Debbie Eade

Debbie Eade

@debbieeade.bsky.social

Happily retired journalist & translator, Andalucía. Flâneuse 🙂. Travel, Nature, Cats, Politics, Languages, Books, Wine (not necessarily in that order 😉). Activist in Spain's Historical Memory movement.

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El-Sayed on Trump's cognitive tests: "I went to medical school...In my neurology unit, I would have to give that MoCA exam...The only people that you give a MoCA test to are people who you worry may have cognitive deficits. By definition, if you're taking one of those tests, something's wrong."

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Still going on. Twenty minutes uninterrupted coverage so far. Robert Jenrick is currently talking about sex chat bots.

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

This is disgraceful 🤬

Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

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BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

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“While each of us (voted Brexit) for different reasons, we all believed that the UK could do a better job of running its own affairs than *unelected officials* in Brussels could." Ben Houchen... November 2020 Six years later 👇👇👇

Private Eye Magazine@privateeyenews.bsky.social

Since his ennoblement in Boris Johnson’s 2023 resignation list, Tees Valley regional mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen has claimed more than £25,000 in tax-free daily “attendance” allowances from the House of Lords for 73 days when he hasn’t voted, spoken or performed any recorded parliamentary activity.

Completely predictable. Winners need to stay calm and strong.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

Despite Lula solidly winning the Brazilian Presidential runoff, his Far Right challenger Flávio Bolsonaro is describing the result as “inexplicable” and calling for the election to be annulled. A preview for the US Midterms.

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Hungary - ✅ Serbia - ✅ Brazil - ✅ Machado back in Venezuela - ✅ PLEASE - Israel on Tuesday PLEASE - US midterms Nov 3 Boot all the corrupt, war-mongering, Trump-fawning, right-wingers out.

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Left: President Trump, "I saw Obama was in Michigan and the place was empty" Right: Obama, El-Sayed and Benson walk onto stage and the full house crowd erupts in joy

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“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth

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There it is. Elon Musk admits it. “That loophole was closed last week.” In a deranged post on X, Musk openly acknowledges that SpaceX recently restricted Ukraine’s ability to use Starlink.

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Reform MP Andrew Rosindell, ex Tory who dodged rape etc charges is soft on tax havens - letting millionaires pay less tax than poor people with 3 lousy jobs By coincidence, he's just back from 'fact-finding tours' AKA luxury holidays in Isles of Man, Jersey & Caymans worth £thousands via Private Eye

Disbelief and displeasure: the look on the junior cat's face when the senior cat starts playing with her favourite toy mouse 🤣 #Caturday #CatsOfBlueSky

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?

What a prat Jenrick is 🙄

FWIW, t's legit on his Facebook page, but is not his actual Facebook setting. He's mocked it up and then posted it as an image. So the conversation (including HMRC's reply) and the likes and the comment numbers are all fake. Which makes it a bit weird.

Oh-my-goodness-I-am-so-shocked (not 😉)

Remember when Reform MP Andrew Rosindell went on GB News to accuse Labour of being a “government of self-service” and called Keir Starmer accepting gifts from donors “utterly shameful”? We do. 🧾 Well, it turns out Mr Rosindell has been enjoying some rather substantial hospitality himself. 🤔

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Jared Kushner’s hacked iPhone revealed he promised MBS and MBZ he would push their agenda with Trump if they participated in a secret fund, with the two royals initially discussing over $10B before ultimately placing at least $2B into his accounts. Paywalled, use archive. archive.ph/FHGAt

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Allowing one unelected man to have control over crucial aspects of the US military, allied militaries, the US space program, and so many other aspects of human life is absolutely insane. We were stupid to allow this to happen and it must be fixed ASAP.

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Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff to Vladimir Putin today: “You talk so much about Trump being a humanitarian, you are a humanitarian also, sir. And I salute that. I commend you.”

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The Electoral Commission has fined Reform UK and Britain First. Britain First for "failure to deliver its 2024 statement of accounts by the statutory deadline" Reform UK for "failure to comply with imprint requirements". The Reform fine was increased after they missed the payment deadline.

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“Quick! Do some racism, you’re losing the crowd.”

Robert Hutton@roberthutton.co.uk

"There is a big fishing fleet here in Portsmouth," Nigel Farage tells a Reform rally in Plymouth, which actually boos in response.

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The undercover reporter suggested people did not mind if Farage “makes a few bob [from politics]” Jukes replied: “Well it’s a bit priced in with our Nige, isn’t it, no one’s voting for him to be the pope” But a racist, corrupt, security-risk PM is fine, is it? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comFarage claim that £5m was reward for Brexit was ‘not press office line’, close aide saysExclusive: Undercover footage of Dan Jukes raises fresh questions about Reform leader’s statement that £5m gift was for security

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Behind silly title this bbc series is *very* good But so striking listening to Franco episode, recorded in 2023, takes as a given that Francoism is dead Today there’s a very decent change that Franco’s ideological successors will be part of Spain’s next government www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

bbc.co.ukReal Dictators - Franco Part 5: Life After a Dictator - BBC SoundsAfter 20 years in power, Franco embraces capitalism and declares himself a moderniser.

Our village is officially on amber alert for heavy rain and yellow alert for storms today, the worst expected between noon and 6pm. It's 4pm now...they had better get a move on...🤷🤔

Buenos días from Cádiz province, where the cats and I are watching a fabulous sheet lightning display above us and over the mountains ⚡️⚡️⚡️😻 No rain so far, though a little is forecast later. Stay safe, everyone, and Happy Sunday 🙂

A Roman glass basket! 😮😍😍😍

Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social

A delicate little Roman glass basket. I love the inventiveness of the ancient glass worker who made this delightful vessel about 1,800 years ago 📷 by me #Archaeology

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Zelenskyy says Starlink restrictions REMAIN in Ukraine, crippling interceptor drones and military operations. He says Ukraine has evidence the restrictions are DELIBERATE after testing Starlink systems in the EU, where they worked perfectly at speeds that cause connections to fail inside Ukraine.

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America is lost, actually. If members of Congress don’t pull it back from the brink - as Trump goes full bore pro-Russia, and plots martial law to thwart the midterms….we’re gone as a country. It’s little experiment is over.