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Blythe Gryphon @blythegryphon2.bsky.social · 8h

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

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

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⚫️🐦‍⬛ 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @theskyisnotblue.bsky.social · 7h

🇬🇪🇪🇺 #GeorgiaProtests Day 319
#FreeGeorgianPoliticalPrisoners

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skippyoz @skippyoz.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 7h

Wait a minute! 🦖

I did NOT vote for the rapist @sarahgies.bsky.social · 7h

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Sarah Cowley @bournemouth4eu.bsky.social · 7h

@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 · 7h

First class work Citizens! 🦖👍🇪🇺

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Sarah Cowley @bournemouth4eu.bsky.social · 7h

"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 · 7h

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 · 18h

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 · 12h

The Observer newspaper is an absolute disgrace not keeping you.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15h

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 · 17h

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 · 10h

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 · 10h

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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JohnWest_JAWS @johnwestjaws.bsky.social · 14h

Aside from Gill & Farage, why was RT shut down?

Because it clearly pushed Russian propaganda, conspired against the UK.

Many (Tory & Brexit) politicians are on record minimising Russian actions in Ukraine.

The media IS minimising the Gill story.

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JohnWest_JAWS @johnwestjaws.bsky.social · 14h

The biggest fear in media is that the curtain is torn back, and the truth is seen.

The Cadwalladr conundrum.

@carolecadwalla was made a pariah for her investigations, but the risk is not only that she was right (she was) but that she risked exposing more.

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JohnWest_JAWS @johnwestjaws.bsky.social · 14h

But that opens up more questions.

Did the government conspire by not ordering investigations?

Did the government collude with the Brexit party (who stood aside in the 2019 election to gift Johnson a win)?

If so, why? (the Tory party is awash with Russian money).

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JohnWest_JAWS @johnwestjaws.bsky.social · 14h

These 2 speeches, which, as Nick points out, on the same day, precede what Gill has pled guilty to by 4 years, are more damning for Farage as they also precede Brexit.

All European secret services would have been alarmed by this & would/should have been investigating.

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 13h

Poland’s centrist government is pushing to restore the rule of law undermined by the previous populist administration in an effort to fulfill a key election promise of the coalition government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, which took power in late 2023 - but the chances are slim

Poland tries to restore rule of law in the face of a hostile president

Polish President Karol Nawrocki is vowing to scuttle any effort to change the legal system set up by the previous Law and Justice party government.

www.politico.eu

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 15h

On 6 Jan 2021 the president was … Trump. He’s already forgotten! So the FBI was a Trump FBI. It did not become a Biden FBI until 20 Jan 2021.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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