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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 8h

Every time Labour does this I simply cannot understand how they don't see that they are making Britain a stupider, crueller and poorer place, all on behalf of people who will never, ever vote for them.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 21h

It’s funny how black people are expected to reach across the aisle to voters like these, while no one ever expects them to reach across the aisle to black people. Amazing who gets to be human, and who doesn’t.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Treacle @nessggd.bsky.social · 20h

Jeez this woman is truly awful.

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 1d

It may no longer be Indigenous Peoples' Day but this is when and where your support truly matters. We have several Native communities devastated by flooding, families have literally lost everything.

Link to community fundraiser for people impacted by this storm: alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

A a teal flyer for the Western Alaska Disaster Relief with a QR code to donate. Text reads:

WESTERN ALASKA DISASTER RELIEF

Alaska's Western coastal communities are experiencing devastating impacts from Typhoon Halong, with families displaced and villages facing severe flooding and loss.

ONLINE FUNDRAISER:
Join us in supporting relief efforts. Scan the QR code to donate
online. All funds raised will go directly to
assisting communities.
QUYANA CAKNEQ - QUYANAQPAK - QAGAASAKUNG - TAIKUU
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MAHSÌ CHO - GUNALCHÈESH - HÀW’AA - THANK YOU

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Treacle @nessggd.bsky.social · 20h

So the government also has plans to improve qualifications and skills in the indigenous population, right? Right? Or are the flag shaggers going to be left to fall even further behind?

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Treacle @nessggd.bsky.social · 20h

Fuck you, pancreatic cancer.
www.theguardian.com/music/galler...

D’Angelo – a life in pictures

Acclaimed soul musician D’Angelo has died at the age of 51 as a result of pancreatic cancer

www.theguardian.com

Treacle @nessggd.bsky.social · 21h

Nazi writing about how others also like Nazis. This is dogshit writing on a mind shrinking level. Get your shit together, Katherine '4 cent per word' Dee.

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Oil Change International @oilchange.bsky.social · 1d

"Fossil fuel companies are the biggest cause of the climate crisis, and their political power is the biggest barrier to solving it,” Oil Change Int'l's research director Kelly Trout told @emdashsanders.bsky.social.

bit.ly/3L8Zzna

Study: Oil companies are not ‘part of the solution’

New research in the journal Nature reveals oil and gas companies own a “marginal” share of global renewable capacity, years after claiming they would lead the energy transition.

www.exxonknews.org

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Treacle @nessggd.bsky.social · 21h

Being a racist asshole is a defining feature of this group of losers.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h

As if they keep writing all these headlines - and our membership numbers and polling just keeps shooting up. 🚀

Now at 110,000. Over 55% increase in just one month!

Lower bills. Fund NHS. Tax the super rich.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

Greens who want to save the world by destroying britain

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Chris Packham, "This country voted in a party with a massive majority and a mandate for change"

"All we see is Labour kowtowing to the far right. This causes me enormous concern"

"I'm frustrated, I'm angry, and I've frightened"

"And I get more scared every single day"

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 1d

so many douchebags get funding for their legal cases from billionaires.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Robinson allegedly failed to comply with officers who ‘became concerned’ by his behaviour at Channel Tunnel Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counter terrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. The far-right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley Lennon, refused to give police the pin for his phone because it had “journalistic material on it” after they stopped him at the Channel Tunnel on 28 July 2024, a court heard. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Treacle @nessggd.bsky.social · 1d

Misspelling Mamdani's name just illustrates what shit CBS now is.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

Treacle @nessggd.bsky.social · 1d

A small number of transphobic individuals is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – petition: goodlawproject.org/s/4860b3

Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive

A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back

goodlawproject.org

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 1d

i'm all for hating on Bari Weis but let's be real, she is a symptom of a much much deeper sickness. the fact that the US and its media industry routinely elevates and rewards talentless reactionary crybullies like Weis is a moral & ethical indictment on every conceivable level

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UK Politics @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 1d

Reform in Northumberland are eating themselves alive - purges, suspensions, backstabbing. The Refuk's council group leader Mark Peart turned “local Refuk council group” into a tinpot dictatorship. Imagine this circus anywhere near Westminster.

Source: Northumberland Gazzete

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Treacle @nessggd.bsky.social · 2d

Vote Green.

chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 2d

So... the main difference is that YP welcomes transphobes, and has the dodgy whiff of islamophobia (because the only reason #YourParty are welcoming transphobes is that the transphobes are telling them it's normal for Muslims to be bigoted)?

Sort your house out.

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 4d

Great discussion at TWT on how the left must unite — Your Party and the Greens — to keep Farage out of Downing Street.

But unity isn’t uniformity. Your Party will be truly anti-imperialist: no diplomatic ties with a genocidal, apartheid Israeli state and no greenwashing NATO.

Join us: yourparty.uk

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Treacle @nessggd.bsky.social · 2d

Farage is a puppet of far right American freedom haters. As well as Russia. What a charmer.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Maria Bustillos @handle.invalid · 2d

Block, don't ratio, @sallyjenx.bsky.social, and help keep the bad opinions that are worth nobody's time off this website

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zellieimani.bsky.social @zellieimani.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, they still big mad over this one.

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Mallorie Malcontent ✨ @sweetbeanscomix.bsky.social · 2d

Besides friends, family, and community, art is next best thing that makes life worth while. Baring witness to something that was crafted by another person or group. Or being part of making art. No matter how amateurish.

Anyways, AI is fucking lame.

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 2d

people like Sally Jenkins only post here to get the ratio, it's a badge of honor to that set

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Mirror Politics @politics.mirror.co.uk · 2d

Police-style mugshots and fingerprinting just to go on holiday around Europe are another major reason why Nigel Farage and Reform UK could never be trusted to run Britain.

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

www.mirror.co.uk

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 2d

it’s very jarring to run up against someone who has killed their capacity to feel shame. how do you even proceed? what can you actually say to a sally jenkins, a caitlin flanagan, that will get them to start acting like a person who knows that lying is bad

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Treacle @nessggd.bsky.social · 2d

I long for the day when right wingers posing as centrists isn't a thing.