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pmh @clearlight.bsky.social · 1h

Are the Green Party the only one we have that aligns to that vision

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2h

In the UK we have Keir -island of strangers- Starmer, whose government is driving right wing anti immigrant and asylum seeker policies

In Spain, Pedro Sánchez is not only celebrating diversity, they're embracing and speaking positively about immigrants

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2h

Priti Patel is asked if she condemns Netanyahu saying there will never be a Palestinian state. Patel says we've moved on from what was said in the past.

#bbclaurak points out Netanyahu said it only a few days ago.

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pmh @clearlight.bsky.social · 1h

Is that the same Hillel Fuld who is Oracle‘s Strategy advisor?

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 2h

The Digital Coup: How Silicon Valley Billionaires and Tech Giants Are Capturing Britain’s Future
I investigate the web of influence connecting Larry Ellison, Tony Blair, Keir Starmer, and the corporations vying to control Britain’s digital infrastructure.
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The Digital Coup: How Silicon Valley Billionaires and Tech Giants Are Capturing Britain’s Future

An investigation into the web of influence connecting Larry Ellison, Tony Blair, Keir Starmer, and the corporations positioning themselves to control Britain’s digital infrastructure

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Eryk ☭ (but make it Red Scare for Halloween) @peregrinecoast.press · 1h

(hello if you just sent me a DM I still can’t see them thanks to the UK government)

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pmh @clearlight.bsky.social · 3h

What they mean is, Tony Blair Institute has been cutting genocide-as-property-development deals

We know they’ve resisted all attempts to get them to stop supporting genocide and lock people up as terrorists for protesting it

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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pmh @clearlight.bsky.social · 7h

It’s not just Russian oligarchs, it’s *all* oligarchs that are corrupting our political-media class to destroy our society.

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Ian Moody @ianmoody.bsky.social · 1d

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister. Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy

www.theguardian.com

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Scary Halloween Name @brigonos.bsky.social · 16h

James Schneider's wife works for Keir Starmer, you say? What a funny coincidence. Anyway, to get back on topic, has there been any progress on finding who keeps leaking internal communications to the press? Me and James have been wracking our brains about how they got into our Whatsapp.

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 15h

In June 2025, Keir Starmer's govt published a paper Industrial Strategy Zones Action Plan, which will merge the Tories' 12 freeports and 74 Special Economic Zones (SEZs), with AI Growth Zones providing the digital layer.
In September 2025, Keir Starmer announces the UK-wide digital ID scheme rollout

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pmh @clearlight.bsky.social · 15h

Abolishing the cops

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 17h

The Tories call it “discipline.” Economists call it “managed decline.”, and voters call it what it is — madness.

If we can take £47 billion out of the economy, why can’t we invest £47 billion into our communities instead?

Op-ed from Prof Richard Murphy

What happens when £47 billion disappears from Britain’s economy?

Tory Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride wants to take £47 billion out of the UK economy. That isn't prudence. It's managed decline

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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 17h

Alarming that both Tories and Reform are committed to accelerating fossil fuel use and rolling back renewables. A suicide lobby, enthusiastic about wrecking our future! #Fossilfools #ClimateChange

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MalcBow @malcbow.bsky.social · 16h

www.theguardian.com/society/2025... @uklabour.bsky.social just as shite as the Tories and Reform

Revealed: Labour-run council using legal loophole to serve families with no-fault evictions

Exclusive: London council created an arm’s-length body to manage some of its housing stock

www.theguardian.com

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 1d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 17h

This is what you can expect from a ceasefire with Israel.

Intensive Israeli air strikes kill one, injure seven in southern Lebanon

Lebanese president condemns Israeli attack on Msayleh as a 'blatant aggression' against civilian infrastructure.

www.aljazeera.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

This is a problem with so much legacy media raising journalists with underdeveloped personal morality, trained to seek “iDEoloGIcaL diVErsitY” and not right and wrong. Because this argument is stupid and puny, and any columnist who can’t call it out immediately is not a serious person.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

Counterpoint:

You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers

Wilson: Now, one of the things I want to do is say: I’m really glad that slavery’s gone, and good riddance. And I want to say that the Southern slave owner, who read the books of Ephesians and Colossians and 1 Timothy and treated his slaves decently, remembering that he had a master in heaven who he studiously tried to obey — what Paul said slave owners were supposed to do — I would say he was not an orc, and he is part of the reason why slavery ended. In other words, I would say he’s a good guy.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

It was great working with Zeteo’s editors and rigorous fact-checker.

And I’m most grateful they let me say this in the last graf, something I’ve been try to get at with these ICE flights for awhile.

The disparity between the luxurious aircraft and its shackled, vilified passengers must have been quite a sight, but they are not unrelated. Corrupt officials transferring state funds to personal accounts, governments with empty treasuries and desperate citizens, luxury highrises, the criminalization of the unhoused and undocumented, billions spent on political campaign pageantry, aiding genocide from a faraway ballroom and calling it "charity," tax breaks for flying masked agents and nameless prisoners under cover of darkness - all are the spoils of oligarchy.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 2d

"And then there's the conservative media, Rupert Murdoch's media empire, FOX News, Wall Street Journal, that have promoted a lot of the anti-science..." | We call out Murdoch & Fox News for the damaging, destructive & indeed deadly role they have played, in the interview (and at length in the book).

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 4d

"Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science" | My #ScienceUnderSiege co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I spoke with @wbrangham.bsky.social of the @pbs.org #Newshour:
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Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science

From its embrace of dubious research about autism, its skepticism over vaccines and its wholesale rejection of the consensus about climate change, the Trump administration has set off alarm bells with...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

How big is ICE’s projected budget? This big: bit.ly/4o9oW6y

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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 2d

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The best thing about Thatcher is that she was not a Thatcherite. She was more intelligent and pragmatic than her acolytes. Nonetheless her policies did the country enormous harm, apart from the wealthy few. Real incomes have stagnated, public services in freefall

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

From the companies profiting off the administration's dragnet to the hell of Alligator Alcatraz, our reporters trace the brutal rollout of President Donald Trump's police state.

That includes the tiny, inexperienced firm that somehow landed a $1.3 billion detention deal to hold 5,000 human beings.

How a tiny, inexperienced firm landed a $1.3 billion detention deal

To hold 5,000 human beings.

www.motherjones.com

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pmh @clearlight.bsky.social · 1d

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The purpose of a system is what it does - Wikipedia

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