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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · 3h

Social media has become a megaphone for hate, allowing antisemitic content to spread widely and quickly.

These platforms are failing to act, even as online hate can spill into real-world harm.

Learn how platforms are failing to stop the amplification of antisemitism online👇

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Robert Fessler @professler.bsky.social · 1d

From the Nobel Committee today:

“Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended – with words, with courage and with determination.”

Antifa 1 - Fascism 0

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 6h

“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”

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'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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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 1d

Abolition of stamp duty would be worth £80,000 to the average person whose girlfriend buys him a £900,000 second home in Clacton

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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 6h

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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 6h

Here's Farage & Gill in European Parliament a few weeks before the first known Russian bribe.

Farage calls the EU 'arrogant & vulgar' then compares them to the Soviet Union. Unreal.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn3a...

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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 6h

NEW | EU solar generation has already exceeded its 2024 total as of September ☀️🇪🇺

Solar is by far the fastest growing source of electricity in the EU, up 20% year-on-year.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 5h

The value of Fuel Duty is now at historic lows, having fallen by 23p per litre (or a third) in real terms over the past decade.

It would cost £5 billion *per year* to continue the freeze by the end of the decade.

Instead, smaller quarterly increases should be introduced.

Chart showing Nominal main rate of Fuel Duty per litre under different scenarios

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 6h

I mean, this is really desperate shit, isn’t it? I am a great deal more woke-sceptic than pretty much all of Bluesky but I honestly can’t be bothered to care about the National Trust putting vegan tampons in the men’s toilets and neither should you

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 18h

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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Sandy Martin @sandyofipswich.bsky.social · 5h

Robin Cook quote of the day: “A world governed by rules rather than by force requires an agreed forum to regulate the use of force. That forum can only be the UN.”

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Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social · 5h

EU billionaire wealth soared by over €400bn in just six months. This is enough money to hit Net Zero emissions in the UK about 3 times over, and maybe buy yourself some socks. I don't know. I don't know what you do with that kind of money. Wait, yes I do. TAX IT.

Text stating European billionaires earn 2 billion euros daily in the first half of 2025, with falling euro banknotes in the background.

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 4h

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 17d

It’s clear American dominance is over - political, scientific, economic, moral and military.
It will be interesting to see how its leaders and people react to a rapid and irreversible decline in prestige. A dangerous moment for the world, perhaps.

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Pascoe Sabido @pascoesabido.bsky.social · 5d

The latest Clean Hydrogen Monitor, produced by industry lobby group #HydrogenEurope, predicts the EU will produce 1.7 million tonnes of #greenhydrogen domestically by 2030. The EU's current target? 10 million tonnes! - via the Green Hydrogen Organisation
#hydrogensoufflé

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GH2 Weekly Wrap: Europe struggles to get its green hydrogen sector moving

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨Good news: The European Union has signaled it will not give in to pressure from Washington to tear up its #green rules in order to firm up a deal on #tariffs, @ec.europa.eu trade chief @sabineweyand.bsky.social has said to EU Member States. 🧵
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EU refuses to bow to Trump demands to tear up business rules

Brussels has signaled it won’t yield to U.S. pressure to ignite a bonfire of green regulations as part of their trade deal, a top official tells diplomats.

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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 9h

It would be very easy for Sky/BBC to point this out to the UK. People really should know that he is up to his neck in Russian dealings.

Instead they just let him lie, accept the obvious lie & move on.

If it was Starmer, he would have been forced to step down & chased out of the country.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 9h

Former PM Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office.

Secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture,
Used senior contacts in the Saudi govt to pitch for a consultancy firm.

Lust for private wealth is the main cause of UK decline.

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

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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 9h

Disrupting traffic? Didn’t Just Stop Oil go to gaol for that?
One rule for everyone please.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 9h

Why people don't trust mainstream politics is a mystery...

Two headlines in a row

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

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

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 1d

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

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Let me count the days … @simoncosgrove.bsky.social · 10h

Day 2080 of #Brexit: ‘The first British and other non-EU citizens will be subjected to new biometric checks when travelling to Europe from Sunday, when the long-delayed entry-exit system (EES) is finally launched.’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Britons travelling to EU to undergo new biometric checks at border from Sunday

Most non-EU nationals entering Schengen area will have photo and fingerprints taken as part of entry-exit system

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 9h

At least one senior Labour official seems to finally remember they aren't in Reform.
The changes won't just harm economy and country, they'll destroy families and force more people into becoming undocumented, leading to more deportations. They need scrapping not pausing.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sir Sadiq Khan calls for pause on new immigration rules

The mayor of London said the changes had "moved the goalposts".

www.bbc.com

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 23h

The picture of Farage with the T shirt from Gill’s briber’s wife, taken the day Gill appears her Pro Russian TV channel, is taken in Gill’s office

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 23h

Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.

He is gaslighting a nation.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’

Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements Nigel Farage has insisted his party’s former leader in Wales who was convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes was a “bad apple” who betrayed him. The Reform UK leader was in Caerphilly campaigning for his candidate in a forthcoming Senedd byelection when he was asked about his links to Nathan Gill. Continue reading...

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