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A former Soviet spy says that Trump was indeed recruited to the KGB 38 years ago by his department. He was given a codename, 'Krasnov'. We checked, and the source was indeed a KBG intelligence officer at the time. Read about it in my @bylinetimes.bsky.social report: bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

This is why we need independent media outlets funded by the public. Our Byline Times story is still available to read despite attempts to suppress it.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

I found this persuasive. Dismissing the Christian right as unchristian is ahistorical. Lots of precedent

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn. It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.

submitted 4 days ago • 160 comments

30% lead sounds a bit dangerous for a drinking vessel. Later pewter would be a lot lower.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

All this from a Labour government

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

So the reward for Thames Water filling the rivers with shit is that my bill has gone up £260 or 38%. On what basis does Labour think anyone here will ever vote labour again? @anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

So the reward for Thames Water filling the rivers with shit is that my bill has gone up £260 or 38%. On what basis does Labour think anyone here will ever vote labour again? @anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Imbecilic is right

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Shocking. The atrocity itself and the fact it is barely making the news 😢

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

No secret plan.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Of course.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The most depressing thing here is not the easy appropriation of this witless and failed Tory approach, but the stink of absolute desperation evident therein. They really are clueless, aren’t they?

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

A disgrace. Huge rewards for terrible behaviour.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Great reporting. The Israeli army said that most people killed in bombing a Beirut apartment block were Hezbollah. The BBC found that nearly all were in fact civilians, and a third were children. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 31 days ago • 55 comments

Really interesting. Maybe not the complete picture but highlights the civil society issues

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Why are these people called ‘settlers’ not terrorists? bit.ly/4junJp6 they are motivated by religion - as I understand it they believe the Bible gives them the right to this land - and they use violence to terrorise the people who live there

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

📣 Is the BBC now the official mouthpiece for Reform? A study of the BBC’s Question Time has raised concerns about representation and political impartiality By Tony Burke

submitted 33 days ago • 127 comments

It should prob be remembered that “birthright citizenship” was the product of the abolitionist mvt, which understood that no person of color would be safe from deportation or bondage if their citizenship could be questioned or taken away

submitted 33 days ago • 29 comments

News from #France 🇫🇷 French newspaper Libération follows Le Monde in quitting Twitter/X. It is on Bluesky @liberation.fr

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Literally all we need is a UK asylum processing centre in Calais, which the French have offered many times. That would reduce dangerous crossings instantly. And a process for applying online. You know what else would help? <waves generally in the direction of Brexit> rejoining the Dublin protocol.

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

Well worth following 🐛

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Sir Andrew Dilnot, of the Dilnot Report, is giving evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee today from 9.30. The focus is on the cost of inaction. Should be interesting.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments