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Proud Scot. European. Buddie. Lefty-woke and proud of it. Music, books, quilting, history, politics, nature, science, sci-fi and fantasy, WOT, LOTR (in no particular order), she/her. No DMs please.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE IS SICKENING......
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Missy gets the backpack treatment: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/aww/s/R8NQ...
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For all we know at the moment, the 5 men arrested near RAF Fairford might have been on a stag night. But the wild claims by Trump and Rubio suggest that, if they'd been apprehended in the US, they would have been denied due process. I hope our government tells them to butt out of our justice system.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hard to imagine what that would be like
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/09/2026
New @jamestalarico.bsky.social ad just dropped.
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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In March, Washington State passed a tax on millionaires to fund public education, childcare, and expand its earned income tax credit. Now, special interest groups backed by the rich are trying to trick voters into repealing the tax by claiming it will apply to non-millionaires. Don't fall for it.
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Washington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.
Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes.
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SubRosa )✿( Magick (chat to book a reading) @subrosamagick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Someone from Reform & their shrill harridan who live as tax free exiles in Dubai have been entertained by the wife of a former minister of state of a country hostile to the UK and he failed to declare it to Parliament he's elected to sit in? You couldn’t make this up" via We loathe Reform UK Ltd
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NO 👇 LIES DETECTED......
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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did you know that a Farage Reform govt intends to scrap the NHS? The private health care system he wants to introduce would cost you £10,000s, like the US, where getting ill can bankrupt you. #ReformUK #Labour #GreenParty #Newcastle #SAFC� #NUFC
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reform UK's Suella Braverman promises ‘consequences’ if pupils don’t sing Christian hymns. That would be policed. So what happens to atheists, agnostics, non-believers and other religious denominations. Will they be persecuted, imprisoned? Reform UK getting desperate and bizarre.
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Britain's economy is being held back by low wages, underinvestment, rip-off pricing, the housing crisis, lack of affordable childcare and an NHS on the point of collapse. Not because there isn't a third runway at Heathrow.
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Tom Booker @tbooker1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolutely fascinating to see Laura Kuenssberg interviewing Burnham, flailing to adjust her stance to a politician with a moral argument and a positive message, who stands up for his policies and answers her questions clearly. She is getting so agitated at him not playing the game by the 'rules'.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Laura Kuenssberg - who is paid over £400k a year - asks Andy Burnham where the money to pay for social care will come from. One obvious answer would be higher taxes on people paid over £400k a year.
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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Star Wars vs Star Trek: a guide
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Who’s ready for No Kings? We’re getting an early start on making signs! ✊💚
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SteveH @sghendricks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/09/2026
This admin has spent years going after science. It proposed the largest cut in NASA’s history, about a quarter of the agency and half of its science programs. But last month, a groundbreaking telescope left the launch pad anyway. And the story of how it got there is our good news this Sunday.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Truth 👇
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yet again Farage goes absent from Parliament absent from his Clacton constitueny this time to campaign for an imminent general election which isn't going to happen ... "Anything to avoid doing his taxpayer funded job… " via Reform Are Not Your Friends
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repugfascistrebel.bsky.social @repugfascistrebel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
HIS MAKING US THAT SHITHOLE COUNTRY HE ALWAYS TALKS ABOUT....EVERY ACCUSATION IS A CONFESSION!
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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On Viewless Wings @onviewlesswings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You’ve likely seen the news: The U.S. Supreme Court Friday greenlit a flawed Trump administration database for purging voters from the rolls. Almost as troubling: Plenty of major news outlets were eager to downplay the decision’s importance. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This week at Democracy Docket: The Supreme Court boosted Trump’s voter suppression. Legacy media shrugged
The U.S. Supreme Court Friday greenlit a flawed Trump administration database for purging voters from the rolls. And plenty of major news outlets were eager to downplay the decision's importance.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
EXACTLY 👇 THIS.......
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The reality of Britain’s food poverty crisis: ‘Everything is so expensive, I only eat one meal a day’. 14m people face food insecurity. High rents, water, energy, food prices & low incomes create a crisis. No curbs on profiteering 50 families have more wealth than 34m people. Must redistribute.
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Inside Britain’s food poverty crisis: ‘ I only eat one meal a day’
Millions of Britons are worrying about the cost of food as prices continue to rise. Albert Toth reports
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Omg. Best ever
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rupert must have had a change of heart. I'm sure he used to be all in favour of local people expressing their understandable anger at strange fighting age men suddenly appearing in their community.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Jeez. By now even Larry the cat knows it was Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal which caused the skyrocketing number of small boat crossings in the English Channel
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On This Day in Simpsons History @dailysimpsons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
35 years ago today, after witnessing the bribing of a US senator, a disillusioned Lisa Simpson gave an impromptu fiery anti-American speech at a national essay contest at the Kennedy Center. #TheSimpsons episode “Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington” first aired September 26, 1991.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court GRANTS People Not Politicians stay application, ordering the 2022 map to be in effect for the midterms! A victory for Elias Law Group, our clients People Not Politicians and Richard von Glahn, and the people of Missouri. www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...
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🚨Onder v. Missouri
Learn more here.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 26/09/2026
I love this @xkcd.com comic. So accurate.
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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There is so much disinformation about the "Super El Nino" floating around the internet b/c mentioning any sort of mechanism that affects weather seems to start a shouting match. So here's a good video that gives you JUST the info you need in under 2 minutes.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Liz Truss doesn't know the difference between the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea. She knocked £425bn off the value of pension fund assets. She thinks Tony Blair set up the Bank of England. And major companies pay her £80,000 a speech for her insights on politics and economics.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 25/09/2026
This is incredibly alarming. We cannot go on like this. We need more advocacy for climate action, not just from the environmental movement, but from the political centre.
Screenshot of a Guardian article titled “Huge El Niño projected to cause more than 450,000 deaths by February.” The article, by environment editor Damian Carrington and dated 23 September 2026, says climate scientists estimate that additional heat from a projected strong El Niño could cause more than 450,000 deaths by February, on top of existing climate-crisis-related deaths. It mentions impacts across Indonesia, India, Nigeria and the US, as well as additional deaths from droughts, wildfires and flooding.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Blaming migrants achieves nothing Demanding an end to profiteering by millionaire bosses could end poverty, hunger, homelessness with £billions to spare for our NHS, social care ... "Every person working a 40 hour week should earn enough money for a decent life" via The UK Against Hate
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Tim Schofield 🌹 @timschofield.org.uk · 24/09/2026
Nigel Farage says an attack on Russia pushing disinformation in the UK is an attack on Reform UK When they tell you who they are, believe them.
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Secret Panel HERE 👏 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/things-to-do-32419113
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