Amyn Merchant
@amynmerchant.bsky.social
Musician, Bookworm, Europhile, Family Man & #AutismParent. All views are personal.
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Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.
The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb
February 16, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.
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to be clear, Matthew Goodwin has one (1) child and should thus be penalised for failing to meet the replacement rate under the incentive scheme that he’s established here
February 16, 2026 at 2:04 PM
to be clear, Matthew Goodwin has one (1) child and should thus be penalised for failing to meet the replacement rate under the incentive scheme that he’s established here
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[an olympic skating pair finishes their routine]
me: wow that was amazing
the commentator: what a shame
me: wow that was amazing
the commentator: what a shame
February 16, 2026 at 2:36 PM
[an olympic skating pair finishes their routine]
me: wow that was amazing
the commentator: what a shame
me: wow that was amazing
the commentator: what a shame
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The UK was declared measles free in 2017.
Vaccine programs completely eliminated it.
Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.
Vaccine programs completely eliminated it.
Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.
“Seven schools and a nursery have reported more than 60 suspected cases of measles in an area of north London, and labs have confirmed 34 cases since January 12. Some children have been treated in hospital.”
archive.md/2026.02.1...
archive.md/2026.02.1...
February 15, 2026 at 10:19 PM
The UK was declared measles free in 2017.
Vaccine programs completely eliminated it.
Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.
Vaccine programs completely eliminated it.
Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.
to be clear, Matthew Goodwin has one (1) child and should thus be penalised for failing to meet the replacement rate under the incentive scheme that he’s established here
February 16, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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I like the government pivot to reminding voters that Farage is an avowed enemy of NATO & Europe & an ardent admirer of Vladimir Putin, who routinely orders the murders of critics & opponents. It is politically effective & morally essential.
February 15, 2026 at 12:47 PM
I like the government pivot to reminding voters that Farage is an avowed enemy of NATO & Europe & an ardent admirer of Vladimir Putin, who routinely orders the murders of critics & opponents. It is politically effective & morally essential.
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Outstanding. A triumph for liberty and against unrestrained state power. The government should be ashamed of having to be forced into this position.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule
Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Outstanding. A triumph for liberty and against unrestrained state power. The government should be ashamed of having to be forced into this position.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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I never really sign stuff. But this was different. It's not about trying to facilitate or block a particular party's route to power. It's about an electoral system that's unsuited to the political realities we face today and risks giving us government after government with no convincing mandate.
Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics
Dozens of academics have written to the government to warn that the current voting system risks producing distorted results on an 'unprecedented' s...
www.politicshome.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:25 AM
I never really sign stuff. But this was different. It's not about trying to facilitate or block a particular party's route to power. It's about an electoral system that's unsuited to the political realities we face today and risks giving us government after government with no convincing mandate.
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🔴 SCOOP: Wife of Starmer’s comms chief had direct knowledge of Labour Together’s investigation into journalists, documents seen by D4S show
Revelation heaps more pressure on minister Josh Simons to explain why he paid a PR firm to dig dirt on reporters
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...
Revelation heaps more pressure on minister Josh Simons to explain why he paid a PR firm to dig dirt on reporters
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...
Starmer ally Josh Simons faces fresh questions about digging dirt on journalists
Tory and SNP chiefs call for Labour minister Simons to ‘come clean’ as we reveal new details of PR firm’s campaign to discredit journalists
democracyforsale.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:41 AM
🔴 SCOOP: Wife of Starmer’s comms chief had direct knowledge of Labour Together’s investigation into journalists, documents seen by D4S show
Revelation heaps more pressure on minister Josh Simons to explain why he paid a PR firm to dig dirt on reporters
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...
Revelation heaps more pressure on minister Josh Simons to explain why he paid a PR firm to dig dirt on reporters
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmer-al...
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New billboard in Manchester, UK 🇬🇧
February 15, 2026 at 2:04 PM
New billboard in Manchester, UK 🇬🇧
Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19.
February 14, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19.
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NBC News is out with a very strong report into the apparent use of excessive force by ICE and other DHS officers, beyond the most notorious shootings.
It also features this photo, which I couldn’t get past.
It also features this photo, which I couldn’t get past.
February 14, 2026 at 10:52 PM
NBC News is out with a very strong report into the apparent use of excessive force by ICE and other DHS officers, beyond the most notorious shootings.
It also features this photo, which I couldn’t get past.
It also features this photo, which I couldn’t get past.
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It doesn’t really matter *why* Trump’s desire to destabilise & divide Europe precisely mirrors Vladimir Putin’s - whether kompromat, self-interest, naked bigotry or something else l. What matters is that Europe treats both regimes like the enemies of progress & democracy they so clearly are.
February 14, 2026 at 11:10 AM
It doesn’t really matter *why* Trump’s desire to destabilise & divide Europe precisely mirrors Vladimir Putin’s - whether kompromat, self-interest, naked bigotry or something else l. What matters is that Europe treats both regimes like the enemies of progress & democracy they so clearly are.
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Grift, grift
“Tommy is looking into relocating his family for their safety. Please can you help with this, and any ongoing security costs.”
A web address to donate then appears across the bottom of the screen.”
Of course it does
“Tommy is looking into relocating his family for their safety. Please can you help with this, and any ongoing security costs.”
A web address to donate then appears across the bottom of the screen.”
Of course it does
February 14, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Grift, grift
“Tommy is looking into relocating his family for their safety. Please can you help with this, and any ongoing security costs.”
A web address to donate then appears across the bottom of the screen.”
Of course it does
“Tommy is looking into relocating his family for their safety. Please can you help with this, and any ongoing security costs.”
A web address to donate then appears across the bottom of the screen.”
Of course it does
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A spam email from @thespectator1828.bsky.social encourages me to “catch up” on 7 days of racism, misogyny and meanness. There are only 2 types of Spectator article:
1 “Why can’t we be more racist?”
2 “Why is this non racist person or group successful/at liberty/allowed opinions?”
1 “Why can’t we be more racist?”
2 “Why is this non racist person or group successful/at liberty/allowed opinions?”
February 14, 2026 at 9:36 AM
A spam email from @thespectator1828.bsky.social encourages me to “catch up” on 7 days of racism, misogyny and meanness. There are only 2 types of Spectator article:
1 “Why can’t we be more racist?”
2 “Why is this non racist person or group successful/at liberty/allowed opinions?”
1 “Why can’t we be more racist?”
2 “Why is this non racist person or group successful/at liberty/allowed opinions?”
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Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.
February 14, 2026 at 9:10 AM
Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.
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I urge you strongly to listen to this @newsagents.bsky.social episode, with @lewisgoodall.com interviewing @natalie-fleet-mp.bsky.social.
Natalie’s strength is inspirational, and I found this very moving indeed.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Natalie’s strength is inspirational, and I found this very moving indeed.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Natalie Fleet MP: Her grooming story and how she fought back
Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 13/02/2026 · 53m
podcasts.apple.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:30 PM
I urge you strongly to listen to this @newsagents.bsky.social episode, with @lewisgoodall.com interviewing @natalie-fleet-mp.bsky.social.
Natalie’s strength is inspirational, and I found this very moving indeed.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Natalie’s strength is inspirational, and I found this very moving indeed.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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And just like that, Gilead was no longer dystopian fiction.
“Just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… So they go to the gulag first. They go to the breeding gulags.”
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
“Just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… So they go to the gulag first. They go to the breeding gulags.”
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 13, 2026 at 6:44 PM
And just like that, Gilead was no longer dystopian fiction.
“Just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… So they go to the gulag first. They go to the breeding gulags.”
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
“Just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women… So they go to the gulag first. They go to the breeding gulags.”
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
I urge you strongly to listen to this @newsagents.bsky.social episode, with @lewisgoodall.com interviewing @natalie-fleet-mp.bsky.social.
Natalie’s strength is inspirational, and I found this very moving indeed.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Natalie’s strength is inspirational, and I found this very moving indeed.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Natalie Fleet MP: Her grooming story and how she fought back
Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 13/02/2026 · 53m
podcasts.apple.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:30 PM
I urge you strongly to listen to this @newsagents.bsky.social episode, with @lewisgoodall.com interviewing @natalie-fleet-mp.bsky.social.
Natalie’s strength is inspirational, and I found this very moving indeed.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Natalie’s strength is inspirational, and I found this very moving indeed.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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SEN. KAINE: “You said American whites are victims of a cultural genocide… are they represented in the senate? House? Presidency? CEO’s?”
Trump’s white nationalist pick for a top state department spot Jeremy Carl skewered by @kaine.senate.gov
Trump’s white nationalist pick for a top state department spot Jeremy Carl skewered by @kaine.senate.gov
February 13, 2026 at 2:17 PM
SEN. KAINE: “You said American whites are victims of a cultural genocide… are they represented in the senate? House? Presidency? CEO’s?”
Trump’s white nationalist pick for a top state department spot Jeremy Carl skewered by @kaine.senate.gov
Trump’s white nationalist pick for a top state department spot Jeremy Carl skewered by @kaine.senate.gov
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If more people studied history, they'd know that the things present-day rightwing arseholes say about women are just the things the Nazis said about women, which are just the things that a bunch of 18th-century pricks said about women, as soon as modernity started to give them opportunities.
February 13, 2026 at 10:24 AM
If more people studied history, they'd know that the things present-day rightwing arseholes say about women are just the things the Nazis said about women, which are just the things that a bunch of 18th-century pricks said about women, as soon as modernity started to give them opportunities.
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Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...
www.pbs.org
February 12, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
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Not every issue in our politics needs to be shirts and skins. Republicans don’t need to automatically be against everything Democrats stand for. We could decide together that no president should ever arrest a political opponent for free speech.
February 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Not every issue in our politics needs to be shirts and skins. Republicans don’t need to automatically be against everything Democrats stand for. We could decide together that no president should ever arrest a political opponent for free speech.