Colin Pennkenny
@colin-penn-kenny.bsky.social
Liverpool bloke. retired civil servant so obvs liberal elite. loves EU,particularly France where I now live. Trivia lover, hopefully got half a brain.
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If your peace plan includes Vladimir Putin and excludes actual allies, it’s not peace. It’s submission.
January 20, 2026 at 5:26 AM
If your peace plan includes Vladimir Putin and excludes actual allies, it’s not peace. It’s submission.
Abuse thrives where the government tweets – why it's time to quit X now
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Abuse thrives where the government tweets – why it's time to quit X now
The use of AI tool Grok to generate en masse intimate images of real women and girls is sickening.
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January 20, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Abuse thrives where the government tweets – why it's time to quit X now
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BBC counts 180 body bags in footage from morgue in Kahrizak near #Tehran
Witness in Tehran on Sunday:
"Things here are very, very bad. A lot of our friends have been killed. They were firing live rounds. It's like a war zone, streets are full of blood. They're taking away bodies in trucks"
#Iran
Witness in Tehran on Sunday:
"Things here are very, very bad. A lot of our friends have been killed. They were firing live rounds. It's like a war zone, streets are full of blood. They're taking away bodies in trucks"
#Iran
January 12, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.
January 12, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.
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Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit?
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Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit?
Keir Starmer's decision to exclude Russian interference in the 2016 EU referendum from his inquiry into foreign interference in our elections should ring alarm bells, argues Sergei Cristo
bylinetimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Why Is the Government Really Refusing to Investigate Russian Interference in Brexit?
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Shabana Mahmood clearly has no morals or empathy, which is presumably why Starmer chose her for Home Secretary.
The UK has, by any measure, totally lost its way, morally, culturally and financially.
The UK has, by any measure, totally lost its way, morally, culturally and financially.
Shabana Mahmood said this month that her migration policies are a "moral mission".
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Shabana Mahmood clearly has no morals or empathy, which is presumably why Starmer chose her for Home Secretary.
The UK has, by any measure, totally lost its way, morally, culturally and financially.
The UK has, by any measure, totally lost its way, morally, culturally and financially.
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Literally we're at the banging head against wall stage of things here. What is wrong with this government?
If you want more significant numbers of asylum seekers to work and find their own housing, rather than rely on statutory asylum provision, then you presumably need to…allow them to work? What am I missing
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Literally we're at the banging head against wall stage of things here. What is wrong with this government?
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"The policy and rhetoric is as cruel as anything announced by Nigel Farage. Yet the Home Secretary is planning to sell it to Labour MPs by suggesting that it is the only way to prevent a Reform Government.There is only one way to describe this. It is the politics of the protection racket."
Shabana Mahmood and the Politics of Extortion
Labour's strategy of telling its supporters to back Reform-style policies, or get a Reform Government, is the politics of the protection racket and it is not going to work
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
"The policy and rhetoric is as cruel as anything announced by Nigel Farage. Yet the Home Secretary is planning to sell it to Labour MPs by suggesting that it is the only way to prevent a Reform Government.There is only one way to describe this. It is the politics of the protection racket."
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Text your busy friends and family and offer to take their ballots in for them if you can. I’m dropping of my sister’s because she works crazy hours
PSA for Seattle procrastinators: If you're voting today or tomorrow, USE A DROP BOX, NOT THE MAIL! The USPS won't guarantee your timely ballot is postmarked on time.
Locations of ballot boxes: cd.kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
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Locations of ballot boxes: cd.kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...
More details: publicola.com/2025/10/03/p...
Post Office Delays Could Result in Uncounted Ballots; Harrell's Budget Increases Graffiti Spending 36 Percent - PubliCola
1. Mail processing delays could result in more invalidated mail-in ballots this year, and elections officials are advising voters to…
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November 4, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Text your busy friends and family and offer to take their ballots in for them if you can. I’m dropping of my sister’s because she works crazy hours
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TRUMP DISAPPROVAL RISES TO RECORD 63%
November 4, 2025 at 3:34 AM
TRUMP DISAPPROVAL RISES TO RECORD 63%
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Three further members of Reform’s “flagship” Kent council expelled for “dishonest and deceptive behaviour”
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October 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Three further members of Reform’s “flagship” Kent council expelled for “dishonest and deceptive behaviour”
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Washington Post capitulated.
LA Times capitulated.
ABC capitulated.
CBS capitulated.
CNN capitulated.
Support independent, pro democracy media like @status.news, @thebulwark.com, @crooked.com, @boltsmag.org, @the-downballot.com, @contrariannews.org and, of course, @democracydocket.com.
LA Times capitulated.
ABC capitulated.
CBS capitulated.
CNN capitulated.
Support independent, pro democracy media like @status.news, @thebulwark.com, @crooked.com, @boltsmag.org, @the-downballot.com, @contrariannews.org and, of course, @democracydocket.com.
Scoop: During a trip to DC last week, CNN CEO Mark Thompson made a visit to the White House, where he promoted the network’s new streamer
Staffers were taken aback the next morning when Thompson urged them to ease up on East Wing renovation coverage
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Staffers were taken aback the next morning when Thompson urged them to ease up on East Wing renovation coverage
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Mark Thompson’s D.C. Drop-In
CNN’s chief has Washington talking about his private meeting at the White House—following which he urged the network to ease up on coverage of Trump’s East Room demolition, Status has learned.
www.status.news
October 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Washington Post capitulated.
LA Times capitulated.
ABC capitulated.
CBS capitulated.
CNN capitulated.
Support independent, pro democracy media like @status.news, @thebulwark.com, @crooked.com, @boltsmag.org, @the-downballot.com, @contrariannews.org and, of course, @democracydocket.com.
LA Times capitulated.
ABC capitulated.
CBS capitulated.
CNN capitulated.
Support independent, pro democracy media like @status.news, @thebulwark.com, @crooked.com, @boltsmag.org, @the-downballot.com, @contrariannews.org and, of course, @democracydocket.com.
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Last week:
-Trump pardoned Binance's founder after a $2B deal with his crypto firm
-Hegseth awards a DoD contract to a Don Jr.-backed firm
-Trump orders his DOJ cronies pay him $230M in "compensation"
We must not become numb to this. https://popular.info/p/3-scandals-in-4-days-that-would-define
-Trump pardoned Binance's founder after a $2B deal with his crypto firm
-Hegseth awards a DoD contract to a Don Jr.-backed firm
-Trump orders his DOJ cronies pay him $230M in "compensation"
We must not become numb to this. https://popular.info/p/3-scandals-in-4-days-that-would-define
3 Scandals in 4 Days That Would Define Any Other Presidency
During the second Trump administration, corruption scandals that would typically define a presidency receive a day or tw
popular.info
October 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Last week:
-Trump pardoned Binance's founder after a $2B deal with his crypto firm
-Hegseth awards a DoD contract to a Don Jr.-backed firm
-Trump orders his DOJ cronies pay him $230M in "compensation"
We must not become numb to this. https://popular.info/p/3-scandals-in-4-days-that-would-define
-Trump pardoned Binance's founder after a $2B deal with his crypto firm
-Hegseth awards a DoD contract to a Don Jr.-backed firm
-Trump orders his DOJ cronies pay him $230M in "compensation"
We must not become numb to this. https://popular.info/p/3-scandals-in-4-days-that-would-define
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A must read!!!
LFG, America.
LFG, America.
How Americans Are Blocking Trump’s Militia
Ordinary people in forgotten places are standing between families and fear.
www.digitaldrumbeat.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A must read!!!
LFG, America.
LFG, America.
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So Argentina gets a $40 billion bailout from our tax dollars but devastated small towns here at home — nothing.
October 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
So Argentina gets a $40 billion bailout from our tax dollars but devastated small towns here at home — nothing.
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Wow incompetent leadership. Got rid of all of the competent people and this is what’s left.
October 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Wow incompetent leadership. Got rid of all of the competent people and this is what’s left.
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Venezuela claims it has captured CIA-linked mercenaries plotting a “false flag” attack to justify US military action.
October 27, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Venezuela claims it has captured CIA-linked mercenaries plotting a “false flag” attack to justify US military action.
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🇺🇸 When Leaders listen to their people:
October 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🇺🇸 When Leaders listen to their people:
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I cannot express how angry I will be if anyone anywhere in the world acts surprised when Trump declares himself eligible for a third and illegal presidential term by either invoking the Insurrection Act, declaring martial law, or simply declaring himself eligible to run and daring SCOTUS to stop him
Trump ‘would love’ unconstitutional third term but rules out running for VP
Presidents are constitutionally limited to two elected terms but some had suggested unorthodox gambit to stay in office
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I cannot express how angry I will be if anyone anywhere in the world acts surprised when Trump declares himself eligible for a third and illegal presidential term by either invoking the Insurrection Act, declaring martial law, or simply declaring himself eligible to run and daring SCOTUS to stop him
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Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."
October 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."
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