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Amanda Kendal

@akendal.bsky.social
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London-based NGO journalist. Germanophile, MCFC fan (since 1974). Loves Thomas Mann, Kraftwerk, Ultravox, OMD, Discworld, films, books, cats, birds, Minions, B5, Star Trek/Wars. LGBT+. Wish I could ignore politics, but can't. No chat unless I know you

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Amanda Kendal @akendal.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I have contacted Battersea to adopt a cat. That is all.
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Amanda Kendal @akendal.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Spotted in Hackney today - and shared without comment. Though for clarity, I have no objection to anyone flying flags.
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Amanda Kendal @akendal.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Having just been in the Lake District … ‘Hi, I’m Beatrix Potter, and I write and illustrate beautiful stories of animals for children. I then use the money earned to save swathes of this glorious part of the world from greedy developers.’ no yes yes.
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Amanda Kendal @akendal.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Yes, yes, yes - a thousand times over.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
What utter dickheads we are… Rayner fought for workers: sick pay, maternity rights, protection from unfair dismissal Farage and his MPs voted it down Rayner gets binned over £40k in stamp duty Farage dodges £44k, shrugs & strolls on The mega wealthy win again.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I will never not understand how a minority of people have decided that wind farms - significantly prettier than pylons, coal power plants, nuclear power plants, and almost certainly fusion power plants - are ugly. In terms of energy generation, what else are you hoping for that is better?
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Shea the Spirited🏳️‍⚧️🌻🍉🏴 @dementiadoula-us.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Oh, look! It's not a drag queen or a transgender person. #AnotherChristian #NOTaDragQueen #NOTaTransPerson
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Jason Yates, former CEO of My Faith Votes, pleads guilty to child porn possession
Former My Faith Votes CEO Jason Yates, a prominent conservative Christian activist, has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography, months after he was arrested
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Amanda Kendal @akendal.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The test cricket at Old Trafford … OMG!
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Amanda Kendal @akendal.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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Photo of the late comic and activist Janey Godley holding a placard saying “Trump is a cunt”, while a police officer looks on, at Turnberry in 2016.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Word of the day is ‘swullocking’, from 19th-century East Anglian dialect: sultry, sweltering, and sudiferous (sweat-inducing).
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Liz Truss has warned the British Museum against losing its marbles. Ironic, really.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
WTF?!? Border Czar Tom Homan claimed that ICE and Border Patrol agents don’t need probable cause to detain people they suspect are undocumented, saying they can do so based on factors like physical appearance. This is straight-up racial profiling, not law enforcement.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The Telegraph today carries a news story about someone paying £7.4 million for a handbag (Hello, Lady Bracknell!). And an opinion piece describing a wealth tax as a ‘moral abomination’. What a time to be alive.
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Amanda Kendal @akendal.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Good. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympi...
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Caster Semenya: South African double Olympic champion wins partial victory at European Court of Human Rights in her long legal battle over athletics' sex eligibility rules.
Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya wins a partial victory at the European Court of Human Rights in her long legal battle over athletics' sex eligibility rules.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 03/07/2025
Hospitals are supposed to be where the suffering stops. In Gaza, they are where the killing continues. Channel 4's Gaza: Doctors Under Attack has exposed a terror campaign that sends a horrifying message: No One Is Safe. Not Even Here.
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No One Is Safe. Not Even Here.
The destruction of Gaza’s hospitals marks a terrifying breach in the idea that healthcare is ever off-limits.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
America at war Subscribe to Private Eye: subsonline.co.uk
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Fifthcolumnblue @fifthcolumnblue.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
01/05/75 - 26/06/03 RIP big man. #MCFC #CTID
Marc Vivien Foe in Manchester City kit.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The proliferation of these groups is a bit odd given it's all the same people on all of them. (And they have fairly similar policy views to most of the existing right-wing think tanks).
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This is an absolutely brilliant column by @rafaelbehr.bsky.social . Every Word of this. I would only add that I personally think that this started even earlier than Truss. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The spirit of Liz Truss, ridiculous but relentless, still stalks British politics | Rafael Behr
Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch have much more in common with the failed Tory leader than either cares to admit, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
What do we think?🤔 Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious. Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story! So, what’s going on here? Let’s take a look!👀 🧵 1/13
Screenshot of a daily Mail Headline
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IndiaWilloughby @indiawilloughby.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Trump: “Offer up your trans Keir - then we can do business.” Starmer: “Yes Mr Donald. Did you see Friday, Mr Donald? Did we do good?” Labour will absolutely do this. 🏳️‍⚧️
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Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Reading Anne McElvoy on how convenient the Supreme Court decision is for the Starmer government and the rest of the Establishment reminds me that human rights are, for the boss class. An area where there is minimum actual commitment and a lot of lip service.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
“Sickening and heartbreaking” Someone who was at the Marge Greene town hall where folks who dissented were arrested/targeted/tased by police — who has voted for both parties — writes about what she saw 👇🏽
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Amanda Kendal @akendal.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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Truss social: the latest chapter from a woman who really knows what the people want | Zoe Williams
She’s threatening to launch an ‘uncensored and uncancellable’ online platform – like we don’t have enough of those already, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 16/04/2025
White House removes wire services from press pool rather than restore AP’s access
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White House removes wire services from press pool rather than restore AP’s access
The Associated Press filed a court motion stating that the press policy is “a clear violation of the court's injunction order,” urging a federal judge to enforce his ruling against the White House.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.
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Gay Venezuelan stylist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report
Now a contractor for ICE, the officer was on a list of disgraced cops in Milwaukee. His report helped send a man to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This is it. We’ve abandoned Europe and our allies for a Third World tinpot dictator.
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Beks @antifaoperative.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Louisiana baptist pastor, Shane Wiggins, has been arrested for the rape of a child. www.baptistmessage.com/63415-2/
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Amanda Kendal @akendal.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
And guess what?
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
ANOTHER ONE! Donald Trump didn’t just deport Albrego Garcia to a foreign torture prison—he deported a Venezuelan teenager who wasn’t even the intended target. His name is Merwil Gutiérrez. He wasn’t in a gang. He wasn’t a threat. And even Trump’s own administration admitted he wasn't the target.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/04/2025
Leavitt: "Abrego Garcia was a foreign terrorist. He is an MS-13 gang member. He was engaged in human trafficking." (The White House hasn't provided evidence for any of these claims ... )
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Odd new power dynamic.
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Amanda Kendal @akendal.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The forgotten war in Sudan. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Sudan in ‘world’s largest humanitarian crisis’ after two years of civil war
NGOs and UN say country is ‘worse off than ever before’ with wide-scale displacement, hunger, famine and attacks on refugee camps
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Nadav Shtrauchler, a former adviser to Mr. Netanyahu, said that the prime minister had experienced “a complete reversal” under the Trump administration that allowed him “much more room to operate.”
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With Trump’s Return, Netanyahu Faces Fewer Restraints on Gaza Than Ever
On the war, President Trump is more aligned than his predecessor with the aims of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and his right-wing coalition.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Hungary has just passed an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events by LGBTQ+ communities.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸
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Amanda Kendal @akendal.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
And this is endorsable? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Conditions at Gaza hospitals 'beyond description', WHO says
The agency says it is seeing
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.
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Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
We are seeing more and more lies being told about disabled people. There is hardly any fraud in the benefits paid to disabled people. We need to challenge the scapegoating of disabled people - and fight for a wealth tax instead. Sign my petition today. www.change.org/p/tax-wealth...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Excellent thread.
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Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I found this thread by George Monbiot, as well as his article quoted, well worth a read. It gets to the heart of the problem of politics in the U.K. at the moment, and some pretty straightforward solutions staring our leaders in the face.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/04/2025
Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
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Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles Requests to remove books from library shelves are on the rise in the UK, as the influence of pressure groups behind book bans in the US crosses the Atlantic, according to those working in the sector. Although “the situation here is nowhere [near] as bad, censorship does happen and there are some deeply worrying examples of library professionals losing their jobs and being trolled online for standing up for intellectual freedom on behalf of their users”, said Louis Coiffait-Gunn, CEO of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (Cilip). Continue reading...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 11/04/2025
Singin’ in the Rain was released in theaters on this day in 1952 ☔️
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Ruth @poofer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Just a reminder for michiganders Tom Barrett is not your friend, he promised to protect vets benefits and even helped to sponsor two bills to turn around and voted to cut their benefits, and voted today for the bill that going to cut Medicaid and Medicare , his next election vote him out. #HadEnough
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This is all horrifying. Our system is not supposed to work like this.
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Amanda Kendal @akendal.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Sharing this again, because it's worth it. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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Amanda Kendal @akendal.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Well worth a read.
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