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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 7h

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

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

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 17h

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19h

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

www.business-live.co.uk

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 17h

Two graphs in today’s FT.

Notice the UK’s position on both graphs.

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Kieran Lowe @kieranran.bsky.social · 2d

I’m finally catching up on #MAFSUK and I can’t get over how awful the grifter “expert” Paul Carrick Brunson is - he’s a manipulative misogynist and I think quite a dangerous presence to have in a position of power even in a stupid reality show. He’s no John Aiken. CPL Productions should get rid

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UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 3d

Well Australia is seeing the Cass Review for what it is - a political sham!
www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people

Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, doe...

www.mja.com.au

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 4d

If there was ever an example of the Israeli government not being a reflection of British Jews it’s their decision to give Tommy Robinson a hero’s welcome

The fact it’s the minister for diaspora affairs makes it even more absurd, because I don’t know a single Jewish person who would think this is ok

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 6d

This Israeli government decision to host Tommy Robinson will widen the growing gulf between the Netanyahu government and the British public, including the broad majority of Jews in Britain (3/4 of whom dsapproved of Netanyahu, before this new link to this anti-Muslim racist UK far right convict).

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🎃 Spooky Chip bitney 🎃 @fragboner.bsky.social · 4d

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Did You Know?
@frog-page
When provoked, FROGS will defend themselves by traveling back in time to make sure you were never born!

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 5d

Blustery day, isn't it? Here's the National Grid: Live generation data. Wind and solar are generating 74.2% of our electricity. Gas is generating 13.1%. And yet our household electricity prices are pegged to... the volatile price of gas. Which is the basis on which the right attacks... renewables.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 5d

It’s easy to say that this is the last desperate hurrah of a dying party, but can we be clear: Trump’s ICE agents are literally kidnapping people, detaining them without due process in concentration camps (yes, this is the right term) and 1000s have disappeared. These are fascist practices.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

Tories to pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s Ice

Proposed ‘removals force’ will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in bid to tackle illegal immigration The Conservatives will pledge to create a new immigration taskforce modelled on Donald Trump’s controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency, the Guardian understands. The party’s leader, Kemi Badenoch, is expected to announce the policy on Sunday as it heads into its annual conference following a year of historic low poll ratings. The proposed “removals force” will be tasked with deporting 150,000 people a year in a bid to tackle illegal immigration. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 5d

There are lots of reasons not to leave ECHR. But apart from anything else, it just doesn't solve the problem the Tories/Reform think it does.

E.g. the Supreme Court judgment re Rwanda being unsafe explicitly said it was not based on ECHR.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 7d

sympathy is a knife: vaguely based on a charli’s relationship with taylor but mainly about charli’s own insecurities and self-doubts

actually romantic:

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 7d

Charli xcx in 2024, explaining her songs that explore the feelings of insecurity and jealousy that arise as a woman in music who fans and the press constantly compare to other women
Taylor Swift: and I took that personally

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7d

I love this. The purest essence of Kemi - incredibly wrong, bizarrely belligerent about it, and also wrong in a way where you just go “have you considered reading anything other than your Twitter feed?”

Michael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 7d

The not-quite-correction is really funny. “A lot” rather than “a majority”.

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 7d

Margaret Thatcher would have been “appalled” at plans by the Tory party leader Kemi Badenoch to scrap the Climate Change Act, according to Lord Deben. The Tory peer said it would cost jobs & votes.

Former Tory MP Lord Sharma said it "risks future investment"

www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Thatcher ‘would be appalled by Kemi Badenoch’s vow to scrap climate act’

Former environment minister Lord Deben said the Tory leader’s decision was a vote-loser

www.thetimes.com

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 7d

Going to synagogue on the holiest day of the year should never, ever end with you lying dead simply because you’re a British Jew

Never

The implications for this for the UK Jewish community are going to be enormous

So many of us have been so, so scared about this moment

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Rowan Hooper @rowhoop.bsky.social · 7d

My piece on the exceptional legacy of Jane Goodall www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

How Jane Goodall changed the way we see animals - and the world

Jane Goodall, who chronicled the social lives of chimps, has died, but has left a lasting legacy on how we view the natural world

www.newscientist.com

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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 8d

Facebook memories reminds me that this was a year ago - undoubtedly the greatest political graphic of all time, taken from the 'Conservatism in Crisis' pamphlet released by Kemi Badenoch.

Two equilateral triangles side by side. The one on the left is labeled 20th century politics and is cut in half horizontally, with the smaller top half labeled 'right' and the larger bottom half labeled left. The triangle on the right is cut in half vertically, with the left side labeled right and the right side labeled left - this triangle is captioned 21st century politics.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 8d

"In 2012, 60 trans-related articles were published by Britain’s media. By 2022, it was more than 7,500, according to figures from Trans Media Watch. The media is not responding to public rage against vulnerable minorities; it is helping to create it." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?

A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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Kieran Lowe @kieranran.bsky.social · 10d

don’t climb it - it says right there please don’t disturb it!

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Max von Thun @maxvonthun.bsky.social · 12d

“We studied more than 70 different elections that took place in 12 western European countries over several decades, and found that when mainstream parties take more anti-immigration positions, it leads to more support for the radical right, not less.”

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 13d

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

www.theguardian.com

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Scare Blair @blairloudly.bsky.social · 12d

jurassic perk (not living at the same time as humans)

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Kieran Lowe @kieranran.bsky.social · 13d

can’t say I see the same value in my Unlimited subscription with it ended tbh

Kieran Lowe @kieranran.bsky.social · 13d

I was sceptical and generally don’t read anything under the Avengers brand but @meakoopa.bsky.social’s Avengers Academy was a true delight every week, always thoughtful and relevant, likely even more so for younger readers, and beautifully plotted and drawn. Marvel should find a way to relaunch it.

Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you all so much.

AVENGERS ACADEMY:

Warning! Major spoilers for #60 follow...please do not swipe til after reading this week's issue.

And so we come to the end.

It has I confess come upon us sooner than we thought and more sudden than we hoped – but that, I suppose, is the nature of all life’s endings.

[section of thanks abridged for character limit]

Comics will mend your heart, if you let them. When I was a scared, lonely, closeted kid, the Marvel universe’s heroes were there for me when very little else was. That is a debt I can never pay back, but one I’ve tried with great travail to pay forward. I want to believe we have afforded a little of that same refuge to those who sought it. I hope you saw yourself; please know you were seen. Til we all meet again (and may it be soon), may you find each other. May you find yourself. Remember that there’s always time – but waste no time. And what is broken is still beautiful.

Above all, remember love. It is all that lasts.

Anthony Oliveira

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MAREcus 👻/ 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 14d

The thing about Labour levelling up and giving money to ‘smarten up town centres” is that you can paint a shop all you like but if people have no money to spend in a shop because their bills are too high and shopkeepers can’t afford the rent then your town centre will remain desolate

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