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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 4h

Lord Heseltine, "The number of people aged below 50 who think it was right for us to leave the European Union, is less than 20%

"The latest polls tells us 56% now believe it was mistake to leave the European Union"

Hands up if you are one of the 56% 🙋‍♂️

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

If you’re not alarmed yet you’re not paying attention. 🇺🇸

www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 6h

Another day.

Another presidential threat to jail two of his political opponents.

What will it take for Republicans in Congress to speak out?

While we still have a democracy left.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 8h

This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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josephstrummered.bsky.social @josephstrummered.bsky.social · 5h

I can't wait for the day Farage finally fucks off.

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josephstrummered.bsky.social @josephstrummered.bsky.social · 6h

The usual right wing suspects will ignore this. You know the flag shagging uber patriots.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 7h

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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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h

Making people feel they need to carry citizenship papers.

Invading our state with military troops.

Sending in war helicopters in the middle of the night.

Arresting elected officials asking questions.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10h

More good work by Greg Sargent

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 9h

Does Reform have a Russia problem?

Nigel Farage is ‘in bed with Putin’, claims Rachel Reeves, after party’s former leader in Wales pleaded guilty to taking bribes from the Kremlin

theweek.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10h

The Conservative party's treatment of David, who exposed the cash for questions scandal, is a former political journalist of the year, and has been covering party conferences for almost 40 years, is a disgrace
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference

Veteran award-winning investigative journalist David Hencke has attended Conservative party conference since 1987 but is now hundreds of pounds out of pocket after being blocked from attending

bylinetimes.com

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 11h

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be a carpenter. I’d love to be one.

But when politicians use that to sneer at everyone else, you start to see what they’re really afraid of: people who can think for themselves.

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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 1d

#NigelFarage (surprise!) lied about his ties to paid Putin stooge, #NathanGill.

Kremlin influence operations just keep turning up around Farage. 🤔🧐

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t... #ReformUK

Article by @peterjukes.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social

‘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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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12h

"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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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 11h

I wrote about Robert Jenrick's embrace of blood and soil nationalism for @bylinetimes.bsky.social

"The British right is adopting an increasingly extreme form of ethnic identity politics, while failing to explain what the rest of us are supposed to be worried about"

bylinetimes.com/2025/08/19/r...

But what about “ethnic change”? Yes, the proportion of Islington’s population who are (like me) white British has dropped from perhaps 85% to about 40%. This change is indeed visible. For West, it is “far beyond what any group would find tolerable.” What he doesn’t and can’t say is why exactly I’m supposed to find it intolerable. Why should I, or my neighbours, be more concerned about what race or ethnicity the kids are at the local school than the quality or financing of local services, or whether the council is successfully balancing the need for more housing with the interests of long-standing residents?

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12h

Labour have presided over a "doom loop of higher taxes, weaker borders and month after month of chaos" says Kemi Badenoch who was part of a government that raised taxes and immigration levels by record amounts, whilst changing leader no fewer than four times

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josephstrummered.bsky.social @josephstrummered.bsky.social · 13h

That would take joined up thinking and honesty which is something the Tory party has been incapable of for quite some time. Brexit turned them hysterical.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 13h

If you want to win over younger voters, telling them they can't go to university is probably not going to help.

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 2d

Nigel Farage is owned by Russia. Vote Leave was illegally financed by Russia. Brexit was and is a Russian active measure to harm Britain and its home in Europe.

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Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 15h

Badenoch’s only achievement is to have shrunk the Tories to a low-wattage Faragist think tank and warehouse storing future parliamentary candidates for Reform www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr

The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

www.theguardian.com

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 18h

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

Declaring that unless state governments *do the job of the federal government* it is "insurrection" is a wild take inasmuch as it's the diametrical opposite of everything Republicans said over the last 100+ years

As I've said before, if you want to know what MAGAs believe in, it's literally nothing

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Donald Trump Jr: "They want to call someone who took a selfie somewhere within 200 miles of DC an insurrectionist on January 6, but directly threatening to withhold help from federal law enforcement doing their job -- that's insurrection."

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