas, or a no-fly list for opponents of the regime (which is effectively the same thing).

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING:

"Just landed."

Mark Bray confirms to me this morning that he and his family did, on the second attempt, make it out of the US and to Spain

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He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 1d

A stonker of a night for us. Three huge wins, Reform nowhere near us and the Tories down to ten percent in Mel Stride’s own seat.

We are the only party taking Farage on and the only party beating him.

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 1d

Kenn Valley (Teignbridge) Council By-Election Result:

🔶 LDM: 50.4% (+11.0)
➡️ RFM: 23.1% (New)
🌳 CON: 9.6% (-19.0)
🙋 Ind: 8.2% (New)
🌍 GRN: 5.5% (-13.9)
🌹 LAB: 2.7% (-9.9)
🙋 Ind: 0.5% (New)

Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.
Changes w/ 2023.

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Nicolas Chinardet @zefrog.eu · 1d

Here we go... it was only a matter of time, as the far-right gets ever more vocal without check

Homophobic Christian Nationalist mob targets London’s gay district

A homophobic religious mob calling themselves the ‘King’s Army’ organised an intimidating mob in the streets of London’s Soho – the heart of London’s LGBT+ community, home to many LGBT+ bars, clubs, a...

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 18h

Really not good at all that the Christian Right feels emboldened enough to parade in Soho in paramilitary uniforms. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...

Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district

A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 18h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 21h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

The father of a family in our apartment complex has been kidnapped by ICE.

My daughter found out when she went to walk our dog and heard one of the children crying from the hallway.

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Michael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.bsky.social · 22h

This is going to be such, fun 🙄

Michael @vivamjm.bsky.social · 1d

"Port of Dover is confident of no delays despite warning it will take six times longer to process each car" 😂

Tick tock...

"My advice: invest in Pontins"

Read more at:
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New EU border checks to take longer but won't snarl peak travel, says Port of Dover

EU Border Checks: The EU will gradually introduce the new system over six months, meaning different ports and airports within the Schengen open-border zone may have varying requirements until April 20...

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Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social · 1d

It is embarassing not to see the BBC pulling up Reform leaders claiming that Nathan Gill was just some fan who got photos taken with Farage - he was an MEP for them & their leader in Wales while taking cash from Russia to act against the UK! Literally the very basics of your job to point this out

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