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Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

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John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social · 11h

This is utterly clueless & why the Lib Dems need a new leader. This is a potentially progressive moment and they should be part of it. Polanski was more positive than Davey, and this reads like chat GPT

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In many ways, the only thing boys need to learn are the lessons we already teach girls. They need to learn to be part of a community. And if they understand that, then the lessons on consent and sexual violence come naturally.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And the last one I’ll mention is for mothers to set boundaries in their own relationships with their sons. The way he treats you is a model for how he treats all other women. If you succumb to the social pressure to make every sacrifice for him, he will expect the same of other women too.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Researchers find that one-time trainings about consent can actually increase perpetration. In my interviews with young men, they told me that they knew no one believed what they were saying because it hadn’t come up before—and no one actually held men accountable anyway.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 18h

Chris Bryant, "I have this warning for Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch. They say they'll bin the European Convention on Human Rights" "They've clearly never read the Good Friday Agreement, or maybe they don't even care about it" "I promise you this: we will not dump the ECHR, we will stand by it"

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 22h

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13h

Oh and give me optimism any day of the week over hate and the misery agenda that defines Reform/Restore/Badenochism

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Margaret Nelson 🌦 @flashmaggie.bsky.social · 14h

Labour isn't the only party that has a problem with stubborn women who insist that there's only one sort of us, the biological sort. Trans activists have firmly established themselves in the Lib Dems and the Greens. Are such people interested in other issues, or only exploiting members' gullibility?

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Labour’s war over women | Andy Twelves | The Critic Magazine

The row over Labour’s Women’s Conference has exposed a party increasingly divided over what women’s politics should mean

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 14h

Burnham: “Brexit hasn’t given us control.” How many years have we been waiting for a Labour leader to say this? #Labour26 #LPC26

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MargaretH @margaretj.bsky.social · 14h

Burnham is a powerful and moving speaker. Impressive.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 14h

Burnham really is going all in on social care here. Powerful uncompromising rhetoric and, it seems, radical reforms. An area where the status quo is terrible yet efforts to change it have fallen apart before.

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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 14h

Hurrah for the creation of a National Care Service! It is so, so needed. You may not now, but you will at some point in your life. This will help millions of people, like my family. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/who-cares-...

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Who cares? Hopefully Burnham does

On the National Care Service and why we desperately need it

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 14h

Got to say I’m impressed to see some actual political courage. It was the failure on social care that had me write this a year or so back benansell.substack.com/p/profiles-i...

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Profiles in Discourage

Labour's punting of social care reflects a bigger problem of indecision

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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 16h

But the impact on the future of victim (or her psychological well-being) didn’t matter to anyone… That tells you a lot about the society we live in, doesn’t it?

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 16h

➡️If you have written to your General Secretary, please send us any responses you get. ➡️If you are not satisfied with the response, please write again asking for clarification. ➡️If you haven't sent an email yet, please write in. You can use our model letter ➡️ www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...

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Take Action on TUC Motion 17! — FiLiA

Delegates at the Trades Union Congres s this week voted to support a motion committing the organisation (and by implication its affiliate unions) to campaign against the EHRC code , which provid...

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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 16h

📢Women are starting to hear back from their unions, largely holding replies or responses that don't answer the questions.

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 16h

Executed by Kanō Tsunenobu (1636–1713)—a premier master of the Kobikichō branch of the Kanō school and official court painter (goyō eshi) to the Tokugawa shogunate—this hanging scroll exemplifies the peak of Edo-period ink painting.

Poised dynamically atop a jagged, moss-speckled rock above churning waves, a mythical kirin (qilin) turns its horned head in a posture of watchful grace. Rendered in expressive ink lineation (suibokuga), the auspicious beast features a single horn, a flame-like mane, cloven hooves, and a tail that spirals upward like a stylized storm cloud. Sweeping calligraphic brushstrokes outline the powerful contours of its body, transitioning from dense, jet-black ink along its back to delicate, feather-light lines across its underbelly. Below, rhythmic, curling line-work depicts foaming water surging against the crags. The composition invokes an evocative sensory atmosphere: the crisp scent of ground sumi ink on silk, the roaring spray of breaking waves, and the electric thrill of a divine creature descending through mountain mists.
Tsunenobu, nephew and disciple of the legendary Kanō Tan'yū, synthesized Chinese ink traditions with the refined visual elegance favored by the shogunal court. In East Asian mythology, the kirin is a benevolent, sacred creature that appears only during times of wise, virtuous rule and harmony. Tsunenobu’s signature and seal at the lower left mark the culmination of monozukuri (artisanal mastery and brush technique), where absolute control over ink saturation (sumi no gosei) transforms fluid movement into enduring divine form.

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political-economy.bsky.social @political-economy.bsky.social · 16h

How come Women's safe spaces are still up for grabs in 'progressive' circles? It is mad. Just look at Sandie Peggie and the Royal College of Nurses, just for starters.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 29/09/2026

Interesting that conservatives are concerned about ruining the lives of male college students accused of rape but have little concern for the lives of girls and women forced to give birth against their will

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

ALL men benefit from male violence, because it allows you to think you’re a good person because you haven’t assaulted a woman. That does not make you a good person, but you have collectively put that bar in hell.

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 22h

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Lion Rampant tile design, yellow, white, turquoise and black

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · 22h

To judge from some medieval manuscripts, it seems that whenever a knight was not busy rescuing maidens, he liked to hone his fighting skills by attacking snails blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“The rate of ectopic pregnancy deaths in states with abortion bans is nearly double that in states where abortion is legal.” That stat should shame every anti abortionist in the world.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dora Carrington painted this portrait of the novelist E. M. Forster in 1920—without a single sitting. Instead, she worked from memory and photographic references, drawing on her own enthusiasm for photography.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

‘This summer may have been the coolest of our lifetimes,’ says Environment Secretary Angela Eagle at Labour conference, as she attacks the far right for denying climate change and being dangerously relaxed about the heatwaves

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kat is right about all of this. One of the reasons that college sexual violence is uniquely devastating is because it changes the victim’s entire future.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What about her future? What about how hard she worked to be there? What is to become of her life now? What process of justice could possibly right these wrongs? And how much more will she lose in the process of trying to get it? How much more of this are we all supposed to tolerate?

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This young woman dropped out of college after being raped by multiple men for hours until she passed out. She alleges they forced her to snort drugs off their genitalia during the act. But they’re bright young upstanding fraternity men with promising futures, right?

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Another man accused, Scott Norris, denies that he partook in sexual misconduct but acknowledges in his own statement that misconduct took place. The men are already contradicting each other but I doubt any of them will be held accountable for making false statements while accusing the survivor of it

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the Cornell students accused of gang rape, Scott Kretzschmar, denies it and says through his attorney that they are going to “confront” the survivor through the court system. I can already tell you that means victim-blaming, DARVO, and smears. She is going to need a lot more of our support.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.

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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Three people, including a child, drowned in the Channel today. Our politics is so broken that the debate is never about how we stop these deaths and always about how we can come up with harsher policies that make more deaths inevitable.

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Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So, for nearly a year I've been working with @ategov.bsky.social on designing better active for women and girls. And now it's out. There's guidance on design and engagement, and me talking about it all in a seminar to boot. www.activetravelengland.gov.uk/resources/ac...

An illustration of what an urban space might look like if it were designed to be welcoming for women and girls, with cafes, safe bike parking, greenery, separated bike lanes and play facilities for teenage girls - and food carts.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We can spend our lives debating the justifications (I more or less have); but we are wasting our time. What we need is a massive clampdown on the influence of money over politics, including lobbying transparency, campaign finance reform, an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying.

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Rivka @theasraidance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Illustration by Elizabeth Curtis 'Old Mr. Owl Writes a Book', 1923. #OwlishMonday

Illustration. Forest scene. An owl reads from a large book to a group of fairies wearing blue dresses, some of them are not paying attention. Three more owls are perched on branches to the right of the scene.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/09/2026

This is…very much not in line with Donald Trump's comments last night. Which could get interesting later. The investigation is still ongoing, of course. But the fact police have given bail does seriously change things.

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Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I will go out on a legal limb here, but I suspect the three vans were not “packed with explosives” as some have suggested. No doubt we will find out more soon.

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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🚨 NEW: Labour says it will consider public ownership of trains as part of Great British Railways instead of leasing them from private companies Currently, trains in the UK are owned by private Rolling Stock Companies which operators then lease from

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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Of course it's not all men. Our problem is that we never know which man it might be... #Cornell #rape #cornellrapists

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026

Our polling with YouGov shows that 99% of constituencies want to rejoin the EU. And Labour promising to rejoin the EU could stop a Reform UK government. Now is the time to talk about EU membership. www.ft.com/content/a1614884-7c8c-43…

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I genuinely think I’d rather be insulted online by an incel type than be subjected to that god-awful ‘well actually I think you’ll find….’ deliberately obtuse, ‘clever clever’, centrist mansplainer. It’s an exaggeration to say they’re the worst thing on the internet but some days it feels like it.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'Still life with Crucible.' (1890) Born in Wales in 1864, Albert de Belleroche spent his formative years in France, where he forged friendships with Degas, and Renoir. He also developed a lifelong bond with John Singer Sargent, sharing studio spaces throughout his career.

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Gudule Martens @gudulemartens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The end point of telling a woman it is phobic and bigoted not to widen her sexual interests is to view the misogynist who will sleep with anyone as her moral superior, as if the sexual act is the ultimate measure of respect." Another scorcher by Victoria! thecritic.co.uk/there-is-no-...

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There is no right to sex | Victoria Smith | The Critic Magazine

The idea that sexual preferences must be interrogated for prejudice ends somewhere deeply unpleasant

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