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pascallth.bsky.social
US input is very minimal here, which mostly consists of a greatest hits compilation from a Russia Today broadcast

Really vague provisions to support Ukraine's security, sharp detail to undermine it and no real brakes on Russia relaunching the war in just a few years
www.ft.com/content/79ee...
Read the full text of Trump’s 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan
Proposed deal would limit size of Ukrainian forces and calls on Kyiv to withdraw troops from eastern Donetsk
www.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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alanjstedman.bsky.social
I'm sick to death of pointing out that if Labour insists on pushing this anti- immigration line the NHS and the Care Home sectors are facing a catastrophic staffing problems

Why isn't Streeting standing up and saying, 'enough, this has to stop' 1/2

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers
Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures last year that imperils NHS
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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elgofo.fr
Just saw an extended version
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
flakmagnet.bsky.social
Americans, this seems significant
altnps.bsky.social Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1h
If you want a sense of how far the surveillance state has expanded inside the United States, look at what federal authorities are doing on our highways.
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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thechiller.bsky.social
Boris Johnson should be jailed. Fuck his apology to Westminster. 200,000 families lost loved ones.

He, Whitty, Sunak, Hancock and Herries should be in jail for what they did, on our TVs every night and straight LYING to people whose loved ones died as a direct result. #bbcqt
November 20, 2025 at 11:33 PM
flakmagnet.bsky.social
This survey is written in poison, misleads and directs with its questions, and drips with cruel condescension. Feel free to vent your feelings here. I did:
November 20, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
“We don’t deserve the trust of the nation if we’re unclear about the divisiveness of swastikas,” the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to a fear of reprisal.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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bengoldsborough.bsky.social
I’m calling on the UK Government to seriously review its presence on X (formerly Twitter) and then leave. It’s not just a communication channel anymore. Read more:
www.politicshome.com/news/article... 1/10
Labour MPs Call For A More Serious Review Of The Government's Use Of X
Labour MPs are calling for ministers to take control of decisions over the government’s continued use of X, as concerns grow about the platform’s s...
www.politicshome.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
flakmagnet.bsky.social
Find another search engine, email provider and the rest. Google would shop in Anne Frank
maddow.bsky.social Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 5d
Don't be evil?

"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."

www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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13sarahmurphy.bsky.social
“We may now be reaching a tipping point where our failure is so severe that Brits and immigrants alike have decided this is not a country they want to live in”

The slowest of handclaps to all who made hostility towards immigrants damage this country for everyone.
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“Of course people are fleeing Britain - we're narrow-minded and selfish” Our misplaced sense of how attractive we are has led us to adopt an increasingly grim attitude towards immigrants 19th November 2025 3:15 PM Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has this week unveiled new barriers to seeking asylum in the UK (Photo: PRU/AFP) Our misplaced sense of how attractive we are has led us to adopt an increasingly grim attitude towards immigrants. This was the motivation behind the Brexit vote, when our hysterical anxiety around Polish plumbers led us to detonate our own economy. In the years after Brexit, countless Europeans left Britain. EU net migration began to fall immediately after the referendum. By 2024, 96,000 more Europeans were leaving Britain than arriving in it. This was a tragedy. We took people who had made Britain their home, who had made Britain a beautiful place to live, and we made it so hostile that they felt they had to leave. Not content with having alienated Europeans, we now want to do it for the rest of the world. Each time we do so, we make this a less dynamic and successful country.
November 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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minnierahman.bsky.social
Truly fed up of people saying that the way to prevent a huge drift to the far-right is to keep Labour in govt. Their migration polices ARE far-right populist and make way for worse. Trad politics are done. Lab/Tories are done. The next election will not be fought how we've experienced them to date.
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
flakmagnet.bsky.social
D’oh
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d
The Danish party that inspired Labour’s hardline immigration policy is on course to lose Copenhagen for the first time in more than a hundred years.

Among the reasons cited: fatigue and frustration with its hardline immigration policy.
Centre-left tipped to lose Copenhagen for first time in electoral history
Political rivals say PM’s divisive politics have encouraged voters to ditch the Social Democrats for the far right
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
The whole world is being gaslighted. Just say we’re all at war with Russia.
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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tanjabueltmann.net
Tried to get this published but no luck, so might as well ‘publish’ it here so it’s not a complete waste!

➡️ Stripping rights from refugees today endangers us all tomorrow

#asylum #Mahmood #history #humanrights
Stripping rights from refugees today endangers us all tomorrow   When I was 13, I visited a Nazi concentration camp for the first time, confronting my country’s dark history always—and rightly—a bedrock in my growing up.    One image from that visit has stayed with me ever since: a display of prisoners’ personal possessions.    It revealed a world in which those imprisoned were stripped not only of their freedom but of the last tangible traces of their humanity. That systematic erasure was the most important precondition for murdering millions.   Now, as a historian, I know that history does not flow into the present in a straight line, and direct comparisons are rarely appropriate. They certainly are not here.   But history is the one compass humanity has. Too often we choose to ignore it.    The Home Secretary’s proposals for changes to the UK’s asylum system represent such a moment of failure.    Yet the most troubling aspect of Labour’s frantic efforts to appear tough on immigration is not even the historical echoes that taking refugees’ possessions invokes. It is that cost recovery is not the real purpose of the rationale behind it.    The true aim is to appeal to a particular audience—those who take satisfaction in seeing people seeking refuge deprived of what little they have. It is hard to imagine a more troubling approach to policymaking, and that becomes even clearer when we consider the Home Secretary’s proposals in context.   As of June 2025, there were 42.5 million refugees globally. Over 70% are hosted by low- and middle-income countries. The UK hosts 548,000 refugees; that is 0.78% of the UK population. Around 110,000 people are in receipt of asylum support; that is 0.15% of the UK population.   It is unconscionable that such a small and vulnerable population can be targeted with deliberate cruelty and weaponised for assumed political gain.   And that is all this will ever be. The core miscalculation is believing that adopting these positions will neutralise Reform.    Both historical knowledge and current research show the opposite. Mainstreaming extremist policies legitimises them further and aids only the original. Each step towards Reform’s territory simply gives Reform more power.   But our political discourse has been so degraded over the last decade that many no longer even recognise policies—or the language that frames them—as extreme.    That is how the Home Secretary can speak so casually of desperate people seeking sanctuary as recipients of a ‘golden ticket’ as though the context is Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory rather than countries torn apart by war and starved by famine. Speak of her ‘moral mission’ to withdraw support, alleging that ‘illegal migration is tearing our country apart.’ And warn of ‘dark forces stirring up anger,’ oblivious to her own role: from the use of blurry, dehumanising images of refugees to spread falsehoods about their impact on communities, to the equally false description of refugee movements as illegal migration.    I suggest the Home Secretary find a mirror if she is keen to understand who is helping turn anger into hate.   Because it is the mainstreaming of far-right talking points that the Home Secretary’s proposals represent that is really tearing our country apart.   For when a policy looks like the far right, speaks to the far right and is hailed by the far right as being far right, it is far right. There is a reason Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is jubilant and speaks of ‘the Overton window having been obliterated.’   This makes a mockery of the Prime Minister’s recent comments on the urgent need to tackle racism. But it also raises alarming questions about the impact this will have on communities around the country, many of which are already deeply divided.    The proposed policies will do nothing for these struggling communities, because their problems simply do not stem from people seeking sanctuary with us. In fact: for as long as politicians focus on immigrants and refugees as the cause of our problems, they will fail to deliver for the British people.   But it is important to grasp the impact of the Home Secretary’s proposals as they carry broader consequences for all of us. Suggestions for changes to how the European Convention on Human Rights is applied are particularly concerning. Requiring judges to prioritise ‘public safety’—falsely implying refugees pose a threat—would qualify human rights for a specific group.   And once one accepts that human rights can be qualified for one group, one creates tools that can be used against anyone.   So what these proposals really mean goes far beyond asylum policy. This is about the kind of country we will have in the future. If human rights are no longer universal, they become a means for exclusion and control.    That is why stripping rights from refugees today can only enable a system that endangers all our rights tomorrow.    And that is why our historical compass matters and why we have to use it now. Because that compass tells us without doubt that when first they come for one group that is never where it ends. 
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
flakmagnet.bsky.social
Imagine being a WP journalist yesterday
cameroncorduroy.bsky.social Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 2d
wonder if the Washington Post has any strong words about the President being buddy buddy with the man who ordered to have one of their reporters dismembered
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 AM
flakmagnet.bsky.social
Hold on to your hats; the next crash is going to be vertical
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d
AOC: Trump has been saying the economy is booming, but it’s really only seven tech companies. They’re driving this growth in just one sector: AI.

So the entire economic growth can be tracked down to seven companies and their AI expansion…
November 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
NEW: Peter Thiel has blinked. Yesterday, I posted an article about the "Great AI Bubble". And today, we find out that he's bailed on the market.

Has he cut & run? Or is this some 3-D chess-type voodoo? Thoughts please.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Peter Thiel Gets Out of Dodge
Yesterday, I published on "Great AI Bubble". Today, Silicon Valley's Dr Evil dumps his stock
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
flakmagnet.bsky.social
It feels like there should be a lesson here we could learn
premnsikka.bsky.social Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d
UK and Norway won nature's lottery in 1970 - found oil/gas in the North Sea.

UK squandered wealth, appeased corporations.

Norway levied 78% tax, took direct stake in companies.

Norway now has $1.8 trillion sovereign fund. UK has public finance crisis.

UK Govts still appeasing corporations/rich.
How sparsely populated Norway amassed $1.8 trillion | Fortune Europe
Launched in the early 1990s to invest mostly in bonds, the fund has grown to become the largest of its kind by acquiring small equity stakes in thousands of companies across the world.
fortune.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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pimlicat.bsky.social
The main question I have for Labour is, what will you do when the polls don’t improve for you after this?
November 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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getwired.com
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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colinyeo.bsky.social
Going to leave you with a Home Office chart from their most recent asylum stats so you can decide whether the UK is a magnet for asylum seekers with a uniquely generous asylum system www.gov.uk/government/s...
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
flakmagnet.bsky.social
None of this seems new now, but the linkage with a convicted sex trafficker is one some people need to wear like a mark of Cain
nafeez.bsky.social Dr Nafeez Ahmed @nafeez.bsky.social · 3d
In 2018, Bannon’s plans for a new US-European far-right alliance - involving Salvini, Orbán, Farage, etc. - were circulated directly to Epstein, even as he was providing logistical and travel support to Trump's former chief strategist /8
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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benchu.bsky.social
"We have become the destination of choice in Europe" according to the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood.

Data from Eurostat & the Home Office shows the UK had the fifth largest number of claims of the EU/UK area in 2025, at 108,000... assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691ae0...
November 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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nbphillips1872.bsky.social
The Home Secretary says the UK asylum 'offer' is 'comparatively more generous than much of Europe'

Hmm 🤔

🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇳🇴 provide more financial support to asylum seekers

🇪🇸 🇮🇹 🇧🇪 allow people the #RightToWork much sooner

🇩🇪 🇸🇪 🇫🇷 allow for easier family reunification
November 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM