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Almost every day now, there's a news report that sounds like it was written in the late-medieval period. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

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It’s especially galling that AG Pam Bondi personally wrote the memo approving the gift of the Qatari airplane. Her last job was as a lobbyist for Qatar! efile.fara.gov/docs/6415-Ex...

submitted 27 days ago • 1078 comments

Fixed the chart on Laura Kuenssberg Added Brexit Pointing out that with Freedom of Movement we have lower net migation

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WATCH: “This is how Fox spreads disinformation. It’s sad to see Alexis McAdams be part of that machine.” Receipts of Fox News lying to their audience about the arrest of Mayor Ras Baraka with false headlines and selectively edited clips. As usual.

submitted 28 days ago • 242 comments

Warning: according to the newspaper The Economist, Farage’s economic plans are a disaster worse than Truss’s economy-crushing premiership. Opened article on archivedotph: archive.ph/2025.05.08-1...

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

submitted 28 days ago • 138 comments

Garden flowers. #garden #blooms

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Scones at @nationaltrust.org.uk SuttonHoo

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What a fascinating read… illuminating the conflicting feelings of immigrants/refugees and science fiction … learned the robe my ex teachers aide gave me as I left school is called Baarti. Learned a lot and imagined.. rather like sliding doors .. who would you be if…..❤️📚

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Letter to my descendants A heartfelt letter of apology to future generations who will be suffering from our failure to protect them from climate change ✍️ Bob Kennard @bylines.cymru

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

It will probably come as no surprise to anyone to hear that Reform UK’s policies add up to an agenda of fiscal recklessness that rivals, and may well exceed, the disastrous 49-day, hair-raising, market-tanking premiership of Liz Truss in 2022 econ.st/42WSuLG

submitted 28 days ago • 131 comments

May 9, 2025

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Beautiful little pansy growing wild in the crack of the patio with a complementary Forget me not.. makes me smile each time I see it.. #wild #gardening

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Nigel Farage has been a politician since 1999, when he was first elected to the European Parliament, where he remained until 2020. In 2024, Farage became MP for Clacton. Leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) 2006 - 2016 2019 he formed The Brexit Party, rebranded as Reform UK in 2021

submitted 31 days ago • 73 comments

Third SJ Parry book this year. Enjoying them.. not reading them in order but each book can be read as a stand alone. ❤️📚

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900,000 And Russia Calls That Winning? youtu.be/lvVI64jVXuI?...

submitted 31 days ago • 166 comments

The latest from the pro-birth party…

submitted 31 days ago • 319 comments

Germany’s new conservative chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said he would urge Trump administration officials to stop meddling in German politics.

submitted 31 days ago • 15 comments

New U.S. tourism slogan: We stand ready to jail you.

submitted 32 days ago • 99 comments

“I think this says that they will not tolerate us being active participants in our democracy—they want an autocracy,” Emily Feiner told Mother Jones. Meet the 64-year-old retired social worker who went viral after being forcibly removed from her representative's town hall.

submitted 32 days ago • 1027 comments

A) Zero B) Five C) Nine @mrjamesob.bsky.social invites listeners to guess how many remote jobs Reform are currently advertising, despite being 'fiercely anti-working from home'.

submitted 32 days ago • 29 comments

NEW from @joshgerstein.bsky.social: You’ve heard of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Now meet the second man erroneously deported to El Salvador in violation of a legal settlement: Daniel Lozano-Camargo. Until now, he’d only been identified by a pseudonym in court. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 32 days ago • 192 comments

So a book club book that I really enjoyed. Unusual concept…📚❤️

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Enjoying these Elizabethan detective series. Evocative of the era and well written. #booksky #reading

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Book 3 read … I thought it was to be a trilogy but I believe that’s not an ending! :) #booksky #reading #books

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

If members of the press are worried they didn’t give enough coverage to the cognitive decline of a sitting president, they have an amazing opportunity to make up for it right now.

submitted 40 days ago • 896 comments

🔴 Remember Aria, the “moonshot" research agency dreamed up by Dominic Cummings? It's funded by £800m in public money but exempt from FOI laws We decided to fight for transparency... and we won 🎉 New on Democracy for Sale w/ @lucasamin.bsky.social democracyforsale.substack.com/p/dominic-cu...

submitted 44 days ago • 34 comments

History always has a lesson.

submitted 49 days ago • 643 comments

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

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Morning Bluesky. Russia is pushing the idea that the extraordinarily successful Hands Off protests yesterday were organised by the ‘Deep State’ to bring about a ‘Colour Revolution’ in America like the one that overthrew the Putin puppet in Ukraine in 2004. Expect Trump to echo.

submitted 62 days ago • 88 comments

The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL. #HandsOff

submitted 62 days ago • 1727 comments

So basically he’s saying we had to sabotage our trade with Europe to get the benefit of trade with the USA? Except our trade with Europe was far bigger, so he’s just a colossal lying shit stain who made our country poorer, which decimated our public services. Just in case anyone forgot.

submitted 63 days ago • 26 comments

And absolutely no one is surprised…👇 No one. 🌈✨

submitted 70 days ago • 160 comments

I can’t tell if this is accidental fascism (stupidity) or deliberate fascism. But the point of due process is figuring out—through trial, evidence, jury deliberations, etc—WHETHER YOU ACTUALLY BROKE THE LAW. Without due process, they’re just locking you up based on an accusation.

submitted 70 days ago • 133 comments

If your plan is to keep your head down and hope it goes away, I can show you all of human history why it won’t work. If it’s to capitulate and hope they ignore you, I can show you thousands of Trumpers who’ve already lost their jobs & savings. Fighting back isn’t an option. It’s the only option.

submitted 70 days ago • 441 comments

I have quoted Timothy Snyder and his book "On Tyranny" for years. "Do not obey in advance" was Snyder's first directive... yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/03...

submitted 70 days ago • 86 comments

Chief finance officer of under-fire Thames Water quits £1.3m-a-year role! So which bit of “Privatise water companies” does Starmer not understand? PS Just note he was being paid £1.3m-a-year plus bonus! www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 70 days ago • 3 comments

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

submitted 70 days ago • 2514 comments

Raskin: "Look at how sick that is. Basically anybody who has rendered any ruling they disapprove of they think should be removed from the bench. Any lawyer who has ever represented a party adverse to them they think should be cleared out of the way. That is in naked opposition to the rule of law."

submitted 71 days ago • 503 comments

March 28, 2025

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