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Dr Lisa Dunleavy

@lisadunleavy.bsky.social
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PhD in Early Modern History. She/her.

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The anthropic whistleblower is like "no other activity has the potential to create human extinction." Well, speaking as someone who works for a climate think tank, I can think of one
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 04/09/2026
Three senior Reform figures were involved in those Channel 4 revelations we saw last night. Two have been kicked out. The third is Nigel Farage. Farage should be suspended while this matter is investigated. He has very serious questions to answer.
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 01/09/2026
As Andy Burnham makes his 1st Commons speech as PM today, I thought this worth a repost. Eleven months ago, I was invited to speak at the @politico.eu Labour Party conference fringe event and asked why the govt was so unpopular, & what I’d have advised them to do. Perhaps they were listening?
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Please sign this UK government petition to compel AI companies to reveal whose books they used to train their data petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data
We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 23/07/2026
Pls spread word. Three digits can help protect you from scams: 159. If you're suspicious of a 'call from your bank', politely hang up and dial 159. It connects you to a switchboard that puts you through to your bank's real number. Watch the video for why its extra protection
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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A quarter of terror attacks in Britain over the past decade have targeted Muslims, but some have gone largely unnoticed because of delays formally declaring them terrorism Most jihadist attacks, by contrast, have been declared within hours of taking place inews.co.uk/news/uk-terr...
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The UK terror attacks you don't hear about - and how they go under the radar
Some incidents are not being confirmed as terrorism for up to nine months, leaving the public unaware about the threat on British streets
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Stuart Houghton @stuarthoughton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Pass this on. You never know who might need it and it could make a huge difference if someone is struggling for whatever reason
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Reform Political Advertising @reformpoliticalads.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Ten years on from Brexit there are still no rules to prevent lies in election ads. We’ve tabled amendments to stop election ads like the infamous Brexit bus misleading voters again. Email your MP and ask them to sponsor them. It takes 1 minute. 👇 reformpoliticaladvertising.org/take-action/...
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favorite slime girl @antinoe.prettyfem.me · 21/05/2026
if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Please retweet.
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
King Charles was like WTF. The look on Camilla‘s face is priceless. Dammit, I never wanted to be on Camilla‘s side.
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Going after Parkrun – a non-competitive event which has no changing rooms – perfectly illustrates that it's never been about fairness in sport, women's safety or anything else. It's about bullying and demonising trans people, hounding them out of public life in every space possible. It's disgusting.
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
It is lovely that the Art Gallery of Ontario can now name the Black woman in the gorgeous #18thc portrait they acquired 6 yrs ago & also date the painting. It's from 1775. She is Eleonora Susette, enslaved by the Dutch governor of Guyana, accompanying his widow on her return to the Netherlands.
Young black woman in turquoise silk gown, with lace sleeves, lace cap, and fichu, double strands of pearls around her neck and her wrists. She is holding a white flower. in one hand, and a ribbon in the other. A tropical looking tree is behind her. She looks right at the viewer with an assessing look.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The Government must immediately ban political donations made through cryptocurrency until firm rules can be developed, to keep UK politics safe from illicit finance, cross-party Committee finds committees.parliament.uk/committee/11...
committees.parliament.uk
Crypto donations ban and new donor rules needed to tackle illicit money in UK politics, Committee finds - Committees - UK Parliament
Report: Political finance
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 18/03/2026
The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, Washington DC
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 28/02/2026
Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
An important reminder
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Andrea Joy Campbell @ajcampbellma.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Great idea!
Screenshot of an X post by meisha (@meishato) stating: “If the Halftime show wasn’t ‘white enough’ for you, go read the epstein files, it’s all in english and full of white people.” The post quotes Laura Loomer, who wrote: “Illegal aliens and Latin hookers twerking at the SuperBowl. Not a single white person or English translation at the Super Bowl….”
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
One lesson from the Epstein–Mandelson affair is that we need to stop routinely rehabilitating political careers after serious scandals. When politicians knowingly engage in grave ethical wrongdoing, that should permanently end their political careers. Being "talented" should not override that.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
“Everyone involved pretends they had absolutely no idea.” Ian Hislop, Private Eye’s editor, appeared on Tonight with Andrew Marr to discuss the Epstein files, and the cover the Eye ran in reference to the paedophile sex trafficker all the way back in 2011.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I mean if I had to spend every waking minute with Elon Musk I would also be miserable af
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Every American needs to watch this:
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 27/01/2026
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
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Merel1984 @merel1984.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Please endorde the petition to keep ICE away from the Olympics. It will e unsafe for gay, trans and athletes of color. c.org/ZcKBVscXx2
c.org
Firma la petizione
Negare l'ingresso ai membri dell'ICE per Milano-Cortina 2026
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Airlines will not show this to prevent walkouts.
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 22/01/2026
“If you can tell me the difference between these two descriptions, then you are a wiser person than me.” @mrjamesob.bsky.social reads out two excerpts, written 82 years apart.
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Martin Scheinin @martinscheinin.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Media may not have noticed that Trump’s Board of Peace Charter was drafted so that the US need NOT ratify and become a party.Trump’s current status as US President is a necesary stepping stone but his unitary rule in the new international organisation would be personal, permanent and even hereditary
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I wrote this poem the day after Renee Good was murdered - it’s about how the media and politicians immediately dehumanised her. I have had a few people ask “who wrote it?” So I am putting it up again - written in anger
Media Notes for Justification of the Orphan Makers Do not be quick to put the boot in Those accused of shooting
A peaceful mother in the face (three times)
Her demise may well be justified
Our population now is radicalised have you noticed how women often fail To even obey the voices of the male?)
And this was no run of the mill "mum"
She was a deviant one
A lesbian
And we cannot dismiss
How the sapphic can put men with pistols
Into a panic
She may not have committed the sin of being brown
But her profile page declared a pronoun!
A typical trait
of an enemy of the state
But wait
A little more
She called herself a "poet" too
And women like that are often shrews To take language and create a rhythm Another clue to domestic terrorism
So I say again
From autocue to you
The world is surely a better place
If we shoot love and peace and protest in the face
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
🚨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...
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Joe Hanson @drjoehanson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Did MAGA forget their "reason for the season?"
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Massachusetts Catholic Church Angers Conservatives With Its Brutal ICE-Themed Nativity Scene
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 19/11/2025
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
This perfectly encapsulates why we need the BBC
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
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The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Private Eye.
Minority representation on TV causes outrage
There has been widespread
way of life and their strange
support for prominent Reform MP
customs, but Reform MPs
Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of
comprise only 0.7 percent of the
minorities on television.
House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time
Said one angry viewer, "She's more than Fiona Bruce.
right. Every time you turn on
"I'm not prejudiced. Some of
the telly there's another Reform
MP being interviewed by Laura
my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough.
Kuenssberg."
There are too many people with
She added, "I respect their angry red faces on television."
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area

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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction

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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it

Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…

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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely 

[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over

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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat 

[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster

Minister:
I understand your concerns…

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Nurse:
Are you OK love?

Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters

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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian 

[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]

Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love

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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to

[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]

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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR

[woman looks baffled]

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woman:
I just want a bus service 

Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG 
[produces a St George's flag]

[ends]
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Amazing bit of 2019 footage this. Frei doing a great job of trying to hold Farage to account as he and Nathan Gill go walkabout. And I suspect Farage will come to regret his quip at the end about Russians if it does the rounds again.
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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Who would have thought.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 27/09/2025
UK media should be all over this but will they be? Reform UK, formerly Brexit Party & UKIP have always been mouthpieces for the Kremlin. It’s just this one was paid & found out Nathan Gill admitted 8 counts of bribery between 2018 & 2019. Tasked to make specific statements in return for money
euronews.com
Former Brexit Party MEP admits accepting bribes to shill for Russia
Nathan Gill admitted eight counts of bribery between 2018 and 2019. He said he was tasked to make specific statements in return for money. #EuropeNews
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Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
This must at least partly be due to the unwritten media rule that bad news is (almost always) bigger than good news
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