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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 7h

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Steve Jary @unionsteve.bsky.social · 9h

The Hone Secretary seems determined to be in the wrong side of history. And to lose Labour as many elections as she can.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 9h

Before “cancel culture” became a left-wing scourge on free society, the Million Moms Facebook group launched an unsuccessful boycott of Target.

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 9h

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just rejected Alex Jones' appeal and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him by the Sandy Hook Elementary School families

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 16h

This - and Farage working with wealthy US anti-abortion groups on 'freedom of [our] speech' campaigns (per Byline Times and NY Times) - show significant US financial interference in UK politics.

If you want to end up like the US, first thing to do is let money dominate democracy.

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 17h

Taking on Elon Musk should be an open goal in British politics.

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 17h

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka ”Tommy Robinson,” says Tesla CEO Elon Musk is paying his legal bills.

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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 17h

Forced to share pins, left open to fraud!

1 in 5 with mental health conditions risk financial abuse by sharing pins as banks don't offer carers cards, 3rd party notifications or controls. We want to change that. Full info www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/10...

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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 10h

I'm all for voting tactically.

But strategic voting is just as important.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16h

Brexit is Farage and his fellow Brexiters' shitstorm to own. He/they can't be allowed to just pivot from heckle to heckle and bad idea to worse - while blaming everyone else - without consequences.

So the suggestion that Labour are going to amplify that truth is to be welcomed.

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Jenny Bendel @jennybendel.bsky.social · 11h

The T-Rex holding the “I Am Antifa” sign. I’m dead.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 14h

So a 14-year-old British boy was tricked into going to Ghana and put in a boarding school that beats children and profits from it?

Isn't that just trafficking?

You don’t prevent crime by traumatising kids. Trauma increases the risk of negative life outcomes.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 17h

Nigel Farage wasn’t telling the truth on Laura Kuenssberg

Reform claim they were obstructed. There’s only one problem: they never made any inquiries.

Nigel Farage wasn't telling the truth on Laura Kuenssberg

Reform want to be obstructed by council workers, but they have to try first

www.newstatesman.com

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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 14h

Have you seen Idiocracy, @mrjamesob.bsky.social?

Brexit was Britain’s Brawndo moment - pouring Red Bull into the irrigation system.

Now the crops are dying, and no one dares turn the tap back to water.

Brexit Britain is a real-life Idiocracy sequel.

@lbc.co.uk #lbc

nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 15h

Britain doesn’t talk about Brexit because it can’t bear to @mrjamesob.bsky.social

The promises failed to materialise, the drama exhausted everyone, and what’s left is fatigue, shame, and quiet decline.

The UK is simply too tired to face what it did to itself.

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@lbc.co.uk #lbc

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14h

Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says

European Council commissioner voices concerns following April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman Transgender people risk being excluded from many public spaces as a result of the recent UK supreme court judgment and must be protected from discrimination, a human rights expert has said. Michael O’Flaherty, the European Council commissioner for human rights, said he had concerns about the climate for transgender people in the UK following April’s supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 14h

youtu.be/GFD2ggNxR1g?...

Idiocracy - Brawndo : It's got what plants crave!

YouTube video by David McCann

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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 14h

Have you seen Idiocracy, @mrjamesob.bsky.social?

Brexit was Britain’s Brawndo moment - pouring Red Bull into the irrigation system.

Now the crops are dying, and no one dares turn the tap back to water.

Brexit Britain is a real-life Idiocracy sequel.

@lbc.co.uk #lbc

nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 15h

Britain doesn’t talk about Brexit because it can’t bear to @mrjamesob.bsky.social

The promises failed to materialise, the drama exhausted everyone, and what’s left is fatigue, shame, and quiet decline.

The UK is simply too tired to face what it did to itself.

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@lbc.co.uk #lbc

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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 14h

Britain hasn’t rejoined the EU because no one can face another set of campaigns and negotiations.

Politicians fear the fight, the press the reckoning, the public the déjà vu.

The argument could be won, Faragism beaten, but the country is too exhausted to try.

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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 15h

Britain doesn’t talk about Brexit because it can’t bear to @mrjamesob.bsky.social

The promises failed to materialise, the drama exhausted everyone, and what’s left is fatigue, shame, and quiet decline.

The UK is simply too tired to face what it did to itself.

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@lbc.co.uk #lbc

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 15h

It was straightforward @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Netenyahu and his allies are ethno-religious-nationalists.

The entire ceremony was propaganda aimed at their base and at Donald Trump.

@lbc.co.uk #lbc

nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 1d

All I can say about that ceremony, @mrjamesob.bsky.social, is that it will do nothing to dispel the growing sense that Israel is sliding into fascism.

It would not have been out of place in an authoritarian dictatorship.

@lbc.co.uk #lbc

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nohostages.bsky.social @nohostages.bsky.social · 1d

All I can say about that ceremony, @mrjamesob.bsky.social, is that it will do nothing to dispel the growing sense that Israel is sliding into fascism.

It would not have been out of place in an authoritarian dictatorship.

@lbc.co.uk #lbc

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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 16h

Farmers along the Shannon Callows have said their livelihoods are being destroyed by rising water levels in the area, which takes in large stretches of land in counties Galway, Offaly, Roscommon and Westmeath

Farmers along Shannon say lives 'destroyed by flooding'

Farmers along the Shannon Callows have said their livelihoods are being destroyed by rising water levels in the area, which takes in large stretches of land in counties Galway, Offaly, Roscommon and W...

www.rte.ie

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

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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ultras-antifa @antifa-ultras.bsky.social · 3d

#Germany - At the pro-Palestine demonstration in Berlin, Die Linke Party MP Lea Reisner was punched by the police.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

We’re in the second Gilded Age just like the first — when America’s wealth was in the hands of a few, money corrupted politics, and working people were abused and exploited.

It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the first Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.

From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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