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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 6h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 8h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 10h

And she gets to be a traitor..

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 10h

And good on the toung singer who I note has a new album out end of the month. No better promo.

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 10h

I can't believe how A-list most of them are.

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 11h

Seems legit

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 11h

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 14h

The Cameroons talked a good game at first. Then they hired Lynton Crosby...

Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 16h

2 correct, 2 wrong (1 very very wrong)

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 16h

Free speech fundamentalist Farage 'amazed' that Gary Neville has kept Sky job, despite saying thing free speech fundamentalist Farage disagrees with.

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 17h

In June, Tory leader hopeful Robert Jenrick, who recently complained about not seeing white faces in a Birmingham suburb, declared he is an Anglofuturist.

We got inside a secret Anglofuturist Discord server to find out what that really means 👇

🔗 hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/08/r...

Robert Jenrick says he’s an Anglofuturist. What does that mean? – HOPE not hate

In late June, the shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick took the stand at a conference. Addressing the crowd of Tories and radical-right political figures, he made an unusual statement. “I am what c...

hopenothate.org.uk

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 18h

I doubt even Bobby Fash would suggest effectively 'twinning' with Israel now, given the capital Netanyahu's killers have burnt through since then.

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 18h

Except that story's from a year ago ;)

Although tbf he was well on his way by then

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19h

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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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 21h

Useful tip – I always come from via Viccy Pk/WHU ground so never look over there.

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 21h

My pet effing peeve. The people at Westfield Stratford are convinced that yes, bike racks are clearly the place ALL bikes are meant to go, locked or not.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22h

Kemi Badenoch, a woman who excuse-makes for obvious racism and can't condemn it without doing mimsy false equivalences, talking about 'courage', is it?

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 22h

👀 👀 👀 Quite the scoop here for @jim.londoncentric.media

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

"You go to some places like Handsworth.. parts of Dewsbury, Bradford, Leicester, where you see.. a single ethnicity.. we don't think that's healthy thing"

Kevin Hollinrake is MP for Thirsk and Malton, which according to the 2021 census is 98% white.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 1d

A paean to privatised public transport.

Today I had to go from Stockport to Salisbury. So I bought a ticket

Stockport > Bristol > Salisbury

The drive to Stockport should have taken 35 minutes. Satnav said it would take 2 hours, and I'd miss my train.

So I went to Macclesfield, where I found...

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously the sub in me is obliged to point out he's misspelt Netflix, but that aside, fuck yes!

nicola @gleanniucha.bsky.social · 1d

Please, if good television matters to you, repost or repackage this video until everyone you follow has seen it

#televisionmatters

Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 1d

"Netfilx"

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 2d

I fear that in a moment of overexuberant patriotism someone may zip-tie Victoria Atkins to a lamppost #CPC25

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 1d

You say that like Tice might have a problem with any of it…

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Steve Yates @yatesyman.bsky.social · 1d

I remember the first time I got a Sunday train from Sheffield to Manchester in the 80s. Think it was called the Sprinter, which was accurate since it never got above human running speed and stopped every few hundred metres.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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