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KeithC
@keithakc.bsky.social
Musician manque, son, husband, father, grandfather, engineer, nerd, atheist, pro-EU patriot, leftie not Labour, libertarian socialist humanist, cyclist.
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Seems to me that he just admitted some things here. You?
February 13, 2026 at 2:29 PM
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Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records.

Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'.

Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract.

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
you.38degrees.org.uk
February 13, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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The Guardian's Jillian Ambrose unpicks the many tens of millions in state support that Jim Ratcliffe's businesses have accepted, after the billionaire railed against people on benefits (and claimed Britain was being "colonised" by immigrants while himself having moved to tax-free Monaco).
Ratcliffe says immigrants cost too much, while Ineos lobbies for state funding
Billionaire’s business has in recent years claimed UK and EU support for refineries and chemicals plants worth about €800m
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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Not very often you can agree with Piers Morgan but hey, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
February 12, 2026 at 11:09 AM
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I get why Matt posts this nonsense every day, outrage pays.
None of this is on the current government.
Open borders? Brexit.
Soft-on-crime chaos? Tories.
Highest taxes since the 1940s? Tories.
Shafted pensioners? Tories.
Farmers driven to despair? Brexit.
Hotels for migrants? Brexit + Tory failure.
February 12, 2026 at 8:26 AM
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Google gave ICE the sensitive personal data of a student journalist, including his bank account and credit card info, without even letting him know.

The company is also helping bankroll Trump’s vanity ballroom project.

Google is enabling fascism — all to protect its bottom line.
February 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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This woman in Crowborough who took down flags is a hero and I hope she's ok.
February 9, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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Fellow American’s especially if you voted for Trump , the rest of us Educated Americans are suffering today because of your Trump style Character 😡😡😡. Reflect , Do Better, and REPOST 👊🇺🇸😎
February 12, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban
February 13, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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Maybe I missed something but it seems like the only people that have been ‘found guilty’ are Epstein and Maxwell. Who else (donors & politicians) is he talking about??
February 12, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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Regulations are what keeps ordinary Americans healthy and, often, alive.

It took spoiled meat and rodent droppings out of our food. It took harmful lead out of our gasoline and paint. It took poison out of our water.

Deregulation only achieves one goal: making rich corporations richer.
February 13, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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REGULATIONS = PROTECTIONS FOR AMERICANS, HUMANS, EARTH

DEREGULATIONS = ALLOWING CORPORATIONS TO HARM AMERICANS, HUMANS, EARTH
February 12, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.
EPA reverses long-standing climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions
The agency announced it is repealing its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being.
www.nbcnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:06 AM
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In the 2021 census 0.3% of the population of England and Wales do not speak English at all (link below). I cannot find a figure for Scotland, so where is Farage getting his figures from or is he just making them up?

@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social

www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
February 12, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...
www.pbs.org
February 12, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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Jordan Bardella, the party’s President and likely candidate in next year’s French presidential election, just voted against the EU’s life-saving €90bn loan to Ukraine in the European Parliament. So did 139 other members of the Far Rights “Patriots” group 2/
February 12, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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Pity the French Far Right. After 15 years of Marine Le Pen cleaning house and four years of distancing her party from Moscow, the Rassemblement National can’t help admitting where its real instincts lie 1/
February 12, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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Kick It Out, the anti-racism charity, say the language used by Man United's co-owner that Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants should have no place in football.

They note he was wildly inaccurate in his factual claims too.
February 11, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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“Are you firmly in favour of rejoining the European Union?" - Robert Peston

“Firmly very much in favour. Brexit has been a disaster under any criteria, under any measure" - Zack Polanski
February 12, 2026 at 6:54 AM
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Obviously zero reflection in any of this on how operating the largest empire in human history may have turned us into a multicultural nation. We are here because you were there. #Empireland

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
PM asks Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants'
Sir Keir Starmer says comments by the businessman and Manchester United co-owner are
www.bbc.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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This by @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social is really worth a read, in spite of the fact that it mentions me in passing. She's convinced me, anyway, that vice-signalling really is a thing - and a phenomenon/technique we need to take very seriously.
The rise of vice-signalling: how hatred poisoned politics
Over the last 10 years, the terms of political debate have changed completely – and week by week they seem to get worse
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Well done to Sky for correcting this bit of ignorance.

As shown extensively in the Epstein files there's plenty of proof that being rich doesn't mean you have any great insights into the world.
February 11, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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“If all the names in the Epstein files are released then our entire system will collapse.”

Works for me.
February 10, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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February 11, 2026 at 2:07 AM