Etienne Cloche
@valentinabass.bsky.social
My 21st Century superpowers are: being impervious to culture wars influencing, conspiracy theories and gambling ads
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Politics, Music, Football and other random cultural ephemera
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Politics, Music, Football and other random cultural ephemera
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Epstein survivors just dropped a powerful message for Congress, and it hits like a warning: no more waiting, the truth is coming, ready or not.
Watch till the end
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Watch till the end
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November 17, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Epstein survivors just dropped a powerful message for Congress, and it hits like a warning: no more waiting, the truth is coming, ready or not.
Watch till the end
@housedemocrats.bsky.social
@houserepublicans.bsky.social
Watch till the end
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@houserepublicans.bsky.social
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This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Why didn't Pam Bondi investigate Jeffrey Epstein when she was Florida’s AG from 2011 to 2019?! As Florida's AG, Bondi made prosecuting sex traffickers who preyed on children a top priority. Yet for some reason she never investigated Epstein. My article: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/we-need-to...
We need to know why Pam Bondi did not investigate Jeffrey Epstein when she was Florida’s AG from 2011 to 2019?!
Was Bondi protecting Trump?!
deanobeidallah.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Why didn't Pam Bondi investigate Jeffrey Epstein when she was Florida’s AG from 2011 to 2019?! As Florida's AG, Bondi made prosecuting sex traffickers who preyed on children a top priority. Yet for some reason she never investigated Epstein. My article: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/we-need-to...
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NOT DISCUSSED NEARLY ENOUGH THIS WEEK:
Trump’s all over the Epstein files so he’s having Venezuelans killed as a distraction. Because of these crimes against humanity, a 4-star Admiral resigned and the British, the Dutch, and the Colombians are no longer sharing intel with the USA.
Trump’s all over the Epstein files so he’s having Venezuelans killed as a distraction. Because of these crimes against humanity, a 4-star Admiral resigned and the British, the Dutch, and the Colombians are no longer sharing intel with the USA.
November 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
NOT DISCUSSED NEARLY ENOUGH THIS WEEK:
Trump’s all over the Epstein files so he’s having Venezuelans killed as a distraction. Because of these crimes against humanity, a 4-star Admiral resigned and the British, the Dutch, and the Colombians are no longer sharing intel with the USA.
Trump’s all over the Epstein files so he’s having Venezuelans killed as a distraction. Because of these crimes against humanity, a 4-star Admiral resigned and the British, the Dutch, and the Colombians are no longer sharing intel with the USA.
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Absolutely. An iron law of whether a statement about immigrants is true is that it should also apply if you just use the word “people”. (A test that many claims on the liberal side also fail!)
It's the logical end point of the duhumanisation of asylum seekers. They're not seen as people with agency, but as problems other countries / nefarious forces are dumping on us
November 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Absolutely. An iron law of whether a statement about immigrants is true is that it should also apply if you just use the word “people”. (A test that many claims on the liberal side also fail!)
Why do powerful interests and institutions manoeuvre to protect the worst human Jeffrey Epstein had ever met (and coming from him..) Is the rot that deep? Is the fear of the cult still that pervasive?!They gut will be dead sooner rather than later, you’d think they’d want to future proof themselves
November 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Why do powerful interests and institutions manoeuvre to protect the worst human Jeffrey Epstein had ever met (and coming from him..) Is the rot that deep? Is the fear of the cult still that pervasive?!They gut will be dead sooner rather than later, you’d think they’d want to future proof themselves
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America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.
November 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
America's most notorious child rapist, Jeffrey Epstein, said this man was the worst person he'd ever met. Let that sink in.
Your daily reminder that ALL the duplicitous cretins who own& edit the Torygraph have is misremembered nostalgia. And bigotry. But mostly it’s misremembered nostalgia.
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Your daily reminder that ALL the duplicitous cretins who own& edit the Torygraph have is misremembered nostalgia. And bigotry. But mostly it’s misremembered nostalgia.
Surely the reason that Government comms are so bad and that there’s no narrative through line about how it intends to make people’s lives better, is because it doesn’t have one. “Starmerism” is effectively a slightly fairer version of Tory managed decline. There is nothing at its centre.
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Surely the reason that Government comms are so bad and that there’s no narrative through line about how it intends to make people’s lives better, is because it doesn’t have one. “Starmerism” is effectively a slightly fairer version of Tory managed decline. There is nothing at its centre.
Another cracking episode of @quietriotpod.bsky.social out today incl No.10’s latest exercise in rake stepping, the Orange one suing the BBC and whether The British Legion is now woke (!) with the ever excellent @pimlicat.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Another cracking episode of @quietriotpod.bsky.social out today incl No.10’s latest exercise in rake stepping, the Orange one suing the BBC and whether The British Legion is now woke (!) with the ever excellent @pimlicat.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social
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It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
November 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.
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Peter Thiel is in the Epstein emails, enjoying himself.
Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi.
Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data.
Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation.
You can't make it up.
Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi.
Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data.
Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation.
You can't make it up.
How Palantir infiltrated the state
At a moment of national emergency, the government handed our data to Peter Thiel’s controversial company
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Peter Thiel is in the Epstein emails, enjoying himself.
Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi.
Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data.
Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation.
You can't make it up.
Peter Thiel is an overt, convinced, outspoken Nazi.
Peter Thiel's company is being paid by the UK government to crawl all over YOUR personal data.
Oswald Mosley's grandson runs his UK operation.
You can't make it up.
Absofuckinglutely THIS
November 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Absofuckinglutely THIS
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I find it highly ironic that the party that bemoaned the deep state and alleged the cover-up of pedophiles is now embroiled in defending the party that has the largest pedophile cover-up in American history.
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I find it highly ironic that the party that bemoaned the deep state and alleged the cover-up of pedophiles is now embroiled in defending the party that has the largest pedophile cover-up in American history.
McSweeney- ruthless election supremo, not at all the skill set for chief of staff. But his appointment is indicative of a sheer lack of imagination by the PM.
November 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
McSweeney- ruthless election supremo, not at all the skill set for chief of staff. But his appointment is indicative of a sheer lack of imagination by the PM.
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Trump’s attempt to sue the BBC is based off a memo written by a lobbyist tied to pro Trump tech giants - who’s interests, we have to presume, align with others on the right /Murdoch etc who want to undermine an unbiased* public sector broadcaster
*charter-mandated/theoretically
*charter-mandated/theoretically
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Trump’s attempt to sue the BBC is based off a memo written by a lobbyist tied to pro Trump tech giants - who’s interests, we have to presume, align with others on the right /Murdoch etc who want to undermine an unbiased* public sector broadcaster
*charter-mandated/theoretically
*charter-mandated/theoretically
What are the chances that Gibb now becomes the story, a lightning rod for negativity and criticism, to the point he has to resign? You know a good timeline for a change - as opposed to the one in which he his coup has actually positioned him to become DG
November 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
What are the chances that Gibb now becomes the story, a lightning rod for negativity and criticism, to the point he has to resign? You know a good timeline for a change - as opposed to the one in which he his coup has actually positioned him to become DG
The only thing the craven eight have actually achieved is being duped by Mike Johnson. Ineptitude on such a scale it can be seen from space
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The only thing the craven eight have actually achieved is being duped by Mike Johnson. Ineptitude on such a scale it can be seen from space
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I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
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Notable that the supposedly “patriotic” wing of British politics wants to destroy / defund almost all of our national institutions
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Notable that the supposedly “patriotic” wing of British politics wants to destroy / defund almost all of our national institutions
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This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.
This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
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The corruption never ends
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The corruption never ends