Michael Bell
@mbellcoop.bsky.social
Used to be a bigwig in the Co-op Party
UK politics, NUFC & non-league football, playlists, chess, Eurovision, and some occasional conlangs
Chess Dot Com username: Heaton Bellington
FPL team: Bellwich Albion
(he/him)
UK politics, NUFC & non-league football, playlists, chess, Eurovision, and some occasional conlangs
Chess Dot Com username: Heaton Bellington
FPL team: Bellwich Albion
(he/him)
As well as being disgusting, what Kelly says is also false. She says at the end of the quote "no one has come forward saying 'I was under 14'". That's not true. One of the survivors is on the record saying she was 13 when Epstein introduced her to Trump and Trump sexually assaulted her
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
As well as being disgusting, what Kelly says is also false. She says at the end of the quote "no one has come forward saying 'I was under 14'". That's not true. One of the survivors is on the record saying she was 13 when Epstein introduced her to Trump and Trump sexually assaulted her
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writing a piece on this tomorrow but I think the bland truth is that a lot of people just don't care! saw it in Westminster too, fundamentally a lot of men - and some women - simply don't really give a shit if a man is said to be a sexual abuser, as long as they don't have to see if they don't care
One of the more upsetting things in this is that he wasn't blackmailing them: These men were part of this and protecting him not out of obligation or even particularly out of access, but out of solidarity.
Lots of people say: that’s because he’s blackmailing them, but I don’t think he’s blackmailing Kathy Ruemmler! I don’t think that’s what explains it.
November 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
writing a piece on this tomorrow but I think the bland truth is that a lot of people just don't care! saw it in Westminster too, fundamentally a lot of men - and some women - simply don't really give a shit if a man is said to be a sexual abuser, as long as they don't have to see if they don't care
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
Still find it laughably mad that after the FIFA Club World Cup, they not only gave Trump a winner's medal, on stage with the team, but they gave him the actual trophy to keep, and Chelsea had to take a replica home
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Still find it laughably mad that after the FIFA Club World Cup, they not only gave Trump a winner's medal, on stage with the team, but they gave him the actual trophy to keep, and Chelsea had to take a replica home
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Multiple someones in the highest level of government are going to have a very hard time indeed when they find out the hard way that universities are anchor institutions for towns and cities pretty much everywhere.
Wonder who's going to be holding that particular hot potato?
Wonder who's going to be holding that particular hot potato?
'The prospect of hundreds of job cuts at Lancaster University could damage the city's economy, students have warned.'
'Could'? Surely 'will'.
'Could'? Surely 'will'.
Fears Lancaster University job cuts would hit city's businesses
Lancaster University is seeking to cut 400 full-time posts as part of efforts to save £30m.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Multiple someones in the highest level of government are going to have a very hard time indeed when they find out the hard way that universities are anchor institutions for towns and cities pretty much everywhere.
Wonder who's going to be holding that particular hot potato?
Wonder who's going to be holding that particular hot potato?
MTG is breaking ranks then. Suspect more will do so over the weekend
Rep. Ro Khanna tells @Lawrence that he, Thomas Massie, and MTG will hold a news conference next Tuesday with survivors of Epstein's abuse.
November 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
MTG is breaking ranks then. Suspect more will do so over the weekend
You might think these things are unrelated, however I have it on good authority that Donald Trump is actually a potential front runner for this
Oh boy, I wonder how all these Trump/Epstein revelations will affect the deliberations for the FIFA Peace Prize 🙃
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
You might think these things are unrelated, however I have it on good authority that Donald Trump is actually a potential front runner for this
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this gets reposted a lot, but truth be told trump has never really wriggled out of anything. what actually happens is that other people passively or actively support him
November 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM
this gets reposted a lot, but truth be told trump has never really wriggled out of anything. what actually happens is that other people passively or actively support him
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Okay, that's a good start. Now release the Kelly Rowland Excel Spreadsheets.
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Okay, that's a good start. Now release the Kelly Rowland Excel Spreadsheets.
Oh boy, I wonder how all these Trump/Epstein revelations will affect the deliberations for the FIFA Peace Prize 🙃
November 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Oh boy, I wonder how all these Trump/Epstein revelations will affect the deliberations for the FIFA Peace Prize 🙃
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I don’t know at this point if there is enough evident to say “the New York Times, institutionally, was a co-conspirator with Epstein” but it’s basically beyond doubt at this point that at least one employee of the paper were co-conspirators and used their position at the paper to help affect that
Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
![From:
Thomas Jr., Landon
Sent:
9/27/2017 2:47:47 PM
To:
Subject:
Got another call from Connelly..
Importance:
High
Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
He is digging around again -- not clear if its another book/or expanded paperback version. Was asking me all sorts of questions about why you hired Ken Starr. I told him I had no idea - I think he is doing some Trump-related digging too.
Anyway, for what its worth...
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ir thomas/index.h
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November 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I don’t know at this point if there is enough evident to say “the New York Times, institutionally, was a co-conspirator with Epstein” but it’s basically beyond doubt at this point that at least one employee of the paper were co-conspirators and used their position at the paper to help affect that
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Thinking about how when a neo-nazi hacked Colombia and released Zohran Mamdani's application the NYT covered it as a major scandal sourced from "Colombia" and yet they were seemingly regularly receiving offers of incriminating evidence on Trump and refusing to publish it.
November 13, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Thinking about how when a neo-nazi hacked Colombia and released Zohran Mamdani's application the NYT covered it as a major scandal sourced from "Colombia" and yet they were seemingly regularly receiving offers of incriminating evidence on Trump and refusing to publish it.
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I’m at the Epstein Files
I’m at the Russiagate
I’m at the combination Epstein Files Russiagate
I’m at the Russiagate
I’m at the combination Epstein Files Russiagate
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...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I’m at the Epstein Files
I’m at the Russiagate
I’m at the combination Epstein Files Russiagate
I’m at the Russiagate
I’m at the combination Epstein Files Russiagate
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hiiiii politico I know you're new to this and not to brag but I've been reading the news for quite a while now so I wanted to let you know that when somebody is serving a prison term for crimes they have been found guilty of you actually no longer have to say that they are merely "alleged"
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
hiiiii politico I know you're new to this and not to brag but I've been reading the news for quite a while now so I wanted to let you know that when somebody is serving a prison term for crimes they have been found guilty of you actually no longer have to say that they are merely "alleged"
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It reads, to many, like shifting the blame of a transphobic crime away from transphobia on to "phone bad". Especially when labour politicians, especially Wes Streeting, spout things that contribute to the transphobia that is the main, underlying cause, even if the phones can expose kids to it.
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
It reads, to many, like shifting the blame of a transphobic crime away from transphobia on to "phone bad". Especially when labour politicians, especially Wes Streeting, spout things that contribute to the transphobia that is the main, underlying cause, even if the phones can expose kids to it.
After ten years of paying into it, I've just opted out of my union's political levy to the Labour Party. They'll get nothing more from me
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
After ten years of paying into it, I've just opted out of my union's political levy to the Labour Party. They'll get nothing more from me
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I would prefer it if Wes Streeting did not become Prime Minister
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I would prefer it if Wes Streeting did not become Prime Minister
Just got back from Bugonia. Was enjoyable but compares very poorly with the original. Nowhere near the same depth or tension
November 11, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Just got back from Bugonia. Was enjoyable but compares very poorly with the original. Nowhere near the same depth or tension
The writers of Escape from the Planet of the Apes: "You are like a little baby to me"
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The writers of Escape from the Planet of the Apes: "You are like a little baby to me"
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Ha! So the world thinks, but with my new machine—drops two books into vat, pulls lever on wall—POR QUE NO LOS DOS!!
The castle windows flash white <boom> and lightning crackles down the conductor. Out of the vat, extremely angry but quite short, steps Charlotte Brontë with white streak in hair.
The castle windows flash white <boom> and lightning crackles down the conductor. Out of the vat, extremely angry but quite short, steps Charlotte Brontë with white streak in hair.
You can only pick one. I’m sorry.
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
Jane Austen or Mary Shelley
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Ha! So the world thinks, but with my new machine—drops two books into vat, pulls lever on wall—POR QUE NO LOS DOS!!
The castle windows flash white <boom> and lightning crackles down the conductor. Out of the vat, extremely angry but quite short, steps Charlotte Brontë with white streak in hair.
The castle windows flash white <boom> and lightning crackles down the conductor. Out of the vat, extremely angry but quite short, steps Charlotte Brontë with white streak in hair.
I moved to Tidal a couple months ago, and it's a perfect replacement for Spotify for music (doesn't do podcasts but other places do)
Are you still using Spotify Premium? Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I moved to Tidal a couple months ago, and it's a perfect replacement for Spotify for music (doesn't do podcasts but other places do)
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Trans women are already banned from all of the sports at an international federation level already. This framing is a lie aimed at hiding the fact they're now going after other women that they don't like.
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
Olympics organisers moving towards blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport
The International Olympic Committee is moving towards a blanket ban on transgender women from women's sport, Sky News understands.
news.sky.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Trans women are already banned from all of the sports at an international federation level already. This framing is a lie aimed at hiding the fact they're now going after other women that they don't like.
And to be clear this is not about factional infighting. It's about a toxic culture of bullying and incompetence in the party locally, and the utter betrayal of all of us who fought for this national government by that very national government
I know so many good people who were forced out of the party recently, via bullying, or feeling betrayed by the national govt. In any normal year I would have been a candidate myself. They've fucked it so hard. I won't even be voting for them let alone standing
November 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
And to be clear this is not about factional infighting. It's about a toxic culture of bullying and incompetence in the party locally, and the utter betrayal of all of us who fought for this national government by that very national government
Was talking recently to a couple of Newcastle Lab cllrs who are standing down in the locals. They said the party is 36 candidates short for the upcoming all-outs. That they're braced for a best night of 22 cllrs returned and a worst night of 12
November 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Was talking recently to a couple of Newcastle Lab cllrs who are standing down in the locals. They said the party is 36 candidates short for the upcoming all-outs. That they're braced for a best night of 22 cllrs returned and a worst night of 12
Wow, how incredibly unsurprising
November 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Wow, how incredibly unsurprising