Lee Spracklen
@leespracklen.bsky.social
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
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A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
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Or maybe diagnosis is at last catching up with the crises so many have been enduring, which have for so long been minimised, dismissed or ignored.
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Wes Streeting orders inquiry into mental health ‘overdiagnosis’
Health secretary wants clinical review of the rise in conditions such as ADHD and autism that cause people to drop out of the workforce
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December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Or maybe diagnosis is at last catching up with the crises so many have been enduring, which have for so long been minimised, dismissed or ignored.
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Three progressive organizations have launched the “Spotify Unwrapped” campaign in response to the music streamer running ICE recruitment adson its platform, its alleged promotion of AI generated music, and CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in an AI military defense company.
December 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Three progressive organizations have launched the “Spotify Unwrapped” campaign in response to the music streamer running ICE recruitment adson its platform, its alleged promotion of AI generated music, and CEO Daniel Ek’s investment in an AI military defense company.
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ID cards, limiting trial by jury, and now "plans for a huge rollout for facial recognition cameras in cities, towns and villages across the country"
Labour laying the foundations for a far right government to build on #GMB
Labour laying the foundations for a far right government to build on #GMB
December 4, 2025 at 6:10 AM
ID cards, limiting trial by jury, and now "plans for a huge rollout for facial recognition cameras in cities, towns and villages across the country"
Labour laying the foundations for a far right government to build on #GMB
Labour laying the foundations for a far right government to build on #GMB
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I swear maybe once a decade in public, and this is the moment. This fucking racist and all the gibbering racists nodding along behind him are the ruination of our country. Our fucking job for the next fucking year is to fucking destroy them in the next election. Fuck them.
Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming in... They want to kiss our country good night."
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I swear maybe once a decade in public, and this is the moment. This fucking racist and all the gibbering racists nodding along behind him are the ruination of our country. Our fucking job for the next fucking year is to fucking destroy them in the next election. Fuck them.
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“If you call me an extremist, I’ll make your life a misery until you beg for forgiveness.”
School apologises after comparing Nigel Farage and Reform MP to far-right dictator
School apologises after comparing Nigel Farage and Reform MP to far-right dictator
School apologises after comparing Nigel Farage and Reform MP to far-right dictator
www.independent.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
“If you call me an extremist, I’ll make your life a misery until you beg for forgiveness.”
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God, I hate the 21st Century.
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 7:37 AM
God, I hate the 21st Century.
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quit spotify baby!
December 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
quit spotify baby!
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Militiamen, probably from anarchist Ascaso Division, resting at Banastás, Huesca siege, by the great Hungarian photographer Kati Horna, March 1937, one of series of brilliant images she took around the village. Orwell was stationed few kilometres away on other side of Huesca which was never taken.
December 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Militiamen, probably from anarchist Ascaso Division, resting at Banastás, Huesca siege, by the great Hungarian photographer Kati Horna, March 1937, one of series of brilliant images she took around the village. Orwell was stationed few kilometres away on other side of Huesca which was never taken.
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The NY Times said Trump labeling Somalis as “garbage” was “shocking in its unapologetic bigotry.” Then NYT put the story on Page 13. When Trump called for “termination” of the Constitution in 2022, NYT put it on Page 13, too. In case you wonder if NYT has learned anything in the last 3 years. 1/🧵
Trump Calls Somalis ‘Garbage’ He Doesn’t Want in the Country
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The NY Times said Trump labeling Somalis as “garbage” was “shocking in its unapologetic bigotry.” Then NYT put the story on Page 13. When Trump called for “termination” of the Constitution in 2022, NYT put it on Page 13, too. In case you wonder if NYT has learned anything in the last 3 years. 1/🧵
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BBC leading the news this morning with ‘BBC reveals’ that government has spent more than £100m on Covid inquiry
That only reaction is TaxPayers’ Alliance says a lot….
That only reaction is TaxPayers’ Alliance says a lot….
December 3, 2025 at 8:07 AM
BBC leading the news this morning with ‘BBC reveals’ that government has spent more than £100m on Covid inquiry
That only reaction is TaxPayers’ Alliance says a lot….
That only reaction is TaxPayers’ Alliance says a lot….
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To be fair, he does get a bit slurry by late afternoon.
December 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
To be fair, he does get a bit slurry by late afternoon.
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Paul Verhoeven had America’s number all along. 4K Radio Rwanda.
Fox’s Greg Gutfeld on double tap boat strike: “It's just better for us to kill them in the ocean, make them shark feed, be done with it”
December 3, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Paul Verhoeven had America’s number all along. 4K Radio Rwanda.
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I can't get over the fact that they scheduled a televised Cabinet meeting, hyped it as a major event, planned it all out to show how active and in control Trump is ... and then he dozed off in the middle of it. Repeatedly.
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I can't get over the fact that they scheduled a televised Cabinet meeting, hyped it as a major event, planned it all out to show how active and in control Trump is ... and then he dozed off in the middle of it. Repeatedly.
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Absolutely disgraceful and dangerous.
He and his supporters constantly talk about rhetoric that gets people killed…that’s what this is.
He and his supporters constantly talk about rhetoric that gets people killed…that’s what this is.
Trump on Minnesota's Somali community: "They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country, I'll be honest with you."
December 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Absolutely disgraceful and dangerous.
He and his supporters constantly talk about rhetoric that gets people killed…that’s what this is.
He and his supporters constantly talk about rhetoric that gets people killed…that’s what this is.
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Blue Labour fills me with more disgust every single day. What is the point of elections in this country if we change government, but just get more of the same?! We need radical change to our electoral system, and our politics.
Loose financial regulations gave us the 2008 financial crash in which extreme free markets collapsed and had to be bailed out by governments acquiring more debt than they did under Covid. So what idiot would loosen regulations and risk a repeat?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
BoE plans to loosen capital rules on banks in latest easing of post-2008 controls
Bank of England says stress tests show seven biggest lenders can weather financial hit in severe downturn
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Blue Labour fills me with more disgust every single day. What is the point of elections in this country if we change government, but just get more of the same?! We need radical change to our electoral system, and our politics.
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Every ICE thug today gearing up to hunt brown people in the city of New Orleans can eat an entire sack of stale, unsalted dicks. They and the administration they serve are displaying our fallen nation as an ungrateful, soulless shitpile of gutless, frightened race-hate. We are forever shamed.
December 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Every ICE thug today gearing up to hunt brown people in the city of New Orleans can eat an entire sack of stale, unsalted dicks. They and the administration they serve are displaying our fallen nation as an ungrateful, soulless shitpile of gutless, frightened race-hate. We are forever shamed.
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Wild that articles like this are still being written without mentioning "climate" or "environment" one single time.
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
More North Sea exploration to be allowed in new Labour plan
The chancellor will unveil the North Sea Strategy in her Budget speech, the BBC understands.
www.bbc.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Wild that articles like this are still being written without mentioning "climate" or "environment" one single time.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Il Papa has tracked down a Protestant on his flight
December 2, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Il Papa has tracked down a Protestant on his flight
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Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
December 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Watched BBC 6 o clock news. Just a completely unserious broadcast. Chris Mason, acting like a children's entertainer, giving a prolonged impenetrable editorial. Not a whiff of informative content about the Budget or what it means for the country. Just playschool blah blah bollocks.
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We are delighted to welcome Jonathan Gullis to Reform UK. I had to calm down Lee Anderson, who was concerned that he may no longer be the thickest twat in the party.
December 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
We are delighted to welcome Jonathan Gullis to Reform UK. I had to calm down Lee Anderson, who was concerned that he may no longer be the thickest twat in the party.
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Donald Trump is taking money away from our hospitals & GP surgeries, and Nigel Farage is cheering him on.
We can't let Trump get away with extortion like this, Parliament must be given a chance to vote this deal down.
We can't let Trump get away with extortion like this, Parliament must be given a chance to vote this deal down.
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Donald Trump is taking money away from our hospitals & GP surgeries, and Nigel Farage is cheering him on.
We can't let Trump get away with extortion like this, Parliament must be given a chance to vote this deal down.
We can't let Trump get away with extortion like this, Parliament must be given a chance to vote this deal down.
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Front cover of pamphlet "Hello Canada!: Canada's Mackenzie Papineau Battalion." 1937. Some 1600 Canadians fought in Spain, many first or second generation migrants victims of the Great Depression. Digitised complete here spanishcivilwar.ca/islandora/ob...
December 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Front cover of pamphlet "Hello Canada!: Canada's Mackenzie Papineau Battalion." 1937. Some 1600 Canadians fought in Spain, many first or second generation migrants victims of the Great Depression. Digitised complete here spanishcivilwar.ca/islandora/ob...
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At least three photojournalists, including @mprnews.org’s @keremyucel.bsky.social, were targeted with crowd-control munitions by police while covering protests around an immigration raid in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Nov. 25.
Yücel was taken to the ER and has since been released.
Yücel was taken to the ER and has since been released.
Photojournalist shot with crowd-control munitions amid Minnesota protest
Kerem Yücel, senior visual journalist for Minnesota Public Radio, was shot with crowd-control munitions by law enforcement while reporting on …
pressfreedomtracker.us
December 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
At least three photojournalists, including @mprnews.org’s @keremyucel.bsky.social, were targeted with crowd-control munitions by police while covering protests around an immigration raid in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Nov. 25.
Yücel was taken to the ER and has since been released.
Yücel was taken to the ER and has since been released.