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This is getting good

russia's minister of finance right now.

This @pippacrerar.bsky.social

Starmer has foxed the media again. They don't like it.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

NEW: In Syria's Quneitra, Israeli soldiers raid homes, set up checkpoints and shoot cattle. Residents describe a fragile accommodation and a government in Damascus that lacks the means to push back, reports Anagha Nair for @newlinesmag.bsky.social . newlinesmag.com/spotlight/li...

Yeah that will solve all of our problems…..

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NEW | On an odd choice… WHY DID BBC BREAKFAST GIVE REFORM UK A SPECIAL GRAPHIC? A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/why-did-bb...

A lot of people spent days going "OMG OMG OMG popcorn at the ready SiR kEiTh obvs lying; Olly Robbins has the receipts". Now they're like "too clever to get caught, they did it with VIBEZ." From "Starmer is really bad at politics" straight to "Starmer is Machiavelli reincarnated" - like every week.

The idea that being *a member of the House of Lords* in any way means you can be trusted with Top Secret/STRAP material without proper vetting is so beyond absurd that this must surely be a joke?

Robbins does at least corroborate PM's claim that no minister was told of the vetting issue with Mandelson. He confirms he did not share it with them.

Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today

This morning I’ve seen Olly Robbins’s appearance before the select committee described as ‘box office’, while a commentator flagged up another key political moment with the words ‘bring the popcorn’. That’s one of our main problems right there.

Oh, Dad is pissed. And I get that anger. Traitor Trump is the biggest threat to democracy and world peace that we've ever seen in America.

“Farage rarely turns up to do his actual job. Yet he finds time to jet off around the world on his donor’s private plane and trouser half a million quid while families struggle. Reform are not on your side. They’re just in it for themselves” It’s so obvious, it hurts. www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...

"Palantir is not just a problem of profiteering from our national healthcare system— it's a fundamental threat to the democratic control of our public infrastructure + the privacy of every citizen. By giving our taxes to this company, we are aiding their operations everywhere." tinyurl.com/3ejuyv89

I checked this too. *20 seconds* of Reform logo display. *No other* party logo displayed. In local election purdah. This is not normal. At all.

It’s very hard not to give up… The media outlets that we should be able to trust to hold power to account are in the pockets of power. They undermine our democracy every day. I despair, I really do.

@ofcom.bsky.social I know you won't do anything about this, because you are as corrupt as BBC News.

Billions in foreign real estate deals while serving as head of state. Billions in crypto deals while gutting regulation of the industry. Suing his own government and negotiating a settlement funded by the taxpayers. We're so numb to Trump grifting off the presidency that hardly anyone notices.

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened. Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah. (h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

Andrew not all Labour MPs want him out and I think you know that. It has struck a number of posters on this site that the exclusive published in the Guardian last week was written by the partner of a senior FCDO communications person. This does not feel like a clean scoop- interesting timing too.

FFS. They took number plates off the cars of people that were locked up and used them for undercover police ops. This stinks.

For those like me who can’t do with her whiny voice, here's a slightly cut down version of Zara Sultana being kicked out and suspended from the House of Commons. This performative nonsense gets on my wick. She’s no better than Lee Anderson, Labour was right to get rid of both of them.

Funny how nothing was made of Rich Sunak's ver ver rich wife and her VER VER VER rich daddy's company she has shares in which CONTINUED TRADING IN RUSSIA DESPITE SANCTIONS. How ver ver odd the press never chose to pick up on that eh?

The lengthy Parliamentary debate about the Peter Mandelson vetting process is a perfect example of Parkinson's Law of Triviality.

"If Kamala gets 4 more years, the Middle East will spend the next 4 decades going up in flames + your kids will be going off to War, maybe even a Third World War, something that will never happen with President Donald J. Trump in charge. For our Country's sake + for your kids, Vote Trump for PEACE!"

The federal government is preparing to begin automatically registering eligible U.S. men ages 18 to 26 for the military draft pool, according to new rules that were tucked into the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act.

JUST MORE THIEVERY…👇 Trump approved his 10 Billion dollar Settlement to himself… Republicans stayed silent.

This just cannot seriously be happening🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 What all of this corruption&stealing shows is just HOW FCKING MUCH money as a resource is available🤯 No human needs to be hungry, cold, sick, destitute. Not a single one. Distribution is the ONLY issue.

More research is necessary but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalised vaccine are still alive six years later.

The world is watching 🇪🇸’s energy success w/ envy; electric car sales are surging⤵️; govs are yet again waking up to the costly downsides of dependency upon the fossil fuel energy… …if there’s any light to be seen at the end of the seemingly endless shïtshow the world endures from the US, this is it‼️

This is how the media would report TRump if they weren’t so busy sanewashing his gobbledygook.

Zelenskyy makes a big announcement: “We have already reached 10-year agreements with three key countries: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. We already have requests from 11 countries – the Middle East and the Gulf, plus we’re also gradually turning our attention to the Caucasus. 1/

This is a remarkable and important step. Ukraine, a country under full scale invasion for 4+ years, is signing deals to co-develop/produce weapons with other countries. Saudi, UAE and Qatar are not only confident of but also banking on Ukraine being a functional nation state over the next decade.

Is that bad? Seems bad

In "bears crap in the woods" news.

Reminder that people who demand "Law and Order" need to understand that law is written down, but "order" is subjective and if you give the tools of state violence to bullies, the enforcement of order ends up in oppressive conduct like this.

“Later, a single user would make over $550,000 after betting that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would topple, just moments before his assassination by Israeli forces.”

Josh Rogin: “Somebody shorted the oil market today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement— If you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that's happened at least three times, if not more, since the war began — that's a pattern”

It’s worth reading the whole Palantir piece to see that they are leaning in to being the Legion of Doom.

Not great. PB is led Rumen Radev who is seen as pro-Russia. It's another left-wing nationalist group like Robert Fico's in Slovakia.

Just one week after the EU lost one pro-Russian prime minister in the Council, it is now set to get another one. Exit polls say Rumen Radev's party has won just under 40% of today's vote in #Bulgaria. The big question: will he form a coalition with pro-EU or pro-Russian parties?

Exactly how I felt reading today! #1984