Penny Stuart
@lostindisco.bsky.social
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Centre left politics junkie, polite but quietly furious. RTs are not endorsements. Same handles on 🐘 and X.
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noelreports.com
A new drone incident disrupted NATO's Falcon Autumn drills in Poland, Rzeczpospolita reports. Belarusian-plated cars were spotted near a Dutch camp site, followed by unidentified drones that jammed communications. The exercise was restructured, and Dutch EW systems were flown in.
lostindisco.bsky.social
Doesn’t even make sense on its own terms, how does religion involve “trusting the experts ?
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noelreports.com
Russia launched drone and missile strikes overnight on DTEK Naftogaz energy infrastructure. As a result, gas production facilities in Poltava region were forced to halt operations, the company reported.
lostindisco.bsky.social
A point often missed is that the USA is a relatively young democratic country, Europe however has been through all this sh*t before so we can only look on at their teenage tantrums and shake our heads.
lostindisco.bsky.social
The ice sculpture of Democracy slowly decays outside the White House…art telling you how it is
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newseye.bsky.social
NEW: A huge ice sculpture of the word “DEMOCRACY” is currently melting away in front of the US Capitol.

Organized by artists and activists, it was commissioned by the Up In Arms campaign, an effort led by Ben Cohen, the cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.
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lincolnproject.us
Trump doubles the bailout to Argentina, now $40 billion, and Argentina takes all China’s soybean orders away from our American farmers - 7 million tons. Was it Argentina first?
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sturdyalex.bsky.social
Except ofc Pogrund. DPP explained to C’tee tonight what happened. They asked DNSA to go further than confines of Tory view of China at relevant time. He refused. They asked him again. He emphasised it’s still no. Gabriel added 2+2 and got 12 - and instead of apologising now insists his sums add up.
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eddieperez.bsky.social
In case you ever wonder what a “one-party state” looks like, this it.

Partisans take over the machinery of governance with no regard for laws, equity, or the public interest — it’s simply corrupt punishment of the opposition, and patronage for one’s own party.

Lawless tribal mafia behavior.
donmoyn.bsky.social
Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)
The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.
www.nytimes.com
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eddieperez.bsky.social
In case you ever wonder what a “one-party state” looks like, this it.

Partisans take over the machinery of governance with no regard for laws, equity, or the public interest — it’s simply corrupt punishment of the opposition, and patronage for one’s own party.

Lawless tribal mafia behavior.
thebulwark.com
Trump on the government shutdown: "We have the people that we want paid, paid. We want the FBI paid...We're getting rid of programs that we didn't like...They're going to be terminated on a permanent basis, and it's thousands of people...tremendous numbers of Democrat projects."
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kyivindependent.com
⚡️Russian electrical substation ablaze in Volgograd Oblast after drone strike, governor says.

The fire broke out during a 'massive drone attack' targeting the region's energy infrastructure overnight, Governor Andrey Bocharov claimed.
Russian electrical substation ablaze in Volgograd Oblast after drone strike, governor says
The fire broke out during a 'massive drone attack' targeting the region's energy infrastructure overnight, Governor Andrey Bocharov claimed.
kyivindependent.com
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chadbourn.bsky.social
The aircraft carrying US Secretary of Defense/war/whatevs Pete Hegseth from Brussels declared an emergency before turning around over the Atlantic and heading back toward the UK.
Flight radar showing flight path
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guardianheather.bsky.social
Just had a chat with Rachel Reeves in Washington. She:
- says taxes on wealthy will feature in budget
- wants UK bond yields back in line with rest of G7
- says OBR should have revised forecasts earlier
- promises continued investment, no return to austerity
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Rachel Reeves says higher taxes on wealthy ‘part of the story’ for November budget
Chancellor hints at rises and calls out past ‘scaremongering’ over VAT on private schools and changes to non-doms
www.theguardian.com
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maks23.bsky.social
🇺🇸🇻🇪 The Trump administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert action in Venezuela, - NYT

The new authority would allow C.I.A. to carry out lethal operations in Venezuela and conduct range of operations in Caribbean.

The agency would be able to take covert action against Maduro.
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chrisgrey.bsky.social
An important emerging development is the way Christian Conservatism, in the past far more prevalent in the US than the UK, is gaining traction within Reform (as discussed here, but also relevant is Danny Kruger's defection to Reform & some of Richard Tice's recent comments).
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columnist.bsky.social
Finally, the Labour message on this is incoherent. If Brexit is such a disastrous legacy for the country then why not do something (material) about it?
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aphclarkson.bsky.social
Awkward efforts to stovepipe the US under Trump into comparisons with 20th century Europe or the Middle East are less analytically helpful than with recent crises in Western Hemisphere societies like Mexico or Colombia that are culturally and institutionally much closer to 21st century America.
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Breaking: Capitol Police have been called after a Republican congressional office was just caught displaying a swastika.

This comes one day after group chat messages were leaked of young GOP officials saying “I love Hitler” and calling to put Democrats in “gas chambers.”
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meanwhileua.bsky.social
The General Staff confirmed that the Sea Oil Terminal in temporarily occupied Feodosia was hit again on the night of October 13.

Sixteen fuel tanks that survived the previous attack were damaged. A large-scale fire continues on the territory of the enterprise.👇
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adambienkov.bsky.social
Kemi Badeoch's spokesman tying himself in knots trying to explain why the substantive evidence the Conservative Government gave to the CPS on the China spy trial wasn't good enough to secure a conviction, but the additional evidence Starmer's Government later supplied somehow should have been
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wartranslated.bsky.social
"Ukraine is aware of Russia’s plans in Belarus and will inform the partners who may be affected. At this stage, we will not make this information public." - Zelensky.
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petergeoghegan.bsky.social
My conversation with Jane Bradley about how US anti-abortionists are supporting Reform - and why we need to talk about Russian influence - is also available in full on the Democracy for Sale YouTube channel

Do sign up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5p0...
Nigel Farage’s New Backers: Inside the US Anti-Abortion Group Courting Reform UK
YouTube video by Democracy for Sale
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