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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 1h

This guy is Senior Political Correspondent at the Daily Express. Good god.

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 20h

A mainstream “journalist” calling for a British MP to be deported. Is it because I’m Muslim? Next time, just say it with your chest.

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 1h

So, the UK trade envoy traveled to and met Israeli officials when the Foreign Secretary had shut trade talks and denied he'd meet anyone. They include Rafael, an arms company making the Iron Dome and Spike missiles used by the IDF in Gaza, incl lethal strikes on ambulances and on WCK aid workers.

Revealed: UK Foreign Office staff pushed for Israel trip despite suspension of trade talks

Exclusive: Peer meet Israeli officials and business leaders on visit that had no support from ministers

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1h

Probably not a great sign that it now feels weird and uncanny to see a public servant actually working to improve normal people's lives.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 20h

Great to visit St Mary’s Primary School in Battersea today - one of the first schools to receive indoor air quality filters as part of my initiative to improve children’s health.

More than 200 schools will be getting indoor air quality filters soon.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1h

Calls for Reform MS to confirm whether tax payers cash was spent on legal contracts to gag staff

Emily Price Urgent calls have been made for Wales’ most senior Reform politician to confirm whether she used taxpayers money to fund legal agreements that gagged her staff from speaking out about...

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 4d

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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 6d

I might as well mention this again, I’ve got a new gallery of work for sale that’s called ‘Rodents’ because it’s rodents. Mostly squirrels, some rabbits, watch this space for, in fact, more rodents. www.chloecumming.com/rodents

Share if possible, thank you

Scratch oil pastel drawing of a squirrel with an orange du band soft blueness, expressive and interesting

Ink drawing of a squirrel, green in the bottom right corner, and red poppies, semi abstracted, busy and moody, drawn in a time of intense crisis but determination

A soft side facing greyish brown rabbit with green background, interesting expressive Markmaking

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 2h

the US government has arrived on bluesky

4 panel comic

Panel 1: A group of people just having a lovely time. Everyone is laughing

Panel 2: An absolute Federal Agent appears in the middle of the group laughing like an obnoxious robot

Panel 3: The group quickly disperses, leaving the gross creepy agent by himself

Panel 4: The agent touches his ear and says “arrest their moms”

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Alistair Barrie @alistairbarrie.com · 1h

Real headline should be 'The preservation of a Prince.'

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 3d

AOC humiliates RFK over UnitedHealth rip-off - the private health group who fund Wes Streeting

Health Secretary and his boss take shedloads of cash from private health interests - including UnitedHealth, as AOC drags them
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

AOC humiliates RFK over UnitedHealth rip-off - the private health group who fund Wes Streeting

Health Secretary and his boss take shedloads of cash from private health interests - including UnitedHealth, as AOC drags them

www.thecanary.co

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 2h

When I was about 7 or so, I saw some film about army ants gone mad and just destroying whole houses before them. It was probably terrible, but it convinced me that they were something that I had to be on the watch for continually in the West of Ireland.

Just thought that was worth sharing.

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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 1h

A convicted felon commutes a convicted felon. Let that sink in.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 2h

this is obviously appalling - and he should lose his job - but it's also really quite shocking; I first met Calgie when he was a baby reporter in his early twenties and sure, he was always a Tory, but he was....fine and normal? right-wing radicalisation is out of control in SW1

Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 20h

A mainstream “journalist” calling for a British MP to be deported. Is it because I’m Muslim? Next time, just say it with your chest.

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AngryGeriatricGenx @angrygeriatricgenx.bsky.social · 2h

They're all dripping in Russian money.

THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 3h

The TV host, the web of influence and the trip booked to Moscow

Ahead of a critical Welsh by-election for Reform next week, part two of @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's investigation for the Nerve into disgraced former Ukip MEP and Reform UK politician Nathan Gill

Treated social media images of pictures of Nadia Sass with Nathan Gill and separately with Nigel Farage

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 5h

Well, to begin with this morning, happy eighth birthday to this tweet

Screenshot of tweet by James McNicholas:
“No-one ever has near death experiences about hell. [flame emoji] "There was a bright red light & I felt a metal stick going up my bum. Hitler was there."”
18/10/2017, 14:21
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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 2h

This is a MUST-read (I rarely say that) and it's more superb investigative work by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and the new @thenerve.news team into Russia's dark money manoeuvring and influence over Reform. The Caerphilly candidate was Gill's assistant and is egging on division there.

THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 3h

The TV host, the web of influence and the trip booked to Moscow

Ahead of a critical Welsh by-election for Reform next week, part two of @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's investigation for the Nerve into disgraced former Ukip MEP and Reform UK politician Nathan Gill

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 2h

Omg
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Squirrels 'help rescue dog trapped in hedge' in Swindon

The small animals caught the attention of a builder and led him to the hedge.

www.bbc.com

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Mr Peter Lyall @missedmycue.bsky.social · 2h

Hey @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social how come @thenerve.news has this story which seems huge but it is not getting the headlines on mainstream media it deserves?

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3h

NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.

So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?

Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3h

If you share this thread or images, please credit @thenerve_news.

We are only 3 weeks old (!!) & can only do this work with your support.

And if there was ever a story that proves why Britain needs fiercely independent news outlets, it’s this.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...

The glamorous TV host, the web of influence and a mysterious trip to Moscow – inside the downfall of Reform’s disgraced MEP

Ahead of a critical Welsh byelection for Reform next week, part two of our investigation into Nathan Gill uncovers the web of Russian influence that encircled him – and asks why it took so long to cha...

www.thenerve.news

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3h

Seriously.

You think if Keir Starmer had been cultivated by this woman, there would be tumbleweed across entire UK media?!?

We are stuck in a right-wing news-sphere & this story proves how dangerous that is.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3h

Next week, Reform faces a key by-election in Wales. Yet voters in Caerphilly know none of this.

Even tho Reform’s candidate is Nathan Gill’s former assistant.

We are at a critical point of failure in Britain. The delay of the authorities, the silence of the media..
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3h

The long delay of UK police baffles professor @shekhovtsov.substack.com

Gill is all over his 2021 report into this pan-European Kremlin spy ring.

The Polish authorities charged his main target, Janusz Niedzwiecki, with espionage that same year.

So what took UK police so long?

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3h

We know so-called Kremlin ‘agent of influence’ Nadia Sass considered Nigel Farage her ‘good friend’…because she told us.

She cultivated far right political leaders & her social media was key part of her tradecraft.

New in @thenerve.news today are the details
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3h

Meet the team.

Voloshyn - the man who bribed Nathan Gill - with his wife, Nadia Sass.

In part 2 of @thenerve.news’s investigation, we reveal their tag team approach.

But the UK police knew all this since at least 2022, the same year they fled to Belarus.

So what gives??
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3h

Meet Nadia Sass.

This is the wife of the man who bribed Nathan Gill.

Today @thenerve.news reveals how she was a key part of the Kremlin operation that targeted not just Gill but at least 2 other MEPs and a member of the House of Lords.

thenerve.news/p/nathan-gill-…
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