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Amyn Merchant @amynmerchant.bsky.social · 57m

This is very sinister indeed.

Having written about Fascism, you might be interested,
@iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social?

I feel @mark-bray.bsky.social’s situation deserves attention more widely, and wish him and his family well.

Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 5h

Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 5h

Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3h

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

next.frame.io

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Amyn Merchant @amynmerchant.bsky.social · 2h

Careful - calling Trump Hitler might end up with you becoming Vice President of the US.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Amyn Merchant @amynmerchant.bsky.social · 16h

@davidallengreen.bsky.social

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 16h

Who would have guessed

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Nigel Farage earns over £1m from 12 'second jobs' - check how much your MP earns

The Reform UK leader's most lucrative second jobs include hosting on GB News, serving as a brand ambassador for Direct Bullion and recording videos for Cameo

www.mirror.co.uk

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 19h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Luke Taylor MP @luketaylorld.bsky.social · 21h

British Transport Police's decision to not investigate bike thefts outside train stations where bikes have been left for more than two hours is really concerning. It could effectively decriminalise it.

Together with Lib Dem colleagues I've written to the BTP to get clarity.

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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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

The original version of the book said that Epstein was involved in introducing Melania to her beloved husband.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch, a woman who excuse-makes for obvious racism and can't condemn it without doing mimsy false equivalences, talking about 'courage', is it?

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 1d

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Amyn Merchant @amynmerchant.bsky.social · 1d

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”

Yeats

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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aliciablackgirl.bsky.social @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like the rich take away from taxpayers and then blame immigrants.

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Amyn Merchant @amynmerchant.bsky.social · 1d

This was truly fascinating, and @phillipspobrien.bsky.social made me rethink many things. If the US and China went to war, who’d win? (spoiler alert: if the war went long it wouldn’t be the US). And what role do the UK’s aircraft carriers play in our strategic defence?

@ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social

Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 1d

🚨ICYMI🚨
Is Russia as powerful as Putin wants us to think?

Phillips Payson O’Brien, @nndroid.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social discuss in the latest episode 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

#Putin #Russia #podcast #politics

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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 1d

🚨ICYMI🚨
Is Russia as powerful as Putin wants us to think?

Phillips Payson O’Brien, @nndroid.bsky.social and @jacobjarvis.bsky.social discuss in the latest episode 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

#Putin #Russia #podcast #politics

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Victoria Derbyshire, "You described Reform UK as the right wing fascists of 1930s, why?"

Lord Heseltine, "Because that's what they are"

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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