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Nelson @nelsontherapycat.bsky.social · 52m

Yes in the UK we are largely asleep to the real horrors of Trumpism and how the same dark money is funding Farage et al. All while our current govt has helped to normalise far right rhetoric

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1h

🎉 We've done it. We've passed 100,000 Green Party members!

📈 But we're not stopping there.

💚 Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1h

'Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

'Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire

www.mirror.co.uk

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Nelson @nelsontherapycat.bsky.social · 1h

Hitler ended up dead in a bunker. Mussolini was strung up. Fascist leaders tend not to die quietly in care homes. Which begs the question - do the Trump regime think they are going to sustain a war on 70% of their own population indefinitely?

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1h

How austerity hit young people.

In the decade after 2010 councils’ funding for youth services in England and Wales suffered a real-terms cut of 70%.

By 2023, 1,200 publicly run youth centres closed.

Young people abandoned to fund tax cuts for corporations the rich.

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...

www.theguardian.com

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Nelson @nelsontherapycat.bsky.social · 1h

It’s so exciting to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social robustly standing up for our ‘nation of neighbours’ (TM ZP) and rejecting the creeping normalisation of anti immigration rhetoric by a Labour govt who have thoroughly repelled their progressive base

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

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

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Nelson @nelsontherapycat.bsky.social · 2h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 10h

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Nelson @nelsontherapycat.bsky.social · 10h

Christ that phrase ‘deeply un-American’ is doing some heavy lifting. I would say it would actually be ‘deeply un-American’ to have highly regulated gun ownership and universal healthcare, both things that would free people up to protest safely against white nationalist thugs kidnapping brown folks

Nelson @nelsontherapycat.bsky.social · 22h

That absence of shame is mirrored in the US in the GOP. And look where that’s got them

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 23h

Men like Piers Morgan have found women in trans women who it is socially acceptable to abuse.

Every time they do this stuff they are telling you how they'd treat cis women if they could get away with it.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23h

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

www.thenerve.news

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

The message from Robert Jenrick has been clear. If you’re a far-right thug threatening migrants, refugees, or Muslims, then your rights to protest are to be protected at all costs. If you’re not then they won’t
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-descen...

The Descent of Robert Jenrick

The Shadow Justice Secretary's transformation from a 'Generic' moderate Conservative to the Great Hope of the far-right should alarm us all

www.adambienkov.co.uk

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

High street slot machine shops, owned by Merkur, are paying their staff bonuses linked to how much gamblers lose.

Companies chase profits by spreading misery, exploiting vulnerable people

Gambling Commission must shut down these parasites.

High street slot machine shops pay staff bonuses linked to how much gamblers lose

Exclusive: MPs and campaigners condemn ‘appalling’ reward scheme for Merkur venue managers

www.theguardian.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Farage/Reform and the Trump playbook.

Mass sackings of unsympathetic civil servants
Promise to reduce workers's rights
Inflict spending cuts - hit the poor, old, sick, disabled

Now claims teachers are “poisoning our kids” - just as Nazis did to control education.

Power grab by dividing society.

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

www.theguardian.com

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Nelson @nelsontherapycat.bsky.social · 1d

I’m horrified at what is going on in US cities. These brave people standing up to fascism - terrifying in the face of all those weapons. This stuff needs to be shared

substack.com/@letsgetinto...

LetsGetIntoIt2025 (@letsgetintoit2025)

Chicago attorney Robert Held took to a megaphone to address police officers on behalf of the protesters. There was a standoff that lasted about an hour. Police were instructing protesters to dispers...

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Nelson @nelsontherapycat.bsky.social · 1d

Put a bloody helmet on for god’s sake it’s not just NYC that loves you

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Nelson @nelsontherapycat.bsky.social · 1d

It’s brilliant but also a bit unnerving how much these frogs look like Nigel Farage

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

And people tell me the libs have no knack for messaging.

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Nelson @nelsontherapycat.bsky.social · 1d

I really need to know if there are people in the US who actually believe this bollocks

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

Nelson @nelsontherapycat.bsky.social · 1d

It never ends

Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 1d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Nelson @nelsontherapycat.bsky.social · 1d

Has he grown past the pulling the wings off flies and torturing kittens phase then

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Nelson @nelsontherapycat.bsky.social · 1d

Stalinist disappearances but this time in broad daylight and recorded for posterity. America is in full authoritarian mode now

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Nelson @nelsontherapycat.bsky.social · 1d

I think Farage should have a coterie of Portland style frog protesters follow him around everywhere he goes

Ribbet ribbet

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if Nigel Farage has actually visited a National Trust property?
If he had, he'd be aware the biggest issue is the occasional badly parked Honda Jazz and not tampons in the Gents.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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