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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 2h

“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

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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 17h

Ms Rachel schools Obama on why he really should stop using dehumanizing language.

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Formerly Thommo on X @empty52.bsky.social · 18h

And also awards a Venezuelan activist who until 2021, supported the person the US got to head up the shittest coup you've ever seen in the history of shitty C1A coups.

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Amy Spitalnick @amyspitalnick.bsky.social · 1d

Weaponizing the Justice Department to go after those who’ve held you accountable. Totally normal.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 22h

“‘I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor,’ Pope Leo XIV states in his first magisterial document …” www.americamagazine.org/vatican-disp...

Pope Leo in first major document: Love for the poor is not optional for Christians

“I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor,” Pope Leo XIV states in his first m...

www.americamagazine.org

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iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social @iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social · 1d

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 1d

And if people want to do something about crime, pass some gun safety laws. If people want to do something about crime, pass violence intervention programs and money and resources for our beloved and beautiful communities. Don’t occupy us. Eradicate poverty.”

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Formerly Thommo on X @empty52.bsky.social · 1d

America-take note.

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Formerly Thommo on X @empty52.bsky.social · 1d

Nice.

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Formerly Thommo on X @empty52.bsky.social · 1d

I can hear the goose-stepping....it's getting louder.

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Scott Immordino @scottimmordino.bsky.social · 2d

Bill Gates: $106B | Microsoft: $3.9T
Jeff Bezos: $232.5B | Amazon: $2.3T
Larry Page: $204.2B | Google: $2.84T
Mark Zuckerberg: $243.5B | Meta: $1.8T

Can someone please explain why on earth we’re paying the power & water bills for their data centers?

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 1d

Comey’s lawyer Patrick Fitzgerald said he would ask the judge to dismiss the case, claiming “selective, retaliatory prosecution at the direction of President Trump to silence Comey.”

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Antifahahaha @lunaticleft.bsky.social · 1d

As the professor and other antifascists have been warning about for years, white supremacy is terrorism.

And it's coming for all its opposition unless it's stopped.

Proud Boys Nov 2020 DC Maga million march. 👇

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Spain has made it a serious crime with up to Life imprisonment if anyone sends arms to Israel.

The rest of the world need to do the same.

No weapons for War Criminals.

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Formerly Thommo on X @empty52.bsky.social · 1d

All of them (apart from Zack).

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Zack Polanksi will be on Question Time tonight.

Will actually be worth watching for once.

(Keep count of how many times Fiona Bruce interrupts him and how many times she interrupts all the other Right Wing Guests)

#bbcqt

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

Whilst we're on the subject of shocking living things, did you know police departments routinely shock human beings with tasers until they die and chalk up their deaths to a fake medical condition they call "excited delirium" that was invented by taser companies to absolve themselves of liability?

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Patient Zero @zeroisanumber.bsky.social · 2d

You can't kill me in any way that matters.

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Formerly Thommo on X @empty52.bsky.social · 1d

The absolute state of ICE Nazis.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d

Little boy in Salford enjoying a quiet moment, 1957, photo by Neil Libbert, Salford-born photographer.

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Formerly Thommo on X @empty52.bsky.social · 1d

The fucking Dem trolls again. No self awareness, completely detached from reality.

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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 1d

We’re watching an entire political party actively protect the single most infamous sex-trafficking operation of our time.

This isn’t just silence—it’s complicity at the highest level.

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montanagal1979.bsky.social @montanagal1979.bsky.social · 2d

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Washington State Democrats @wadems.org · 2d

Congratulations to Mary Brunkow for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine! Her groundbreaking work on immune tolerance shows why investing in research saves lives. It’s time for Congress to invest more federal funding in scientists shaping our future.

Seattle scientist among medicine Nobel Prize winners for work on peripheral immune tolerance

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.

www.kuow.org

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 1d

In a democracy based on freedom and the rule of law, we don’t jail public officials—or anyone—because of policy disagreements. We need everyone to repudiate this nonsense because a president cannot act as a prosecutor, judge, jury and dictator.

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