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Blackford Safe Routes @blackfordsaferoutes.co.uk · 5h

During those 2 years spent inside the car, 2.4 million people will have been killed globally from road crashes

Strange the advertisers fail to mention that

Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 21h

Trapped in traffic and stuck travelling long distances to work because of car-centric planning?

Be grateful, says Mercedes-Benz’s latest advert which aims to persuade us that spending two years of our lives stuck inside a car is somehow actually a good thing.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 5h

This case stems from the systemic failure & subsequent cover-up revealed by 2020 Russia Report. Boris Johnson refused to investigate but what is UK govt's excuse now??

Read about this 5-year campaign & why it's even more necessary than ever now.

substack.com/home/post/p-...
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The Case We Shouldn’t Have Had to Bring

Why three ex-MPs are taking Britain to Europe’s “Supreme Court” to defend our elections

substack.com

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 5h

Michael Deacon. Never not at it.

Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 5h

Oh no, Daily Telegraph, it wouldn't, which is why you're writing it.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 6h

People who are generally upset with how their lives are going, and also feel there are too many people around who look different, can never actually be appeased.

Not by Brexit, not by eliminating FoM, not by new taxes or fees, not by ending ILR, not by denaturalizing not by anything.

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SEEN Police Official Open Public Network @seenpoliceuk.bsky.social · 7h

First question defence lawyer should ask each of these ‘nurses’

“Why did you go to the media before instigating proceedings at the Tribunal?”

Let Naomi Cunningham cough and splutter for them, but MAKE these christo-fascist fuckers answer the question.

Their claim should then be struck-out.

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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 6h

Collapses of Michigan-based car parts supplier First Brands and Texas-based subprime car lender Tricolor could be a sign of wider problems in the financial system and “alarm bells” are ringing, says Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey.

US firm collapses ringing 'alarm bells', says Bank of England chief

The Bank of England governor says the collapse of two US firms could be a sign of wider problems in the financial sector.

www.bbc.co.uk

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 21h

Why public safety should be an absolute priority, and risk assessments should not be gainsaid by politicians, continued.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Intelligence on ‘extreme’ Maccabi fans with history of violence led to Villa Park ban

Exclusive: West Midlands police were told supporters randomly attacked Muslims in Amsterdam last year

www.theguardian.com

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 21h

"Lawyers said the actions were brazenly corrupt". There, fixed it for you @nytimes.com

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Clare Bonetree @blooyonder.bsky.social · 1d

Another one for Rachel Reeves

Dave Lee @davelee.me · 1d

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

www.bloomberg.com

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 1d

See the issue is that Trump ran on releasing on the Epstein files, and Bondi said she had them sitting on her desk ready to go, and then Elon Musk tweeted that Trump was in them and they were suddenly deemed a hoax and Ghislaine was moved to a spa prison, so you can understand the fresh intrigue

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "Suddenly now, they've somehow convinced themselves that the Epstein files will be damaging to President Trump and Republicans in some way that they've imagined, and so they feign outrage."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

“So you’re going to release the files then?”

“Oh, heavens no.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "Suddenly now, they've somehow convinced themselves that the Epstein files will be damaging to President Trump and Republicans in some way that they've imagined, and so they feign outrage."

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Wow that’s crazy release the files

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Comer: "The evidence we've gathered does not implicate President Trump in any way. Public reporting, survivor testimony, and official documents show that Bill Clinton had far closer ties to Epstein. We're working to bring former President Clinton in for a deposition, but Democrats aren't helping"

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

I guess they don’t think the images of Trump tearing apart the WH and grounds are helpful to them.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Harmeet Dhillon joins Dinesh D'Souza and Laura Ingraham as disciples of Dartmouth's Jeffrey Hart who have gone on to have a real impact on the country.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe it was a sign when the person Trump put in charge of the DOJ's Civil Rights division was a protege of Jeffrey Hart at Dartmouth, a man who wrote this column in 1977.

'Roots' Was a Racist Attack on White People
THIS IS
going to be a harsher co-
lumn than I
ordinarily care to write,
but the whole "Roots"
phenomenon
deserves some blunt comment.
Tens of millions of Americans sat through the eight TV episodes of
"Roots" and apparently did not understand that they themselves were being
attacked
both directly and
unjustifiably. This fact is at once alarming and profoundly depressing.
The attack made by "Roots," more. over, was deeply racist, practically all of the whites being unattractive louts, practically all of the blacks nature's noblemen.
This is the sort of thing many of the
commentators are calling
mythic
truth." That is, people with white skins are, morally speaking, unattractive louts. As Susan Sontag once put it, whites are the cancer of the human race.
"Roots" was just as blunt.
Is it possible that the white audience for "Roots"
was unaware that it
was being assaulted?
If so, then perhaps that audience really does deserve to be ripped off,
PRoos" is realty al about "Rootst
does not have much to do with histo-ry, which is scarcely present at all in the series, but with concrete political claims in the present.
The message comes through loud and clear, viz., because of the slavery experience in the past, contemporary
Jeffrey
Hart
blacks have special valid claims on contemporary whites. Contemporary whites, indeed, should feel guilty in connection with blacks. now awarded
"victim
status"
by
Alex
Haley.
"Roots" means to offer blacks a moral blank check, figures to be filled in at leisure: quotas in jobs and colleges, privileged access to the federal kitty, favorable court decisions on highly disputed matters, and so forth. An au• dience willing to ooh and aah over
"Roots" is not about to resist very strongly when the political rip-offs arrive.
To achieve its propagandistic goals,
"Roots" makes a mish-mash of histo-ry. In historical fact,
marauding
bands of whites did not go into the African bush and
Blacks were almest
ways seiz…

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 1d

21 October 1902 | Eddy Hamel was born in New York. As a teenager, he moved to #Amsterdam. 1st Jewish player in Ajax Amsterdam. He scored 8 goals in 125 league games.

After his arrest in October 1942, he was deported to Auschwitz, where he perished on 30 April 1943.

Black and white portrait of Eddy Hamel smiling.

Black and white historical photograph of an early 20th-century soccer team posing on a field, with players in uniforms and some individuals in overcoats and hats, surrounded by spectators in the background.

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 1d

Ohio State University’s failed former president & current consultant E. Gordon Gee, who once infamously said “You can’t trust those damn Catholics” writes for Fox News on how higher ed can embrace a diversity of beliefs. You can’t make this stuff up.
www.foxnews.com/opinion/ive-...

I’ve been a college president and higher education needs to embrace diversity of beliefs

American universities must balance academic freedom with responsibility while addressing ongoing campus disruptions and restoring order after years of protests.

www.foxnews.com

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2d

The very fact that MI5 - and the security services generally - are accountable to our domestic courts flows from the ECHR decision of Malone.

One of many ways that Convention has benefitted our legal order.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 1d

Talk TV's Mike Graham is claiming that he has been hacked.

Not sharing the original (now deleted) post because it's absolutely disgusting and offensive.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: I’ve graduated from “nobody” to “distortionist”

Roger Stone & @RogerJStoneJr
X.com
Anna Bower isn't a reporter- she's a distortionist

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Tory MP Katie Lam demands that legally settled families be deported.

Barely concealed racism as Tories copy Reform. What next - special badges and camps for minorities.

A line in political discourse has been crossed.

Will the next road to Auschwitz and Treblinka go through Clacton?

Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported

Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’

www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 1d

Just shocking incompetence/laziness from @peston.bsky.social @itvpeston.bsky.social here. No excuses.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Peston tells Lam that she said something that he "genuinely didn't understand". "But who are these people who came legally who should leave?"

This does not look like faux naivety.
He should know the answer!

She misleads in her answer to him.
So he gives a misleading summary of her policy on air.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

In just 1 week (October 7-13) illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank:

Mounted at least 71 attacks on Palestinians
Murdered one Palestinian
Injured 99 Palestinians
Targeted 27 villages
Destroyed more than 1,400 olive trees

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Peston tells Lam that she said something that he "genuinely didn't understand". "But who are these people who came legally who should leave?"

This does not look like faux naivety.
He should know the answer!

She misleads in her answer to him.
So he gives a misleading summary of her policy on air.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 1d

Good thread on how a big part of the problem of British politics is big media figures with no real interest in being across the details.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Peston tells Lam that she said something that he "genuinely didn't understand". "But who are these people who came legally who should leave?"

This does not look like faux naivety.
He should know the answer!

She misleads in her answer to him.
So he gives a misleading summary of her policy on air.

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