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Lennie @drgs100.bsky.social · 7h

I wonder whose going to pay for it? Because we've paid for the Dot-com bubble and the banking crisis and we've nothing left.

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Lennie @drgs100.bsky.social · 7h

I used to have Radio 4 on all day, every day ) except when the Archers was on). It's been two years since I've had it on.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 15h

She's a U.S. sponsored opposition candidate and the daughter of a steel oligarch. Machado champions the privatization of Venezuela's oil, power, and steel industries.

Connie Schultz @connieschultz.bsky.social · 15h

New York Times:

“Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela & for her struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 17h

All my comics have happy endings!

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14h

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are walking back to Gaza City as the Israeli military begins its withdrawal from the area following the ceasefire agreement.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum is there, watching what he described as ‘an endless tide of humans’.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 13h

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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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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Lennie @drgs100.bsky.social · 13h

I blame him too.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 18h

Just your basic reminder that for Israel under Netanyahu, "ceasefire" never actually means ceasing to fire...

BBC News report, 0845 today, of Israeli artillery strikes in Gaza.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Lennie @drgs100.bsky.social · 18h

Especially bombs and bullets.

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Lennie @drgs100.bsky.social · 1d

None of this is relevant to the crime of Genocide as laid out by the Genocide Convention. If I give you the tools to commit Genocide then I too am guilty of Genocide.

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Lennie @drgs100.bsky.social · 1d

What happens when the billionaires own everything.

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Sir Jim Ratcliffe spent part of the £4bn tax bill he dodged to fund Manchester United.

That is how the UK works you pay tax, the big people don't and they get richer and richer and RICHER.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

Sir Jim Ratcliffe spent part of the £4bn tax bill he dodged to fund Manchester United.

That is how the UK works you pay tax, the big people don't and they get richer and richer and RICHER.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

“You can’t blame austerity on one hand, but then say it’s the immigrants. The immigrants haven’t caused austerity.”

Zack Polanski takes on Reform’s Zia Yusuf over spreading of misinformation on #BBCQT

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 1d

Web based platforms are superior to apps, in nearly every way. I honestly think we've fucked it; we've overshot the "best" version of the internet and landed in this web 3.0, internet-of-shit wasteland.

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Lennie @drgs100.bsky.social · 1d

That is irrelevant to the question of complicity in Genocide. If you wish to absolved Biden of Genocide then tell me did America provide the weapons to commit the Genocide under Biden's Presidency?

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Lennie @drgs100.bsky.social · 1d

This is useful reference material for supporters of Trump, Biden, Starmer and all other leaders providing Israel with the tool of Genocide en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complic...

Complicity in genocide - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Lennie @drgs100.bsky.social · 1d

In the crime of Genocide? Yes the British cabinet and the German cabinet are also guilty of Genocide, through their support (military, financial and diplomatic) of the actions of the Israeli government. As per the Genocide Convention, complicity in the crime of Genocide is not restricted by borders

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Lennie @drgs100.bsky.social · 1d

It is irrelevant to Biden - and Trumps - guilt of the crime of Genocide.

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Lennie @drgs100.bsky.social · 1d

That is not relevant to the crime of Genocide. Biden directly supported the actions of Netanyahu and his government. They literally provided them with the munitions.

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Auld Banshee @auldbendy.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck off Kate. You have a nanny for grown children, cleaners, don't have a job, assistant, personal hairdressers, and are loaded.

You know what does damage family life more? Poverty. Put your literal money where your mouth is then I may take you seriously.

Kate warns too much screen time damages family life.

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