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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 2h

Israel marked the 1st day of the supposed Gaza ceasefire yesterday by bombing 4-storey residential shelter, killing dozens, burying at least fifty people under rubble & inflicting horrific injuries on children, & the murder of innocents shot by tanks as they tried to return to their home areas.

Israel murders at least 30 Palestinians on second day of 'ceasefire'

The bodies of more than eighty-three people Israel murdered on day one were recovered, seventy-three in Gaza City alone

www.thecanary.co

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 23h

On #BBCQT - Fiona Bruce said that the audience and public didn't want to press Reform UK on their dodgy links to Russia.

I disagree.

RT if you agree it's in the public interest for Reform to explain about their links to Russian money and bribery!

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Sir Jot Alot @sirjotalot.bsky.social · 18h

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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 22h

Only the hard of thinking won’t get the poignancy of the Nobel Committee’s choice. Clue - something to do with her “tireless work promoting the democratic rights for the people...” Americans need to ensure their behaviour honours the aspirations of their founders.

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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 5d

😺😺😺😺😺😺😺😺

Thank you Mr Bragg!

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Murielle S @frenchieinlimbo.bsky.social · 1d

#farage is a threat .

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

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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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

I see Reform UK are on #BBCQT again tonight, would one of the other panelists kindly ask

Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes

But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 2d

Remember that front page saying Nigel Farage has 9 jobs? Well, he's been working harder than ever for anyone except his constituents in Clacton, as it is revealed Farage has 12 other sources of income other than his parliamentary salary. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

The MP for Clacton has more sources of paid income than anyone else in the House of Commons. Farage's latest entry in the Register of Members Financial Interests takes his number of "second jobs" to 12.

MP'S £571K FROM SIDE HUSTLES

NINE-JOBS NIGEL

EXCLUSIVE BY NICK SOMMERLAD Investigations E

NIGEL Farage juggles eight part-time jobs on top of being an MP.

The side hustles have earned the Reform UK leader £571,585 in less than six months.

His earnings outside Parliament-which include flogging "tax-free gold bullion-mean his 291,346 salary as MP for Clacton, Esses, is his worst-paid job.

The self-styled "man of the people" said I work more hours a week than most people could even contemplate. But critics say he's not focusing on his constituents.

FULL STORY: PAGES 465

Farage's outside earnings dwarf Commons salary

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 2d

Liberal Democrat Leader Ed Davey has written an open letter to One Nation Conservatives who feel abandoned by their party urging them to join the Liberal Democrats, following Kemi Badenoch’s conference speech today

Full text of the letter:

Dear friends,

Our country is at a crossroads.

The Conservative Party under Kemi Badenoch is becoming more extreme and out of touch, chasing Nigel Farage instead of focusing on the issues that really matter to people. Meanwhile, Reform UK is growing in strength - threatening the tolerant, decent values that hold our communities together.

I know many One Nation Conservatives are deeply concerned about the lurch to the hard right in our country and under Kemi Badenoch’s leadership. Her plans to tear up the Climate Change Act and withdraw from the ECHR show she is abandoning traditional British values of tolerance, decency and the rule of law.

So my message to the millions of One Nation Conservatives who feel let down by their party and reject the divisive politics of Badenoch and Farage is to come and join us. Help us save our country and defend the values we all hold dear.

We will stand strong where others back down. We will not pander to Reform. We will fight to protect our environment, stand up for decency and the rule of law, and stop Trump’s America from becoming Farage’s Britain.

So if you share those values, now is the time to join the Liberal Democrats.

With best wishes,

Ed Davey

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

One very very lonely Tory voice on the letters page of The Times.
Sorry, Robert. It’s too late. Your party has gone completely nuts. Driven mad by 14 years of failure, Farage and your monumentally stupid Brexit.
You can ask them to put the petrol can down but they’re mesmerised by the fire.

Leaving the ECHR could split Union Sir, In his article "Leaving the ECHR won't fix illegal migration" (Oct 6; letters, Oct 7), David Gauke makes the point that the Conservatives' decision to support complete withdrawal from the European convention of human rights is, at best, wholly unnecessary and at worst will make international co-operation on migration control and deportation much more difficult.
He is right to do so. It is time for Tories to stop heading for the exit every time there is perceived tension caused by so-called foreign institutions that my party actually helped to create in the first place.
To claim that ECHR withdrawal will not affect the Northern Ireland Good Friday agreement is naive. Not only will it risk undermining trust in policing and criminal justice cross-border co-operation, it will trigger a breach of article 2 of the Windsor framework and a climate of instability that can only assist advocates of a border poll that could lead to the break-up of the Union. For the Conservative Party to advocate such a move is a betrayal of Conservative principles.
Sir Robert Buckland KC
Former lord chancellor and justice secretary; former chair, Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 3d

Hard to grow followers here 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3d

French blogger Xavier Tytelman,during a visit to the museum of the National Library of France,showed a map of Europe from 1754:

"My God,doesn't it say 'Ukraine,land of the Cossacks'Look how far it stretches,very far.What do we have to the north?The Russian Empire or Moscovia?That's Mordor up north"

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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 3d

DOJ head Pam Bondi refuses to answer if the FBI found photos of Donald Trump with "half-naked young women"( trafficked children and adult victims ) during its #Epstein investigation. She proceeds to try to deflect from the question, when asked again she remains silent. #OpDeathEaters

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 6d

Hallgrímsson says Fifa and Uefa should ban Israel from club and international competitions

Republic of Ireland manager sees ‘no difference’ between banning Russia and Israel

www.irishtimes.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 6d

exact quotation, and other relevant sections of the speech, translated here:

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

"Europeans, let's wake up!" — Defend Democracy

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” President Macron on the occasion of German Unity Day, 3 October 2025.

defenddemocracy.eu

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 6d

'I'm a Jew and I'm British, not Israeli. I have no association with Israel.'

In the wake of the Manchester synagogue attack, caller John pleads for people to understand: 'Not all Jews are Zionists, and assuming otherwise puts us at risk'.

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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 7d

Irish detainees from the Gaza flotilla have told their lawyers they were kicked, pushed and cable tied.
Outside the notorious Ktzi’ot prison where they are currently held, Miriam Azem told me of “aggressive treatment and violence” the detainees say they received:
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

‘Harsh treatment’: Irish aid flotilla detainees ‘kicked, cable-tied’ in Israeli custody

Volunteers trying to reach Gaza taken to notorious Ktzi’ot prison complex in Negev desert, lawyers say

www.irishtimes.com

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 7d

🇵🇸✡️ Most synagogues in America are against Zionism.

WATCH: The Jewish people are a peaceful people.

We have NO nationalistic agendas in the Holy Land but only want peace to reign between ALL people.

(Credit: Jewish Voice)

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 7d

An Israeli military drone dropped grenades near to Irish peacekeepers who were protecting civilians clearing rubble close to an Irish base in south Lebanon.
http://jrnl.ie/6834534t

An Israeli Defence Forces drone launched grenades near to Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon

No one was injured in the incident which happened yesterday near the Irish outpost at UNP 6-52 as the troops helped locals clear bomb damage rubble from homes.

jrnl.ie

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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 7d

Last few tickets for my Manchester show on Saturday November 15th. Please do come

thelowry.com/whats-on/joh...

John Crace: What The Hell Just Happened?

The last 10 years of British politics has been one long psychodrama. The Scottish referendum. David Cameron’s surprise election win. Brexit. Theresa May. Boris Johnson. Liz Truss. Rishi Sunak. Each pr...

thelowry.com

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Andy @labourman.bsky.social · 7d

Rat's and a sinking ship comes to mind here. Her way of doing things is far more suited to Reform, she'd be a natural for them.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 7d

If YOU, the UK government, actively conflate Jewish people in the UK with the genocide in Gaza, haven't you just done exactly what the terrorists want you to do?

Haven't you just stepped inside the whole racist, essentialist beliefs of such people, and taken a seat?

Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 8d

What do innocent Jewish people in Britain have to do with genocidal war-crimes in Palestine? Who is making this connection?

The Independent @the-independent.com · 8d

Manchester attack latest: Pause Gaza protests out of respect says home secretary after two killed at synagogue

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Sir Jot Alot @sirjotalot.bsky.social · 7d

I've just bought my first new electric car. It probably would have been a Tesla had it not been for #Musk. Left #X too for the same reason!

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Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social · 7d

Oracle executive pushed to 'embed love for Israel' in US culture as #TikTok sale advances www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251002-ora...

Previously unreported Safra Catz email from 2015 responsiblestatecraft.org/oracle-tikto...

#socialmedia #censorship #GazaGenocide #techpolicy

As Israel intensifies its efforts to dominate online narratives amid global outrage over its genocide in Gaza, newly surfaced communications suggest that senior figures behind the $14 billion purchase of TikTok are motivated not only by concerns over Chinese influence, but by a desire to embed pro-Israel messaging into US culture.

A previously unreported 2015 email from Oracle CEO Safra Catz, uncovered by Responsible Statecraft, reveals an explicit commitment to shaping US public opinion in favour of Israel. Writing to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Catz stressed the importance of reaching young Americans before they arrive at university, where support for Palestine has grown dramatically.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 7d

Sorry, but wtaf? I mean, that's just...messed up. Two innocent people shot by police, potentially. Were they even trying to aim?

In an update, Greater Manchester Police says that two victims of yesterday's attack have been found to have gunshot wounds.

The statement in full from the chief constable:

"The Home Office Pathologist has advised that he has provisionally determined, that one of the deceased victims would appear to have suffered a wound consistent with a gunshot injury," a statement reads.

"It is currently believed that the suspect, Jihad Al Shamie, was not in possession of a firearm and the only shots fired were from GMP's Authorised Firearms Officers as they worked to prevent the offender from entering the synagogue and causing further harm to our Jewish community. It follows therefore, that subject to further forensic examination, this injury may sadly have been sustained as a tragic and unforeseen consequence of the urgently required action taken by my officers to bring this vicious attack to an end.

"It is currently believed that the suspect, Jihad Al Shamie, was not in possession of a firearm and the only shots fired were from GMP's Authorised Firearms Officers as they worked to prevent the offender from entering the synagogue and causing further harm to our Jewish community. It follows therefore, that subject to further forensic examination, this injury may sadly have been sustained as a tragic and unforeseen consequence of the urgently required action taken by my officers to bring this vicious attack to an end.

"We have also been advised by medical professionals that one of the three victims currently receiving treatment in hospital, has also suffered a gunshot wound, which is mercifully not life threatening. It is believed that both victims were close together behind the synagogue door, as worshippers acted bravely to prevent the attacker from gaining entry."

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