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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/01/2026
A relative in East LA reports masked ICE agents kidnapped a longtime local tamale vendor. “They left all of her food there on the street.”
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Disability charity chief condemns UK government as she rejects MBE www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Disability charity chief condemns UK government as she rejects MBE
Tressa Burke, chief executive officer of the Glasgow Disability Alliance, says the situation facing disabled people in the UK is "simply intolerable".
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 17/10/2025
✍️ The new sovereignty: freedom as belonging From nation states to the self, a new idea of sovereignty is emerging: freedom found in relationship, not control By Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social
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The new sovereignty: freedom as belonging
From nation states to the self, a new idea of sovereignty is emerging: freedom found in relationship, not control
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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Please read and share widely. westcountryvoices.co.uk/trump-wants-...
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Trump wants his mates to be able to make money from your medical treatment. Here's a tool that tells you what it would cost you
As Donald Trump arrived in the UK on a state visit, a new tool was launched to show exactly what NHS patients would pay if Britain adopted the kind of insurance-based system pushed by Trump and his co...
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Care Opinion @careopinion.org.uk · 15/08/2025
Today we share this blog from Kelly Turner, Operations Manager at #careopinioncanada who asks “What could healthcare look like if we dare to listen more deeply” 👇 ijb.utoronto.ca/news/insight...
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INSIGHTS: What could healthcare look like if we dare to listen more deeply? - Investigative Journalism Bureau
Kelly Turner is the operations manager of Care Opinion Canada, a program of the Alberta-based non-profit Imagine Citizens Network that enables patients, families, and healthcare professionals to share...
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 27/06/2025
✍️ When choice isn’t care: some thoughts on Wes Streeting’s NHS speech The health secretary’s NHS vision talks justice, but delivers metrics – offering digital fixes where deep, relational care is what’s truly needed By Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social
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When choice isn’t care: some thoughts on Wes Streeting’s NHS speech
The health secretary’s NHS vision talks justice, but delivers metrics – offering digital fixes where deep, relational care is what’s truly needed
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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Yesterday I filmed tips I would give (all under 1min or even under 30sec), these were just off the top of my head so they're a point of view from a position in time, but as a start point perhaps they cam be helpful. What would you add? youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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New to Profound Teaching - 1min - YouTube
I remember day one in the classroom in a special school and not knowing what to do, but pretending I knew, it didn't matter how prepped I was, how much I'd r...
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Bryony Shannon @bryonyshannon.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Instead of all the conversations about ‘demand’, it’s time to demand a different conversation. New blog post: Words that make me go hmmm: Demand #RewritingSocialCare #UsNotThemAndUs #LanguageMatters rewritingsocialcare.blog/2025/05/17/d...
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Words that make me go hmmm: Demand
While many words make me go hmmm, there are some that make me squirm the most, either due to what they reflect about the way we think about people (like ‘case’ and ‘non-compliant’) or about the way…
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Tania Tirraoro @tanialt.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
No one should feel threatened doing their job. But speaking in general, school has the power in the relationship and should ask how it could have responded better, de-escalated, worked with parents as a team, listening, caring? In this case the school and police’s actions were indeed Kafkaesque.
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normanp.bsky.social @normanp.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Today I deactivated my X account. The hatred and obscenity is too much.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Front cover of Private Eye.
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normanp.bsky.social @normanp.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Another excellent blog post. No word irritates me more than “doing”.
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John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Peter Prinsley, the surgeon who became an accidental MP, to Wes Streeting, via Francis Elliott inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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New Local @wearenewlocal.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
While the English Devolution White Paper makes important headway in decentralising power, reform needs to be purpose-driven, rather than simply structures-driven. Read our response: www.newlocal.org.uk/articles/new...
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New Local response: English Devolution White Paper - New Local
New Local response to the English Devolution White Paper
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#SocialCareFuture @socialcarefuture.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Joint Statement www.local.gov.uk/about/campai...
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Joint statement: Strengthening adult social care and support for us all
A group of over 100 organisations set out the need for Government to work with the sector to mitigate the pressures on councils, providers and charities. They are ready to work with the Government, as...
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normanp.bsky.social @normanp.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Can something not be done, even now? In a city the size of Sheffield it is simply unacceptable that a specialist trauma-focused service for women and girls whose mental health is affected by experiences of abuse should have to close for lack of funds. vidasheffield.org.uk
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Home - Vida Sheffield
Vida Sheffield is an independent women's voluntary sector organisation. We are a specialist trauma-focused and gender sensitive therapy service for women and
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normanp.bsky.social @normanp.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Worth a read. But there’s much to be said about the role of community organisations “in developing new models of neighbourhood care”.
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Richard Humphries @richardhumphries.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
if they are planning a review then I hope they read this www.health.org.uk/publications.... @healthfoundation.bsky.social
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Social care commissions: looking back to move forward
Adult social care in England desperately needs reform and investment. We look back at the approaches and proposals of previous similar reviews.
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