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Eric Potts

@ericpotts.bsky.social
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Christian, Socialist (Corbynista), Yorkshireman, been around the world, ancient, love jazz and art, interested in history, enough to be going on with?

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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
This is brilliant!! 😂✊🏼
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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
‼️ Who would make the best Prime Minister? 🟣 Nigel Farage: 20% 🔴 Keir Starmer: 19% 🔵 Kemi Badenoch: 9% Via YouGov / The Times
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Rachel Reeves doesn't have to cut billions of pounds from disability benefits. She could raise billions of pounds from a windfall tax on major banks instead. Choices, choices.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
The world’s billionaires are now the greatest single threat to all of us.
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Rev’d Rick Ormrod @rickormrod.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The British government needs to do something to curb any influence Elon Musk tries to exert in the UK. They should pass legislation that effectively blocks foreign nationals and companies owned by them, fully or in part, from giving any donation to a U.K. political party. #ElonMusk
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 10/01/2025
🗞️Leeds Other Paper – a radical alternative to the mainstream? Fifty years ago in Leeds, an alternative form of journalism was challenging the mainstream media By Josephine Ingram @joing.bsky.social
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Leeds Other Paper – a radical alternative to the mainstream?
Fifty years ago in Leeds, an alternative form of journalism was challenging the mainstream media
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Eric Potts @ericpotts.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I thought that was impossible!
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
This is absolutely scandalous from Labour👇🏻 IT firm behind Post Office scandal bags government contracts for £24.6m Labour MPs called for a block on new contracts for Fujitsu Services while in opposition. Labour home secretary signed-off on multimillion-pound deals. goodlawproject.org/it-firm-behi...
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IT firm behind Post Office scandal bags government contracts for £24.6m | Good Law Project
Labour MPs called for a block on new contracts for Fujitsu Services while in opposition. But while sub-postmasters wait for compensation, a Labour home secretary has signed-off on multimillion-pound d...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Liz Truss threatens to sue Keir Starmer unless he "ceases and desists" from alleging she crashed the economy. In other news, here's Liz Truss making the exact same allegation against Gordon Brown
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
🔴Conservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers’ Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave They are also seeking to overturn workplace protections from sexual harassment, calling them an attack on “free speech” bylinetimes.com/2024/12/17/c...
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Conservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers' Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave
They are also seeking to overturn workplace protections from sexual harassment, calling them an attack on "free speech"
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Eileen K @eileenk.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The fact that the private sector has been involved in our #NHS for some time does not make it right or best for patients and the service #SirKeir #SaveOurNHs
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Once again, when the Tories are given an opportunity to show some principled backbone, they refuse to take it. Their craven, Musk-appeasing racism, Tommy-Robinson-themed opportunism and failure to support Jess Phillips are all you need to know about the rancid mess that is Badenoch’s nasty party.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Kemi Badenoch’s Refusal to Distance Herself From Elon Musk is an Act of Moral Cowardice Spot on from @adambienkov.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/01/06/k...
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Kemi Badenoch's Refusal to Distance Herself From Elon Musk is an Act of Moral Cowardice
The Conservative Party leader's refusal to criticise the X owner's dangerous misinformation campaign against the UK should exclude her from ever returning to high office
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
When Nigel Farage met Donald Trump Jr.
After some prevarication, the
Reform leader steeled himself and
made a B-line for the Trump family
table in the middle of the room. The
former president wasn't there, but
the next best thing was - his eldest
child Don Jr, now his father's closest
adviser.

"Don, how are you? Lovely to see
you!," thundered Farage as he
offered Don Jr a great bear hug


Don Jr slowly rose and gingerly
returned the embrace with a cool
pat on Farage's back while
simultaneously mouthing to his
table: "Who the f*** is this"?
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 04/01/2025
The destruction of the health system in northern Gaza will be total if Israel forces the closure of the Indonesian Hospital and al-Awda Hospital, say Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI). 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/e60abb
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The New York Times is utterly disgraced over Israel's genocide in Gaza 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/the-new-yo...
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
This man wants you to think that he cares about child abuse in the UK
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy new year. May it bring peace and prosperity to you all. And freedom to all oppressed peoples.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs..” eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/fig...
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Fight back against fascism: how big money is threatening democracy
Fascism thrives when democracy falters. From funding Reform to vigilance, here’s how we protect our future
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@Comradess Nan @socialistnan123.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I had the huge privilege of interviewing Jimmy Carter back in 2011 at his incredibly modest home in Plains, Georgia, with his wife, Rosalynn (who he bickered with in the most loving & curious way throughout the interview). An extraordinary man & legacy. RIP. www.theguardian.com/world/2011/s...
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Jimmy Carter: 'We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a bullet. We never went to war'
He may live a modest life in a one-horse town, but Jimmy Carter, now 86, retains his global vision. In Plains, Georgia, Carole Cadwalladr found the 39th US president full of energy… and determined to ...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I continue to be deeply moved by this statement to the heavens by President Carter.
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ruthelisabeth.bsky.social @ruthelisabeth.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Labour's entire electoral offer was based on the promise of "growth." It was always clear they had no idea how to achieve this, but now they're even admitting it. news.sky.com/story/starme...
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Starmer throws down gauntlet to watchdogs with growth edict
The PM, chancellor and business secretary have written to watchdogs including Ofgem, the FCA and CMA to demand ideas for growth and investment amid sluggish economic growth, Sky News learns.
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Eileen K @eileenk.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Merry Christmas and a very early happy new year to Julian Assange, Stella and family Free at #Christmas and beyond www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/juli...
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Julian Assange marks first Christmas since prison release with picture
Legal action against Mr Assange started in 2010 after hundreds of thousands of leaked documents about the Afghanistan and Iraq wars were published.
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Eric Potts @ericpotts.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Three Palestinian babies have died of hypothermia at the al-Mawasi refugee camp in southern Gaza in recent days, as temperatures plummet and Israel’s blockade on food, water, and essential winter supplies continues. aje.io/0fa70j
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Three babies freeze to death in Gaza refugee camp amid Israeli blockade
Father of three-week-old victim Sila Mahmoud al-Faseeh says family slept on cold sand in tent exposed to bitter winds.
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Eric Potts @ericpotts.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
And the thief’s boat was from Accrington! Lol.
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 25/12/2024
So who just watched Wallace & Gromit ~ Vengeance Most Fowl? Absolutely cracking! No spoilers... but we loved the "No Parkin" sign on the Lancashire side of the border! If you didn't catch it live, watch it when you can on iPlayer. Enjoy!
Movie poster for Wallace&Gromit Vengeance Most Fowl showing the main characters
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 25/12/2024
4.3m children are in poverty this Christmas. It’s disgraceful… Ending the 2 child benefit cap - the most efficient policy to lift children out of poverty – would cost £5.3bn A wealth tax could bring in £24bn/year. Imagine all the good it could do…
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
The NHS winter crisis is not just about overflowing hospital corridors and delayed treatments – it’s about the toll it takes on the very people who hold the system together www.bigissue.com/opinion/nhs-...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
This is insane. Citizens of Greenland are Danish & EU citizens. You cannot just invade nor buy them. It follows Trump saying he would invade Mexico, take the Panama canal and make Canada the 51st state of the US. This is not a president who wants world peace.
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Trump calls US control of Greenland 'absolute necessity'
Although he has publicly mused about purchasing Greenland, Donald Trump (pictured) has not shared a specific plan to do so or revealed how much America would pay for the acquisition.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Donald Trump threatens to take control of Panama Canal. Bullying a small country to submit snd force its population into poverty or else. Getting ready to blame Panama for the price hikes coming from his tariff increases. news.sky.com/story/donald...
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Donald Trump threatens to retake Panama Canal and claims US is being 'ripped off'
The incoming US president said he would not let the crucial waterway - which has been under Panama's control for decades - fall into the "wrong hands".
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Keir Starmer needs to introduce new laws to cap individual donations and bar corporate political funding before it’s too late democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-not-ju...
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It’s not just Musk - we need to stop British billionaires bankrolling our politics
Keir Starmer needs to introduce new laws to cap individual donations and bar corporate political funding before it’s too late, writes former Electoral Commission David Howarth.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
All the evidence points to the Christmas Market attacker being an anti-Muslim far right sympathiser. But for the growing far right, facts and reality don't matter. Their strategy: scream a lie loudly enough so the truth is drowned out. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/german-ter...
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German terrorist attack conspiracy theories fanned by far right
All the evidence points to the suspected attacker in Germany being an anti-Muslim far right sympathiser - yet far-right lies are on the rampage
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Theprogressive ✊️ @treadres.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
It also makes it harder for them to ban books.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Let’s make 2025 the year we finally end one of the most shocking, cruel & monumental injustices of the past half-century - the #IPPscandal Lord Woodley’s Bill has passed its 2nd Reading. Will Keir Starmer give the Bill government time for a full & proper Committee Stage? youtu.be/nkBs2D0Wz_g?...
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🚨 No one should spend 12 yrs in jail for stealing a mobile phone! It’s unthinkable! #IPPscandal
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Recently took a peek at Twitter and the disinformation is getting substantially more dangerous. Someone could get killed. The tactics of constantly repeating outright lies, targeting specific people, repurposing years-old footage and presenting them as new is getting to another level. It’s scary.
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Passively protesting pensioners protecting the environment, or impossibly rich CEOs stealing tax-payers money for bonuses - who goes to jail? #FailedState www.dumptheguardian.com/business/202...
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Revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses
Exclusive: UK’s biggest water company assessed risks before cutting back on cost of environmental work, investigation shows
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
New Imperialism: Donald Trump says that the US owning Greenland “is an absolute necessity". As before, the idea is rejected by Greenland and Denmark. He thinks he can grab any territory that he wants. How many new conflicts will he start? thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Trump says US owning Greenland ‘absolute necessity’
President-elect Trump said on social media Sunday evening that the U.S. owning Greenland “is an absolute necessity,” in a statement announcing Ken Howery as his nominee to serve as ambassador to De…
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GenXDutchess @genxdutchess.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Israel is a mafia state.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Ministers resist calls to block Musk donations to Farage’s Reform UK. Parties know that change will hit their own coffers. So they do nothing to end hijacking of democracy by corporations/rich. Ban all political donations. Let parties rely on membership fees. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Ministers resist calls to block Musk donations to Farage’s Reform UK
Government fears moves to curb any potential cash from the tech titan could backfire and play into Reform UK’s hands
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Eric Potts @ericpotts.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
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Grandmother, 80, 'fell to her knees' after IDF shot her six times during raid, says son
The IDF says it is aware of reports that "during the exchanges of fire with the terrorists, uninvolved civilians present in the area were harmed".
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
“If you’re unclear, terrorism is when the poor kill the rich, and self-defence is when the rich kill the poor”! www.normalisland.co.uk/p/luigi-mang...
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Luigi Mangione could face death penalty for killing member of wrong demographic
It only counts as terrorism when the victims are rich white guys...
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