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God @thegodpodcast.com · 4m

When Obama was president the right wing acted like masked government agents were coming to kidnap them and take all their rights away.

Then Republicans get elected and actually do that shit for real.

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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 1h

At the end of the first ceasefire on 30 November 2023, 105 civilian hostages had been released - 81 people from Israel, 23 Thais and 1 Filipino.

The Thais were not requested by the Israeli negotiators. I'm unsure about the Filipino.

#bbcpm

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Mai Opine 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @maiopine.bsky.social · 1h

To get to those particular people you must be doing something right then @zackpolanski.bsky.social

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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 7h

" @zackpolanski.bsky.social is a sort of raving communist, really"

The right-wing media are losing their minds as the Green Surge continues.

Join us > Join.greenparty.org.uk

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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 15h

Johnson has spent his whole life lying and breaking rules.

Credit @ledbydonkeys.org

Boris Johnson: The definitive biography, from the day he was born to his final downfall

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys

www.youtube.com

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Mai Opine 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @maiopine.bsky.social · 4h

Hardly a downfall. Least not the one he deserves. He's still out there raking in the dosh.

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James Woodfield @jameswoodfield.bsky.social · 7h

Johnson seems to be guilty of Misconduct in Public Office.
Not only is there much evidence of his alleged corruption,
his recklessness in govt resulted in many thousands of people unnecessarily dying of Covid.
Has anyone yet contacted the police with a view to prosecution?
(Max. penalty is life..)

Screenshot from UK Govt website, re Misconduct in Public Office:
“Definition of the Offence
The elements of the offence are summarised in Attorney General's
Reference No 3 of 2003[2004] EWCA
Crim 868.

The offence is committed when:
• a public officer acting as such;
• wilfully neglects to perform his duty and/or wilfully misconducts himself;
• to such a degree as to amount to an abuse of the public's trust in the office holder;
• without reasonable excuse or justification.

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 9h

No surprise from the man who sold his country down the river just to become PM - a corrupt, useless, self serving lying one at that

Johnson secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture, amid plans to use an influential contact & senior contacts in the Saudi gov he met as PM

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Lady Bee Middlemast-Neal @mistyswoman.bsky.social · 8h

Douglas Adams: "It is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it".

BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 9h

No surprise from the man who sold his country down the river just to become PM - a corrupt, useless, self serving lying one at that

Johnson secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture, amid plans to use an influential contact & senior contacts in the Saudi gov he met as PM

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 8h

stop thinking right now

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 5h

People from around the world are 'holding Scotland as an example' of speaking up for Palestine, says Sid Khan of the Global Sumud Flotilla.

The activist and SNP member is back from Israeli prison - and at party conference calling on ministers to do more to hold Israel to account

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 7h

What with all this the UK should emulate Dubai stuff, following hot on the heels of Singapore model, are there any other niche authoritarian city states we could go for? Brunei? Machiavelli’s Florence? Ancient Sparta?

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Mai Opine 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @maiopine.bsky.social · 5h

Surely they should all wear cargos. So that can stuff all their antifa materials in. Like peace stickers, Sharpies, notepaper and vegan energy bars?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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NakedGardener @nkdgardener.bsky.social · 5h

Yay to Yorkshire

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 7h

“Here Farage is, in Gill’s office, with Voloshyn’s wife Nadia, on the day Gill makes an intervention on behalf of Medvedchuk’s channels, with an employee of one of those channels, whose husband started bribing Gill to make these statements 6 days earlier”

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 6h

something quite brain-melting about the hard right's position apparently now being "we hate all Muslims and distrust Muslim states, aside from that one Muslim place that still has slavery because that sounds fun"

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Mai Opine 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @maiopine.bsky.social · 5h

I didn't know who that was.

I do now!

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

bylinetimes.com

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 7h

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 17h

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 20h

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

"We have a madman who's unwell in the WH...Trump has to be part of any deal here too. If he's unwell, that's something Dems need to point out to say, 'This is why we can't trust an agreement with these guys'"

Full convo w/ @davidnir.com on Rs losing the shutdown: www.publicnotice.co/p/republican...

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HRH The Reedy Boy @reedyboy.bsky.social · 1d

What's that got to do with the Epstein Files?

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