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Ian Black

@balmachreuchie.bsky.social

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Ukraine = Europe. citizen. supporter of progressive causes: 💉 📚 🏡 🚌 🌻 🍉 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. speaker of 🇫🇷 & 🇷🇴

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Ian Black @balmachreuchie.bsky.social · Nov 17

@balmachreuchie starting the process of swapping over and using sky follower bridge to follow people I followed before and who have made the move

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Ian Black @balmachreuchie.bsky.social · 1h

There may be…

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 5h

"Another Reform MP has been accused of being in breach of Parliamentary rules, after its deputy leader Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality he received from Lubov Chernukhin – wife of a former Russian deputy finance minister"
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Reform’s Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife

'Tice and Oakeshott stayed at the Chernukhins’ “turreted villa” with “a stunning view of the Mediterranean” and had supper with them at a Michelin-starred restaurant'

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 2h

Something seems to connect all of these things… I doubt that the legacy media is able to pick up on it though (let alone name it).

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3h

Quite a day.

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Jewish Voice for Liberation @jvl.org.uk · 1h

The climate promoted by Starmer, Cooper and Mahmood is designed to shut their political opponents out of civil life
Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation
John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire BS
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Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation

John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

www.theguardian.com

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Cllr Emma Garnett @greenpartyemma.bsky.social · 1h

"This shows that if Israel, with the whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with a Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors.

[] a Palestinian boy from the West Bank, the same age as Greta, has died in Israeli custody.'

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

MCCALLUM: “Margaret Thatcher said socialism’s great until you run out of other people’s money.”

🔥ZOHRAN: “Cuomo had $900 million and gave it to Elon musk in tax credits— I wish the debate were like NASCAR so people could see logos of billionaires who sponsor him on his jacket.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

The Pentagon no longer has a press corps because of Pete Hegseth, trump’s Secretary of war (on journalism)

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 8h

Spooks on the BBC: “We have to climb onto the roof, through a skylight and plug this thumb drive into the Chinese server.”

Spooks on Chinese TV: “We’ve just bought the British data centre. Job done.”

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Ian Black @balmachreuchie.bsky.social · 7h

Very interesting thread, the far right specifically, deliberately and self-consciously targets democracy and democratic culture to destroy it - left populism doesn’t do that.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

On Sunday, I visited DEAR NEW YORK, Brandon Stanton's "love letter" to the city he's been documenting for years as "Humans of New York" for their family reception with student artists.

It's a gorgeous exhibit that's transformed Grand Central Station. See it before 10/19!

Zohran and Brandon standing in Grand Central Station. Brandon has his arm around Zohran's shoulder showing him the exhibit.

A group photo with Zohran and Brandon sitting on the floor with a dozens of students around them.

Zohran and a student artist admiring a photographer.

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[email protected] @francescrook.bsky.social · 1d

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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

This is the response I received from ICE when I inquired about the 13-year-old they abducted from Everett, Mass. on Friday:

Good afternoon, Marisa.
Please see the below from DHS on the 13-year-old alien.
Please feel free to direct any questions to them.
Respectfully,
James

Tricia McLaughlin
@TriciaOhio • 6h
S...
Here are the facts: he posed a public safety threat with an extensive rap sheet including violent assault with a dangerous weapon, battery, breaking and entering, destruction of property.
He was in possession of a firearm and 5-7 inch knife when arrested.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

I recruited Janet Mills to run for Senate because, at 72, Susan Collins is too young for the job.

by Chuck Schumer

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VSquare.org @vsquare.bsky.social · 1d

🔎🇷🇺 Our new analysis reveals the scale of Russia’s massive propaganda offensive in Moldova:

134 activists managing 30 Telegram channels, receiving €2.8M until the first half of 2025.

9,900 AI-generated TikTok videos with over 93 million views.

24/7 Russian Propaganda Blitz Hit Moldova Before the Elections - VSquare.org

Moldovans had faced months, if not years, of an information onslaught at levels beyond what just about any society has faced. In the end, the pro-European ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) won 50.2% of the vote, while the pro-Russian Patriotic Bloc managed only 24.2%, despite well-documented foreign interference, mainly from Russia and pro Kremlin actors.

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VSquare.org @vsquare.bsky.social · 1d

⚡️🔎 In the 2010s, Hungarian intelligence began spying in Brussels against the EU and tried to recruit Hungarians working in EU institutions. However, Orbán's spies did it so blatantly that they were exposed.

The EU Commission has now launched an internal investigation.

Inside the Fall of Viktor Orbán’s Secret Brussels Spy Network - VSquare.org

In the 2010s, Hungarian intelligence began spying in Brussels against the EU and tried to recruit Hungarians working in EU institutions for this purpose. However, Hungarian intelligence carried it out so blatantly and clumsily that they were exposed, and their network collapsed.

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Ian Black @balmachreuchie.bsky.social · 1d

Wonder what the o’level English pass rate in England (leaving A levels out of it for now)

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Easier to put up with them shouting words slowly than to have to suffer them murder the Spanish language

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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 1d

“This is essentially despotism as a service.”

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
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The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

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Iain Alexander @iaingalexander.bsky.social · 1d

What does this even fucking mean? A-Level English isn’t about conversational fluency. Is the Government seriously suggesting that the ability to produce a reasonable academic dissection of the themes of bloody Middlemarch or whatever the fuck is going to be a prerequisite for entry? Moronic.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

www.independent.co.uk

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Ian Black @balmachreuchie.bsky.social · 1d

That would have been punchier if he’d written “it’s not funny, and it’s not clever”

Ian Black @balmachreuchie.bsky.social · 1d

They did not mean “negotiate a return” when they adopted the slogan “make it work”
Yes, of course it’s happened and guess what, it’s a disaster. That’s a long way from “make Brexit work” which was an attempt to a) adopt it and b) imply that the “problem” was Tory implementation incompetence.

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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 1d

I’m calling it - I think it’s now very likely that there are more Green members across the UK than Tories as of today.

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

The Green surge is breaking limits! 😲

Together, we can make hope normal again! 💚

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Ian Black @balmachreuchie.bsky.social · 1d

So has “make Brexit work” been ditched?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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