Ex-defence secretary accuses Nigel Farage of ‘performing Maga stunt’ with failed Chagos ‘aid mission’
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Ex-defence secretary accuses Nigel Farage of ‘performing Maga stunt’ with failed Chagos ‘aid mission’
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Ugh.
22.02.2026 20:27 — 👍 48 🔁 29 💬 8 📌 2He represents Everything I was Never Supposed to Want to Be….
23.02.2026 03:41 — 👍 21 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0The BBC removed part of Akinola Davies Jr.’s winning speech at last night’s #BAFTAs:
“Archive your loved ones. Archive your stories yesterday, today, and forever. For Nigeria, for London, the Congo, Sudan, free Palestine.”
(deadline.com/2026/02/bbc-...)
This sounds like an amazing way to help protect the citizens of California. This would be great if @dananessel.bsky.social could get this implemented in Michigan before she leaves office!
23.02.2026 10:52 — 👍 116 🔁 75 💬 4 📌 6How transmasculine recognition has evolved, from ‘female husbands’ to a High Court victory for birthing parents @willofwands.bsky.social
23.02.2026 12:02 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0I remember when we were '45 minutes from doom...'
That was bullshit too.
Good morning, friends. Trust in your own inner strength to carry you through any situation. When you believe in your own "wings," you can face uncertainty without the fear of the "branch" breaking beneath you. #Jaye’sMorningLight
23.02.2026 11:16 — 👍 361 🔁 105 💬 90 📌 3Oralè Resisters
MAGA White Christian Nationalist killed by Secret Service at Mar A Lago!
Not an immigrant
Not a trans
Not a liberal Democrat!
WTF is wrong with four out of ten Americans?
23.02.2026 12:03 — 👍 162 🔁 28 💬 27 📌 0Official total so far is only 4.6", but it is still crazy out there, even this far from the seacoast. Started clearing at 6am, and by 6:45 there was already an additional inch. I don't think we're going to get the full 12-15" that our area was forecast, but the ginormous drifts are making up for it.
23.02.2026 12:03 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Nick Shirley: “30 voters registered at a California UPS store!” 🤔
Paul Mitchell: um, people live above it. Look up, bro. 🙃
As usual this dude’s *reporting* is full of holes
BREAKING: Australian PM Anthony Albanese has written to Keir Starmer expressing his government’s support to remove Andrew Mountbatten Windsor from the line of succession
23.02.2026 12:04 — 👍 415 🔁 85 💬 25 📌 6Imagine being so pathetic that this angers you. Mayor Zohran Mamdani is triggering the right over shoveling snow.❄️
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“Fix your hearts and live.”
23.02.2026 12:03 — 👍 186 🔁 56 💬 0 📌 0ICYMI:
According to Telegraph - #Epstein paid private detectives to remove equipment from Florida home before searches. Equipment is stored in secret storage units across the country.
2024 was not the first time the North Carolina Republican Party has tried cheating to steal and overturn a major judicial election.
In 2018, they tried a different scummy move against Justice Anita Earls. A lot of folks have forgotten about it, but we haven't - and nor should you.
Reports are now emerging from within the Dilley, Texas ICE Family Concentration Camp, which are referred to as “Blue Butterfly Zones.” These zones are where the camp’s young girls are being kept separated and isolated for unknown reasons.
23.02.2026 12:04 — 👍 2102 🔁 1487 💬 231 📌 320📌NEW: WaPo-ABC News-Ipsos poll has Trump’s disapproval rating at 60% and approval at 39%*.
Independents disapprove, 69%-31%.
The last time Trump was at 60% was after his Jan. 6, 2021, violent coup attempt.
*Yes, it is appalling 39% approve. Without them, there is no him. THEY are the problem.
“I’m just saying … bsky.app/profile/ronf...
23.02.2026 01:08 — 👍 18730 🔁 6719 💬 870 📌 358"As the journalists interacted with the migrants, uniformed police barged in and detained the lawyer and four journalists. Police confiscated their cameras, laptops and phones..."
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The moment you realize a rapist won’t take no for an answer.
23.02.2026 01:19 — 👍 2235 🔁 589 💬 101 📌 23Billions of your tax dollars are going to Palantir — and the police state it's helping Trump build could soon be used against you.
23.02.2026 01:00 — 👍 2216 🔁 1128 💬 84 📌 82The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:
22.02.2026 19:15 — 👍 4062 🔁 2260 💬 203 📌 232My experience has been that Universities are creaming themselves over AI in bizarre schizoid episodes'Use AI in your working process - but also never use AI in your working process!'and students are generally revolted by AI in very rational and nuanced ways.
23.02.2026 01:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is an excellent, informative thread! 🧵
#Pinks
#ProudBlue
Remember when he was preparing to buy Twitter and many of us were saying, but what about the racism?, and most people were indignantly insisting, "he's not racist!"
Just like with Trump. And now here we are.
Dang, you know J Edgar would have ADORED that...
Also...
JFC Patel is such a rancid child.
I wanted to reup this Saint Paul Public Schools Housing Assistance Fund since it’s close to the end of the month. According to them, as of today, the Fund has requests from 174 families facing eviction, totaling $231K needed by the end of the month, and are about $63K short of meeting the need.
23.02.2026 01:12 — 👍 52 🔁 39 💬 0 📌 0Mar-A-Lago is repeatedly mentioned in the Epstein files as a scene of criminal activity for an international child trafficking organization and its owner is still the United States president and controls the flow of information surrounding the case.
23.02.2026 01:21 — 👍 456 🔁 183 💬 12 📌 6