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carpenter22.bsky.social @carpenter22.bsky.social · 6h

Be suspicious of any bailouts he offers to farmers. There's got to be some kind of financial incentive for him and his friends.

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Tracey @bloomingkind.bsky.social · 8h

My goodness she is horrible

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 1d

Bondi can’t contain her hostility. But she also can’t stop lying through it all.

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Annette ☮️ (annettebeebe.bsky.social) 💙 @annettebeebe.bsky.social · 8h

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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 1d

Robert Jenrick and his wiggy puppet

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 15h

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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I.M. Noone @ianmnoone.bsky.social · 12h

My sister and her family have lived there for a few years now, and it's been unnerving to see how it's unfolded there in parallel to our own situation

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 13h

Visiting UK for the fall, where they’re having their own f-word debate. But that’s just the problem: it’s more than a word. Media’s semantic dodge of a concept, fascist, that may be (is) a fact, the acknowledgment of which wld require a paradigm shift in coverage.

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14h

One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 11h

£12 billion when you factor in stamp duty.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11h

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

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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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

Making people feel they need to carry citizenship papers.

Invading our state with military troops.

Sending in war helicopters in the middle of the night.

Arresting elected officials asking questions.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11h

"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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Elizabeth Pennysworth @epennysworth.bsky.social · 9h

Kristi Noem standing on buildings with her hands on her hips staring down chicken man is a huge waste of our money

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 11h

Kemi Badenoch: "Poland are experiencing more economic growth than the UK!"

also Kemi Badenoch: "We are the party that took us (the country) out of the European Union!"

a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed

media.tenor.com

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Tracey @bloomingkind.bsky.social · 8h

The plus side her hair extensions look pretty 🤣

Tracey @bloomingkind.bsky.social · 8h

I have not a clue what you’re saying? That people protesting genocide are communists? Surely not.. I must be misunderstanding you.

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Tracey @bloomingkind.bsky.social · 15h

Asked about the prime minister's suggestion it was "un-British" to protest today, organiser Anton Parocki told the BBC: "It's just disgraceful."
"What I think is insensitive, is that there has been two years of genocide," he said.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PM urges students not to join pro-Palestinian protests on 7 October

The prime minister says it is

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 1d

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

It’s of note that during tonight’s hearing the DoJ didn’t even try to make the case that changing conditions on the ground in Portland warranted the CA National Guard. Instead they relied on legal technicalities. Proving again that what they say in court is different than lies they tell the public.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 1d

It should be very disturbing to everyone in America

And every lawyer in particular

That Pam Bondi-the top law enforcement officer in the US

Won’t commit to following court orders

Every state Attorney General should flag this testimony for use in future lawsuits against the Trump administration

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

PADILLA: Do you believe govt officials are obligated to follow court orders whether they agree with them or not, yes or no?

BONDI: I wish you loved your state of California as much as you hate President Trump

PADILLA: I asked a simple yes or no question

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Tracey @bloomingkind.bsky.social · 16h

Communism?

carpenter22.bsky.social @carpenter22.bsky.social · 1d

Trump to unveil farm bailout needed because his tariffs led China to stop buying American products www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Trump to unveil farm bailout after his tariffs lead China to stop buying U.S. produce

President expected to announce help for farmers hard hit by loss of Chinese trade

www.the-independent.com

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Tracey @bloomingkind.bsky.social · 1d

Totally! 🤣

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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 1d

"We want people to be living in mixed communities, don't we?"

Robert Jenrick's home is in Eye, Herefordshire, where 165 out of 166 residents were white at the time of the last census.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d

“Gottle of geer.”

Honest Bob Jenrick holding a judge’s wig in a manner that makes it look like his ventriloquist’s dummy.

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Tracey @bloomingkind.bsky.social · 1d

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jenrick defends calling Handsworth 'worst-integrated'

The shadow justice secretary is accused of racism after saying the Handsworth area was one of the

www.bbc.co.uk

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