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Hoping for the best... 💚
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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While it feels like I'm repeatedly slamming my head against a brick wall repeating this massively simple concept. Saying "Reform would be worse" doesn't make what Labour is doing better. Labour is now the most anti-immigration, anti-any marginalised group, government we have seen in decades. 1/
Very long thread: As with many of Labour's anti-immigration policies, this isn't new. British police have been stationed in other countries for this purpose for a long time
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
Home Secretary orders police and border 'hit squads' to Albania to stamp out people smugglers | LBC
Shabana Mahmood will send hit squads of police and border force teams to Albania in a fresh drive to stamp out people-smuggling gangs upstream.
www.lbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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🚨🚨New episode 🚨🚨
With Ukraine possibly days from being forced to accept a surrender deal, I spoke to @globsec.bsky.social’s Iuliia Osmolovska as well as @sturdyalex.bsky.social about where this deal came from, the latest from Geneva and where go from here.

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Ukraine Crisis: Will Trump Force Moscow's Deal on Zelenskyy?
Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 25/11/2025 · 55m
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November 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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My chat with the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social on Ukraine and the United States. Was meant to be 30 minutes and ended up going for an hour. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/o…
November 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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FFS 😡

FINLAND IS NOT RE-GAUGING ITS RAILWAYS

Just because an urbanist influencer has posted a 6 months old piece (that was anyway inaccurate) about it does not mean it is happening!

Finland *might* lay some additional standard gauge track from Sweden to Oulu
November 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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There are three things Rachel Reeves should bear in mind tomorrow: obscene wealth doesn't 'trickle down', tax cuts don't 'pay for themselves' and the private sector isn't 'more efficient'
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.

I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺
#SaveTheChildren🕊
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸
#ArrestNetanyahu
#ICC

#ToriesGone507

Please Sign/RT @pscupdates Petition to Barclays, telling the Bank that you're Boycotting its Services until it STOPS Bankrolling #IsraelsGenocide against Palestine!
Thanks 👇
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PETITION: Tell Barclays to stop bankrolling Israel's atrocities
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November 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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🇬🇧 #SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦✌

🇺🇸
#PutinWarCriminal
#ArrestPutin
#ICC

#TrumpTheAppeaser
#ImpeachTrump
#The25th
#ImpeachVance
#SackWitkoff

🇬🇧🇪🇺🌎
#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

🇬🇧 #ToriesGone508

RUSSIA RESERVES EXHAUSTED: PUTIN TURNS ON MONEY PRINTER Vlog 1238: #WarInUkraine | Anna from Ukraine

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KREMLIN IN PANIC: NO MONEY FOR THE RUSSIA ARMY Vlog 1238: War in Ukraine
YouTube video by Anna from Ukraine
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November 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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i'm having a bit of a fundraising day today - but that's an essential part of building institutions

we can't accept our current (at best) collaborationist media & a better press won't happen by itself - @liberalcurrents.com is just *the* opposition outlet right now
"If we are to build a new America fit for the 21st century, we must reforge our institutions."

Samantha Hancox-Li wrote those words in 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 six months ago. This week, we are working a bit on reforging the American media. Help us fight the implementation of reactionary authoritarianism.
Donate to The Liberal Currents Startup Fund, organized by Adam Gurri
To fight fascism we need opposition media with a backbone. Liberal Currents is that. Help… Adam Gurri needs your support for The Liberal Currents Startup Fund
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November 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge
#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure.

The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).

www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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"Russia is an undefeatable juggernaut against which Ukraine could never hope to score victories. That's why it's imperative we limit Ukraine's military size so as to give Russia confidence Ukraine won't attack it."

Do these people fucking hear themselves?
November 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Badenoch's arrogantly delivered, noxiously apocalyptic assault on employment rights aside, it's quite something to claim that only you understand business, then ask business, instead of adjusting to a new law, to plan on the remotest chance that you will become PM and undo it all in four years.🤣 ~AA
November 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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💒 NEW Sunday School: Backing The USSR 🕵️‍♂️

🇺🇦 Ukraine "peace" plan
🫠 MAGA's Epstein meltdown
🙋🏼‍♂️ Farage's nazi past
⚖️ Reform's Russian bribes

AND

🦠 The Covid Inquiry Report

With @sturdyalex.bsky.social & @pimlicat.bsky.social.

🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/1dZQ...

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Sunday School: Backing the USSR + Covid Inquiry Report
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 23/11/2025 · 1h 6m
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November 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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"Trump hates losing and loves winners. He has to somehow rewrite history. The last sentence of this chapter can't be: Trump endorsed Cuomo, who then lost disastrously. So, he inserts himself and makes the last sentence: Trump became unlikely buddies with Mamdani."

Did you miss me? I missed you!
💒 NEW Sunday School: Backing The USSR 🕵️‍♂️

🇺🇦 Ukraine "peace" plan
🫠 MAGA's Epstein meltdown
🙋🏼‍♂️ Farage's nazi past
⚖️ Reform's Russian bribes

AND

🦠 The Covid Inquiry Report

With @sturdyalex.bsky.social & @pimlicat.bsky.social.

🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/1dZQ...

🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Sunday School: Backing the USSR + Covid Inquiry Report
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 23/11/2025 · 1h 6m
podcasts.apple.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Today is Holodomor remembrance day, one of the worst human rights atrocities of the 20th century.

If you are wanting to know more, this episode of @originstorypodcast.bsky.social is excellent, featuring justifiable moral outrage from @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Welcome back to Origin Story: The Story of Socialism as we resume the story of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin in part three @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss Terror 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...

#originstory #lenin #trotsky #stalin
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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‼️ Friends, this is very important. Please share to whoever this may concern, especially if you are in the United States.

Ukraine wants peace. Lasting, just, sustainable peace, and not a pause before the next bloodbath. I cannot stress this enough.
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/13/trump-media-ultra-rich-democracy
Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back | Robert Reich
The Guardian has no billionaire or corporate owner: funded by readers, our fierce independence is guaranteed
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Calling Putin “transactional” misses the mark. He’s an ideological autocrat who has heavily invested in exporting illiberal nationalist populism across Europe & the U.S. What he fears most is democracy thriving in Ukraine. Any negotiation with him must start from that reality.
November 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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You see this also with the “we have to reduce immigration or racism will get worse”. The average person who thinks immigration is too high does not think that makes gutter racism ok and does not agree with, e.g. “let’s do a Partition scale ethnic cleansing in the UK”.
Sorry to keep banging on about it but it's literally *they are on Twitter and think it's the majority view*
This is pretty striking and makes me wonder exactly what Labour have been up to in making policy seemingly in response to / fear of the former rather than the middle group.
November 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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While demanding to give them more of Ukraine, russia continues destroying those cities they can’t occupy.

5 more people have been injured in russia's latest attack on Zaporizhzhia. Never give up on Ukraine. Help protect it: u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...
November 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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President Zelenskyy is thanking again other leaders for their support. How about we all thank him and all Ukrainians. They are fighting Putin and keeping us safe. If Putin wins we all lose and Europe is finished.

Thank you President Zelenskyy and all Ukrainians 🇺🇦🙏
November 22, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Today we remember those starved to death by Soviet Russia during Holodomor, and history does repeat itself indeed: these photos are of UN World Food Program warehouse in Dnipro, Ukraine, after Russian drones attacked this Thursday .
November 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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🚨 SCOOP: Toyota and Aston Martin secretly lobbied a Conservative cabinet minister to weaken Britain’s climate policy.

We only know this because Democracy for Sale won a two-year legal fight to force the government to hand over the documents.

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Victory! We’ve won major legal battle exposing car industry lobbying
After two years we can finally reveal “backdoor channels where corporate money hijacks our democracy.”
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November 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM