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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 1d

I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.

His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.

This is now very obvious.

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Nula Suchet @nulasuchet.bsky.social · 21m

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Jenrick has gone from forgettable nobody to frothing-BNP-styled dickhead. Why does this corrupt little man get to strut around the media blowing his racist dog-whistle?
He should be shamed and shunned out of political existence. We all despise the Tory party for a reason. He’s one of those reasons.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Nula Suchet @nulasuchet.bsky.social · 27m

Migrant workers housed in dormitory blocks - paid minimum wage n passports held by employers- horrific

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 9h

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 5h

Just remembered that it's LBC's 52nd birthday today. So I'm even more chuffed than usual to have been on with @mrjamesob.bsky.social this morning @lbc.co.uk, albeit talking about the evisceration of US democracy.

🎧: audioboom.com/posts/878880...

audioboom.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

If you’re not alarmed yet you’re not paying attention. 🇺🇸

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Nula Suchet @nulasuchet.bsky.social · 31m

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Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 1d

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15h

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

The guy who literally incited an insurrection is now threatening to use the Insurrection Act to torment Americans who do not support him.

(…because he literally incited an insurrection)

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Nula Suchet @nulasuchet.bsky.social · 8h

???

Cinjaa @cinjaa.bsky.social · 1d

Nula Suchet @nulasuchet.bsky.social · 8h

Trump really is horrific on all levels

darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 11h

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 11h

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Nula Suchet @nulasuchet.bsky.social · 8h

Horrific Trump

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Nula Suchet @nulasuchet.bsky.social · 9h

Most Indian n migrant labourers/ workers live in dormitories n payed a pittance - horrible life under this state

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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Nula Suchet @nulasuchet.bsky.social · 9h

Bravo 👏👏👏👏

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15h

One very very lonely Tory voice on the letters page of The Times.
Sorry, Robert. It’s too late. Your party has gone completely nuts. Driven mad by 14 years of failure, Farage and your monumentally stupid Brexit.
You can ask them to put the petrol can down but they’re mesmerised by the fire.

Leaving the ECHR could split Union Sir, In his article "Leaving the ECHR won't fix illegal migration" (Oct 6; letters, Oct 7), David Gauke makes the point that the Conservatives' decision to support complete withdrawal from the European convention of human rights is, at best, wholly unnecessary and at worst will make international co-operation on migration control and deportation much more difficult.
He is right to do so. It is time for Tories to stop heading for the exit every time there is perceived tension caused by so-called foreign institutions that my party actually helped to create in the first place.
To claim that ECHR withdrawal will not affect the Northern Ireland Good Friday agreement is naive. Not only will it risk undermining trust in policing and criminal justice cross-border co-operation, it will trigger a breach of article 2 of the Windsor framework and a climate of instability that can only assist advocates of a border poll that could lead to the break-up of the Union. For the Conservative Party to advocate such a move is a betrayal of Conservative principles.
Sir Robert Buckland KC
Former lord chancellor and justice secretary; former chair, Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12h

"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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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 1d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 1d

Robert Jenrick and his wiggy puppet

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 15h

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“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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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14h

One significant - & dangerous - thing to watch for is professional commentators objecting to words rather than examining the evidence. It's pearl-clutching & cowardly, obviously, but also a deliberate attempt to avoid confronting exactly what they themselves are facilitating and often cheering on.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“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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