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Lorna Sixsmith

@lornasixsmith.bsky.social
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I'm an Irish dairy farmer who writes books about farming. Also doing a MA in History. Addicted to reading, tea and cake.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This might be a good moment for the UK Prime Minister to address growing consternation about food security, rather than whatever frivolous nonsense the tabloids invented this week.
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🦋B🦋 @basilgirl1.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
He was referring to you, you dimwitted, arrogant psychopath. GD you're dumb.
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Lorna Sixsmith @lornasixsmith.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I love this - so many times during this calving season, I have said to my husband 'If I don't get a cup of tea soon, I'm going to die'.
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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Mammy and Ammi joining Enoch in jail!! www.thejournal.ie/martina-burk...
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High Court orders Martina and Ammi Burke to be jailed for two weeks each for contempt of court
The pair faced contempt charges for interrupting a High Court hearing last month.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 02/03/2026
Iran's Revolutionary Guards commander said the Strait of Hormuz is closed and Iran is to set any ship trying to pass on fire, Iranian media reported. Live updates ➡️ reut.rs/4aK7TEn
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/02/2026
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Women's Aid said that it will no longer maintain a presence on X. "This online violence against women and children - especially girls - has often devastating real-life impacts and we no longer view it as appropriate to use such a platform to share our work. www.rte.ie/news/ireland...
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Minister wants X meeting over 'disturbing' Grok concerns
Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence Niamh Smyth has requested a meeting with X over concerns that the AI tool Grok is being used to create sexually explicit images of adults and children.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
January 7, 2026
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January 7, 2026
This morning, a federal agent from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good as she was driving away from ICE agents on a residential street in Minneapoli...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I thought Trump was “the ultimate capitalist.” He’s helping farmers by putting them out of business and putting them on welfare? bsky.app/profile/atru...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Apologies in order.
Two signs. Dear world: we are sorry. Most Americans. 

No Faux-King Way.
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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?” “Because that’s what they are” @vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference. #Newsnight
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Motherfucking wind farms…
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The decades of granted powers that lead to a US dictatorship.
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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Holy Crap look at the posted job applications for Alligator Auschwitz! The amount of money these so called Guards will be making is insane! 🤬🤬
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Lorna Sixsmith @lornasixsmith.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Terrible
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Dr Cathryn McWilliams @candlelitink.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
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British Library to reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader card 130 years after it was revoked
Exclusive: Pass to be presented to playwright’s grandson after original cancelled over conviction for gross indecency
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
@nickkristof.bsky.social to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, after Rubio denied deaths due to USAID grant cutoffs: "The only debate is whether to measure the dead in the thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands." 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...
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Opinion | Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?
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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Listen to this speech from the president of Ireland. The days of using baseless accusations of antisemitism as a rhetorical weapon to bully people into staying silent are long gone.
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D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The man remains truly excellent and this is going to be amazing www.attitude.co.uk/culture/sir-...
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Sir Ian McKellen to open historic all-trans and nonbinary production of Twelfth Night
Director Phoebe Kemp said: "Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance – it feels like Shakespeare wrote it for us"
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Our letter condemning the genocide in #Gaza and calling for an immediate ceasefire. A great crime is being committed, and we cannot stand by. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid
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Lorna Sixsmith @lornasixsmith.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Excellent keynote by @caitbeaumont.bsky.social at #WHAI2025 I particularly enjoyed the use of photos in the presentation- made it very moving too
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Lorna Sixsmith @lornasixsmith.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Having a great day at #whai2025 learning, laughing and making connections. A huge well done to the organisers and speakers. Feeling really inspired towards the end of the first day.
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Ciara Nic Ionnraic PhD #Health #Research #SciComms @chendirl.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Off to a cracking start at #WHAI2025 up first Helen Doyle Maynooth University on the history of dangerous lunatics
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Debbie Kingsley @southyeofarm.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
My weekly post from the farm debbiekingsley.substack.com/p/calves-and...
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Calves and piglets
At 5am I check that new calf Pebble has been suckling.
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Lorna Sixsmith @lornasixsmith.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
@elainepf.bsky.social I should have taken a photo of you during your presentation and posted it! Really enjoyed your talk and excellent delivery too
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 14/05/2025
Marjorie, I know the truth confuses you and facts ain’t your strong suit—so let me break it down real slow: George Floyd didn’t die from drugs. He died because Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for 9 minutes. That’s called murder.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
NEW: TIME publishes interview with Trump. This is a REAL section of the transcript. It is impossible to read this and not conclude that Trump is suffering profound, cognitive decay.
Your trade adviser, Peter Navarro, says 90 deals in 90 days is possible. We're now 13 days into the point from when you lifted the reciprocal, the discounted reciprocal tariffs. There's zero deals so far. Why is that?

No, there's many deals.

When are they going to be announced?

You have to understand, I'm dealing with all the companies, very friendly countries. We're meeting with China. We're doing fine with everybody. But ultimately, l've made all the deals.

Not one has been announced yet. When are you going to announce them?

I've made 200 deals.You've made 200 deals?

100%.

Can you share with whom?

Because the deal is a deal that I choose. View it ditterently: We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don't have to pay it. They don't have to do business with the United States, but I set a tariff on countries.
Some have been horrible to us. Some have been okay. Nobody's been great. Nobody's been great. Everybody took advantage of us. What I'm doing is I will, at a certain point in the not too distant future, I will set a fair price of tariffs for different countries. These are countries-some of them have made hundreds of billions of
dollars, and some of them have made just a lot of money. Very few of them have made nothing because the United States was being ripped off by every, almost every country in the world, in the entire world. So I will set a price, and when I set the price, and I will set it fairly according to the statistics, and according to everything else.I'm just curious, why don't you announce these deals that you've solidified?

I would say, over the next three to four weeks, and we're finished, by the way.

You're finished?

We'll be finished.

Oh, you will be finished in three to four weeks.

I'll be finished. Now, some countries may come back and ask for an adjustment, and I'll consider that, but l'll basically be, with great knowledge, setting-ready? We're a department store, a giant department store, the biggest department store in history. Everybody wants to come in and take from us. They're going to come in and they're going to pay a price for taking our treasure, for taking our jobs, for doing all of these things. But what I'm doing with the tariffs is people are coming in, and they're building at levels you've never seen before. We have $7 trillion of new plants, factories and other things, investment coming into the United States. And if you look back at past presidents, nobody was anywhere near that. And this is in three months.Will you call President Xi if he doesn't call you?

No.

You won't?

Nope.

Has he called you yet?

Yep.

When did he call you?

He's called. And I don't think that's a sign of weakness on his behalf.

But you would think it's a sign of weakness if you called him?

I don't-I just look-

Well, what did he say?

If people want to-well, we all want to make deals. But I am this giant store. It's a giant, beautiful store, and everybody wants to go shopping there. And on behalf of the American people, I own the store, and I set prices, and I'll say, if you want to shop here, this is what you have to pay.
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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Good job team America www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Lorna Sixsmith @lornasixsmith.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This is beyond disgusting by the White House (I went to X to check it was genuine because I could scarcely believe it). And yet Trump was bleating about Easter and Christianity earlier. Yeah, Christian values right here alright.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 16/04/2025
I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.
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Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Circle up
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
🚨Every word of this from AOC. "If people are pissed about insider trading here at the House, look at what's happening at the White House.” (🎥 NY1)
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Lorna Sixsmith @lornasixsmith.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Jeez - why would women vote for this and why would men with women in their lives vote for it?
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Update: The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don't match their birth certificates. Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 05/03/2025
More v bad news for Ukraine at the hands of the Trump admin. FT reporting US has cut off intelligence sharing. US intelligence co-operation has been essential for Ukraine’s ability to identify and strike Russian military targets. Washington cutting Kyiv off at the knees. www.ft.com/content/c58f...
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US cuts off intelligence sharing with Ukraine
Fresh blow to embattled government in Kyiv as Trump administration shifts on conflict
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Morning Bluesky. BIG news from Europe after Trump’s pointless hot air last night: the EU leaders will tomorrow consider a 9-point action plan to: * strip Hungary of its voting rights * appoint Kaja Kallas as the EU’s full-fledged foreign minister * create a joint European Army
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Lorna Sixsmith @lornasixsmith.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
First set of twins born this year. Needed assistance as first one coming backwards. All well.
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reasonabledude.bsky.social @reasonabledude.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I think a major mistake in our current age is calling propaganda "misinformation." We were taught in school that Nazis used propaganda. I feel like the term "misinformation" just downplays how bad it is and created a disconnection between the past and present.
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Larry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
FFS! 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 are firing National Park Service EMTs There will be no one to attend to you if you get attacked by wildlife, fall while climbing/hiking, have a skiing incident, are drowning, break a leg/arm/your neck, etc Alex Wilds is one such federal employee. Read what he's saying
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Jarek Pachocki OMI @jarekpach.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The world’s poor are starving, food is rotting, and US farmers are left struggling… I don’t even know how to name this sin against humanity. 🤷🏻‍♂️💔 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses
U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.
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💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙 @mommamia.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Um. It’s almost like they’re trying to control the news.
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MC @samalamanphd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
@hcrichardson.bsky.social @jbf1755.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
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Trump fires archivist of the United States, official who oversees government records
President Trump has fired the nation's top record keeper, Archivist of the United States Colleen J. Shogan.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
“Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die” Gordon Brown www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die | Gordon Brown
The decimation of USAid is already having a terrible effect in some of the poorest places on the planet. It damages America: it will harm us all, says Gordon Brown, the UN’s special envoy for global e...
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Johann Doorley @johanndoorley.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
What the f*#@!
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Lorna Sixsmith @lornasixsmith.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
@johanndoorley.bsky.social waves xxx
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
3 hours to leave her house. This is how they treat a 4-star Admiral and Commandant of the Coast Guard. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice
Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.
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