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Fire Brigades Union @fbunational.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

🚨Reform UK have declared war on public sector pensions, including firefighters and council staff. Multi-millionaire Richard Tice wants to slash pensions, cut pay to cover existing schemes and put new recruits on worse terms. Tice plans pension poverty for hard working public sector workers.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

A dog shelter in Kyiv during last night's Russian attack.

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Hollie H @hollieh.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Surely Israel can’t win this… #Eurovision

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Hollie H @hollieh.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

If you are looking for an evening of joyful, high energy, high camp pop with some banging tunes then I don’t think you could do better than Scissor Sisters - had a blast in Nottingham last night.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

NEW: A tiny Chinese company with 8 staff & zero revenue - BUT CONNECTED TO TIK TOK - has announced it is spending $300,000,000 on Trump’s cryptocurrency [Source: NYT] The meme coin funnels money direct to the Trump family. Historic corruption. All out in the open.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Good summary

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Hollie H @hollieh.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Mildly encouraged to see the good people of Hull are giving Dicky Tice short shrift. Unfortunate that his stream of bullshit is so incessant that more of it wasn’t called out explicitly.

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Venezuela says a mother was deported from the U.S. without her 2-year-old, accusing DHS of kidnapping. Venezuela claims the U.S. violated international law & vows legal and diplomatic action to reunite the child (now in a foster home) with her mother. www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/a...

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Venezuela accuses US of ‘kidnapping’ toddler who was separated from deported parents | CNN

Venezuela is demanding that a 2-year-old girl be returned to her family after the United States deported her parents and kept the toddler in government custody.

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UK Politics News // Papernaut @ukpolitics.papernaut.co · 05/05/2025

DAILY MIRROR: £50 million investment heralds a new era of support for veterans, uniting health, housing, and welfare services under the innovative VALOUR scheme designed to meet their diverse needs. - by Sophie Huskisson

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Thousands of veterans to get better access to housing, health and welfare help

Thousands of veterans will get better access to housing, employment, health and welfare support after a £50million funding boost to create a new scheme called VALOUR

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 02/05/2025

If you take a single lesson out of Star Wars let it be that successful opposition to fascism only happened after all the different factions stopped fighting with each other and joined forces. You can criticize your allies, of course, but you can’t be more focused on defeating them than the enemy.

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Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Today marks two months of total siege since it was reimposed by the Government of Israel. All that has entered Gaza is bombs & bullets. Instead of much needed food, clothing or tents to help children survive, airstrikes continue. 1/3

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Given the local election results in the UK, a short #thread - based on much of our own research - on the vicious cycle of radical right support that we have seen in many countries. 1) When radical right parties (such as Reform) are electorally successful established parties move right on immigration

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Hollie H @hollieh.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Gutted that the Reform candidate has been elected mayor in Hull & East Yorks. What an embarrassing stain on our region.

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I was busy, lazy, writing, watching. And then I opened the news: The aftermath of the missile strike on Kyiv on April 24 has been completed. The attack resulted in the tragic loss of 12 lives, while 54 apartment buildings were damaged, affecting a total of 723 apartments.

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Hollie H @hollieh.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I know it’s childish, but I couldn’t resist this tomato once I’d seen it:

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”

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Hollie H @hollieh.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The court was asked to rule on what the govt meant by “sex” in the Equalities Act, and concluded it meant biological sex. Trans people are still protected under the act. So are single-sex spaces where it matters. That’s it. Calm down everyone.

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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Having now read the judgment, I offer the following comment. The single issue before the court were the definitions of man and woman under the Equality Act: did they refer to biological sex, or did they relate to gender identity. This is the only issue the court ruled on. /1

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

We cannot abandon this young man- a gay makeup artist sent to El Salvador's notorious prison, by a disgraced former Milwaukee cop with major credibility issues He is Andry Hernández Romero. God knows what will happen to him. Call your representatives. Call the WH. We care

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

NEW: There's no reason to act like Trump is pursuing a trade policy or an industrial revitalization strategy. These are just sanctions, imposed to intimidate countries and companies into submission like they're universities or law firms. They're what a mob boss would do. prospect.org/economy/2025...

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They’re Not Tariffs, They’re Sanctions

Stop trying to place coherence on a policy that’s really just a mob boss breaking legs and asking for protection money.

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Good morning, friends! Have you heard the good news? You have the golden opportunity to fight for our democracy & be a hero by joining a phone bank for 3 races that will effect the freedom of our nation. The 1st is Crawfordforwi.com Volunteer at the link above. 🧵 guides.vote/guide/2025-w...

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2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court Voter Guide - Crawford v. Schimel - Guides.vote | Voters Guides

To download a PDF of this guide, click here. To view this guide in Spanish, click here.

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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

www.jsonline.com/story/news/p... SHOUT OUT TO ALL OF YOU GREAT PEOPLE IN MILWAUKEE AND MADISON WISCONSIN YOU are the stronghold to Get Out the Vote for JUDGE SUSAN CRAWFORD Your freedoms and justice are on the ballot She will protect YOU Vote Susan Crawfor

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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Great letters in The Times on the ugly menace of Trump and what should be done about him: See him for what he is, stand up to him, say no to him, never trust him, join forces meaningfully with Europe, ask to join the EU Single Market and rethink that not so ‘special relationship’.

Sir, The extreme transactional view the Americans are taking in talks on a ceasefire in Ukraine ("Trump makes $100bn grab for Ukraine's oil and mineral wealth", Mar 28) is utterly sickening. If ever there was a reason for a united European response to one aspect of the talks between the White House and President Putin this is it; to say with deafening clarity that conditions of this kind must not be a precursor to peace in a devastated country fighting for its life. The original rare earth minerals proposal was one thing but this additional set of terms, demanded not by Putin but by President Zelensky's supposed ally, the US, is shameful and abhorrent. The nations of Europe must say so loud and clear.
Alastair Conan
Coulsdon, Surrey

Sir, Hugo Rifkind is right to point out the hypocrisy in the American complaint that Europe is failing to pull its weight ("A quick history lesson from the freeloaders", Mar 27).
The present US administration demands self-reliant allies while still expecting to call the shots. It is a familiar imperial instinct - authority without burden, influence without responsibility. There is a simple reason why Europe's military strength has atrophied over decades: because America asked it to. The US may now prefer a world of transactional alliances, but it should not assume Europe will agree to the transaction. What is unfolding is not just a diplomatic rift but the unravelling of a postwar compact. Europe will rearm. But in doing so it will begin to act more independently. If that independence comes with fewer automatic alignments, Washington should not be surprised.
Craig Eddyshaw
Nottingham

Sir, As the US becomes increasingly unpredictable and untrustworthy, the UK government would do well to have a contingency plan ready should any "special relationship" and preferential terms with the US and its president prove hollow. The obvious move would be to join the European Economic Area, along with Norway. The timely improvement this would bring about in the country's economic prospects, by taking down barriers to trade with our largest partner, would help to shore up the fragility of the chancellor's plans for the coming years.
It would counter many of the downsides of Brexit, while still adhering to the result of the referendum itself. It would add even more substance to a "coalition of the willing", led by France and the UK to defend the future of Ukraine. Indeed, there could scarcely be a better time to negotiate such a deal.
Lord Vallance of Tummel
Former chairman, House of Lords select committee on economic affairs; Strathtay,
Pitlochry

Sir, President Trump's behaviour regarding Ukraine reminds me of Marcus Crassus, the general said to be the richest man in Rome and founder of its first fire brigade. His method was simple: he would arrive at the scene of a fire with his slaves and offer to buy the burning property at a derisory price. If the distressed owner refused, he would let it burn down.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

⚠️Yorkshire’s rivers and waterways polluted for over 430,000 hours in 2024 Yorkshire Water revealed to be in the top five offending companies for sewage discharges. 💩

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Yorkshire’s rivers and waterways polluted for over 430,000 hours in 2024

Yorkshire Water revealed to be in the top five offending companies for sewage discharges

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Pls help us break the 15K threshold by signing and sharing this petition to remove Trump from power! chng.it/QPnpVLpnzy

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Have you seen this petition yet?

Call for Global Referendum to Remove Donald Trump from Power

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Spotted in a Brooklyn doorway by a friend this afternoon. Epic.

Super callous fragile racist sexist nazi potus

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Hollie H @hollieh.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Excellent thread, which clearly demonstrates that BlueSky is mostly populated by Gen X-ers.

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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The center of Dnipro, Ukraine 🇺🇦 Russia is escalating more than ever before, launching +50 Shaheds at one city each day to overwhelm air defenses and strike many civilian and infrastructure targets

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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Dnipro now. Does it look like ceasfire?

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Paul Mainwood @paulmainwood.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Rough Fermi-type estimation suggests this staggering, jaw-dropping impact number could be about right. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

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Hollie H @hollieh.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

There’s never a polar bear around when you need one…

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/03/2025

Vice President JD Vance announced on Tuesday that he was headed to Greenland later this week, taking over a controversial visit that officials on the island have made very clear they don’t want at all.

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JD Vance to Lead Controversial Visit to Greenland

Amid President Trump’s push to take over the world’s largest island, the administration says it is sending the vice president to visit a military base there.

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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

How much worse can the Signal chat fiasco get? Chat member, Steve Witkoff, was not only in Moscow, he may have been inside the Kremlin meeting with Putin while war plans and fist emojis were flying around on his phone. Nothing to see here… except everything. +… www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-e...

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As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia

As top Trump cabinet members sent texts in a Signal group chat, CBS News analysis shows one of them, Steve Witkoff, was in Russia.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Top government officials sharing highly classified war plans in a group chat with unauthorized participants is possibly the biggest intelligence breach in U.S. history. Democrats need to treat it more like that and less like a funny thing that happened.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

Tweet from Yuval Abraham:
"A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Are you a US scientist thinking of quitting the States for Europe? Would you be willing to talk about it — anonymity is possible? Send me a DM. (Please reskeet if you have US contacts!)

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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Paths of Russia's Shahed drones amid last night's seven hour barrage on Ukraine. Yes, the one Russia said didn't happen.

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Meet Evan Anzoo, a five-year-old boy in South Sudan who died when Elon Musk shut down USAID and the boy lost access to his HIV meds. Musk says no one has died because of the aid shutdown, but that's because he didn't look. RIP, Evan, you deserved better. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The White House is hosting Conor McGregor today, who the Irish High Court ruled four months ago assaulted and raped a woman. Press Secretary Karoline Levitt says the Trump Administration "couldn't think of a better guest to have on St Patrick's Day." He will be meeting Trump later.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

KLAXON 🚨: Indie SAGE has come out of retirement to release a new short report standing up for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the sciences! DEI is not just the right thing to do, it *improves* the quality of the science. Please read and share. independentsage.org/wp-content/u... 1/2

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