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heatherehughes.bsky.social @heatherehughes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Not to be trusted 👇👇👇👇👇Badenoch
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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Vividly colourful autumn leaves, berries and wildlife, including a red admiral butterfly and a red squirrel, photographed during my visit to St Andrews Botanic Garden last week. Have a great #Friday everyone!
A collage of four photographs taken at St Andrews Botanic Garden. Left: branches covered in brilliant pink, red, orange and green autumn leaves, with small red berries. Top right: sprays of tiny red berries among green leaves. Bottom centre: a red admiral butterfly with orange, black and white wings spread among pale lilac asters with yellow centres. Bottom right: a red squirrel with tufted ears, reddish-brown fur and a white chest, sitting upright in the grass and looking towards the camera.
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heatherehughes.bsky.social @heatherehughes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
open.substack.com/pub/councile... Stating the obvious has become a revolutionary act - and God knows, we need a revolution in thought, in social cohesion, governance, world view. Antizionist, anti-American, anti-corruption-anti-exploitation -of people and planet.
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Green leader Zack Polanski describes Zionism as racism
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has declared himself an anti-Zionist and described Zionism as racism during a Jewish community hustings.
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heatherehughes.bsky.social @heatherehughes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil - and both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out! www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...
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Andy Burnham: no gas power stations for data centres
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil. Both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out
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heatherehughes.bsky.social @heatherehughes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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The Next Election May be Our Last
Donald Trump is determined to subvert the midterms. All that can save us, if he succeeds, is a national strike.
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heatherehughes.bsky.social @heatherehughes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Eerily life-like marble skull—hidden in plain sight in a German castle—was made by Bernini for the Pope, research reveals
Sculpture is now on show at the Semperbau in Dresden
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Jules or Τζουλς 🕊️🍉 @katsikajules.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Greece's alliance with Israel is becoming a domestic liability "The relationship has developed from discreet military cooperation into one of Israel's most important strategic partnerships in the Mediterranean" www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/gr...
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Greece's alliance with Israel is becoming a domestic liability
Athens sees Israel as an important partner, but the relationship is facing mounting anger over arms sales, high rents and Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza
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heatherehughes.bsky.social @heatherehughes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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heatherehughes.bsky.social @heatherehughes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Child Sex Abuse At The Heart Of The British Establishment
Top UK Politicians Exposed As Pedophiles
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John Rage @johnrage.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Nice to know that on the American Fascism Scale (AFS), we've reached the point where exercising your rights is a criminal offense.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The American Dream has become an American Nightmare. It’s too expensive to buy a home. It’s too expensive to get married and have kids. It’s too expensive to retire comfortably. The top 1% put the American Dream behind a paywall.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
PALANTIR’s CLAIMS of improvement have not been born out by Health Foundations’s research. According to @foxglovelegal.bsky.social , far from confirming improvements waiting lists actually got worse in two of the Trusts that touted improvements.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“The more we started talking, the more we realised that we had a lot in common, that we shared similar values and aspirations for our borough, and actually we wanted to build a borough that is more affordable, that is safer and that is greener.”
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heatherehughes.bsky.social @heatherehughes.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Drone Strikes Are Destroying the Infrastructure of Survival in the Heart of Sudan
In El-Obeid, RSF drone strikes are destroying fuel, electricity, and water that keeps the most fragile patients alive.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Get voting
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
HISTORIC HEAT IN BARCELONA HOTTEST DAY IN HISTORY 40.9 Fabra Hill Observatory 37.7 Airport (coast) All time record also at Reus :40.3 and monthly record ;36.2 at A Coruña few days ago Record heat will go on...and on and on... Unprecedented
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/01/2025
Lucy Letby retrial needed after ‘clear miscarriage of justice’, says David Davis
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Lucy Letby retrial needed after ‘clear miscarriage of justice’, says David Davis
MP tells parliament he believes justice has not been done after hearing experts’ concerns over former nurse’s murder convictions Fundamental flaws in the criminal trial system led to the former nurse Lucy Letby being convicted of murder in a “clear…
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Two senior former police officers have identified serious flaws in the police investigation of the Lucy Letby case. 🧵1/4
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
In the new Private Eye out today, MD highlights serious concerns about the media's role in the Lucy Letby case. How weak evidence, media spin, and police-funded PR helped build the case against Lucy Letby, only in the new Private Eye, out now.
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heatherehughes.bsky.social @heatherehughes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
James Orr: Reform UK's Religious Cambridge Professor’s Politics of Contradictions – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/07/08/j...
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James Orr: Reform UK's Religious Cambridge Professor’s Politics of Contradictions
Nigel Farage’s Head of Policy provides a veneer of respectability to a politics that seeks fewer restraints, fewer mediating institutions, and less liberal democracy
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Poster promoting Count Binface, in the famous Obama style
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Ever since King Henry III rolled out the Communist Manifesto at Westminster in 1226.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Can you imagine if, during Trump's funeral, another country bombed the US? Because that's what Trump did during the funeral of Iran's leader. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZTp...
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Trump CARPET BOMBS IRAN DURING FUNERAL!! | The Kyle Kulinski Show
YouTube video by Secular Talk
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Transparency International @anticorruption.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
They've been asked to do almost the impossible: follow the money, without the tools to do it. New research across 20 countries finds financial intelligence units chasing dirty money without the data, powers or independence they need www.transparency.org/en/news/fina...
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heatherehughes.bsky.social @heatherehughes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This deal is so bad that the editor of the BMJ has suggested that Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting’s message to the US was “we’ll kill our poor people to make your rich companies richer”. PETITION Andy Burnham to stop it👇
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heatherehughes.bsky.social @heatherehughes.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Nigel Farage received gifts and benefits from a convicted fraudster. This can’t go on. Sign the petition to demand a FULL investigation into his undisclosed donations and gifts. We need answers:
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
In early 2022, Harborne switched his donations to the Tories giving first £500k then on May 6, another £500k. It wasn't his only transaction that day. UK defence firm, QinetiQ 3% issued a notice that he now owned 3%. The next day, he spent hours with Johnson at Chequers. 3/
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heatherehughes.bsky.social @heatherehughes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Did Boris Johnson give classified defence info to Harborne?
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Christopher Harborne's £5m gift to Farage is now the subject of a parliamentary inquiry. But our latest story in #HarborneReceipts raises incredibly serious qs including...did Boris Johnson give Harborne classified defence info he then profited from? 2/ www.thenerve.news/p/boris-john...
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Chequers gatherings, Johnson's diary and a new jet fighter... how billionaire Christopher Harborne became a big player in defence
Soon after the Ukraine war broke out, the investor emerged as a highly favoured backer of the Tory government – and then a major shareholder in privatised defence lab QinetiQ at a transformative momen...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
NEW: Before cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne gave £5m to @nigel_farage, he gave £1m to Boris Johnson. For what?? Today @thenerve.news news reveals new evidence that tracks Harborne's investments in defence firm QinetiQ...to key defence announcements from Boris Johnson. 1/
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lhuggs.bsky.social @lhuggs.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The original White House was built by "forced" immigrants. That's even more indicative of the ingratitude.
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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
#USA250 built by immigrants The Transcontinental Railroad The Brooklyn Bridge The Erie Canal The White House Grand Central Terminal The Empire State Building Mount Rushmore Hollywood and the movies
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Our remaining forests in the Amazon and the Congo Basin are the ultimate defense line against climate change. Allowing their destruction isn't just local negligence,it’s global ecocide. We must demand environmental sustainability now.
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The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com · 04/07/2026
Saw this ad for a goat on Facebook. It’s perhaps the greatest advert I’ve ever read. It’s just superb.
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heatherehughes.bsky.social @heatherehughes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Living our country means fighting for the best version of it
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/07/2026
Today marks 250 years since a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed a document declaring our nation's independence — a truth that feels self-evident now but was revolutionary then.
What a privilege us Americans have, to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What an honor us New Yorkers have, to look out over our city's waters from the shores where so many Americans bravely entered their country for the first time.
Today and all days, let us remember that patriotism is not pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent — because loving our country means fighting for the best version of it.
Happy Fourth of July, New York City.
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Have we reached the point, like Trump, that no amount of corruption can harm Farage? Let’s hope not…
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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Masked Patriot Front white nationalists stage July 4 march through DC
By David Lawder and Jana Winter WASHINGTON, July 4 (Reuters) - Hundreds of masked members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front marched through parts of Washington, D.C., on Saturday ahead of
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/07/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Washington was beloved by many for giving away power he could have kept. Trump is reviled by many for snatching power he isn’t entitled to,” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes. “One famously wouldn’t tell a lie. The other famously can’t stop telling lies.”
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Opinion | Founding Father vs. Foundering Toddler
No. 1 puts No. 45/47 to shame.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Times scoop: Farage failed to declare that a criminal and crypto gambler funded his office in the run-up to the election. Murdoch is coming for him.
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Revealed: Nigel Farage secretly funded by convicted criminal
The Reform UK leader did not declare benefits including staff, security and housing by crypto-gambler George Cottrell, our investigation reveals
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heatherehughes.bsky.social @heatherehughes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“Sartre describes two archetypes of bad faith: cowards (lâches) and bastards (salauds – in the sense of morally filthy). The person who says ‘I had no choice’ is Sartre’s coward. Bastards act as if the rules don’t apply to them, as if their power were a fact of nature” (The 2 poles of fascism )
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heatherehughes.bsky.social @heatherehughes.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
FUCK / BALFOUR Let all the clocks stop…I want the phosphorus to clear / enough for us to search for / to look for and find / the little pink slipper …….. – Inua Ellams
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
In case you missed it ... Scotland is a green-power giant that would be welcomed into the EU with open arms! #RejoinEU 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺
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Scotland produces enough renewable energy to meet 100% of demand
Scotland aims to generate enough energy from green sources to cater for its own needs and to contribute to other countries’ electricity supply.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.
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heatherehughes.bsky.social @heatherehughes.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Israel Has Kidnapped Two of Our Most Important Pro-Palestine Activists open.substack.com/pub/chrished...
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Israel Has Kidnapped Two of Our Most Important Pro-Palestine Activists
Nothing illustrates the inversion of the international and moral order more than the genocide in Gaza and the shipment of tens of billions of dollars of weapons to Israel by Western nations, especiall...
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
What do these companies have in common? Amazon Target UPS Microsoft Home Depot Meta Nike Verizon All of them just announced layoffs—after getting huge corporate tax breaks last year. We're still waiting for the responses to the letters @warren.senate.gov sent them demanding answers.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I am so endeared to see the piles of boats 🛥️ arriving to Cuba 🇨🇺 with 💗 and supplies. Hasan Piker went and handed out just straight up wads of cash, Code pink brought literal tons of medicine, Greta brought European aid. They’re not alone, they know that. I want that for Palestine 🇵🇸 too.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The Pentagon has announced they are using Palantir as their core AI system Swiss Government banned Palantir because they said it was a 'catastrophic security threat' as all the information was available to the US/Israeli Government It's time this CIA Asset was banned everywhere
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
American tech oligarchs spend billions fighting socialism, yet their unhinged greed is the single best advertisement for it. By hoarding wealth and breaking society to enrich themselves, they actively fuel the very ideology they claim to despise
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Tony Benn's "Don't arab women weep when their children die, doesn't bombing strengthen their resolve?" Is as relevant now as it was 25 years ago.
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