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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 1h

This is what happens when a Corrupt Idiot is elected President.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

"Adding to the train wreck, Halligan’s appointment as US attorney may not even be legal, meaning that the indictment is a legal nullity … which may actually be the least embarrassing outcome here for the Justice Department." — @lizdye.bsky.social

The 1,287,923 defects in the Comey case ... so far

Welcome to the Rocket Docket, Lindsey Halligan!

www.publicnotice.co

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Volt Europa @volteuropa.org · 4h

🧡 Dutchies, do something new: vote Volt! 💜

Remember: your postal vote needs to be received at the embassy or consulate before 24 October 10 AM CET and at the postal vote polling station in The Hague before 29 October 3 PM CET! 🧡

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Emilio Casalicchio @ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 1h

Heartbreaking case I watched the summing up for while reporting this piece 👇

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Spotlight on Corruption @spotlightcorruption.org · 59m

👮 It issued 57 enforcement actions in the last year but only two of these were monetary penalties – a £15k fine against Concierge Integral Concierge Services and a much bigger £465k fine against the Moscow office of law firm Herbert Smith Freehills.

Elite London law firm fined £465,000 for Russian sanctions breaches

Former Moscow office of Herbert Smith Freehills made six payments totalling £3.9m to sanctioned banks

www.theguardian.com

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 6h

In case you missed it ...

Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · Dec 13

"68% of Britons would now accept a return to free movement across borders in exchange for regaining access to the EU's single market. Among those who voted to Leave in 2016, the margin for Returning stands at 54-35%. Even 44% of Reform Party voters are in favour of it."
#RejoineU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Eye-Opening Poll on British Regret over Brexit

The Guardian has a story out today about a really gob smacking poll by the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) regarding closer relations between the UK and EU, based on a survey of more than...

www.dailykos.com

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 5h

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 57m

COP must take environmental crime seriously on.ft.com/42G83Z0 | opinion

COP must take environmental crime seriously

The costs of inaction are stark, but prevention is a bargain

on.ft.com

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 57m

Maybe Mike meant "stood on" Capitol Police?

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Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 55m

Given long-term care insurance doesn't exist in the UK, maybe don't start taxing savings until you've got that sorted?

(Though really not convinced at all of the case for why we should wish to discourage saving in the first place...).

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 1h

‘Intersected’. The torturous language to avoid calling corruption, corruption

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 5h

President Trump's personal business and his government role intersected when he was heard on a hot mic arranging a meeting between his son Eric, who runs the family company, and Indonesia’s leader.

‘I’ll Have Eric Call’: Trump Sets Up Son’s Meeting With Indonesian President

A hot-mic moment suggested a blurry line between the U.S. president’s roles as political leader and businessman.

on.wsj.com

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 9h

I've spent *weeks* working on this special report for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social on GB News co-owner Paul Marshall – and the astonishing, unprecedented influence network he's built on the UK's right. There's never been anything like it before. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...

Paul Marshall, the man who owns the right

The multimillionaire controls a network of news channels, publications and think tanks that the left could only dream of. If Reform or the Tories win the next election, he will become the country’s mo...

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 8h

New York health officials have confirmed the first locally transmitted case of the chikungunya virus which causes high fever, joint pain and fatigue.

It’s usually a tropical virus, but there are now infected mosquitoes spreading in New York. (NYT)

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 2h

Dumb Dumb Donnie is crashing out.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 57m

English councils to remain poorer than 2010 despite funding boost, says report

Exclusive: Impact of austerity cannot be undone by end of parliament despite above-inflation funding, analysis finds Councils in England will still be poorer by the end of this parliament than they were in 2010 despite Labour’s funding increases, according to analysis by the Institute for Government (IfG). Funding cuts from 2010 to 2019 were so severe that they left gaps that could not be filled even by five years of above-inflation increases, leaving local authorities increasingly reliant on emergency funding and capable of only providing legally mandated services, the report shows. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 56m

It’s time to take back what’s ours.

At the #BlueEarthSummit I joined Feargal Sharkey and @cleanilkley.bsky.social to call out the scam of privatised water, and show how public ownership can become a reality.

If you agree it’s time to bring our water home, sign: actionnetwork.org/forms/water-...

Clive Lewis MP alongside Feargal Sharkey and Professor Becky Malby (People's Commission on the Water Sector) speaking at a panel event with the "Blue Earth Summit" banner behind them.

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Andrew @dartsmaster.bsky.social · 56m

Trump Is Kicking People Out of the Country for Insulting Charlie Kirk newrepublic.com/post/201791/...

Trump Is Kicking People Out of the Country for Insulting Charlie Kirk

Donald Trump has revoked at least six visas over the late far-right commentator.

newrepublic.com

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 5h

Elon Musk is stoking far-right extremism on our streets.

The Prime Minister should order a security assessment of the threat Musk poses to our democracy.

@libdemdaisy.bsky.social

#PMQs

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 4h

INCREDIBLE clip.

<Richard Holden MP shouts like an angry man in a pub>

Lisa Nandy: "Can you calm down a bit, mate? You're shouting like an angry man in a pub."

Richard Holden: "That's not fair."

<continues to shout like an angry man in a pub>

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Nissim @nissimss.bsky.social · 1h

Young GOP leaders racist, fascist, anti-Semitic and sexist messages are vile--but perfectly sum up MAGA
open.substack.com/pub/deanobei...

Young GOP leaders racist, fascist, anti-Semitic and sexist messages are vile--but perfectly sum up MAGA

The future of the GOP on parade

open.substack.com

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AnnieOakleyinGA @annie1x.bsky.social · 2h

#Pinks #ProudBlue
Fifth deadly strike carried out by U.S. military on fishing boats in the Caribbean. This brings the death toll to 27. These strikes violate U.S. and International law.
www.wiltonbulletin.com/news/article...

US kills 6 people in strike on boat accused of carrying drugs near Venezuela, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela. The Republican president said Tuesday in a social media post six people aboard the.....

www.wiltonbulletin.com

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WIRED @wired.com · 2h

Protesting this weekend? Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy.

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

www.wired.com

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 51m

Letter to the editor | East Anglia Bylines

Letter to the editor: £5bn over ten years isn’t ‘ambitious’ – it’s a fraction of what the EU once gave

Letter to the editor

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 4h

So just like in the Weimar Republic, democracy ultimately died not through a violent coup, but by a group of scoundrels abusing a system that was based upon the antiquated notion that all elected officials would behave like gentlemen.

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 12h

MAGA broke Congress when it decided that a Black man who had been elected President of the United States did not have the right to nominate a Supreme Court Justice.

After that, all that was left were insipid editorials like this.

If you don't know that Congress died years ago, where have you been?

Opinion | The most shortsighted way to end the government shutdown

Getting rid of the filibuster would spell disaster for Republicans.

www.washingtonpost.com

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