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Pride of Nottingham🏴🏳️ @prideofnottingham.bsky.social · 16h

On this day, in 1975, Notts County shocked Leeds United in the third round of the League Cup as Ian Scanlon scored in a 1-0 win.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 1d

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 11h

Reform UK in the dock ⚖

9th October Andy Osborn.
14th October Neil Stevens, Tony Stevens, and Rob Sheridan.
15th October Sarah White.
21st November Nathan Gill.
16th December Mandy Clare.
22nd May 2026 Daniel Taylor.

Under investigation:
Joseph Boam.
Lee Duffy.
George Cottrell.

#ReformInTheDock

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 12h

A house in Clacton bought with unknown finances, a Russian funded Welsh leader and now an investigation into the finances and tax affairs of one of Farage’s key ally.

The treachery and corruption is right in front of the media’s eyes and they do and say, NOTHING!

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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 12h

The guy the twatterati wanted gone after January is being lauded as the new messiah. How quickly things change 😀

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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 12h

They're paying thousands of pounds for their own education and all you can see if the value of a dry subject and a final salary. Fuck off Badenoch, let them study what they want. And iyou think English is a waste of time? Might explain why you can't spell Britain.

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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 12h

Or help the vast majority of first time buyers.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16h

UAE has no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record.

Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP

No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.

But here's Tice calling us decadent

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Arianeh Sajadi, Esq. @arianehsajadi.bsky.social · 1d

TX Gov. Abbott sending TX troops to “invade” or operate in other states is a CLEAR contit’l violation.

Infringes 10thAM (state sovereignty), 14thAM (equal protection), & directly defies the Insurrection Act & Posse Comitatus principles.

This is not federalism.

It is treason against the Union.

🆘🇺🇸

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 21h

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Simon @gigsandgrounds.bsky.social · 16h

Austerity squared to give money to people who don't need it

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 1d

Did I miss this on CBS?

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

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 1d

It was inevitable that “too many people speaking Polish” Brexitism would become outright “too many brown people”

And it’s what people like Gove, David Davis and Johnson enabled

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CtlAltDel @ctlaltdel.bsky.social · 1d

What a farce

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MaidenOver 🧙 @judeet44.bsky.social · 1d

"The msm pursued the Rayner story in such detail it forced a resignation . Now with a bigger scandal concerning Farage of possible treason suddenly they’ve forgotten how to spell investigate & corruption. Not only Farage has a Russian problem, if our msm protects him we all do." Tanita Tikaram.

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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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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Jack Whitehall night in Riyadh - everyone will be there - oh, except Asaad bin Nasser al-Ghamdi, a teacher that criticised the government that is paying Jack and so is in prison for 20 years

www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

This is the Epstein files shutdown.

A screenshot of an X.com post by @AdelitaForAZ
, Adelita Grijalva, stating, "The people of Southern Arizona deserve representation and I'm ready to get to work. Swear me in NOW! @SpeakerJohnson
!" followed by a reply from @GavinNewsom
, Gavin Newsom, saying, "It's not even November and the GOP are already rigging elections." Below, a news headline from McClatchy by Nikki McCann Ramirez dated September 30, 2025, reads, "DEM SAYS MIKE JOHNSON IS DELAYING HER SWEARING-IN TO PREVENT EPSTEIN VOTE," with a photo of Adelita Grijalva smiling at an event in Tucson, Arizona, on Tuesday, September 23, 2025.

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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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Andy Parmo @andyparmo.co.uk · 2d

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

This is from Marge Greene.

You know who has been warning about this for months? Democrats.

But the people who had no plan to deal with this crisis and still don’t want you to believe this is about “illegals.”

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Lindsay Clark @datadictum.bsky.social · 1d

Who has a checkered past, Robert Jenrick? www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Minister accepts Isle of Dogs housing development 'was unlawful'

Conservative party donor Richard Desmond avoided a £40m bill due to timing of the deal.

www.bbc.co.uk

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missnortonc.bsky.social @missnortonc.bsky.social · 1d

And then there was that nice little fiddle he and Jake Berry worked.
share.google/UkCRh2OBmyV7...

Robert Jenrick admits approving funds for town in Jake Berry's constituency

Communities secretary and minister approved payments to towns in each other’s constituencies

share.google

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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