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Shabana Mahmood on the BBC this morning talking about desperate people fleeing war and persecution as being given a "golden ticket" and "handouts" and saying she's got a "moral mission" to take them away from them

Indistinguishable from the rhetoric of Reform www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/shabana-ma...
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 9:25 AM
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This. QUOTE!
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Straight from The Station Rotation Model & #UDL by @catlintucker.com

a.co/d/fD4XBvy
#dbcincbooks #EduSky #tlap
June 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to?

HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.
August 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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✍️ Yorkshire’s inglorious moors and the lies of the land

Yorkshire’s uplands are ecological deserts, drained and burned by big landowners – it’s time to demand restoration over destruction

By David Robson

@davidotley.bsky.social
Yorkshire’s inglorious moors and the lies of the land
Yorkshire’s uplands are ecological deserts, drained and burned by big landowners – it’s time to demand restoration over destruction
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
August 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Reform UK have chosen Andrew Husband to be Group Leader for County Durham.

His business mismanagement should be of concern to all who Durham Council serve. It includes one company going bust, owing creditors £1m.

He also described the COVID vaccine a crime against humanity.
May 15, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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This can’t be repeated enough
“They (Reform UK) voted against
•stronger SSP
• the right to guaranteed hours
• protection from unfair dismissal
• stronger protections for pregnant mothers
• a package worth £600 for poorest workers.. We’re backing British workers, they vote against them at every turn”
PM Keir Starmer #PMQS 👏
May 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social

"Follow the Money"

Trump in the Middle East and how his obsession with financial deals is changing decades of US policy.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/f...
Follow the Money
Trump in the Middle East
open.substack.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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NEW: Facing a significant increase in the number of SpaceX launches, British officials detailed their concerns about the safety of Turks and Caicos and other Caribbean territories after debris from an earlier failed launch littered beaches and roads.

By @heathervogell.bsky.social
After Two SpaceX Explosions, U.K. Officials Ask FAA to Change Starship Flight Plans
Facing a significant increase in the number of SpaceX launches, British officials detailed their concerns about the safety of Turks and Caicos and other Caribbean territories after debris from an earl...
www.propublica.org
May 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Katie Couric is a legend! I loved her even more after this interview with Ben, Brett & Jordy Meiselas! It was long but I swear I wanted it to be longer! It was my favorite interview she’s ever done & my favorite of the @meidastouch.com brothers. MUST WATCH❗️

FULL INTERVIEW:
youtu.be/Zh7n5Pe2qsY?...
May 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Trump loyalist Kristi Noem asked to resign for violating the constitution, the US Congress hasn't taken stronger steps towards policing Trump regime loyalists, due to GOP collaborators, but this is a start.
May 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Jordy Meiselas: Americans are resilient, and it’s not going to be easy over the next couple of years—but democracy will prevail. I genuinely have hope. This is the greatest country in the world. Americans want it to succeed...
May 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Why has right-wing media been so incredibly effective?

I sat down with the @meidastouch.com brothers to dig deeper into how right-wing news outlets weaponize the American people’s suffering to influence opinions.

Listen now or watch on my YouTube. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
May 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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250 years ago, Americans rejected a mad king.

On June 14, we’re taking to the streets again for a nationwide day of defiance to say NO KINGS.

Over 600 events are planned in all 50 states to reject authoritarianism and show the world what democracy really looks like: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
May 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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The Reclaim Party is about to be struck off Companies House for failing to file accounts. They were due in August 2023.

(This is Laurence Fox’s political party, not to be confused with Reform UK)
May 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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4 artists & 3 scientists created a series of posters to communicate some of the science issues most important to us.

These posters are made to be shared!

We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online.

get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com
May 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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“Does going further mean disentangling ourselves from the ECHR & disaplying Human Rights laws in immigration cases?”

“NO” says Prime Minister Keir Starmer going on to give a clear, compelling & cogent response to the question 👏
May 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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⚠️22,000 civil servants to be deployed to Freeport/SEZ corporate fiefdoms across the UK.
My latest Substack article tears apart the Guardian's article and exposes what's really going on.
Pat 'Mini-Musk' McFadden, tying funding to relocations and peddling efficiency.
open.substack.com/pub/european...
Labour’s Civil Service Relocation Smells Like a Corporate Stitch-Up – And the Guardian’s Buying It
The UK government’s “Places for Growth” scheme is being flogged as a heartwarming plan to shift 22,000 civil servant jobs from London’s elite bubble to regional hubs like Leeds, Bristol, Cardiff, and ...
open.substack.com
May 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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“The Trumpists are no longer in their majesty. They control the executive, the Parliament, the Supreme Court and social networks. But in American history, the freedom fighters have always prevailed. They are beginning to raise their heads.” — Claude Malhuret, to the French Senate (March 4, 2025).
March 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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“What’s transpired over the last three or four days just takes it to a whole new level of cruelty and inhumanity and, frankly, a whole new level of stupidity in doing this is the most non-strategic way.” Tens of thousands of people will die as a result of this action.

www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...
"A whole new level of cruelty": Health experts decry "devastating" cuts to HIV treatment programs
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation said the latest cuts will deprive 350,000 people of HIV treatment.
www.salon.com
March 9, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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March 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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This article is great. Except it's a decade late.

I have no time for those who "gave Trump the benefit of the doubt" for ten years and now want to be hailed as courageous truth telling heroes.

It's always been blindingly obvious who Trump is. They bear responsibility for enabling this catastrophe.
March 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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I view Trump’s plea for America to just “shut up about eggs” as a clear sign of his accelerating demise. I see it as a crack in his orange facade. It’s time to turn the screws faster, more aggressively, and more powerfully. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Trump Demands We Shut Up…WE GET LOUDER!!!
By Ben Meiselas
open.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Bernie is on FIRE!🔥
March 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM