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@helendrama.bsky.social
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AuDHD. For the many✊ Books, art, theatre, photography, nature, sea. Neurodivergent-affirming. She/her. Nothing About Us Without Us. #Disability #RejoinEU #EndFossilFuels #ClimateJustice #CleanAir #CovidIsAirborne #NoFreeports #Tired

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform.... Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally. It's time for Proportional Representation. www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...
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'Just getting started': Zack Polanski reacts as Greens SECOND in new poll
ZACK Polanski has welcomed a new poll putting his party in second place at Westminster.
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Clinically Vulnerable Families 💙💜💗 @cvcev.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Children must NEVER choose between EDUCATION and LIVES. Both are human rights. #EducationANDlives
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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The COVID-19 pandemic did take peoples rights away… and it is still taking people’s rights away. Even if you don’t realise it. Your right to safer air and better health has been taken away.
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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
A national agency is called for in New Zealand to assess and improve indoor air quality. We need this awareness and action throughout the world. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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Poor indoor air quality costing the country a billion dollars each year, researchers say
A public health expert says polluted air is costing the country about a billion dollars each year in healthcare costs and decreased productivity.
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 26/09/2025
"There is no 'autism epidemic.' Autism is a developmental difference that has existed as long as human beings have." -ASAN executive director @colinkillick.bsky.social. Spread the word: Tylenol does not cause autism. But reproduction sure does! www.usatoday.com/story/opinio... #neurodiversity
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I'm autistic. Trump and RFK Jr. must stop treating us like a plague to be eradicated.
Evidence for Trump's Tylenol claim is weak. Yet no prior administration has cared less about what either autism experts or autistic people have to say
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selfcaregamer @selfcaregamer.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
disabled people deserve to live fulfilling lives no matter their productivity to society
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Collaborative artwork, 2019 by the senior Indigenous women artists of Amata in the APY Lands of Australia, who founded a women's art centre #WomensArt
Painting with significant symbols, including circular motifs and lines in multicolours
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The Latest Kate @thelatestkate.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
A drawing of a sparkling kitsune sleeping in a meadow. The caption reads, "it's not laziness; you're overwhelmed and recharging"
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Frida Kahlo, Xochimilco, Mexico, 1937 #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a woman, upper half, leaning over a dock to place her hand  in the ripples of a river
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Call me picky if you will, but I would suggest someone who has been accused of arguing in favour of transphobic ideology, among many other things, as well as being opposed by the women and equalities committee and the joint committee on human rights is possibly not the right person to run the EHCR.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Motherfucking wind farms…
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Sorry to burden you with another jaw-dropping scandal. But what the government intends to do to chemicals regulation in the UK is chilling. Its consultation was slipped out so quietly that most of us missed it. When I read it, I saw why. This week's column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Want to import toxic chemicals into Britain with scant scrutiny? Labour says: go right ahead | George Monbiot
Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Tory fantasy of a post-Brexit bonfire of regulations is coming true. Our bodies and ecosystems will pay the price, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Couldn't be clearer. Climate action is essential to protect human rights. This means the UK has a legal duty to speed up the transition to a cleaner, greener economy and block any new licences for the extraction of fossil fuels. This ICJ ruling should be the moment we draw a line.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🚨BREAKING🚨 ICJ ruling that a healthy environment is a human right could be a real turning point in setting out governments’ legal responsibility to tackle #climate crisis 👇
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Healthy environment a human right, UN court says in landmark climate ruling
Court’s decision expected to be used in future litigation and to support political negotiations by vulnerable states
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Feargal Sharkey explains that this £100bn figure everyone keeps quoting for the cost to renationalise the water industry comes from a report by the private companies! Feargal then outlines why nationalising the water industry wouldn't cost us a penny #GMB
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/07/2025
"Solar power was the European Union's largest source of electricity for the first time in June, overtaking nuclear and wind while coal's contribution fell to an all-time low." ☀️💪
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Solar tops EU power mix for first time in June, Ember says
Solar power was the European Union's largest source of electricity for the first time in June, overtaking nuclear and wind while coal's contribution fell to an all-time low, data from energy think tank Ember showed on Thursday.
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Kate Osborne MP @kateosbornemp.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Almost 5 million disabled people already are living in poverty, 75% of people referred to foodbanks are disabled - and yet this Bill will push 50,000 more people into poverty.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
This bill penalises those most at risk, in order to avoid taxing those who are not. Even the "concessions" given to get it through just postpone the pain and hardship it will deliver on so many other disabled people. It is a cruel and inhumane bill, and economically illiterate to boot.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Richard Burgon, "What we're voting on tonight is whether or not to take £2 billion people away from 750,000 people who are on low incomes who are sick and disabled" "That's not what I got into politics to do" "A wealth tax of 2% on wealth over £10 million would raise £24 billion"
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Adrian Ramsay @adrianramsay.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Hi Keir, just dropped off some reading material for you. Despite what you keep claiming our manifesto is fully costed and it shows how we can invest in schools & hospitals, climate action and support for the most vulnerable.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
When… 1 in 5 people on UC and disability benefits used a food bank last month. The Disability price tag is £1,095 a month. The basic rates of UC don’t cover essentials. A #WealthTax could address our deeply unequal society. We must do better than this Bill. #TakingThePIP
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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I’m ashamed to live in a country that just passed a welfare bill condemning hundreds of thousands to deeper poverty and despair. I’m ashamed of a Labour government that refused to work WITH disabled people to build a benefits system based on dignity, not punishment. #BinUCBill
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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
🇺🇳 BREAKING: The UN is demanding answers from the UK over welfare reforms. The Universal Credit Bill risks breaching disabled people’s rights—again. No impact assessment. Cuts called “regression.” Demonising disabled claimants. Deadline for U.K to respond: 11 Aug #BinUCBill LET YOUR MPs KNOW PLS
A letter on United Nations Human Rights letterhead, dated July 7, 2025. The UN Committee requests information from the UK government about the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill and the Pathways to Work Green Paper. It asks for details on impact assessments, effects on disabled people, tightening eligibility for benefits, the risk of poverty, consultation with disabled people, limited scrutiny of the Bill, and public statements portraying disabled people as frauds or burdens. The deadline for the UK to respond is August 11, 2025Continuation of the UN letter. It recalls previous reports and recommendations, including the 2017 Concluding Observations and the 2016 Inquiry, which found grave and systematic violations of disabled people’s rights. The Committee reminds the UK to carry out cumulative impact assessments, consult disabled people, and ensure reforms uphold human rights. It highlights that little progress has been made to improve the situationThe final page of the UN letter. It states that credible information suggests the proposed Bill will deepen regression of disabled people’s rights. The UN Committee requests a response by August 11, 2025, ahead of the Committee’s 33rd session in Geneva. Contact information for the Secretary of the Committee is provided
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
And the Universal Credit bill has passed. Some of the sickest people in the country will suffer needlessly more now. There is no justification, no excuse. Just ugly, cruel choices by ministers too cowardly to tax the wealthy rather than cut the poor. A shameful day for Starmer’s Labour.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Not every life can be spared from climate change, unfortunately, but many more could be saved if elected officials stopped pretending that climate change isn’t happening or that they’re powerless to do something about it.
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The Texas Floods Were Made Worse by Climate Denialism
Elected officials must be held accountable, now and in the future, for the lives lost in disasters brought on by increasingly extreme weather.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
There are some fairly serious issues with EHCPs, but most relate to who doesn't get the support they need. This government's plans for reforming then would only see more young people denied the support they need, all to make short term savings at long term cost. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Government faces battle over Send overhaul as campaigners voice fears
MPs and parents worry shake-up may abolish vital education, health and care plans that SEN children rely on
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
There are ways to mitigate and adapt to extreme events, like stopping the burning of fossil fuels and building early warning systems (or not firing people who make forecasts and coordinate with local officials), but prayer is not one of them.
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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Behaviour change is often overrated as the ultimate solution to improve health because without social, economic & structural environments that facilitate rather than obstruct healthy choices, behaviour change remains a privilege reserved for those who have the resources to remove the obstructions.
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franbaum.bsky.social @franbaum.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Neighborhood health Centre's sound good but "The plan lacks anything of substance about local government services, restoring public health funding, or tackling the wider socioeconomic determinants of ill health and inequalities" Shame!!
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
One year of Starmer’s changed Labour Party in office, what a legacy.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Bear in mind that if you held up a sign saying "I support genocide", you would not be arrested under the Terrorism Act.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". This is real police state behaviour.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Doctors in Gaza are warning hundreds of babies are at risk of death. Israel is blocking deliveries of baby formula - formula that’s needed because their mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed them. I’m not sure I’ve ever read a worst sentence. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula
Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula
Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Ssssh let’s not talk about the real reason our NHS is in such a mess. www.bmj.com/content/382/...
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Long covid: nearly half of doctors affected can no longer work full time, finds survey
Almost one in five doctors (18%) with long covid who responded to a survey said that they were no longer able to work, and fewer than one in three (31%) were working full time, compared with more than...
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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
So here’s a short thread 🧵 on what you need to know about the government’s new #NHSPlan. Mainstream consensus: it’s all the same old promises as every health secretary since the Black report, but very vague on the details how it will be delivered. (1/9)
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Today, I’m supporting the nationwide day of action calling on the richest to #PAYUP. Billionaire wealth has increased 1000% since the 1990s. There is no excuse to plunge thousands into poverty through cuts and underfunding. The money is there - time to tax it fairly.
Bar graph with bars increasing, with text saying 'Billionaire wealth has increased 1000% since the 1990s. It's time for the richest to pay up.'
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Real change is coming.
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Just sickeningly inhumane. People are forced to take dangerous small boat journeys to flee danger because for the vast majority there is no other way to claim asylum in the UK. The ONLY way to prevent horrific channel deaths is to open safe routes and Yvette Cooper knows this
Screengrab of a news article headlined 'Migrants arriving on small boats where a child has died should face prosecution, says Cooper'
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party. Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country. Join us. The time is now. Sign up here to stay updated: actionnetwork.org/forms/join-t...
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Queen Mary Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry @qmulfmd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Her book explores how not listening to patients has been ingrained in medicine from its inception, and discusses the ways this approach widens entrenched health inequalities. Find out more at breadandrosesprize.wordpress.com
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The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing
Celebrating Radical Publishing in the 21st Century
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Queen Mary Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry @qmulfmd.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
We're delighted that the new book, 'Unheard: The Medical Practice of Silencing', by @drrageshri.bsky.social has been long-listed for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing!
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Healthwatch England @healthwatchengland.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The choices that most people want were choice of time of the appointment, choice of booking method, and choice of face to face or remote. However, far fewer people actually received these choices. bit.ly/4lySQzZ
68% of people told us they want to be able to choose the time of their GP appointment.
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Patients Association @patients-association.org.uk · 30/04/2025
In her latest blog, @rachel-p.bsky.social stresses that NHS reforms must prioritise patient power and agency. True change means tackling inequality, listening to patients, and ensuring they have real influence over their care and treatment. buff.ly/tPSOrhE
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Patients Association @patients-association.org.uk · 09/05/2025
❗ "We are deeply alarmed by reports that NHS trusts across England are being forced to cut staff, close services, and ration care to meet severe savings targets," @rachel-p.bsky.social on the latest @nhsproviders.bsky.social survey. Read the full statement: buff.ly/nXXEUFi
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Patients Association @patients-association.org.uk · 30/06/2025
"We are deeply saddened by the Government’s decision to close @healthwatchengland.bsky.social and its network of local Healthwatch organisations" @rachel-p.bsky.social Read the full statement: buff.ly/eeXUWMA
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Me for Metro: The crucial point is deterrence & border violence has never & will never work We need safe routes & the right to work legally for asylum seekers - IT IS SCREAMINGLY OBVIOUS But pressure might be working, we must press harder than ever for a humane policy💪 metro.co.uk/2025/07/02/a...
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Almost 20,000 asylum seekers in 6 months proves a crucial point
Despite the latest big scary number, this is not a new phenomenon.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/07/2025
Hot take: Young men “playing video games all day” deserve access to health insurance too. In a humane society everyone should have access to health care regardless of who they are or what they do. We should be expanding health insurance coverage, not kicking people off it.
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