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Jon @redtrainers.bsky.social · 2h

Union flag behind the great patriot is upside down btw, I’m sure Stephen pointed that out to the organisers

Ruth Michaelson @ruthmichaelson.com · 5h

The far right agitator Tommy Robinson got a warm welcome last night in Tel Aviv, railing against the British government and the Board of Deputies of British Jews– to applause. The government minister who invited him hailed him as a great "friend of Israel."

My piece for @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Tommy Robinson receives warm reception in Tel Aviv

The British far-right activist was invited to Israel by a government minister

observer.co.uk

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 7h

Note: Katie Lam is the descendant of Jewish, Dutch and German refugees who would not have been able to find shelter in Britain if her "policies" had been in force at the time.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16h

Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam

She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"

(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)

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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 7h

A decade ago this language would have rightly labelled you as far-right, racist. Now it gets you a glossy piece in the Sundays tied to political ambitions.

It is not difficult to see how this extreme language used by Lam opens the door for eventually going further to talk of deporting citizens.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16h

Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam

She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"

(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 6h

Remember that these are the same people who are fighting a culture war over enforcing "diversity of opinions" on university students.

It is always, always, a lie to legitimise their eventual intend to silence or expunge anyone who doesn't look and sound just like them.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16h

Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam

She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"

(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)

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Jay Rigdon @jayrigdon.bsky.social · 18h

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

Two announcers, Jason Garrett and Dan Hicks, stand in front of a sign that reads "Big Turd" thanks to how they are blocking it

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Jon @redtrainers.bsky.social · 19h

Rustier than the Tin Man in a monsoon so far

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Jon @redtrainers.bsky.social · 20h

‘How’s your dad taken the divorce?’

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21h

Pitch invaders disrupt League Two game in ‘Gary Neville is a traitor’ flag protest

* Two men tried to plant flag of St George in centre circle * Far-right group calls it protest against Neville’s ‘treachery’ Salford’s League Two match against Oldham was briefly disrupted when two men tried to plant a flag of St George inside the centre circle at the Peninsula Stadium. The men entered the field during the first half wearing white hoodies displaying the message “Gary Neville is a traitor” before being removed by stewards and police. Continue reading...

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John Lubbock @jwsal.bsky.social · 1d

Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.

A tweet from Sky News reading 'Aston Villa fan Andrew Fox says he has received online abuse and even death threats following the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from the match in Birmingham.' A follow up tweet says 'This is a correction of a previous post that incorrectly identified Mr Fox as Jewish'.

A page from the Henry Jackson Society website for Andrew Fox, Research Fellow, which says he joined HJS in 2014 and that 'Andrew specialises in Defence, the Middle East, and disinformation'.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

How has the government got itself into the position of standing up for Israeli football hooligans, while criminalising peaceful supporters of Palestine Action?

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acab rangoon @mid-skeets.bsky.social · 2d

sean connery in a suit with a quote bubble

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

Back when posting was good

@BustaRhymes
SHOULD I BUY A HOUSE... or.. A LINK TO A PICTURE OF A PIXELATED MONKEY
7:49 AM • 10/15/21 • Twitter for iPhone
4,001 Retweets 677 Quote Tweets 26.5K Likes
NFTea Expert @NFTeaExpert • 7h
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Replying to @BustaRhymes
Houses are often more of a liability than an asset unless you can make it cash flow or you are flipping

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 2d

This really shouldn't feel so unusual and like such a breath of fresh air. Almost a relief.

If British politicians had had the basic integrity to send and repeatedly affirm this kind of message over the past 20 years then we wouldn't be dealing with the far right now.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

British.

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 3d

Getting better all the time. The Swiss gambling regulator is now concerned that Fifa's NFTs, which offer a *chance* to buy tickets once you've paid for them, are a form of gambling.

And Fifa doesn't have a gambling licence.

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FIFA’s Blockchain-Based Ticketing System for 2026 World Cup Faces Preliminary Probe

Switzerland’s gambling regulator has opened a preliminary probe into sales of blockchain-based tokens backed by FIFA which fans can exchange for tickets to games at the 2026 World Cup.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

the year is 2030. a doctor solemnly informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people persuaded by celebrity marketing bought synthetic pubic hairs that were eventually consumed by fish that you ate

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 3d

Americans all over Bluesky having a go at the Green Party in England and Wales for splitting the vote is a great snapshot of this app

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 3d

This is what Israel is. And so long as we arm and otherwise support them, this is who we are as well.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 4d

D’Angelo, the neo-soul trailblazer and modern visionary whose three albums were all heralded as classic works of art, has died at age 51.

Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 6d

Cookie Monster is not an animal

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 6d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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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Jon @redtrainers.bsky.social · 5d

Imagine explaining to your past self you’d pine for the old fashioned corruption of FIFA under Sepp Blatter

‘Chuck Blazer had a second luxury apartment on expenses for his cats and you could get fish n chips for under a fiver’

Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 5d

Gianni Infantino's latest Instagram post on how FIFA is going to help the Palestinians is only for those with strong stomachs. Infantino appears to be laying the ground to buy off the Palestinian Football Association and get them to drop their complaint against Israel, which has FIFA in a corner.

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DavidMcKenna @davidmckenna.bsky.social · 5d

Re: the Labour shenanigans detailed in The Fraud. "Gordstein", it should be noted, was not a real person but an invention of Euan Philipps of Labour Against Antisemitism, who is not Jewish but made complaints under what he obviously considered to be a 'Jewish-sounding' name

Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 5d

particularly callous and inhumane detail here. these people never gave a fuck about Jews

"In September 2020 “Gordstein” was one of three complainants against Riva Joffe, an 80-year-old Jewish veteran of the anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa.

Her sin was to have described Israel as an Apartheid state (a view shared by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and the Israeli human rights organisation B’tselem) and to have urged Jeremy Corbyn to stand up to the “Zionist lobby.”

The Labour Party opened a formal investigation and Joffe spent the closing days of her life penning an immensely dignified response from her death bed. “This frenzy of purging you are driven to – it’s not the behaviour of mature adults. It smacks of desperation, fear and panic,” she wrote.

Joffe lived in Starmer’s constituency and knew him personally. But a direct request on behalf of her son that the charges against her be posthumously dropped did not even elicit a response."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 8d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

⁦
@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Jon @redtrainers.bsky.social · 9d

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Krusty the Clown sat smoking a cigarette saying
‘Let’s just say it moved me…to a bigger house

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 10d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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