esmeraldastrongarm
Lib Dem 🔸 but tactical voter. I think we should all read On Tyranny and be ready to defend what’s good.
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- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmicymi here’s the story from last Sunday of how FT revealed the money trail from Epstein to Mandelson’s husband and then to the former ambassador himself
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmFrom 2013, Epstein pitched Moscow on a "Sputnik for finance": urging FSB-linked Sergey Belyakov to let Russia invent new global money & leapfrog the West. 2/12
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmMcsweeney needs to go and he needs a new advisor team and after that he should follow the lead of Poland and run an investigation into the epstein files. Farage, bannon and thiel all need scrutinising imo
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmI just reread a Ta-Nehisi Coates piece from 2018 where he addresses the claim that Trump is too incoherent to have an ideology and responds, no, he clearly has an ideology and it’s white nationalism. It’s only got clearer since then yet some people still insist otherwise
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmVOTE HOPE In May, Reform UK will try to turn anger into power. We can stop them. Across the UK, volunteers are organising to make sure people know about the election, understand what’s at stake, and motivate them to vote. Click, join, share hopenothate.org.uk/vote-hope/ @hopenothate.org.uk
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmSteve Bannon, Nigel Farage advisor. “We’re gonna have ICE surround the polls… we’ll never again allow an election to be stolen.”
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmWeird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.
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- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmMelania made just £32,974 in its opening weekend in the UK. It didn't even make it into the top 30 films despite being on its opening weekend. 🤣
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmWe gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarm"None of us figured out how to avoid being here." IT WAS CALLED "FILL IN A LITTLE OVAL NEXT TO THE BLACK LADY'S NAME IN NOVEMBER 2024."
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmI'm sorry about the journalists who lost their jobs today. We're all worse off for it. Still, I can't shake how they closed ranks whenever one of them was criticized by the public. So many stayed silent when Black journalists were done wrong. As the saying goes, "today for me, tomorrow for you".
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarm"In an enabler culture, revelation of the offense is the offense." That's it. That's the whole American system in a nutshell. Brilliant as always
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmToday I wrote about the Epstein files, the abusiveness intrinsic to the billionaire mindset, and our culture's enabling instinct to permit depravity as a privilege of power. "Where does it all end?" That's what's often asked. Rarely asked is "how do we end it?" www.the-reframe.com/where-it-ends/
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmStreeting calls for 'national debate' on student loan system in wake of graduate fury The Health Secretary said a serious discussion is needed about the current student loan repayment system. www.lbc.co.uk/article/stre...
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmIt's hard to feel like anything but punching Nazis matters right now, so we @drilledmedia.bsky.social have been busy connecting the dots between climate and everything we're seeing around the world. Today: repression of protest w/ @berglundoscar.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkbF...
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmBreaking news: Kettle has strong thoughts about blackness of pot
- Farage calls for EU to probe Mandelson’s time in Brussels ft.trib.al/eAGo2wa
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarm7new streets in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen,Denmark,will be named after Ukrainian cities Thank you,Denmark! The streets will be named:Kyivgade,Mariupolgade, Sevastapolgade,Khersongade, Mykolajivgade,Odessagade,Ukrainegade Friends,do u have any streets in your countries named after Ukraine?
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmIt was wrong for Starmer to appoint Mandelson. However, it is incredible to think that we are probably going to witness the downfall of a man (Starmer) who isn't in the Epstein files before we see Trump being held accountable for the fact that he is documented in the files as having r*ped children.
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmSo apparently there are alternatives to zoom - one Norwegian and one French. Guess what I will be researching today? I think the only US loose end in our business now is Notion - we have done really well xx
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- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmZack Polanski's ( @zackpolanski.bsky.social ) strongly worded open letter to Wes Streeting, rightly urging him to rip up the Palantir contract in light of the Mandelson Epstein revelations
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- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmWell. Quite.
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmA publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
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- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmI’m not sure ‘our national security developed vetting technique can be beaten if a candidate is prepared to lie’ is an especially helpful line to push.
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmI can't help thinking Mandelson was appointed *because* he was The Prince of Darkness - an alleged master of the dark arts, which, back then, was arguably going to be needed in spades in the Court of King Trump.
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- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmDemocracy Dies in Oligarchy
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- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmPrecisely this. Errors of judgement happen, but dishonesty is a character trait. Countries have millions of honest people to choose leaders from. There is no need or reason to rely on people who’ve shown themselves to be dishonest. Once and out.
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmWhat makes me laugh is how flabbergasted the journos are by Starmer’s cooperation. They expected Johnson’s ‘Partygate’-style, fast-and-furious, movie-style covering. 😂 But they got Starmer’s boring event rollout. #UKMedia
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmJust a quick note to @greenparty.org.uk and @greenpartyhan.bsky.social - I was not consulted on being quoted on your leaflets and I have not endorsed your campaign (or any campaign in this seat). I think this note, like the bar chart next to it, is misleading and out of context.
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmFor basically my entire adult life, Mandelson has been resigning from one job after another in distinctly unedifying ways. The fact he keeps being rehired presumably shows he's very good at something and I'd be interested to read a brief summary of what exactly that is. Does anyone know?
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmIt's a finely balanced decision. On the one hand, you have the architect of a strategy that is not working, who could not do this job in opposition *the first time*, and buy the PM breathing space. On the other, moving it would involve admitting that some of the PM's old legal buddies were right.
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- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarm"We've basically funded an elite global pedophile ring since 2015. I feel sick."
- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmwe watched republicans freak out over middle of the road liberals like clinton, obama, and biden. so the dems should just give them the left wing shit theyre going to accuse them of anyway. upside: america is better off.
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- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmFollowing an article by @novaramedia.com we have now shared part one of the timeline of Oxford Health's installation of Oxevision. The report outlines how the Trust invested millions in a technology its patients described as 'creepy', 'unsafe' and 'spying'
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- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmLowest number of small boat crossings for 5 years. The small boat crossings for 2026 are down 15% on last year and 30% from 2024. The Government has stopped 40,000 boat crossings since it came into office thanks to joint work with the French government. t.co/7ZCiETJmj3
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- Reposted by esmeraldastrongarmNew agents not getting paid and “A lot of the guys are honestly pretty sketchy,” a recent ICE recruit said on the condition of anonymity. “I thought federal agents were supposed to be clean cut but some of them pass around a flask as we are watching a suspect.” www.rawstory.com/ice-26750722...
