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Caroline Rauter

@malsnbfb.bsky.social
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Withdrawn from library stock / garden lopper / woodchopper / 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 politics / proud european / birdwatcher / old cynic with a joyful 🐈 Carmarthenshire, Wales

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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 11h
🇺🇸🙄🇺🇸🙄🇺🇸🙄🇺🇸🙄🇺🇸🙄 You evil rotten bastards!
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump is a goddamned coward and a traitor to his country
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Caroline Rauter @malsnbfb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"If someone is so thin-skinned that they cannot bear this sculpture being exhibited in the European Parliament, then they have no business on the world stage. — Per Clausen"
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Caroline Rauter @malsnbfb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Always a great people watching spectacle, brilliant festival pictures this year from Wales.
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All hail the King: the Porthcawl Elvis festival – in pictures
The largest gathering of Elvis fans in Europe is held annually every September in the seaside town in south Wales
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is brilliant! And so true! 😂 💀💀💀 A Norwegian consumer protection video about the inbuilt redundancy of so many modern products and apps.
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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 31/03/2026
I can now reveal that crypto billionaire Ben Delo—pardoned by Trump after a conviction for anti-money-laundering violations—privately funded the failed libel action brought against me by neo-Nazi conspiracy theorists Nina Power and Daniel Miller to the tune of at least £300,000.
Ben Delo, Nina Power and Daniel 'DC' Miller.
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 29/08/2026
'I thought there must be a zero missing!' @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social is 'staggered' by the lack of financial aid the US is providing to Nepal.
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
They knew.


For decades climate scientists have said that continuing to burn fossil fuels would lead to both more wildfires and that they would be increasingly severe. 

Yet politicians - many of whom are still in public office on large taxpayer salaries- dismissed, scorned and ignored these warnings. 

Every bit of new coverage of these fires should be framed as the direct result climate change and political failings. Those who profited by underplaying the danger should be challenged for their complicity in every interview. 

Especially those charlatans who, even now, still claim to be on the side of farmers and the poorest in our society - despite enabling a crisis that will hit those groups hardest.
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Caroline Rauter @malsnbfb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Love the eclipse pattern on the house, tempted to paint it on and keep it. #Wales
Solar eclipse shapes on house wall, Wales
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
In case you missed it ... The first recorded black community in England lived in Burgh by Sands in Cumbria 1,800 years ago. They were African soldiers in the Roman army, and many of them stayed on after their service. They married local women and raised families there in what later became England.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Russia is deliberately targeting Ukrainian language book warehouses. A double strike on a children’s book publisher’s warehouse in Kharkiv burnt 8 million books. This is one of several book warehouse strikes Clear evidence war of a war on Ukrainian identity www.reuters.com/world/millio...
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Millions of burnt books show how 'war of endurance' is hurting Ukraine
Publishers say more than 10 million books have been destroyed in attacks on warehouses in recent months.
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It remains striking that Cambridge University – which has rightly found itself subject to immense scrutiny in recent days over its academic appointments process – did not answer any of Byline Times' questions re Cambridge Professor James Orr, Reform's Head of Policy, and his activities there. Why?
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 08/08/2026
“Nigel Farage – rightly – is the central figure in all this. But what our reporting reveals is that it’s not just Farage. The new political money behind him is not dependent on him; it’s the other way around” www.thenerve.news/p/nigel-fara...
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Follow the money: the Farage funding timeline
As the revelations around donations to Reform and its leader multiply, we’re keeping the receipts. Carole Cadwalladr introduces a new master timeline of our investigations and asks: who are Farage’s b...
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 07/08/2026
Europe is full of buried explosives left over from 20th century wars, and wildfires are now reaching them more regularly.
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Europe’s wildfires have raised the danger posed by unexploded WWII bombs
Europe is full of buried explosives left over from 20th century wars, and wildfires are now reaching them more regularly.
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Caroline Rauter @malsnbfb.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Be thankful for librarians and archivists in the pushback against censorship in America. The #SaveOurSigns campaign.
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The amateur archivists racing to save US history in national parks against Trump administration censorship
Save Our Signs aims to document every sign in the more than 400 national parks and historic sites across the country before the Trump administration removes them
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I join you from the Blaenavon wildfire in Southeast Wales, brought to you by BP, Shell and Equinor. Though it does not look dramatic, the fire has been out of control for days - for a very particular reason. 🧵
A photograph of multiple fire service vehicles parked on moorland. In the background, white smoke from multiple fires is rising.
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Ally 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @allywils.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A long read, but the way @bylinetimes.bsky.social joined all the financial dots is utterly amazing 🤩 Great work 👏👏
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
WATCH LIVE for next six weeks: Farage set to talk even more rubbish than normal.
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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The destruction of UK Higher Education is still being treated as a niche concern, not front page news like where Prince Harry will stay on holiday and what Trump said about a football match. Universities matter. The expected closure of smaller institutions will hit whole communities.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Incredible mega dump of information on Nigel Farage & George Cottrell. New details that build on the Times story. Recommended reading.
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Caroline Rauter @malsnbfb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"Drakeford, who served as first minister in Cardiff until 2024, expressed hope the UK would endure and strengthen but said English nationalism risked pushing out Scotland and Northern Ireland, leaving Wales a “progressive pimple” in a rump UK."
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Celtic nations begin to plan for breakup of UK in event of Reform election win
Politicians brace for constitutional turmoil if Nigel Farage’s party end up in government – or even as a strong opposition
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Liz Truss set up CPAC Great Britain with a lawyer who used to work with sanctioned pro-Russian oligarch Firtash Many of guests at Truss’s gathering have also parroted Kremlin talking points New by me on Democracy for Sale open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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Revealed: the Russian ties of Liz Truss's radical right conference
CPAC UK was set up by a lawyer who worked with sanctioned 'notorious kleptocrat' - and speakers include politicians linked to pro-Kremlin networks and Moscow talking points
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
#IndependenceDay 🇺🇲 Rev Dr Richard Price • An influential Welsh moral philosopher and theologian 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 He is best known for his influence on both the French and American Revolutions 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 hellohistoria.substack.com/p/a-friend-o... #Wales #History
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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU @fife4europe.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
An active British MP running a US-based, dollar-funded pressure group that has links to nicotine lobbying is completely wrong. Farage’s latest side-hustle highlights exactly why we need immediate, ironclad restrictions to stop politicians serving foreign corporate interests. 🛑📋👇
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Nigel Farage’s anti-WHO campaign moves to US with allies added to board
Relocation of Action on World Health raises questions over why Reform UK leader is involved in a US pressure group
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 25/06/2026
Who’s behind the right wing “anti-woke Davos” taking place in London right now? Who’s speaking* and who’s paid £100s to attend? @stellathegreek.bsky.social reports from the “Alliance for Responsible Citizenship” for the Nerve *James Orr, Paul Marshall, Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson to name a few 1/3
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
site that is keeping track of all the job losses at UK universities
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Spanish crochet teacher Eva Pacheco and her students created a huge, colourful street canopy in crochet and knitting, making welcome shade for the community of Alhaurín de la Torre, Malaga #WomensArt
Photo of a narrow pedestrian street with white houses either side with a colourful crochet canopy stretched above it
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Caroline Rauter @malsnbfb.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We will miss them when they are gone. Local economies are already feeling the cuts from the loss of good jobs. "Even in the early 2020s, higher education paid back fourteen times more than governments put into it and was worth £265bn a year. But even that doesn’t seem to count for much."
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The quiet collapse of British universities
One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away
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Martin Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇧🇪 〓〓🇺🇦🇵🇸 @martinpalmercymru.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Thank you Yuliia. This is a very balanced article and shows a good understanding of Welsh attitudes. It is an emotional read. When we say that people living here are/can choose to be Welsh we mean it. We reach out, we don’t build walls and look inwards and backwards. 1/ nation.cymru/opinion/wale...
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Wales standing with Ukraine won't be forgotten
Yuliia Bond For some people, the Ukrainian flag outside the Senedd may seem like a small thing. A symbol. A temporary political gesture. A foreign flag outside a Welsh institution. But for thousands U...
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Caroline Rauter @malsnbfb.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Without books we are lost. Sad to see casual disregard for wonderful resources and knowledgeable library staff. E books don't cut it on their own, we need the best of both formats. fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...
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Lament for the MIT Libraries - MIT Faculty Newsletter
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
📚 Weekend Reads (Edition 86) ✍️ @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social Hardeep Matharu introduced Liz Smith and Noelle Cook’s film, ‘The Conspiracists’, at its London premiere in April. She speaks to the British director and American writer about the eye-opening documentary tracking their journey…
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Hardeep Matharu introduced Liz Smith and Noelle Cook’s film, ‘The Conspiracists’, at its London premiere in April. She speaks to the British director and American writer about the eye-opening documentary tracking their…
Hardeep Matharu introduced Liz Smith and Noelle Cook’s film, ‘The Conspiracists’, at its London premiere in April. She speaks to the British director and American writer about the eye-opening documentary tracking their…
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Common Cause Foundation @commoncause.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Friends in Cymru / Wales — this Saturday we're hosting a workshop at Ffair Cymru in Swansea! Join us at 2pm in The Courtroom at Urban HQ to explore the values that shape how we live, connect, and organise as communities. Come along if you're around 💚
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Owen Williams @owswills.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
If this is Reform’s idea of manifesto material, it tells you everything. A party that chooses its own version of history isn’t fit to lead - it’s controlling the narrative. This isn’t cultural policy, it’s culture-war bollocks. We’re better than this 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform to tell Welsh museums how to present history, manifesto says
Election pledges say Reform would ask museums to present history chronologically.
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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Everyone loves to complain about the 20mph speed limits in Wales but the numbers don’t lie. The number of pedestrians and cyclists killed in 2023 was 526, 94 of whom were between 11 and 15 years old. In 2025 the total was 379, and only 20 were under 15. #Wales #Cymru
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Labour is delivering the biggest investment in North Wales in a generation. A golden age of nuclear after years of dither and delay.
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 11/04/2026
8/8 I’ve written a full, plain-English breakdown of all of this: 🔵How the system works 🔵Why costs move the way they do, and 🔵Why this could reshape global trade As simple as I could make it—without losing reality or being totally incomprehensible. I think... www.linkedin.com/posts/ash-or...
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Why One Strait Could Change Global Trade: An Explanation of The Hormuz Fallout | Ash Oro
I was asked a simple question at a board game club recently: “Why don’t shipping companies just absorb the cost of Hormuz tolls?” It’s a fair question. On the surface, it should be that simple. But ...
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This should follow him around the ReFuk campaign trail The temperature of his “A bit much” response to Trump’s typical insanity should also be dissected constantly & publicly He’s a bad judge of character & rather likes the vile qualities displayed. ( Sic …that stream of rotten ReFuk candidates)
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 08/04/2026
“the south has been occupied by an invading army that’s targeted & killed civilians, children, medics, journalists blown up critical infrastructure including bridges & has seen a fifth of its population made homeless overnight (all war crimes).” www.thenerve.news/p/lebanon-wa...
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Israel is waging war on Lebanon. Why is the world calling it a "ground operation"?
I’ve known Lebanon for two decades. What’s happening there now – the killings, the destruction of towns, the mass displacement – is an invasion. Wh
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Tony Benn would have been 101 today. His "Don't arab women weep when their children die, doesn't bombing strengthen their resolve?" Is as relevant now as it was 25 years ago.
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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
🦿 Here's what's really useful In Italy, they've come up with an innovative prosthetic that behaves like a real human foot. SoftFoot Pro is made up of "bones" and lies gently on any surface like a living limb.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Translation: "I started something I can't finish and broke something I can't fix so I'm going to walk away and pretend it's your fault"
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Caroline Rauter @malsnbfb.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
BBC News - Thousands gather for anti far-right march in London www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Thousands gather for anti far-right march in London
The Together Alliance march has been backed by several high-profile celebrities.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Some British newspapers now seem more interested in pleasing American readers than reflecting British opinion. ➡️ Watch Page 94, the Private Eye podcast: youtu.be/m8kyoyGdCQY
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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Reform are denying me access to the Welsh manifesto launch... Remember a few weeks ago when Reform UK threatened to defund Bangor University in the name of "free speech"? Well despite repeated requests, Reform are not allowing me to attend their manifesto launch. 1/3
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Caroline Rauter @malsnbfb.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Interesting insights on Ukraine and how this awful hostility will continue to play out. Europe needs to wake up. Fast. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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The Global Story - Is a peace deal with Putin possible? - BBC Sounds
Top Putin expert Fiona Hill on the chances of a Ukraine peace deal
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Ukraine is often reduced to headlines about war. I write about the whole picture. My new Sunday Letter is about Masnytsia (the week before Lent) with videos and photos from yesterday’s festival www.patreon.com/posts/sunday...
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The Welsh universities are by far the most exposed to collapse. And yet the country's election campaign sees not one serious thought on what to do. (1/2) www.timeshighereducation.com/news/wales-n...
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Wales needs ‘systemic reform’ as universities lose £100 million
Calls for regulator to act on subject review findings and better align education provision with nation’s needs, as six of its eight universities face deficits
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
More than 10,000 works were stolen by russia from the Kherson Regional Art Museum during the occupation. Last week, I visited an exhibition featuring art prints of some of the stolen pieces. You’ve already seen a few of them in my letter. Here’s a short video.
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Greetings from Kyiv, that survived another russian night attack. 2,600 high-rise buildings are now without heating (in addition to the 1,100 that will remain without it this season). We still have some. In a few days, frosts will return. I don’t know how to make the world listen.
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
To read more: en.interfax.com.ua/news/general...
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Russian attack on Kyiv leaves almost 2,600 high-rise residential buildings without heat – mayor
Almost 2,600 high-rise buildings in the capital were left without heat after a massive attack last night, due to damage to critical infrastructure, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has said.
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