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Testing the water
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January 20, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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🚨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...
petition.parliament.uk
January 19, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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A joke for the history buffs:

Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“
January 18, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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The boos here are deafening. Not sure where it is, but it reminds me very much of Ceaușescu's last speech before the Romanian army took him away.
#MAGAmerica
January 18, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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January 17, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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Chief constable upsets Israel lobby by refusing to let violent, racist Israeli football hooligans prowl his city – out of a job.

School cancels MP's visit after parents protest because he's a cheerleader for genocidal Israel – Ofsted announces it's inspecting the school. 🤔
January 16, 2026 at 7:46 PM
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.

“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar
The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
www.semafor.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:42 AM
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Neil Coyle MP has written a brutal takedown letter to Nigel Farage for his breach of parliamentary protocol, because Farage visited Coyle's London constituency without notifying him. 10/10 no notes.
(H/T @simonpegg.bsky.social)
January 14, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
January 12, 2026 at 12:09 PM
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Renee Good tells ICE, "That's fine dude, I'm not mad at you" - then ICE agent shoots her and says "f*cking b*tch"

America, how can you be ok with this?
January 9, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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Here is the list of the MPs who were officers and supporters of Labour Friends of Israel before it suddenly removed this page from its website.
January 9, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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Hannah Arendt was in Germany during the start of the Nazi terror in the 1920s and 30s. She knew it was just the start.

We need to stand up now to ICE and to Fascism before its too late.
January 9, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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Now they need to enforce the ban in London
The government is going to let councils outside London ban pavement parking by motorists.

www.gov.uk/government/s...

It's been banned in London since 1974, and promoted in this memorable GLC advert.
January 8, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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Wes Streeting, part of a govt that won't confirm it'd uphold an ICC arrest warrant, won't meet its obligations under the genocide convention, & won't condemn what the US has done in Venezuela, says he's concerned about the disintegration of the rules based international system
January 6, 2026 at 8:25 AM
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It is always a good idea to see who is funding the politicians.
January 5, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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You can't argue with the truth.
January 5, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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December 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Pamela Jo Bondi, doing her part to help an administration that calls itself, with a seemingly straight face, "The Most Transparent in American History."
December 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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December 20, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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A page of the Epstein Files got left unredacted.

Imagine what was in the rest.
December 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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THREAD.

My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.

I've collected his work here...
December 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM