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Newsom Is Replacing Trump At UN Climate Summit, Chicago Pushes Back Against ICE, and Mike Johnson Runs A House Of Lies Covering Up The Epstein Files
This is what resistance looks like
www.dworkinsubstack.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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NEW: ‘Nigel Farage is not my friend…he’s just a handsome & stylish English gentleman’

The wife of the Russian agent who Nathan Gill has admitted to accepting bribes from says Nigel Farage is not her ‘good friend’ after saying that he was her ‘good friend’
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'Nigel Farage is Not My Friend...He's Just a Very Handsome Man'
The wife of a Russian spy gets in touch...
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November 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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He’s so unafraid’: how New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani aced his TikTok game

As New Yorkers vote, the popular Muslim, socialist candidate is favourite. @kattenbarge.bsky.social reports on the role his fearless, canny, funny social media posts have played

www.thenerve.news/p/tiktok-sav...
‘He’s so unafraid’: how New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani aced his TikTok game
As New Yorkers vote today, an unapologetically leftwing – and hugely popular – Muslim candidate is leading the polls. His fearless, canny, and often funny, social media posting has played a key part i...
www.thenerve.news
November 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social

We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.

Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts

After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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While US polarisation predates social media it doesn’t really predate the end of broadcasting impartiality

Basically the US has been living with social media style partisan bias for decades, and now Europe is catching up (with similarly disastrous consequences)

Will policy makers now respond?
"Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the West"

Two words: algorithms and incentives. Mostly incentives. Until we modify or eliminate incentives, all we can do is watch as the fabric of society is pulled apart, strand by strand. www.ft.com/content/5060...
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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"Would you say that this is entirely grassroots?"

Man putting up flags in Lichfield: "Yes.."

"Do you support Tommy Robinson?"

"Yes, massively"

"So are you affiliated with him?"

"I was with him last night, yes. He gave me these flags"
September 10, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Mr Dodgy and his girlfriend’s house in Clacton
Nigel Farage faces questions over the funding of his Clacton house 👇
September 12, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....
October 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.
I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.
Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.
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October 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Keir Starmer, "Before we left the EU we had a returns agreement (for asylum seekers) with every country in the EU"

"These are Farage' Brexit Boats that are coming across the channel"
October 1, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Looks like Michelle Mone is going to have to sell that yacht

(from Feb 23)
October 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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My latest on the indictment of James Comey and the attempt to hide the trail of dirty Russian money.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/james-come...
James Comey, the Fascist Playbook and the Trail of Dirty Russian Money
Are you shocked by the arrest of former FBI director James Comey?
charlieangus.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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NEW: Only 14 of 23 Grand Jurors voted to indict James Comey.
September 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Legendary, veteran prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, known for targeting Osama bin Laden and bringing down the Illinois mob, is coming out of retirement to defend former FBI director James Comey.
Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald who took down the mob is coming back
Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, 64, served as a US attorney in Chicago for more than a decade, and he is a longtime friend and former colleague of Comey, 64.
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September 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Astonishingly, I've discovered, the Tufton Street junktanks that shaped Liz Truss's agenda are still operating at the heart of government. Remind me what we voted for again ...
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Warning! The rightwing junktanks behind the Tories’ worst disasters still have the keys to No 10 | George Monbiot
Who is running the government’s ‘growth school’ for civil servants? The answer surpassed my worst fears, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Three of my great uncles, heroes all, died in World War Two to stop men like this. Will we now allow them to saunter into power?
September 10, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Article from 2021, imo, as relevant as ever. British Psychological Society - official publication www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
The problem of pathocracy | BPS
Do psychologists have a responsibility to help prevent ruthless, amoral people attaining positions of power? Steve Taylor considers the arguments.
www.bps.org.uk
November 12, 2024 at 12:46 AM
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While in office, Johnson appears to have held a secret meeting with Peter Thiel, the billionaire who founded the controversial US data firm Palantir, months before it was given a role managing NHS data.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals
Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests
theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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A TUC poll shows 74% of 2024 Labour voters who are now "leaning to Reform" back wealth, gambling, and bank taxes. Rachel Reeves will make her tax plans clear at her autumn budget on 26 November

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Tax the rich to thwart Reform, TUC chief urges Labour
A TUC poll shows 74% of 2024 Labour voters who are now "leaning to Reform" back wealth, gambling, and bank taxes. Rachel Reeves will make her tax plans clear at her autumn budget on 26 November.
news.sky.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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"Money buys influence in British democracy"

My evidence from Parliament yesterday on threats from foreign influence in British politics.

Full video on the Democracy for Sale YouTube channel (Do subscribe!!)

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September 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Donations used to be £50,000 a decade ago, now they are in the £millions. Democracy in England is an auction house. @petergeoghegan.bsky.social tells Parliament. At least we can listen! Will they?? www.youtube.com/watch?v=hckx...
Defending Democracy: How Mega-Donors Influence Elections
YouTube video by Democracy for Sale
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September 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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The Trump administration is set to destroy a large stockpile of U.S.-funded contraceptives stored at a warehouse in Belgium.

Belgium, the United Nations and aid groups say they have offered to save $9.7 million in supplies.
Trump administration to destroy birth control intended as aid
Belgium, the United Nations and aid groups say they have offered to save $9.7 million in supplies kept in a Belgian warehouse.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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The previous data we had showed agricultural relief claims by farmers, but not business property relief claims (broadly, APR covers the agricultural value of land; BPR covers other stuff). We now have more. And it comes with a surprise, hidden in this paragraph:
November 24, 2024 at 9:00 AM