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  RE: https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lxm3v43kiuo4gdun45a4zivh/post/3myuptnozgj2a Educational to compare and contrast this to the peaceful transfer of power (and subsequent gradual winding back of excessive state power) in some European right-wing autocracies this year... Hungary, Serbia, etc. #EUPol #USPol #Trump

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  "Robinson weaponised social media, and subjected two journalists to a campaign of harassment which caused them serious fear of violence.​" #UKPol #FarRight https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq2d6z36pp53o

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  "Modern political history offers few examples of closing arguments that appear more out of touch, self-defeating, or downright bizarre than what Donald #Trump has offered his fellow #Republicans ahead of next week’s midterm elections." #USPol https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/10/trump-midterms-closing-message/689191/?gift=xKut_ZEsKKc2fxSPw_Duk1CVfr4BlkICWvrUT2R22Qc&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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  "That exchange was just one of many that showed how Yen and other company executives are aggressively pushing @protonprivacy towards AI. Proton is a Swiss company that famously makes the encrypted email service Proton Mail and a suite of privacy and security-focused products, including an encrypted drive service, an authenticator app, a password manager, and more." #Security #Privacy #Encryption #GenAI https://www.404media.co/manifestos-fear-and-loser-thinking-inside-protons...

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  "Trump's betrayal of #Ukraine is cynically self-interested, globally dangerous, and utterly contemptible." "Who among the democratic governments of western Europe, in the Elysée, in the German and Polish chancelleries, in Brussels or in Downing Street, can now trust a word that comes out of Washington? Its bond is broken, its honour in shreds." #Politics https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/22/donald-trump-ukraine-betrayal-putin-nato

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  "The latest polling suggests #Labour could get as few as 136 seats if it does not change its red lines on #Brexit and sticks with the status quo, while #ReformUK would be on 300. The number of seats for Labour increases to 256 with a commitment to join the customs union, 257 with a promise to join the single market and 321 if Mr Burnham pledges to rejoin the EU entirely." #UKPol https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-andy-burnham-labour-election-victory-rejoin-eu-youg...

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  "34% of voters trust the #Greens more than any other party on the #environment, according to YouGov polling – the highest level of trust recorded _for any party on any issue_. “There is not a voter in this country, leftwing, rightwing, old, young, rural, urban, whatever, that does not strongly associate the #GreenParty with taking action on the environment”." #UKPol https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/23/green-party-book-zack-polanski-eco-populism

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  "Some Pentagon personnel knew within hours that the United States had hit the school, and they described a cascade of preventable failures that included an overreliance on an AI tool built by #Palantir." #USPol #Iran https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-investigators-say-overreliance-on-palantir-ai-tech-contributed-to-u-s-strike-that-killed-123-iranian-children-2000814477

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  "Restoring EU membership is the most popular approach in all constituencies in Great Britain, bar four Reform UK and Restore Britain held seats – Ashfield, Clacton, Great Yarmouth and Boston and Skegness – in which “don’t know” was the most popular answer." #UKPol #GBPol #Brexit #Rejoin https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/eu-uk-brexit-poll-rejoin-europe-b3052436.html

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  "A third of British voters are now prepared to vote tactically at the next general election. More than half of supporters of #Labour, the #LibDems, and #Greens are prepared to vote tactically to prevent Nigel #Farage from becoming PM." #UKPol #TacticalVoting #ReformUK https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-uk-nigel-farage-tactical-voting-poll-b3050048.html

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  "The public’s average guess is that 30% of Londoners were the victim of a crime in the year to September 2025; the actual figure is 12.2%. We are most likely to pick out #London as having the highest rates of violent and sexual crimes of any region in England and Wales, when it has among the lowest of each. Six in ten think crime overall has risen in London since 2019, when it has fallen slightly. Four in ten think murders are up; they are down by around 15%." #UKPol https://www.sta...

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  "The longer-term prospect for the two million Palestinians crowded into barely a third of the original #Gaza land area depends largely on whether the Israeli prime minister retains power. But even if he loses, the opposition in the Knesset is so divided that there is no guarantee that an incoming government will seek a just settlement with the Palestinians." #Israel #Palestine https://www.opendemocracy.net/israel-election-binyamin-netanyahu-international-reputation-economic-sanction...

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  "Downing Street has repeatedly defended the use by departments of a platform whose owner has called for the UK government to be overthrown, and which is regularly criticised for promoting far-right and racist opinions, as officials say it is necessary to reach the public." #UKPol #Xitter https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/18/uk-attorney-general-tells-staff-stop-using-x-disinformation-concerns

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  "Just 22% have a favourable view of the #ReformUK leader, while 68% are unfavourable – including 56% who say they are very unfavourable. That 46% gap between his negative and positive rating is bigger than the 45% recorded by Starmer before he announced he was stepping down." #UKPol #Farage https://metro.co.uk/2026/07/23/nigel-farage-now-even-less-popular-starmer-just-resignation-29206444/

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  "Liz #Truss has predicted that Andy #Burnham will lead Britain into a "financial crisis", in a moment which feels like pure satire." #UKPol #Lettuce https://uk.news.yahoo.com/liz-truss-breaks-irony-metre-150320737.html

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  "The research suggests that EU membership would deliver a 3.6% boost to the UK’s economy, equivalent to a £92bn increase in GDP in the long run. In just one year, British businesses could see a £43bn boost in global exports, delivering vital opportunities for growth, expansion, and increasing employment across the UK." #UKPol #EUPol #Brexit https://bestforbritain.org/faq-eu-membership/

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  "An #Aberdeen University employee has been arrested and charged over social media comments about the death of former MP Ann Widdecombe." #UKPol #ScotPol #Tories #ReformUK https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2ln31g8gvo

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  "It is an unprecedented attack on the Court’s authority and legitimacy, targeting one of the last EU institutions that answers to no political majority and, with it, on the legal infrastructure on which the EU’s citizens, companies and rights depend." #EUPol #CourtOfJustice https://euobserver.com/228381/eus-top-court-is-the-hard-rights-next-target-and-mep-weimers-report-just-pulled-the-trigger/

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  "In the United States, the richest country in the world, nearly half the population cannot afford healthcare; in the United Kingdom, 4.3 million children live in poverty; and in the European Union, 95 million people cannot afford decent housing and nutritious food. These are totally artificial scarcities." #Politics #Economics https://jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-capitalism-is-fundamentally-undemocratic

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  "In 2024-25, the net addition to London’s #AffordableHousing stock was just 8,184, compared to estimations from the Greater London Authority (#GLA) that #London needs a net 45,500 affordable homes each year between 2026 and 2036 to meet #housing need." #UKPol #Labour https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2026/07/10/sadiq-khan-misses-affordable-homes-target-after-cut/

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  #UKPol #Clacton #BinFace

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  " #ReformUK’s opinion poll lead has collapsed as questions mount over Nigel #Farage’s personal finances. Research by pollsters Ipsos UK showed the party has a lead of just two points over Labour, down five points on a month before." #UKPol https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reform-poll-collapse-nigel-farage-collapse_uk_6a4b8865e4b05c9d0338ce8e

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  "Deputy #Labour leader says No 10 needs to become more meritocratic, and has asked #Burnham to commit to 50/50 gender split for ministers and staff." "Powell said she would not tell Burnham who should be in his cabinet, but said “better decisions” were made when there was more diversity at the top table." #UKPol https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/04/burnham-will-change-no-10-boys-club-briefing-culture-says-lucy-powell

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  "Russia’s armed forces are aiming to capture the remaining 20 percent of #Ukraine’s partially occupied eastern Donetsk region.... but at #Russia’s current rate of advance, Putin’s forces will need 14 years to complete the task – in addition to the 12 years Russian-aligned forces have already been fighting to seize Donetsk from Kyiv’s control." https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/3/russian-advance-collapses-in-ukraine-as-anxiety-rises-in-moscow

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  "Rather than working for us, Keir Starmer and his ministers are acting against us. They have rammed through parliament a sweeping law that will, independent experts agree, harm the public; and they have done so without even coming clean on the costs or the consequences." #UKPol #Labour #NHS https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/02/keir-starmer-britain-pharma-deal-covid

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  "#Farage is currently being investigated by Parliament’s standards commissioner over the gift [made before he was an MP], which critics say he should have declared. Mr Harborne has donated more than £25 million to #ReformUK, the political party which Mr Farage leads." #UKPol https://nation.cymru/news/reform-uk-would-gladly-accept-more-donations-from-billionaire-nigel-farage/

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  “The #climate transition is one of the largest drivers of industrial job creation in the UK #economy. The #NetZero economy generates output worth over £100bn and employs over a million workers. The workers driving the green transition need #union representation, good wages and champions in government.” #UKPol #Labour #Unite #Environment https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/24/progressive-economists-reject-unite-leader-sharon-graham-criticism-ed-miliband

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  "#Starmer enjoyed the backing of scarcely a fifth of eligible voters, in what was the second-lowest turnout since 1885. By contrast, Starmer’s much more leftwing predecessor as #Labour leader, Jeremy #Corbyn – roundly dismissed by mainstream media as “unelectable” – secured 40% of the vote in 2017. It was the party’s biggest surge in votes since 1945." #UKPol #Burnham https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/burnham-must-break-with-starmers

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  "A #ReformUK councillor elected in May has resigned, claiming the role was "mis-sold" to him. Alex Clarke claimed he had been given to understand he would only need to attend six meetings a year." #UKPol #Tyneside https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gyr763n0qo

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  "Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X and Facebook will all be blocked. ... The messaging platforms WhatsApp and Signal will not be included in the ban, according to the government. ... The government expects the ban, which follows a consultation that received more than 116,000 responses, to come into force by spring next year. It will publish the full response to the consultation next month." #UKPol #AgeVerification https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/15/uk-under-16s-so...