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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 3h

Teesside’s freeport, initiated in 2021 under Rishi Sunak, has cost £560 million far exceeding the standard £25 million allocation (22 times the standard £25m).
90% profits go to the private sector.
This clearly shows the UK model of State aid post-Brexit is utterly corrupt.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 10h

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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deedeeobserves.bsky.social @deedeeobserves.bsky.social · 10m

🤣😁

Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 4h

Shocker.

deedeeobserves.bsky.social @deedeeobserves.bsky.social · 42m

Militias pretending to be ICE?? What’s the difference anyway??

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12h

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 3h

I've been to Dubai for work a few times. It's like the world's biggest airport lounge. Utterly soulless. Can't imagine wanting to live there whatever the financial benefits. (That's before you get to the ethical issues...)

Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 3h

People keep telling me the UK is so over and they're going to move to Dubai and, like, fine. Go on then. Would you like directions to the airport?

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 3h

You definitely shouldn't move to Dubai, writes V&A director Tristram Hunt on.ft.com/46MfW1t

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 13h

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent.

Six days after the first bribery charge

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18h

I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.

He is gaslighting a nation.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20h

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’

Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements Nigel Farage has insisted his party’s former leader in Wales who was convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes was a “bad apple” who betrayed him. The Reform UK leader was in Caerphilly campaigning for his candidate in a forthcoming Senedd byelection when he was asked about his links to Nathan Gill. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 10h

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deedeeobserves.bsky.social @deedeeobserves.bsky.social · 44m

Disgusting! What are the Democrats or anyone with guts, going to do about this shameless corruption??’

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

🤷🏽‍♂️ 🇺🇸 💰

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 9h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 15h

Shadow the IceHound
I'll make it as simple as possible.

Every current Reform MP has either been a Tory MP, a Tory mayor or a Tory party donor.

What makes Reform followers think that they are going to be any better than the party that destroyed the UK over 14yrs of theft?
#GetTheSame
#RancidReform

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h

The Trump administration is REALLY allowing Qatar to build an air base in the US after they did a $5.5 billion golf resort deal with Trump and gave him a jet.

MAGA can take their ‘America First’ flags and wipe their asses with them. He is Trump First, and you are suckers.

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 10h

To all the Americans losing their jobs and farmers losing their farms, take comfort in the fact that the people in Argentina are doing great.

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deedeeobserves.bsky.social @deedeeobserves.bsky.social · 46m

The only hope in the future is that the USA will change its healthcare once it collapses & reborn into a ‘free at the point of need’ model!!

Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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deedeeobserves.bsky.social @deedeeobserves.bsky.social · 48m

Despicable, disgraceful and disgusting!!

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15h

It's time for the rich to pay.

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Craigie 🇵🇸 🚩☮️🔻Proudly Un-British @craigsmive.bsky.social · 2h

Why don't you just go the whole hog and chip babies you authoritarian police state bastards.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Government to consult on digital IDs for 13-year-olds

There has been a backlash to the announcement a UK-wide digital ID scheme will be introduced by 2029.

www.bbc.com

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deedeeobserves.bsky.social @deedeeobserves.bsky.social · 52m

Time to do something, citizens of America????

The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19h

In a democracy, presidents don’t wield the military against citizens or weaponize the Justice Department against political opponents.

Since Congress won’t act, voters must.

We must decide what kind of country we want

A president who uses the military and the Justice Department to exact revenge against his perceived enemies is as un-Ame

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deedeeobserves.bsky.social @deedeeobserves.bsky.social · 52m

America is disintegrating because of the dictatorship of the orange felon!

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 15h

🚨Veteran wrongly detained by ICE, placed on suicide watch in a cell with no clothes. Only a hospital gown and a thin mattress on a concrete floor from Friday to Sunday. Lights on 24 hours/day. WTF, America? 1/2

deedeeobserves.bsky.social @deedeeobserves.bsky.social · 53m

Shocking!

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

deedeeobserves.bsky.social @deedeeobserves.bsky.social · 54m

Probably another lie in the fantasy universe of the orange felon?!

CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 1h

I can’t tell if this is true or not

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 1h

My attitude towards my finances is influenced by my parents’ divergent attitudes, writes Tilly Lawless.

Sex life: I don’t believe in trading morals for money

My attitude towards my finances is influenced by my parents’ divergent attitudes

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 20h

Oh dear that failed spectacularly as the BBC arranged an all-right-wing panel to challenge Green leader Zack Polanski on Question Time last night. But he schooled them all. And it was a perfect example of how to cut through establishment propaganda with clarity and compassion.

Zack Polanski schooling a right-wing BBCQT panel was a brilliant lesson in how to beat propaganda

The BBC arranged an all-right-wing panel to challenge Green leader Zack Polanski on Question Time last night. But he schooled them all.

www.thecanary.co

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James Fitzgerald @jamesfitzjourno.bsky.social · 13h

Makes sense....but Labour better be ready with a rejoin argument (they won't).

Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

With Reform UK threatening the end of two-party politics, both Labour and the Tories are fighting to stay relevant as conference season comes to an end

www.thetimes.com

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