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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 12h

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Warnings from history: Lessons unheeded in the search for peace

As peace talks begin, three historic warnings about Zionism and statehood remind us how fragile peace remains

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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 12h

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The Thatcher I remember decimated the industrial heartlands of the UK, and wasted the oil money to do it, when she could have built us a sovereign wealth fund, like Norway did.

Dear Virginia, Your Thatcher Tribute Reads Like a School Play About the End of Britain

By Willy & Bill, Satirical Planet News

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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 12h

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America now. Please watch, you don't need to be in America to watch

The Dangerous Ones (@thedangerousones)

Wow. Watch this.

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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 12h

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There does seem to be a lot of it about

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

Prof Christina Pagel breaks down the latest Covid and NHS stats

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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 4d

Gill, convicted on eight bribery counts, presented himself not as a lone rogue but as a man carrying out Farage’s wishes.

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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 4d

The court facts are damning enough. But one line that has circulated from earlier proceedings lands like a hammer blow: Gill told a Cardiff tribunal he had “always done what Mr Farage asked me to do.” #FarageLies

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The Reform UK Scandal the Tabloids Won’t Touch

Their pet project can't do wrong it seems?

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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 3d

This is what we’ve been calling ‘The Creep’ of Fascism in Europe. It’s scary stuff.

#CreepingFascism

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Is America contagious?

Scholars in political extremism are documenting the global spread of right-wing populism.

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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 2d

Fact-check or get out: how to expose lying politicians
In a digital world where facts can be verified in seconds, we have no excuse to let politicians get away with lying. Are we part of the problem? #FactsMatter

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Fact-check or get out: how to expose lying politicians

In a digital world where facts can be verified in seconds, we have no excuse to let politicians get away with lying. Are we part of the problem?

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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 1d

Morning everyone. Some Friday fun?

We've forensically fact-checked last night's brutal takedown of clear and present danger Antifa. Delivered by genuine mixed-race ordinary* Joes and Joettas. And a journalist with a fake black eye. 😉

These fascists are rubbish.

* Sponsored #AntifaBollocks

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Heseltine, "Brexit is now having a debilitating effect on the UK.. It will be reversed, not it, when..The deception of Brexit has exposed Britain"

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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 1d

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It's not new, but it's time to revisit Timothy Snyder with John Lithgow. America is in trouble, we don't have to be.

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20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 2d

Up to 90% of all life on this planet died during the Permian Triassic extinction event when temperatures increased by 8C across 60,000 years.

We’re on track for a rise of 4C+ just in our children’s lifetimes.

It’s impossible to overestimate how much trouble we’re in.

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SonomaLass ⚾ 🍺 🌮 @sonomalass.bsky.social · 1d

I'm channeling Granny Weatherwax now. I aten't dead.

An elderly woman in a black dress lying on a bed made up with white bedding. Her hands are folded on her abdomen, above a hand-lettered sign that reads "I Aten't Dead." Below is a nameplate that reads "Granny Esme Weatherwax." This ilustration was created by artist Peter Stanimirov.

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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 1d

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Political Satirical (@political.satirical) on Threads

People were right. He fired up straight away & went to town. LOOK AT ZIA'S FACE after the applause. HE knows what is coming. & NO. I don't know yet. NO SPOILERS! The audience however, are not w...

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A Broken World 🌍 🌎 @landofbritain.bsky.social · Sep 4

More @PoliticalSatirical work here,
on the 'Political Class Hatred of Angela Rayner'.

#Rayner #PoliticsLive #wato

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BOOTSTRAPS AND BACKLASHES

The Political Class Hatred of Angela Rayner

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LastQuake @lastquake.emsc.eu · 1d

Eyewitnesses reported shaking in #Philippines 4 min ago (local time 09:45:27)⚠
At present, we have no seismic data confirming this crowdsourced detection.❗
More info soon!

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LastQuake @lastquake.emsc.eu · 1d

#Earthquake (#lindol) possibly felt 1 min 6 sec ago in #Philippines. Felt it? Tell us via:
📱#appc.eu/#app" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://m.emsc.eu/#app
🌐https://m.emsc.eu
🖥https://www.emsc-csem.org
⚠ Automatic crowdsourced detection, not seismically verified yet. More info soon!

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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 1d

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Reform is the Tory recycling scheme

Vote Reform, Get Tories

Ignore their party line of Vote Reform Get Reform - it's a self Nuke & here are the Receipts

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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 3d

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We all pretty much know that the BBC bias never leans to the left. The comment about them assuming that their journalists, who were pretty much all privately school educated, need to be balanced towards the right, doesn't make sense to me

The BBC's Institutional Anti-Left Bias

The BBC's decision to scrap a planned Zack Polanski interview on the channel's flagship Laura Kuenssberg show has caused fury within the Green Party

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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 3d

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It's a short story, but it could be the future

A&E, 2030: Pay First, Bleed Later

Reform UK stole the election with foreign cash & this is what a trip to A&E feels like in the future

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 3d

I guess the BBC news will be headlining the Greens getting 3,000 members in 24 hours sometime never..

But is 5 people join Reform it’ll be breaking news

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

Nearly 3000 new members in the 24 hours since the Party Political Broadcast.

Extraordinary.

Hope is returning. 💚🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 3d

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What's cooking here then?

Recipe: Nigel Farage’s “Small Boats Bouillabaisse”

A parody kitchen disaster where the head chef plates the mess he made.

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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 4d

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This makes interesting reading

The Legal Trap: How Reform UK Ltd Turns Representation into Personal Risk

Because nothing says freedom like carrying your own lawsuit.

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Patricia Maskell @patmaskell.bsky.social · 4d

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How we stop project 25 coming to the UK

Project 2025: The UK Edition (Part 2)

A Cambridge academic, a YouTube influencer, and Reform UK’s old HQ - the ingredients for our own Project 2025 are already mixed.

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Political Satirical @politicalsatirical.bsky.social · Sep 8

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It wasn't ONE lie, just like Lucy Connolly didn't get sent to prison for a single Tweet...

#Farage

Protect people, not empty addresses. If it’s a home, the boring paperwork exists. #OneDocSettlesIt

Political Satirical🔞I'm just asking questions on X: "Not ‘one tweet’. Not ‘one word’. Nigel backed Lucy Connolly with the line that it was “only a single tweet.” We all know why that defence never lands: impact > intent. A line that runs, gets repeated, and shapes a story isn’t neutral, whether it’s a tweet or a TV hit. Now https://t.co/xaxqtLJXg7" / X

Not ‘one tweet’. Not ‘one word’. Nigel backed Lucy Connolly with the line that it was “only a single tweet.” We all know why that defence never lands: impact > intent. A line that runs, gets repeated, and shapes a story isn’t neutral, whether it’s a tweet or a TV hit. Now https://t.co/xaxqtLJXg7

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