Dom
@domruston.bsky.social
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Radical centrist. Learning to sing. But not really wanting to. Beekeeper.
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domruston.bsky.social
This one thing perfectly highlights the failure of the U.K. political process:

The referendum result was 52/48.

That is *not* a decision or a mandate. It’s basically a *we don’t know *.

Would you bet your family’s future on a 52/48 opinion? Of course not.

But Theresa May did. 🤬🤬🤬🤬
domruston.bsky.social
Oh go on then… 🤣
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.
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russellscott1.bsky.social
Baroness Mone isn’t the only Tory Peer named as a VIP Lane referrer.

Also on the list:

Lord Agnew
Lord Gove
Lord Leigh
Lord Feldman
Lord Chadlington
Lord Marks
Lord Deighton
Lord Bethell
Lord Lansley
Lord Prior
+10 other Tory MP’s 👀⤵️

Listen to my chat with @BylineTimesPod :
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bylinetimes.bsky.social
“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...
'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny
Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements
bylinetimes.com
domruston.bsky.social
Sounds perfectly reasonable 😁
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
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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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
The man who bribed Gill - Oleh Voloshyn - is part of a much wider network of pro-Russian actors.

He worked with this guy, an FSB agent, who I've been fascinated by for years,

My investigation for @thenerve.news shows how Gill was a pawn in a Kremlin operation that spanned both Europe & US
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irenicbro.bsky.social
"We're saving God from Colin Kaepernik" is a pretty good distillation of Republican thought
atrupar.com
Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
AP: “.. the slower-than-hoped return of deceased hostages from Gaza prompted an Israeli military agency to declare a ‘violation’ of the truce agreement that it would respond to by halving the number of trucks allowed to bring humanitarian aid ..”

@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/gaza...
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danielsohege.bsky.social
Just as a not so insignificant point, such a level would mean that the majority of people born in the UK would not be able to meet this criteria, considering the percentage (fewer than half) who actually complete A levels, let alone ones which effectively demonstrate an A Level standard of English.
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thekenharbaughshow.bsky.social
Ukrainians on the front lines are exhausted. But while Russia’s soldiers fight for one man’s vanity, Ukraine’s fight for something real, their families and their freedom. I’ve seen it in their eyes — Ukraine will win.

www.lincolnsquare.media/p/ukraine-wi...
Ukraine Will Win
Ken Harbaugh just returned from another humanitarian mission in Ukraine. Here's the retired U.S. Navy pilot's story from the front lines.
www.lincolnsquare.media
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thcarter123.bsky.social
archive.ph/fJEUv

“This is the kind of wreckage that [Leonard] Leo, then the Fed Soc’s executive vice president, was conjuring when he boasted to funders and operatives about the successes to come from the elevation of his friend Brett Kavanaugh to the court in 2018.”

@thelisagraves.bsky.social
domruston.bsky.social
His hair is probably the least dodgy thing about him.

But it’s still very, very dodgy.

I particularly cannot listen to him speak. Even though it’s sometimes comical, he just makes me absolutely puke. My blood boils that he even exists, let alone that he’s actually President.
domruston.bsky.social
That’s his best side! What an asshole 🤨
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perrybaconjr.bsky.social
I didn't watch CBS News before Bari Weiss got there. I doubt you did either. But the mainstream media moving right really does matter, because of the mainstream media's collective powers of 1. agenda-setting and 2. framing. newrepublic.com/article/2016...
The Mainstream Media Is Moving Right. Here’s What We Can Do About It.
At The Washington Post, CBS, and maybe CNN, the trend line is terrible. But liberals do have the power to reverse these trends.
newrepublic.com
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lincolnproject.us
Trump hates this photo of him. Definitely don't share it far and wide today.
domruston.bsky.social
I hate *every* photo of him 🤬
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vivamjm.bsky.social
"maybe this tinkering still doesn't offset the barriers caused by leaving the EU"...
You don't say !! @nick1webb.bsky.social
philsbodydouble.bsky.social
The English MSM played, and continue to play, a major part in people not understanding. Here, just read this.

Labour has done nothing but tinker with the hard Brexit, nothing has been agreed yet, but apparently maybe this tinkering still doesn't offset the barriers caused by leaving the EU.
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juanpablodewes.bsky.social
Not quite the doom & gloom promoted by many…
chadbourn.bsky.social
While it’s a modest uptick for the UK, the IMF had warnings for the US: “resilience is giving way to warning signs” due to Trump’s tariffs and the potential bursting of the AI bubble.

Meanwhile, Russia’s war economy growth has now petered out.
UK forecast to be second-fastest growing economy in G7 - IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has upgraded the rate at which the UK economy will grow this year.
www.bbc.com
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elinorelliot.bsky.social
A woman with good sense and a moral compass providing an instructive contrast with a mediocre man whose arse has been bought 50 times over.

It's just a pity people like Caroline Lucas are in a minority in public life. Most people with her kind of integrity (and there are plenty) avoid politics.
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gilesyb.bsky.social
*bangs head on the desk until it bleeds**

A ONE OFF wealth tax cannot help the problem of a DEFICIT which is a RECURRING thing
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

*my head not the desk