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Phil Waring

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🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇪🇸 UK Brefugee in Spain. Afraid for Democracy. Pro-EU. Anti-tory. Anti-Fascist. Trans ally. #FBPE (I tend not to follow back US accounts; there are just too many of you! Sorry). 🗣 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇸

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Phil Waring @philwaring.bsky.social · May 22

"When future generations learn that, for 19 months, we woke up every morning to videos of children being burned alive – bombed with weapons that the US taxpayer helped pay for and the western world helped justify – will you be able to say that you spoke up?"

What did you do during the genocide in Gaza? | Arwa Mahdawi

When future generations read about Gaza with horror and wonder how we allowed a livestreamed genocide to happen, what will you say?

www.theguardian.com

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Phil Waring @philwaring.bsky.social · 36m

Putin involvement?

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 43m

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

bylinetimes.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1h

I called this out on #BBCQT last night and I'm calling it out again now.

He is gaslighting a nation.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4h

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’

Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements Nigel Farage has insisted his party’s former leader in Wales who was convicted of taking pro-Russian bribes was a “bad apple” who betrayed him. The Reform UK leader was in Caerphilly campaigning for his candidate in a forthcoming Senedd byelection when he was asked about his links to Nathan Gill. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

The Trump administration is REALLY allowing Qatar to build an air base in the US after they did a $5.5 billion golf resort deal with Trump and gave him a jet.

MAGA can take their ‘America First’ flags and wipe their asses with them. He is Trump First, and you are suckers.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 1h

Farage on Gill and Pro Russian media bribes” I told him not to go. He defied me and went. I was completely unaware of any statements that he made."

Farage with pro Russian media (and wife of briber) on the day Gill made his statements in 2018

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Griffin @gryffgroff.bsky.social · 44m

The BBC bring outrageous as ever. This is big news, and Farage likely knew - warrants a full investigation of the whole party

Farage is just stunned the traitor got caught…

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Phil Waring @philwaring.bsky.social · 50m

As far as I can see, this story is limited to BBC Wales. 🙄

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

Farage says he’s stunned that ex Reform Wales leader Nathan Gill took bribes from Russia.. I bet he is

He no doubt thought he was the only one Putin was wedging up, his ego wouldn’t entertain anyone else getting a piece of the action❗️

Nigel Farage 'stunned' ex-Wales Reform leader Nathan Gill took bribes - BBC News

Nathan Gill has admitted taking money for pro-Russian statements as a European Parliament member.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 3h

Kinda fun watching these Republican toadies completely debase themselves for Trump's attention. At least when the stakes are comparatively low.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Sam Vimes @samvimes6.bsky.social · 1h

So what have i missed here?
Why is he letting Qatar put a base right next to Yellowstone National Park?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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KitKat 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇦🇺🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇦 @uk501.bsky.social · 7h

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21h

#BBCQT

Always bring the receipts.

Happy birthday to my friend and colleague Nigel Farage aka Mr Brexit.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10h

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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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 21h

Fiona Bruce shuts down Zack Polanski's attempt to press Zia Yusuf over Reform UK's links to Putin.

"Bribrary from Russia. Pretty serious for our national security."

"There's other things that the audience wants to talk about", Bruce responds.

Good on @zackpolanski.bsky.social.

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Chris Kendall 👊🇪🇺🧶 @ottocr.at · 18h

Seeing Zack Polanski getting himself on our screens and challenging the mainstream right wing narrative is so refreshing and vindicates the Green Party membership’s choice. This is what we so desperately needed, and nobody else was doing it.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 20h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Phil Waring @philwaring.bsky.social · 18h

I think that you'll find that, historically, a lot of Russian moles have had no interest in a lady's 'embonpoint'.
Like me, they have traditionally preferred cock. 😉

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19h

Zack Polanski,
"The only way to be morally consistent is to condemn what happened on Oct 7th and to condemn the genocide in Palestine"

"As a Jewish man I feel the genocide very very deeply"

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Paulley Ticks @tomadelsbach.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: The Texas National Guard's Meal Team 6 declares "Mickey-D Day" in Chicago.

#TexasNationalGuard #Chicago

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Anti-Trumpism @forabettertomorrow.bsky.social · 19h

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 19h

🇵🇱 Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski to NYT:

The only way to bring Putin to a negotiating table is by making him realize that he cannot kill his way out of the mistake he made on Feb. 24, 2022.

To do this, it is essential to continue to support Ukraine financially and militarily.

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Phil Waring @philwaring.bsky.social · 19h

Proper dancing.

Haddaway - Life (Dance Compilation)

YouTube video by SKYPINK

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 21h

"Accuse the other of that of which you are guilty" as Goebbels, an inspiration for Farage?, observed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 19h

MASSIVE BREAKING: A federal judge has just blocked the deployment of troops into Chicago by Trump.

The judge has ruled that Trump lacks authority and that his “rebellion” claims were NOT credible.

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Elizabeth Wingfield @quirkygrrrl.bsky.social · 19h

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 19h

The Israeli government approved the US-brokered deal for a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza early on Friday morning local time after several hours of deliberations. on.ft.com/3IZMgET

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