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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17h

Hey, you guys? Is it a good sign or a bad sign if the prosecution is just getting its hands around the evidence *after* it criminally charged the former FBI director?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

At one point during the hearing, the judge asked the prosecution why the case can’t be tried before mid-December.

Lemons replied: We are “just getting our hands around” discovery in the case.

There’s lots of it, he added, and it includes a “significant” amount of classified information.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Dr Christine Cheng @christinecheng.bsky.social · 23h

This is headline #7 on the @nytimes.com app right now.

The situation in the US has gotten so bad that this story is nowhere near the top of my screen.

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Dr Christine Cheng @christinecheng.bsky.social · 1d

I’m delighted to be one of many, many people who are supporting @kamhussain.bsky.social to be the next Vice President of the LibDems. He’s been campaigning since 1997 and has long been a force for good.

If you have a vote in this election, please give him your support too.

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Dr Christine Cheng @christinecheng.bsky.social · 2d

This is what it looks like to chase the Reform Vote.
Ugly.

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 2d

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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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

The arrests followed clashes on Saturday, as many opposition parties boycotted local elections.

Five Georgia opposition leaders charged with ‘coup’ attempt after protests

The arrests followed clashes on Saturday, as many opposition parties boycotted local elections.

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 2d

Postcard from @stephenkb.bsky.social (via his @financialtimes.com newsletter) from Manchester.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 5d

🔴NEW🔴

Thread 🧵

@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem

Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social · 4d

“Two countries are living on top of each other, one buffered by generators, drivers and imported everything, the other left to negotiate survival in the margins. What’s most unsettling isn’t how shocking it feels, but how routine it is. Just like we speed through intersections without looking.”

Opinion | The Chaos of Driving in Lebanon Tells a Story of a Country Unraveled

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Dr Christine Cheng @christinecheng.bsky.social · 4d

This is such dangerous and disgusting rhetoric.
And will only drive more voters towards Reform.

Bonus: Expect hate crimes to go up too.

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4d

I'm in Manchester for the Conservative conference, where some of the views on show are likely to be fairly extreme. As one example, these quotes from a Kemi Badenoch interview in the Telegraph are the sorts of things which not very long ago would have only *ever* been said by the racist far right.

Tony Diver Associate Political Editor. Ben Riley-Smith Political Editor. Aaron Newbury
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Kemi Badenoch, Conservative Party Conference, Migrant crisis, Reform UK, Nigel Farage, Conservative Party

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Kemi Badenoch arriving at the Conservative Party conference on Saturday
Kemi Badenoch, pictured arriving for the Conservative Party conference in Manchester on Saturday, has unveiled a seven-point plan to tackle migration Credit: Eddie Mulholland for The Telegraph

Kemi Badenoch has pledged to deport 150,000 illegal migrants a year with new Trump-style immigration squads.

The Conservative Party leader will use this year’s conference in Manchester to announce how she would reform Britain’s migration system after leaving the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Mrs Badenoch has unveiled a seven-point plan to “secure Britain’s borders”, including a commitment to deport small boat arrivals within a week, refuse any asylum claims by illegal migrants, deport all foreign criminals and remove immigration powers from judges.
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In an interview with The Telegraph, Mrs Badenoch pledged to stop “silly arguments” about human rights from preventing the government from doing the “right thing”.

She said she was “ashamed” Britain’s immigration system had allowed the emergence of grooming gangs, with “foreigners raping our little girls”.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a restraining order blocking President Trump's call-up of the National Guard in Portland.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 4d

In my feed, this video is next to Kemi Badenoch's promise to create a UK version of ICE.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 4d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 4d

The Board of Deputies’ response to the Israeli government inviting Tommy Robinson to visit

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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James Bowes @jamesbowes01.bsky.social · 5d

The 10 year wait for Indefinite Leave to Remain will make the UK very unattractive for high skilled workers who often have alternatives. 2019 data (excluding the NHS and universities) shows that high skilled workers on visas are heavily concentrated in multinationals who can move jobs abroad (5/x)

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Dr Christine Cheng @christinecheng.bsky.social · 5d

In the hands of the AfD….

Signal @signal.org · 6d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 5d

"What they propose is in effect a mass surveillance free-for-all, opening up everyone’s intimate and confidential communications, whether government officials, military, investigative journalists, or activists. For all of Europe’s talk of sovereignty, this is a bizarre cybersecurity decision"

Signal @signal.org · 6d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Eduardo Suárez @eduardosuarez.bsky.social · 5d

What a dark day for press freedom in the United States

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5d

Mario Guevara, an Emmy-award winning reporter, was deported to El Salvador — a nation he fled more than two decades ago. He was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

U.S. deports journalist Mario Guevara to El Salvador, family says

Mario Guevara, an independent journalist, was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

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Dr Christine Cheng @christinecheng.bsky.social · 6d

Chasing Reform voters over climate change just proves that Badenoch doesn’t get it.

Adopting Reform’s policies only makes the Tories seem more indecisive and spineless.

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Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 8d

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 6d

also I'd just like to say that this moment and like the decade afterward sure did feel like everything was going to work out

German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 6d

“This morning, Germany is one nation again.”

This is how BBC Breakfast News reported on German reunification, 35 years ago today.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 6d

Lot of folk want to blame others for rising prices... and sure, venture capital, energy price rises, commodity costs... but you're also just proving the point of not wanting to own the policy choices... how much do you think it costs to eat out in Scandinavia?

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Institut mezinárodních studií FSV UK @ims.fsv.cuni.cz · 6d

🚨 Exciting postdoc opportunity at the Institute of International Relations Prague! Join the INTERFER Project (Oct 2025–Dec 2028). Research focus: foreign interference, disinfo, cyber sec & digital politics. Apply by 12 Oct 2025 👉 www.iir.cz/postdoctoral...

#Postdoc #ResearchJobs

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of International Relations in Prague under the project INTERFER, starting October 2025 (until December 2028) | Ústav mezinárodních vztahů - Expertise to impact

We are looking for a new colleague for the position of a Postdoctoral Researcher under the project INTERFER which studies foreign interference by foreign powers in the context of current geopolitical ...

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Binita Kane @binitakane.bsky.social · 6d

Brilliant article by a teacher highlighting the current dire situation for teachers and kids every winter when it comes to infection risk and spread. We continue to fight for our kids to have the right to breathe clean air.

stevebheadteacher.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/d...

Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please Can We Talk About Health?

Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please can we talk about health? It’s autumn 2025. We’re one month into the school year, in England. Two of my children are ill, again.With Covid, again.It&#821…

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Dr Christine Cheng @christinecheng.bsky.social · 6d

We don’t get to live in a free society if we don’t support each other’s right to exist and practise our faith in peace.

Antisemitism is real.
So is the mass killing of innocent Palestinian civilians.
Both must be loudly and PUBLICLY denounced.

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 6d

I am not saying it is easy or hard, but imo being a vigilant civil member of contemporary society is being at the same time one that strongly denounces the horrifying Yom Kippur Manchester attack and simultaneously believes that the Israeli far right government is doing atrocious things to humanity

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