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Maria Hughes 🏳️‍🌈

@mazzaclazza.bsky.social
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50+ wellbeing and public health for B'ham LGBT. Intersectional feminist, trans ally, bi, devoted wife of @alex.drawnalism.com. birminghamclarionsingers.wordpress.… workersmusic.co.uk kingrockerfilm.com

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Robin Moira White @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I need to make my personal position clear on this change of guidance. It is not a theoretical for me as I have a serious and chronic health condition which causes me to be a regular user of NHS facilities which keep me alive. www.england.nhs.uk/publication/...
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Maria Hughes 🏳️‍🌈 @mazzaclazza.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚
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Rosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You know that booklet they're apparently handing out to asylum seekers teaching them how to not rape women and girls? Can they give that out to all the British men and boys too please?
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
To explain for foreigners: our energy regulator rubber-stamps price rises; the water regulator tuts while rivers fill up with human shit; the press regulator wags an occasional finger, and the national equality body enforces press campaigns against groups of people they hate and wish to damage.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Its only outrageous if you think the Palestinian people aren't people.
Outrage as greens plan to twin Greater Manchester with Ramallah
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Its not just me & Angela Rayner. If this Labour government rule out rent controls, a wealth tax, refuse to nationalise water companies, drill for oil and gas, continue to arm Israel - The country will be asking what's the point of a Labour Government? www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
standard.co.uk
Zack Polanski and Angela Rayner clash as she rejects London rent controls
Housing Secretary Ms Rayner took a stronger stance on rent limits than new Prime Minister Andy Burnham
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Remember, the transphobic EHRC code is being implemented by this government by CHOICE, not because it HAS to. Labour is CHOOSING to implement transphobic segregation.
mirror.co.uk
Trans advocates and MPs urge government to scrap 'segregation' code'
The EHRC Code of Practice is set to pass Parliament today at the end of the 40-day scrutiny period, despite 166 MPs signing a 'prayer' motion to stop it — including more than 90 Labour backbenchers
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 29/05/2026
that labour are pushing the lie that the equality act has always excluded trans women from the definition of 'woman' is super funny to me bcos anybody can just go and read it. @darrenpjones.bsky.social and @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social have committed a crime but haven't removed the evidence.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 28/05/2026
Fuck anyone saying "if this were happening to any other community" when it comes to anti rights backslides and threats to community events. We are all of us facing escalating hate crimes and all of us have been for a long time.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 28/05/2026
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 10/05/2026
keir starmer keeps talking about building britain or whatever the thing is his 'vision', such as it is, for britain is not something anybody actually wants. i don't want to live in a racist, anti-lgbt+, shithole where the entire country is covered in data centres and ai-powered surveillance drones
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Maria Hughes 🏳️‍🌈 @mazzaclazza.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Pardon my French but: fucking hell!
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I'm honoured to get the Amnesty Award, but honestly this was a group effort. Thanks to the crew, fact-checkers, lawyers, journalists, and the team at Nebula who helped bring this scandal to light. And thanks to @jessothomson.co.uk for collecting the award on my behalf! Here’s my acceptance speech:
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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
WE WON. Amnesty named me People’s Human Rights Champion for exposing a scandal in British healthcare. My team and I found abuse, neglect, conversion therapy, and deaths, all ignored by NHS managers. See the story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S5w... Support our work: www.patreon.com/c/Philosophy...
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Britain Still Has Conversion Therapists. Here’s Why.
YouTube video by Philosophy Tube
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
In advertising we used to call that the “duck”. Where you’d make a good ad but stick a duck in it. So the client would be like “yeah we love everything else but can you take the duck out, not sure re the duck?” And you’d go “oh ok thats a shame but if you’re sure, we can make it work with no duck”
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Maria Hughes 🏳️‍🌈 @mazzaclazza.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This. Over and over again.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Reform UK pledges review of asylum claims for the last 5 years if it wins the next general election. 400,000, including those legally settled could be deported. Will people be plucked in streets, sent to concentration camps? Farage inflicted Brexit, now importing Trump racism and terror.
bbc.co.uk
Reform would review all asylum claims from the last five years
The current Labour government has already announced major crackdowns on immigration, including disrupting gangs.
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
The Home Office is inept and immoral, and the ground zero of anti Black racism in the UK. www.blackcurrentnews.co.uk/p/jamaican-m...
blackcurrentnews.co.uk
Revealed | Elderly Jamaican man dies after Home Office system leaves him without job or status
After nearly 30 years in the UK, Robert White was left destitute when he lost access to his immigration status, with his solicitor blaming systemic failure for his death
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Lynn O'K @lynnok.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
It will exclude female athletes with particular DNA issues they might not even be aware of buy are 100% women. It will police any women who look a bit manly. They tried this before & stopped because it didn't work Want to make sport safer for women? Improve funding & stop sexual assaults of athletes
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
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Jill Hayward @frdragonspouse.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
What good would it have done if the civil servants hadn't "hidden" the vetting failure? Would the outcome differ? Phillipson appointed Mary-Ann Stephenson as EHRC chair *despite* not one but two select committes warning her not to! This government installs all the wrong people because it wants to.
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Maria Hughes 🏳️‍🌈 @mazzaclazza.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
"Than it is . . . for a camel . . . to"
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Motorway Services Online @motorwayservices.uk · 30/03/2026
Waiting nervously to find out what happens to the Scott Mills Bridge at Fleet services
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 20/03/2026
Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll She was born on March 20th, 1915
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
“Labour was built on the belief that justice must never belong only to the powerful. Today MPs vote on restricting jury trials. For Labour MPs it’s a test of principle. The poorest & most marginalised depend on juries. Today we’ll see who remembers why they came into politics” Rob Rinder
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Damning verdict on England social care as peer says system needs a 'reckoning'. 22 major reviews over 3 decades. Govts do nothing. No integrated healthcare system. Social care privatised. Corporations profiteering. Public money buys less. Govt handing the NHS to them as well End privatisation.
mirror.co.uk
Damning verdict on social care as peer says system needs a 'reckoning'
Baroness Louise Casey has been tasked with leading an independent probe into social care, to pave the way for the 'National Care Service' that Labour promised in its manifesto
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Maria Hughes 🏳️‍🌈 @mazzaclazza.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
"First, they came for the communists . . . "
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Maria Hughes 🏳️‍🌈 @mazzaclazza.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 28/02/2026
a bunch of commentators and pundits went down to gorton & denton and said to muslim voters 'the greens are pro trans, what do you think?' and the response was that they supported trans rights or simply didn't care. this is a demo the press, and politicians, view as ultra conservative. 🤷‍♀️
it's funny not jus bcos of the racism of it but bcos they can't figure out that if this, according to them, ultra conservative demographic doesn't give af about trans ppl then maybe the press obsession with us is actually bizarre and fascistic
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Maria Hughes 🏳️‍🌈 @mazzaclazza.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
🎶 I got two dogs in my pocket, and the other one's a duck in shoes 🎶
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Aidan Comerford @aidancomerford.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
BREAKING: it appears that the MHRA, in control of the UK puberty blocker trial, appointed a senior officer who had previously mocked supporters of trans rights online. Recusal is not enough here. He and those responsible for appointing him should resign. How can trans people trust them now?
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Maria Hughes 🏳️‍🌈 @mazzaclazza.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Or describe a journey properly: "There were plants and birds and rocks and things". Things?
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Newsnight can put Zack Polanski in a Russian hat. They can portray him as Voldermort. James O'Brien can accuse him of "breaking Britain". It's not going to work this time, lads. People have seen too much. The electorate just knows more. Watch the attacks ramp up and recognise their toothlessness.
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Maria Hughes 🏳️‍🌈 @mazzaclazza.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
It was painfully noticeable how many MPs were talking when Anna Dixon had the floor. The disrespect was palpable.
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Maria Hughes 🏳️‍🌈 @mazzaclazza.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
“For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.”
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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Brexiters insisting “Brexit was never properly implemented” are like a guy who got the idea that he was getting an Aston Martin for Christmas, got socks instead, and is now sitting by his dead Christmas tree in March insisting Christmas hasn’t happened because he hasn’t got his Aston Martin yet.
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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Imagine having to explain to your grandkids that a cringe, meme lord pedophile billionaire filled the night sky with metal debris, and that’s why they can’t see the stars any more. That’s the future we’re barreling towards.
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 20/02/2026
Yesterday was a bad day for Skynet... just saying...
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 19/02/2026
Oh no! The far right and fascism are on the rise, what should we do? Maybe if we appeased them some more, didn't call them what they are and if we said those opposing them are just as bad or even worse that will make them go away! It's not because it's never worked before that it won't this time!
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 19/02/2026
if keir starmer honestly cared about gender-based violence he'd stop scapegoating immigrants and trans women and deal with the actual problem. he'd also listen to experts and form policy based on evidence. instead he allows a bunch of shadily funded hate groups to smear minorities and set policy.
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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Time travelling assassin returns to 2050, goes to debrief, says he know he got the wrong Kennedy last mission, but there was no mistake this time. The hundred million dead have been avenged. Their boss idly checks IMDB that evening, wonders why she didn't know Oliver Stone made a movie about JFK.
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Mr P @mr-pick.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Man who says he wants to represent the interests of the average working person… paid by people who would profit more from less labour market regulation…the same legislation that protects the average working person from unfair employment practices. These are wolves poorly pretending to be sheep
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Maria Hughes 🏳️‍🌈 @mazzaclazza.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I was being hopeful, and my original reply to Jo was a call to action. I don't think for a moment it is easy.
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Maria Hughes 🏳️‍🌈 @mazzaclazza.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Wow.
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