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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 13h

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Wolff says Epstein on two occasions showed him a set of photos of Trump at Epstein's Palm Beach home with topless young women or girls sitting on Trump's lap and then another picture of Trump with a stain on his trousers and the girls pointing and laughing.
Draw your own conclusions.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Michael Wolff: I've seen the pictures of Trump with Epstein's girls. Here's what's in them.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 18h

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 14h

It not the King, is it? I thought he was keen on that stuff?

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 17h

heated.world/p/fossil-fue...

Quelle surprise!

As ever, just follow the money.
Getting to hate on trans people is a pleasing corollary for the reactionary right-wingers who run the fossil fuel empires. The aim is to divert attention from their ongoing role in climate change.

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 17h

I thought it was fine and anyway in that heat who says you have to wear clothes?

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 18h

This is good.

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 18h

I wrote this on Nathan Gill, Russian bribes, Reform and Farage nearly two weeks ago. Here it is again if you’re sick of the silence of the UK media

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

It's time we asked some serious questions about Reform and Russia, says Neil Mackay

As a former prominent leader of Reform faces jail for taking bribes to make pro-Russian statements, Neil Mackay says we have to ask serious…

www.heraldscotland.com

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d

The BBC is slowly but surely destroying Radio 4 as well. It’s the last bastion of intelligent debate in Britain, yet it’s increasingly becoming a vehicle for culture wars. When the history of the UK in this period is written, the BBC will have a lot to answer for when it comes to stirring division

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 21h

humanists.uk/2025/10/09/h...

I see the Clown Shirts have been marching in Soho.

Homophobic Christian Nationalist mob targets London’s gay district

A homophobic religious mob calling themselves the ‘King’s Army’ organised an intimidating mob in the streets of London’s Soho – the heart of London’s LGBT+ community, home to many LGBT+ bars, clubs, a...

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Francis Sedgemore @hesgen.com · 22h

"Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office"

And Johnson's penalty for this grift? Absolutely none whatsoever.

Trebles all round!

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 22h

Hey,it worked for them.

Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 1d

This matters.

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1d

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

This article is spot on about the UK's descent into anti-trans hysteria. In 8 years, they went from the conservatives trying to make it easier for trans folks to self attest gender to a liberal government implementing a bathroom ban by fiat.

www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Britain’s Bathroom Ban

The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 1d

“And so we end here, with Robert Jenrick: a degenerate little bore, as inept as he is amoral, who will say anything, no matter how vile and disreputable, in order to secure attention.” Well said @iandunt.bsky.social

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick

We deserve a better class of villain. Or at least a more memorable one.

iandunt.substack.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

A man gets a blowjob from a trans woman and his friends make fun of him so he goes to the police to claim she lied about being a woman. She was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison because of a man's shame.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thornaby transgender woman jailed for deception sex assault

Ciara Watkin's victim says he would not have agreed to sex had he known she was biologically male.

www.bbc.com

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 1d

I think that's right. They're in a death spiral.

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 1d

2. Chase far-right agenda
3. Purge left/principled
4. Blame and persecute minorities
5. Suck up to right-wing press
6. Pander to super rich/corporates
7. Facilitate flight of wealth from working and middle classes
8. Normalise lying to public
9. Cronyism
10. Gotterdammerung

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 1d

Are we going to see Labour eclipsed by the Greens in the way that Reform has done with the Tories?
Four years to go (events, my dear boy, events ... notwithstanding) until we find out.
Extraordinary that Labour has followed so closely the Tory path to oblivion.
1. Chose amoral leader
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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 1d

It would be terrible for her to no longer be able to bankroll the destruction of human rights for a tiny minority. No wonder she's anxious, poor lamb.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 1d

There was absolutely no evidence whatsoever that Jews in Germany deliberately sabotaged the WW1 war effort or organised a grand conspiracy to destroy Germany after the war. Zero.

Obvious point but worth bearing in mind during this ‘Great Antifa scare of ‘25’

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 1d

One of the best things I recall about growing up in the 1970s was having by my bed at night a radio - a SW, MW and LW valve set with a dimly illuminated dial of exotic foreign cities. It would pick up distant jazz stations playing at length music I barely understood yet was somehow thrilling.

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 1d

In which Greta Thunberg is the tool of the antichrist and definitely not extreme-right billionaire, autocracy enthusiast and owner of JD Vance, Peter Thiel.

Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 1d

Conservative tech lord Thiel said tighter financial regulations “were a sign that a singular world government has begun to emerge that could be taken over by an Antichrist figure who could then use it to exert control over people.” Via WashPost

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Kathy O'Donnell @kathyodonnell.bsky.social · 1d

I would like to see Peter Thiel's wealth taken away from him right now.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 1d

All these anxious billionaires....

“It’s become quite difficult to hide one’s money,” Thiel said, according to the recordings. “An incredible machinery of tax treaties, financial surveillance, and sanctions architecture has been constructed.” Wealth gives the “illusion of power and autonomy,” Thiel added, according to the recordings, “but you have this sense it could be taken away at any moment.”

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

#BBCQT

Always bring the receipts.

Happy birthday to my friend and colleague Nigel Farage aka Mr Brexit.

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