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Helen Bracken #FBPE 🇪🇺🌻 #RejoinEU 🕯️ #FBPPR 🇺🇦 #NAFO @helentbracken.bsky.social · 17h

This is it isn’t it??!
Trump coup almost complete 😫
Next is Martial Law … 😱… those free and fair Mid Terms are toast 😖
Please persuade me otherwise 🙏
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Hundreds of US National Guard troops arrive in Chicago www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hundreds of US National Guard troops arrive in Chicago

Troops from Texas have been sent on a controversial mission to support President Trump's immigration crackdown.

www.bbc.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 13h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Helen Bracken #FBPE 🇪🇺🌻 #RejoinEU 🕯️ #FBPPR 🇺🇦 #NAFO @helentbracken.bsky.social · 17h

This is it isn’t it??!
Trump coup almost complete 😫
Next is Martial Law … 😱… those free and fair Mid Terms are toast 😖
Please persuade me otherwise 🙏
👇🚨👇
Hundreds of US National Guard troops arrive in Chicago www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hundreds of US National Guard troops arrive in Chicago

Troops from Texas have been sent on a controversial mission to support President Trump's immigration crackdown.

www.bbc.com

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 23h

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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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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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 2d

Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.

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CtlAltDel @ctlaltdel.bsky.social · 3d

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Helen Bracken #FBPE 🇪🇺🌻 #RejoinEU 🕯️ #FBPPR 🇺🇦 #NAFO @helentbracken.bsky.social · 2d

“The emperor has no clothes” …
Yup, we’re tired of the pretence as well
#TiredOfTrump 😫

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Helen Bracken #FBPE 🇪🇺🌻 #RejoinEU 🕯️ #FBPPR 🇺🇦 #NAFO @helentbracken.bsky.social · 2d

🚨Come on UK media, stop giving Farage a free pass!
EXPOSE FARAGE NOW! And everything Reform is mired in!

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Helen Bracken #FBPE 🇪🇺🌻 #RejoinEU 🕯️ #FBPPR 🇺🇦 #NAFO @helentbracken.bsky.social · 2d

Ooooh - I like that … can I nick it? 👍😉

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Helen Bracken #FBPE 🇪🇺🌻 #RejoinEU 🕯️ #FBPPR 🇺🇦 #NAFO @helentbracken.bsky.social · 3d

Farage up to his neck in Putin’s propaganda machine??? 😵‍💫 🇷🇺
Who could have guessed??? 🤔
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...

‘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’...

bylinetimes.com

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Helen Bracken #FBPE 🇪🇺🌻 #RejoinEU 🕯️ #FBPPR 🇺🇦 #NAFO @helentbracken.bsky.social · 3d

Yup, that’s because you’ve got your eyes open 👀 👍

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Jerry at JMGVines @jjtb4v.bsky.social · 3d

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable."
President John F Kennedy

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Helen Bracken #FBPE 🇪🇺🌻 #RejoinEU 🕯️ #FBPPR 🇺🇦 #NAFO @helentbracken.bsky.social · 3d

Yes

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3d

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From a Portlander (Oregon):

“Red Alert! a convoy of 8-10 30-40’ cabin cruisers just headed downtown. Watch out for agitators from the river.” Trusted source.

This is how we help those who are most vulnerable.

~ In solidarity ✊🏼

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Shosh🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇧 WokeAF💥GreenAF💚 Powered by Fury,Disbelief&Determination @shoshanade.bsky.social · 3d

Fcking hell😱😱😱😱😱

I almost hope that this was a gas explosion and not some sort of deluded extremist attack on a Circuit Court Judge😨

3 people were taken to hospital following the explosion.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Helen Bracken #FBPE 🇪🇺🌻 #RejoinEU 🕯️ #FBPPR 🇺🇦 #NAFO @helentbracken.bsky.social · 3d

Farage up to his neck in Putin’s propaganda machine??? 😵‍💫 🇷🇺
Who could have guessed??? 🤔
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...

‘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’...

bylinetimes.com

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Helen Bracken #FBPE 🇪🇺🌻 #RejoinEU 🕯️ #FBPPR 🇺🇦 #NAFO @helentbracken.bsky.social · 3d

Why is this not ALL of the news???
Expose Farage and all his Reform cronies and stop pandering to their propaganda! 😡
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Ex-Reform politician admits Russia-linked bribery charges www.bbc.com/news/article...

Reform UK's ex-Wales leader Nathan Gill admits pro-Russia bribery

Nathan Gill admits eight charges of bribery while being a Member of the European Parliament.

www.bbc.com

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Helen Bracken #FBPE 🇪🇺🌻 #RejoinEU 🕯️ #FBPPR 🇺🇦 #NAFO @helentbracken.bsky.social · 4d

Is this for real??? 📚🔥💔
Book bans including the Diary of Ann Frank- welcome to Trump’s USA 😱…
Looks like the 1930s revisited 😖
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘State-driven censorship’: new wave of book bans hits Florida school districts

Hundreds of titles are being pulled from library and classroom shelves in the Republican-dominated state

www.theguardian.com

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Helen Bracken #FBPE 🇪🇺🌻 #RejoinEU 🕯️ #FBPPR 🇺🇦 #NAFO @helentbracken.bsky.social · 4d

Tories aping Reform and Trump - desperate and deranged … they sure know how to alienate people
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Conservatives pledge to create UK version of ICE to detain and deport illegal immigrants www.itv.com/news/2025-10...

www.itv.com

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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 4d

The Convention on Human Rights is one of the greatest achievements of European civilisation following one of its greatest tragedies. To join Russia in leaving it would be one of the biggest acts of national self-sabotage in history and have zero positive consequences www.bbc.com/news/article...

UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says

The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.

www.bbc.com

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Helen Bracken #FBPE 🇪🇺🌻 #RejoinEU 🕯️ #FBPPR 🇺🇦 #NAFO @helentbracken.bsky.social · 4d

Yet another reason NOT to vote Tory 🗳️ 🛑 … as if you needed any more …
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UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says www.bbc.com/news/article...

UK will leave ECHR if Tories win election, Badenoch says

The European Convention on Human Rights has become a focal point in debates around changing immigration policy.

www.bbc.com

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Helen Bracken #FBPE 🇪🇺🌻 #RejoinEU 🕯️ #FBPPR 🇺🇦 #NAFO @helentbracken.bsky.social · 5d

I cannot believe how disgusting The Daily Mail headline was today 😖
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Blaming “woke police chiefs” and “left wing politicians” as the synagogue “killer’s enablers”
How low can that despicable rag sink??? 😡😫😤

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 5d

The greatest threat to our democracy, freedom, and human rights is not Farage. It is the overwhelming majority of the British news media.

They promote Farage, and they protect Farage.

If they carry on like this, we will soon have no democracy.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 5d

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

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