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Kassandra

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MSLL& Kassandra@Noname06401912 ,if you followed me on Twitter ,pleased to find you here🦋 Political cartoons are favourite Hairdresser practicing politics,not right or left,mostly in the middle, rather be in the mountains #thereisnoplanetB

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Kassandra @kasst.bsky.social · Feb 2

How easily rights & freedoms are lost when enough of a population blindly trust that those elected to lead, have the nations wellbeing & interests at heart,trusting they will do their best & protect
narcissists like Trump don't give a fck; only ever in it for himself
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Meryl Streep's Cecil B. deMille Award Acceptance Speech

YouTube video by Golden Globes

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Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, look. A rabble-rousing racist gobshite spouts hate that appeals to other racists.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

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Carole Flint 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 @carolebristol.bsky.social · 7h

Once these bastards are inside the systems and running government, the next step is taking the whole thing over. Once you control the IT, you control all the functions and procedures of the state.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 7h

The least surprising news ever. But also thank you to @robevansgdn.bsky.social & @direthoughts.com for shining a light on how two Silicon Valley lobbyists have joined forces to advance their billionaire-funded techno-accelerationist agenda into the heart of UK govt.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22h

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted a private dinner earlier this year at which a select group of technology entrepreneurs were given access to a key minister, official documents have revealed. The former prime minister, who is a champion of the tech industry, held the dinner in an upmarket London hotel in his capacity as the head of the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) political consultancy. Continue reading...

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Cerulean Man 🐝 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 🐶 @ceruleanman.bsky.social · 7h

Dindins. Barnsley Lamb Chop.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15h

Well we don't have dodge bullets at school.
Or ICE thugs coming to kidnap us if we don't have white skin.
Or soldiers marching down the streets, dropping tear gas bombs from helicopters, for literally no reason at all.

So it's not quite as hard as growing up in the USA.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14h

Did Farage ever sue the Mail on Sunday?

This threat was issued in June 2025, but I can find no further reference to events after that.

Zelenskyy: Farage is infected with the virus of putin

Farage on twitter threatening to sue the Mail on Sunday

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 12h

We waste so much time wanging on about immigration being something that must be stopped, when the reality is we need it.

What if we spent the same amount of effort actually working out what we can do to encourage integration.

Treating them like enemies isn’t it
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance

Mayor explains why Villamalea unanimously backed call to regularise undocumented migrants – across party lines

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 12h

Farage, Arron Banks, and convicted Russian asset Nathan Gill have all parroted the Russian lie that NATO and EU expansion provoked Putin into invading Ukraine.

That's a lie for a Western audience. Putin is much more honest about Russia's imperialist motives when he's speaking to a Russian audience.

Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 11d

Pu spells out Ru's imperialist motivations for the war. He calls the conquest a long-held dream and historical destiny.

He beclowns those who insist NATO expansion caused the war. Let's see if anyone from the Mearsheimer fan club admits the claim has been falsified.
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Обращение по случаю Дня воссоединения ДНР, ЛНР, Запорожской и Херсонской областей с Россией

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 8h

An old director I worked with used to say: "You can write, block, time, direct, and perfect every aspect of comedy. But some people just have a comedy multiplier."

Keaton just had whetever that is; that unteachable, undirectable multiplier. She made the mediocre, good, and the good, side-splitting.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9h

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The Oscar-winner best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and The Book Club, has died Diane Keaton, one of the best-loved film stars of the past 50 years, has died at the age of 79 in California. The news was confirmed by People magazine. Further details are not available at this time, and her loved ones have asked for privacy, according to a family spokesperson. Continue reading...

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JuneSim63 💚 @junesim63.bsky.social · 10h

Here's the Byline Times article showing how close and long his relationship with Gill is. It beggars belief Farage didn't know what was going on..

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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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 9h

Nigel Farage was regularly being paid by Putin's public TV propaganda arm Russia Today (RT) in the years before Brexit, while he was failing to represent UK interests as an MEP.

At least 17 appearances from December 2010 - March 2014

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Nigel Farage's relationship with Russian media comes under scrutiny
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The Ukip leader's Euroscepticism makes him a shoo-in at the Russian state broadcaster that is often called Putin's mouthpiece
Patrick Wintour and Rowena Mason
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Nigel Farage's near monthly appearances on state-owned Russia Today have come under scrutiny after his expression of admiration for Vladimir Putin this week.

In one of his 17 appearances on the channel seen by the Guardian and transmitted since December 2010, he claims Europe is governed not by elected democracies but instead "by the worst people we have seen in Europe since 1945".

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/31/nigel-farage-relationship-russian-media-scrutiny

The Ukip leader has appeared so frequently that he is cited in literature for the TV station Russia Today as one of their special and "endlessly quotable" British guests. "He has been known far longer to the RT audience than most of the British electorate," Russia Today claims.

The Ukip leader did not issue a word of criticism of Russian democracy in any of the Russia Today interviews viewed by the Guardian. Last August he told the channel that British intervention in Libya and Syria would go ahead regardless of any vote in the UN, and said he was still not sure President Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons.

Farage's relationship with Russia has been under the spotlight since his comments last week on Ukraine. In a TV debate with Nick Clegg (pictured above) he said Russia had been provoked and that the EU had blood on its hands for trying to force Ukraine to choose between itself and Russia.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 9h

Who did Nigel Farage have lunch with after resigning as UKIP leader 4 July 2016?

Noted Russian bribe enthusiast Nathan Gill - seen here giving an important news briefing on his behalf to Russia Today.

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Kassandra @kasst.bsky.social · 7h

He might even remember how much was paid for Brexit
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Wurde der Brexit gekauft? - zoomIN vom 20.03.2019 | ZDF

YouTube video by ZDF

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11h

Arresting 6 year olds.

Donald Trump making America a Fascist shithole.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10h

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 21h

~ 'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny – Byline Times ~

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/stunned-farages-admission-he-knew-nathan-gill-but-not-his-pro-russian-sympathies-does-not-stand-up-to-scrutiny/

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny – Byline Times

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 9h

Richard Tice - "Please welcome to the stage... Nathan Gill"

So much for Tice's claim to have never met Nathan Gill.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 8h

Jenrick would make a pact with fascist thug Yaxley-Lennon if it got him into power. He’s a moral abyss. And the harm he does by pushing our political debate further and further to the ugliest, darkest corner of the far right is forever unforgivable.

However, if the polls do tighten and the chances of an outright Reform victory recede, then it is very possible that we could see some form of new alliance between a
Jenrick-led Conservatives and a Reform-led Farage. After all, if Jenrick is willing to get into bed with the likes of Elon Musk and
"Inevitable West" then a coalition with Farage is not going to trouble him too badly.
However, even if Jenrick does fade into obscurity, his current rise is still a highly alarming moment in our politics.
After decades in which the mainstream right of British politics has sought to maintain a cordon sanitaire between themselves and the far-right, that barrier now appears to have been irretrievably broken.
The result is that formerly moderate politicians like Jenrick, whose nickname in the party used to be "Robert Generic" due to his middle-of-the-road views, now sees a lurch to the far-right as being the only viable way for him to gain power.
Indeed far from being a disqualifier for high office, it now appears that sharing the extreme views and associations of the far-
right has become an actual requirement for advancement on the right of British politics.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9h

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

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

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

Someone just sent me this - and it should be a lesson to everyone to never count your chickens before they’re hatched.

And on that note, I shall continue what is referred to as a “dedicated & unrelenting character assassination campaign” against the

If the Donald gets the Nobel Peace Prize today, I'd like to dedicate it to all the followers of @BearlyPolitics (who's no longer on X) for his & their dedicated & unrelenting character assassination campaign against the greatest POTUS in my living memory. Tough shit,

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

It should inspire those engaged in similar struggles around the world - and remind those of us lucky enough to live in America that we have a solemn responsibility to constantly preserve and defend our own hard-won democratic traditions.