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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 44m

1. Brexit INCREASED the number of small boats coming here because we left the EU's Dublin accord on refugees.
2. Brexit also INCREASED migration to the UK because young, single Europeans no longer came here to work. So people with families from further afield had to be brought here to replace them.

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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 3h

“Police-style mugshots and fingerprinting just to go on holiday around Europe are another major reason why Nigel Farage and Reform UK could never be trusted to run Britain.”
Kevin Maguire - Daily Mirror

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Sarah Cowley @bournemouth4eu.bsky.social · 16m

Please let it last, so some healing can begin.

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Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social · 18m

(WSJ) The last twenty hostages held in Gaza were released a few hours ago. Progress. Food aid is streaming in, Gaza residents are returning to a burned-out country, and Israeli troops are returning home. Now, day by day, stability.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Israel-Hamas Peace Deal: Gaza Hostages Are Freed, Ending Two-Year Captivity — Live Updates

The full release of 20 captives was a requirement of the current cease-fire, a first step in a peace deal that would force U.S.-designated terrorist group Hamas to disarm and give up power in Gaza.

www.wsj.com

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Sarah Cowley @bournemouth4eu.bsky.social · 17m

Except he was not in power at the time of 2016 referendum.

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philip-goddard.bsky.social @philip-goddard.bsky.social · 5h

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Sarah Cowley @bournemouth4eu.bsky.social · 18m

Israel is very much involved in behind the scenes security issues: tied up with US and 'five eyes' alliance.

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Blythe Gryphon @blythegryphon2.bsky.social · 16h

Everyone please join the #DefendDemocracy
#HopeNotHate campaign wave. #FBR #FBPE

Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #FBR #NAFO @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 5d

📢 Join the #FBPE & #FBR Campaign Wave (aka tweet storm) on Sunday, 26 Oct:

- to protest against the global rise of the far right,
&
- support progressive parties in the Dutch elections (29 Oct).

Time: 20–22 CET | 19–21 UK

Hashtags: #DefendDemocracy #HopeNotHate

Let’s stand strong together!✊

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Newman @newman123.bsky.social · 15h

It’s long overdue covering
Russian influence on Brexit
Russian influence/funding on our politicians/political parties
Russian influence on social media

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Old Steve @snuffkins60.bsky.social · 15h

When are the Uk media going to come clean why they totally avoid any reporting of Farage’s connection to the Nathan Gill connection story
All very suspicious ?
Surely as they keep platforming Farage’s lead in the opinion polls this must be in the national interest ??????

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Thomas C. Harris Just plain Tom @harrissocal.bsky.social · 16h

The Pentagon Just Gutted Its Own Weapons Watchdog
The office existed to pour cold water on overhyped defense programs before they reached the field. Think of it as the adult supervision for an industry that gets $800 billion a year in allowance.

The Pentagon Just Gutted Its Own Weapons Watchdog

And the people most likely to pay for it wear uniforms, not suits.

www.wesodonnell.com

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 16h

1940’s American movie delivers a powerful anti-fascist message that should be seen by all.

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⚫️🐦‍⬛ 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @theskyisnotblue.bsky.social · 16h

🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests Day 319
#FreeGeorgianPoliticalPrisoners

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skippyoz @skippyoz.bsky.social · 16h

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’ chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid, one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before t...

chicago.suntimes.com

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T-Rexit @t-rexit.bsky.social · 16h

Wait a minute! 🦖

I did NOT vote for the rapist @sarahgies.bsky.social · 16h

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Sarah Cowley @bournemouth4eu.bsky.social · 15h

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social
We need to talk about Russia
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

We need to talk about Russia

So, yes, that means we also need to talk about Nigel Farage

open.substack.com

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T-Rexit @t-rexit.bsky.social · 16h

First class work Citizens! 🦖👍🇪🇺

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Sarah Cowley @bournemouth4eu.bsky.social · 16h

"Crucially, the [2020 Russia] report also revealed that our intelligence agencies had never been tasked with investigating whether Russian money or interference actually affected UK elections."
It’s time for a REAL Russia report" open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

It’s time for a REAL Russia report

Putin’s fingerprints are all over our politics. It’s time to prove it.

open.substack.com

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Sarah Cowley @bournemouth4eu.bsky.social · 16h

Freedom is Action: A Campaign for Ukraine
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Freedom is Action: A Campaign for Ukraine

A fundraiser for life-saving drone-jamming cars and trucks

open.substack.com

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1d

This narrative doesn't make sense. You can't blame Brexit for harming the economy ... (UK businesses, for example, lose £37bn a year due to a drop in EU trade) ... yet at the same time categorically rule out returning even to the Single Market. So Starmer needs to do a masssive U-turn or step down.

Starmer ‘planning to blame Farage and Brexit’ for budget tax hikes

Sir Keir Starmer has been ramping up his attacks on Nigel Farage in recent weeks as Labour falls behind in the polls

www.independent.co.uk

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Baldy shaved head forever @adamnguest.bsky.social · 20h

The Observer newspaper is an absolute disgrace not keeping you.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 23h

The man who bribed Gill - Oleh Voloshyn - is part of a much wider network of pro-Russian actors.

He worked with this guy, an FSB agent, who I've been fascinated by for years,

My investigation for @thenerve.news shows how Gill was a pawn in a Kremlin operation that spanned both Europe & US
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 1d

More than just a bad apple: why we must look closer at the Nathan Gill scandal

New evidence connects the Ukrainian politician who paid bribes to Gill - Reform UK’s former leader in Wales - to a campaign to destabilise the US election

@carolecadwalla.bsky.social reports

The contact of Reform UK's Russian puppet Nathan Gill is linked to efforts to destabilise the US and Ukraine. Why, even now, is no one asking questions?

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Hilary @hilarym.bsky.social · 19h

The naïve amongst us (ie Me) naively expected MI5/6 to ride to the rescue to save us from Brexit - after other judicial *fails* on the legitimacy of the referendum etc.
Poor fools, eh?
As someone posted earlier “Putin pours himself another drink”

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Brussels @brusselspout.bsky.social · 18h

So Gill has admitted being paid for his and we’re supposed to believe that ‘pro-grifter extraordinaire’ Farage did his for free??

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