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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 2h

Starmer has not been PM for years

Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 2h

Is that how you win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump says he's now "looking at land" strikes on Venezuela

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Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social · 11h

Lib Dem deputy leader @libdemdaisy.bsky.social asked Keir Starmer whether he would commission the security services to "assess the threat that Elon Musk poses to our democracy"

Her question at #PMQs comes after Tommy Robinson claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs

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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 11h

Richard Holden on #PoliticsLive

a baby is sitting in a car seat with a toy steering wheel .

ALT: a baby is sitting in a car seat with a toy steering wheel .

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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 11h

The description of Richard Holden on #PoliticsLive by Lisa Nandy as an 'angry man in the pub' is not quite correct. He is actually the 'angry know-it-all man in Wetherspoons'

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David @zero-4.bsky.social · 12h

Badenoch: “When will you do X?”

Starmer: “Tomorrow”

Badenoch: “But when exactly will you do X?”

Starmer: “Tomorrow at 12”

Badenoch: “We really need to know when, so when will it be?”

Starmer: “Tomorrow, 12 noon”

Badenoch: “But when exactly?”

Every week

#PMQs #PoliticsLive

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

I swear I did not have "I'm better at ducking bullets than Charlie Kirk" on my Donny Batshit Bingo card

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 1d

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 1d

That shows how many colons and semicolons were used compared to today

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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 1d

Not only is this fantastic news for the environment and our energy security, it is also brilliant trolling of Reform by Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband approves UK’s biggest solar farm at Lincolnshire site

Tillbridge solar farm will be built in county where Reform UK’s anti-renewables agenda has rising support

www.theguardian.com

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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 1d

“I used to think cancellation was for culture wars and comedians, not economists. But point out that North Sea oil doesn’t cut UK energy bills, and suddenly you’re censored,”

Academic axed from Labour conference panel for criticising energy policy

Sustainability expert was told panellists discussing North Sea oil and gas were meant to ‘agree entirely’ with each other

www.theguardian.com

Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 1d

Do you have any idea how many UK media outlets have signed or refused to sign the new rules?

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Casfetera 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @casfetera.bsky.social · 1d

"A senior member of Nigel Farage’s parliamentary group staff in Brussels was known for making trips to the Russian embassy in Belgium and was accused of orchestrating a smear campaign against a critic of the Kremlin, the Guardian has been told."
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

The Farage staffer, the Russian embassy and a smear campaign against a Kremlin critic

Worker for Farage’s group in EU parliament was ‘frequent visitor to embassy’ and accused of role in propaganda stunt

www.theguardian.com

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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 1d

@andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social Just in case you have not seen this

HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 2d

Reform UK's deputy leader has broken parliamentary rules by failing to register hospitality. So what's the story with Richard Tice, the French villa and the ex-Kremlin minister?

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/13/r...

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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 1d

Tice received accommodation and food worth £1,400 combined from Lubov Chernukhin, in a trip to “discuss gas power in [the] UK”.

Is it patriotic or traitorous to discuss gas power in the UK with the Russians?

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/13/r...

Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister's wife – HOPE not hate

IN BREACH OF PARLIAMENTARY RULES: REFORM UK’S RICHARD TICE Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice has broken parliamentary rules by failing to register lavish hospitality...

hopenothate.org.uk

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone know if any of the UK media organisations have signed this? It does say in the article that the Guardian has refused, but who else has refused?

@gabrielmilland.bsky.social @chadbourn.bsky.social

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information

Defense department policy requires outlets to vow not to obtain unauthorized files and restricts access to some areas

www.theguardian.com

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 1d

USE HEADPHONES ON THE TRAIN USE HEADPHONES ON THE TRAIN USE HEADPHONES ON THE TRAIN YOU SELFISH MOTHERFUCKER

my thought process right now is

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Boris Johnson, "I tried to get the scientists to say that lockdown was a bad idea"

*they all laugh*

There were 26,000 covid deaths because Boris Johnson ignored scientists and delayed the first lockdown by a week

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 1d

Racists will never succeed in Brighton www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/10/11/m...

Man thrown off bus after aiming racist abuse at a woman

Passengers stepped in and threw a man off a bus after he racially abused a woman. Sussex Police said: “We

www.brightonandhovenews.org

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 1d

When you ride in a Tesla, you ride with Yaxley-Lennon.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

if anybody is good at lip reading or can isolate the audio, I'd be very curious to learn more about what these two were talking about here. it certainly didn't sound on the level.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 2d

Dear friends, please read this. 😔

We owe it to our one and only living planet, not to turn away. To be uninformed is to be powerless indeed. We have to face reality, no matter how painful, to have ANY hope at all of driving the positive change we need.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Somersetchris @somersetchris.bsky.social · 2d

In the UK abortion has always been a moral issue, not a political one. Danny Kruger and Maria Caulfield, both rabid anti-abortionists, recently joined Reform and this is the reason why. Reform are going to try and politicise it

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com