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Denise Carver @sligogirl.bsky.social · 2h

The amazing Lord Heseltine - please repost.

"The deception of Brexit has exposed Britain as a lonely person sitting outside the conference table. "

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12h

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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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 10h

I do wonder if Labour might look at the sorts of people dominating the discourse and dominating the content wars and maybe, just maybe, rethink the sorts of grey figures they routinely put up for interviews, instructed at that to be as cautious as possible. Things have changed. Their comms hasn’t.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22h

So yesterday a reporter asked Donald Trump about the writ of habeas corpus, and he had no idea what it was.

"I don't know," he said. "I'd rather leave that to Kristi."

Well, It turns out Sen. Hassan asked Kristi Noem about it in May, and this was Noem's response:

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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Dr Simon Ubsdell @simonubsdell.bsky.social · 18h

Over-taking both would be best of all at this point.

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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 20h

Brexit was sold as a way to save fishing.

The truth is that, after Brexit, the entire British fishing industry is slowly disappearing.

“Another 10 years, I don’t think there will be boats out.”

‘We don’t want to be a toy town’: has Brexit sunk this historic UK fishing fleet?

Struggling fishers in Hastings say the industry is dying after a deal giving away access to its waters made a tough job impossible

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Simon Ubsdell @simonubsdell.bsky.social · 20h

Greens overtaking the Tories would be hugely amusing.

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 20h

🌍 | Highest ever Green polling (15%).

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 20h

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct.
Changes w/ 1 Oct.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

It seems pretty clear to me now: Keir Starmer would rather lose to Reform than to the Labour left, which is his real enemy. Any policy that might recover lost ground with voters has to be struck down, as it looks like a concession to the Labour left. And he and his team cannot contemplate that.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 2d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Worried about rising bills and getting by? Keir Starmer has the answer: try chewing a flag! | Aditya Chakrabortty

The PM wants to talk about patriotism when the issue that is really affecting people is the cost of living. If he doesn’t wise up, that dissonance will sink him, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

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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.

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 1d

"Girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa."

Omfg. They are so embarrassingly insultingly bad at everything.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

He finally got the election-denying MAGA A.G. he always dreamed of. Bondi was openly partisan, scornful & highly combative, her non-answers dripping with disdain. Very telling when she was asked if she'd seen the photos of her boss "with half-naked young women." PATHETIC
#ProtectingHerPedophilePrez

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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 1d

Opinion | Starmer has not prioritised growth, not really. He has done what British governments have been doing for over a decade: prioritising anti-immigration policy and focusing on growth only where it does not interfere with it

🖋 @iandunt.bsky.social

Read more: trib.al/HHn51XN

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 2d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Julie McGalliard @mcjulie.bsky.social · 1d

It’s horrifying and fascist that a literal federal agency is posting this kind of shit but it’s also inexplicable

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 1d

Is this what they mean by a Brexit benefit? “Unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism.”

In 2023, EU agreed to ban exports of waste to poorer nations outside a group of mainly rich countries within the OECD for an initial 2.5 years - the UK has no such ambitions in place

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows

Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

www.theguardian.com

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

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Trump is now calling for the arrests of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.

Just hours after deploying the Texas National Guard into their state without consent.

This isn’t law enforcement. It’s political warfare. Wake up.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Schiff: This is supposed to be an oversight hearing when dozens of prosecutors have been fired simply because they worked on cases investigating the former president.

Bondi: What about the fires in California? Are the riots in LA serious?

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