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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 3h

"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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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 1d

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 13h

Here’s video of the incident

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16h

This strikes me as pretty bad

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LaindonFeminist: 10 Year Keir @viviane49.bsky.social · 8h

Our media lets us down badly :

Labours accomplishments - rarely mentioned

Nigel Farage’s house - dropped/ignored

Nathan Gill’s admission of working for Russia - zilch

Russia/Iran funding Reform/Farage - silence

Instead they spread lies on the Budget/MPs/anything to discredit Labour

Why????

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 18h

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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This Cat Lady 🌊💙❄ @2bpainfree.bsky.social · 15h

Newsom isn't perfect. Y'all are posting I won't vote for him yada yada yada

1st you think we're going to have fair elections in 2026🤔 followed by you think we're even going to have elections in 2028?

Your only job as an American is to vote the Republicans out of fucking power to stop the nightmare

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 19h

Over a week since I left X.

I did miss it a bit over the weekend, but, the positive impact has been immense.

Who knew walking away from a place where you got called a “filthy communist” or “sick homosexual” multiple times a day could be so good for your mental health.

an elderly woman is sitting in a chair holding a cup of coffee and asking who knew ?

Alt: an elderly woman is sitting in a chair holding a cup of coffee and asking who knew ?

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Colin Dunn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @indyposterboy.scot · 1d

Well, USA that right to bear arms to prevent tyranny and dictatorship is working out very well. Not.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Durbin: "What has taken place since January 20, 2025, would make even President Nixon recoil. This is your legacy, AG Bondi."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 23h

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 20h

Robert Jenrick’s comments about Handsworth are a pathetic attempt to stoke hatred by invoking white supremacist tropes.

Everywhere in the UK is worse off than it was 15 years ago. Why? Because of Tory austerity and local government ministers like Jenrick gutting council funding.

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 22h

'Nigel Farage is killing Britain - time to deport him'
We need to deport just one person, says Fleet Street Fox. The descendant of migrants who lives on the taxpayer dime, refuses to integrate, and divides us all
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'Nigel Farage is killing Britain - time to deport him'

We need to deport just one person, says Fleet Street Fox. The descendant of migrants who lives on the taxpayer dime, refuses to integrate, and divides us all

www.mirror.co.uk

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 20h

What was that Sooty? The children can't hear you!

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 22h

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

"We've been forced into a 'free speech zone.' Its very existence implies that everywhere else is a non-free speech zone, that there are places where our First Amendment rights do not apply."

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PaulShrews33 @paulshrews33.bsky.social · 1d

A black child of a single mother in Tottenham, going on to study at Harvard, is well beyond anything Jenrick could dream of accomplishing.

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Andy King @2primates.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick looks like a man who’s watched JD Vance effortlessly climbing the greasy pole, despite an almost total lack of charm or personality & thought “I, too, could be that wildly over-promoted mediocre white guy who gets to sneer at successful black folks for getting above themselves.”

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

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Nick Perry @encaypee.bsky.social · 1d

I’m starting to think the only hope for this country is to have a PM who is a former footballer called Gary or Gareth.

USS London 🍊=💩😲👎 & 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 + ❤️ Kate Bush @openpodbaydoor.bsky.social · 1d

I don't often agree with Gary Neville, but I do here. I also agree with Max that #brexit has had a real devastating impact on the UK, it has encouraged the rise of the fascist right, who have been emboldened by the result of the #brexit vote & right wing Tory Governments

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Gary Neville's Powerful Message Of Unity And Hope Against Angry Men!

YouTube video by Maximilien Robespierre

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

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Nick Perry @encaypee.bsky.social · 1d

“They committed a crime” 🙄
Odd what Israel considers a crime & what it doesn’t these days isn’t it.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Can you imagine if Russia attacked and seized a UK vessel in international waters & kidnapped the people on board, including UK citizens, and the only response from the UK govt was to say that's "a matter for the Russian govt".

No, me neither.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 1d

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

Screenshot of an Express article; it says: Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border

In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.

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