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Grandmother, likes creative arts, progressive politics and good people.

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Michelangelo Signorile @msignorile.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Israel once again undercuts U.S. in killing top security official Larijani. From NYT: “Ali Larijani had opposed the succession of Mojtaba Khamenei as Iran’s supreme leader and had lobbied the council of clerics that elected him to consider changing their vote for a more moderate choice. “
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Dee Chan @deechan17.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
And here we all are at the beginning of WWIII. Interesting how much a distraction it is from Trump's involvement in the biggest sex trafficking ring in the history of the world 🌎 EVER. Release the fully unredacted Trump/Epstein files. NOW.
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Elsie @rosie76.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
stoptrump.org.uk/sign-venezue...
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Open letter: UK must not abstain on UN Venezuela vote
Stop Trump Coalition
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Elsie @rosie76.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
stoptrump.org.uk/petition-bbc/
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Petition: Defend BBC independence from Trump’s interference
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House: Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social
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Elsie @rosie76.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
www.europeanmovement.co.uk/keep_uk_in_e...
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Open Letter: Keep the UK in the ECHR
Sign the European Movement UK's open letter now if you agree that the UK must remain in the ECHR.
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WIRED @wired.com · 30/08/2025
“Abrupt changes” threaten to send the continent past the point of no return, at which point continued ice-melting would submerge coastal cities around the world. www.wired.com/story/antarc...
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Antarctica Is Changing Rapidly. The Consequences Could Be Dire
“Abrupt changes” threaten to send the continent past the point of no return, at which point continued ice-melting would submerge coastal cities around the world.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/08/2025
The US is complicit in genocide. Let’s stop pretending otherwise | Mehdi Hasan
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The US is complicit in genocide. Let’s stop pretending otherwise | Mehdi Hasan
The US government, enabled by the media, is an active participant in Israel’s atrocities in Gaza
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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Elsie @rosie76.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I am so enjoying Not Just the Tudors on BBC Radio 4, led by Susannah Lipscomb. Every podcast is a delight.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/05/2025
Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
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Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’
Letter also signed by Hanif Kureishi and Russell T Davies urges ceasefire and unrestricted distribution of aid Three hundred and eighty writers and organisations including Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Russell T Davies, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and George Monbiot have signed a letter stating that the Israeli government’s war in Gaza is genocidal and calling for an immediate ceasefire. “The use of the words ‘genocide’ or ‘acts of genocide’ to describe what is happening in Gaza is no longer debated by international legal experts or human rights organizations,” reads the letter, which was also signed by William Dalrymple, Jeanette Winterson, Brian Eno, Kate Mosse, Irvine Welsh and Elif Shafak. Continue reading...
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superhackers @superhackers.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
I can study all my life: Denmark pays students $1,000 a month to go to universities, with no tuition fees
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services. Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt. While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant of £10tn. That's how privatisation 'works'.
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Elsie @rosie76.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I think Gary Lineker is a good citizen. 👍
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Elsie @rosie76.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
I just signed the petition to to demand the Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
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Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services
Across the UK, living standards are falling and millions live in poverty, while the cost of living crisis has made affording the basics difficult. Public services we all rely on - our hospitals, schoo...
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 18/05/2025
“In the first three months, the Trump family has become $3 billion wealthier, so that’s a billion dollars a month.”
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You Won’t Believe How Much Richer the Trumps Have Gotten This Year
How in the hell does he get away with this? Here’s the answer.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 15/05/2025
On May 15, Palestinians mark the Nakba. What began in 1948 remains the world’s longest unresolved refugee crisis.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 15/05/2025
Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, was removed from the Senate after confronting lawmakers over US support for Israel's military campaign in Gaza.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/05/2025
Bruce Springsteen says Trump is running ‘rogue government’ and ‘siding with dictators’
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Bruce Springsteen says Trump is running ‘rogue government’ and ‘siding with dictators’
Rock’n’roll legend makes series of blistering speeches on stage in Manchester, targeting ‘corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration’ Bruce Springsteen has made a series of rousing, splenetic speeches castigating Donald Trump and his administration, calling the president “unfit” for office. In what amounts to one of the most sustained attacks on Trump and American lawmakers from a cultural figure, he made the speeches on stage in Manchester, as he opened his Land of Hope and Dreams tour with the E Street Band. There’s some very weird, strange and dangerous shit going on out there right now. In America, they are persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent. This is happening now. In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death. This is happening now. Continue reading...
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Elsie @rosie76.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Fed up with Farage? Me too. I’ve signed the Never Nigel Pledge. Add your name today, and help show that division and hate have no place in our communities. secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/170649/... @hopenothate.org.uk
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Take the Pledge: “I’ll never vote for Nigel Farage”
Join thousands across Britain taking the Never Nigel Pledge. Say no to hate and division and help stop Reform UK from tearing apart our communities. Let's show there is strength in standing together f...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Armenian genocide = genocide Cambodian genocide = genocide Holocaust = genocide Holodomor = genocide Rwanda = genocide Gaza = genocide
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Pope Leo XIV on Gaza in his first Sunday blessing: “I am deeply pained by what is happening on the Gaza Strip. Let the fighting cease immediately, let humanitarian aid be provided to the exhausted civilian population, and may all hostages be released.” I’m glad he’s advocating for Palestine!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/05/2025
Susan Sarandon among hundreds to urge BBC to release delayed Gaza film
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Susan Sarandon among hundreds to urge BBC to release delayed Gaza film
Open letter signed by more than 600 industry figures says corporation is failing in its journalistic responsibility Oscar winning actor Susan Sarandon and British filmmaker Mike Leigh are among hundreds of figures from the cultural world accusing the BBC of censoring “Palestinian voices”, after its decision to delay the broadcast of a documentary on medics in Gaza. Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, has received an open letter signed by more than 600 industry figures – including some of his own employees – stating that editorial caution over the subject has spilled over into “political suppression”. Continue reading...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 07/05/2025
Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 05/05/2025
A group of pro-Palestinian activists in Japan staged a die-in protest in Tokyo’s Ginza district against Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
🚨BREAKING @libertyhq.bsky.social HAS WON ITS CASE TO #DefendDemocracy! The Court of Appeal has ruled anti-protest laws which completely ignored will of Parliament are UNLAWFUL Today’s judgement sends a powerful message to the government. It must now do the right thing youtu.be/ZZxEUkEU5Lc?...
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🚨BREAKING: Liberty wins its case in the Court of Appeal - anti-protest laws ruled UNLAWFUL!
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
In case you missed it ... This is the electoral truth about Brexit that for some reason Labour continues to ignore. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Elsie @rosie76.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Private shareholders made dividends of £3.6 billion from owning our trains in the last decade. Yet the government is leaving our trains fully privately owned. Sign We Own It's petition to demand they take our trains into public ownership: weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...
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Petition: Take our trains into public ownership | We Own It
The government is taking railway operators into public ownership, but the trains themselves will remain in private hands. The government must take our trains into public ownership.
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CNN @cnn.com · 27/03/2025
Attacks on Palestinian farmers and activists in the occupied West Bank are not new. However, the ferocity of the attack – and Ballal’s subsequent detention – made him feel that the settlers – and the Israeli military – were taking revenge for their film and its international reach. cnn.it/4iU01Sc
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‘No other land:’ Oscar-winning Palestinian director says settler assault won’t push him from his home | CNN
In a small village in the Hebron hills of the occupied West Bank, Hamdan Ballal stood outside his house in a track suit with a black eye.
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The Mirror @mirror.co.uk · 15/03/2025
Last Sunday, five years on from the start of pandemic, the UK held a Day of Reflection to remember those who lost their lives and to stand with those who are grieving.
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Covid-19: The politicians who failed Britain during the Pandemic five years on
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worldbytenews.bsky.social @worldbytenews.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Fears of environmental disaster after ship crash​on March 11, 2025 at 7:43 am There are mounting fears of an environmental disaster off the coast of England after a cargo ship collided with an oil tanker in the North Sea. ​There are mounting fears of an environmental disaster off the coast of…
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Fears of environmental disaster after ship crash​on March 11, 2025 at 7:43 am
There are mounting fears of an environmental disaster off the coast of England after a cargo ship collided with an oil tanker in the North Sea. ​There are mounting fears of an environmental disaster off the coast of England after a cargo ship collided with an oil tanker in the North Sea.   Video: Fears of environmental disaster after ship crash…
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Pascal Jacquemain @jacquep.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Hey Starmer, before you sign a trade deal with Donald, maybe make sure food is not included
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/02/2025
"Trump has just presided over one of the greatest diplomatic disasters in modern history," writes the Guardian's Washington DC bureau chief David Smith.
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‘Dummies for Putin’: Democrats defend Zelenskyy after ‘shameful’ Trump meeting
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/02/2025
James Cameron says US under Trump is ‘horrifying’ as he becomes New Zealand citizen
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James Cameron says US under Trump is ‘horrifying’ as he becomes New Zealand citizen
Titanic and Avatar director says ‘America doesn’t stand for anything if it doesn’t stand for what it has historically stood for’ – and that he prefers New Zealand to Canada James Cameron has voiced his relief that he is becoming a New Zealand citizen in…
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 28/02/2025
Craig Unger, an American journalist and writer who has written two books on Trump’s connections to Russia’s security services and the Russian mafia, says he is "absolutely certain" that the U.S. president is a Russian asset. The Kyiv Independent sat down with Unger to hear what makes him so certain.
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Is Donald Trump a Russian asset? This US author is 'completely certain' he is
Questions about U.S. President Donald Trump's possibly shady relationship with Russia and the country's security services have long swirled, even culminating in a special counsel investigation during ...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/02/2025
If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean Todt
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If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently | Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Jean Todt
Deaths on the road costs countries up to 5% of GDP. Centring transport around people, not cars, can propel development
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
US has come a long way since days of genocide, slavery, racial segregation. Trump delivering: sackings of judges, military commanders, public servants; opposition to diversity/equality; censorship of books, scholarly journals, silencing of journalists. Won't have a happy ending. What will UK do?
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How governments distract from social injustice by creating moral panics
Censorship and indoctrination diminish the possibilities for emancipatory change
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night. 800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream. There is a movement to be harnessed here. @sanders.senate.gov (📸 Anna Bahr)
A picture inside the Omaha venue in which hundreds are seen standing and listening to Bernie Sanders. Many have their phones in the air recording it and it is a generally young crowd.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
“Trump’s America has started its own cold war against liberal democracy. His weapons include the withdrawal of military support, the elevation of Vladimir Putin from pariah to partner, propaganda attacks, & subversion” Superb read from @nickcohen.bsky.social nickcohen.substack.com/p/trumps-tru...
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Trump’s true enemy isn’t China or Russia but liberal democracy
The new Cold War between Europe and America
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Vegan Horizon @veganhorizon.substack.com · 16/02/2025
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Poorest fifth in England pay 4.8% of income in council tax; richest fifth 1.5%. 27% real term cut in council funding since 2010, govt hand tax cuts to corporations/rich. Poor hit with regressive taxes VAT Fuel duty Wages taxed at higher rates than dividends, capital gains. Need tax justice.
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Poorest UK households pay rising share of income on council tax, study finds
Resolution Foundation report says failure to reform has ‘slowly recreated the issues that undid the poll tax’
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
"Anti-migrant politics will not build a single house, staff a single hospital or raise anyone’s wages. Instead, by echoing its rhetoric, the government is simply fuelling the rise of Reform UK" Well done to these Labour MPs, trade unionists, and members. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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More than 900 Labour figures decry party’s migration and asylum policy
Joint statement accuses government of copying Tories’ ‘performative cruelty’
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
"It is well-known that most of the mainstream media do not approach a Labour Government in a neutral way. Some blatantly misrepresent what is happening, but more often they simply do not report activity, leaving people with a sense that the government is doing nothing."
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Government is busy: but the media are not telling you
Despite what the press tells us, the government is very busy, often doing popular things. But you wouldn’t know it from the press coverage
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
If Brexit had never happened… …we’d be much wealthier, with more investment in public services, better trade - and with our parliament & govt having spent the last decade doing far more productive things. 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Keep Our NHS Public @keepournhspublic.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Our co-chairs @drtonyosullivan.bsky.social & @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social write here about how this govt is wrong to embrace the private sector to provide the country's healthcare. Read it here 👇 morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nhs-...
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NHS under threat: Labour is wrong to embrace private sector
Diverting public funding to grow private-sector ‘spare capacity,’ actively undermines the funding and staff available to the NHS and results in a worse service, write JOHN PUNTIS and TONY O’SULLIVAN
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Rachel Reeves looks to have been a bit silly but for journalists of a certain age to profess outrage at creative expenses claims turns hypocrisy in to an art form. When I started out, one legendary character was reputed to have put a son through Eton via bogus receipts. But my favourite story...
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
🙌 Well done everyone! 🙌 Read (and share!) this piece by Robert McMaster, who started the petition:
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Petition to rejoin the EU reaches 100,000 signatures
100,000 signatures - enough to be considered for a debate by MPs in Parliament!
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