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Bruce P 🐻🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @bearden64.bsky.social · 1d

We can hear the Tangerine Toddlers tantrum from Scotland.

LVenezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

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Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

Opponent of Maduro regime receives award and praise for keeping ‘flame of democracy burning’

www.theguardian.com

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 4d

I hope at some point the wider public understands what's happening, big govt is being dismantled, governance powers are being outsourced to corporations hand over fist, making serious incursions into critical public infrastructure.
They call it 'localised freedoms'.
I call it Zone Fever.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 4d

⚠️Three-quarters of UK police forces refuse to say if they even have a contract with Palantir.
Read that back.
The head of the UK branch of Palantir is Louis Mosely, grandson of British Fascist Oswald Mosely.
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UK police forces dodge questions on Palantir | Good Law Project

After Leicestershire Police removed details of a deal with the controversial US spy-tech firm, three quarters of UK police forces refuse to say if they even have a contract with Palantir.

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Mike Walsh #fbpe @drmpwalsh.bsky.social · 17h

In doing these things, they also produce and distribute wealth - GDP.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.

They make sure we have clean water.

They protect us from financial fraud.

They provide healthcare to our communities.

They make our government actually work for people.

Do not forget this.

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Mike Walsh #fbpe @drmpwalsh.bsky.social · 19h

This is one reason, far from the least, why the Nobel Committee will never award him any prize, for anything.
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White House blasts Nobel Committee for not awarding Peace Prize to Trump

A spokesman says the Nobel Committee placed

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Mike Walsh #fbpe @drmpwalsh.bsky.social · 19h

Poland knows what Ukraine knows.
Do you know about Putin's Russia?
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Poland steps in as Russia bombards Ukraine’s energy infrastructure

Hundreds of thousands of homes have been left without power after a series of Russian strikes

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Kraut @derparrot.bsky.social · 1d

lol.lmao even.

EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 1d

White House slams Nobel ‘politics over peace’ snub

The White House on Friday (10 October) criticised the Nobel Prize committee’s decision to award ...

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 21h

Hi Jan. Have you seen that the Govt seem to have supressed an important report by UK defense chiefs (JIT) into the impact of climate change on UK security? (Including food/economic security.) Just a little way down my feed - piece from the Guardian, is worth a read.

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 21h

Prince William attending Cop30 is A. Very. Good. Thing. It's likely that him going will persuade Keir Starmer, who is reportedly wavering, to do the same. If this Cop fails, as is all too likely, humanity will fail with it ☠️

It's crucial world leaders attend.

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Prince William to attend Cop30 UN climate summit in Brazil

Prince of Wales’s decision welcomed as a means of drawing attention to the event and galvanising talks

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 19h

Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win.' 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win'

Once endangered due to hunting, it is making a strong recovery thanks to global conservation efforts.

www.bbc.co.uk

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 22h

The Belt of Orion (Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka) with the Flame Nebula. 10 October 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

The three bright stars of Orion's belt. Left to right Alnitak, Alnilam, and Mintaka. The red flame nebula to the left of Alnitak.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23h

Journalist: Why didn't Trump get it?

Nobel Peace Prize Committee say they only give the prize to those with courage and integrity

More integrity that every politician sucking up to Trump

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

Nobel Peace Prizes have often been awarded to people who fight autocracy. Maria Corina Machado fits right into that tradition

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Why María Machado Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize

The Venezuelan opposition leader shows why participation matters.

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Mike Walsh #fbpe @drmpwalsh.bsky.social · 22h

"if Zharia had been born in Anguilla, she would automatically be a British citizen...being born in the UK, under the same circumstances, disqualifies her from that status...Her brother...two years earlier... same parents...circumstances, holds a British passport"
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‘Clear parallels’ with Windrush as UK-born toddler denied passport

Campaigners say lessons not being learned as three-year-old’s mother is asked to prove right to free NHS treatment

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Mike Walsh #fbpe @drmpwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

Then they came for you and no-one was left to speak out for you.
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Letitia James: New York attorney general criminally indicted

James, who led a civil fraud case against US President Donald Trump, was indicted in Alexandria, Virginia.

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Mike Walsh #fbpe @drmpwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

The other war that Trump said would never have started had he been president.
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Ukraine says ‘massive’ Russian attack underway targeting energy infrastructure | CNN

Russia is carrying out a “massive attack” on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, top Ukrainian officials said early Friday, with parts of the capital Kyiv left without power.

www.cnn.com

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Mike Walsh #fbpe @drmpwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

Of course.
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Rishi Sunak hired by Microsoft and Anthropic as paid adviser

The former prime minister has been told not to lobby the UK government by the appointments watchdog.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 1d

Explosions in Kyiv. In Brovary, a Russian drone crashed into a house.

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BrexitPirates @brexitpirates.bsky.social · 2d

In summary:
Conservative supporters can't spell "car".
Lib Dem supporters think everyone else is having more fun than they are.
Labour supporters will have fun with literally everyone else.
The far-right can go fuck themselves...

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 2d

I feel the need to draw everyones attention to this truely cursed bit of polling

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Twelve Jobs Nigel has earned over £1 million in additional income since the general election.

To understand the scale of it, since the July 2024 election he's earned roughly £100k more as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion than Starmer gets as PM.

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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

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Mike Walsh #fbpe @drmpwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

"Come the end there were chants of “Kemi, Kemi” from the very people who want her gone. The very essence of Tory Little Britain."
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Badenoch enjoys her first, and probably last, Tory conference leader’s speech | John Crace

The audience cheered and clapped to convince themselves the whole thing hadn’t been a waste of time

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Tim L 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇧🇨🇦 @tim0.bsky.social · 5d

🅱latant 🅱ias 🅲orporation 🤬

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

I'd actually forgotten how extraordinary it is that when I won the leadership - I wasn't interviewed as it was too close to our party conference interviewed.

And then refused a second time!

Part of the antidote to all of this is creating our own media platforms.

Hey @boldpolitics.bsky.social 👋🏼

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

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