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SueD @0drat.bsky.social · 2h

The ends the Kremlin go to, to maintain control ......

Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 6h

The Social Design Agency (SDA) is the Kremlin's new social engineering contractor, replacing Prigozhin's IRA. SDA is deeply tied to the Presidential Administration and runs ops like "Doppelganger" news counterfeiting. By @shekhovtsov.substack.com
shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/the-kremli...

The Kremlin’s New Contractors

Inside Russia’s Market for Political Warfare

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SueD @0drat.bsky.social · 2h

Who needs aliens when it seems we are perfectly capable of self drstruction?

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Humanist Society Scotland @humanistsociety.bsky.social · 2h

At a recent Holyrood committee hearing, Church of Scotland representative Rev. Stephen Miller claimed that religious observance is NOT worship.

When asked to clarify what RO is if not worship, he struggled to answer — instead claiming RO is part of the Curriculum for Excellence.

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SueD @0drat.bsky.social · 2h

Agree.. I really hope the PLP really follow through and start making concerted arguments to at least take the UK in to the SM & CU ...

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2h

In 2021 Afghan women started an online campaign to protest the Taliban's female dress code by posting photos of what traditional Afghan clothes look like #AfghanWomen
#WomensArt

Photo of a small standing girl facing forwardsl in a purple dress with colourful embroidered details and an embroidered cap

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 3h

NEW

Trying to make sense of the nonsensical decision to drop the Chinese spying prosecutions

How the positions of neither the CPS nor the government stand up to scrutiny

By me

emptycity.substack.com/p/trying-to-...

The more one knows about this case, the more confusing it becomes.

The CPS insists on further evidence it does not require, and the government insists it could not give that evidence, even though it could.

Neither side makes sense, and together they make no sense absolutely.

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SueD @0drat.bsky.social · 4h

Ordering.

Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 4h

Want one.

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 4h

Our new T-shirt asks a question the world needs to answer. When you wear it, you're refusing to let the world forget. You're turning conferences, streets, and casual encounters into spaces where Ukraine's voice cannot be ignored.

Order here: store.kyivindependent.com/products/wtf...

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Troels Halken 🇪🇺 🇬🇪🇷🇸🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @halken.bsky.social · 4h

🎯💯 Completing the inner market by 2028 is not a nice-to-have, but key for EUs economic strength, in a world now dominated by autocratic global adversaries & in of climate action.
EU is the only global power left to defend freedom & democracy, our future depends on it.
Letta et al:
🫶🇪🇺⚔️
#EUsky #EUpol

Francis Sedgemore @hesgen.com · 5h

"Europe must complete the single market by 2028"

A reminder that the European Single Market remains a work in progress.

Europe must complete the single market by 2028

This deadline shouldn’t be seen as a slogan — it’s a contract with Europeans who want results, not reassurances. And leaders must treat it as such.

www.politico.eu

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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 16h

WCK is now serving more than 500,000 meals every day in Gaza. This is a major step in our goal of serving 1 million meals daily, and it's a direct result of months of hard work from our teams. (1/2)

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László Róbert Mézes @laszlorobertmezes.bsky.social · 16h

321st day of the #GeorgiaProtests.
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland, @elinavaltonen.bsky.social together with members of the delegation who are in Tbilisi visited the protest and talked with protesters after meeting with Georgian Dream representatives.

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SueD @0drat.bsky.social · 16h

WHAT ..???? tagging my union @pcsunion.bsky.social

[email protected] @francescrook.bsky.social · 19h

New law to give police powers to stop repeat demonstrations will allow police to stop trades union pickets. Labour serreptitiously cutting union and workers’ rights

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Civil liberty groups express concern over plan for more anti-protest powers

Home secretary says police can consider ‘cumulative impact’ of rallies as Palestine Action ban opponents vow ‘escalation’

www.theguardian.com

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Ron Wilson @tartanseer.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent speech from John Swinney. "We choose not Westminster government but self government. We choose not isolationism but internationalism. Never an island of strangers, always a Continent of friends"
Watch it here www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRJi...

John Swinney gives speech at SNP conference 2025 | Watch in full

YouTube video by Sky News

www.youtube.com

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 1d

OTD in 2002 🇺🇦 began decommissioning its nuclear capable Tu-22 strategic bombers & Kh-22 cruise missiles, as per the Budapest memo.

30 bombers & 230 missiles were destroyed over 2 & half years in exchange for promise 🇷🇺 would never invade.

But you can believe our promises now

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SueD @0drat.bsky.social · 1d

Not in the news but this is desperate .. Tsunami is causing devasting floods in Alaska

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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SueD @0drat.bsky.social · 1d

X = fascist

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk (the X-owner and advocate of pre-emptive political violence) is funding the legal fees of his ally Tommy Robinson (the activist who last month platformed Musk's call for civil war in Britain)

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 1d

All of you still on X should think about what you are supporting.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk (the X-owner and advocate of pre-emptive political violence) is funding the legal fees of his ally Tommy Robinson (the activist who last month platformed Musk's call for civil war in Britain)

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

I’m going to go ahead and guess that Israel will participate in both Eurovision and UEFA as if nothing happened

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SueD @0drat.bsky.social · 1d

Agree. England becoming more self aware would be an excellent step in the direction that never again conflates the UK as England .. Neither NI or Scotland voted for Brexit, the UK didn't vote for Brexit England did. England definately needs an internal review.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk is paying Tommy Robinson's legal bills.

The British media and political establishment is still on X and maybe this is the wake up call they need.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

www.theguardian.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

me after attending a protest

Jeff Goldblum running out of a store with a bunch of shopping bags in his hand. He's dressed fashionably in a tan jacket, black shirt, gray trousers, and black loafers.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 1d

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · May 31

My book Bodies Under Siege tracks the far right attack on abortion rights in UK, Europe & US, via conspiracy theories, Christian nationalist networks & dark money from US, Russia & Europe… I’ve been on this story for 8 years so buy it now!!

www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Bodies Under Siege

Think today's anti-abortion ideas are rooted in religious prohibitions or arguments about where life begins? Wrong: today's anti-abortion movements is largely financed and planned by far-right extremi...

www.versobooks.com

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 1d

You can read more on ADF and how the backlash against abortion rights globally is funded by US and others in my (sadly far too) prescient book!

bsky.app/profile/sian...

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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SueD @0drat.bsky.social · 1d

The UK Government cowers away from acknowledging the very positive effects of immigration.. Even when its anti immigration policy undermines public services, particularly health and care services.

Libby Brooks @libbybrooks.bsky.social · 1d

John Swinney says Scottish government will sponsor visas for foreign care workers reports @severincarrell.bsky.social

First minister tells SNP conference older people should not ‘pay the price for Westminster’s prejudice’ over immigration

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Swinney says Scottish government will sponsor visas for foreign care workers

First minister tells SNP conference older people should not ‘pay the price for Westminster’s prejudice’ over immigration

www.theguardian.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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