Brook Finham
@brookfinham.bsky.social
“All I have is a voice…”. And a vote. Slava Ukraiini.
East Anglia.
East Anglia.
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Rand Paul: "This is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. It's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow up a boat in the ocean, what about when they get to Miami & put it in a truck? Can you shoot a grenade launcher at the truck? No! We arrest people b/c sometimes we're wrong."
December 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Rand Paul: "This is an insane policy. It's inconsistent. It's not war. It's not the way we've ever done this. If we can blow up a boat in the ocean, what about when they get to Miami & put it in a truck? Can you shoot a grenade launcher at the truck? No! We arrest people b/c sometimes we're wrong."
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Farage is currently "boycotting the BBC".
Perhaps the BBC and every other reputable broadcaster should instead be boycotting Mr Farage
Perhaps the BBC and every other reputable broadcaster should instead be boycotting Mr Farage
December 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Farage is currently "boycotting the BBC".
Perhaps the BBC and every other reputable broadcaster should instead be boycotting Mr Farage
Perhaps the BBC and every other reputable broadcaster should instead be boycotting Mr Farage
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Farage himself is currently in Abu Dhabi, representing his constituents at the Formula One...
December 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Farage himself is currently in Abu Dhabi, representing his constituents at the Formula One...
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In his latest #ReithLecture, @rutgerbregman.com set out how the Fabian Society helped lay the foundations for social democracy and the welfare state.
From universal healthcare and public education to votes for women, the Fabians helped make the once unthinkable a reality.
From universal healthcare and public education to votes for women, the Fabians helped make the once unthinkable a reality.
December 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
In his latest #ReithLecture, @rutgerbregman.com set out how the Fabian Society helped lay the foundations for social democracy and the welfare state.
From universal healthcare and public education to votes for women, the Fabians helped make the once unthinkable a reality.
From universal healthcare and public education to votes for women, the Fabians helped make the once unthinkable a reality.
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The 2022 Biden strategy had a condemnation of “Russia’s brutal and unprovoked war on its neighbor Ukraine,” while the Trump strategy has no words of censure at all. None. While silent about Russian transgressions, it has plenty of nasty things to say about America’s European allies. wapo.st/4prmqK9
Opinion | Trump’s national security strategy slams Europe, not Russia
The White House lays out an approach making clear America no longer leads the free world.
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The 2022 Biden strategy had a condemnation of “Russia’s brutal and unprovoked war on its neighbor Ukraine,” while the Trump strategy has no words of censure at all. None. While silent about Russian transgressions, it has plenty of nasty things to say about America’s European allies. wapo.st/4prmqK9
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In Chicago, Illinois, a U.S. citizen was filming in public when their car door was ripped open and their phone was smashed to the ground.
December 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
In Chicago, Illinois, a U.S. citizen was filming in public when their car door was ripped open and their phone was smashed to the ground.
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With this there would have been no Mo Farah. No Freddie Mercury. No Lenny Henry. No George Michael. No Meera Syal. No Sadiq Khan. No Sajid Javid. No Salman Rushdie. No Hanif Kureishi.
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
With this there would have been no Mo Farah. No Freddie Mercury. No Lenny Henry. No George Michael. No Meera Syal. No Sadiq Khan. No Sajid Javid. No Salman Rushdie. No Hanif Kureishi.
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“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
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Really good investigation from Byline, looking at the far-right connections between an anti-migrant group claiming to be led by "ordinary women"
Not the only one to do so either, members of the Women's Safety Initiative also have extreme connections:
goodlawproject.org/dodgy-statis...
Not the only one to do so either, members of the Women's Safety Initiative also have extreme connections:
goodlawproject.org/dodgy-statis...
December 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Really good investigation from Byline, looking at the far-right connections between an anti-migrant group claiming to be led by "ordinary women"
Not the only one to do so either, members of the Women's Safety Initiative also have extreme connections:
goodlawproject.org/dodgy-statis...
Not the only one to do so either, members of the Women's Safety Initiative also have extreme connections:
goodlawproject.org/dodgy-statis...
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🩸🩸🩸 NEVER FORGET: Instead of honoring our Constitution's key principle of a Peaceful Transfer of Power, POS Donald Trump Abused his Power on Jan 6th by inciting this violent & deadly attack on our country's Capital and should be in prison for life 🩸🩸🩸
December 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🩸🩸🩸 NEVER FORGET: Instead of honoring our Constitution's key principle of a Peaceful Transfer of Power, POS Donald Trump Abused his Power on Jan 6th by inciting this violent & deadly attack on our country's Capital and should be in prison for life 🩸🩸🩸
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It's being reported internationally. In the UK, mostly, silence.
"Representatives from the crypto industry have held meetings with Reform feeding into the party’s strategy... Farage has championed several industry causes since including picking a fight with the Bank of England over regulation." ~AA
"Representatives from the crypto industry have held meetings with Reform feeding into the party’s strategy... Farage has championed several industry causes since including picking a fight with the Bank of England over regulation." ~AA
December 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
It's being reported internationally. In the UK, mostly, silence.
"Representatives from the crypto industry have held meetings with Reform feeding into the party’s strategy... Farage has championed several industry causes since including picking a fight with the Bank of England over regulation." ~AA
"Representatives from the crypto industry have held meetings with Reform feeding into the party’s strategy... Farage has championed several industry causes since including picking a fight with the Bank of England over regulation." ~AA
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They also celebrate the gutter racism because they are gutter racists.
That's what movement conservatism has always been. Always.
That's what movement conservatism has always been. Always.
This got largely overlooked, but note that Karoline Leavitt actually praised Trump's vile rant about Somalis as "epic." The cult worship has gotten so bad that his open racism now must be celebrated.
On the pod, we dig into this and his threat to denaturalize:
newrepublic.com/article/2040...
On the pod, we dig into this and his threat to denaturalize:
newrepublic.com/article/2040...
Trump Press Sec Goes Full Cult as Spin on Mental State Flies Off Rails
As Karoline Leavitt’s defense of Trump morphs into bizarre praise for his racism toward Somalis, a former White House official explains how the saga unmasks the deeper depravities consuming Trumpworld...
newrepublic.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
They also celebrate the gutter racism because they are gutter racists.
That's what movement conservatism has always been. Always.
That's what movement conservatism has always been. Always.
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Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
December 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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There is a difference: Trump ultimately lived in *neither* of his "primary residences."
December 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
There is a difference: Trump ultimately lived in *neither* of his "primary residences."
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Farage doesn’t seem to realise that his defence- “Telly made me racist,” and “I was never racist to anyone’s face,” define him as a weak-willed, impressionable coward wholly unsuited to leadership.
December 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Farage doesn’t seem to realise that his defence- “Telly made me racist,” and “I was never racist to anyone’s face,” define him as a weak-willed, impressionable coward wholly unsuited to leadership.
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‘Blatant lawlessness’: Judge decries another ‘unlawful’ deportation
‘Blatant lawlessness’: Judge decries another ‘unlawful’ deportation
Faustino Pablo Pablo was deported to Guatemala despite his urgent warnings to immigration officials that he faced serious danger in his home country.
dlvr.it
December 6, 2025 at 4:11 AM
‘Blatant lawlessness’: Judge decries another ‘unlawful’ deportation
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.
Monday thoughts . . .
by Jane Addams
(the first American woman who win the Nobel Peace Prize)
Special Greetings to Mr. Trump !
💠 🧐 💠
Monday thoughts . . .
by Jane Addams
(the first American woman who win the Nobel Peace Prize)
Special Greetings to Mr. Trump !
💠 🧐 💠
December 8, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Monday thoughts . . .
by Jane Addams
(the first American woman who win the Nobel Peace Prize)
Special Greetings to Mr. Trump !
💠 🧐 💠
Monday thoughts . . .
by Jane Addams
(the first American woman who win the Nobel Peace Prize)
Special Greetings to Mr. Trump !
💠 🧐 💠
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This is simply gobsmacking in the impenetrability and immensity of its dumbness. ~AA
December 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This is simply gobsmacking in the impenetrability and immensity of its dumbness. ~AA
The Miracle of Sight
open.substack.com/pub/rorycell...
open.substack.com/pub/rorycell...
The Miracle of Sight
How I lost it and got it back again
open.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
The Miracle of Sight
open.substack.com/pub/rorycell...
open.substack.com/pub/rorycell...
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Elon Musk seems to believe that the right to immigrate is something that applies only to him.
Remember, he left South Africa for a better life in the US
Remember, he left South Africa for a better life in the US
December 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Elon Musk seems to believe that the right to immigrate is something that applies only to him.
Remember, he left South Africa for a better life in the US
Remember, he left South Africa for a better life in the US
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BERMAN: Did you see any evidence of them trying to use a radio in the video you saw?
TOM COTTON: Well I saw lots of evidence of them standing on the boat that had been capsized
BERMAN: That wasn't my question. Did you see any evidence?
COTTON: No, I didn't
TOM COTTON: Well I saw lots of evidence of them standing on the boat that had been capsized
BERMAN: That wasn't my question. Did you see any evidence?
COTTON: No, I didn't
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
BERMAN: Did you see any evidence of them trying to use a radio in the video you saw?
TOM COTTON: Well I saw lots of evidence of them standing on the boat that had been capsized
BERMAN: That wasn't my question. Did you see any evidence?
COTTON: No, I didn't
TOM COTTON: Well I saw lots of evidence of them standing on the boat that had been capsized
BERMAN: That wasn't my question. Did you see any evidence?
COTTON: No, I didn't
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“It is now beyond doubt, however; that this assisted by the White House in its efforts to destroy Ukraine and that the United States has declared war on Europe under its appalling president”… and who does the US support in Europe? The AFD in Germany and Reform UK here.
Such grim betrayal.
(iPaper)
Such grim betrayal.
(iPaper)
December 8, 2025 at 7:49 AM
“It is now beyond doubt, however; that this assisted by the White House in its efforts to destroy Ukraine and that the United States has declared war on Europe under its appalling president”… and who does the US support in Europe? The AFD in Germany and Reform UK here.
Such grim betrayal.
(iPaper)
Such grim betrayal.
(iPaper)
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What the US is doing to Europe it is also doing to its one time allies in the Indo-Pacific. There is one rule of action for the US government now. If you are a democracy, you will be abandoned; if you are a dictatorship, you will be praised and supported.
Japan has urged the US to give Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi more public support after expressing frustration at the level of backing she received following comments about Taiwan that enraged China: on.ft.com/4ppLWPW
Japan frustrated at Trump administration’s silence over row with China
Tokyo asks US to be more vocal in its support after Beijing reacted furiously to prime minister’s comments about Taiwan
on.ft.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
What the US is doing to Europe it is also doing to its one time allies in the Indo-Pacific. There is one rule of action for the US government now. If you are a democracy, you will be abandoned; if you are a dictatorship, you will be praised and supported.