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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 3h

We actually KNOW that carbon sinks are failing

Nonetheless, governments are rowing back on green measures and FF corporations are expanding production

We can't keep lying to ourselves

We are well down the road to a society-busting climate cataclysm

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

www.theguardian.com

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Saul Mahoney @saulmahoney.bsky.social · 1h

Vibes of '5th Avenue'.
#taco

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 19h

The US President is bragging about murdering people in international waters, with zero due process, zero legal authoriy.

You cannot be okay with this.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 9h

Leicestershire Reform UK is a mess.

Dan Harrison must resign, it’s been calamity after calamity.

Leicestershire Reform finance lead steps down as opposition slam group's ‘inexperience’

Leicestershire Reform finance lead steps down as opposition slam group's ‘inexperience’

Reform UK’s Leicestershire County Council cabinet has suffered another change in its top team, with opposition groups saying residents are paying the price for their “inexperience”

www.leicester.news

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 1d

This is what the arsonists like Farage and Trump want to hold us back on - Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist

Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

www.theguardian.com

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Saul Mahoney @saulmahoney.bsky.social · 1d

Elon doesn't know that people like Yaxley Lennon use the term 'you legend' for his mates managing to piss off a balcony into a bag of posk scratchings. Or something.

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 2d

It’s time that Russia’s malign influence on British politics was properly investigated.

Agree? Add your name 👇🏻

It’s time for a REAL Russia report

Putin’s fingerprints are all over our politics. It’s time to prove it.

writesbright.substack.com

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Saul Mahoney @saulmahoney.bsky.social · 2d

🤔Can I use this?😂

Saul Mahoney @saulmahoney.bsky.social · 2d

That was quick! Is he running out of road? 🤔

Saul Mahoney @saulmahoney.bsky.social · 2d

Surely it's the Golden Arches he seeks most.

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JohnWest_JAWS @johnwestjaws.bsky.social · 3d

These 2 speeches, which, as Nick points out, on the same day, precede what Gill has pled guilty to by 4 years, are more damning for Farage as they also precede Brexit.

All European secret services would have been alarmed by this & would/should have been investigating.

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Paul Singh @paulsingh.bsky.social · 3d

Nice of U.K. media to finally realise that there’s a link between Moscow & the European far right.

If you followed my on the bad place you’d know I had a pinned thread highlighting these links stretching back to 2014.

But well done peeps. You got there in the end.

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Political Satirical @politicalsatirical.bsky.social · 3d

Oh dear, the cranky crankpot for the Right Wing is back, and I've pissed her off.

“Of Course Nigel Forgot Nathan Gill. One Meets So Many Footmen.”

By Baroness Bullhorn, Keeper of the Pearls, Defender of the Aga

open.substack.com

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Saul Mahoney @saulmahoney.bsky.social · 3d

So while they're blocking the release of the #EpsteinFiles are they quietly but effectively destroying all the evidence?

It's what any normal dictatorship would do.

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

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Saul Mahoney @saulmahoney.bsky.social · 3d

Well that was a bit shit.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 4d

No Democracy for Sale newsletter this weekend as I’m sick as a pike, I’m afraid.

But would highly recommend watching last week’s interview with the indefatigable @emilybell.bsky.social, if you missed it

youtu.be/5lXeFzrYwI8?...

Trump is breaking the free press | Professor Emily Bell's warning

YouTube video by Democracy for Sale

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Saul Mahoney @saulmahoney.bsky.social · 4d

I'm stunned that @paulsandars.bsky.social is stunned that people are stunned about Nigel Farage being stunned about Nathan Gill taking money from the Russians.

Paul Sandars🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @paulsandars.bsky.social · 4d

I'm stunned that people are stunned about Nigel Farage being stunned about Nathan Gill taking money from the Russians.

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Saul Mahoney @saulmahoney.bsky.social · 4d

Go wokey Popey! He speaks for us all..well 99% of us!

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d

I'm here for wokey-popey

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 6d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Saul Mahoney @saulmahoney.bsky.social · 4d

No. Release the #EpsteinFiles

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Saul Mahoney @saulmahoney.bsky.social · 4d

It's almost like they forgot to vet him.

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johnsweeneyroar @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve been appointed to be the local government correspondent of @thenerve_news covering the Russian Spy Party - Нет-нет-нет. Это не «Русская шпионская партия». Это «Реформа Великобритании». Извините за путаницу .

Read @thenerve_news for the latest on @reformparty_uk.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6d

I see Reform UK are on #BBCQT again tonight, would one of the other panelists kindly ask

Is it fiscally responsible for Nathan Gill to make anti EU, pro Russia statements in exchange for bribes

But for Nigel Farage to make anti EU, pro Russia statements, without bribes?

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Saul Mahoney @saulmahoney.bsky.social · 7d

'No babies'.

A ticket to the Nottingham beer festival.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 7d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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