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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 18h

"Behind the scenes the Alliance Defending Freedom set up that meeting with Farage and the Republicans."

NYT's UK investigative correspondent Jane Bradley reveals evidence of a growing concerted effort by American advocacy groups targeting the UK.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 21h

Major Donor to Reform U.K. Party Sold Weapons Parts to Russian Supplier

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There was £100k from subsidiary company Techtest in May 2019 and then £50k (not mentioned in the article) from parent company HR Smith group in May 2024.

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Major Donor to Reform U.K. Party Sold Weapons Parts to Russian Supplier

The aerospace company H.R. Smith Group was an early backer of the party after Nigel Farage became leader. Reform has faced criticism over comments seen as supporting Moscow. Nigel Farage at an even…

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Arlyssa D. Becenti @abecenti.bsky.social · 1d

How to help Alaskan communities

How to help residents and communities after catastrophic Western Alaska storm

Several organizations are asking for donations or contributing fundraiser proceeds to help residents affected by the remnants of Typhoon Halong.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals

You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing

If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 18h

AOC, "Republicans target and exploit young boys away from healthy masculinity to an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others"

"They are appealing to the most basic and worst parts of human nature to divide us"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20h

Please read my column today in conjunction with Aditya's. The government pretends to be delivering housing to those who need it, but is in fact just appeasing the big corporations. Then it blames nature protections, and rips those down at their behest as well.
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A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty

Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · 1d

If the taxes I pay on my writing are used to bail out an industry founded on stealing and then replacing my writing, I swear to god, I am going to do so much angry writing

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

OpenAI has pledged to spend $1 trillion in the next five years.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

BERNIE: “I worry we are increasingly becoming an oligarchic form of society, where a very small # of people control our economy + have huge influence over both political parties. if there was ever a time to stand up for working families and prevent authoritarianism, this is it.”

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Rosamund Gravelle @rosamundgravelle.bsky.social · 20h

If you’re able to buy me a coffee it would be awesome and much appreciated, hard times for artists (and I know all of us) but to continue to light up the world, it’s helpful to be able to keep on creating & any help towards my being able to keep doing this is appreciated beyond words…

Rosamund Gravelle @rosamundgravelle.bsky.social · 16d

If you’re able to, it would be wonderful
if you could support/ donate me to support my creative work - it’s still so important to still keep producing work in these times, and if you could buy me a coffee that would be awesome! buymeacoffee.com/rosamundgrav...

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Rosamund Gravelle

I am a passionate writer and poet, as well as creating a podcast (which I co-host and co-produce); things are still tough out there especially as I mainly write plays - it takes a lot to keep going an

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20h

In today's least surprising news

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22h

Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot

The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

I notice all those brave journalists, Guido alumni, and Tory hacks, who manufactured a scandal - a dangerous one to national security, at that - out of gossip, supposition, and sticky tape, have gone ALL QUIET now the witness statements have been released and are exactly as the PM detailed at PMQs.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Meta has removed a Chicago ICE-tracking Facebook page.

The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.

The removals came after a demand from Trump’s DOJ.

Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 1d

If you are watching the Reform Party controlled Councils with their endless mishaps, resignations, fallouts, scandals, mismanagement and sheer comedic idiocy, but still thinking of making these clowns a national government, representing the UK on the global stage, you are literally insane.

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Jay Lionel @jaylionel.bsky.social · 1d

Day 267

The Trump regime continued to murder people yesterday.

They blew up another boat of ‘suspected’ drug dealers.

Suspected.

They killed them.

There was ZERO immediate damage to life.

They could have boarded the boats.

This is a CRIMINAL act.

Utterly disgusting

You are all caught up.

Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.

Terry Pratchett

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

THIS: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

reasonsvoice.bsky.social @reasonsvoice.bsky.social · 2d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

FLORIDA now requires public schools to share space with charter schools, and “one charter operator intends to occupy space in more than 100 public schools (!)” 🤔

Privatizing public schools at breakneck speed, filling their pockets with taxpayer funds. www.fox13news.com/news/charter...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

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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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 2d

Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.

It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.

Investigation now!

#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 2d

Go on then Nigel Farage, keep telling us you know nothing about Russian influence…

The Farage staffer, the Russian embassy and a smear campaign against a Kremlin critic

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The Farage staffer, the Russian embassy and a smear campaign against a Kremlin critic

Worker for Farage’s group in EU parliament was ‘frequent visitor to embassy’ and accused of role in propaganda stunt

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

“An essential condition today for entry into the upper echelons of Conservative party politics is being willing to at least pretend that you think taking Britain out of the EU was a good idea. This is a never-ending lobotomy for the Tories”

Brexit will always ruin you in the end.
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How Brexit drained the Tories’ talent pool

The party can’t keep expecting successful people to pretend that leaving the EU was a good idea

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —MLK Jr.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 2d

BREAKING NEWS

In a move that has shocked absolutely no one with basic arithmetic skills, populist right wing party trying to win votes with fantasy economics traipses around in fetching hair shirt after all their policies are found to be economic fantasy.

Reform UK
Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits
Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in government

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