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ragingpagan.bsky.social
He / Him Fat Dad, just getting by. Interested in politics, predictions almost always wrong. I repost so I can find the thing again... If you're following me then that's a bit odd but I love you xxx Learning piano accordion
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I have written a detailed account of Trump's relationship with Russia. "a reasonable analytical conclusion [is] that Trump has a political debt to the Russians which could prove problematic for him if fully ventilated" Trump is a Russian agent of influence. 1/2 open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...

Today on my LBC Sunday show I interviewed a former Trump adviser. She claimed that Putin wasn’t morally responsible for the war. I challenged her on that claim. She told me she didn’t like me and hung up. And they say the left are snowflakes. Watch the full interview here. youtu.be/tSsV7xyDyfY?...

Brexit has never looked quite so daft

If Russia Today isn't aired in the UK, then @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social should be much more thoughtful about the Americans spouting Putin's bullshit.

Why are BBC News giving live updates and broadcasting from an airport in the USA of the Tate brothers landing? What news value is there in this?

You've heard all about the farmers' protests... But you haven't heard about this one theconversation.com/the-uk-farme...

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

The EU is considering transferring €93 billion in unspent Covid recovery funds to its defence budget, the FT reports.

This is Adam Smith Connor. The anti abortion protester that JD Vance is supporting. Listen to how he talks about women outside clinics. A very different image from the meek, persecuted, little man he pretends to be

The White House bans the AP indefinitely over the use of ‘Gulf of Mexico’ www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/m...

Forget the nonsense about which month Rachel Reeves left the Bank of England. This is the real CV fiddling story.

1. Trump and his Death Eaters cannot tolerate any rival power. Europe, when united, is a major trading and diplomatic bloc. They see Russia (much less of a threat to US hegemony) as an excellent instrument for breaking up Europe, by threat or by force.🧵

Live your life in such a way as to avoid the debate following your media appearances being whether it's more appropriate to compare you to Chamberlain or Mosley.

Thought experiment for Labour… With over 4yrs and a huge majority, why not stir it up? Pitch your tent defiantly on the liberal lawn, loudly reject the epic failures of Brexit and rightwing immigration ideology and see how many liberal votes you gain instead of chasing Reform into a toxic dead end?

Is this game changing? Govt department saying "Enough. We can't allow these lies"

If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it We cannot allow them to rewrite history. If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...

10y gilt yields back to starting levels of the year as investors cheer reeves' growth plan etc file this under 'things you will not hear from the swivel-eyes crew in the coming days' #watchthebondyields

Fantastic work here from Hope Not Hate, exposing a sinister network of moral deviants who need to be rooted out of public life investigations.hopenothate.org.uk/andrew-sabis...

Canada's Foreign Minister wants a coordinated Canada-EU-UK response to retaliate against Trump's tariff hostilities.

Errrr... this

I fixed my #accordion all on my own! I know most people won't care - and some will scorn... but I'm pretty pleased with myself!

How Russian Information Warfare Primed the World for the Tech Autocracy of Trump and Musk “Money and information are the twin tactical nukes of modern politics” according… https://bylinetimes.com/2025/01/25/how-russian-information-warfare-primed-the-world-for-the-tech-autocracy-of-trump-and-musk/

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

Musk likes to say X is “citizen journalism”… …it’s anything but. REAL citizen journalism is the Bylines Network of 10 local publications that edit & publish real articles written by citizens - all IMPRESS regulated. Follow us — and these other investigative & “for public good” media sources. 🙏🏻

Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin (Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )

In the 2006 Italian film "Fascists on Mars", a group of fascists set out to conquer the red planet. There's a mutiny against the leader, the others are given a lift back to earth by aliens & he's left alone on Mars & forgotten. No reference to any real fascists planning to colonise Mars is intended.

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

Every hour you worked, every hour you spent away from your family, you were raising money for the Tories to spaff up the wall on performative bullshit. That's £715m - SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN MILLION POUNDS - that could have gone to schools, hospitals, libraries. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Remember all these headlines describing a brief rise in government borrowing costs as being "market mayhem", followed by a week of demands for Rachel Reeves to quit? Well one week later and it turns out UK gilts are now outperforming every other G7 country this year, aside from the US

This can't be repeated often enough: batteries are getting cheaper incredibly fast. This not only means that our cars can drive on electricity. But also that solar and wind become "firm" sources of power, and we can use our electricity grid much better. www.iea.org/reports/batt...

How Kemi Badenoch's spokesman responded today when I asked which of the communities living in the UK she was referring to when she described them as "peasants"

The Zoë Bestel Live Stream at 7pm Wednesday's #108 will be live from 7.10pm today, here: www.youtube.com/live/BwDndRT...

💥 It passes!! 💥 The Youth Mobility (EU Countries) Bill has just passed its first reading. No opposition voiced by the govt. your thousands of emails stopped them shutting it down. Well done @jamesmaccleary.bsky.social on a superb speech. 👏👏👏

Keir Starmer: "I got a letter this week from a Tory voter in a Labour seat... Liz Truss. It wasn't written in green ink but it might as well have been. She was complaining that saying she crashed the economy was damaging her reputation. It was crashing the economy that damaged her reputation."

Some days you just need to sing something fierce. This is my song ‘This Side of the Knife’ - if you think it might just be a response or prequel to a well-known folk song, you’re probably right. #folk #changeling #myth #darkfolk youtu.be/fN5ZJ4BBzdk?...

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social STOP featuring newspaper front pages. Who cares? Show what the top 5 current affairs podcasts (not linked to tv channels) are talking about - including @quietriotpod.bsky.social ! We can move away from X... we can move away from the nonsense of "tomorrow's front pages"

Caroline Lucas on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social ... showing class by not commenting on the USA fires with "yeah... I told you this would happen ..." #climatechange

Rod Liddle has joined Times Radio, looking forward to him discussing issues of child safety!!!

Just in from mammoth interview session to two bits of news. One that a DV perp got locked up because of something I did and that a vulnerable constituent had a a massive wrongful debt written off after our intervention. This is why I came to politics, this is why I'll just keep cracking on.

I've preferred @teamlabouruk.bsky.social for government, rather than wanted them. Lots i don't really like... but by far a better option... however.. The honest and politely presented anger over this grooming gangs bullshit has impressed me. As individuals and as a party of government

This is Britain's Official Opposition. The Shadow Business Secretary last night claimed Musk "may have saved humanity" 🤪