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Rajan Naidu 📎 Ⓥ @rajannaidu.bsky.social · 2d

Tories
Arrogance
Incompetence

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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 2d

From the 3 mins clip: “We don’t exactly what these arms were or who the end-user was”…

That’s because from Sept 2024 the UK Labour govt has had an arms embargo on anything that could be used by Israel in Gaza.
NB: No embargo by Sunak before July 2024.

Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 2d

Israel’s arms imports from UK hit record high values

Last week, our FactCheck team exclusively revealed that Israel’s imports of UK arms hit a record high value in June. Now, we can reveal new figures showing September was the second highest month on re...

www.channel4.com

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Angela McShane @angelamcshane.bsky.social · 2d

This is untrue. Supporters of a proscribed group - Palestine Action have been arrested - not those who are protesting Israeli attacks on Palestinians. These have also been called out by the government.

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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 2d

Kemi Badenoch wants to run the country, but can't even spell Britain correctly.

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Will Bramhill @willbramhill.bsky.social · 2d

Oh dear. How sad. #ReformUK find that Kent county council are so well run that they can't make cuts and will have to put council tax up by 5%. That's a surprise to no one except Farage's crowd.

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James Loxley @oldnorthroad.bsky.social · 2d

Jeez the Tories really are dead. Epochal shifts are rare - the clue is in the name - but this really feels like one. The key thing is what’s happening to their financial and institutional infrastructure, about which I have no clue, but it can’t be good.

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Tory Conference debate on free speech. You see? Sometimes being "cancelled" is a mercy.

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 2d

@newyorkstateag.bsky.social 2 (or is it 3 but not counting rejected appeals) Drumpf 0

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING

A top prosecutor in Virginia has informed colleagues she plans to decline to seek charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James, resisting intense pressure from President Donald Trump.

Full Story: bit.ly/4mKtzmt

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 2d

Oliver Cromwell, Peter Stent, first in 1642 & altered 1651. "Invictissimi Brittannarum archistrategi"

(British Museum)

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Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social · 4d

Full program for 2025-6 for the IHR Low Countries Seminar. All meetings both in person and online. To register for any session, go to www.history.ac.uk/seminars/low...

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 4d

Well.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 4d

NEW: Judge Immergut BLOCKS Trump's federalization of the Oregon National Guard, writing that the govt has "made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power—to the detriment of this nation." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

CONCLUSION
For the above reasons, this Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining Order, ECF 6, and temporarily enjoins Defendants' September 28, 2025, Memorandum ordering
the federalization and deployment of Oregon National Guard service members to Portland. The
TRO expires in fourteen days on October 18, 2025, and the parties are ORDERED to comply with the attached TRO. The Defendants' request to stay or administratively stay the Temporary Restraining Order, see Defendants' Opposition to Plaintiffs' Motion for Temporary Restraining
Order, ECF 35 at 41, is DENIED.
IT IS SO ORDERED
DATED this 4th day of October, 2025 at 3:40 p.m. pacific daylight time.
/s/ Karin J. Immergut
Karin J. Immergut
United States District Judge

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 5d

RECALL: this is the right-wing influencer who wrote the book about the left titled "Unhumans"

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6d

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.

A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

slate.com

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The Welsh Politics Pod @welshpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

"My mother always says that Farage has two principal difficulties..."

From our first podcast 'Is Welsh Politics on the Cusp of Chaos?' Lauren shares some top family insight about the leader of Reform UK.

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ʀak @raksky.bsky.social · 5d

Ian Hislop on Have I Got News for You @hignfy.bsky.social about the dilemma of Farage.

“Do you address what he's saying, because it seems to be either wrong or in need of correction or dangerous or incitement or hypocritical or whatever…”

+ @privateeyenews.bsky.social looked into a few things.

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alechitchman.bsky.social @alechitchman.bsky.social · 5d

Remember how #r4today made such a fuss about Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves receiving legitimate and declaring stuff?
Will they notice this?
#wato #bbcpm #bbcaq

Tory chair accepted £2k hospitality from developer of HMOs for asylum seekers www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tory chair accepted £2k hospitality from developer of HMOs for asylum seekers

Exclusive: Kevin Hollinrake’s conference costs paid for by firm helping landlords convert homes for lucrative market

www.theguardian.com

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Ba Chui Mama @mamapapalong.bsky.social · 5d

youtube.com/watch?v=mfyi...

Just in case reform supporters not knowing the Reform party intended to scrap NHS...

Who is Nigel Farage?

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys

youtube.com

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nlwa.bsky.social @nlwa.bsky.social · 6d

#FarageBrexitBoats is trending!

#PlasticPatriot is also trending as is #FarageRiots

Farage is a c**t is not trending…..it’s just fact.

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 14d

But this image will have a longer life!

The Independent @the-independent.com · 14d

Mysterious Trump-Epstein statue hauled out of DC after only one day despite permit

www.independent.co.uk

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Arash Mohebbi @thatoldbear.bsky.social · 14d

just for reference, Swan Theft is a crime against the British crown because the King was presumed to own every swan in the land since before Henry VIII. By contrast, Farage and his do-nothing party of sleazes have defrauded the taxpayer by cosplaying as members of parliament.

Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 14d

“In a radio interview, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage suggested that eastern European migrants are taking and killing swans from Royal Parks and carp from ponds across the UK to eat”

I suggested he might say this, a day ago! I can’t believe he’s now said it 😂🤪

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Nigel Farage slapped down after he suggests Europeans are eating swans in parks

In a radio interview, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage suggested that eastern European migrants are taking and killing swans from Royal Parks and carp from ponds across the UK to eat

www.mirror.co.uk

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Alex Richards @alxrchrds.bsky.social · 14d

Credit where its due for the BBC here highlighting Farage’s bullshit today.
Nicely done, @vicderbyshire.bsky.social & @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social #Newsnight

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 14d

Nigel Farage appeared on the radio today and failed to back the scientific & medical advice given to pregnant women when it comes to taking paracetamol

He also suggested migrants were eating swans & carp

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social runs through the claims and official responses

#Newsnight

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Denise Carver @sligogirl.bsky.social · 16d

Surely that's his agenda, crash the country. Destroy the NHS and sell it to big pharma. He's poison. #BrexitBrokeBritain and Farage engineered Brexit.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 16d

Nigel Farage has been warned his "morally repugnant" plans to scrap the main route to citizenship for migrants could push the NHS to the brink of collapse

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Nigel Farage's 'repugnant' migrants plan torn apart as NHS would 'collapse'

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has been warned his 'morally repugnant' plans to scrap the main route to citizenship for migrants could push the NHS to the brink of collapse

www.mirror.co.uk

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Political Cartoon Gallery @politicalcartoon.bsky.social · 16d

Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social on #Corbyn #Sultana #yourpartyuk @thetimes - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com