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barryrichards.bsky.social @barryrichards.bsky.social · 24m

Exactly.
I’ve seen Tesla owners getting the middle figure at crossings lately.
And if they don’t like it, then they should get rid of their swastikars. Plenty of other EV makers out there.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 8h

The Nobel Prize committee have a lot of questions to answer about giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado.

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barryrichards.bsky.social @barryrichards.bsky.social · 9h

If you buy (lease) a Tesla you’re funding fascism.

You’re also supporting the enshitification tactics of Tesla which devalue the value of you fascist-mobile when you come to sell it.

And by many accounts, Teslas are overpriced cars which underperform.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10h

Car shoppers have long waited for Tesla to release cheaper EVs. The company finally did so this week, and even Elon Musk's biggest fans are disappointed, writes Patrick George.

It’s All Catching Up to Tesla

Elon Musk’s embrace of Donald Trump continues to haunt his car company.

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Essence of RBG @rbgprevails.bsky.social · 15h

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erinaceinae24.bsky.social @erinaceinae24.bsky.social · 21h

The perils of digital ID

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos

Names, email addresses and other contact details of users from around the world could also have been taken

www.theguardian.com

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Liz Saville Roberts AS / MP @lsrplaid.bsky.social · 20h

The Guardian view on the nationalist surge: the SNP and Plaid Cymru are making the political weather | Editorial

Editorial: In both Scotland and Wales, politics is marching to the beat of different drums from the rest of Britain. The UK-wide parties should watch out

www.theguardian.com

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barryrichards.bsky.social @barryrichards.bsky.social · 15h

Reform Ltd caught out lying het again.

Don’t trust them with your vote or support because you can’t trust them.

People of Wales, Labour deserve to be kicked out, the Tories are rabble defecting to Reform to try to save their careers.

Vote for and support the only Welsh party: Plaid Cymru

Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 3d

Richard Tice told The Times in March he had “never met Nathan Gill”
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/refo...

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 20h

Was told today about Indigenous people in Brazil who were desperate to vote against Bolsonaro. There were no polling booths in their villages so they got buses to the city, and when the military blocked their buses many miles from the city they got off and walked there. Fight for your vote, always.

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 20h

Zack Polanski schooling a right-wing BBCQT panel was a brilliant lesson in how to beat propaganda

The BBC arranged an all-right-wing panel to challenge Green leader Zack Polanski on Question Time last night.

But he schooled them all.
www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

Zack Polanski schooling a right-wing BBCQT panel was a brilliant lesson in how to beat propaganda

The BBC arranged an all-right-wing panel to challenge Green leader Zack Polanski on Question Time last night. But he schooled them all.

www.thecanary.co

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING: A legal challenge has been launched in the Scottish courts to overturn the 'draconian' ban on Palestine Action

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Heseltine, "Brexit is now having a debilitating effect on the UK.. It will be reversed, not it, when..The deception of Brexit has exposed Britain"

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 1d

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 23h

You Cease, I Fire

www.middleeasteye.net/news/ceasefi...

Israel shells Gaza after ratifying ceasefire agreement

Attacks continue even after two sides approve deal to 'end the war'

www.middleeasteye.net

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...

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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Head Like A Hat @prettyhatmachine.bsky.social · 23h

Nonsense.

Taxing wealth rather than income is the least damaging to the majority.

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barryrichards.bsky.social @barryrichards.bsky.social · 1d

We knew Starmer rigged UK GE candidate selections. Turns out they used software (hilariously called Anonyvoter, which is anything but annonymous) to ensure they’re rigged; & being investigated by the Met for it.

So are his henchmen in Welsh Labour.

Vote Plaid Cymru

nation.cymru/news/controv...

Controversial online voting software 'used to select Labour Senedd candidates'

Martin Shipton A controversial online software system that has been linked to the possibility of vote rigging is being used by Welsh Labour to select Senedd candidates for next May’s election, we have...

nation.cymru

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barryrichards.bsky.social @barryrichards.bsky.social · 1d

We knew Starmer rigged UK GE candidate selections. Turns out they used software (hilariously called Anonyvoter, which is anything but annonymous) to ensure they’re rigged; & being investigated by the Met for it.

So are his henchmen in Welsh Labour.

Vote Plaid Cymru

nation.cymru/news/controv...

Controversial online voting software 'used to select Labour Senedd candidates'

Martin Shipton A controversial online software system that has been linked to the possibility of vote rigging is being used by Welsh Labour to select Senedd candidates for next May’s election, we have...

nation.cymru

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 2d

Who would have guessed

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Trump pressure to hike UK drug prices could cost NHS billions.

Corporate profits will increase. NHS budget will buy less. People to pay higher taxes or face public service cuts.

To avoid bullying UK Govt must produce cheaper generic drugs.

Who governs UK - Govt, Trump, Corporations?

Trump pressure to hike UK drug prices could cost NHS billions, experts warn

Anew deal will only trigger further increased price demands and make healthcare in the UK more expensive, say experts

www.independent.co.uk

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Is it now game over for the Tories? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

Is it now game over for the Tories?

This is another morning when I have to struggle with the question of whether comments made at the Conservative Party conference are worth noting here, and where I succumb to the temptation to do so pr...

www.taxresearch.org.uk

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 2d

in the column this week:

-advocates have confirmed/are investigating the abductions of ~25 unhoused folks by federal agents in chicago (via @katieprout.bsky.social)

-state/local leaders crack down on anti-ice protesters

-civil rights orgs ask chief judge to bar ice arrests at county courthouses

Make It Make Sense: ICE targets Chicago’s homeless community

Plus: state and local leaders crack down on anti-ICE protesters and advocates ask the chief judge to keep ICE out of county courthouses.

chicagoreader.com

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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 3d

Independence is about giving Scotland a fresh start - and a chance to build an economy that works for us.

A future where all decisions are made by people who live here.

I’m in the stunning National Portrait Gallery this morning, where I will set out more at 9am.

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