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Teacher, Researcher, bigly fan of the brilliant #IndieSage team; ardent Remainer; unashamedly #Woke; #ProEU #FBPE #RejoinEU, #SocDem; #Ubuntu | @Mabalel2 on X |

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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The Trump years have poisoned the United States seriously damaging democracy. Who can celebrate 250 years, given the ‘rule’ of a rogue President, the rise of unChristian Nationalism & the loss of goodwill, decency & democracy? Robert Reich gets it 💯. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Sunday thought: Mourning in America
Friends,
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
JD Vance says Henry Nowak would still be alive if “the last few generations of Europeans had stood their ground against the mass invasion of migrants” If the Native Americans had kept out the invader scum like Vance, we wouldn't have to listen to this shit.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile In Courage Award, Was Earned By Jerome Powell, Which Is The Families Highest Honor. Despite Years Of Attacks From Chump, Both Personal And Professional Attacks.......💪🏻
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The Albanian people have been massively protesting for several consecutive days against slumlord crook Jared Kushner and Crimestress Ivanka seizing land in their country to the sum of billions of dollars to build a trashy resort. I hope they don’t stop until their evil corrupt deal is reversed.
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Mark T. Sneed @marktsneed.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
People over party should be demanded. Anything less should be shouted down and removed. Period.
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
For over 30 months, Israel has been destroying water supplies in Gaza. When access to clean water is vital for life, how is this not yet another thoroughly evil war crime? Where is the retribution? When will the perpetrators pay for their crimes? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Deadly Israeli attacks worsen Gaza’s water shortage crisis
Engineer and two drivers killed in recent weeks as scarcity of clean water fuels spread of preventable diseases
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
V. disappointing. We all appreciate that Labour is on the side of the NHS. Compared with teachers, most of whom have long hours, as do doctors, both regarding their jobs as a vocation, prioritising “their flock” & start off at £52000 v £32 000 for teachers. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Streeting hits out at BMA ‘delusion’ as talks to avert resident doctors’ strike fail
Six-day stoppage in England to go ahead from Tuesday as health secretary withdraws offer of extra training places
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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Ukraine war briefing: Ukraine calls Hungary ‘a disgrace’ after leaked calls with Moscow emerge
Kyiv urges inquiry after leaked calls appeared to capture Hungarian foreign minister telling Moscow he would try to amend EU sanctions to its liking. What we know on day 1,498
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Starmer could have postponed the visit. By confirming it, there’s no way to u-turn w/o causing massive row; so we’re stuck with this awful, humiliating spectacle, rewarding an individual who’s not just repeatedly insulted the UK but many of its Commonwealth partners, which the King supposedly heads.
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I'm not into gesture politics but I think this visit should be cancelled, actually because it would be a gesture that it doesn't matter that in recent months Trump has repeatedy insulted Britain. But it does. The counter-argument is that it'd keep him sweet: it won't. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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King Charles and Camilla to meet President Trump on US state visit in April
Despite political tensions between the US and UK, the King will travel to Washington next month.
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Thank heavens for Spain. Others who know better, should emulate. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Spain closes airspace to US military over Iran war, widening rift with US
Spain’s defence minister confirms move and describes US-Israel war on Iran as ‘profoundly illegal and unjust’
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
These murders need to be told so that every mercenary MAGA supporter understands why there can be no forgiveness for those supporting these war crimes. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘It didn’t matter whose child I rescued’: parents of Iran school bombing victims describe their worst day
Hours before the world learned that a US missile had hit Shajareh Tayyebeh school, parents were already searching the rubble for their sons and daughters. In this exclusive report, four families descr...
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
How hard would it be to tax the super-rich like this in the UK? Or have the Bandits behind Brexit squirrelled it all offshore?
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This invasion is indefensible. Israel is committing war crimes AGAIN. There must be #Sanctions NOW on members of the Israeli govt with preparations well underway for a #WarCrimes’ case before the ICJ. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Israel deliberately targeting medical facilities in south Lebanon, say health workers
Medics and officials say there is systematic use of double-tap strikes in campaign to make the south uninhabitable
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Aaargh! 😱Yet another detriment from the Own Goal of Brexit! Now that Microsoft is starting to feel grubby, and as we Brits can’t join the queue to sign up for Office.eu, I’ll be plugging Proton to keep me safe and will replace disappointing providers with the safer Proton equivalents. 👍
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Office EU - Europe's Open-Source Productivity Suite
Welcome to Office EU, the open-source productivity platform for all who value a free, transparent and sovereign working environment.
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
@LBC please preserve For Eternity the rousing introductions this week from @mrjamesob #heroic #unmissable #unforgettable #masterly #YeGods. Also please thank his supporting team 🥰 (including “The Keith” 😜)
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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Dean Blundell’s Substack today is a MUST-READ: Trump spent 14 months tariffing allies, threatening to annex Canada, mocking NATO then launched a war nobody asked for. Now he’s DEMANDING those same allies bail him out. #USDemocracy #Pinks open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
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BREAKING: Trump is Now "DEMANDING" Former Allies Help With Operation Epstein Fury In Iran
I Guess The Begging Didn't Work
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
James O’Brien (@mrjamesob) in stirring, fluent, fine form today on the war and that without notes. If you can’t listen now, catch up on LBC when you have a chance. 👏👍
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Note the date. The hypocrisy of Vance & Co in their greed for power is sickening.
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Neither the King nor members of the “Royal Family” should go to the USA this year. If anyone has to go, it’ll have to be the PM. He’ll have to be in tight-lipped mode and bringing zero gifts for the felonious President.
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
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The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall
As the Iran disaster escalates, the US president should be seen as an enemy whose actions threaten the lawful, democratic way of life everywhere, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdal...
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Neil Lewis @neil-lewis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000. So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000. Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...
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"Dow 50,000" Sound Nice. Until Justin Wolfers Shows You That U.S. Markets Are Coming 21st Out of 23.
What does “Dow 50,000” actually tell you—anything about the economy, or just that a number got bigger? Dow 50,000 is a milestone, not a measurement. The level of the Dow is basically arbitrary: it’s…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.
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A short note to Kristi Noem
To a current Cabinet secretary from a former one
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social my in-house historian has just reminded me I had, at the time, (2003) mentioned a different side to Mandelson. (We’re otherwise not particular fans.) When Polly Toynbee was undercover in childcare for her book on “Hard Work”…
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Army, England, we have a problem… www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Two-thirds of women in UK military sexually harassed in past year, survey finds
MoD survey also finds nearly one in 10 have been subject to non-consensual sexual activity and a third have been groped or touched
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
It’s beyond time for Trump to put Israel’s Big Three war criminals on the naughty step. Time also to send the murderous illegal settlers on the West Bank back to Israel. And for all suppliers to freeze arms to Israel. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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Israel says it has resumed enforcement of ceasefire after wave of airstrikes on Gaza – Middle East crisis live
IDF says ‘significant strikes’ were in response to Hamas violations
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Perfect! I do love a good fact check. 👏 This is definitely a T shirt design I’d also happily flaunt.👇
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
In 1933 Adolf Hitler banned Antifa. In 2025 Donald Trump banned Antifa.
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
At the World Championships in Tokyo, Armand Duplantis cleared 6.30m for his 14th pole vault world record. He’s literally raising the bar again and again. But what does breaking records have to do with climate change? 🧵 1/9 1/9
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The actual poisonous views spreader 👇
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Hegseth’s dissing of the US’s top generals was yet another failure of Trump’s Disaster-prone Administration and his renaming his office as Secretary of War will have removed any tiny remaining prospect of awarding the #NobelPeacePrize to the US’s Dictator, serial draft dodger and convicted felon. 👍
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I’ve now seen the solemn photo of the US military’s top brass before their scolding, nagging, bragging Supreme Leader. (That was quite a bold move for a serial draft dodger.) As I couldn’t spot a single Fat General, I now understand why a Fat President might not want to join in the group photo.
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hintermann.bsky.social @hintermann.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
So the latest #HAHA Award (Help America Heal Again) goes to Jimmy Kimmel. It’s getting harder this year to hear the child calling out all the naked obese Emperors. Amazingly, Kimmel also wins the twin version for Comedy, Help America Howl Again. youtu.be/aHT7ICvMtlA
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Trump Gets Cold Reception in England, Sues NY Times for $15B & Kooky Kash Patel on the Epstein Files
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
OMG. It is a stomach-retching moment to read, headlined in the Daily Wail, that Loser Farage, (Architect & Master of creating serial febrile atmospheres) accusing others of spreading his contagious infection, and all because they’re too decent to favour or promote fascism and racism. AS.IF.
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Brosemite Sam @brosemitesam.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Who would have known that a return to meritocracy would require so many federal agencies to lower their standards?
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Are we missing something in Trump’s rant? Under him, the US has been obstructing Ukraine’s attempts to defend itself against the Russian invader. He even belittled the country who suffered so terribly in the Holodomor. So who’s crooked and incompetent NOW? (Most likely it’s the convicted felon.) ⬇️
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Why Trump hasn’t been impeached is astonishing. Putin’s Puppet continues to beat ALL previous US Presidents in several categories, notably the long, incoherent rambles, the multiple felonious achievements, the all-round cheating, the remodelling and dumping the US constitution.
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Yup. Alaska may well be what he wants to swap. Trump being a total embarrassment would be bad enough for the US, but hey, their supporting President Loser again is already risking life as we know it across the globe.
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
This will have a huge impact on our friendly ally, virtuous Ireland, which has multiple data centres, set up there by a tax-dodging foreign nation whose allegiance to its allies is now most unreliable. ⬇️
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Advice please from my UK followers: Puzzled about a service policy rise (20%) which “normally” rises sensibly, in single digits, I’ve found it’s a subsidiary of a major US company. Am I bonkers in suspecting this rise has been generated as a Trumpian tariff imposed on or by the US parent company?
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
@mrjamesob.bsky.social How about the word “clot”? You could also qualify it with “utter”.
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
More innocent (and unarmed) journalists murdered by the IDF. Why are there still no consequences for the architects and cheerleaders of this unholy brutality and the reckless and relentless slaughter? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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‘If these words reach you … Israel has succeeded in killing me’: the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza
Anas al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera reporter, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Sunday night. This is the message he had prepared for his family, and his call for the world not to forget Gaza
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
How’s it possible the police have been briefed that beliefs Gaza should be freed (from a long, cruel & thieving occupation) warrant an arrest as a suspected terrorist? When it’s finally clear the ICJ verdict on war crimes was 💯 justified? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Pro-Palestine protester threatened with arrest takes legal action against Kent police
Laura Murton seeks damages and apology after police said her demonstration expressed support for banned Palestine Action
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
👍to Guardian US & the stalwarts in the media for saying what the whole world is thinking but what too many USers are too lazy, ignorant or morally muddled to grasp. The wrong people are being cancelled. This happens when you vote for fascism & a felon. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How did John Oliver become the moral compass of the US? | Arwa Mahdawi
He and other late-night hosts are rare voices when it comes to honest discussion of Gaza and Trump – which says something frightening about our public discourse, writes Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Isn’t this a case like another unworthy, the talentless Trump’s, expecting to be given the Nobel Peace Prize? Surely there have to be limits to unruly, unholy ambition? www.theguardian.com/world/2024/s...
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Milan appeals against ‘grotesque’ move to rename airport after Berlusconi
City authorities take case to Lombardy regional court in effort to block initiative by Matteo Salvini
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Mabalel @mabalel.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Before you condemn marches in support of Palestine Action, you should read this piece.The deliberate & protracted starvation of the people of Gaza is a vicious, vile war crime that already indelibly stains the Israeli cabinet, the illegal settlers & the IDF. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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‘No one should act surprised,’ says UN expert who warned of starvation in Gaza last year
Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, who sounded the alarm in early 2024, says: ‘Israel is starving Gaza. It’s genocide’
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
On Inauguration Day, I listed 12 signs that would indicate we were living in a dictatorship. One of them was: "Fictional government statistics." Today Trump fired the commissioner of labor statistics because her bureau's numbers didn't match his lies.
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How to know if you’re living in a dictatorship
We're already seeing signs of creeping fascism, and it could get much worse.
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