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MeidasTouch

@meidastouch.com

YIKES! Fox “News” host and Trump lackey Laura Ingraham just tried to tell a whopper of a lie to cover for Trump’s farmer bailout plan, pretending tariffs are paid by foreign countries. A community note fact check quickly corrected the record.

December 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM

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The Lincoln Project

@lincolnproject.us

American farmer: This is Donald Trump's problem. He's the one that caused this

December 9, 2025 at 6:48 PM

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Adam Bienkov

@adambienkov.bsky.social

A reminder that when Kemi Badenoch hacked Harriet Harman's website it was an offence carrying a sentence of up to five years in prison

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 1d

The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime ⬇️

All criminals with dual nationality must be deported, say Tories

The Conservative party’s policy also includes stripping people of their British citizenship when they are found guilty of a crime

www.thetimes.com

December 8, 2025 at 11:08 PM

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Best for Britain

@bestforbritain.org

Given a) Farage's past; b) the expanding story about Russia and former MEPs; and c) media enthusiasm for "what influence is being bought?" questions, if anyone to left of Mussolini is gifted so much as a cup of sugar, why is Reform facing no such questions about Friday's £9m crypto-bro donation?~AA

December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM

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Alex Andreou

@sturdyalex.bsky.social

Here is Pete Hegseth, on several occasions in 2016, lauding the military "ethos" that means they will refuse to follow unlawful orders - which he reckons is treason, now that they are his orders - because "there have to be consequences for abject war crimes".

Deserves to go viral.

December 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM

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MarcPieterse

@marcpieterse.bsky.social

Animal fHarming is abusively cruel 👺These ducklings are treated like trash. Why are you still supporting this?#LiveVegan and make sure this never happens on your behalf 🙏

December 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM

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The Bear

@bearlypolitics.co.uk

Another Brexit economic verdict arrived last month in the form of an 83-page NBER working paper - and it is devastating.

What shocks me more is how politely politics continues to look away from the person who drove the bus.

The Farage Tax: What The UK Pays For One Man's Ego

GDP down, investment down, wages down - but Farage’s influence? Higher than ever

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk

December 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM

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Best for Britain

@bestforbritain.org

Former naval office, retired astronaut, and Dem Senator Mark Kelly: "I'm going to continue to push back on things that are unconstitutional, unlawful, stupid - they do a lot of stupid - you are seeing in Venezuela right now the consequences of hiring unqualified people." 🔥~AA

Mike Sington @mikesington.bsky.social · 3d

“They do a lot of stupid.” Senator Mark Kelly rips Trump and Pete Hegseth, pointing out their unprofessionalism and empty threats, adding “they’re not serious people”.

December 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺

@lizwebster.bsky.social

🚨 BREAKING: Farage facing police reports for falsifying election expenses.

A whistleblower from inside his campaign says he overspent by £9,000 incl

• Undeclared campaign HQ
• Armoured Land Rover counted as national spending
• Missing receipts/misreported costs
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Farage 'reported to police over claim of election fraud in Clacton'

Nigel Farage has been reported to the police over claims of falsified election expenses, it has emerged.

www.dailymail.co.uk

December 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM

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Peter Jukes

@peterjukes.bsky.social

People should note that Voloshyn tried to disguise Gill’s bribes as ‘media payments’

Do we know how much Farage received for his regular appearance on RT/Russia Today around the time of Brexit?

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

Three more British MEPs in Nigel Farage’s bloc now alleged to have “followed the script” given to Nathan Gill by an alleged Russian asset, according to prosecutors.

At least eight UKIP and Brexit Party MPs were focus of efforts by Nathan Gill

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script

At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill

www.theguardian.com

December 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM

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Morgan J Freeman

@mjfree.bsky.social

🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

December 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM

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MeidasTouch

@meidastouch.com

Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.”

In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.

December 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM

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Sarah Murphy

@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social

Farage the politician *is* Farage the schoolboy losing his shit over seeing the name ‘Patel’ on the school roll and telling black pupils to go back to Africa. There’s really no difference. Except now he wants (and may be bought) the power to deport those people.
It’s not the past. It’s now.
#NeverPM

December 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM

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The National

@scotnational.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK are running a 'cash for access scheme in all but name', a senior SNP MP has alleged after they launched a £10,000-per-year membership

Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

December 7, 2025 at 9:36 AM

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Farrukh

@implausibleblog.bsky.social

Left: President Trump wins a faux peace prize from FIFA, putting on his own medal like a winner 🤷‍♂️

Right: The US military allegedly broke intl law by carrying out a second strike on a boat, killing two unarmed survivors clinging to the wreckage for an hour, according to footage seen by US senators

December 6, 2025 at 12:34 PM

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Sarah Murphy

@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social

Farage hopes he can breeze into power without scrutiny. But his racism, corrupt donations, shady links to Russia and MAGA… make it harder for him to hide. And his tantrum reactions to being challenged reveal him for the nasty inadequate he really is.
#NeverPM

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-wheels...

The Wheels Are Falling off the Nigel Farage Project

The Reform leader's increasingly rattled public appearances betray a growing sense that the opportunity of a lifetime could be about to slip from his fingers

www.adambienkov.co.uk

December 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM

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Stephen Moran.

@moranstephen1000.bsky.social

December 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM

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Snigdha

@snig.bsky.social

Nigel Farage has been a lifelong racist. He's been a racist since his school days. David Lammy was forced to apologise for saying Farage flirted with the Hitler Youth - but what do you call it when someone sings Hitler Youth songs? Read Chloe Deakin's letter on Farage's fascism and racism at school.

From Chloe Denkin

01-734 1717 and 1778

E3 ALBANY

PICCADILLY

WIV ORH

4th June 1981

Dear Master,

I am happy to say that I am not acquainted with N. P. Farage, of ASRY happy, because judging from hereporis i haveter ceived he is not someone with whom I would wish to be acquainted; and becaure I am, therefore, able to write on the ground of no personal prejedice, but on that conceraing p. inciple.

You will recati that at the recent, and longthy, moeting about the selection of prefects, the nomads by a hegy that Sara was "a fascist, but that was no reason why ho would not make a good prefect" invoked considerable reaction from members of the Common Room. Another collesgue, who teaches the boy, des-cribed his publicly professed racist and neo-fascist views; and he citod a particular inciler in which Farage was so offensive to a boy in his set, that he had to be removed from the lesson. This mastor stated his view that that behaviour was precisely why the boy should not he made a prefect. Yet another colleague deseribed how, at a CCE camp organized by the College, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shout-in Hitler-you songs; and when it was suggested by a master thie boys who expressed such views "don't really mean them", the College Chaplain himself commented that, on the contrary, in his experience views of that kind expressed by boys of that age are onted, and are mennt,

At the end of that meeting I had not a scintilla of doubt that after the facts disclosed to you, Farage's nomination would no longer be considered. Nor, I imagine, had my colleagues; other-wise, we would have expressed ourselves even more strongly.

But yesterday I was told by a senior boy, in terms of st that Farage was indeed to be selected; and today, of course, his appointment was announced in Assembly an announcement, I gather, which was met with disbelief and derision. To say that is too late to reverse this decision, or that Farage', acdir 3 will be restricted to particular areas of College te, or that he will be supervised within them, is futile. His appointment will have four immediate consequences.

First, it will vastly increase his own confidence, and sense of self-justification. Secondly, he will have the privilege of listing his appointment as a profect at Dulwich College in his uni-versity and other applications. Thirdly, his peers, according to their own views, will either adopt him as an exemplar, or, as is much more likely, regard his appointment with disillusionment and cynicism when Ley observe that his notorious views and behaviour, well known to poth Master and members of the staff, are, as it would aptent, condoned by them. Fourthly, those members of the Common Room, such as myself, who believed that a firm daca fon had been reached through a democratic process, will be shock, saddened, angered, and disheartened.

You will appreciate that I regard this as a very serious matter. i have often heard you tell our senior boys that they are the nation's future leaders. It is our collective responsibility

to ensure that these lenders are enlightened and compassionate.

As you know, the national and educational press has recently given much prominence to the growing concern at the exploitation of school pupils by extremists of all kinds. A school of the stature and high roputation of Dulwich College which openly con-domned the recent troubles in Brixton, and offered its facilities freely to the foreca of law and order, ought not to be seen laside or outside its confines to be giving its endorsement, expressly or by implication, to budding extremists of the opposite kind.

A school which is proud of its selectiveness, conservatism, and discipline, cught not to allow these characteristics to degen erate into intolerance, political extremism, or bullying of the nastiest kind, in its pupils. The matter of the appointment of Farage as a prefect may be thought by some to be minuscule

against these deep considerations. It is not so.

I am by disposition, tolerant; and in politics, moderate. But as a member of the Common Room, I find it distasteful that a boy such as Farage should have bestowed upon him the prestige of office and authority: wore I a parent or a pupil, I would find it profoundly so.

In view, as I am aware, of the wide concern within the College about this matter, I am sending a copy of this letter to the chairman of the Common Room.

Yours very sincerely,

David Emms, Esq., MA,

The Master of Dulwich College.

October 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM

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CNN

@cnn.com

CNN political commentator Ana Navarro called FIFA President Gianni Infantino giving President Donald Trump a "peace prize" an attempt at "sucking up" to Trump and compared it to a parent giving a child a toy phone.

Read more about the Fifa Peace Prize here: https://cnn.it/4rGBgOd

December 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM

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Protect the Wild

@protectthewild.bsky.social

It's got to change! 'Share' if you agree!

December 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM

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The Guardian

@theguardian.com

The Trump administration sinks to a new low – opening fire on drowning men | Jonathan Freedland

These deadly US boat strikes are the latest example of a president corrupting both the law and morality, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

www.theguardian.com

December 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan

popular.info

December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM

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The Citizens

@the-citizens.bsky.social

Rory Stewart and Alistair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social spell out what needs to happen - the same demand we’ve made for years.

We need a real, independent inquiry 🧵

🎧 Hear the full story: the-citizens.com/2025/02/serg...

December 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM

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Byline Times

@bylinetimes.bsky.social

🔴The Plan. The Corruption. The Reality

Paul Niland examines exactly what is being demanded of Ukraine by Trump, Witkoff and Putin's 'peace plan', and asks for what price are American oligarchs so blatantly selling out an ally?

open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...