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@geojl.bsky.social
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Books, theatre, music, dance and art keep me sane. Interested in politics & the environment. Northern. 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 No DMs please.
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mjfree.bsky.social
🚨HOLY HELL!!! After Trump Split, Epstein Said He Could "Take Him Down"
After Trump Split, Epstein Said He Could ‘Take Him Down’
nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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edpoole1975.bsky.social
The reason the tech billionaires and oligarchs are funding the far right and the repression it comes with is because their vison of the future includes climate catastrophe and the death and displacement of billions.
And they know they'll need protection from us.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
One for the Brits.

Epstein wrote a list of names for Steve Bannon. The first one on it is Mandelson
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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implausibleblog.bsky.social
Ken Clarke, "Politically you can't rejoin the European Union at the moment it would cause its own nightmare, divisions and crisis"

"Brexit is doing damage to our economy"

"The time has come to rejoin the Customs Union and the EU Single Market would be a huge, huge advantage to us"
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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paulbernal.bsky.social
It’s entirely coincidental that Trump threatened the BBC with a billion dollar defamation suit the same weak that lots of terrible stories relating to Trump and Epstein could be written.
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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oliver48.bsky.social
When trickle down means cascade up ...

meme via @evolvepolitics.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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maggiechapman.bsky.social
As the UK Budget draws ever closer, many fear that public services we all rely on will be cut.
But the Chancellor could generate billions of ££ for our NHS, social care, education - just by ending the tax breaks Big Pharma gets now.
Make your voice heard:
Sign the petition: End the tax break for big pharma like GlaxoSmithKline at the Autumn budget
While the NHS is at breaking point, Britain's biggest pharmaceutical companies are receiving BILLIONS in tax breaks - enough is enough, sign the petition calling for Rachel Reeves to end the tax breaks for Big pharma:
38d.gs
November 13, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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oliver48.bsky.social
A pity no-one told Israeli Defence Forces, Zionist settlers, Netanyahu, the Israeli government there was a "ceasefire" ...
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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thelastgirlyswots.bsky.social
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Donald #Trump should publish all the Epstein emails - as he campaigned that he would do when running for President.

It's quite clear that he knew what his mate Jeffrey Epstein was up to...

#r4today #bbcbreakfast #GMB #PoliticsLive #BBCQT #C4News #toriesgone496 #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace
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November 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
To knit together two stories: through intimidation, litigation & extortion, Trump is clearly trying to create a media ecosystem where nobody asks him about Epstein - or indeed anything discomfiting. It is appalling to see so many UK media individuals & institutions aiding & abetting his corruption.
November 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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oliver48.bsky.social
... and the Tories complain about BBC left-wing bias!
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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drjennings.bsky.social
The Russiagate and Epstein plot lines suddenly are joined...
kyledcheney.bsky.social Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 15h
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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watershed-i.bsky.social
It's perhaps more understandable that people in the American Southwest are facing water shortage than that we've managed our water here on a rainy island so spectacularly badly we too are facing water scarcity.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How England’s outdated water tracking system leaves regulators in the dark
Experts warn accurately monitoring consumption by bulk users such as farmers, datacentres and businesses can be all but impossible
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Keir Starmer faces calls to sack chief of staff over No 10 briefing war

Cabinet ministers are calling for Morgan McSweeney to be sacked after briefings from No 10 targeted Wes Streeting, with Starmer launching a leak inquiry

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Starmer faces calls to sack chief of staff over No 10 briefing war
Cabinet ministers are calling for Morgan McSweeney to be sacked after briefings from No 10 targeted Wes Streeting, with Starmer launching a leak inquiry
www.thetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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timdickinson.bsky.social
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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staticb4storm.bsky.social
Data Centers pop out everywhere. Thousands of projects in the US alone. There is a significant resistance already and now BlackRock enters the stage. What could go wrong?
Data Centers Devour Electricity. Private Equity Is Buying Utilities to Cash In.
The seizure of public utilities for the sake of profit may lead to a disaster for consumers — and the planet.
truthout.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
Important to remember!!!
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November 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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jdportes.bsky.social
If Finkelstein had an ounce of courage/moral fibre, he'd attack Dan Hannan and Michael Gove for this sub-BNP racism published yesterday in the Specator.

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peterwalker99.bsky.social Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 23h
Spectator running a piece by Daniel Hannan which leans heavily into the inferred idea that you're not necessarily British if you come from a migrant background, even if you were born and brought up here.
November 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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briantylercohen.bsky.social
Ghislaine Maxwell lied about Trump never going to Epstein's house (directly contradicted by her email correspondence with Epstein), and she was rewarded for that lie with a transfer to a cushier prison. The coverup is happening in plain sight.
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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dropsitenews.com
Also read the latest testimony from Palestinian captives released in the October 2025 exchange:

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dropsitenews.com Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d
🚨The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights says it has collected new testimonies from recently released captives and documented systematic sexual torture of Palestinian detainees, including rape, forced stripping, and filming, describing it as part of Israel’s broader campaign to destroy human....
🚨The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights says it has collected new testimonies from recently released captives and documented systematic sexual torture of Palestinian detainees, including rape, forced stripping, and filming, describing it as part of Israel’s broader campaign to destroy human dignity in Gaza. Among the cases is N.A., a 42-year-old mother from northern Gaza, who told PCHR she was raped four times by Israeli soldiers and subjected to repeated torture and humiliation in detention after she was detained while passing through an Israeli checkpoint set up in northern Gaza in November 2024. 📌 Her testimony in full: “At dawn I heard the soldiers shouting, saying that morning prayers were forbidden, and I think it was the fourth day after my arrest from Gaza. The soldiers moved me to a place I didn’t know because my eyes were blindfolded, and they ordered me to take off my clothes. I did so. They put me on a metal table, pressed my chest and head against it, cuffed my hands to the end of the bed, and pulled my legs apart forcefully. I felt a penis penetrating my anus and a man raping me. I started screaming, and they beat me on my back and head while I was blindfolded. I felt the man who was raping me ejaculate inside my anus. I kept screaming and being beaten, and I could hear a camera—so I believe they were filming me. The rape lasted about 10 minutes. After that, they left me for an hour in the same position, with my hands cuffed to the bed with metal handcuffs, my face on the bed, my feet on the floor, and I was completely naked. Again, after an hour, I was raped fully in the same position, with penetration into my vagina, and I was beaten while I screamed. There were several soldiers; I heard them laughing and the camera clicking as it took pictures. This rape was very quick and there was no ejaculation. During the rape they beat me with their hands on my head and back. Again, after an hour, I was raped fully in the same position, with penetration into my vagina, and I was beaten while I screamed. There were several soldiers; I heard them laughing and the camera clicking as it took pictures. This rape was very quick and there was no ejaculation. During the rape they beat me with their hands on my head and back. I cannot describe what I felt; I wished for death every moment. After they raped me, I was left alone in the same room, hands still cuffed to the bed and without clothes for many hours. I could hear the soldiers outside speaking Hebrew and laughing. Later, I was raped again vaginally. I screamed, but they beat me whenever I tried to resist. After more than an hour, I’m not sure about the time, a masked soldier entered, removed my blindfold, lifted his face covering; he had white skin and was tall. He asked if I spoke English; I said no. He said he was Russian and ordered me to masturbate his penis. I refused, and he hit me in the face after raping me. That day I was raped twice. I was left naked the whole day in the room where I spent three days. On the first day I was raped twice; on the second day I was raped twice; on the third day I remained without clothes while they looked at me through the door slit and filmed me. One soldier said they would post my photos on social media. While I was in the room, my period started; then they told me to put on clothes and transferred me to another room.” Palestinian Centre for Human Rights: November 10, 2025. PCHR Documents Testimonies of Systematic Rape and Sexual Torture in Israeli Detention Against Released Palestinian Detainees
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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racebannon.bsky.social
No thank you. I'll rent my cars from companies not led by someone who so readily embraces fascism and the destruction of our democratic institutions.

mashable.com/article/tesl...
Tesla turns to rentals as sales continue to spiral
Tesla is now offering up its cars to rent from its showrooms.
mashable.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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carolecadwalla.bsky.social
So there’s one aspect of the BBC story that has received zero attention: Robbie Gibb’s potential financial conflict of interests.

According to @arusbridger.bsky.social, he was just the bagman for the purchase of the Jewish Chronicle.
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www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
Who really funds the Jewish Chronicle? Why it’s troubling that we don’t know…
Four years ago, a mysterious consortium came to the rescue of the beleaguered publication—and nobody is really clear about who is behind the scenes. B...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Given that the far right hates Black and Brown people, hates women, hates immigrants, hates liberals, leftists and greens, hates students and universities, hates civil servants, hates disabled people, hates gay and trans people and hates Jews and Muslims, what is this country it claims to love?
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions.
A new survey reveals negative attitudes to Reform UK Ltd
Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions
centralbylines.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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asharangappa.bsky.social
The sheer number of people Trump pardoned — 1,500+ — and the magnitude of violence many (most?) of them committed means it is statistically likely that a fair number will be revidivists, potentially for more egregious crimes. The pardons should be a top story EVERY DAY
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d
Welcome to “justice” in Donald Trump’s America.
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM