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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

BREAKING NEWS

In a move that has shocked absolutely no one with basic arithmetic skills, populist right wing party trying to win votes with fantasy economics traipses around in fetching hair shirt after all their policies are found to be economic fantasy.

Reform UK
Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits
Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in government

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 12h

When I see announcements like this, I have to ask - how many of the people out there who are so vehemently anti-migrant would actually pass English at an A-Level standard?

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK
Passports
Fast Track
My hote of
Passports ePassports
UK Border

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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 12h

🚨CALL TO ACTION🚨

When power centralizes, resistance must decentralize. Apps can’t protect us, only people can. Build networks & community protection!

Organize where you live, or they’ll organize how you live. ✊🏻

Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 15h

“We need everyone to get involved in the fight, and we need everyone to have a vested interest in continuing to resist.”

🚨 new from me 🚨

ICEBlock Can’t Block ICE. No App Can.

How Local Organizing, Community Defense and Security Culture Protect Us in Ways Technology Never Could

ICEBlock Can’t Block ICE. No App Can.

“Despite the app’s goal of protecting people from ICE, its viral success, and the state repression against it, ICEBlock has serious issues: Most

www.counterpunch.org

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 13d

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Sheena Coate @sheenacoate.bsky.social · May 12

These two charts expose Nigel Farage’s immigration myths

writesbright.substack.com/p/these-two-...

These two charts expose Nigel Farage’s immigration myths

The migration debate is based on blatant, provable falsehoods.

writesbright.substack.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13d

“Stop the Lying, Trump and Republicans Own This Government Shutdown”

Read ⁦‪John Harwood‬⁩ for Zeteo:

Stop the Lying, Trump and Republicans Own This Government Shutdown

Recent US government shutdowns stem from a common root cause: the extremism of the modern MAGA Republican Party.

zeteo.com

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 13d

It’s increasingly clear that convicted Russian influencer Nathan Gill was a senior member of Farage’s entourage. (Banks and Wigmore were also in and out of the Russian embassy sharing FBI files, RT talking points, and discussing gold and diamond privatisation deals)

Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 17d

Spot which one ISN’T a Kremlin asset

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 13d

(1) The prime minister should call out racism whether or not it’s politically convenient to do so.
(2) I absolutely do not believe this is a vote loser for Labour, especially if done right and with conviction

The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 13d

Crying racism only hurts Labour

Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.

📊 @bwalker.uk

Crying racism only hurts Labour

Activists like it, but the median voter will feel attacked.

www.newstatesman.com

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 13d

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧵

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13d

Greta Thunberg is the best of us.

If you are not on her side there is something very wrong with you.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13d

Greta Thunberg MUST get the Nobel Peace Prize.

Imagine how much Donald Trump and Netanyahu would rage.

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jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social @jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social · 14d

Says the dumbest, weakest conman in US History!!

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 13d

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 13d

For decades the MET has been called out as institutionally racist, corrupt & sexist

Panorama's secret filming shows officers making sexualised comments to colleagues & sharing racist views

Evidence of misogyny & racism challenges the Met's promise to have tackled what it calls "toxic behaviours"

Secret BBC filming exposes hidden culture of racism and misogyny inside Met Police

Panorama undercover investigation captures evidence that

www.bbc.co.uk

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14d

“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏

PM Keir Starmer

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13d

BREAKING: The Global Sumud Flotilla organisers have declared a state of emergency on board, as they prepare for the expected Israeli interception of their mission to break the blockade of Gaza.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 14d

Israeli quadcopters shooting children.

And our government continues to materially supporting Israel every day.

Even as Israel rejects a two state solution, votes to fully annex the West Bank, and murders more doctors, nurses, journalists, children.

And our government continues to assist it.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 13d

Two Reform councillors in Derbyshire demoted over attendance issues

www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-n...

Two Reform councillors in Derbyshire demoted over attendance issues

Reform's Derbyshire County Council leadership has swapped two of its councillors from committees they had sat on

www.derbytelegraph.co.uk

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 13d

The Royal Society has met to discuss Elon Musk – and they’re NOT removing his fellowship. They are criticising him publicly, but stopping short of actual removal.

This feels like the kind of compromise that will please *absolutely nobody*.

“I am increasingly concerned over threats to the values that allow science to flourish. Today at a meeting of the Royal Society’s Council, I led a discussion regarding some of those threats.

“Science thrives when individuals and institutions have the freedom to carry out research without fear of discrimination, censorship, or other restrictions that would hinder their work. In support of that, Council believes that it is not the role of the Royal Society to police the personal political opinions of individual Fellows and disciplinary procedures should not be initiated because of a Fellow’s social and political views.

“However, the Society can and will criticise Fellows who act in a way that runs counter to the values of tolerance, courtesy and respect for others that allow science to flourish. Elon Musk’s contribution to the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally is an example of a growing tendency towards the use of the language of violence, and narratives of division and polarisation. This language and these narratives threaten the values that enable science to thrive and the Royal Society rejects them, from wherever they originate.”

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 14d

And another taste

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 14d

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Politico @politico.com · 14d

“Could have been an email”: Officials are balking at Hegseth's generals meeting.

The last-minute gathering featured hundreds of senior military officials, who swear an oath to the Constitution, attending something more akin to a campaign rally.

‘Could have been an email’: Officials balk at Hegseth's generals meeting

The last-minute gathering featured hundreds of senior military officials, who swear an oath to the Constitution, attending something more akin to a campaign rally.

www.politico.com

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15d

An extraordinary Telegraph article from 2014 that reminds us where Nigel Farage stood on Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Mr Putin 16 years ago.

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 15d

archive.ph/eNVX4

Nigel Farage: Stop opposing Vladmir Putin in Ukraine and join forces to defeat Islamic terrorists
The Ukip leader says that West must stop poking the Russian leader with a stick and realise he is 'on our side' in the fight against terror
By Georgia Graham, Political Correspondent
11:26AM BST 16 Sep 2014

The West must stop opposing Vladimir Putin’s incursion into Ukraine and join forces with the Russian leader in the fight against Islamic extremists, Nigel Farage has said,
The Ukip leader said that Western countries must stop "playing war games in Ukraine and poking the “Russian bear with a stick” because Mr Putin is “on our side” in the war against Islamic extremism.
Mr Farage courted controversy earlier this year when he said that Mr Putin, the former KGB officer, is the statesman he most admires.
In a debate this morning at the European Parliament Mr Farage a sympathetic interpretation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he said European states had “directly encouraged” the uprising that “led in turn to Vladimir Putin reacting”.
Mr Putin has been blamed by the West for prolonging the bloodshed in Syria and propping up the regime by supplying arms including helicopter gunships to President Assad, and repeatedly blocking moves to censure or sanction him at the United Nations.

https://archive.ph/eNVX4

However Mr Farage suggested that these differences should be put aside with Russia and European nations “preparing a plan” to defeat to deal with “the real threat that faces us”.
He said: “Perhaps we better recognise that the West faces the biggest threat and crisis to our way of life we have seen for over 70 years. The recent beheadings of the British and American hostages graphically illustrates the problem and of course we have our own citizens from our won countries engaged in that struggle too.
“In the war against Islamic extremism, whatever we may think of him as a human being, he is actually on our side.
“I suggest we grow up, I suggest we recognise the real threat facing all of our countries, communities and societies, we stop playing war games in the Ukraine and we start to prepare a plan like Syria, like Iraq, like Kenya like Nigeria or Syria and help the deal with the real threat that faces us. Let’s not go on provoking Putin whether we like him or not.”
He added: "Amongst the long list of foreign policy failures and contradictions in the last few year, amongst them the bombing of Libya, the desire to arm the rebels in Syria, has been the unnecessary provocation of Vladimir Putin.
“This EU Empire, ever seeking to expand, stated its territorial claim on the Ukraine some years ago, just to make that worse of course some Nato members said they too would like the Ukraine to join Nato
“We directly encouraged the uprising in Ukraine that led to the toppling of the president Yanukovych and that led in turn of course to Vladimir Putin reacting. And the moral of the story is if you poke the Russian bear with stick...”

https://archive.ph/eNVX4

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 15d

I mean, how could the famously liberal owner of the Times possibly have imagined this sort of thing would come to pass when they appointed as the paper's editor someone who'd been deputy editor of the Mail and editor of both the Telegraph and the Sun?

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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 15d

"Nigel meets tens of thousands of people on an annual basis."

Just amazing then how many of them are called Nathan Gill.

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