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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 2h

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www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official

Dominion is one of the biggest election equipment providers and was used by 27 states during the 2024 election.

www.axios.com

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Jon McDevitt @jonmcdevitt.bsky.social · 4h

The Nerve, run by people who were sacked or quit when Tories took over The Observer. It is immediately ace.
Sign up here and it would also really be great if you could pay them £6.95 a month as the 5 women at the helm sunk all their redundancy money into it.

www.thenerve.news

The Nerve

Fearless, independent journalism covering culture, politics and tech

www.thenerve.news

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Jon McDevitt @jonmcdevitt.bsky.social · 4h

Ireland’s government has approved plans to permanently implement a basic income scheme that will support up to 2,200 artists, creative workers and musicians, aiming to “address the financial instability faced by many working in the arts”. €325 a week from September.

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Thee Grouchy Ladybug 🐞 she/her @grouchyladybug.bsky.social · 1d

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Brian 📎 @brianscant.bsky.social · 1d

Jonathan Liew nails the scum ’comedians’ taking the Saudi cash whilst claiming to be ‘free speech absolutists’.

It is pretty much a rule now that anyone banging on about ‘free speech’ is a far right cunt who only supports ‘free speech’ when it suits them.

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We know what the comedians got out of the Riyadh comedy festival. What about the Saudi regime? | Jonathan Liew

The tawdry event was an ultimately doomed attempt by the Saudi government to buy the kind of authentic grassroots culture it is unwilling to countenance, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 1d

Hate crime in England and Wales rises for first time in 3 years and while MSM amplify Farage & Reform anti migrant hate and demonise Palestinian Peace Marches, sympathising with right wing thugs “anger protests” it’ll get worse..

Hate crimes against Muslims rose 19% and fell 18% against Jews 🤷🏼‍♂️

Race and religious hate crime rises in England and Wales, figures suggest

The number of police-recorded race and religious hate crimes have increased in the year to March.

www.bbc.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it.

Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device.

The cruelty is endless. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

www.npr.org

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Miss Recreate @missrecreate.bsky.social · 1d

The 1% are just gonna ride on the backs of the rest of us - until we have no money left to spend, or we’re dead.

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Jon McDevitt @jonmcdevitt.bsky.social · 1d

Mad, evil twat alert.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

Jon McDevitt @jonmcdevitt.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck me, he's a mad cunt.

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Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 1d

Labour has such a good record in office.

Time to tell that story , drop the narrative of the haters.

Kevin O’Connell @hibou2.bsky.social · 1d

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Jon McDevitt @jonmcdevitt.bsky.social · 2d

No shit...
It's now almost impossible to work your way to riches, says report into growing wealth gap | Money News | Sky News share.google/mTyxiX6fkj7H...

It's now almost impossible to work your way to riches, says report into growing wealth gap

The Resolution Foundation's analysis of the country's wealth gap comes seven weeks before the chancellor delivers what's expected to be a tax-raising budget, though the government seems reluctant to p...

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Sylvester @6digit.bsky.social · 2d

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

Once again, the Telegraph seems shocked that the EU is acting like… the EU.

This is exactly what sovereignty looks like when you’re on the outside.

Ruthless EU has just taught Starmer a painful lesson
Steel tariff threats are a reminder of how Brussels really feels towards post-Brexit Britain

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2d

I reviewed a book about why the UK nuclear industry has declined and there were many reasons but I swear the author didn't mention gender identity once

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2d

There is nothing Badenoch cares more about than hating trans people so of course she has to throw that in and of course she does it in the crassest, thickest, most nonsensical way possible

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Badenoch: "While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China built five nuclear reactors."

A perfect summary of conservative idiocy. Glorifying authoritarian post-communism for its efficiency while vilifying democracy for seeking nuance and respect.

It is the Right who hate their own countries.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Labour have presided over a "doom loop of higher taxes, weaker borders and month after month of chaos" says Kemi Badenoch who was part of a government that raised taxes and immigration levels by record amounts, whilst changing leader no fewer than four times

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 3d

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Jon McDevitt @jonmcdevitt.bsky.social · 3d

He's getting increasingly separated from the plot.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 3d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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James @james-lowry.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao Darren changed his surname when he was 18. It was Darren Hutchinson. He’s a such a dickhead, I don’t even have words.

I won’t get into the rumours why he did lol

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

This is shocking racism from Jenrick and Badenoch should sack him immediately.

No further comment necessary.

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

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 3d

Chris Philp: "Now, what I've got to tell you now will shock you. There is a so-called Anti Racism Commitment Plan that literally says: policing should not be colour-blind."

Only, it literally does not. It just explains the difference between equality and equity. ~AA

Anti-racism and racial equity
Our commitment to anti-racism means

Taking a stand against racism in all its forms
Proactively identifying, understanding and tackling racial inequalities in policing
Reforming policies and practices that lead to people from different ethnic groups being over-policed, under-protected or marginalised
Working with partners to tackle the racial inequalities that exist in wider society and which are reproduced and sometimes exacerbated by policing
Our commitment to racial equity means

Producing equality of policing outcomes for people from different ethnic groups by responding to individuals and communities according to their specific needs, circumstances and experiences, with understanding that these will be racialised and with the aim of reducing harm.
It does not mean treating everyone ‘the same’ or being ‘colour blind’ (racial equality).

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Jon McDevitt @jonmcdevitt.bsky.social · 3d

Needs to be shared far and wide, and said loudly and clearly by all of us in real life, not just on social media.

Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 3d

Part of Russell T Davies' speech on being awarded Outstanding Contribution to Television at the Bafta Cymru awards. (via www.instagram.com/baftacymru)