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Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski has endorsed Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins for governor of Alaska, crossing party lines just one week before the midterms. She urged Republicans, independents, and Democrats to consider the Democratic ticket: “Alaska needs leaders who will put our state first.”

It’s been a remarkable week for democracy. Voters in Brazil and Serbia defeated would-be authoritarians, six months after Hungary rejected Viktor Orbán. Even when leaders capture the media and tilt the rules, people can still fight back. Next Tuesday, it’s our turn.

🚨EXCLUSIVE: UK Sent Top Security Chief to Trump’s… The US is turning domestic and global counter-terror systems against political opponents – how is Britain responding? Matt Gallagher reports https://bylinetimes.com/2026/08/28/uk-sent-top-security-chief-to-trumps-left-wing-crackdown-summit/

the Associated Press reports the Pentagon faces a “beyond critical” shortage of Patriot missile interceptors in Europe, after exhausting most of its supply defending U.S. bases and Israel from Iranian drones and missiles.

The British Empire was one of the most violent institutions in modern history, built on explicitly racist ideology and guilty of serial crimes against humanity. It is astonishing that OBEs and other honours are given, accepted and celebrated in its name.

@andyburnham.bsky.social @labouruk.bsky.social have these contracts been cancelled yet?

Al Jazeera investigation reveals UK public money flowing to companies linked to Israeli settlements in occupied land.

📌 ICYMI — Reform’s £645,000 ‘Ghost’ Pollster — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Exclusive: Payments to a business with no public footprint, no VAT number and a string of missing invoices are raising fresh questions about Reform UK's campaign spending

The US president has sought to overturn his criminal conviction for falsifying business records, citing immunity.

@andyburnham.bsky.social @labouruk.bsky.social @ukparliament.parliament.uk

🔴 NEW: Special advisers accepted hospitality from lobbyists and businesses 700 times + since Labour took power Glastonbury tickets, Taylor Swift, UFC fights + more SpAds sit outside the UK lobbying rules. So no one knows what was actually discussed🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-700-fr...

Brexit is costing the UK £11.7bn a year in lost exports according to findings by Logistics UK. And a business survey by the European Movement UK has revealed that 73% of firms say that Brexit has had a negative impact on their businesses - with 98% wanting the UK to rejoin the EU’s single market.

📌 ICYMI — Reform’s £645,000 ‘Ghost’ Pollster — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Exclusive: Payments to a business with no public footprint and a string of missing invoices are raising fresh questions about Reform UK's campaign spending

Are those Polling Numbers MEANWHILE, back on Earth-1: in the room with you right now, sir?

Water companies are still spilling sewage and hiking up our bills. And we're paying for it. Find out just how much of your money is funding 💩 💩 https://water-rip-off.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-the-water-industry-rip-off

Dirty money has no place in British politics. It's time to clean it up. @lisasmartmp.bsky.social on her amendment to the Representation of the People Bill to cap political donations.

Extremely good sketch by @mrjohncrace.bsky.social from yesterday's PMQs, particularly this bit. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Seems a brilliant idea.

Reform appears to have deleted their "Make Britain a Crypto Hub" policy document from their website, prior to these donations being declared. The document proposed massive tax and regulation cuts for crypto firms

The smell of BS in the morning…. Farage is clearly very worried about this £5m bung from Harborne. And rightly so - British voters really don’t like big money in politics, Reform voters as much as anyone So Farage is trying everything to distract from the crypto bros bankrolling Reform.

Top Democrat on House Judiciary formally asks White House physician to conduct cognitive exam of Trump: “Experts have repeatedly warned that the President has been exhibiting signs consistent with dementia and cognitive decline… increasingly incoherent, volatile, profane, deranged, and threatening.”

Monty Don doing excellent job hosting #HIGNFY - more of this please! @gardenersworldmag.bsky.social

Just what we don't need. Already, our rivers are overloaded with both human and livestock waste, leading in many cases to #rivercide. Now the government, responding as always to lobbyists, wants to make it worse. Then it wonders why it loses public support. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NEW -- Is DOGE still around? Because Donald Trump's golf hobby has now cost us $101.2 million in just 14 months back in office. That's correct. US soldiers are suffering brain injuries in the Middle East, gas prices are spiking, all while Trump golfs. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

@bbc @channel4news.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @channel5news.bsky.social

The real story… under any other president this would be jail time…

🟨 Print Edition — Farage’s Staggering Side Hustles Nigel Farage has spent more than 1,113 hours – or 140 working days – on his various other jobs since being elected to Parliament in July 2024.

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration's restrictions on journalists at the Pentagon are unconstitutional. The government doesn't get to decide what news the public has access to.

BBC News, "This heat wave in the United States would be virtually impossible without human induced climate change" "In Arizona yesterday, they recorded their highest ever March temperature, 44 °C"

The World Cup has no place being played in America. No right minded person, player, team or country should go. I will not be watching any of it. www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

NEW: Families requested no cameras at today's dignified transfer at Dover, yet Trump’s White House released and promoted photos from the ceremony across social media, including TikTok.

Does UK have similar plans and infrastructure in place to support national security? @ukparliament.parliament.uk @uklabour.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk @libdems.org.uk @snp.org @plaidcymru.bsky.social How Finnish supermarkets are central to the country's defence

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says a total of 14 health workers have been killed in attacks in southern Lebanon over the past 24 hours. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/u9tuem

Is there anything Reform UK politicians won’t u-turn on? Here’s Offord’s maiden speech about the importance of Net Zero when he was made a lord for services to donating money to the Tories: www.gov.uk/government/n... It was only 3 years ago.

BREAKING: The DOJ has been taking down certain Epstein file documents, per CBS News.

Alan’s outfit reminds me of Licorice Allsorts 🤣 (absolutely love him) #BAFTA

Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Qatar slam Israel's decision to register occupied West Bank lands as 'state property'.

The timing of this visit is weird even by the standards of incompetence of our government intelligence.

Best response today. 👏

You couldn’t make this up. Trump is the most corrupt president in US history. By far

Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, after more than 100,000 people signed petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...

Lord Walney: "The UK is a friend of Israel" Matt Shea: "Is being a friend of Israel the right position to have given the mass slaughter of civilians that has been going on in Gaza?" "Well, what you say on that is highly contested" Lord Walney is a genocide apologist.

🚨BREAKING: Parliament is going to debate the petition – BY-ELECTIONS TO BE CALLED AUTOMATICALLY WHEN MP’S DEFECT TO ANOTHER PARTY on 16 March 2026! Contact/Tag your MP now and ask them to attend the debate and speak out in support

‘There was no cover up’ Reform UK’s Councillor George Magwick has been shown to have lied. He spread misinformation about an asylum seeker that has been found not guilty, information that he used to stoke hate and fuel demonstrations.