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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 50m

Albania PM visiting the UK "You left the EU because you wanted less boats (immigration), you have more boats (immigration)."

And worse economy, higher food prices, higher energy prices, dirtier water...

Are there any benefits?

No not for you.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 1h

Russia-flagged bulk carrier Irtysh hid its presence in Crimea by disabling its Automated Identification System. Bellingcat researchers @galen.reich.me.uk , @oldpete45.bsky.social and ship experts @yoruk.bsky.social and Bridget Diakun from @lloydslistdaily.bsky.social worked together to track Irtysh.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 1h

Another Russian ship has been added to the grain smuggling fleet, captured on camera and on satellite imagery, evading sanctions to deliver grain from occupied Crimea to Houthi-controlled Yemen. Follow its covert journey here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

Russia’s Grain Smuggling Fleet Continues Undeterred - bellingcat

Bellingcat has identified yet another Russian-flagged vessel exporting grain from occupied Crimea to Houthi-controlled Yemen.

www.bellingcat.com

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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 2h

Leaky, floody and dirty, acc to Ofwat's assessment

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Deb Houry @drdebhoury.bsky.social · 14h

Proud to stand with @drdemetre.bsky.social and @dbj63.bsky.social to speak on scientific integrity and the violent attack at CDC fueled by misinformation- Thank you @frontlinepbs.bsky.social for a well-done documentary that covers the impact of recent policies on public health

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20h

Halloween is coming! 👻🎃

Time for horror movies — starting with this one

@drdebhoury.bsky.social thanks for the rec!

The Rise of RFK Jr. | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series

Watch FRONTLINE's documentary examining the dramatic and controversial rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

www.pbs.org

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14h

The Government want to build 300,000 homes a year.

Many people say that is impossible.

But in the late 1940's and all through the 1950's they built more than 500,000 Council Houses in most years.

How?

Because there were no private developers, the Government did it.

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 1d

But nothing to see here if your news comes from the UK media….

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 1d

In the last 72 hours or so Donald Trump has:
• Demolished a large section of the White House
• Posted a video of himself dropping shit on the American people
• Demanded a $230 million payout from his own Department of Justice

Also the federal government is still shut down, but, y’know…

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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 5h

open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... Biggest ever audit of Parkinson’s in the UK says there’s a diagnosis crisis with a shortage of neurologists leaving thousands waiting up to 5 years to see a specialist

Parkinson's - the diagnosis crisis

UK's neurologist shortage continues to bite, says biggest PD audit

open.substack.com

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 22h

Very good to see this careful statement signed by our Principal, Prof Andy Schofield, and other VCs including Oxford and UCL, warning of the consequences of the failures to evacuate our students and strange refusal of UNICEF’s support and other support, highlighted in the piece

Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 22h

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Universities warn Starmer: Evacuate Gaza scholarship students or they will miss out

Exclusive: Senior leaders at several top UK universities have written to the PM to warn that a failure to evacuate students by Sunday will see them miss out

www.independent.co.uk

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 19h

The International Court of Justice just dealt genocidal Israel another major legal blow.

Four highlights from its ruling today ⬇️

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The Hind Rajab Foundation @hindrajabfoundation.be · 15h

Following 10 months of forensic and legal work, HRF’s ICC complaint on the killings of Hind Rajab, her family, and two PRCS paramedics now stands before prosecutors

Justice is not achieved through commentary on public platforms, but where evidence — not opinion — determines accountability.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 15h

In the United States the President is deliberately dismantling the White House, while in the United Kingdom we are doing nothing to stop the Palace of Westminster from falling apart.

Much the same can be said of our respective constitutions.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 22h

🔴 In the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported an additional 5 killed (4 of whom were recovered from the rubble) and 4 injured arriving at hospitals.

This brings the recorded death toll from the Israeli genocide in Gaza to 68,234 and 170,373 injuries (likely 3-5x higher)

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Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA - INTIFADA against all #Colonialism @serenissimaj.bsky.social · 14h

>>The report says this took place through western media and political discourse, which “parroted Israeli narratives” and failed to distinguish between Hamas and Palestinian civilians, and drew on colonial tropes of Israel’s right to defend itself as a "civilised" nation against "savages".<<

Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 14h

The report shows that without the support of mostly European countries, Israel would not have been able to sustain its full-pronged assault on Gaza. www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...

Israel's genocide in Gaza impossible without global complicity, UN report says

Report shows how 63 states, largely European, sustained the genocide against Palestinians while Arab states failed to take ‘decisive action’

www.middleeasteye.net

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Nula Suchet @nulasuchet.bsky.social · 1d

So much for Trump ending the war with Ukraine - Putin’s puppet ??

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

💥New from Drop Site: “We Estimate That Nearly One Million of Gaza’s 1.1 Million Olive Trees Have Been Destroyed”

Gaza journalist Mohamed Suleiman reports farmers are missing their third olive harvest as Israel’s war devastates the industry.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-olive...

“We Estimate That Nearly One Million of Gaza’s 1.1 Million Olive Trees Have Been Destroyed”

Gaza’s olive groves have been bulldozed by the Israeli military, dried up from lack of water, or remain inaccessible, leaving Palestinian farmers with little to harvest.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 2d

Peace Illusions

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 2d

“Dehumanization runs in two directions: Not only does it inflate the victim into a monstrous threat, it also does the opposite — reducing them to dust, shrinking them until they disappear.” Yuval Abraham
www.972mag.com/israelis-log...

The logic that helped Israeli liberals commit genocide

By attaching a military goal to each act of killing, Israelis of all stripes could partake in the slaughter without questioning the morality of their actions.

www.972mag.com

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social wants to raise Capital Gains Tax to the same level as Income Tax, and explains that right now a cleaner can be paying a higher rate of tax than the person who owns the building they clean.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

So when Farage rails against the latest migration figures, he's railing against a monster of his own making. The EU didn't impose uncontrolled immigration on us; it offered a framework that reflected geography, economics and reality”

ie - control.

www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/peop...

People are just realising that we had a better grip on immigration within the EU

They gave us bar staff and builders - we gave them sunburnt pensioners and seaside property booms. It was win-win.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3d

🚨Tomorrow Chinook Justice will be handing a petition to Downing Street. They are now so close to 50,000 signatures. Please sign this important petition and help the families who have fought so hard for justice get to 50K🙏

www.change.org/p/justice-fo...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

You know it’s bad when the Dept of Labor says immigration raids are “threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices for US consumers.”

@opinion.bloomberg.com #CPI
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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