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Rachel Wadsworth

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Endeavouring to be a good mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend and citizen of the world.

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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 1h
“Until we can figure out a way to ban rape on campus we should not in any capacity be trying to figure out how to ban a book about it,” one librarian said.
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Book Bans Just Hit A Record High in The U.S. — And Guess Which States Led The Nation?
“Until we can figure out a way to ban rape on campus we should not in any capacity be trying to figure out how to ban a book about it,” one librarian said.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1h
🚨Under the Ending Importation of Russian Oil Act 2022, Russian diesel CANNOT be imported into the U.S. unless the President certifies to Congress that Russia has withdrawn from Ukraine, acknowledged Ukraine's sovereignty & no longer poses a threat to NATO.🚨 (Credit: @jayinkyiv.bsky.social)
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2h
The contrast between the utterly sycophantic coverage this week of Kemi Badenoch, whose party has a truly atrocious electoral record under her leadership, and the utterly dismissive coverage of the Greens, tells you everything you need to know about media bias in the UK
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Why the Holborn and St Pancras By-Election Was a Good Result for the Green Party
The dismissive coverage of Zack Polanski’s party obscures a far bigger truth about the rise of the left in British politics
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The Web of Evil @webofevil.bsky.social · 54m
If there's one overriding principle in 21st-century British public life, it's that you've got to be polite to the fash
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h
Lettuce, jalapenos, blueberries, beef. All these recalls and illnesses aren’t a coincidence. They’re the result of incompetence and corruption within the Trump regime, and unchecked corporate power. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hAzTOEuCJA
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Trump's Food Policy is a Literal Sh*tshow
The Trump administration was too stupid to realize that cutting food safety programs and firing thousands of public serv
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h
The Trump rally has an affordability problem.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 17h
Wow. Donald Trump is giving money to Putin’s war machine so he can keep killing innocent Ukrainians and attacking democracies across Europe. The UK must lead a coalition of the willing that stands up and says no.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 13h
Northern Ireland’s Drumcree parade banned ft.trib.al/H92HQ1y
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Northern Ireland’s Drumcree parade banned
NI secretary Chris Bryant seeks to defuse tensions between Protestants and Catholics in the region
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 16h
So let's get this straight: Russia just murdered over 65 people in Ukraine in less than 48 hours. Crushed a building on top of sleeping families to celebrate Putin's birthday. And today, the U.S. announces that they are lifting sanctions on Russian diesel and planning to buy some,
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 20h
“In no way can [his] actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered,” said the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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U.S. Catholic Bishops Head Slams Plans To Livestream Texas Execution, Calling It ‘A Barbaric Promotion’
U.S. Catholic Bishops Head Slams Plans To Livestream Texas Execution, Calling It ‘A Barbaric Promotion’
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Fantasy Football Scout @ffscoutfpl.bsky.social · 23h
🚨 ESSENTIAL FPL TEAM NEWS 🎙️ SkontoRigga | FFScout_Joe Will Joao Pedro play?! 😵‍💫 LIVE 3PM 🚨 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GIP...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 08/10/2026
Imagine being Blake Johnson, an Iowa father of 3, discovering your water has 3X the legal nitrate limit. He goes to Washington for answers, and Rep. Ashley Hinson, who takes agribusiness money, reportedly RUNS AWAY and hides behind a locked door. #CostOfTrumpsCorruption
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What America looks like when we put the absolute worst of us in power.👇
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Sometimes you just need to sit for a moment with how far and fast things are going.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 09/10/2026
Ken Paxton is calling for cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. This man has least 15 properties across five states, but you are the one living beyond your means.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yes, and when the private sector screws up, it is the NHS that must pick up the pieces, at whatever cost. A textbook example of the government privatising the profit and socialising the risk
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Truth 👇
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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What is going on with our president? Calling people "THE ENEMY" for exercising their First Amendment rights is deeply disturbing. That's what autocratic leaders do, not American leaders. Doing so for such a trivial, vain matter is just nutty.
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Brian @brianscant.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The barrister who cleared Jukes and Orr is Reform’s own barrister, Adam Richardson. Investigations, internal or otherwise, are more credible if the lawyer isn’t the company’s own lawyer! For anyone interested in Richardson, a failed UKIP candidate, read this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In 2015 David Cameron privatised the National Fostering Agency, it's now being paid £160m a year straight to a New Jersey tax haven to manage the fostering of just 2,616 children A tax free profit of £61,000 per child, and they don't even provide any care, that's the fosters job
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Q on Politics Live: Why is inheritance tax so unpopular, despite so few paying it? Answers offered: Double taxation; against aspiration; something something British psyche. Answer not offered: Media owners, pundits, politicians (i.e. everyone in that studio), and pollsters would be caught by it.
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Reform's barrister, who cleared the party and aides of wrongdoing alleged in an undercover investigation into foreign donations, was a UKIP member for years and has a longstanding association with Farage.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In the spirit of consistency, I do hope Badenoch will be constantly asked "Where's the money coming from?"
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
America right now is the maddest place on earth. Like watching a David Lynch film.
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Rachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hey folks. In total honesty my tour is NOT selling well. I’ve sold 30 tickets in a 400 seater in Birmingham, and not much more elsewhere. If you like musical comedy, if you like standup, then please come see my show! And spread the word! The Rachel Parris Songbook tour starts in Nov! Link in bio! 🎶
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The party is polling, on aggregate, nine points lower than the day she took over, even with every right-wing media shoulder to the Badenoch wheel for several months now, and Reform in free fall, they have managed a one-point improvement since their party conference last year.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Helps fuel ICE's deportations -Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc -Donated to Trump's ballroom -Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch, "I don't want to live in a country run by people.. who debate whether my mixed race children are English" "We must not let these people take us backwards, that is not the country that we are" My view: For years, too many Tories indulged or amplified the same culture-war rhetoric
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 07/10/2026
We don't often agree with Kemi Badenoch, but she's spot on here 🚨
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 07/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch has pledged to scrap inheritance tax on family homes in her closing speech to the Tory conference, even as she accused Prime Minister Andy Burnham of 'spending money we don’t have'. Follow live updates ft.trib.al/sbKDC2H
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Paddington is polite, kind and full of integrity and loved by just about everyone he meets. Maybe she doesn't have a clue...
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Susan Collins is showing just how out of touch she is. “I spent a whole year without health insurance…in ‘94” That was 3 decades ago, Susan, when insurance was $1500 annually… Thanks to Susan’s vote that helped pass Trump’s murderous budget bill, premiums are $1500 a month now for some folks.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Does very much feel like the Badenoch Tories are a busted flush.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If there is one thing that encapsulates the moral bankruptcy of America it is this.
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Broken Politics 🌍 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What... the "soul" her party destroyed by privatising water, rail, energy, social housing, and everything else... ...making our lives a misery of profiteering, pollution, poverty and the perpetual conflict and hatred caused by #Brexit? THAT "soul"? F**k off. #r4today #ToryConference #ukpolitics
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Childcare for those earning more than £100,000, an inheritance tax cut for the 4.72 per cent of people that pay it… The Tories are no longer even pretending they give a toss about the majority of people in the UK.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Call me old-fashioned, but I just think that if you are announcing £10bn of spending, then if the Shadow Treasury team and the leader's office are doing their jobs properly, the leader should have clearer answers to these questions:
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You really didn't need a study 👇
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "How long do you think its going to take for people to forget you ran the country for 14 years?" Helen Whateley, "Kemi has published an essay called The Right Way, really thinking about what's gone wrong with the country" 14 years of Tory austerity 🤷‍♀️
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Caller on LBC saying: “We can’t do x because there is no money.” How quickly people seem to have forgotten how this lie was exposed during Covid, when the UK government found a magic money tree and conjured up between £310 and £410 billion to tide us over. Ask the politicians to explain that.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.
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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams
Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI is being used to... -Facilitate online scams -Process health insurance claims, leading to wrongful denials -Price gouge customers via surveillance pricing -Set higher car insurance premiums using personal data The dangers of AI aren’t in some far-off future. They're already here.
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WBH @wbh7777.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
🥊 Hassett gets his ass kicked by Tapper 🥊 Hassett's efforts to insist Trump's economy is the greatest ever and POTUS has never failed to deliver on his promises did not go well on CNN, as Tapper brought receipts to back up the feeling the majority of Americans have about how hard it is to get by
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
Blanche on the Trump administration deporting people to third countries where they have no connection: "This idea that we're violating human rights and the president and US is doing something to damage and put these people in harm's way is just categorically false"
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/10/2026
Polish activists launch abortion pill locker to bypass near-total ban
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Polish activists launch abortion pill locker to bypass near-total ban
‘AbortOmat’ in Warsaw offers novel way to challenge country’s restrictions and allow women swift, anonymous access They call it the “world’s first parcel locker for abortion pills”. Polish campaigners have launched a new means of distribution as part of their ongoing effort to skirt the country’s near-total ban on abortion. Painted pink and framed by zebra-striped curtains, the 22-compartment “AbortOmat” in Warsaw allows women to access the pills swiftly and anonymously using a six-digit code. The service was envisaged for those who cannot or do not want to wait days for mail delivery due to a missed miscarriage or health complications, or who worry about receiving the pills at home. Continue reading...
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They Better Be........!
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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