Jared Thompson
@jthompson7.bsky.social
Digital Manager from Greater Manchester trying out Bluesky 👋
Lover of NFL, Rugby League and all things craft beer and vegan food!
Lover of NFL, Rugby League and all things craft beer and vegan food!
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Fight hate and spread hope with our Christmas cards this holiday season 🎄 🎁
Every card supports our work defending protest rights, standing up against transphobia and fighting the far right 👇
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Every card supports our work defending protest rights, standing up against transphobia and fighting the far right 👇
https://glp.teemill.com/collection/christmas-cards/
November 9, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Fight hate and spread hope with our Christmas cards this holiday season 🎄 🎁
Every card supports our work defending protest rights, standing up against transphobia and fighting the far right 👇
https://glp.teemill.com/collection/christmas-cards/
Every card supports our work defending protest rights, standing up against transphobia and fighting the far right 👇
https://glp.teemill.com/collection/christmas-cards/
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This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
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Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
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"Farage told us the flag-raisers were just ordinary folk sticking it to the system. A few months worth of local journalism later, that now looks like a shaky claim."
A great read from @manchestermill.bsky.social about the kinds of people who put up flags around the UK.
A great read from @manchestermill.bsky.social about the kinds of people who put up flags around the UK.
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
manchestermill.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"Farage told us the flag-raisers were just ordinary folk sticking it to the system. A few months worth of local journalism later, that now looks like a shaky claim."
A great read from @manchestermill.bsky.social about the kinds of people who put up flags around the UK.
A great read from @manchestermill.bsky.social about the kinds of people who put up flags around the UK.
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
Stepping barefoot on Lego
What terrifying thing are you dressing as this Halloween I'm dressing up as acid reflux
October 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Stepping barefoot on Lego
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NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
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My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
October 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
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Coming very soon. Please sign up! We can only do this together.
We're starting small but we have big ambitions.
Because if there's anything that the last few years have shown us, it's that we desperately need diverse, fearless INDEPENDENT media.
www.thenerve.news
We're starting small but we have big ambitions.
Because if there's anything that the last few years have shown us, it's that we desperately need diverse, fearless INDEPENDENT media.
www.thenerve.news
The Nerve
www.thenerve.news
September 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Coming very soon. Please sign up! We can only do this together.
We're starting small but we have big ambitions.
Because if there's anything that the last few years have shown us, it's that we desperately need diverse, fearless INDEPENDENT media.
www.thenerve.news
We're starting small but we have big ambitions.
Because if there's anything that the last few years have shown us, it's that we desperately need diverse, fearless INDEPENDENT media.
www.thenerve.news
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This is how dictatorships behave
September 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This is how dictatorships behave
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This is a well-written article. We need more like this in a national level. manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...
Manchester’s chief flag-raiser has put his people smuggling days behind him
Flags protesting unchecked immigration have gone up across the city, led by a man caught smuggling migrants into the country in the back of a van
manchestermill.co.uk
August 30, 2025 at 11:31 AM
This is a well-written article. We need more like this in a national level. manchestermill.co.uk/manchester-f...
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Outstanding.
August 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Outstanding.
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Lions GM Brad Holmes covered a lot of ground this morning. Here's a recap of his comments on Za'Darius Smith, waiving Hassanein, Hutchinson extension talks, keeping 50 instead of 53 players, trading Patrick and more: www.detroitfootball.net/p/lions-gm-t...
Lions GM talks Za'Darius Smith, waiving rookie, Hutchinson extension talks and why team kept only 50 on initial roster
Detroit Lions general manager Brad Holmes and assistant general manager Ray Agnew met with the media Thursday morning to discuss the recent establishment of the team’s initial "53-man" roster.
www.detroitfootball.net
August 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Lions GM Brad Holmes covered a lot of ground this morning. Here's a recap of his comments on Za'Darius Smith, waiving Hassanein, Hutchinson extension talks, keeping 50 instead of 53 players, trading Patrick and more: www.detroitfootball.net/p/lions-gm-t...
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Then I saw Presley Cassell's (and Keenan Palasia's) face, now I'm a believer
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www.realclass.co.uk/then-i-saw-h...
Then I saw his face, now I'm a believer
I know, I know, I know. Honestly, I do!
www.realclass.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Then I saw Presley Cassell's (and Keenan Palasia's) face, now I'm a believer
www.realclass.co.uk/then-i-saw-h...
www.realclass.co.uk/then-i-saw-h...
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Kelly's heroes
📸 Florencia Tan Jun
📸 Florencia Tan Jun
July 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Kelly's heroes
📸 Florencia Tan Jun
📸 Florencia Tan Jun
Government launches Orgreave inquiry, 40 years after clashes at miners’ strike - The Guardian
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Government launches Orgreave inquiry, 40 years after clashes at miners’ strike — The Guardian
Move follows decades of campaigning over violent policing and collapsed prosecutions at South Yorkshire coking plant
apple.news
July 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Government launches Orgreave inquiry, 40 years after clashes at miners’ strike - The Guardian
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Farage should never be interviewed without being forced to answer for failures of Brexit. That the man whose lies fuelled Brexit vote which has cost UK Billions & who said Liz Truss budget was “best Tory budget since 1986” could be trusted on *anything* is mind-boggling #bbclaura
July 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Farage should never be interviewed without being forced to answer for failures of Brexit. That the man whose lies fuelled Brexit vote which has cost UK Billions & who said Liz Truss budget was “best Tory budget since 1986” could be trusted on *anything* is mind-boggling #bbclaura
What a story, after being told she wouldn't be able to play football by doctors!
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Hannah Hampton: From serious eye condition to England goalkeeper
Hannah Hampton on overcoming a serious eye condition to rise to become England's number one goalkeeper at Euro 2025.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
What a story, after being told she wouldn't be able to play football by doctors!
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Royton has recently made such headlines as “Man glassed inside bar” in December of last year, and “Ugly brawl erupts outside popular nightspot as woman ‘dragged down street screaming’” as recently as February.
It's also being hailed as Greater Manchester's new night life mecca🧵
It's also being hailed as Greater Manchester's new night life mecca🧵
April 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Royton has recently made such headlines as “Man glassed inside bar” in December of last year, and “Ugly brawl erupts outside popular nightspot as woman ‘dragged down street screaming’” as recently as February.
It's also being hailed as Greater Manchester's new night life mecca🧵
It's also being hailed as Greater Manchester's new night life mecca🧵
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Is this really the argument against a wealth tax?
Why do we tax money made with a pair of hands differently to money made with money
Gary Stevenson perfectly explains how Billionaires can afford to pay more.
Why do we tax money made with a pair of hands differently to money made with money
Gary Stevenson perfectly explains how Billionaires can afford to pay more.
March 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Is this really the argument against a wealth tax?
Why do we tax money made with a pair of hands differently to money made with money
Gary Stevenson perfectly explains how Billionaires can afford to pay more.
Why do we tax money made with a pair of hands differently to money made with money
Gary Stevenson perfectly explains how Billionaires can afford to pay more.
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A shocking report from @manchestermill.bsky.social about what's going on in Bolton.
HE is in crisis, and this university is in the hands of a marketing advisor "who makes racist jokes, shouts at colleagues and openly threatens people with the sack" manchestermill.co.uk/university-o...
HE is in crisis, and this university is in the hands of a marketing advisor "who makes racist jokes, shouts at colleagues and openly threatens people with the sack" manchestermill.co.uk/university-o...
‘I’ll sack who I want’: Inside the chaotic, mutinous new University of Greater Manchester
The strange story of how a marketing man from Milton Keynes turned a university into his poison-filled fiefdom
manchestermill.co.uk
February 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A shocking report from @manchestermill.bsky.social about what's going on in Bolton.
HE is in crisis, and this university is in the hands of a marketing advisor "who makes racist jokes, shouts at colleagues and openly threatens people with the sack" manchestermill.co.uk/university-o...
HE is in crisis, and this university is in the hands of a marketing advisor "who makes racist jokes, shouts at colleagues and openly threatens people with the sack" manchestermill.co.uk/university-o...
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🤩💫 ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHING!!!
February 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🤩💫 ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHING!!!
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Today’s raffle prize is mega! You can win a case of
24 cans from @cloudwaterbrew.bsky.social worth £120!
Get your raffle tickets by 7pm for a chance to win ⬇️
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24 cans from @cloudwaterbrew.bsky.social worth £120!
Get your raffle tickets by 7pm for a chance to win ⬇️
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Kimberley's Festive Advent raffle in aid of Samaritans
Help Kimberley Spivey raise money to support Samaritans
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December 23, 2024 at 9:02 AM
Today’s raffle prize is mega! You can win a case of
24 cans from @cloudwaterbrew.bsky.social worth £120!
Get your raffle tickets by 7pm for a chance to win ⬇️
www.justgiving.com/page/kimberl...
24 cans from @cloudwaterbrew.bsky.social worth £120!
Get your raffle tickets by 7pm for a chance to win ⬇️
www.justgiving.com/page/kimberl...
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Clive Efford, Labour MP, in the Commons:
"I wonder what it means when a (political) party talks about sovereignty and then is willing to sell itself entirely to a foreign owner..."
"I wonder what it means when a (political) party talks about sovereignty and then is willing to sell itself entirely to a foreign owner..."
December 19, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Clive Efford, Labour MP, in the Commons:
"I wonder what it means when a (political) party talks about sovereignty and then is willing to sell itself entirely to a foreign owner..."
"I wonder what it means when a (political) party talks about sovereignty and then is willing to sell itself entirely to a foreign owner..."