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Lou Godbold

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Trauma educator, supporter of all trauma survivors, writer, mother, and married to the most patient man on Earth. www.echotraining.org

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Billionaire Brexiteeer and Man United owner says he has lost confidence in the UK. Lives in Monaco to avoid UK taxes, owns several luxury properties. Demands state subsidies, including for building a Man U stadium. Why do billionaires resent people getting decent NHS, social care, public services?
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Lou Godbold @godbold.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Jess Mann knows Harvey. I know Harvey. What 12 strangers in New York don't know is that he is a bully and a rapist. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Judge declares another mistrial in Harvey Weinstein New York rape charge
It marks the third time a New York jury has considered the case against the 74-year-old disgraced film mogul.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/04/2026
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/04/2026
Not only did the sons probably call ICE on her, the day after her husband died they took their dad's cars, leaving her housebound. Then they rerouted mail, causing her to miss a visa appointment & the utilities to be turned off. Tony and Gary Ross are going to hell. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...
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ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
NYTPitchbot: Eric Swalwell can still become Governor, if he runs as a Republican.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
One of the most powerful lessons I’ve ever learned in social change is to clean your house first. If Democrats want to create the necessary momentum to hold the men in the Epstein files accountable, then they have to lead by example with Swalwell.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
And I’m not just talking about our electeds. This post is about the voters too. The only way we see accountability for the Epstein files is if we embrace the idea that sexual violence perpetration makes someone unfit for office. We can’t exempt Democrats.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Just take the Epstein case as one example. Decades of ongoing inaction and refusal to investigate or prosecute perpetrators and enablers of systemic sexual abuse of young women and girls. Survivors and journalists are the ones exposing Epstein and his accomplices while feds refuse to.
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Nithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The survivors who came forward deserve to be believed and supported.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 10/04/2026
🏖️Thames Water's creditors want a holiday from the rules 💸 And they want us to pick up the bill 💚All 5 Green MPs have said NO to Thames Water Thank you @adrianramsay.bsky.social @elliechowns.bsky.social @carladenyer.bsky.social @sianberry.bsky.social and @greenpartyhan.bsky.social !
Text on a green background saying 'Thames Water wants to set its own rules on sewage. All 5 Green MPs ahve signed our open letter to say NO to Thames Water', next to a melting Thames Water logo. Beneath, images of all 5 Green MPs. At the bottom in a yellow box, 'Has your MP said NO to a dangerous new low for the water sector?
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Trump's three angry Truth Social posts in the last hour suggest he may not be too happy about Melania's statement on Epstein. Melania doesn't bother defending her husband. And isn't her reminder that Epstein didn't act alone an encouragement to look again into what Donald was up to with his pal?
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
One of the most brazenly corrupt events in history will take place tomorrow when Jared Kushner represents the U.S. in critical negotiations with Iran to end the war while he accepts millions in fees (and billions in investments) from the Saudi gov’t which has been lobbying Trump to continue the war
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 06/04/2026
"To have your child abused while in the government's care, to not understand what has happened or how to protect them, to not even be told about the abuse, it is unimaginable," said an attorney representing the girl. to.pbs.org/3PV4hr9
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3-year-old suffered sexual abuse during months in immigration custody, family alleges
An immigrant family is grappling with the ordeal suffered by a 3-year-old girl who endured alleged sexual abuse while her father fought for five months for her release from federal custody.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 20/03/2026
The Green MPs and Peers have written to Keir Starmer to urge for an end to the UK's involvement in the US and Israel's illegal war. Under international law, the UK is obliged to have no involvement in illegal military action, including the use of UK bases and UK-made weapons.
Image of letter sent to Prime Minister Keir Starmer by the Green MPs and Peers.

Letter begins:

Dear Prime Minister, 

We are writing as Green Party MPs and Peers to express our alarm at the UK’s involvement in the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran. 

Already well over 1,000 civilians have been killed, including a reported 168 children killed by a missile now widely believed to be from the United States (Guardian, 2026). UNICEF has reported that the Israeli military's assault on Lebanon is killing or injuring the equivalent of one classroom of children every day (Reuters, 2026).

In addition to the grave humanitarian impacts, the longer this illegal, unnecessary war continues, the greater the global economic fallout – to which the UK is particularly exposed because it remains heavily reliant on fossil fuels. 

Read the rest of the letter on the Green Party website at: https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/03/20/green-mps-and-peers-demand-end-to-uk-involvement-in-illegal-us-israel-war/Second page of letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer from the Green MPs and Peers.

Read the full letter on the Green Party website at: https://greenparty.org.uk/2026/03/20/green-mps-and-peers-demand-end-to-uk-involvement-in-illegal-us-israel-war/
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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 19/03/2026
This is Trump’s dirty scheme to raise your power bill.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump: "Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."
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Lou Godbold @godbold.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This is the impact of generational trauma… and how the cycle continues.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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John “Danielle” Phipps @magitekdad.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I just want to point out that’s Doug Wilson speaking at the Pentagon. Doug Wilson wants: the 19th amendment repealed, non-Christian religions outlawed, the death penalty for homosexuality, women barred from working or holding office, blasphemy laws, and one party theocratic rule.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
🔴Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate Nigel Farage’s party refused to attend the debate, called after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics bylinetimes.com/2026/02/10/r...
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Reform MPs Accused of Pandering to Putin After Skipping Russian Interference Debate
Nigel Farage's party refused to attend the debate, called after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a public inquiry into Russian interference in British politics
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Here is my conclusion after sitting through Maxwell's deposition with her refusing to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so for clemency. She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.
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Lou Godbold @godbold.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Shameful.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 08/02/2026
The administration remembered to redact a picture clearly of Donald Trump at a speaking event—but not 40 nude photographs (face included) of at least seven different young women, some of whom could have been minors. trib.al/nWpno6n
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/02/2026
Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good. Also testifying were Marimar Martinez, who was shot five times in Chicago and Martin Daniel Rascon, who was shot at in California driving with his family. trib.al/yjCZAoV
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/02/2026
In 2017, at the height of the #MeToo movement, six actresses told the Los Angeles Times that a prominent Hollywood director was sexually violent toward them. They were talking about Brett Ratner, who just celebrated the premiere of Melania, his eponymous documentary about the First Lady.
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What women said "Melania" director Brett Ratner did to them
The First Lady’s documentary premiere marks the return of a director accused of sexual violence by six actresses in 2017.
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
“Three women close to Epstein – Masha Bucher, her sister Victoria Drokova, and model-turned-entrepreneur Lana Pozhidaeva – built venture-capital empires in Silicon Valley while maintaining hidden financial ties to Russian oligarchs, documents obtained by Byline Times show.” 10/20/25 … 1/
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Inside Epstein's Russian Tech Web: How Oligarch Cash and Three Women Connected Moscow to Silicon Valley
Leaked records obtained by Byline Times reveal how Kremlin-linked investors used Epstein's network to channel oligarch money into Silicon Valley
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
ICE kidnapped an elderly Hmong man in St. Paul, Minnesota. The temperature was sub-zero, and he was taken only wearing shorts and Crocs, and no shirt. (1/18/26)
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Just a reminder that Trump is selling Venezuelan oil and depositing the proceeds into a bank account in Qatar that is NOT under any control by the US government or Congress. He's just stealing it. It really is that simple.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The people on the Epstein list need to face the music. Share to keep the spotlight on these criminals.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Madison Sheahan is a 28-year-old former political aide to Kristi Noem with little law enforcement experience before being named ICE Deputy Director. Prior reporting said she was mocked internally as "fish cop" because she somehow got made director of Louisiana Fish and Wildlife in 2024.

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BREAKING: Per multiple federal law enforcement sources, the #2 in ICE, Madison Sheahan, is resigning from the agency and plans to run for Congress in Ohio.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Please read this. The UK political & media establishment is asleep at the wheel. We have made ourselves wholly dependent on a Trump ally for our national security at the exact moment Trump is threatening to invade a NATO ally open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
‘If our national security rests on US technology, we have no national security’
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/01/2026
If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
No paltry trade deal is worth abject British humiliation and subjugation to Trump, and abandonment of all the principles successive British governments have claimed to stand for. Our values are hollow and meaningless if we can’t stand up for them when it counts.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/01/2026
The New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion. This is the aftermath in one area
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Lou Godbold @godbold.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Not much we can do to push back, but this is an easy "no" on chlorinated chicken.
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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 31/12/2025
The richest man on earth, the richest man in human history, personally obliterated the US agency that had been preventing these horrors. He sneered that he had to miss some good parties in order to spend his weekend erasing the agency these people had depended on. Inhuman.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, is described as an "investor" and "developer" in this project into which more than $91 bn in US taxpayer funds are to be channeled. This is a straightforward violation of US anti-corruption legislation, as the NYC bar has noted in a report.
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Trump reps draft $169 billion plan to develop Gaza into a 'smart city' with luxury resorts
Trump administration reps have just revealed a grandiose $112 billion (AUD $169 billion) plan to rebuild war-torn Gaza into a futuristic international destination dubbed “Project Sunrise.”
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Paweł Tokarski @tokarski.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Facebook, Instagram, X are simply banned in Russia. No US outrage about free speech there—yet the EU is the target. That contrast says a lot.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Weiss is bad at this. It’s too big a stage. She’s the Kash Patel of journalism
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Sen. Ron Wyden on the Trump DOJ not producing all of the Epstein files, as required by law: "Anything short of a full release today is a violation of the law and a continuation of this administration’s coverup on behalf of a bunch of pedophiles and sex traffickers."
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
This is extraordinary, heartbreaking, and a red alert warning sign for our democracy. These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6. They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
MPs warn that UK agreements with Donald Trump are ‘built on sand’. UK bullied to pay billions more for NHS drugs produced by US companies, importing US beef, accept steel tariffs and more, without any reciprocity. Can't trust Trump. US wants dominance, not partnership. Rejoin the EU.
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MPs warn that UK agreements with Donald Trump are ‘built on sand’
Exclusive: Health select committee chair says UK government’s ‘naive belief’ Trump is a good faith actor ‘could cost UK taxpayer billions’
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