@nickpownall.bsky.social
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The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave is now officially scared of words.
Citizens of countries including the UK and France will have to disclose the past five years of their social media history to visit the US even though they are covered by visa waiver schemes, under new proposals by the Trump administration.
www.ft.com/content/683b...
www.ft.com/content/683b...
US to require social media disclosure for visa-waiver requests
Change would affect visitors from countries including the UK, France and Australia
www.ft.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave is now officially scared of words.
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Vladimir Putin & Donald Trump both think they've saved their countries.
Putin (press conference Dec 2024)
“I not only took care (of Russia), we stepped back from the edge of the abyss"
Trump (NSS, Nov 2025)
“We've brought our nation – & the world – back from the brink of catastrophe & disaster”
Putin (press conference Dec 2024)
“I not only took care (of Russia), we stepped back from the edge of the abyss"
Trump (NSS, Nov 2025)
“We've brought our nation – & the world – back from the brink of catastrophe & disaster”
December 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Vladimir Putin & Donald Trump both think they've saved their countries.
Putin (press conference Dec 2024)
“I not only took care (of Russia), we stepped back from the edge of the abyss"
Trump (NSS, Nov 2025)
“We've brought our nation – & the world – back from the brink of catastrophe & disaster”
Putin (press conference Dec 2024)
“I not only took care (of Russia), we stepped back from the edge of the abyss"
Trump (NSS, Nov 2025)
“We've brought our nation – & the world – back from the brink of catastrophe & disaster”
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Jeez. All tourists - including those from Britain - will have to undergo a social media screening before being allowed entry into the US under new plans being considered by the country's border force
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
US plans to start checking all tourists' social media
The potential social media mandate being proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would apply to anyone visiting, whether they require a visa or not.
news.sky.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Jeez. All tourists - including those from Britain - will have to undergo a social media screening before being allowed entry into the US under new plans being considered by the country's border force
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
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It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
December 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.
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Yinka Bankole was 12 when Farage spotted him in the playground:
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Former Dulwich pupil says Farage told him: ‘That’s the way back to Africa’
Exclusive: Yinka Bankole says he felt compelled to speak out after Reform leader’s attempts to ‘dismiss’ hurt of alleged targets
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Yinka Bankole was 12 when Farage spotted him in the playground:
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“He towered over me. ‘Where are you from?’ he asked. Within seconds of offering my rather confused and sputtering answers, he had a clear response: ‘That’s the way back to Africa,’.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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musk don't reverse the roles
December 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
musk don't reverse the roles
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Nigel Farage won't apologise for his history of racism because "if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too,'" a Reform source tells the Times.
So essentially he was a racist and he believes his supporters are racists too
So essentially he was a racist and he believes his supporters are racists too
December 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Nigel Farage won't apologise for his history of racism because "if he apologised, he would be turning to his own support base and saying, ‘You’re all guilty too,'" a Reform source tells the Times.
So essentially he was a racist and he believes his supporters are racists too
So essentially he was a racist and he believes his supporters are racists too
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Update on this story from a month ago.
The winner of the first FIFA Peace Prize is …
Donald J. Trump. What a surprise.
The winner of the first FIFA Peace Prize is …
Donald J. Trump. What a surprise.
December 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Update on this story from a month ago.
The winner of the first FIFA Peace Prize is …
Donald J. Trump. What a surprise.
The winner of the first FIFA Peace Prize is …
Donald J. Trump. What a surprise.
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So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Congratulations to Graham Phillips for achieving this first - Pro-Russia former civil servant becomes first Brit to face Ukraine 'war crime' charges over clip of pigs eating dead soldiers
www.lbc.co.uk/article/firs...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/firs...
Pro-Russia former civil servant becomes first Brit to face Ukraine 'war crime' charges over clip of pigs eating dead soldiers | LBC
A former civil servant who has publicly voiced his support for Vladimir Putin has reportedly become the first Brit to face charges of war crimes over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
www.lbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Congratulations to Graham Phillips for achieving this first - Pro-Russia former civil servant becomes first Brit to face Ukraine 'war crime' charges over clip of pigs eating dead soldiers
www.lbc.co.uk/article/firs...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/firs...
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Pahaha. 'If you go on Nathan Gill’s social media it still says: “Love my God, my family and my country. Not ashamed or afraid to be patriotic.”'
Wild. Which country is he referring to?
open.substack.com/pub/willhayw...
Wild. Which country is he referring to?
open.substack.com/pub/willhayw...
Wales ignored again
Reform's former leader in Wales jailed
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Pahaha. 'If you go on Nathan Gill’s social media it still says: “Love my God, my family and my country. Not ashamed or afraid to be patriotic.”'
Wild. Which country is he referring to?
open.substack.com/pub/willhayw...
Wild. Which country is he referring to?
open.substack.com/pub/willhayw...
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
NEWS: Major MAGA Accounts on Twitter Exposed as Foreign Actors
A stunning development over the past 24 hours.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors.
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:
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It’s probably not great the vast majority of American journalists and other media zeitgeist people are letting their brains marinate in this toxic sludge
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
It’s probably not great the vast majority of American journalists and other media zeitgeist people are letting their brains marinate in this toxic sludge
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Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Now that’s a lede.
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social.
Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
November 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it
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LOL. Why does he need to sign a bill to release the files when he can just RELEASE THE FILES?
November 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
LOL. Why does he need to sign a bill to release the files when he can just RELEASE THE FILES?
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He’s losing it.
November 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
He’s losing it.
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"All of his friends were Democrats." -DJT this afternoon
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"All of his friends were Democrats." -DJT this afternoon
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Trump-supporting, self-styled upholders of ‘Judeo-Christian values’ on either side of the Atlantic will be along any moment now*…
*Spoiler alert: they absolutely won’t.
*Spoiler alert: they absolutely won’t.
What a photograph.
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”
Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
November 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Trump-supporting, self-styled upholders of ‘Judeo-Christian values’ on either side of the Atlantic will be along any moment now*…
*Spoiler alert: they absolutely won’t.
*Spoiler alert: they absolutely won’t.
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It's real, and it's mind-blowing.
A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.
A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.
Just some British patriots in Benidorm, taking over a street in Spain to shout in their own language about unwanted foreigners. It’s a blessing that they are too thick to understand irony.
November 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
It's real, and it's mind-blowing.
A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.
A complete lack of awareness and a national embarrassment.
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Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Emails highlight Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon relationship
New documents show the pair discussing travel arrangements and UK politics in messages from 2018.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Farage, Boris Johnson & Rees-Mogg apparently plotting assaults on UK democracy with Bannon, who was reporting back to Epstein. Nothing to see here, newspaper folk…
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump filed lawsuits over jokes, tweets, and news articles, but not once over any of the countless allegations of child rape. I feel like more people should mention that.
November 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Trump filed lawsuits over jokes, tweets, and news articles, but not once over any of the countless allegations of child rape. I feel like more people should mention that.