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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 11d

There seems to be some *confusion*
among Reform supporters over Nathan Gill being one of them

“But, but, Reform didn’t exist when he took his Russian bribes”

“But, but he was in UKIP”

“But, but it has nothing to do with Farage, he barely knew the guy”

So here’s a little history lesson 👍🏼🧵

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14d

During WW1 there was a rumour that aspirin caused the Spanish Flu. As I was writing about that last year I often shook my head in disbelief at the stupidity of our near ancestors. Seems a lot of people are still dumb enough to believe nonsense.

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Marc Raschke @marcraschke.bsky.social · 15d

Linke wollen bei Bundesverfassungsgericht-Richter wählen & damit 2/3-Mehrheit sichern, obwohl die CDU nicht mit der Linken geredet hat.

Die Linke war es auch, die die Geschäftsordnung damals mit geändert hatte, damit Kanzlerwahl noch am gleichen Tag wiederholt werden konnte.

CDU, so unreif.

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Michael Kranert @kranertmichael.bsky.social · 20d

This is why we shouldn't laugh at Trump's announcement. Made up categories can have a violent effect, that is how political discourse works. They know what they are doing, these are the mechanisms totalitarian regimes are built on.

persephone @sirensplight.bsky.social · 21d

How do I explain that the fact of “antifa” being a made-up org is exactly *why* calling it one is so dangerous.

It doesn’t exist. There are no members.

Which means it can be anything, & anyone can be a member

It exists only in the minds of those who crave permission harm to whomever they wish.

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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · Sep 9

This is brilliant: www.storiescourse.org/new
free online ecolinguistics course "The Search for New Stories to Live By" (Arran Stibbe) discourses that can help build a fairer and more ecological world

The Search for New Stories to Live By

www.storiescourse.org

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · Sep 6

Ein Mann ist in Berlin in eine Menschenmenge mit Kindern gefahren, vier Verletzte. Vorgestern schon. Habt ihr nicht mitbekommen? Natürlich nicht, war ja auch ein Deutscher. Sonst hätten wir zwei Wochen lang panisch diskutiert und hätten Soldaten an die Grenze geschickt oder wasweißich.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Sep 7

Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history.

And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Sep 7

Lucy Connolly was convicted of inciting racial hatred, and her tweet was part of the tinder that lit violence, intimidation, looting, and thuggery across England last year.

The fact Reform conference gave her a standing ovation says everything about that movement.

bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/l...

The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy

The right is desperately seeking to make a martyr out of Lucy Connolly in order to distract from the real victims of the hate she helped to spread, argues Otto English

bylinetimes.com

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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · Sep 7

Warum die faschistische AfD niemals an die Macht kommen darf, erklärt in 5 Sekunden:

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Michael Kranert @kranertmichael.bsky.social · Sep 4

Good summary of what awaits Britain under Reform.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 3

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

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BiteSize Therapy @bitesizetherapy.bsky.social · Sep 1

The papers I vowed to read over the summer.

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Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com · Sep 1

ich hoffe, dass die Betonfetischisten in der Stadt Wien dieses Interview lesen. Das Auto hat in der Stadt nur wenig verloren, die Öffis sind bekanntlich gut und es gäbe genug Platz für Alternativen. Die Hitze schadet allen, egal, welcher Partei man angehört.

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

UN-Hitzebeauftragte: "Wir müssen die Autos in der Stadt loswerden"

Eleni Myrivili kennt Hitzewellen aus ihrer Heimatstadt Athen nur zu gut. Angesichts zehntausender Hitzetoter allein in Europa fordert sie ein radikales Umdenken in Städten

www.derstandard.at

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Carolin Emcke @emcke.bsky.social · Sep 1

Es ist mir ein Rätsel, warum es nicht mindestens e i n Gesprächsformat mit dem Fokus #internationale Politik gibt. Diese rein nationalen Diskurse sind völlig an unserer Wirklichkeit vorbei. Lasst doch wenigstens Sonntags #Miosga die Gegenwart in internationaler Perspektive verhandeln #ÖRR #getreal

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · Aug 31

Why on earth do the Tories want to keep people locked into high energy bills? And, come to that, why is the BBC citing Reform but saying nothing about climate science or renewable alternatives?
Complete madness - except for the fossil fuel industry of course

Tories pledge to get 'all our oil and gas out of the North Sea'

The government warns Kemi Badenoch's plans would "only accelerate the worsening climate crisis".

www.bbc.com

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Ricarda Lang @ricardalang.bsky.social · Aug 31

„Wir leben seit Jahren über unsere Verhältnisse."

Friedrich Merz und seine Frau Charlotte im Cockpit seines privaten Fliegers.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Aug 31

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians

“The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy”

eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians

The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · Aug 30

Absolutely perfect description. If only this had been his obituary.

Piece in an unknown publication written by Oliver Kornetzke on August 18th, 2025 that reads behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman the coward of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of Klansman the sexism of a back alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk,and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul. All spray-pained orange and paraded like a prize hog at the county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn’t but has always been— arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America’s shadow made flesh a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation knees before money, power and spite it doesn’t just lose its soul. It shits out this bloated, obscenity and calls it a leader

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · Aug 27

London Sept 20th, a carnival will be held that you are all free to join which will celebrate the life of David Graeber.

It will be held in Camden at the Alexandra Estate.

To know what to expect here is a video from the carnival held a few years ago!

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H. John Tran @johnhtran.bsky.social · Aug 21

Starbucks CEO made $95M last year. The median worker made $14K. That’s a gap of 6,666 to 1.
This isn’t capitalism rewarding risk, it’s extraction on autopilot. Every empire ends with elites hollowing out the core. You’re watching it.

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · Aug 20

It's an *extremely* interesting piece. And devastating. And it's one that only someone saturated in the politics of the left could have written.

John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · Aug 20

Interesting from Paul Mason on the Your Party open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/c...

Corbyn/Sultana: The Fiasco Party

A long-read on the fantasy politics that lie behind the platitudes

open.substack.com

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Lorenz Meyer @thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social · Aug 19

Vielleicht sollte uns gar nicht so sehr die AfD Sorgen machen, die radikalisiert nämlich vornehmlich den rechten Rand. Die bestimmenden Kräfte der CDU versuchen aber die breite Mitte zu radikalisieren, indem sie entsprechendes Personal in Schlüsselpositionen bringen. Das ist weitaus gefährlicher.

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Hans-Martin Tillack @hmtillack.bsky.social · Aug 17

Meinungsfreiheit ist sehr wichtig, aber Seriosität im Journalismus ist es auch. Die taz unterwirft sich dem Pressekodex des @presseratde.bsky.social , der zum Beispiel Wahrhaftigkeit verlangt. Nius tut das nicht. Ob jemand Julia Klöckner den Unterschied erklären kann? bsky.app/profile/lars...

Lars Wienand @larswienand.bsky.social · Aug 17

Julia Klöckner sieht die Frage der Meinungsfreiheit als das nächste bestimmende Thema nach Flüchtlingskrise und Corona.
Sie sag, taz und Nius unterschieden sich “in Methodik nicht so sehr” (was ich für falsch halte), in der Demokratie sei es Pflicht, beide zu ertragen.

Juli Klöckner und Frank Gotthardt, Finanzier von Nius, schütteln Hände.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Aug 15

IPSO ruling on my complaint about the Telegraph's "1 in 12 Londoners is illegal migrant" headline.

IPSO found that Telegraph breached Code by publishing false info and failing to take due care.

But (1/3)..

www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0025...

. The “one in 12” claim was not included in the report – rather, the publication had calculated it using the estimates the report provided. By its own admission, it has done so inaccurately. It had failed to add the estimated migrant population to the overall population it had based the article upon. In addition, it had not taken account of the fact, in its reporting, that the report was based on the population of the Thames Water London Water Resource Zone - rather than of London itself. This represented a failure to take care on the part of the publication – and had resulted in the publication of inaccurate information, which had appeared in the headline, and on the front page, of the newspaper.

42. The Committee also noted that the headline referred to “one in 12” in London being an illegal migrant - it was not made clear that this was, in fact, “up to one in 12”, based on the publication’s calculations. The Committee considered that this also represented a failure to take care. While the article went on to report that “London is home to as many as 585,000 illegal migrants”, it considered that reporting that “[o]ne in 12 in London is illegal migrant”in the headline – rather than up to one in 12 - was misleading. This was because it gave the misleading impression that it had been established by the figures given in the report that this was the definitive position – rather than the highest estimated figure.

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · Aug 14

Warum gelingt Fabian Köster in der heute show ein besseres Interview mit Live-Faktencheck mit Söder als das ZDF in den Sommerinterviews mit den Rechtsextremisten Alice Weidel und Tino Chrupalla? Studien zeigen:

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