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Jocelyn Barker

@jocelynbarker.bsky.social
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Softy southerner, left-leaning LD. Lover of purple, kindness and truth. Forever European. No DMs, please.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
US senators attempt to ban Trump's 'profoundly corrupt' crypto schemes news.sky.com/story/us-sen...
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US senators attempt to ban Trump's 'profoundly corrupt' crypto schemes
A new report estimates the president's crypto holdings now represent nearly 40% of his net worth, or approximately $2.9bn (£2.1bn).
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 07/05/2025
TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 27/02/2025
The US President Donald Trump has rejected Sir Keir Starmer’s demands to make security guarantees for Ukraine before talks take place in Washington londonlovesbusiness.com/trump-reject...
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Trump rejects Starmer’s demands ‘to make security guarantees’ for Ukraine - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
Donald Trump rejects Starmer’s demands for security guarantees for Ukraine amid rising tensions with Russia.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 27/02/2025
🚨BREAKING - Steve Reed has just launched the biggest review into the water sector since privatisation. But wait…..he says the commission can’t even consider public ownership. 🤯 We need to act quickly to change his mind. ⏰ Sign our petition now ✍️ weownit.org.uk/act-now/stev...
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Steve Reed: include public ownership as an option in your independent commission on the water sector. | We Own It
Steve Reed must put public ownership back on the table.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
BREAKING: Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrives at the White House for talks with President Trump
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Every news channel has been saying all day the Tate brothers' history is one of misogyny, their return is shady, and the effect on victims traumatic. AND YET... all of them are standing by to livecast any remark the Tates care to make after landing, live and in full. You are part of the problem.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Absolutely YES @tuc.org.uk
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 27/02/2025
Footage from the Green Britain Foundation made the national news – good to see…:)   Avian Flu will always be a problem as long as factory farming exists. buff.ly/4hXFjR0
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The Mirror @mirror.co.uk · 25/02/2025
Billionaire Elon Musk has been mocked in a huge advert displayed at a bus stop re-branding Tesla.
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'Nazi-saluting' Elon Musk mocked in huge advert for Tesla's 'Swasticar'
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 26/02/2025
Letter: We should stop doing business with anyone that does business with Elon Musk.
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Letter: Why would you want to give Musk access to your personal information?
Letter: We should stop doing business with anyone that does business with Elon Musk.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 25/02/2025
Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.
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Random Man James @jamesds.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
WAKE UP STAND UP AND RISE UP ITS TIME TO TAKE AMERICA BACK
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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When the rich wage war, it’s the poor who die. - Jean Paul Sartre
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Attention working-class Americans: Republicans’ new budget does NOT include no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, or no tax on Social Security. Instead it protects tax handouts for billionaires and makes way for the largest Medicaid cut in history.
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Irritated Llama @irritatedllama.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Photo taken during the miner's strike. During which he would have been firmly on the side of Margaret Thatcher.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Thousands of military vets, many of them disabled, have been fired during the Trump administration’s mass purge. And it’s just the beginning newrepublic.com/article/1918...
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Elon Musk’s Cruel Cuts Expose What MAGA Really Thinks of Veterans
Thousands of military vets, many of them disabled, have been fired during the Trump administration’s mass purge. And it’s just the beginning.
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 26/02/2025
Thousands of military vets, many of them disabled, have been fired during the Trump administration’s mass purge. And it’s just the beginning.
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Elon Musk’s Cruel Cuts Expose What MAGA Really Thinks of Veterans
Thousands of military vets, many of them disabled, have been fired during the Trump administration’s mass purge. And it’s just the beginning.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 26/02/2025
Guido Fawkes used a doctored news clip to smear my reputation and it snowballed into a right wing pile on involving the Daily Mail, GB News, three Tory MPs, one Peer, Richard Tice and Paul Staines.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Let’s face it. Getting rid of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is to make way for less qualified white men to take positions they don’t deserve.
An image featuring Admiral Lisa Franchetti in her formal Navy uniform saluting, alongside text highlighting her distinguished 40-year naval career, including commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups, and the U.S. Sixth Fleet. The text then contrasts her extensive experience with her reported firing by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, identified as a Fox News weekend host. The source of the information is credited to the New York Times, with "COURIER" branding in the top right corner. The highlighted portion of the text emphasizes the contrast between her career and the circumstances of her dismissal.
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 26/02/2025
The near miss on a tarmac in Chicago is small part of a much, much bigger problem. Here's what's happening: youtube.com/shorts/d4fz3...
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The near miss on a tarmac in Chicago is small part of a much, much bigger problem.
YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 22/02/2025
You're probably reeling, like me, from Trump's onslaught on Ukraine & from the horrifying spectacle of two superpowers trying to carve up a sovereign country. Please, I beg you, use your voice. Write to your MP. Express your views on social media. Share this piece. Act. Thank you. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 22/02/2025
We need facts as never before. 3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline. Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding. Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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‘We have a rule when we hear the sirens: if you’ve started operating, you don’t stop’: 24 hours with doctors on the Ukrainian frontline
Like the soldiers they battle to save, combat medics in Ukraine are under constant attack. Three years after the invasion, one NHS doctor bears witness
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Broadcasters who repeated this obvious bollocks are not required to make any correction or apologise to their listeners/viewers. And I saw at least two columnists making hay with it. They too will retract nothing.
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Micah @micah12.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Maybe this…? bsky.app/profile/paxo...
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York4Europe @york4europe.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
@andybrown1951.bsky.social EU and Ukrainian flags will be flown at the European Parliament’s three sites from Sunday 23 February to Tuesday 25 February, marking three years since Russia’s invasion.
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Phil Leighton @joseph-yossarian.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Bigoted pig ignorance. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump fires Black joint chiefs chair Hegseth accused of promoting diversity
US secretary of defense had questioned whether history-making air force general CQ Brown Jr got job because of race
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/02/2025
NEW: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.
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Anxiety Mounts Among Social Security Recipients as DOGE Troops Settle In
Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
🫡🇺🇸 "Americans do not swear an oath to a king, a tyrant or a dictator. We swear an oath to the Constitution and the idea of ​​America, for which we are willing to die," — Mark Milley ❗️He said that every US military member gives his life to protect the Constitution, not to individuals.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 22/02/2025
We have reached a critical point in this war, not because of a sudden shift in one side’s military fortunes or even because of the peace process that Trump has set in motion, which we knew was coming. It is more because of the way that Trump has turned on Zelensky. open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/e...
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Europe's Moment of Truth
As the Trump-Zelensky rift deepens
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
US has come a long way since days of genocide, slavery, racial segregation. Trump delivering: sackings of judges, military commanders, public servants; opposition to diversity/equality; censorship of books, scholarly journals, silencing of journalists. Won't have a happy ending. What will UK do?
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How governments distract from social injustice by creating moral panics
Censorship and indoctrination diminish the possibilities for emancipatory change
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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Seems legit.... We don't want to be a nation of underachieving Americans.
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
“hydrologic insanity”. “The volume they were initially starting to release and the lack of warning to local officials – it’s hard to characterize it as anything but insane” #r4today
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Something odd just happened—an article that had been widely published on media sites has suddenly disappeared without any retraction or explanation. Many may have come across it on Reddit.
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Stuart @handle.invalid · 22/02/2025
People of Clacton, please do your part...
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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 20/02/2025
For decades, fossil fuel companies have engaged in cycle of making climate action commitments, then walking away, while still greenwashing to keep public and investor favour. Companies like ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, and Shell continue prioritising fossil fuel profits over decarbonisation
Moral contemplation all well and good but doesn't deliver legislative change
Toon: Megan Herbert
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Ava Ayers @avaayers.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)
Officers have also struggled to meet their quotas because immigrants are refusing to open their doors when ICE officers knock. The enforcement teams generally do not possess criminal arrest warrants that would allow them to force their way into their targets’ homes. ICE officials say they can’t afford to leave teams of officers waiting around for targeted immigrants to exit their homes.
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Knitting Cat @dameknittingcat.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I’d give anything to see this traitor up before a judge & sent down.
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Brian McG.⭐⭐🇺🇦🇵🇸 🇬🇱 @br1mcg.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Just trying to think of a country with massive bot farms that is desperately trying to suppress this story. Please read and repost 👇🏼
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/02/2025
Elton John calls for UK copyright rules rethink to protect creators from AI
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Elton John calls for UK copyright rules rethink to protect creators from AI
The star has urged for a shift away from plans where artists must opt out of a system allowing AI free use of any online work Sir Elton John has called on the government to rethink proposals involving the relaxation of copyright rules in the hope of…
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
When I see Steve Bannon doing a Nazi salute to cheers it means only one thing: 420,000 U.S. troops died defending our country from Nazi assholes and 77 million people voted for them to be in power. MAGA betrayed our country voting for this nightmare.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
“The postwar era is over. The global architecture built in 1945 is being burned to ground by Trump. Europeans need to plan for, & invest in, a future where they have to defend themselves without the US.That future does not loom in the distance. It is already here” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump is the world’s greatest showman – and the weakest strongman it has ever seen | Jonathan Freedland
His capitulation to Putin over Ukraine reveals a pattern. He’s the patsy: giving everything away, getting little in return, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
The author reminds us of “the “smoky room experiment”. In this study, when a person is alone in a room that begins to fill with smoke, three-quarters raise the alarm within minutes. Yet, when surrounded by others who remain passive, only 10% take action. This is the “bystander effect”,
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Lady in stripes, "UK should do more to unite Europe" "Recent polls show only 30% of Brits support Brexit, maybe it's time to reverse the process and make Europe stronger" Fiona Bruce, "Wow, you want to re run Brexit"
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Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This is surely right from @frasernelson.bsky.social on the risks that “Trump-humping” poses to Farage et al Is Rishi Sunak English? It used not to be a question www.thetimes.com/article/27c9...
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Precisely what we warned about when the emails first went out.
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Alex Raufoglu @ralexdc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The President of Georgia 👇👇 #GeorgiaisNOTrussia #StandWithGeorgianPEOPLE
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 21/02/2025
President Donald Trump and his defence secretary Pete Hegseth have both claimed the US has provided Ukraine with more than $300 billion in support. But it’s not clear what that’s based on. We’ve delved into the numbers 🔍
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How much aid has the US given to Ukraine? - Full Fact
President Donald Trump has claimed the US has given Ukraine more than $300 billion in support, but it’s not clear what that’s based on.
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