Peter McCormack
Peter McCormack
@allegoricus.bsky.social
#rejoiner #FBPE, frustrated political moaner, casual guitar builder and backline player.
No DMs unless you already know me.
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Fearless and independent investigative journalism is needed more than ever in these times. Attempts to suppress this story on Trump and the KGB demonstrate this ⬇️

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Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename 'Krasnov' Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief
A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman
bylinetimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Keir Starmer, "For the leader of the opposition to call for another inquiry, when the Conservatives didn't even implement the 20 recommendations from the Jay report"

"It shows that trying to get noticed is becoming more important than the issue itself"
January 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Quite the charmer…
January 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Political donations are institutionalized bribery.

Donors get access to policymakers, shape laws, tax privileges, lax regulations, govt contracts/subsidies, honours, power.

Banning political donations is a necessary step for free and fair elections and democracy
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/how-...
How our democracy has been hijacked by corporations and wealthy elites
The only effective remedy is to ban all private donations, or bribes, to political parties.
leftfootforward.org
January 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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A reminder that the current leader of the Conservative party describes herself as a "huge fan" of this "fantastic" man
Elon Musk has called for far-right agitator Tommy Robinson to be released from prison, suggested the US should exert economic pressure on the UK to get him out, said Jess Phillips should be jailed and said there should be fresh elections to oust Labour

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Elon Musk Calls for Fresh UK Elections in Latest Starmer Attack
Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk called for fresh UK elections in the latest sign of how Donald Trump’s incoming US administration could be a thorn in the side of Keir Starmer’s government.
www.bloomberg.com
January 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Ok. Musk is insane. An out-of-control lunatic ketamine-soaked billionaire in charge of the White House with a feverish grudge against our govt and Starmer in particular. Reform and the Tories disgrace themselves by their fawning, unpatriotic and dangerous association with him.
January 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Elon Musk is starting to risk getting Jess Phillips killed. She's been safeguarding minister for six months. She oversaw nothing relating to the rape gangs. As an opposition MP she was one of the most prominent campaigners for the victims.

What he's doing is a travesty.
January 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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In Greenland, as we speak.
December 26, 2024 at 7:40 AM
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The UK government has just confirmed its commitment to a complete ban on bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides.

www.businessgreen.com/news/4390981...
Government plots path towards 'complete' UK ban on bee-killing pesticides
Blanket ban to be imposed on three specific neonicotinoids in the UK to help protect pollinators estimated to support £500m in annual economic benefits
www.businessgreen.com
December 21, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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Left: Keir Starmer says people voted to be out of the EU Single Market in the Brexit referendum

Right: Leading Brexiter Daniel Hannan said if we voted to leave the EU, we would not leave the EU Single Market

Labour's dishonesty over Brexit is a disgrace
December 22, 2024 at 11:18 AM
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December 21, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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As we’re all sitting in the wreckage of what happened last time govt was fearful of Farage, Labour must wise up.
Thinking you can cajole this hideous man into not having a massive tantrum is naive in the extreme. Let him howl and do right by the rest of us.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Ministers resist calls to block Musk donations to Farage’s Reform UK
Government fears moves to curb any potential cash from the tech titan could backfire and play into Reform UK’s hands
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2024 at 9:22 AM
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Nigel. He only visits once a year.
December 22, 2024 at 11:24 AM
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Did Musk tank a spending bill because it would have harmed his business in China?
From @theprospect.bsky.social
prospect.org/politics/202...
December 22, 2024 at 8:11 AM
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WHOA 😳! Someone is getting pissed off! 😡

I love it 🥰
December 21, 2024 at 1:29 AM
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December 21, 2024 at 2:24 AM
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Fixed it
December 21, 2024 at 3:56 AM
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Charles Edmund Isham, the English landowner who introduced the garden gnome to the United Kingdom, is the Linda Hall Library's #ScientistOfTheDay.

www.lindahall.org/about/news/s...

#histSTM #histsci #OnThisDay
#envhist #landscaping #gnomes
December 16, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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Jeremy Vine commenting on the Jacob Rees-Mogg reality show, "It's brilliant, isn't it"

Marina Purkiss, "No it's not.. I'm so sick of the media, whether it's that, or I'm a Celeb, sanitising people who harmed the country"

Well said 👏
December 16, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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If we’d been shown this headline in 2016, we may have struggled to believe such a mess could be possible. But here we are, 8 years on, being asked to consider concessions on fish and opportunities for young people.
And the inescapable crappiness and tedium of it all is.. well.. just so very sad.
December 16, 2024 at 7:26 AM
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Dear Nigel:
a) you weren't an MP when this happened
b) sentencing reflects factors like the severity of injuries caused - ie none
c) it was a MILKSHAKE you big cry-baby
December 16, 2024 at 7:19 PM