Nigel Farage shared a supposedly random doorstep encounter with a very enthusiastic voter, and the share price of chinny reckon sky-rocketed – 19 highly sceptical responses www.thepoke.com/2026/08/06/f...
Ronnie Barbour
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Unreliable narrator. StandWithUkraine🇺🇦
SHOUT OUT to Mike Luckovich: one of the all-time great political cartoonists. 🏆 With corporate media doing such a poor job in these most perilous of times, his work is more vital than ever! THANK YOU @mluckovich.bsky.social!!! 🙏
FIFA blew it. The most ignominious part of a most ignominious period of football’s history goes on for a bit longer.
When your party leader is a president with historically low approval ratings, who has raised prices through tariffs and wars, uses disaster relief and science grants to punish states that didn’t vote for him, and has agents shooting people in the streets, this is what you do.
Trump has to turn over detailed financial information of his 400+ companies to the BBC in his defamation lawsuit against them. And I'm loving it! www.rawstory.com/trump-bbc-la...
Staggering lawsuit backfires as judge threatens to expose Trump's finances: report
One of President Donald Trump's own lawsuits is forcing him to expose his finances, according to new reporting.A federal magistrate judge in Florida ruled on Tuesday that Trump has to turn over detail...
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The United States Treasury: An ATM for the Rich and Powerful
But Badenough has offered him a job elsewhere in the Tory machine.
Former neo-Nazi withdraws as Tory candidate after Kemi Badenoch offers him job
Joshua Bonehill-Paine has announced he no longer intends to stand for a seat on Somerset Council, despite getting the backing of Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch
mirror.co.uk
The bizarre and disturbing thing is that Joshua Bonehill-Paine is one of the few figures on the right to be loudly and clearly called out for anti-semitism. Is that because it doesn't happen much on the right? You have to be kidding. So why the double standards? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
No one should get a free pass on antisemitism – so why does the right?
There is legitimate scrutiny of antisemitism on the left, but at the same time, rightwing media outlets offend with impunity. That makes no sense, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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🔴 NEW Two Years On, the World Witnesses Human Safari in Kherson By @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social Read below. ↓
Two Years On, the World Witnesses Human Safari in Kherson
A viral video of a drone attacking a vegetable seller at Kherson farmers' market has brought Russia's deliberate targeting of civilians, which Byline first revealed two years ago, to global attention, reports Zarina Zabrisky
bylinetimes.com
The value of social media is not parroting others’ agendas. You can get that with news outlets, TV, radio, workplaces etc. The true value is allowing us to show up as our true selves & express our genuine takes. If we’re prevented by fear of toxicity or desire to win approval then it’s not worth it.
The UK has existed as a state since 1801. The current borders of the UK have been in place since 1922. Do Reform UK politicians NOT know the basics of UK history?
Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy. Datacentre prioritised over building affordable homes. Little attention to environmental issues. Govt overturning local council refusal is not devolution or democracy. Big business always wins.
Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy
Campaigners decry Angela Rayner’s backing for Brick Lane project that has only 11 affordable homes
theguardian.com
Not only does Reform UK moronic Small Boat plans breach French border protocols it breaches Maritime law.
Did they find them behind the bin?
Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 2d agoHIDDEN STRUCTURES DISCOVERED IN THE AMAZON LIDAR surveys beneath the Amazon rainforest revealed 396 hidden ancient earthworks, suggesting the region housed millions of inhabitants prior to 850 CE. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10835-7
Poor Jeanine Pirro. It’s always sad when a vicious liar loses their job because they unscrupulously tried to ruin the life of an innocent American hero to appease the most repellent man in America. Drink up, sweetie.
Good. Everyone should rally around the winner.
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 2d agoNo matter who wins tonight's primaries in Michigan, the state Democratic party is launching a rally for all of the top nominees on Friday in Detroit. Pete Buttigieg will join the event - seeking to unify, after a blistering fight between Abdul El-Sayed & Rep. Haley Stevens
The founders are calling. They suggest you read the damn Constitution.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election. Convictions for assaulting police officer, burglary of a police station, malicious communications, anti-semitism, racially aggravated harassment, harrasing MPs. Tories chasing Reform vote.
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP
theguardian.com
BP quarterly profits up from $2.5bn to $5.73bn as Iran war sends oil prices soaring. Shell doubled its net profit to almost $10bn. High bills fuelling poverty and misery for households and businesses. Boon for execs and shareholders. Must levy 100% windfall tax on oil, gas, energy companies.
BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring
Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record
theguardian.com
A cartoon by Will McPhail. See more cartoons from this week’s issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/oOkvp6
A group of Scottish educators have said they will 'not be intimidated into silence' after pro-Israel lawyers accused them of the 'political indoctrination of children' @agcreports.bsky.social has the exclusive 👇
Pro-Palestine educators hit back at Israel-linked lawyers’ 'indoctrination' claims
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Republican FCC Commissioners Brendan Carr and Olivia Trusty approved Paramount’s merger with Skydance in July 2025. Months later, as it eyed a merger with Warner Bros., Paramount gifted both commissioners tickets to the Kennedy Center's swanky gala. If that isn’t corruption, I don’t know what is.
And yet, they keep doing it even after he made this post.
