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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · Nov 14
The 2024 election victory wasn’t just won by #Trump; it was crafted by #Musk, other billionaires & conspiracy culture.

Below I examine how democracy was undone by cold calculation and the players who orchestrated the improbable to make it inevitable.

www.ideasthatbrokebritain.co.uk/p/x-marks-th...
X Marks the Grave of Democracy
How Conspiracy Culture, National Conservatism, and Musk’s Digital Megaphone Handed Trump the 2024 Election
www.ideasthatbrokebritain.co.uk
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River @riverlorien.bsky.social · 12h
This report needs to be released to help fight proposals to weaken climate policies including net zero

'UK’s national security is under severe threat from the climate crisis and the looming collapse of vital natural ecosystems, with food shortages and economic disaster potentially just years away'
National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn
Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published
www.theguardian.com
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 6h
White House policy is increasingly driven by (and aimed at) an increasingly small echo chamber of terminally online right wingers, which includes far too many of the administration’s own top officials. No one else can make sense of what they’re talking about much of the time.
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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 6h
Notable about today’s WH roundtable on Antifa, IMO: not just one outside law enforcement/public safety official brought in for it. Bondi, Patel for administration, but no police chief, state Public Safety Secy, sheriff, etc. Just a dozen right-wing “journalists”. …
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19h
"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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h
If you’re not alarmed yet you’re not paying attention. 🇺🇸

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1h
Bari Weiss "is a self-described 'Zionist fanatic.' The idea that a 'neutral media organization' is led by someone who has a long history as a pro-Israel ideologue...is really worrying. I think there will be a lot more censorship of Palestinian voices." - me to Piers Morgan about CBS News and Weiss:
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3h
"A rival petition began circulating Sunday, calling on the Rutgers chapter of TPUSA to be disbanded, accusing it of inciting violence. As of today, that petition had several hundred more signatures than the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s firing..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Receiving Death Threats
www.nytimes.com
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Euronews @euronews.com · 1h
An AI-powered director just joined the board of Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund — and it gets a vote.
Your country’s sovereign wealth fund, decided by a machine? Kazakhstan says yes
An AI-powered director just joined the board of Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund — and it gets a vote.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 14h
A cartoon by Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby. #NewYorkerCartoons

Sign up for our humor newsletter to get the Daily Cartoon directly in your inbox: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/nftD8L
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 14h
They are to be mocked, per @aoc.bsky.social. Or costumed Portland ICE protesters..
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15h
The Trump regime is having trouble prosecuting James Comey on frivolous charges, and hasn’t been able to get charges against Letitia James.

They couldn’t keep Kimmel off the air.

Their desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Hurting people yes, but bluffing a lot too.
Kimmel and Comey Highlight the Trump Regime's Limitations
Their desire for authoritarian abuse is bottomless, their ability to carry it out is not
www.arcdigital.media
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Droolian @droolian.bsky.social · 15h
There needs to be a full-on independent enquiry in to the pathetic brexshit negotiators & negotiations
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kySn...
How Britain was out-negotiated on Brexit | Outside Views on Brexit and the UK
YouTube video by Outside Views
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23h
I can’t be the only one wondering about the application of defamation law to accusations of being involved in a conspiracy, as Jenrick suggested before.
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 1d
Top Tory names judges he would sack for bias bit.ly/3KE7cBY some have allowed immigrants to stay in the UK for reasons Robert Jenrick disapproves of. He wants Ministers to appoint (and sack) judges. But top judge Sumption warns this could lead to an authoritarian state
Robert Jenrick names judges he would sack for ‘pro-migrant bias’
The shadow justice secretary has accused ‘activists’ within the judiciary of having links to political causes that compromise their independence
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d
According to hacked emails obtained by @dropsitenews.com, 'journalist' Douglas Murray was allegedly writing secret draft speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN while also pretending to be an independent 'journalist'.
David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador
Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war
www.dropsitenews.com
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16h
When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

Straight from the Old Testament in the Bible/Torah
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Lady Bee Middlemast-Neal @mistyswoman.bsky.social · 16h
Fuck. Me. Backwards.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Jenrick says Star of David should be displayed at every point of entry to the UK
Tory leadership frontrunner addressed Conservative Friends of Israel event in hoodie emblazoned with words ‘Hamas Are Terrorists’
www.independent.co.uk
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 18h
In 1923, Scottish minister John White wrote “The Menace of the Irish Race". This could have been lifted straight out of it

Stephen Daisley knows all this - not least as I wrote about it in a book he reviewed - but prefers to crack on with the same narrative 100 years later
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Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 18h
Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.
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Alex Gallagher @alexgallagher.bsky.social · 2d
In an interview on BBC TV Tory Leader Kemi Badenoch said her party would create a "Removals Force" - i.e. a copy of ICE in the USA to police immigration

ICE uses masked goons to round up people off city streets who look like illegal immigrants (i.e. brown people)

Do we really want that in the UK?
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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 19h
UKIP vowed to save Britain from the BNP then copied them.

The Tories vowed to save Britain from UKIP then copied them.

Labour vowed to save Britain from the Tories then echoed their framing.

Now Reform pushes a harsher version of what they all normalised.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc
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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 20h
Meanwhile, the Tory press imported American culture wars and conspiracy theories.

They radicalised the Tory base with a constant stream of scare stories about “wokeness,” “gender ideology,” “CRT”, and "Cultural Marxism."

Reform didn’t need to win hearts. The Tories did that for them.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 18h
There is nothing Badenoch cares more about than hating trans people so of course she has to throw that in and of course she does it in the crassest, thickest, most nonsensical way possible
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 18h
Badenoch: "While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China built five nuclear reactors."

A perfect summary of conservative idiocy. Glorifying authoritarian post-communism for its efficiency while vilifying democracy for seeking nuance and respect.

It is the Right who hate their own countries.
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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 18h
Independent TD and author among Irish citizens on board flotilla ships intercepted by Israel
Independent TD Barry Heneghan and author Naoise Dolan are among the detainees
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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 18h
It was a plea to keep her job @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Her speech was aimed at the membership - not the electorate.

It only needed to make sense to people who read the Telegraph comment pages unironically.

@lbc.co.uk #lbc
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19h
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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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 18h
Don't worry!

The Laffer Curve will save us all!
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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 18h
So that came out of 9 or 10 mentions of borders.
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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 19h
New drinking game @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Take a shot every time she says "border" or "borders".

@lbc.co.uk #lbc
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