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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

This is an absolutely must-read piece. Do it now. 👇

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Paul Belcher FRCP HonMFPH 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @pauljbelcher.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

#TrumpTariffs: “In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it” George Orwell - 1984 www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

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Digging into the 'insane' formula the White House used to calculate its tariffs | CBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump showed off a giant chart on Wednesday full of new “reciprocal” tariffs, which start at 10 per cent and grow steeper for countries with larger trade deficits with the U.S. B...

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat, and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.” - Abraham Lincoln

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The Financial Times: ‘If it endures, Donald Trump's decision on April 2 2025 to enact sweeping "reciprocal" tariffs on US trade partners will go down as one of the greatest acts of self-harm in American economic history. They will wreak untold damage on households…’

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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 05/04/2025

“Queer refugees like me are being targeted by other communities because we are most vulnerable,” he said. “Other refugees have a belief that we queer refugees have a lot of support, that we have money and resources, so they raid our shelters looking for food and water, yet we also don’t have those.”

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Nowhere to go – the refugees who are not even welcome in camps

Refugee camps are a last resort for desperate people forced from their homes, but for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers, there is no safe haven there

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/03/2025

Carney: "I respect Trump's goal to support American workers. But I disagree with him that this is how to help. With time, it will become apparently that these actions will end up hurting American workers and American consumers ... our response to these latest tariffs is to fight."

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Grenobob @grenowl82.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Our grandson is autistic and as wonderful a grandson as you could wish for. He is smart, kind, considerate, helpful, holds down a job, and lives in his own flat. I realise there are different levels of autism, but people just need to be kind and patient with them or any other type of person.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Proud of you, Chris – not an easy feat. Stories like yours are exactly why it meant a lot to pass the ACA.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Thanks for sharing your story, Rebecca. Protecting folks with pre-existing conditions – like your son – was important to us. And it’s why we have to continue working hard to protect and build on the foundation of the ACA, too.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Grateful for your years of service, Finn – and that the ACA helped you and your daughter get health care.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Right now, there’s an important race happening that will shape the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the next 10 years. Judge Susan Crawford is ready to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of all Wisconsinites. Make a plan to vote early today — don’t wait until April 1st: wisdems.org/vote

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Find Your Voting Locations | WISDEMS Voter Protection Team

This searchable map shows you early voting and dropbox info for hundreds of villages, towns, and cities across Wisconsin. Enter the address you're registered at and your options will pop up!

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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is meeting this perilous moment in American history — taking an exceptional stand for ALL of us. The United States is a nation in crisis, and Sen. Booker is standing and speaking out in fierce opposition to an onslaught of evils being perpetrated by the…

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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Chucking in on Senator Cory Booker on the Senate floor 5 hours+ into his filibuster. “America, we are not doing a good job right now.” Nailing it! 🔥

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Cory Booker... Let's fucking go! 🙌🙏💪👏👊👇

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Prime Minister Carney says he wants to do things previously considered impossible in Canada when it comes to housing construction. Significant new loans and grants for PRE-FAB and AFFORDABLE home builders. A new building entity called “Build Canada Homes.” New ways to help “the market build better.”

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Really glad to see that this program was reinstated. Shows that pressure and scrutiny can have an impact.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The Trump administration ends funding for research on protecting pregnant women from domestic violence, classifying it as 'DEI': www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Trump Admin Pulls Research Funding To Protect Pregnant Women From Domestic Violence

Homicide by an abusive partner is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S. – and researchers are gutted by the sudden cuts.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

You would think Meta understood the Streisand Effect.

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Awake in Alberta @reginaphalange94.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I really can’t share this enough, this is gold. I feel very proud at this moment to be a Canadian supporting Carney. Class!!! ❤️🇨🇦❤️ youtu.be/O_YJntMUeFE

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‘No, you’ll take that as a very comprehensive answer to your question' | PM responds to reporters

YouTube video by CTV News

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Left: Commenting on Channel 4 News's explosive coverage of the shortage of nurses in the NHS, Jeremy Hunt says you can't just magic up more nurses Right: Jeremy Hunt underfunded the NHS for the six years he was Health Minister, and was responsible for scrapping the nursing bursary

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

EveryDoctor is just about to announce which political party has received the most donations from people and companies associated with the private healthcare sector.🚨 Please follow @everydoctor.org.uk and repost once the info is out!

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Phil Waring @philwaring.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This is the darkest work by @coldwarsteve.bsky.social that I can recall. 👇🏼

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Center for Constitutional Rights @ccrjustice.org · 18/03/2025

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The richest man in the world is cutting so much medical research

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Dr. Frankenstein mutters platitudes to sooth himself as he watches his monster marauding.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner. Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis

Iconic cartoon with people looking at a long list of public benefits connected with climate action, asking “What if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?”

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 18/03/2025

I have been saying this for weeks: “The only possible way for American institutions to survive this administration is for them to collectively bargain, like unions, and to come to one another’s defense.” Imagine if all the universities united and took a stand rather than complying with Yahtzees.

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AllOutGreen ♠️ @alloutgreen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Never thought I'd see this.

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Drew Warned You @druidscircle.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I cordially invite you to join us for a massive march and protest. Everyone needs to be out in the streets, and our elected officials need to be there with us.

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In the center of the photo is a watercolor painting of a US flag

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

🚨NEW: This is horrific. Musk & DOGE closed the specialist unit at Yale tracking down Ukrainian children kidnapped & stolen by Russia. HOWEVER, it now emerges the entire database may have been DELETED, destroying years of research needed to find missing children. If so, there should be arrests.

Washington Post headline: Trump terminates program tracking mass abductions of Ukrainian children
Observers fear the move has compromised evidence of war crimes by Russian officials and will hinder efforts to rescue thousands of missing Ukrainian children.

The story is accompanied by a picture of an empty playground.

At that time, the researchers lost access to a trove of information, including satellite imagery and biometric data tracking the identities and locations of as many as 35,000 children from Ukraine.
Most alarming to U.S. lawmakers briefed on the matter is the suspected deletion of the research lab's database amid the scramble to comply with the administration's termination notice -
an action likely to set back efforts to find the missing children and hold to account those responsible for their abduction.
"We have reason to believe that the data from the repository has been permanently deleted," a group of lawmakers led by Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio) warned in a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. "If true, this would have devastating consequences."

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Tim Weigel of Semafor: ‘Tim Walz in Wisconsin: “I’m having the most unsatisfying I Told You So tour in the history of politics.”’

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Brian Fung @brianfung.me · 18/03/2025

The FTC’s other Dem commissioner, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, has also been purged tonight: www.axios.com/2025/03/18/t...

Emailed statement from Commissioner Slaughter to Axios: “"Today the President illegally fired me from my position as a Federal Trade
Commissioner, violating the plain language of a statute and clear Supreme Court precedent," Slaughter said in an emailed statement.
• She wrote: "Why? Because I have a voice. And he is afraid of what I'll tell the American people."
• 'The administration clearly fears the accountability that opposition voices would provide if the President orders Chairman Ferguson to treat the most powerful corporations and their executives-like those that flanked the President at his inauguration —with kid gloves."

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/03/2025

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

If you're in the Bay Area or can be on April 19th and so moved and equipped to attend here's the link for tickets. secure.givelively.org/event/oil-ch...

violin, cracks, nicks, pockmarks, and all....

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

There's a term for this: Wikipedia: "Extraordinary rendition is a euphemism for state-sponsored kidnapping in another jurisdiction and transfer to a third state. The phrase usually refers to a United States-led program used during the War on Terror,[1]...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17/03/2025

📢 SAVE THE DATE: Saturday, April 5. Together with progressive partners, we’re planning a massive mobilization in the streets to translate the anger with Trump’s power grab into a nationwide show of defiance. Find a Hands Off! event near you or plan one: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The DOJ is arguing, on behalf of the President, that the President can scoop up anyone, put them on an airplane, and then no laws apply because no court has jurisdiction. Whether the person is a citizen wouldn't change that because there's no point they could even tell a court they're a citizen.

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Is there anything stopping Trump from arresting Carney the second he steps foot on US soil? Besides international law and norms, neither of which Trump gives a shit about?

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Canada's Carney makes statement by choosing Europe, not US, for first foreign trip

The prime minister hopes to achieve solid support as he visits the UK and France, writes Lyse Doucet.

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