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Merry Christmas
December 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Nothing to see.
December 23, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Turmoil in Northamptonshire with police, fire and crime commissioner Danielle Stone lambasted over her leadership of the scandal-hit force she was elected to improve and scrutinise.

🧵1/4
December 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Just found this gem from last year… presser at the DOS.. where Kirby shut down RT “reporter”

youtu.be/ZXJCcPn0TN8?...
John #Kirby SCHOOLS #russian reporter on #Putin and #UkraineWar | MUST WATCH
YouTube video by ONEST
youtu.be
December 6, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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What is going on here?
The CEO of Palantir.
December 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Kateryna Rashevska: “My organization documented 165 reeducation camps where Ukrainian children are militarized and Russified. These camps exist in occupied territories in Russia, in Belarus, and in North Korea.”
December 4, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Dedicated to fighting wokeness.
December 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It's my party and I'll cry if I want to.
Every line of this.
November 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Where did this wise gentleman go? 🧜‍♀️
November 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Friday: "Sign this by Thanksgiving or it's all over for you."
Saturday: "This is nothing to do with us, some other boys wrote it."
Sunday: "By 'some other boys wrote it', of course I meant some other boys wrote the denial that we wrote it. Here's my lunch money."
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Also reminder of this

Robbie Gibb cancelled an investigation into Farage's Leave dot EU campaign shortly before the EU Ref

Arron Banks thanked him for it

"Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down."

cc @baghdaddi.bsky.social
"Funnily enough Andy [Wigmore], the only time I ever experienced political interference in one of my investigations at the BBC, was when I was investigating you and Arron Banks

Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running."

- former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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And cancelled a BBC investigation in Farage's Leave dot EU campaign shortly before the EU Ref

Arron banks thanked him for it
Robbie Gibb who cancelled a BBC investigation into Farage's Leave dot EU campaign shortly before the EU Ref

Arron Banks thanked him for it

"Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down."

- @channel4news.bsky.social in 2019
Revealed: Brexit group covered up its targeting of right-wing extremists
Brexit-backer Arron Banks repeatedly denied that Leave.EU appealed to National Front supporters - in a bid to get the BBC to drop an investigation
www.channel4.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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The “deal” deprives Ukraine of everything it has won by withstanding Russian aggression and defending the borders of Europe.

It rewards Russian lawlessness—and makes America complicit in the lawlessness.

It’s the end of post WWII American power.

www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
28 Points Later
A definitive guide to the Russian zombie diplomacy of Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine — aka what happens when you let the Russians eat your brains
www.greatpower.us
November 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
He went in for the kiss there😍
Trump greets MBS at the White House
November 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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I can usually translate him, but either I’m losing my mind, or he is.
November 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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One Russian paper today reports that “Half of all clothes and shoe shops in Russia have shut down….[due to] drop in incomes & slowing economic growth.” Another wonders whether Russia is suffering from “economic stagnation or technical recession.” #ReadingRussia
"Half of all Russian clothes and shoe shops have shut down", says Russian paper
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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November 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Angelina Jolie used her Instagram platform to shed light on Russia’s so-called ‘human safari’ in Kherson. It is a deeply important and much-appreciated gesture.
November 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Thinking about what those who sacrificed their lives during ww2 would make of how many people in the UK, Europe and US have been seduced by fascism again.
November 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Does not sound at all like he's panicking at the question and trying to deflect 🤔
‘Is there anyone else in Reform UK who cld be taking bribes from pro-Russian politicians?’

👇 Zia Yusuf: ‘I don’t believe so’
November 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
What, America is at war!!! Need to wait for the truth social post or the briefing in the secret signal group chat to find out who with though.
Hegseth: "We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing. Building for victory should our adversaries FAFO."
November 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Never thought I'd see Bannon campaigning for the Democrats!
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
If it needs to be kept that secret then it's gonna screw over a LOT of people.
Mike Johnson talks about the Republican "healthcare plan" like it's highly classified information: "We're not gonna be on a conference call explaining all our plans and strategies for healthcare reform, because they're leaked in real time."
November 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Please could the BBC put his race, nationality and religion in the headline so we can decide how we should react. Thanks.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Violent' Barnsley fugitive captured in Skegness
Dean Noble violently attacked three people in Barnsley in May 2021.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Will they also demand any defectors to Reform force a by election before they start their role?
November 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM