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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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🌭 stevia nicks @muffinlab.bsky.social · 17h

they got kkklan oreos now

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🌻Margarance🌻 @margarance.bsky.social · 1h

Russia has funded extremist politics in the UK and Europe for years. They appear to have helped steal our EU citizenship, now they look to steal national elections across Europe. This cannot be allowed to pass unnoticed.

Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 12h

It’s time that Russia’s malign influence on British politics was properly investigated.

Agree? Add your name 👇🏻

It’s time for a REAL Russia report

Putin’s fingerprints are all over our politics. It’s time to prove it.

writesbright.substack.com

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2h

Labour spads looking at the massive increase in support for the Greens, "obviously this means we need to be even more like Reform".

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

www.theguardian.com

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Let me count the days … @simoncosgrove.bsky.social · 2h

Day 2082 of #Brexit: ‘As you know, the latest benefit bestowed by Brexit is the right to be fingerprinted and photographed when entering or leaving the Schengen area – in addition to the existing manual inspection and stamping of your passport.’ www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

EU entry-exit system: what do travel industry heavyweights think will happen?

The Man Who Pays His Way: The only preparation you can make is emotional – being ready for queues and confusion

www.independent.co.uk

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 4h

The inflatable costume industry is the only one booming right now.

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 1h

Also - it does make me wonder whether the current regulatory regime is adequate in that we have a foreign-funded organisation that is not donating directly but supplying assistance to a party. I’ve always thought think tanks were a massive loophole in the regulatory system.

Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 2h

As this detailed report shows Reform is a Trojan Horse for the US Christian right to secretly reshape British politics along Trumpian lines. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1h

A new week - and a new huge milestone!

@greenparty.org.uk now have 100,000 members!!!

We are absolutely on track to next overtake the Tories - let's make hope normal again!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 1h

Wonderful
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Woman, 53, becomes UK’s longest survivor of heart and lung transplant

Katie Mitchell had procedure at 15 after being diagnosed with Eisenmenger syndrome, a rare congenital disease

www.theguardian.com

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Hilary @hilarym.bsky.social · 1h

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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 1h

Some interesting tax raising ideas from the IFS.
ifs.org.uk/publications...

Options for tax increases | Institute for Fiscal Studies

If the Chancellor hopes to raise large sums from tax increases at the Budget, she should consider reforms that would make any increases less damaging.

ifs.org.uk

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Hilary @hilarym.bsky.social · 1h

Morning ORCs
Monday again, & the weather for the whole week looks like it will stay in this benign, autumnal state. Lovely!
A quiet week though, with walking group on Wednesday as the only diary date. That’s fine, as we stay relatively antisocial whilst awaiting autumn jabs
Hope your day is good

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Hilary @hilarym.bsky.social · 1h

Oh no!
The best I can hope is that this sudden change in her condition might make them push her to the top of the list for treatment
Lots of 🫂 and murmers of understanding and empathy. I hope today goes as well as it can. Perhaps it being Monday might help 🤞

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19h

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 22h

More than just a bad apple: why we must look closer at the Nathan Gill scandal

New evidence connects the Ukrainian politician who paid bribes to Gill - Reform UK’s former leader in Wales - to a campaign to destabilise the US election

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social reports

The contact of Reform UK's Russian puppet Nathan Gill is linked to efforts to destabilise the US and Ukraine. Why, even now, is no one asking questions?

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Josef O'Shea @josefoshea.bsky.social · 14h

People of Cork! Anybody recognise Seamus D'Terrier ? He got lost during Storm Amy and now he needs a home

Dog that got lost on Cork's northside during Storm Amy looking for family

If the CSPCA can't find his family - they at least want Seamus to have a happy home

www.corkbeo.ie

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · Mar 31

In case you missed it ...
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (and many other EU leaders) want and expect the UK to rejoin the EU.
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

EU’s von der Leyen urges youth to reverse Brexit

European Commission president says politicians ‘goofed it up’ in 2016 and the next generation will ‘have to fix it.’ But both Tories and Labour shun the idea.

www.politico.eu

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Sarah Cowley @bournemouth4eu.bsky.social · 12h

"Crucially, the [2020 Russia] report also revealed that our intelligence agencies had never been tasked with investigating whether Russian money or interference actually affected UK elections."
It’s time for a REAL Russia report" open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

It’s time for a REAL Russia report

Putin’s fingerprints are all over our politics. It’s time to prove it.

open.substack.com

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50 Jenna Ipcar Fans Can’t Be Wrong! @ipcar.bsky.social · Nov 26

At the bank I was told "pick your four digit pincode but it can't be a year." "Aren't they all years?" I asked. We sat in silence for a bit.

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🔶️ Shyamali Rodrigues @shyamalirodrigues.bsky.social · 12h

Some early good news from Portugal. Whilst Chega are the official opposition in parliament, in the local anrd mayoral elections today ,they have struggled to hit 20% of the vote... It's between PS (socialists) and PSD (centre right) according to exit polls.

#autárquicas #Portugal

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 13h

A BBC reporter ends his piece about the China spy trial collapse with the words "this story won't go away"
In contrast, the BBC newshounds have lost their sense of smell about Nathan Gill accepting Russian bribes.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 19h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13h

Ukraine has just hit the Saki and Belbek airfields in occupied Crimea.

#explodey

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

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