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Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Trump's bombastic "new Middle East" proclamation? Just real-estate sleight-of-hand, dodging Gaza's rubble and Palestinian fury after 67K dead, sparked by a botched strike tweaking his Qatari cash flow. #NewMiddleEast
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Reuters @reuters.com · 15/08/2025
No consensus on binding plastic treaty at talks in Geneva, delegates say reut.rs/4fzmsve
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No consensus on binding plastic treaty at talks in Geneva, delegates say
No consensus was reached during talks in Geneva on the world's first legally binding treaty to tackle plastic pollution, according to delegates.
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Hacker & Security News @hacker.at.thenote.app · 15/08/2025
The Dark Side of “AI Productivity”: How It Trains You to Be Replaceable The more I let AI handle my work, the less of my own thinking was in it. #hackernews #news
hackernoon.com
The Dark Side of “AI Productivity”: How It Trains You to Be Replaceable
The more I let AI handle my work, the less of my own thinking was in it.
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PeatWorrier @peatworrier.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Significant sentences for four men convicted of defrauding NHS Scotland out of £6 million, with their evidence being described by Lord Arthurson as "self-serving, arrogant and mendacious." judiciary.scot/home/sentenc...
judiciary.scot
HMA v Alan Robert Hush, Gavin Gerard Cox, Adam Paul Sharoudi and Gavin John Brown
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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Trump’s big ugly bill rips health care away from millions of people & ends programs that help people pay for groceries. The money saved will be handed over to the richest men in the world. Trump’s bill rubs salt in the wounds of every struggling family in America.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
MAGA idiots have been tricked into surrounding Tesla dealerships nationwide, their presence alone is deterring potential buyers and collapsing sales. Psyop successful 👏
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Keir Starmer is facing the biggest rebellion of his premiership as more than 150 MPs are preparing to vote against his forthcoming welfare cuts www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
Starmer faces welfare revolt from 150 MPs as frontbenchers ‘poised to quit’
A rebellion on this scale would be a significant knock to the prime minister’s authority and represent wider disquiet about the direction of the government
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NPR @npr.org · 28/04/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.
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DOGE employees gain accounts on classified networks holding nuclear secrets
Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
NEW: Crowd now growing at the Capitol where Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries are staging a sit-in on the steps. Is this building into something? If you’re in DC, they’re encouraging folk to come down there & support. #Resist (📸 Sen. Brian Schatz)
A photo taken on the steps showing over a 100 people gathered around Jeffries and Booker who are sat broadcasting on the steps of the Capitol. The sky is bright blue.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/04/2025
WSJ test conversations “found that both Meta’s official AI helper, called Meta AI, and a vast array of user-created chatbots will engage in and sometimes escalate discussions that are decidedly sexual—even when the users are underage or the bots are programmed to simulate the personas of minors.“
wsj.com
Meta’s ‘Digital Companions’ Will Talk Sex With Users—Even Children
Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit. Some people inside the company are concerned.
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Ae Fond Ms @aefondms.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
38d.gs/hzo3
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Block Trump from addressing Parliament
I've just signed 38 Degrees' petition calling on Trump to be banned from addressing the UK Parliament during his state visit later this year. Will you join me and add your name too?
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
and here's the thing: americans actually haven't faced the real supply chain shocks or the spillover of tariffs
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 22/04/2025
Battle lines are being drawn between the European Central Bank and the European Commission over whether landmark rules to govern crypto currencies are strong enough to withstand the full force of Donald Trump.
politico.eu
Commission livid as ECB warns of crypto apocalypse under Trump
Washington’s embrace of crypto may endanger the European financial system, but Frankfurt and Brussels are arguing over whether to rewrite a landmark law.
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Ae Fond Ms @aefondms.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Usual response when faced with reality - insult and then block. They have nothing.
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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
'The headline takeaway: references to sex in the Equality Act are references to biological sex; references to men in the Equality Act are references to biological males; references to women in the Equality Act are references to biological females.' Legal explanation. 🎯 knowingius.org/p/sex-has-al...
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Sex has always meant biological sex
The Supreme Court delivers a seismic ruling on equality law
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Ae Fond Ms @aefondms.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Indeed. A fresh wave of vile abuse ensued after the judgement, even though belief in biological sex is perfectly lawful and has now been confirmed once more.
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Lady J of Tay @ladyjoftay.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
www.thenational.scot/news/2510284... councillor Pete Shears wrote to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Liz Kendall, to say he finds it difficult to be in the same group as her over her decision to cut £5 billion in welfare funding.
thenational.scot
Scottish Labour councillor blasts own party for pushing families into poverty
A SCOTTISH Labour councillor has attacked his own party’s policies which have pushed disabled people and their families into poverty.
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AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
This editorial is legally spot on … better than many lawyer written pieces on linked-in “the supreme court has emphasised the balancing nature of the Equality Act, which adjudicates between the rights of different groups.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
The Observer view on Equality Act ruling: A dignified compromise that respects the rights of everyone | Editorial
The supreme court judgment gives protections to women at the same level as other groups
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
NEW: John Swinney has said there will be no deals 'under any circumstances' between the SNP and Reform UK Swinney's comments come after Nigel Farage backed the SNP over Labour in next year's elections
thenational.scot
John Swinney issues statement following Nigel Farage's SNP Holyrood admission
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AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
I was somewhat shocked that Lord Sumption gave bad legal advice on single sex exceptions in Equality Act. I thought he had a massive brain
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Call to Action New York: Saturday, April 19th | 12 PM @ West Capitol Park, Albany, NY. #3E #fiftyfiftyone
RESIST LIKE IT'S 1938 GERMANY 50 STATES 50 PROTESTS 1 MOVEMENT April 19 @ Noon West Capitol Park Albany, New York
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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
'Campaigners have called on Parkrun to scrap its “unfair” transgender policy which allowed a trans woman to finish first in the female category in nearly 60 of its Saturday morning 5km runs. The same trans woman once finished ahead of a former British Olympian.' www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
thetimes.com
Parkrun told to scrap rule that lets trans runners outpace women
Trans women have finished first in the female category in almost 60 events and set new national records
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 19/04/2025
Number of passengers flying to the US plunging, ships full of goods halted, price rises and employee lay-offs … it’s not Covid, it’s Trump’s tariff pandemic ⬇️
thetimes.com
Donald-25: the new virus that’s devastating the world economy
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has blocked the Trump administration from deporting foreign nationals under the Alien Enemies Act. Thomas, Alito dissent.
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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 19/04/2025
❌ Meta’s business model is built on profiling users by harvesting personal and behavioural data. ❌ There's no effective opt-out of surveillance and targeting for users to protect themselves from harms. ✅ Users must have a clear and explicit OPT-IN option for targeted advertising. #StopStalkerAds
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WhatDoesGodNeedWith @wdgnw.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Outrageous. Trump has told the UK that if we want tariff relief we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves:
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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
On February 8, 2025, kayaker Adrián Simancas was briefly swallowed by a humpback #whale off #Chile’s coast. The whale surfaced unexpectedly, engulfing him and his kayak, then released him unharmed seconds later. The incident was captured on video by his father.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This is appalling. 1.3 million people with cancer, arthritis and more could lose PIP under Labour's benefit cuts www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
bigissue.com
1.3 million ill people could lose PIP under Labour's disability benefit cuts
Labour's benefit reforms could see thousands of people with cancer and more than 200,000 people with arthritis lose their PIP payments.
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Ae Fond Ms @aefondms.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Is this your idea of sex? Of being a woman? It's not mine! Sex is not socially decided. It's nailed down at conception. We can't avoid it. (column by Kelly Given in The National.)
Kelly Given quote from National newspaper column about what makes a woman. Argues that sex is socially constructed rather than being biological.
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Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
When a government bribes another to imprison its own citizen abroad—despite court orders—it ceases to uphold justice. Trump is not just defying the law, he’s rewriting it by force.
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Holyrood @holyroodmag.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I am woman, hear me roar: The Supreme Court verdict is a victory for common sense, says Mandy Rhodes www.holyrood.com/editors-colu...
holyrood.com
I am woman, hear me roar
Without For Women Scotland, without their bravery, tenacity and humour, we would still be arguing over what a woman is. ...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
England water pollution at 10-year high as sewage dumping in rivers, lakes and seas accelerates. Higher bills, more abuse. Water industry is 90% foreign owned. Shareholders have no contact with the consequences of cash extraction. Only nationalisation offers hope
bbc.co.uk
England's serious water pollution incidents at 10-year high
Campaigners release official data showing the most serious pollution incidents in England are double the target.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This is disrespectful and a flat out lie that further stigmatizes autism. It’s not a virus or a disease - it’s a neurological condition with a wide spectrum. Many Americans with autism work, pay taxes, and are living happy and healthy lives.
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Holyrood @holyroodmag.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
"While there are arguably good political reasons for avoiding talk of Brexit, it’s delusional to ignore its economic impact, especially for a government which, according to Keir Starmer, is 'obsessed' with growth," writes @chrismarshll.bsky.social www.holyrood.com/comment/view...
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Trading places: Trump's tariffs give Starmer an opportunity to draw closer to the EU
While the economic case for establishing closer links with the EU is sound, the political and moral arguments look ever ...
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Cathy Devine @womensportfeminism.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Sport England: "We are now considering what today’s ruling means for grassroots sports and clubs." Good. Please ensure you do not invest in sports which permit males to play in female sport categories or use female changing rooms. www.sportengland.org/news-and-ins...
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Statement issued following Supreme Court ruling | Sport England
Sport England issue a statement following the Supreme Court's ruling on legal definition of a woman.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
🔴The Sheer Scale of the COVID ‘VIP Lane’ PPE Scandal Has Still Not Been Revealed Five Years On New evidence published by the COVID Inquiry suggests that at least 20 more politically-connected suppliers received contracts worth £1 billion bylinetimes.com/2025/04/16/c...
bylinetimes.com
The Sheer Scale of the COVID 'VIP Lane' PPE Scandal Has Still Not Been Revealed Five Years On
New evidence published by the COVID Inquiry suggests that at least 20 more politically-connected suppliers received contracts worth £1 billion
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Ae Fond Ms @aefondms.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The ignoring of due process and human rights, with cruel summary action, is what many women have gone through for believing sex is real, binary and immutable. The process is the punishment meted for not pleasing zealots; these things are purposefully dragged out before the inevitable clearing. Evil.
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Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Boom
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Sir Alan Bates urges victims of Post Office scandal to take govt to court over compensation delays. Wronged people browbeaten to accept lower compensation. Some died whilst waiting for compensation. No contribution to compensation from Fujitsu, PO directors, lawyers, auditors.
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Sir Alan Bates urges victims of Post Office scandal to take govt to court over compensation delays
Sir Alan Bates suggested victims of the Horizon scandal could be waiting until 2027 for all their claims to be settled - a forecast the government disputed - and told them it was time to go to court.
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Ae Fond Ms @aefondms.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
So, sometimes, rights are pie after all.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Marco Rubio says that Americans living in Europe shouldn't ever have to face any ramifications for their political speech online. The chutzpah is jaw-dropping, as he is PERSONALLY trying to deport legal immigrants for their political speech in the United States.

Off The Press
@OffThePress1
🔥WATCH: 
@SecRubio
 tells 
@MikeBenzCyber
 how the State Department is working to restore free speech.

"Our number one priority is Americans. We don't want to see an American who happens to be living in London or happens to be living in Europe post something online about American politics, or any politics, and all of a sudden, they're facing ramifications over there."
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Ae Fond Ms @aefondms.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I listen to hundreds of podcasts and read extremely widely. Sometimes something jumps right out as being a required listen or read. One such is open.spotify.com/episode/1twk...
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Tom Friedman Thinks We’re Getting China Dangerously Wrong
The Ezra Klein Show · Episode
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex
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bethechangeuwant2c.bsky.social @bethechangeuwant2c.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
DOGE LET RUSSIA HACK THE U.S. SYSTEMS. THEY GOT INTO THE NLRB SYSTEMS DOES RUSSIA HAVE OUR ENERGY AND NUCLEAR INFORMATION TOO?! www.alternet.org/amp/disturbi...
alternet.org
'Really disturbing': DOGE whistleblower describes ominous threat he received at his home
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33third.org @33thirdjazz.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Straight from an episode of Black Mirror. Musk and DOGE are conducting the most brazen hack of sensitive information in the history of the US.
npr.org
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
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Some Broad Thinking @somebroadthinking.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Calling it now: Person of the Year: Dan Berulis DOGE wasn't cutting waste, fraud, abuse. Russian ties, Ross Ulbricht (Silk Road founder, 2 life sentences, pardoned on Day 1 by DJT), Musk on site, no evidence or charges produced. They did what they know how to do: hack. Poorly at that. TY Dan!
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 16/04/2025
This is the kind of thing that, if true, leads to life sentences for treason
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
On Monday, @popular.info reported that 29 people whose ballots were invalidated by the North Carolina Supreme Court for never living in NC had, in fact, lived in NC On Tuesday, the NC Election Board, citing @popular.info's report, told a federal court the voters would have their ballots restored
popular.info
UPDATE: North Carolina must restore wrongly invalidated ballots, election board rules
On Monday, Popular Information reported that at least 29 people had their ballots in the 2024 general election wrongly discarded by the North Carolina Supreme Court.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Powell: “Federal debt is on an unsustainable path. We are now running crisis-level deficits at full employment.” 😱 And the latest on the dollar? It’s sinking and now at its lowest level for three years. This is the graph since Trump’s inauguration 👇
Graph of the dollar on a Bloomberg terminal showing a significant drop since January
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