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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 29m

On Oct. 11, @annabower.bsky.social started to receive Signal messages from the U.S. attorney who is leading the prosecution of Letitia James.

Throughout the exchange, Lindsay Halligan complained about Bower’s tweets and reporting on the indictment–but never once asked to be off the record.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.”

My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

www.lawfaremedia.org

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 29m

Labour's Michael Shanks, when appearing before MPs in a Westminster select committee on Oct 8th 2024, pledged the Aberdeen HQ of GB Energy would have hundreds of employees in the initial set up phase and eventually expand beyond that. It has 13.

(video: MSM Monitor)

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 27m

Looks like Trump is entering his Mobutu phase.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1h

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 26m

Here's Labour's Michael Shanks revising history - not a thousand or more jobs that he promised in GB Energy HQ. 13.

(video: MSM Monitor)

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2h

Former Boris Johnson advisor Katie Lam says that multiculturalism has failed and you need just one culture for people to live in harmony

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 13h

Putin’s marooned troops blown apart in Dnipro ‘death zone’
Hundreds of Russian soldiers reportedly stranded and starving in delta, where Ukrainian troops watch their every move from above

archive.ph/2025.10.21-0...

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Realities 🌐 @insuret.bsky.social · 5h

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 3h

"I know exactly what Virginia told them, and the names she named – she didn't hold back," the co-author of Virginia Giuffre's autobiography tells Emily Maitlis.

"All of those things are in The Epstein Files"

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/i-kn...

'I know exactly what Virginia told them – she didn’t hold back': Virginia Giuffre co-author on Epstein Files | The News Agents

Amy Wallace, who co-wrote Virginia Giuffre’s autobiography, tells Emily Maitlis why she is demanding Donald Trump honour his election promise to release the Epstein Files.

www.thenewsagents.co.uk

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PACrosthwaite 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇨🇦🐸 @baggytrousers1.bsky.social · 5h

A traitor, a Russian asset, a festering cancer within uk politics This evil man must be stopped from destroying the NHS and bringing Trump style fascism to Britain. Regrettably his knuckle dragging supporters are too dull witted to see the repercussions of his racist ideals.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 3h

Donald Trump has once again flipped his position on the Ukraine war.

Now, Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s European friends are scrambling to strengthen Kyiv's hand before it is too late.

🔗 www.politico.eu/article/ukra...

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 5h

Pretty shocking, this, from a barrister and former Lord Chancellor. Shabana Mahmood, disgracefully peddling misinformation about the Human Rights watchdog.

Lewis Graham @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social · 5h

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Hmmmm. "The Home Secretary has said it is unacceptable for a European human rights watchdog to “question the validity” of the Supreme Court ruling".

Except the Commissioner didn't question the "validity" of the Supreme Court ruling, he questioned its fairness.

Mahmood hits back at European watchdog over trans and protest rights concerns

The Supreme Court ruled in April that the words ‘woman’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 refer to a biological woman and biological sex.

www.independent.co.uk

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 4h

🚨🚨 #Ukraine allies to Trump: "Yes to freezing the line, no to changing borders". 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/ukra...

Ukraine allies to Trump: Yes to freezing the line, no to changing borders

Joint statement from U.K., Germany, France, Italy and the EU comes after U.S. president holds tense meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

www.politico.eu

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Gerry 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍀 @gerryr.bsky.social · 8h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump to Republican senators: "What a friendly group this is. No Democrats are here, right?"

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 3h

Really ought to splice in scenes of all the MAGA folk he’s screwed over into the Trump shit video

Politico @politico.com · 3h

“Put America first”: GOP senators are fuming at Trump’s idea to import Argentinian beef to lower US prices.

Lawmakers face blowback from angry ranchers who were already alarmed by Trump’s $40 billion bailout of Argentina — even as the country undercuts US soybean farmers over trade with China.

‘Put America first’: GOP senators fume at Trump’s idea to import Argentinian beef

Farm-state lawmakers and allies of the president are rushing to get him to reverse course.

www.politico.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

I am completely awestruck by the ease with which Mike Johnson lies on a daily basis. I'll never understand how such a transparently fraudulent "man of faith" can live with themselves. Life is too short to be that phony.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 8h

Mike Johnson has given the house a very very very very very very very very very long vacation because he’s worried about the Epstein files

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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 5h

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

“.. Farm-state Republicans on Capitol Hill are privately and publicly livid ..

“.. ‘At a fundamental level, this looks like a betrayal of America first principles,’ said one GOP senator ..”

@politico.com
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

The Queen had two disabled cousins who were publicly pronounced dead in 1940 and 1961.

But they both lived in a mental hospital with no visits from the royal family until they died in 1986 and 2014

Never paid for them, never visited, they even erased them from public knowledge

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 9h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump notes the sound of construction of his new ballroom at the White House and says, "that's music to my ears. When I hear that sound, it reminds me of money. In this case it reminds me of lack of money because I'm paying for it."

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 1d

How is it not bigger news that Kristi Noem spent $172 million in Coast Guard funds on two luxury Gulfstream jets?

She’s living large on taxpayer money.

It’s corrupt, self-indulgent, and an insult to public service. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million

www.nytimes.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

The Epstein files contain the name of a prominent former PM who brutally beat & sexually assaulted an 18 year old.

Trump, Bondi, Patel & Johnson don’t want the world to know his name.

That’s why Johnson will have the House adjourned today for the 78th day out of the last 90.

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MR eLIAS @theeliasrework.bsky.social · 3h

Donald Trump's plan is to feed diseased beef to Americans?
NCBA raises alarm over Argentine beef import plan, citing foot-and-mouth disease risk | The National Provisioner share.google/ER4Tb5w6WZng...

NCBA raises alarm over Argentine beef import plan, citing foot-and-mouth disease risk

The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association responds to comments from President Donald J. Trump that suggested importing Argentinian beef as a solution to lower beef prices.

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