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Jan Smith

@janjancsmith.bsky.social
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Wildlife, books, red wine. Hedgehog rescue and rehabber, Christian, vegan. Trying to find my way round bsky.social

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14h
Phew guys, we're in safe hands. 🙄 After reports from Russia’s Irkutsk region revealed a potential public health crisis, Donald Trump gave his thoughts on a seeming outbreak of the rare and often deadly pneumonic plague. Given his handling of COVID, some fear his approach to public health concerns.
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The look of love - I think #sophiefromromania is happy we’re home…
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 21h
At 6pm on Tuesday join @sociabledog.bsky.social and me for a webinar where our fabulous dog trainer will explain how he persuaded #sophiefromromania to come out from behind the sofa. Sign up at patreon.com/sociabledog - all proceeds go to Cure Parkinson’s
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 10h
thedayofreckoning.substack.com/p/a-note-fro... great piece by my friend Mike Wendling about the weird Trumpian anti-anti-disinformation mob.
thedayofreckoning.substack.com
A note from the anti-anti-disinformation lobby
And what exactly is censorship, anyway?
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 22h
Nearly 38 percent of Palestinian students in East Jerusalem now study the Israeli curriculum, while the rest of the students' textbooks are being censored line by line, stripping mention of Jerusalem, prisoners, the Nakba, and freedom fighters. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/isra... #Palestine #Israel
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21h
Losing a parent to Alzheimer's is a double loss and it's bleak as hell. Good people don't joke about things like that. But Archibald Graham long ago gave up on being a decent human being. metro.co.uk/2026/10/04/m...
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Mike Graham filmed making 'hideous' jokes about Andy Burnham's dad's death
His comments were 'the lowest of the low'.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/10/2026
The capture of Tigray’s regional capital revives fears of another prolonged conflict, displacement and crisis.
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Ethiopia's forces retake Mekelle amid renewed Tigray fighting
The capture of Tigray's regional capital revives fears of another prolonged conflict, displacement and crisis.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Toilet seats, toys and hair clips: The strangest items Israel still barred from Gaza - www.middleeasteye.net/news/toilet-s…
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Toilet seats, toys and hair clips: The strangest items Israel still barred from Gaza
A year after the ceasefire, Palestinians still struggle to find everyday items as restrictions keep basic and non-essential goods off the market
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A good end to the week for Bruno. He didn’t know it at the time but that car hitting him is probably the best thing that ever happened to him 🙏
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Niall Harbison @niallharbison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The perfect ending for little Skye ❤️
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Fall of Roe Changed Doctors. Now They’re Changing Politics. State-level abortion debates have activated physicians as a political force like never before.
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The Fall of Roe Changed Doctors. Now They’re Changing Politics.
State-level abortion debates have activated physicians as a political force like never before.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Course the Mail on Sunday backed Remain back in 2016 (under a different editor from the daily). Not that they choose to remember that often.
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The House and Senate needs to submit STAND ALONE BILLS. None of this bullshit that sneaks in other bills that they KNOW would never pass if it was a STAND ALONE BILL.
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Yolly @yollybsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
People do not hate America, Mr Trump. They hate you. BIG difference.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Black text on a white that says the following:

The allegations in the Cornell sexual assault case are deeply disturbing and gut-wrenching. Cornell University has failed this survivor.

I fully support Governor Hochul's decision to name Attorney General James as special prosecutor in this case and look forward to the complete and extensive investigation that is to come. 

Accountability and justice cannot simply be values, they must also be delivered.
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Civic nationalism is not, nor ever should it be, a matter of blood or filiation, but freedom and affiliation.” A wonderful piece @peterjukes.bsky.social and also expressing tennents of Scottish civic nationalism so threatened now by casual Racism, intimidation balaclava-ed nonsense and violence
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 03/10/2026
Oh look, another award for London. Someone might want to pass this on to Reform’s mayoral candidate, Laila Cunningham. Perhaps she could dial back the relentless shitting on the city I live in by, say, 5%.
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The bottom line, the final word… call it what you like. This 👇
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Who radicalised him? news.met.police.uk/news/man-jai...
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Man jailed for 15 years over ULEZ camera explosion
Kevin Rees, aged 63, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday, 2 October.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES (sound) DAY 02 OCTOBER 2026 WHEN A SEXUAL ABUSER AND PEDOPHILE SPEAKS Cornell 7...Facts don't lie The RAPISTS have been identified EVIDENCE IN PLACE Write an essay that's all Cornell wanted NO BRING THEM TO TRIAL Here you haveTrump, he feels bad It's Shameful America
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is not a dying planet. This is a planet being killed. There is a difference. And there are killers. #ClimateJustice
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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 03/10/2026
In a revealing moment from a recent Oval Office strategy session, President Donald Trump reportedly opted for self-indulgence over critical campaign discussions....
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Trump Hijacks Aides Tablet To Watch His Own Videos During Meeting
In a revealing moment from a recent Oval Office strategy session, President Donald Trump reportedly opted for self-indulgence over critical campaign discussions. While his advisers gathered to seek his approval on midterm campaign expenditures, Trump requested to watch videos of himself instead. The August 7 meeting, attended by key Republican strategists, chief of staff Susie Wiles, and top advisor James Blair, emphasized a pressing concern: how to fund the party's ambitions without delay.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’ve never seen a BBC correspondent try to build such a huge mountain out of such a tiny molehill. Chris Mason’s hysterical quest to undermine Andy Burnham, based on a few noncommittal words: Chris Mason: Why Andy Burnham's about-turn on Manchester City matters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Chris Mason: Why Andy Burnham's about-turn on Manchester City matters
The prime minister's comments on Man City were revealing on several levels - and leapt on by many in football, the BBC's political editor writes.
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Long as we're asking questions, why would a rapist, adjudicated so in the state of New York, want to know?
Social media post:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Why would the Governor of New York, Kathy
Hochul, appoint a Corrupt Prosecutor, Letitia
"Peekaboo" James, to represent the State in the
highly controversial Cornell University rape case?
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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 02/10/2026
A look at the human rights violations committed by Saudi in the time after the Newcastle United takeover  | Peter Sagar
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Five years of brutal oppression in Saudi Arabia
A look at the human rights violations committed by Saudi in the time after the Newcastle United takeover
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Chinese Govt owned Syngenta to cease operations at Grangemouth, 400 jobs at risk. Previously oil refinery closed. England-based British Steel rescued. What would govt do now? UK govts oppose state ownership but let foreign govts own infrastructure. Why? Any industrial strategy?
independent.co.uk
Chemical firm to cease operations at Grangemouth site putting nearly 400 jobs at risk
The move comes just over a year after Syngenta, owned by state Chinese firm Sinochem, was given more than £2 million in Scottish Enterprise funding to expand its Scottish site
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Bill Kristol: "It’s no accident, Umberto Eco further points out, that 'All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning.'"
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Not To Alarm You, But Trump’s Brain Is Melted
And Hegseth’s neo-fascism is out in the open.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 03/10/2026
🚨 24HS LEFT 🚨 If you’re a strategic campaigner who knows how to turn complex issues into compelling stories, mobilise people and make change happen, we’d love to hear from you 👇 hr.moorepay.co.uk/hr/recruitment/ro…
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About the Role This is a role for someone who knows that great campaigns don’t just inform people, they move them. Someone who can see the bigger picture, move quickly when an opportunity emerges,
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no one sees me anyway @dhighl5184.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
NEW: We’re reporters, not teachers. We have no business running a private school. But to show you just how easy it is to start one, we decided to test the process ourselves.
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Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.
Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...
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Palm Oil Detectives | #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#News: #Germany protects #Bayer while #Paraquay's #indigenous communities die from #pesticide #poisoning 🇩🇪🚫 Rights groups condemn flawed #OECD mediation. No accountability, just #greenwashing. Justice NOW #BanPesticides #HumanRights @palmoildetect.bsky.social farmlandgrab.org/post/33552
#News: #Germany protects #Bayer while #Paraquay's #indigenous communities die from #pesticide #poisoning  🇩🇪🚫 Rights groups condemn flawed #OECD mediation. No accountability, just #greenwashing. Justice for the victims #BoycottPalmOil #HumanRights @palmoildetect https://farmlandgrab.org/post/33552
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Norfolk Bea @norfolkbea.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Defra's Call for Evidence on gamebirds: what exactly is it asking for, and how can you help? raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/10/02/d...
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Defra’s Call for Evidence on gamebirds: what exactly is it asking for, and how can you help?
I hope by now that blog readers are aware of Defra’s Call for Evidence on gamebird rearing, releasing and shooting. The Call for Evidence was launched in September 2026, and closes on 1st Nov…
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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Around 1 million species now face extinction, many within the next few decades. We are facing multiple crises at the same time. No time to waste. Protect nature and ourselves. #ActOnClimate #climate #biodiversity #nature #rewilding #animals #cop16 #cop16cali
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
2.5 degrees above average and much much more to come. This is why climate change is THE top issue. Humanity can't survive drill baby drill politics www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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May heatwaves, deaths, ruined harvests: study of Europe’s summer paints grim picture for the future
EU Copernicus report shows surface air temperatures from June to August were 2.5C above decadal average
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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
On the train back from London after the best evening ever! Still pinching myself… and beaming from ear to ear about my beautiful medal. Thank you SO much @btobirds.bsky.social for this most unexpected and wonderful award. And thank you again for all the amazing things you do…
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WeMove Europe @wemoveeurope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Last week, together with @pauseai.bsky.social we took 60,000 voices to Brussels. Today, that number has passed 88,000. Days later, OpenAI reported that an internal AI agent had found a way around internet restrictions during testing, and paused tool-enabled work involving its most capable models.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Botched US execution | ‘Oil shocks’ explained | Flydubai attack | Burnham’s change pledge In this week’s Your Week in Four, we look at how Christa Pike survived two lethal doses of a drug meant to kill her in the state of Tennessee, 30 years after she was convicted of murder. Read our newsletter:
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Botched US execution | ‘Oil shocks’ explained | Flydubai attack | Burnham’s change pledge
Your Week In 4: Hand-picked insightful, inspiring and compelling reports from Channel 4 News this week.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This, on the reality of prison and early release, is among the best shows I’ve ever had the privilege of presenting. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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The scandal hiding inside Britain’s prisons
Podcast Episode · James O'Brien Daily · 2 October · 1hr
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don’t take my word for it. There’s also Ian’s mum!
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Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
FARTGATE: Tomorrow’s Lancashire Telegraph is an absolute joy to behold. Buy it. Treasure it. Leave it to your grandchildren. #BuyALocalNewspaper
Lancs Telegraph front page: A POINT
OF ODOUR
Reform councillor 'broke wind
towards rival' during meeting.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🔴 Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years Exclusive: Reform UK’s Sam Journet branded “Britain’s worst councillor” as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council bylinetimes.com/2026/10/02/r...
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Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years
Exclusive: Reform UK's Sam Journet branded "Britain's worst councillor" as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 30/09/2026
I need a transation of 'fannies'.
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 02/10/2026
We've all been there.
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Samantha @msspydasam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I wonder why Farage is still so opposed to re-joining the EU, if only there was something...
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MingTheMerciless @mingthemercyless.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And he didn't do it alone.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a dreadful argument from Burnham. Empirically false - almost 6m people were granted settled status; about 4m are currently resident. More importantly panders to racism/xenophobia, and directly contradicts argument made in his speech about migrant contributions.
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Scholar Martin Shaw said: "Three years, thousands of atrocities, hundreds of lawyers, and it ‘hasn’t yet been determined’. Because the policy is not to determine whether it’s genocide." Backlash over Andy Burnham’s Gaza genocide stance www.thenational.scot/news/2659948...
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‘History will not forget’: Backlash over Andy Burnham’s Gaza genocide stance
Andy Burnham has sparked backlash after once again failing to recognise Israel's genocide in Gaza
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