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Iestyn @atgof.bsky.social · 1h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

That New York Times story lots of people are sharing today about Farage's ties to US anti-abortion groups was first reported by @mc00.bsky.social on Byline Times a year ago bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 1d

Read this sorry story about how an academic was axed from conference panels because he was deemed too interesting.

He was told no one on the panel was expected to air difficult opinions in front of MPs that could damage the oil and gas sector

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

Academic axed from Labour conference panel for criticising energy policy

Sustainability expert was told panellists discussing North Sea oil and gas were meant to ‘agree entirely’ with each other

www.theguardian.com

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.

It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.

Investigation now!

#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes

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Iestyn @atgof.bsky.social · 3d

'Brain yn hedeg i'w hencil'

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 4d

Farage has given up the pretence that he barely knew Nathan Gill. He can't do otherwise, given the flood of evidence to the contrary.

Here is Gill saying he's just come from having lunch with Farage on the day that Farage resigned as UKIP leader 4 July 2016?

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 4d

The Trump-Vance administration blocking Catholics from receiving the Eucharist. The Trump-Vance war on Catholics and Catholicism.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

As the procession reaches Broadview, priests have been denied access to ICE detention facility in order to bring the Eucharist to detainees.

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Iestyn @atgof.bsky.social · 4d

Heno, heno.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 4d

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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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 5d

Wales' digital treasures face a threat similar to a ‘catastrophic’ cyber attack that left part of the British Library's website offline for two years

National Library on high alert over cyber attacks

Chris Haines, ICNN Senedd reporter Wales’ digital treasures, viewed 1.5 billion times, face a threat similar to a “catastrophic” cyber attack that left part of the British Library’s website offline fo...

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Iestyn @atgof.bsky.social · 9d

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Iestyn @atgof.bsky.social · 10d

Rhybudd. Mae cyfieithu gwael ar y ffordd!

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 10d

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'

Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

www.bbc.co.uk

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cathaguamia.bsky.social @cathaguamia.bsky.social · 10d

This is how you do it. @willhaycardiff.bsky.social with the figures on Welsh government spending on refugees, mainly Ukrainians. It’s 0.038% of their total spending. Not the huge amount the Tories would have you believe.

willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/outrageous...

Outrageous Welsh Conservative hypocrisy

This is shameless

willhaywardwales.substack.com

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Iestyn @atgof.bsky.social · 10d

Wedi dod i hyn

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11d

Answers on a postcard. Farage - who is currently in line to be the next Prime Minister of the UK - won't explain this mounting ties to a hostile foreign power. We need more investigation and public inquiry before its too late 12/12
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...