Michael Sparkes

Michael Sparkes

@sparkesmichael.bsky.social

An exile happy to be in this new land. Looking to explore and understand this crazy world and help others when I can. Pro EU, Ukraine, NHS and democracy! Where is Leveson II? 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇸🇩

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Replying to @atrupar.com

I remember the night they bombed Boston, took out that girls school. It was gruesome. No wonder we fought back.

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Nigel Farage has given Reform UK candidates permission to publicly support the serial criminally convicted fraudster, thug, stalker and far-right activist who founded the English Defence League. This is who they are. Never forget it.

politico.euNigel Farage says Reform candidates won’t be banned for backing Tommy Robinson onlineReform UK leader says far-right activist isn’t his “cup of tea” but he “wouldn’t ban anyone” standing for the party who

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Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport has felt like a campaign rally as flight after flight brings expat Israelis returning to vote. Some 67,000 internationally based Israelis were estimated to have arrived, according to a U.S.-based get-out-the-vote program.

washingtonpost.comTens of thousands of expat Israelis fly in from around the globe to voteSome 67,000 internationally based Israelis were estimated to be making the trip, according to a U.S.-based get-out-the-vote program.

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Replying to @aidthompsin.bsky.social

Btw don’t overlook extent to which they have (or haven’t) truly regained a threatening position to Burnham’s Labour. Burnham gaining at signif speed. Much more than Badenoch. The lift the Tories have experienced merely puts them at 40-50% of where they were. Same as Jan 2025.

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Amalgamation of 8 polls. Farage Fatigue = RILL Tories have - as beneficiaries of Reform’s multiple scandals - clawed back polling from some who abandoned them Quite why they’d trust a party who presided over 14Y of colossal failure with no demonstrable improvements to anything is still a mystery.

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🚨 CAUGHT ON CAMERA Israeli settler: “Go back to Jordan... It's not your land.” Suri Crowe's group: “But why can't they harvest their trees?” The settler then threatens to call the police and have members of the group taken away. Suri Crowe reports from the ground in the West Bank.

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CEO of scandal-ridden Deloitte gets 45% pay rise to £7.1m, 1,360 jobs cut. CEO pay = 93 times median employee pay. Firm doesn't pay employer NIC on profits shared by partners, worth £150,000 for £1m profit shared. £899m shared. 108 govt contracts in 2026, worth £650m. Friends in high places.

cityam.comDeloitte hikes pay for top boss while headcount shrinksBig Four giant Deloitte hiked pay for one of its chief executives last year by almost half while overall headcount at the firm fell, with some of being due to targeted job cuts.

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Replying to @iandunt.bsky.social

I think the genie is out of the bottle now, if Brazil & Serbia have taught us anything it’s that if enough people want something then there’s not anything the powerful can do to stop it.

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A hunting trip to Mongolia furnishes cover for meetings between TrumpJr and Putin sidekick Umar Kremlëv. TrumpJr stood on stage with a wide smile as an auctioneer sold off the chance to join him on a week-long hunting trip in western Mongolia. “Will you beat $225,000? I’m giving you a bargain,” the

ft.comInside Donald Trump Jr’s Mongolian hunting trip with a Kremlin-linked oligarchRemote August rendezvous highlights remarkable ties between the US president’s son and a Russian businessman close to Vladimir Putin

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Presidential pardons only go so far. State charges are beyond his reach. And maybe the time has come to reaccess the validity of Presidential pardons that were bought, used to influence votes/donations/activities by public servants, or were issued by president who himself gets impeached & convicted.

Maxima@maxima-infinity.bsky.social

For any reading impaired offices of ICE, Border Patrol (CBP), and the FBI: The "civil...service" aspect of the law below applies to you. You will go to jail for 5 years if you follow orders to deploy at polling stations. There will be a reckoning for those civil officers, "Only following orders."

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🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court rejected DOJ's extraordinary request to bypass the district court in its effort to bar California from counting the ballots of around 20,000 people the Trump administration alleges are “likely” noncitizens. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comDOJ can’t leapfrog lower court in bid to block 20,000 California voters, appeals court rulesA Trump-appointed federal judge said the DOJ would also lose the case on the merits.

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I don't know, man. I'm not a math genius but this is 2026. And he's talking about the Declaration of Independence in 1776. I think 2026 minus 1776 is a larger number than 200.

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Trump claims that there was a "military invasion" of Texas during the Biden administration

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Nigel Farage was asked a very simple question on BBC Breakfast. Did he think Raheem Kassam calling Kemi Badenoch a “Nigerian scammer” was racist? Farage tried to explain that Kassam is “of Indian heritage”. Sally Nugent immediately hit back: “Does that mean he can’t be racist?”

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No one hates regular Americans more than Trump and Vance

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: Why shouldn't Alaskans find it insulting that the administration is suggesting they can't read the word 'incumbent' on their ballot and know to vote for Sen. Sullivan? JD VANCE: People are busy. People have lives. People have jobs.

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What is everyone going to remember; the policy announcement or the empty seats..? They're done...! #ReformIncompetence

Reform Party UK Exposed@reformexposed.bsky.social

'Cringingly Embarrassing': Farage And Jenrick Mocked For Sea Of Empty Seats At Reform Event www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/farage...

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Rep. Joey Arrington over a graphic showing diesel at $6.35: "Thank God we have a commander in chief that's willing to do things that aren't in his political interest"