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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 18h

Ofcom's record is so bad that its former director of standards has spoken out over its mishandling of GB News, suggesting that "Ofcom appears to be unwilling to intervene and unwilling to regulate this channel in the same way as it regulates other television news channels": /8

GB News’s US expansion feared to be new way for Trumpian views to reach UK audience

White House backing was on full display as GB News launched The Late Show Live

www.theguardian.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2h

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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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 1h

With our media?

I’m not so sure Lee.

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 1h

Yep, he wants war so he can cancel the midterms and quash all dissent.

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 1h

Kamala Harris was called a liar by the US media when she said Trump would set the army on the American people.

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 3h

There isn’t going to be any mid-terms in the US. 🇺🇸

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5h

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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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 4h

I wonder what Nigel Farage is going to say now that Trump is literally ( as all good fascist dictators do) turning on his own people?

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 4h

She despises ordinary people.

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 4h

I’m listening to what’s going on in the USA.

We need to pay attention people.

American is being completely taken over by fascism.

There will be no opposition party.

It’s happening.

fascism.th

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry, this post doesn’t do it justice. This speech promising certain policies is actually so nasty I can’t even get my head around it.

mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t know where to start with that speech from Kemi Badenoch?

Absolutely unbelievable.

Tax breaks for the rich doesn’t even cut it?!!

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Solwaylass @denisepattinso09.bsky.social · 4h

Please don't forget all new workers rights abolished... surprised she never announced that workhouses will be reintroduced as soon as we are elected!

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t know where to start with that speech from Kemi Badenoch?

Absolutely unbelievable.

Tax breaks for the rich doesn’t even cut it?!!

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 4h

“The party of aspiration”.

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 18h

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls, reports Patrick Jack #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenochs-number-caps-plan-would-cut-100000-university-places

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 6h

@mrjamesob.bsky.social can we put Kemi in the judges wig with Jenrick holding it while doing her speech?

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Stuart Bee @stubee59.bsky.social · 7h

Please credit @monkemma.bsky.social who did the research

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 7h

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 8h

apple.news/AGnZYF49PRFS...

'Abject failure' as UK's homeless deaths rise - including children — Sky News

The government's homelessness minister, Alison McGovern MP, has described the increased number of deaths as an

apple.news

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 8h

Civilised politics, truth and empathy. It’s gone, possibly forever.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 22h

“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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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 9h

I see that most of the "OMG Javier Milei has performed an economic miracle in Argentina OMG I Heart Maggie" crowd - predictably, since it did the same with Lis Truss - has switched to "tEh PrObLeM iS MiLEi wOz NoT fRee mArKet eNouGh".

How many times must these utter fools fail before they get it?