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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Victorian diseases erysipelas and scabies return to the UK. Poverty, malnutrition, poor housing are the main causes. Govt response - benefit cuts for poor/disabled, two-child benefit cap, winter fuel payment cut, freeze tax thresholds. NHS queues, can't see GPs. Must redistribute.

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Doctors urge government to fight poverty after rise in patients with Victorian diseases

Survey finds vast majority of doctors are concerned at impact of health inequalities on their patients

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Racing Pride @racingpride.com · 31/03/2025

Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility. Today, like every day, we at Racing Pride celebrate all of our trans and gender diverse members and stand in solidarity with them. #transdayofvisibility #trans #lgbtq #pride #racingpride

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

If, as Mr Starmer believes, AI is the magic wand that will solve our problems, why employ a human Chancellor blindly to follow a self-destructive algorithm, when a machine would do it just as well?

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Aalia Mauro @aaliamauro.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

As the planet heats up, glaciers are melting. Glaciers hold 70% of the world's freshwater, but they're shrinking, and fast. Over 2 billion people rely on glacier melt for their daily water, and in some places, those glaciers won’t make it through the century. climate.copernicus.eu/inaugural-wo...

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Aalia Mauro @aaliamauro.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Just for the record. Israel & Hamas agreed to a 3-phase hostage release & ceasefire deal. Israel refused to move to the second phase. Hamas insisted Israel stick to the agreement. Israel then cut off all food, medicine & other supplies to Gaza.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.

Steve Bannon makes a Nazi salute at the end of his speech at CPAC

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Sundus Shalabi, eight months pregnant, shot and killed. Baby does not survive. surely whatever side you are on, we should be outraged by this and so many other deaths. This is not about what “side” you are on, it is about the fragility of life. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

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Palestinians say Israeli forces kill 3 in West Bank raid

The Palestinian health ministry reported that Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank shot dead three people on Sunday, including a woman who was eight months pregnant, while the military said it had...

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