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Duncan Jones

@manmademoon.bsky.social

Seems only reasonable to find out who has access and posting privileges to the social media account of the President of the USA in case they ever drunkly cause an international incident…

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 8d

It’s weird how the White House can just blame a “staffer” for the racist post as if just any low level flunky can pretend to be the President of the United States at any random time.

February 7, 2026 at 12:28 AM

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JPAnalyst

@jaydpauley.bsky.social

Twitter was once fun.

The Washington post was one of the most respected papers.

The Kennedy Center for the Performing arts was revered.

The East Wing was a part of our history in a house that America owns.

All have been killed almost overnight by malicious billionaires.

February 5, 2026 at 2:47 PM

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Otto English

@ottoenglish.bsky.social

I mean... this is REALLY not ok

John Richard Simpson is a 59-year-old
conveyancer whose parish website describes
him as an experienced" and "dedicated"
Anglican lay leader.

He is the owner of Interior Architecture
Landscape Limited, which made seven
payments to_Nigel Farage's party last summer.
The firm, which was originally owned via a
trust in the British Virgin Islands, is so small it
does not have to file professionally audited
accounts. It did not display any contact details
until recently and was almost wound up by
HMRC after a tax dispute last year.

Simpson, known locally as Bill, "does
conveyancing, but is not a fully qualified
solicitor", according to a Facebook post by a
neighbour in the Hertfordshire town. There is
no evidence he has any background in interior
design. He has no known political affiliation or
background in activism.

He would not discuss the source of the funds
donated to Reform last week.

Simpson has long worked for Sasan and
Yasmin Ghandehari, a married couple who a
spokesman for the interior design company
acknowledged were "clients"

Last month, the Ghandehari family office
sponsored Farage's pass to Davos and a hotel
in the Swiss resort for the World Economic
Forum's annual gathering. They claimed to
have retained the Reform leader as "an
honorary and unpaid adviser" in an
arrangement first reported by the Financial
Times.

February 2, 2026 at 9:06 AM

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Olga Nesterova

@onestpress.onestnetwork.com

The Afghan minister of education confirms that access to schools for women in the country is permanently banned

January 26, 2026 at 4:09 PM

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Mina Kimes

@minakimes.bsky.social

A nurse. A researcher. A helper.

January 24, 2026 at 9:01 PM

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Tanya 🧚‍♀️👑

@faeryqueene73.bsky.social

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

January 23, 2026 at 11:19 PM

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Ian Dunt

@iandunt.bsky.social

It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Who funds the Free Speech Union?

Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.

open.substack.com

January 17, 2026 at 8:45 AM

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Helen Day

@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social

Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Winter Sunshine at Nether-Alderley’
Artist: SR Badmin

Finely detailed mixed-media illustration looking down on a small village or large estate surrounded by a variety of winter trees under light snow

January 10, 2026 at 7:40 PM

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Don Moynihan

@donmoyn.bsky.social

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jan 9

Trump talks about Denmark and Greenland just now: "The fact that they landed a boat there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."

January 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM

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DavyCraig

@davycraig.bsky.social

To help this little lad I'm offering a Hinnie the Pooh painting featuring footballers of your choice & whatever you want to Hinnie & Piglet to say

£1 per raffle ticket - unlimited numbers
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Drawn on Fri 19th Dec 7pm

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