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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 4h

In the 1930s and 1940s it could be argued that many Germans didn’t know what was going on. Americans cannot do the same. It’s plastered all over the internet and all over national and international news. You’ll never be able to get away with the “I didn’t know” excuse. You do know so do something.

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The Marsh Family @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · 2h

We've just hit *LAUNCH* on a @kickstarter.com to fund our debut album #HollowChapters. We've finished 7 of the mixes (explainer & extracts in video via link), but as independent artists need a final push to get over the line 🎶

PLEASE share and support if you can

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The Marsh Family: debut album campaign

Support an independent musical family group in releasing their debut album of ten original folk-pop songs, "Hollow Chapters" in 2026.

www.kickstarter.com

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 2h

Richard Tice - "Please welcome to the stage... Nathan Gill"

So much for Tice's claim to have never met Nathan Gill.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2h

The thing I'm "stunned" about is why this isn't the biggest domestic news item on every flipping platform

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'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

bylinetimes.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12h

Good to blame Farage for the dull-arsed, ruinous, tedious failure of Brexit.
Not that good to keep punishing us for that failure, rather than looking to swiftly boost our prosperity by asking to rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union.
But yes. It’s a start.

www.thetimes.com/article/8875...

Starmer and Reeves are expected to argue that if it hadn't been for Brexit this type of downgrade would not have been needed - and cite official figures suggesting that if Britain had not left the European Union the economy would be about £120 billion greater by 2035 than current forecasts suggest.
The message is simple: Farage is ultimately to blame, as the man who delivered Brexit with "easy sloganeering" then walked away from the aftermath rather than putting in the hard yards.
Or to put it another way: Farage, not us, is responsible for putting up your taxes.
The theme will tie to the main thrust of Starmer's argument at conference, that the Reform leader is selling easy solutions that are just a fantasy.

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Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR @paulcanonlyget1.bsky.social · 21h

I see Trump Tax is about to be increased by 100% for Americans who want to buy stuff from places that make the stuff they want to buy.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

They have to have a backup plan to the "dangerous immigrants" narrative. They have one. They've literally created a "terrorist group" out of thin air. I mean, you can't be having free and fair elections with "enemies from within," like the "Antifa Terrorist" group running around. It's a pretext.

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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 23h

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 1d

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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 1d

Former Head of Comms for the IEA, Annabel Denham, says the super rich will leave if we have a wealth tax.

Yes, the very same IEA that brought us Liz Truss’ disastrous mini budget. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Green Party leader Zack Polanski explains that their taxable assets can’t leave. #bbcqt

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Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR @paulcanonlyget1.bsky.social · 1d

Your daily reminder that ANTIFA is an opinion, not an organisation.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2d

You *really* should be by now but you don’t *actually* have to call them liars or racists, if it offends your commitment to now almost entirely redundant BBC principles of ‘objectivity’ & ‘ balance’. You just have to ask them again & again & again to justify their words & explain their exact meaning

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been saying this for ten years now but possibly not often enough: Ask Them What They Think The Words They’re Using Mean. And then ask them to name the ‘problematic’ people. We had ‘sovereignty’, ‘laws’ & ‘unelected bureaucrats’. The US now has ‘Antifa’, the ‘radical left’ & ‘insurrection’. Ask!

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Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR @paulcanonlyget1.bsky.social · 1d

Do you remember when America had a President?

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 2d

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Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR @paulcanonlyget1.bsky.social · 1d

Who could possibly have guessed?

Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 2d

Who benefits from the abolition of stamp duty land tax?

The first answer: people buying very expensive homes. Average saving for someone buying a £10m+ home is £1.7m. Average saving for someone buying a £250k-£500k home is £5k.

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Johanna Saunders @johannasaunders.bsky.social · 1d

I see once again that Farage is in the US, telling right wing fanboys how dreadful the UK is, and talking his usual bollocks about everything.
If this man ever becomes PM, our children will never, ever forgive us for giving him free reign to destroy the country.
He’s repellent, truly.

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 1d

Oh

The history of Nazis holding rallies in left-wing areas of Weimar Germany, instigating street fights, and then telling the press that only they could save Germany from the "violent communists" seems like an important thing for people to be studying right now.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

"Stupid people are dangerous and damaging because reasonable people find it difficult to imagine and understand unreasonable behaviour. A stupid person is thus the most dangerous type of person."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d

I see Reform UK are on #BBCQT again tonight, would one of the other panelists kindly ask

Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes

But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?

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Dawn B @dawnbritten.bsky.social · 2d

Goodnight possums xx

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Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR @paulcanonlyget1.bsky.social · 2d

Exactly. First time buyers are essentially already exempt. It's effectively a tax on the already property wealthy and property investors. Unless you're Jeremy Hunt wealthy and buy 7 at once of course, whereupon it all goes away.

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Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR @paulcanonlyget1.bsky.social · 2d

Quite. Love to know which first time buyers are fretting over the 5% they might have to pay on anything *over* £300K they pay when the *average* of *all* UK houses is £270K. But maybe I'm forgetting the plight of the children of Tory donors with eyes for that perfect mews in Chelsea.

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Dr Paul Budd Brexaster Resister #FBPE #FBPR @paulcanonlyget1.bsky.social · 2d

No one seems to have mentioned that first time buyers don't pay stamp duty unless they are forking out more than £300K FFS (just in case you were thinking lettuce economics brigade actually wanted to help normal people).

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

UAE has no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record.

Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP

No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.

But here's Tice calling us decadent

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