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I work in a library, love all things Tolkien, Dr Who, Hugh Jackman, Marvel. I'm a bit mad but lovely with it 🤣 Oh! These are my cats Angus and Iona. 🤗

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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Farage owns four homes: Family home (£1M, retained after his divorce) Two beachside homes in Kent (via his comp. Thorn In The Side Ltd) One investment property in Surrey (rented out) Radio silence from media about this but uproar about Angela Rayner’s two homes & ministerial home #NigelFarage
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 28/08/2025
"Combined, the SPS and Emissions Trading Systems linking measures alone are set to add nearly £9 billion to the UK economy by 2040, in a huge boost for growth." This is the government's own assessment of its enhanced EU deal. Brexit costs us £40 billion a year. Madness. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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PM secures new agreement with EU to benefit British people
UK secures new agreement with the European Union to support British businesses, back British jobs, and put more money in people’s pockets.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 28/08/2025
Homelessness is surging in Southend & last year Basildon & Chelmsford reported surge in child homelessness (see🧵) It's not just Essex. North Norfolk District Council are wanting your thoughts to shape out strategic approach to Homelessness & Rough Sleeping 👇 www.surveymonkey.com/r/RoughSleep...
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Homelessness is surging in Southend
Domestic violence, evictions and family breakdowns account for the surge in homelessness in Southend, estimated to cost £100m to remedy
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 28/08/2025
"This government has already ignored the independent Committee on Climate Change (CCC) advice to the previous Government, which stated, in December 2020, that there should be no further increase in airport capacity unless it was matched by restrictions at other airports." by Jonathan Fox #Rosebank
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The case against approving the Rosebank oil and gas field
Rosebank's future must be weighed against the worsening climate crisis that is devastating our planet
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 28/08/2025
14 years for red paint if you're an activist. Zero arrests for red paint when it's used to intimidate immigrants in our communities. Prof Richard Murphy re-examines the idea of two-tier policing. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @richardjmurphy.bsky.social
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What makes this criminal damage acceptable?
Sometimes red paint can get you 14 years. Sometimes it is tolerated. When did intimidating your neighbours become acceptable?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
The UK electricity is already the most expensive in the world. Price set to rise again in October as Ofgem's pricing formula lets companies rip people off. Who protects the people?
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond.  Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
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Squeaky Squirrel🐿️🌏🇪🇺🇬🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦🐈 @squeakysquirrel.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
A picture of many guns with the words How Many children is too many?
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 28/08/2025
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Washington, DC under military occupation in last August 2025, with banners proclaiming the absolute power of the primus inter pares
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ionaj.bsky.social @ionaj.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Part of the Trump wannabes spreading more hate....what don't they want people to see? No to Reform #NoToHate
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
If someone tells you there's nothing we can do about gun violence beyond thoughts and prayers, remind them: —Gun laws in other countries have prevented mass shootings —More guns don't make us safer —A majority of Americans want gun reform We don't have to live like this.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
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Opinion | Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force
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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
"Nearly three-quarters of Brits think the UK economy has got worse since Brexit, according to a new poll." Nearly three-quarters of parliament remain silent on the subject. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/most-b...
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Most Brits Now Believe The UK Economy Has Got Worse Since We Left The EU
It comes as Labour look to strengthen trade ties with our European neighbours.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This is just next level insanity. In January this year, Reform picked Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, to run as their Croydon Mayoral candidate. There was just one rather significant problem. She had sadly died in July 2024. insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...
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Farage party picked a dead woman to run for Croydon Mayor
EXCLUSIVE: Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, sadly died in July 2024. But that didn’t stop Reform UK six months later picking her as their Croydon mayoral candidate. By our Political Edit…
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 28/08/2025
The story of small boats isn’t just about refugees, writes Peter Thurlow. It’s about who shapes public perception – and who stays silent.
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Here’s how we change the narrative on the small boats
Populists thrive on fear and repetition. To counter the small boats saga, here's how we must reshape the story
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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 28/08/2025
Do you know what benefits you are entitled to? A staggering £9.6bn of universal credit went unclaimed in 2024.
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Universal credit worth staggering £9.6bn went unclaimed in 2024
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/08/2025
The EU surrendered to Trump over trade tariffs – now it’s in danger of capitulating again | Thierry Breton
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The EU surrendered to Trump over trade tariffs – now it’s in danger of capitulating again | Thierry Breton
A fresh US assault is aimed at Europe’s right to regulate tech. It’s an outrage – and we must resist it, says former European commissioner Thierry Breton
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
After Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent MMR paper: Measles cases: up 1200% Mumps cases: up 70,000% Multiple fatalities People with no science knowledge were taken in by Wakefield. People with no science knowledge are taken in by anti-vaxxers. Listen to scientists www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Vaccine warning for England as one in five children start school unprotected
Experts say country needs ‘wake up call’ with levels far below those needed for herd immunity
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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
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RFK JR: I'm looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation-you can tell from their faces, movements, and lack of social connection

TEXAS "MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN" LEGISLATION
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Health & Human Services Secretary
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 28/08/2025
Populists thrive on fear, repetition, and headlines. To counter the small boats story, writes Peter Thurlow, we must take control of the narrative.
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Here’s how we change the narrative on the small boats
Populists thrive on fear and repetition. To counter the small boats saga, here's how we must reshape the story
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
He also said, “I can do anything I want, I’m the president of the United States.” The man wants to be king, but we became our own country to never again be ruled by one.
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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Enough with the baby steps. Labour need to move "further & faster".
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 28/08/2025
Labour's Brexit stance actively harms our ability to rejoin the EU because it wastes years we could have spent beginning the rejoining process and makes it MUCH less likely Labour can win a second term. That pushes rejoining at least another decade into the future and maybe a lot further than that.
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
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Squeaky Squirrel🐿️🌏🇪🇺🇬🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦🐈 @squeakysquirrel.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Trump said. “I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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Trump says he can do 'anything' he wants
President Donald Trump went full dictator on Tuesday when asked about Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's rejection of federal troops set to be deployed to Chicago. "So I would have much more respect for ...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 28/08/2025
It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.
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Hazel Sharrad @hazelsharrad.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Nigel Farage’s Reform wants to bring back fracking in England. We need to lock the current ban in law. Join me and tell the Prime Minister: make the fracking ban permanent. @friends_earth 👇 foe.uk/ksojs
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Tell Keir Starmer to make the fracking ban permanent
Nigel Farage's Reform party has declared it wants to “drill baby drill” if it wins the next general election. There’s a temporary pause on fracking in England, but it’s not even written into law. So i...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/08/2025
Is this the "ICE style deportation enforcement" that Farage has in mind? Does this seem like a happier, safer place to you? Machine-gun armed militias, with faces covered, yanking people into unmarked cars? The full Mark Stone report is a must-watch👇🏽. ~AA www.youtube.com/watch?v=KolI...
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Well, cant risk them outshining the idiot Director
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Fascism is built on fear. Any politics that can successfully challenge it must, then, be built in the diea of freedom from fear. That rules neoliberalism out as an option. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08...
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Neoliberalism is not a viable option
As is apparent from this blog, the issue of fascism has been much on my mind this week. Amongst the things that I’ve read has been a fascinating blog post by someone called Blair Fix. He analysed fas...
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Meet Shakira. Ten years ago, she was living in a shelter with her three kids, working at a non-union hotel. Now she's a member of HTC. Unions are how working people can build a dignified life. But in a city as expensive as ours, they need local government on their side.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Do you know how insane and infuriating it is to live in a country where one party claims, with media and public support, the mantle of being the ‘tough on crime’ party while its leader openly calls for convicted criminals to be released from prison ‘or else’?
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Migrants can't answer back. They have no voice. So they make the perfect scapegoat for the pent-up rage of the angry, self-loathing far right who can unite around this issue. In addition it gives the media something to write about in the long summer recess. That is what is really going on here.
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 21/08/2025
Here, fixed it.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Art of the deal.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Economic growth & productivity crisis created by govts. 6.23m await NHS England hospital appointment. 17m have two or more chronic conditions. 2.8m 16-64 year olds chronically ill, can't work. 148.9m working days lost to sickness in 2024. Sick people can't work. Invest in the NHS to boost economy.
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Our state has become a guarantor of corporate profits
Equitable distribution of income and wealth would go a long way towards stimulating domestic demand and investment...
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Squeaky Squirrel🐿️🌏🇪🇺🇬🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦🐈 @squeakysquirrel.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
#StephenMiller #immigrants It IS his modus operandi to 'erupt in manic fascist rants.' newrepublic.com/article/1993...
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Stephen Miller Erupts in Manic Fascist Rant—and Reveals a Big Weakness
As Miller unleashes a wild tirade about Trump’s D.C. takeover, a sharp observer of his military occupations explains how he’s ominously consolidating power right before our eyes—and how Dems must figh...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Of course there will be an appeal and possibly a stay, but hopefully this decision sticks www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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Florida ordered to dismantle Alligator Alcatraz over environmental impact
The ruling, which gives the state 60 days to act, comes as Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to convert a prison in North Florida into a second immigrant detention site.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 22/08/2025
Freedom of movement enriched the lives of many young people before Brexit; it's far more complicated and therefore restricted now By Sam Johnson
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How Brexit has made studying abroad less accessible
Freedom of movement enriched the lives of many young people before Brexit; it's far more complicated and therefore restricted now
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/08/2025
Opportunity knocks for the Green party: can the candidates seize it? You decide
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Opportunity knocks for the Green party: can the candidates seize it? You decide
As the party members choose their new leader, Guardian readers quiz the three hopefuls about class, Reform UK, Corbyn and the EU
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Money that could be used to tackle poverty, fund housing, and invest in public services is redirected to the financial sector. UK today - our government's priorities : labourhub.org.uk/2025/07/20/b...
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Britain’s quiet billion-pound subsidy to banks and ‘shadow’ banks
By Costas Lapavitsas Rachel Reeves seeks cuts in public spending and considers tax increases because, apparently, the cupboard is bare. No fiscal space, we are told, to reverse years of social eros…
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Newsom: We got here because the President is struggling. We got here because the President is one of the most unpopular presidents in U.S. history. We got here because he recognizes that he will lose the election.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
🔥 Where the US has serious problems, the UK is not far behind. One in four UK MPs have taken pro-Israel lobby funding, raising urgent questions about foreign influence and trust in British democracy. yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/an-...
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An unhealthy alliance
One in four UK MPs have taken pro-Israel lobby funding, raising urgent questions about foreign influence and trust in British democracy
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North West Bylines @northwestbylines.co.uk · 18/08/2025
Former attorney general Geoffrey Cox is leading the case brought by a coal firm that could cost the taxpayer billions | Tommy Green Writing For DeSmog northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/uk-...
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UK Government to be sued in ‘secret corporate court’ by coal firm represented by Tory MP
Former attorney general Geoffrey Cox is leading the case brought by a coal firm that could cost the taxpayer billions
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AtlantaDon💙🏳️‍🌈💙🏳️‍🌈💙 @donshantajr.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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