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Antiplutocrat @markalba.bsky.social · 1h

#Billionaire insanity.
Time it was a diagnosable condition, the only solution to which is a maximum cap on wealth and incarceration in a secure psychiatric health unit. These people are toxic.

Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 1h

Conservative tech lord Thiel said tighter financial regulations “were a sign that a singular world government has begun to emerge that could be taken over by an Antichrist figure who could then use it to exert control over people.” Via WashPost

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Indy lass @pixie11.bsky.social · 3h

Now who didn't see that coming 🤦 I'm sure most of us didn't entertain it in the first place

Massive data leak linked to Online Safety Act security measures
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

Massive data leak linked to Online Safety Act security measures

The thing that everyone predicted would happen has happened - and the Discord data leak should ring alarm bells for Labour

www.thecanary.co

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 5h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Antiplutocrat @markalba.bsky.social · 2h

#Racist bigots in the US, UK, and indeed everywhere. They’ve just been biding their time, waiting for the (in)appropriate toxic environment to again exist in which their hatreds can “flourish.”
#CrushFascism
www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/10/a...

Alabama Fine Arts Museum Backs Racist Billboards

The victory Black people (and their supporters) achieved in the U.S. South in the 1960s assured they could vote, hold political office, and benefit from

www.counterpunch.org

Antiplutocrat @markalba.bsky.social · 4h

The U.K. might also change its archaic FPTP voting system such that voters’ choices are of (most) equal value. In its most recent grotesque iteration the current government received only 33.7% of the vote, yet received a landslide majority of 411 out of 650 (63.2%) of lawmakers.

JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 5h

Brexit is irreversible until those who want to reverse it decide defeating the anti-EU right is more important than anything else. Until the EU sees that, and then the defeat, there is no chance it will countenance initiating a rejoin process.

Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 5h

It's national broken clock being right day.

Totally right.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Antiplutocrat @markalba.bsky.social · 4h

“That” should be “than” 🙄

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 17h

Censorship has fully arrived. In the latest, Apple banned an app that archived ICE abuses for legal evidence

Every single day, censorship gets stronger as media and corporations bend to serve the regime

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14h

Green Party's Zack Polanski to Reform UK's Zia Yusuf,

"Do you ever think that immigration is the number one problem because you spend a lot of time spreading misinformation and fear?"

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MissBloomy @missbloomy.bsky.social · 21h

Ok I love this

join.greenparty.org.uk

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Antiplutocrat @markalba.bsky.social · 23h

Lawmakers generally ought to make social media corporations liable for their content as publishers rather that hiding behind the wearisome defence that they are “platforms.”

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨 #Denmark aims to ban #socialmedia for children under 15. PM Mette Frederiksen says "We have unleashed a monster" to Danish lawmakers. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-mette-frederiksen-partially-ban-social-media-children-under-15/

Denmark aims to ban social media for children under 15, PM says

“We have unleashed a monster,” Mette Frederiksen tells Danish lawmakers.

www.politico.eu

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Antiplutocrat @markalba.bsky.social · 23h

#Starmer is as effective as a constituency MP as he is as a PM.
A spineless piece of 💩 with no principles.

Family of Gaza Activist From Starmer's Constituency Criticises Him for Not Helping Flotilla Detainees

"The fact that his constituents and people from the country he is prime minister of were being held in Israeli prison, you think he would have something to say about it”

bylinetimes.com

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Antiplutocrat @markalba.bsky.social · 1d

From February 2021, “ #Neoliberalism Has Always Been a Threat to Democracy. “
Truer now more than ever.
#FightFascism
jacobin.com/2021/06/neol...

Neoliberalism Has Always Been a Threat to Democracy

More than just a set of free-market policies, neoliberalism has always sought to alter society's balance of power in favor of bosses. Its assault on democracy and undermining of unions is now playing ...

jacobin.com

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 1d

Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk

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Antiplutocrat @markalba.bsky.social · 1d

2/2
So, we’ll likely have the racist-triggered dispossessed voting for the “reformed” or re-morphed party of Establishment greed that destroyed their communities in the 1980s and deliberately created social wastelands.
Turkeys will, it seems, not stop voting for Christmas (or Thanksgiving).

Antiplutocrat @markalba.bsky.social · 1d

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Maybe #ReformUK should rebrand as #ToriesReformed.
The irony being that the Tories (as the party of greed corporatist/privatised wealth and austerity), and Reform UK, don’t give a fuck about the flagwankers who misplace their hope in frog-faced fascist cunt #Farage.

William Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social · 1d

'This is what the death of a major political party looks like. Not even diehard Tories have got their hearts in it any more, they’re just going through the motions until they can no longer feel a pulse.'
@weegingerdug.bsky.social, via The National
archive.is/TnmZH

Kemi Badenoch and her widely-tipped successor Robert Jenrick, all smiles at their party's sparsely attended conference (Image: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

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Antiplutocrat @markalba.bsky.social · 1d

The gatekeepers of information are censoring vital information.
Nothing new of course; just becoming brazen.
An Orwellian Ministry of Truth isn’t far off for so-called (Western) democracies as the grasp of #corporatists and #billionaires tightens.
The early promise of the World Wide Web is gone.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

Google blocked STI awareness ads as ‘adult content’, Senate estimates hears

Search engine added ‘STI testing’ to list of sensitive topics, censoring important public health campaign, Greens leader says * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Google has blocked ads for a commonwealth-funded STI awareness campaign as “adult content” in a move sexual health organisations say frustrates efforts to share evidence-based public health information online. The Greens leader, Larissa Waters, told a Senate estimates hearing on Thursday that the tech company’s moderation practices had recently undermined the reach and cost-effectiveness of the national campaign, run by Sexual and Reproductive Health Australia (SRHA). Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

Antiplutocrat @markalba.bsky.social · 1d

The time may be likely fast approaching where something more than “speaking up” will be necessary.
#Trump #FightFascism

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

Antiplutocrat @markalba.bsky.social · 2d

Less a Robin Hood party, more a robbin’ bastards’ party.
#Trump #Republicans #GOP

The Real Zanetta @therealzanetta.bsky.social · 2d

#TrumpsHealthCareShutdown
Josh Hawley
Lindsey Graham
#SheShed
#TrumpsHealthCareShutdown

Antiplutocrat @markalba.bsky.social · 2d

Wrong verb #BBC. By “to get,” you mean “to force.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Stretched job centre staff struggling to get disabled people into work

The government wants work coaches to provide personalised support, but some have caseloads of up to 200 people.

www.bbc.com

Antiplutocrat @markalba.bsky.social · 2d

#Starmer facilitating #genocide.
#Labour party members, will you remain complicit with ever more blood on your hands or are you going to rediscover your moral compass?
www.declassifieduk.org/gaza-spy-pla...

Gaza spy plane spotted leaving UK air base on Cyprus

Exclusive: Declassified captures first footage of an American spy plane taking off from a Royal Air Force base bound for Gaza.

www.declassifieduk.org

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Antiplutocrat @markalba.bsky.social · 2d

Like Saturn, the #Thatcher Revolution devours its children.
(Adapted from Jacques Mallet du Pan)
#Torygeddon

The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 2d

"Five, ten years ago comments like that would have gotten you the sack from the front bench of any major political party."

Robert Jenrick's comments about a lack of 'white faces' in Birmingham has drawn criticism. Why are Tories defending his words?

'Jenrick's 'white faces' comment would have once been enough to get an MP sacked' | The News Agents

Robert Jenrick has defended comments made in March 2025 about the lack of white people in an area of Birmingham he visited – and Tory colleagues have rallied to back him. But do his comments make…

www.thenewsagents.co.uk

Antiplutocrat @markalba.bsky.social · 2d

#ReformUK, where a thin veneer of flagwanking pseudo-patriotism hides its bigoted, racist core.
#Warrington, don’t be defined by this slime.

Text describes toxic racism in the suspended Warrington branch of Reform U.K.:
“After Reform UK SUSPENDED its Warrington branch, local member Terry White quit the party: and he hasn’t held back.
“He says Reform UK:
😬 Welcomed two former BNP MEMBERS to meetings
❌ Had no local policies whatsoever
🤐 Silenced members who spoke up
🪂 Tried to parachute in an MP candidate
“White says they claim to stand for “democracy, free speech and strong local communities”, but in reality, don’t believe in any of those things. 🤯
“Beyond the national gloss, Reform locally?
Amateur hour.”

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 3d

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

Screenshot of an Express article; it says: Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border

In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Jenrick could have visited Handsworth to listen to residents – he chose to pass through and make a judgement based on the colour of their skin. Instead of getting to know our nation of neighbours, he chose racism.

The Tories, Reform and Labour want to divide us.

The Greens say enough is enough.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

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

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 3d

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

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