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Tell the EU to protect our biometric data from Trump action.eko.org/a/don-t-hand...
EU leaders must cancel the biometric data deal with Trump — now
Donald Trump is about to get a terrifying gift from the European Union: direct access to our biometric data and, possibly, our DNA.EU officials are quietly negotiating a deal that would let US agencie
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January 31, 2026 at 10:09 AM
maggierob.bsky.social
Stop the stitch-up! The Government wants to push through water legislation, locking in a failed privatised system for decades without giving the public a say.

I’ve signed the petition to stop this water stitch-up and demand a public consultation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
Stop the water stitch-up!
Stop the stitch-up! The Government wants to push through water legislation, locking in a failed privatised system for decades without giving the public a say. I’ve signed the petition to stop this wa...
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January 24, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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nickreeves.bsky.social
Trump is Putin's proxy.

His proposal to end the war isn’t a peace plan—it’s a reward for aggression.

Farage is a treasonous tool serving both Trump and Putin.

Vote against Farage and for Britain and democracy in the local elections.
#Vote4Democracy
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Trump’s Plan to Sell Out Ukraine to Russia
His proposal to end the war isn’t a peace plan—it’s a reward for aggression.
www.theatlantic.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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markhamillofficial.bsky.social
100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists.

1362 Days to go...
April 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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nxthompson.bsky.social
Hegseth is literally denying a story that the NSC has already confirmed and in which receipts were printed verbatim.

Remember this the next time he impugns another journalist.
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Mar 24
Reporter: Can you share how your information about war plans was shared with a journalist?

Hegseth: So you are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes
March 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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premthakker.bsky.social
BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.

Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Tweet from Yuval Abraham: "A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."
March 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Europeans' belief in the importance of the EU has surged to record levels, according to a survey released yesterday.

74% now say their country benefits from being in 🇪🇺 - up from 50% in 2010. And the biggest reason is about security, *not* the economy.
europa.eu/eurobaromete...
March 25, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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adambienkov.bsky.social
The attempts to turn this into some kind of free speech, woke-gone-mad story are a disgrace. He demanded a senior politician be killed, on the basis of their faith. It was blatant incitement to violence.
March 25, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
'We now have sub-postmasters who are dying before they get their redress to which they are entitled'

Liam Byrne MP, Chair of the Commons Select Committee, told #BBCBreakfast the government needs to 'sort out' the compensation scheme for victims of the Post Office scandal
March 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
You would hope so…
Pecksniff: Will blatant fascism see Starmer dump Trump and embrace Europe?
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
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March 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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riotgrandma.bsky.social
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Dear US Democrats

Your ‘problem’ is not just MAGA voters, it is not just the 1.06 % third party voters, it is not just the alleged vote fixing by
Musk, it is the 33.33% who DID NOT VOTE.

Find them. Listen to them. Work with them. Coz they will be your win in 2/4 years time.
#elbowsup
March 24, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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sturdyalex.bsky.social
"The whole point about a secret agent is that he is not obvious about his allegiance: at all times, he must seek to disguise it [and] kompromat only works by exploiting a target's fear of shame. Trump is a man incapable of shame."

'Krasnov' is plausible, but this remains a readier explanation imo.
Trump is no Russian agent - the abysmal truth is he's cosying up to Putin to make colossal amounts of money: DOMINIC LAWSON 9 March 2025 When Ukrainian civilians were being blown apart by intensified Russian bombardment at the weekend, after Washington had 'blinded' Kyiv by cutting off its access to US signals intelligence, a satisfied-looking President Donald Trump said Moscow was 'doing what anyone else would do'. He then emphasised his closeness to the man behind the slaughtering: 'I've always had a good relationship with Putin … I think he's going to be more generous than he has to be.' This latest, callous, expression of Trump's partiality for the aggressor against the victim has caused renewed lurid speculation about the origins of his policies, which overturn more than 75 years of Western collective security. In particular, it is being said once more that Trump is the Kremlin's agent, and that this derives from an incident in Moscow in the 1990s when he was secretly filmed in depraved activities with prostitutes. Kompromat, they call it. However, not only did the original propagator of this lurid story – an ex-MI6 officer named Christopher Steele – fail to provide a shred of evidence for it, let alone the film itself, there are two other straightforward reasons for rejecting the claim that Trump is a Russian intelligence asset. First, the whole point about a secret agent is that he is not obvious about his allegiance: at all times, he must seek to disguise it. Yet President Trump is completely open about his affection for the Kremlin's spymaster-in-chief, and spectacularly so during that grotesque baiting of Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, when he yelled: 'Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. He went through a phoney witch-hunt where they used him – and Russia, Russia, Russia.' Second, kompromat, or blackmail, in plain English, only works by exploiting the target's fear of shame – and Trump is a man incapable of shame. This attribute is his greatest asset. It enables him to lie effortlessly (one might say that lying is his first language), and to declare today the opposite of what he said yesterday. No, the truth is far less murky, but speaks much worse of Trump than if he were a victim of blackmail: he just thinks Vladimir Putin, the mass murderer, is altogether admirable. Trump divides the world into winners and losers. Putin, in his view, is an epic winner. And the fact that the Russian president uses the most brutal of methods to win, is a further reason for Donald Trump's infatuation: it means he is a 'strong guy'. This is also the basis of his admiration for China's Communist President Xi Jinping. As Trump simpered during the 2024 election campaign: 'He's a brilliant guy. He controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist.' But there is something else that makes Trump seek to be best chums with Putin. The occupant of the Kremlin is the richest man in Russia – maybe in the whole world. And Trump the businessman craves the company of the mega-billionaires (a status he has always aspired to). You could see that in the way the richest men in the US – not just Elon Musk, but also Mark Zuckerberg of Meta and Jeff Bezos of Amazon – were given pride of place at Trump's inauguration in the Capitol. It was Sir William Browder who first identified Putin as the richest man in Russia. Browder had himself been the biggest individual Western investor in post-communist Russia, until Putin's goons targeted his company. Browder claims that after Putin jailed and expropriated the wealth of the previously richest Russian (Mikhail Khodorkovsky), the other, alarmed, oligarchs were given an offer they couldn't refuse: 'The deal was, you give me 50 per cent of your wealth and I'll let you keep the other 50 per cent. If you don't, he'll take 100 per cent of your wealth and throw you in jail.' One reason the Kremlin poisoner repeatedly commissioned the elimination of Alexei Navalny (he got him in the end) was that the former Russian opposition leader had concentrated on exposing Putin's colossal wealth, notably with his 2021 film, Putin's Palace – The Story of the World's Biggest Bribe. Incidentally, the man conventionally measured as the richest in the world, Elon Musk, defers to President Putin in this matter. In a 2022 interview, Musk said: 'I do think that Putin is significantly richer than me.' The most revealing account of Trump's own admiration for Putin's extreme wealth extraction (at the expense, obviously, of millions of Russian 'losers'), came from the US President's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen. Admittedly, Cohen was convicted of violating campaign laws on Trump's behalf (buying the silence of a porn star called Stormy Daniels), but his account is still compelling. Cohen wrote that Trump identified Putin as 'the richest man in the world by a multiple'. Further: that above all, what Trump admired was how Putin had the ability 'to take over an entire nation and run it like it was his personal company – like the Trump Organisation, in fact'. His former boss's conception – of treating the United States of America as if it were a branch of the Trump Organisation – was made laughably manifest at the weekend, when Trump, speaking from the Oval Office, told the media how: 'Our country, from an economic standpoint, from a financial standpoint, from a trade standpoint, has been absolutely ripped off by almost every country in the world.' Read More Except the US President began the tirade with the words 'Our company …' – and had to correct himself, having remembered that America is actually a country, rather than a subsidiary of the Trump Organisation. The thing about US companies is that the person at the top gets financial rewards vastly greater than applies to their equivalents in other nations. So no surprise, then, that (according to the US magazine Wired) those businessmen who would like to have a solo dinner with the President at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida are now being given the opportunity – for a personal fee of up to $5 million. And no surprise that Donald Trump's initial 'deal' to take a 50 per cent stake in Ukraine's rare minerals was drafted not by government lawyers in Washington but by those working for private law firms in New York, home of the Trump Organisation. Trump is looking beyond his Presidency (not surprisingly, as the US Constitution prevents him running again when his second term ends in 2028). And he has for decades sought to establish his company in Russia – even to the bizarre extent, in 2007, of marketing Trump Super Premium Vodka in Moscow. A year later, his son Donald Jr said that: 'Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.' And in 2015 – a year after Putin seized Crimea from Ukraine – Trump boasted of his attempts to launch businesses in Russia, saying that he had contacts with 'the top-level people, both oligarchs and generals, and top of the government people … I will tell you that I met the top people and the relationship was extraordinary'. President Trump's relationship with the very top person in Russia is, indeed, extraordinary. And it is abysmally obvious that the Commander in Chief of the US Army and Navy – as the President is – hopes to monetise, for his own colossal gain, his special relationship with Vladimir Putin.
March 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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mamtor.bsky.social
I work for a mental health team. Spent most of the day trying to reassure distressed service users about benefit changes. Social care is already on its knees. Do you know how much of our time is already spent trying to navigate this complex system. You're harming people! Information needed now!
March 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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melhadf.shite.name
You forgot 6 - Ignore a UN report that said the UK gov should reverse course on cuts, stop punishing of disabled, remove the 2 child cap, and generally stop the "Work or get no help" rhetoric and policies of the DWP and your gov.
March 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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bladeofthes.bsky.social
A reminder that for the 99% of people earning less than $360,000 a year in the USA.

TAXES ARE GOING UP.
February 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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krassenstein.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
There's no longer any denying it. The US and Russia are now allies, aligned against Europe. And we need to scramble like mad to work out what to do.
February 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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robfordmancs.bsky.social
Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all?

Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.
February 24, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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gilesyb.bsky.social Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · Feb 24
I have just, seriously, heard Nick Robinson on Radio 4 ask if Germany can seriously call itself a democracy if the CDU/CSU continue to refuse to include the AFD from consideration for power.

What. The. Actual....

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At around 8:23:00 am
Radio 4 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to BBC Radio 4 on BBC Sounds
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February 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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stopfundinghate.bsky.social
We're nearly at 2,000 signatures already! 👏👏👏https://actionstorm.org/petitions/marks-spencer-stop-advertising-on-gb-news
Sign the Petition
Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News
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February 23, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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agendaforreform.bsky.social
Great video, truth is the first casualty of war and Trump is ensuring it remains so.
February 23, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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mat8iou.bsky.social
Suspect there will be a lot of these stories
February 23, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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alizaadi.bsky.social
Marks and Spencer must take a stance against the misogyny, racism, abelism, homophobia, transphobia, and islamophobia gushing out of gbnews 👇🏼👇🏼
stopfundinghate.bsky.social Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · Feb 23
This is what Marks & Spencer are aligning with by advertising on GB News: 👇👇👇 actionstorm.org/petitions/ma...
February 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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riotgrandma.bsky.social
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I cannot begin to explain how appalled and upset I am.

If Starmer tries to appease this monster, and Farage is allowed free rein to promote the same ideology, we will follow the same path.
The only thing learned from history is NOTHING is learned from history.
#trump #Jews #holocaust
January 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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bevymart.bsky.social
The #Holocaust really started when #Hitler started blaming #Jews for everything bad that happened to #Germany

#trump and #gop reps are seemingly going to blame #DEI for everything bad that happens to #USA

If you're not a STRAIGHT white #christian male, why the HELL did you vote for #trump?
January 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM