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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 46m

Bic Jagger

Speccy Twat @speccytwat.bsky.social · 1h

Imelda Markers?

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 1h

Who’s your favourite celebrity that you can use to write with?

Mine’s Berol Reid.

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 57m

Oops! All Enron!

#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 2h

Tesla is sitting on nearly a billion dollars of unsold Cybertrucks. Now Elon's using the imaginary value of SpaceX and xAI to bail out Tesla... While asking Tesla investors for a blank check to "invest" in xAI. The entire empire is a giant scam. #teslatakedown www.dailykos.com/story/2025/1...

Cybertruck sales are so bad Musk is selling them to ... himself

You wanna see a dead body? Third-quarter sales numbers for Tesla’s misbegotten Cybertruck are in, and it is definitely spooky season for tech titan Elon Musk, who moved only 5,385 of the hideous ...

www.dailykos.com

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 48m

Jim Davidson pitches up in Argie with his hairdresser friend Chalkie White

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 55m

US Treasury arranging fresh $20bn in debt market support for Argentina on.ft.com/4hczZK5

US Treasury arranging fresh $20bn in debt market support for Argentina

Facility builds on previously announced $20bn swap line as Washington seeks to boost libertarian ally Javier Milei

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 4h

This is one of the reasons Defend Our Juries have been taking recent action to Lift The Ban.

We will continue to work to #FreePoliticalPrisoners and to end the corrupting of UK law for vested corporate interests.

wedonotcomply.org

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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 2h

Alice Perry has been a long-serving bureaucrat at the top of the Labour party, a lobbyist at the firm representing Blackrock and Barclays, and now she’s paid by a private health insurance firm to ‘advocate’ for them in parliament.
labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/04/15/a...

Alice Perry: Labour bureaucrat, former lobbyist for Cicero and now for the UK’s third largest private health insurer, Aviva

Alice Perry has been a long-serving bureaucrat at the top of the Labour party, a lobbyist at the firm representing Blackrock and Barclays, and now she’s paid by a private health insurance fir…

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Dave Lee @dave23lee.bsky.social · 2h

We haven't yet found the limits of Starmer's amoral pandering to big money have we?

Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 3h

The government says it is “driving forward private finance efforts for Gaza's reconstruction.”

As if enabling a genocide wasn't enough. Now, they are allowing private companies to make some money out of it as well.

Have they no shame?

www.middleeasteye.net/news/british...

'No shame': UK invites private firms to compete for Gaza reconstruction contracts

As Britain positions itself as key player in the rebuilding of territory devastated by Israel's genocide, MPs point to its role in its destruction

www.middleeasteye.net

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 6h

Do we have any politicians living honourable lives? Seems they're all either at the trough doing a Farage or trying to influence for their own selfish ends. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Peer faces Lords ban for raising speeding fines with police chief

Ex-Lords speaker Baroness D'Souza complained to Sir Mark Rowley she could lose her licence after a speeding fine.

www.bbc.com

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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 11h

This Making Tax Digital thing where freelancers will have to file four times a year….do they want me to hurl myself off a cliff

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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 8h

Three things we can do to protect ourselves from extreme weather:
🏡home insulation to keep us warm in winter and cool in summer
🛬stop expanding airports and making the problem worse
💸tax the windfall profits of fossil fuel companies so the people who caused this pay for it

Sky News @news.sky.com · 21h

UK must prepare for 2C of warming by 2050, government told for first time

Britain must prepare for at least 2C of warming within just 25 years, the government has been advised by its top climate advisers.

news.sky.com

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 9h

Lib Dem's Daisy Cooper calls for an assessment into the threat Elon Musk poses to UK democracy after Tommy Robinson said Musk is paying for his legal fees

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 12h

People still haven't forgiven the Lib Dems for tuition fees and Labour MPs think that everyone is going to forget their utter lack of failure to act in a literal genocide?! Politicians are so detached from reality.

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 1d

Labour MPs reckon that if the ceasefire holds it will be harder for opponents to mobilize against them over the Israel-Palestine issue in the next election. There are concerns though about whether the fragile agreement will hold. More in London Playbook PM.

London Playbook PM: Has he Don Keir a favor?

Presented by Rolls-Royce By EMILIO CASALICCHIO with NOAH KEATE PRESENTED BY Send tips here | Subscribe for free | Listen to Playbook and view in your browser SCOOP — LOBBY TO LOBBIED: Sky News Poli…

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 12h

Very funny that the government thinks highly qualified people who speak English even better than the locals want to live here to be chased down the street by drunks waving flags 🤣

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 11h

Outstanding ...

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1d

13 Tried-and-True Rules for Creating Meaningful Social Change by Saul Alinksy, Rules for Radicals, 1971

5. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.

#Portland #Chicago

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 11h

Over 7,000 people have asked Virgin gyms to stop following transphobes, and follow the law.

Will you ask the gyms to stop their changing room and bathroom ban on trans people?

https://action.goodlawproject.org/virgin-active-stop-following-transphobes-follow-the-law

Tell Virgin Active: Stop following transphobes, follow the law

After a legal threat from GB News presenter Michelle Dewberry, Virgin Active turned their back on the trans community and enforced a changing room and bathroom ban on trans people across all their gym...

action.goodlawproject.org

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 12h

Unbelievably vile people. Her mother locked her in a cupboard and burnt her after she reported the awful abuse. www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2121...

Girl raped, burnt and beaten by three generations of her own family

Her mother locked her in a cupboard and burnt her after she reported the awful abuse.

www.express.co.uk

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed.

The government has chosen to prioritise reducing (skilled, legal, for work) migration over growth and hence over improving public services.

No economic rationale - but even worse, no political rationale either.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

One mistake Labour made in their first year is loading quite a few new costs onto business all at once. They are risking doing something similar on immigration, I think.

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 13h

We can all be unstupid but we have Mahmood and her back office ghouls who have the power.

Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 13h

I was in a meeting yesterday warning that if we lose the ECHR we are Royally Fucked. I think people think it could never happen - but remember everyone said that about Brexit. Let’s not be as stupid as then.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 13h

Brexit voters pay additional tax to compensate everyone else for their fook up. Flag touchers to pay rental fee for every flag painted or mounted on roundabouts, local council poles and posts. 🇫🇴🤣

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13h

“Make Brexit work” by raising taxes to stem the ongoing losses.
Slavish devotion to failed ideology has a very high price.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16h

"There is no doubt that the impact of Brexit has been severe and long-lasting", Rachel Reeves tells Sky News, as she suggests that taxes will now have to go up as a result to "make sure the numbers add up".

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Rick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 16h

Ban Twitter.

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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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 1d

The West is going to suffer terrible consequences from Israel's genocide.

New column 👇

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Be sure of this: many of the horrors the west allowed in Gaza will come closer to home | Owen Jones

History shows the crimes of empire were later mirrored on European soil. Dehumanisation and militarised terror both seem normalised now, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

Some changes to immigration rules today, not just increasing English language requirements, mean migrants looking to live and work in UK will have to meet far far higher standards than British nationals, while paying vast sums to be allowed to do so. That isn't a system based on "fairness". 1/

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 13h

Well we have disabled in there already, so it will be the unemployed

Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 15h

“The UK stands at a crossroads. Are we going to be a nation that respects its human rights obligations, or are we going to abandon them whenever the rightwing press demands it? First immigrants, then trans people – who next, Sir Keir?” – Jo Maugham (@goodlawproject.org)
https://goodlaw.social/icp3

European human rights chief warns against trans exclusion in the UK

Human rights commissioner calls on parliament to make sure guidance following the Supreme Court’s decision in April promotes inclusion.

goodlaw.social

Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 13h

Yes and Starmer and Reeves growth will do FA about it

Sylvia @sylvia-suffragette.bsky.social · 15h

👇🏻 Current issues summed up nicely by Prem. No government solutions either

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15h

UK faces highest inflation in G7 this year and next, IMF warns.

Biggest cause is profiteering led by energy, water and food businesses. No govt checks it.

Real average wage stuck at 2008 level. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Govts needs to remove cash from the rich.

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Dave @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social · 13h

Absolute exploitation of people's love for their pet family members

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14h

Price cap should be placed on vet prescriptions, watchdog says

The Competition and Markets Authority said price caps should be placed on prescriptions provided by vets to stop pet owners from being ripped off

news.sky.com/story/price-...

Price cap should be placed on vet prescriptions, watchdog says

The Competition and Markets Authority said price caps should be placed on prescriptions provided by vets to stop pet owners from being ripped off.

news.sky.com