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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 2h

The Labour government's favourite Digital ID scheme was hacked

People are worried the government's Digital ID scheme will open Britons up to increased security risks.

Given what happened in Estonia, we should be.
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The Labour government's favourite Digital ID scheme was hacked

People are worried the government's Digital ID scheme will open Britons up to increased security risks - as Estonia just showed

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Jax (the original) @jacqueline321.bsky.social · 1h

Color me surprised…

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3h

That’s quite a telling statement, Stephen Miller. I guess you’re calling all the shots now?

Tweet from Sky Marchini: “‘I’.”
Below is Acyn’s tweet quoting Stephen Miller on CNN: “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice, sleepy southern town, is anyone going to riot?”
Screenshot shows Miller speaking on the right and the interviewer on the left, with the headline: “Illinois & Chicago sue Trump over Natl Guard deployment.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5h

‘Cavalier and aggressive’: why are border agents flooding into US cities?

Border agents have become a key force in Trump’s migrant crackdown — operating far from their traditional rural range.

‘Cavalier and aggressive’: why are border agents flooding into US cities?

Border agents have become a key force in Trump’s migrant crackdown – operating far from their traditional rural range

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Collateral Damage @coldamage.bsky.social · 35m

Khan Yunis, #Gaza.

When Germany did less than this to Warsaw, it led to the Nuremberg trials.

#FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Tata Chemia @tatach.bsky.social · 12h

To raise public and diplomatic attention, we have a new hashtag.
#FreeGeorgianPoliticalPrisoners

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Matthew Stadlen @matthewstadlen.bsky.social · 33m

Clarkson on Farage:

“Nigel Farage rarely talks about the economy and when he does, his numbers don’t add up. He says he wants to cut taxes and increase spending by £150bn. Huh? But before anyone can question his logic, he scuttles back to his safe space and starts raging about small boats.”

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MikeM3 @mikeg80.bsky.social · 6h

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 3h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 19h

Portland 🔥

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Marte Hoogenboom @martehoogenboom.bsky.social · 1h

Prinsenvlaggen, VOC-vlaggen, nazigroeten, fascistische, racistische, antisemitische, antidemocratische leuzen, moslimhaat, vrouwenhaat, queerhaat, omvolkingstheorieën, geweld richting omwonenden en omstanders...

Wat de @nieuws.nos.nl erover te zeggen had?

"🙈🙉🙊."

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NOS Journaal 20.00 uur | NPO Start

Met het laatste nieuws, gebeurtenissen van nationaal en internationaal belang en de weersverwachting voor de avond en komende dagen.

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bridgetpf.bsky.social @bridgetpf.bsky.social · 11h

Israel is not going to stop its expansion into Lebanon or the West Bank The eyes of the world are on Gaza so Israel feels free to continue their war against anyone who disagrees with them and does so with the collusion of the US

Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 12h

www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-...

How Israel is laying the groundwork for ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon

Domestic haggling over the disarmament of Hezbollah is overshadowing the long-term and regional dimensions of Israel's war

www.middleeasteye.net

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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 11h

… In UK, Farage was paid as a regular Russia Today contributor 2010-2017 – and Russian agents bribed UKIP (later Reform’s) leader in Wales, Nathan Gill, to provide assistance in the EU Parliament
[There was also Russian interference supporting Leave in the 2016 Referendum]

Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 12h

Russia has sought to build relationships with far right parties across Europe. They provided significant support to France’s National Rally (formerly National Front) and Italy’s Lega, amongst others…

samf.substack.com/p/russia-and...?

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12h

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

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Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12h

BBC asking Bridget Phillipson at length about rising antisemitism in the UK (which actually fell last year according to new figures, albeit still very high) but not at all about rising Islamophobia, which is up by 19% year-on-year

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pissed-off-g.bsky.social @pissed-off-g.bsky.social · 11h

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 1d

The Conservatives have "identified" £47 billion in savings rather like I have "identified" the size of the National Lottery jackpot for a given evening, here's a number than in theory could be mine.

Shoddy journalism.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 1d

What a tangled web 🇷🇺 oligarchs weave attempting to slither out of sanctions & regain superyachts

“Why would a UAE company owned by an Indonesian citizen pay millions of dollars to American lawyers to help sanctioned executives of a Russian arms conglomerate”

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Investigation: Top Russian defense industry boss tries to lift sanctions, spills own secrets instead

Key findings: * Two years ago, lawyers representing an offshore company went to court to unblock a superyacht that had been detained in a Spanish port due to its links to Sergei Chemezov, an associa...

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Dr. Tea, Cake, & Revolution. @witwarrior.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Committee was right. It doesn’t take courage to be perched atop a huge nuclear power, and to use it as a bully pulpit to make demands for peace, or economic deals, or anything else. Especially if you have an eye to prizes and personal profit for yourself.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick would make a pact with fascist thug Yaxley-Lennon if it got him into power. He’s a moral abyss. And the harm he does by pushing our political debate further and further to the ugliest, darkest corner of the far right is forever unforgivable.

However, if the polls do tighten and the chances of an outright Reform victory recede, then it is very possible that we could see some form of new alliance between a
Jenrick-led Conservatives and a Reform-led Farage. After all, if Jenrick is willing to get into bed with the likes of Elon Musk and
"Inevitable West" then a coalition with Farage is not going to trouble him too badly.
However, even if Jenrick does fade into obscurity, his current rise is still a highly alarming moment in our politics.
After decades in which the mainstream right of British politics has sought to maintain a cordon sanitaire between themselves and the far-right, that barrier now appears to have been irretrievably broken.
The result is that formerly moderate politicians like Jenrick, whose nickname in the party used to be "Robert Generic" due to his middle-of-the-road views, now sees a lurch to the far-right as being the only viable way for him to gain power.
Indeed far from being a disqualifier for high office, it now appears that sharing the extreme views and associations of the far-
right has become an actual requirement for advancement on the right of British politics.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

The message from Robert Jenrick has been clear. If you’re a far-right thug threatening migrants, refugees, or Muslims, then your rights to protest are to be protected at all costs. If you’re not then they won’t
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-descen...

The Descent of Robert Jenrick

The Shadow Justice Secretary's transformation from a 'Generic' moderate Conservative to the Great Hope of the far-right should alarm us all

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 13h

“Is peace merely the absence of war? Or is it something else that involves prosperity, democracy, and the rule of law - a framework that means conflict can be resolved in a civilised way? That seems a more enduring vision than ‘we’ve stopped shooting at each other, for now’.”

Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 14h

SUNDAY SCHOOL DROP

☮️🏆 Who is María Corina Machado & how bruised is Trump?

💸 Reform struggles to find DOLGE cuts

📚RIP Jilly Cooper & all hail the trashy novel

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Sunday School: The Big Blag Theory

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