Richard Clegg
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chiller
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It won't be the 'storm of the century' though, will it. It'll be the first of many similar & worsening storms. This is how Earth is, now.
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Aaron Rupar
about 18 hours ago
Trump: "We should have the lowest interest rates of any country, because without us there are no other countries really."
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Arthur Snell
1 day ago
Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance.
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British Council ‘selling everything it can’ to survive
Cultural body plans more job cuts, sale of assets and closure in 35 countries to stave off ‘financial peril’
https://on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT
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Jonathan Pie
1 day ago
Labour had 14 years to make sure that when they eventually got in, they would make a positive difference. Well look how that turned out. Fuck sake.
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Josiah Mortimer
2 days ago
Politico: "MPs should consider deleting X, according to a committee led by Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle... "On social media, the report said MPs should feel “empowered to step away from platforms that pose more harm than benefit.” Absolutely. Please get on with it.
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Sir Michael Take CBE
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Anders Åslund
3 days ago
Hitler was preoccupied with building his "Volkshalle" (People's Hall) = Ballroom. This was his top priority. The Berliners complained quietly: "We have no bacon, no fat, no eggs, but Hitler has his Reich Chancellery!"
www.nytimes.com/1944/02/20/a...
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Hitler's Dream Palace (Published 1944)
https://www.nytimes.com/1944/02/20/archives/hitlers-dream-palace.html
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Sarah Murphy
4 days ago
We must make racism disgraceful again. This kind of shameless ugly inadequacy from Pochin should be career-ending, not career-enhancing. Honestly… the Little England nastiness is repulsive.
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Zack Polanski
7 days ago
DOUBLED!!! Absolutely extraordinary. Thank you everyone. This is the movement.
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Farrukh
7 days ago
Mehdi Hasan, "Is rejoining the EU a Green Party aim" Zack Polanski, "Yes it is" And just like that, the Green Party have leapfrogged the LibDems
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Will Jennings 🗳️
8 days ago
My god. What a desecration.
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Dorian Lynskey
8 days ago
As long as the Tories were less extreme than Reform I thought better them on the right than the alternative but if they’re going to be another far right party - one with better infrastructure and funding and more MPs than Reform - we should pray for their destruction
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Farrukh
9 days ago
Zack Polanski, "1 in 3 children are living in poverty, meanwhile, billionaire wealth goes up collectively by £35 million every day" "It's about making sure we tax wealth, not work"
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Zack Polanski
9 days ago
Glad to hear Keir Starmer is finally making the right decision to attend climate talks. Now let's talk about taxing wealth.
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James O’Brien
10 days ago
Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
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“They quietly moved on and chose to ignore the whole situation. Why did they do that? Because their specific authoritarianism runs exclusively on fumes of rage8, and joy and organisation is kryptonite to them.”
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-revolu...
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The Revolution Will Be Organised
What the “No Kings” marches taught us: the antidote to tyranny isn’t fury - it’s laughter, clipboards and muscular decency (and there's probably a Gantt chart somewhere).
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-revolution-will-be-organised?utm_campaign=post
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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism!
14 days ago
Good article👇“The youngest pension contributors won’t retire for another 40 or 50 years. Pension fund managers + other long-term asset owners have a fiduciary responsibility to protect the interests of beneficiaries decades into the future - not least by acting against long-term climate risks.“ 1/x
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Why pension funds are still pushing for climate action
Long-term asset owners have bucked the financial sector trend of retreat on green goals
https://www.ft.com/content/fd810878-4370-4424-8a98-385367028c40?accessToken=zwAGQNEHvabgkdP9gQh4Q3BEJNOKmDhTZwKMQA.MEQCIFS-2_kL0r07-WSI00ev5WkBBYs3C_fNubi9KW9aj9T-AiBsr3nmioIvX8v-3Xg_tsA8X4ntveKKNxOthnk_qQy1oQ&sharetype=gift&token=cded5a33-e11e-4a72-83e0-e3f9a1971788
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Anders Åslund
10 days ago
Europe, the UK, Canada, Japan and Ukraine need to cut out Trump from any further negotiations about Ukraine, because Trump represents Putin & not the West.
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Otto English
10 days ago
While the Queen was on the throne, it was a different matter. With her passing it's time to ask - perfectly reasonably - who the institution of monarchy serves and whether this one family should rule over us all in perpetuity... with almost zero accountability
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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MPs urged to confront royal family over Prince Andrew’s Epstein links
Calls grow for parliamentary rule changes to strip Andrew of titles and ask questions of royals
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/19/mps-urged-to-confront-royal-family-over-prince-andrews-epstein-links?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Will Jennings 🗳️
10 days ago
JD Vance shelled himself. You couldn't make it up.
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Frettie Fingers
11 days ago
#nokings
Portland frog brigade
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Liam Thorp
10 days ago
Almost like a lot of people want to feel inspired by something
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Zack Polanski
10 days ago
Update: 128,000. Accept this is slightly wild now.
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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre conservative editors
11 days ago
"At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”
bsky.app/profile/john...
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Mark Chadbourn
11 days ago
Seven million. “One of the largest single-day nationwide demonstrations in US history.”
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OrangeSage
11 days ago
#NoKings
Miami!
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Joined! Thanks for talking straight and pointing to the real issues
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Anton Gerashchenko
11 days ago
Thank you, Congressman, for your steadfast support of
#Ukraine
. You make excellent points.
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Robert Reich
13 days ago
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.
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Aaron Rupar
13 days ago
Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."
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Peter Jukes
14 days ago
Russians Offered Business Deals to Brexit’s Biggest Backer .
www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/w...
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Russians Offered Business Deals to Brexit’s Biggest Backer (Published 2018)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/world/europe/russia-britain-brexit-arron-banks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tk8.b50-.7MKFeodlHCxk&smid=bs-share
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Peter Jukes
14 days ago
Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times around Brexit
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018...
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Revealed: Leave.EU campaign met Russian officials as many as 11 times
Founder Arron Banks was offered lucrative deals in talks with the ambassador
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/08/revealed-leaveeu-campaign-met-russian-officials-as-many-as-11-times
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Caroline Lucas
14 days ago
More evidence that the
#climate
emergency affects *everything* - it should be front & centre of ALL government decisions. As well as serious adaptation (petition here
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7300…
) Govt must urgently stop making things worse eg greenlighting high carbon airport expansion
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UK must prepare buildings for 2C rise in global temperature, government told
Climate advisers warn that current plans to protect against extreme weather are inadequate
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/15/uk-prepare-buildings-2c-rise-temperature?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Great listen! The Trawl Podcast interviews Jack Polowski
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
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The Trawl Meets Zack Polanski
Podcast Episode · The Trawl · 2025-10-13 · 56m
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-trawl/id1634883984?i=1000731536719
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Tim Bale
18 days ago
Margaret Thatcher recognised the need to provide asylum for refugees, as well as the need to distinguish them from immigrants. No hope of that from her successors, of course. Ian Gow MP (Thatcher's PPS) to Tony Marlow MP 23 August 1979:
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Otto English
21 days ago
I was on a sinking ship once. The atmosphere on board was considerably more jovial than thus. True story.
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Liz Webster 🏴🇬🇧🇪🇺
21 days ago
Amid the madness, one voice rose above the rest. Heseltine: principled, pro-EU, and unafraid to speak truth. “The tide is turning. Most people now believe it was a mistake to leave Europe”. Lord Heseltine: The Voice of Reason in an Age of Madness 2025
youtu.be/4fKoGoY7cKg
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Lord Heseltine: The Voice of Reason in an Age of Madness 2025
YouTube video by Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming
https://youtu.be/4fKoGoY7cKg
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Nicholas Grossman
21 days ago
We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality. They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.
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Mark Hamill
23 days ago
Same.
#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files
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Parody Keir Starmer
23 days ago
Every local authority has been cut to the bone for years – this is common knowledge - but Grimey and his Reform chums swore blind that £millions were being wasted through incompetence and laziness. DOGE found fuck all - welcome to reality, dickhead.
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Anne Applebaum
26 days ago
President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
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French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE
YouTube video by WION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggNSjfF6XI
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Andrea Junker
25 days ago
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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Adam Bienkov
25 days ago
"Milei is amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership" - Nigel Farage Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch
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James O’Brien
25 days ago
Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.
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PoliticalNash
about 1 month ago
This gentleman is speaking at a
#VirginiaBeach
school board or council meeting, not sure, but he is spot on about what is happening at the local level. Elections have consequences and it starts with local elections
#TheSmellOfRot
#ElectDemocrats
#DV1
#ProudBlue
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All In with Chris Hayes
29 days ago
WATCH: "They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring. That is why—whether it's a shutdown, whether it's all of this—they want us to blink first. And we have too much to save," says AOC.
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Lora Kolodny
30 days ago
i want to see a comedy festival featuring all the people who turned down the riyadh gig on principle.
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The Beaverton
30 days ago
Riyadh Comedy Festival opens with up-and-coming executioner
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Riyadh Comedy Festival opens with up-and-coming executioner
RIYADH, KSA – As Saudi Arabia’s new comedy festival welcomes talent from around the world, local executioner Imad Usman is excited for the opportunity to perform in front of larger audiences.
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/09/riyadh-comedy-festival-opens-with-up-and-coming-executioner/
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