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Follow politics in UK and USA - particularly @SophyRidge.bsky.social and @kasie.bsky.social. Follow and write for Fusion Magazine on Instagram. SCR Vice President at Trevelyan College, Durham. ❤️@HareandBillet in Blackheath.
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Angela Rayner at #PMQs: “It's been quite the carousel... [Badenoch] said she was going to get better and better week on week. She has in the last two weeks by not turning up.” Adds: “When are they going to give [Jenrick] a go?” More in my lunchtime newsletter: www.politics.co.uk/subscribe/

NYC voted for an affordable city they deserve, and the billionaires spent millions to get the L they deserve. 🎉🥳 Congrats @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Video: 2 wounded by #Iran ballistic missile strike on Haifa in #Israel 16-year-old boy in serious condition and 54-year-old moderately injured

Thank you thank you thank you @channel4news.bsky.social and thank you Matt for top lining the systematic extermination of the people of Gaza by criminal Netanyahu and his mafia of murderers! How can humanity continue to stand by and watch the ethnic cleansing of a whole population?!

Former U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) encouraged Congress to take back its war powers from the president.

The aggressors are blind to their own crimes!

Could Trump be gearing up for a special counsel who would legitimize (rubber stamp) the claims of fraud in the 2020 election?

@pollybillington.bsky.social You may be “just a back bencher” - but it gives you a platform to make your effective contributions to national discussions (as on Politics Live today).

#Trump: "Nobody knows what I’m going to do" Rejects any effort for ceasefire and demands "total and complete victory" over #Iran US officials: Trump holding off on decision until convinced of effectiveness of "bunker buster" bombs #Netanyahu thanks Trump for "standing by #Israel side"

Top Angela Rayner burns🔥 Angela Rayner says to Philp she will take "no lectures from the Johnny-Come-Lately who couldn't do anthing when he was in office." #ukpolitics

Bookmark this for future use. March ‘25: Tulsi Gabbard: IC cont to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon. 5 days ago, Marco Rubio: Israel took unilateral action against Iran. We are not involved. Yesterday, Donald Trump: We now have complete and total control of skies over Iran.

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

Trump’s ICE is tearing at the fabric of our city and what makes us proud to be Americans. From my conversation with @kaitlancollins.bsky.social on @cnn.com earlier tonight.

That’s all they have to say?! When the region’s only nuclear-WEAPONS state attacks a non-nuclear weapons state they only report that nothing was leaked?! And is there any wonder that Iranians have lost all trust in international institutions?!!

The mush brain always has to take credit for whatever is going on! His egoistic DNA doesn’t allow otherwise. So now he has made America complicit!

#Iran indicates it is withdrawing from 6th set of talks w #Trump Admin over Tehran's nuclear program, scheduled for Sunday in Oman "Other side acted in way that makes dialogue meaningless. You cannot claim to negotiate & at same time divide work by allowing Zionist regime to target Iran territory"

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch calls for end to windfall tax on oil/gas companies. They have been making record profits, fuelling inflation & poverty. Tory silence on tackling poverty, no remorse for two child benefit cap, austerity, privatisations, destroying the NHS and public services.

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The wheels of the mush brain dictatorial ambitions turn in LA precisely because that’s where 1,000,000 undocumented migrants have made their home, & that’s where the majority of the citizens are people of colour. Mush brain says he wants “troops everywhere”. A dictator. apple.news/AG6sh6jmhR0K...

Making people better off, getting bills down, getting wages rising. That's what this Spending Review is about. Me on BBC Newsnight last night

#Zelensky on latest #Russia strikes on civilian areas "Vital that response to this & other similar Russian attacks is not silence from the world, but concrete action. Action from US, which has power to force Russia into peace. Action from Europe, which has no alternative but to be strong" #Ukraine

#Ukraine special forces reportedly destroy 2 more #Russia warplanes, just over week after drone attacks on 6 airfields demolished around 13 and damaged 12+ Assault on Savasleyka airfield, around 400 miles from Ukrainian border Base for MiG-31K fighters carrying Kinzhal ballistic missiles

Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

What a mess! Although I’m sure Putin is pleased with his investment. @addyspectreai.bsky.social @rachey.bsky.social

#Russia declares British Council, cultural/educational branch of UK Govt, "undesirable" organization Cites Council support of LGBT, aim to "eradicate Russian ID among populations of former Soviet republics", & scholarship & fellowship program to build "global network of agents of British influence"

The political class has torn this country to pieces. Record numbers homeless. Record levels of poverty. NHS on its knees. Cost of living sky high. They are looking for someone to blame and are pointing the finger at migrants. Don’t fall for it.

RMT taking part in the 'Red line for Palestine' event today outside Parliament.

@drjogrady.bsky.social Calm and thoughtful commentary on Politics Hub despite loud and lengthy rants from Reform’s latest mouthpiece.

#Zelensky at conference in Lithuania: "If Istanbul meeting brings nothing, that clearly means strong new sanctions are urgently needed — from EU's 18th package, & from US specifically, the strongest sanctions #Trump promised" Sanctions should hit #Russia energy, banks, & finance sector #Ukraine

America must stop the mush brain swallowing up THE TRUTH as another of his insane dictatorial measures. He wants to stop free thinking, America must support Harvard… apple.news/AmiWqzSNDS2S...

When the truth comes out Gaza will be as infamous as Auschwitz and if things don't change the death toll will be even higher.

Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her. RT if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.

The worst of us… apple.news/Ak2PuUgAhTja...

Ukraine’s ruin is a Trump Show… apple.news/AtF9bQTMpT_i...

As Saudi Arabia celebrates being awarded the FIFA men’s World Cup and promotes itself on the world stage, women who have dared to publicly call for more rights and freedoms are imprisoned. This is not a ‘cultural difference’, it is human rights abuse. @addyspectreai.bsky.social @rachey.bsky.social

A reminder, should you need it, that Nigel Farage is a fraud, a public school-educated millionaire cosplaying as a champion of the working class. Whether it’s the NHS, workers rights, same sex marriage or more recently reproductive rights, there’s huge contradiction between what he says and does.

My good friend Gerry Strode died last Wednesday. Husband, father, scientist, socialist, friend. He will be very much missed by me.