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Retired doctor. Architecture nut. Jazz fan. Remainer.

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rosmitton.bsky.social @rosmitton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
‘No question”
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rosmitton.bsky.social @rosmitton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Helpful explainer as usual from HCR. ‘the United States is entering its eighth month of a war on Iran that Trump apparently began with the same cowboy mentality Bush carried into the war in Iraq.’ Hegseth: “The ideological clowns are out,” he said. “The patriotic cowboys are in”
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Always remember ... Brexit was the first salvo in a Putin-backed attack upon the West. The same battle is now being fought throughout Europe. If the UK finally bins Brexit and rejoins the EU, it will be seen as a victory for the whole of Europe — and a decisive strike against Putin-backed populism.
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rosmitton.bsky.social @rosmitton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Jack Smith - “I myself have been threatened with jail by the President of the United States. “I remain confident, however, that the rule of law will endure because so many continue to uphold it faithfully each day.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The govt runs a day by day tracker www.gov.uk/government/p...
gov.uk
Small boat arrivals: last 7 days
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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rosmitton.bsky.social @rosmitton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Before: “virtually every member of Congress could be expected to commit to the peaceful transfer of congressional power” Now: “it would be hard to find even one congressional Republican with the integrity, sense of duty to country, honor, and courage to put America above the Republican Party.”
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This should not be described by the police as "lawful protest" when it is not lawful & not protest
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today.
"I wish President Trump could hear the mom's wails. The

family wants people to know that this was a suicide and they

want people to know that President Trump, (Stephen) Miller, and Markwayne Mullin's inhumane immigration policies made this happen," Ruby wrote.
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rosmitton.bsky.social @rosmitton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“This is a good time to note that Hegseth is terrible at his job, that the Pentagon is a mess, that he should never have been confirmed, and that he should be fired first thing in the morning. But in this administration, sycophancy is more important than competence.” ‘
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
my latest on the miracle of the MMR vaccine. christinapagel.substack.com/p/trump-and-...
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Trump and RFK Jr need to shut up about the MMR vaccine
A reminder of how terrible these diseases used to be
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The cyclospora outbreak has reached 7,400 cases across 9 states. The FDA just recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,300 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”
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FifthDrɐəm @fifthdreamtoday.com · 12/05/2026
What ever happened with this? Nothing? No follow up? www.congress.gov/congressiona... STATEMENT FROM MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS; Congressional Record Vol. 172, No. 76 (Senate - April 30, 2026) Medical Concerns About President Donald J. Trump and His Fitness for Office
congress.gov
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🅲🅸🆅🅸🅻 🅳🅴🅵🅴🅽🆂🅴🗽 @musiccomposer.com · 23/07/2026
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
On the £10 billion wasted PPE (I founded and built the org of doctors that took the Tories to court and proved the existence of the VIP PPE lane along with Good Law Project)…
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 28/10/2025
In case you missed it, here is @ledbydonkeys.org summary of 12 jobs Nigel Farage working for the people of Clacton.
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Many MPs describe being overrun with work. Nigel Farage has found time for another 12 jobs.
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 27/06/2026
The UN's top human rights official is demanding independent investigations into deaths inside US immigration detention, and says those responsible for breaking the law must be held to account. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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UN calls for ‘prompt investigations’ of deaths in US immigration custody
High commissioner for human rights calls for ‘those responsible for violations of the law’ to be held to account
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rosmitton.bsky.social @rosmitton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
vm.tiktok.com/ZNRcrwLgf/ “Everything in this town has got some contribution from non-british non-Barnsley people” “Immigrants make our society better” Somebody put this woman on the side of a bus - ledbydonkeys.com?
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Professor Michael Clarke, "On a daily basis the Russians are attacking Britain" "Attempts to create division in society" "Attempts to manipulate social media to create doubt" "And to effect our democracy, our elections"
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 28/05/2026
I want you to hear straight from me about what happened at Delaney Hall on Monday and what I saw inside the facility. ICE out of control. GEO Group profiting off of human misery. People living in inhumane conditions. Let me walk you through it.
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What I Saw Inside Delaney Hall Detention Facility
YouTube video by Senator Andy Kim
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rosmitton.bsky.social @rosmitton.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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rosmitton.bsky.social @rosmitton.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Take me back there! - 1964 - the Great Society - Medicare - ‘prohibiting voting, employment, or educational discrimination based on race, religion, sex, or national origin.‘
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UK News 🇬🇧 @news-flows-uk.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Suicides in ICE detention rise as 911 logs reveal harrowing details of self-harm The five suicides since January 1 are the most in any calendar year during the past two decades
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Suicides in ICE detention rise as 911 logs reveal harrowing details of self harm
The five suicides since January 1 are the most in any calendar year during the past two decades
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
So we have full 2025 immigration stats - Total net down by 2/3rds in 2025 (3/4 from peak) - Small boat arrivals in 2026 down 40%. Asylum backlog down 48%; returns up 9% - Asylum seekers in hotels down 35% (down 48% from peak) YET PUBLIC PERCEPTION 49% think 2025 saw increase; only 16% know it fell
Graph showing total net migration fell by two thirds in 2025. Graph showing use of supported accommodation lowest since 2022. Use of hotels halved from 2022 peak.Asylum applications, January 2025 to December 2025
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4% over 12 months
Home Office data, as of 26 February 2026
Returns and deportations from the UK, January 2025 to December 2025
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↑9% over 12 months
Home Office data, as of 26 February 2026
Arrivals by small boat, 1 January 2026 to 14 May 2026
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↓40% same period 2025
Home Office data, as of 15 May 2026Across the political spectrum, people mistakenly believe that migration is increasing
Perception net migration was higher in 2025 than 2024, by party respondent is likely to vote for
Reform
62%
Con
53%
Lib Dems
46%
Green
44%
Lab
41%
Guardian graphic. Source: British future. Note: 3,003 adults in Great Britain surveyed online, 19-30 Mar 2026
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Most of Britain thinks net migration is still rising — when it has actually fallen by more than three-quarters From our new 2026 @britishfuture.bsky.social study of public attitudes to immigration, published online here www.britishfuture.org/britain-thin...
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Britain thinks net migration is rising — when it has actually fallen by more than three-quarters - British Future
Findings from British Future’s annual Immigration Attitudes Tracker reveal the extent of public misperceptions on net migration.
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
My daughter, s-in-l & grandsons have just arrived for their first ever family holiday. Made possible by 2 increases in min wage, lower interest rates, 30 hour child care allowing her 2 more days work a week & breakfast clubs allowing 8am start time at doc surgery. Thanks Labour
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 14/05/2026
The rush to silence Black voters ahead of the 2026 election is stone cold racism. It's Jim Crow 2.0.
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rosmitton.bsky.social @rosmitton.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This. I’m mad.
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 08/05/2026
Councils: 🌹 Labour: 26 (-35) 🔶 Lib Dem: 15 (+3) ➡️ Reform: 13 (+13) 🌳 Conservative: 9 (-10) 🌍 Green: 4 (+4) 0️⃣ NOC/Oth: 59 (+25) 126/136 councils. (92.6%)
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Dear Reform-voting ladies… Do you know you’re voting for a party that wants to: ❌ Scrap the Equality Act - your legal protection against workplace discrimination & unequal pay ❌ Kill the Online Safety Act - the law protecting you from revenge porn
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The first thing Nigel Farage will introduce if he is elected is Health Insurance. The NHS correctly costs £200bn a year. In the USA Health Insurance is £14,000 a year per person £14,000 x 50m adults is £700bn a year. £500bn a year profit If you can't afford that you are dying
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 08/05/2026
ICE has spread fear and chaos on American streets. Yet, Reform UK says they want to introduce ICE-style in the UK. We spoke to people in Cardiff about Reform UK's dangerous plan. We don't want Trump-style policies here.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/05/2026
Revealed: The Trump administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 kids in seven months
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Revealed: The Trump administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 kids in seven months
The Guardian analyzed ICE records from January-August 2025, as advocates say the family-separation crisis will lead to generational trauma After three months in immigration detention, 1,500 miles (2,400km) away from her 13-month-old daughter, LT was running out of options. Her baby, who was allergic to formula and had other food sensitivities, had been vomiting constantly and needed breastmilk. But the government refused to release LT – an asylum seeker from Haiti – on bond. So, the family’s pediatrician petitioned the government to allow her to pump and mail her breastmilk from the Dilley detention center in Texas to her baby in Florida. That request was denied. During the first seven months of 2025, the administration arrested 18,400 parents – including 15,000 fathers and 3,000 mothers. They are the parents of 27,000 to 32,000 children. The administration arrested the parents of at least 12,000 US citizen children. Nearly 7,500 fathers and 1,000 mothers who were arrested had a different nationality than at least one of their children. In about half of these families, siblings had different citizenships from each other. On average, the Trump administration has been arresting about 2,300 parents each month and deporting 1,400 parents every month. The Biden administration, in comparison, deported about 700 per month in 2024. Continue reading...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Jewish Miriam Margolyes says it like it is, it looks like Hitler has won.
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Stace RN Resists 📎💙 OR @stacernresists.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Just one of the many in the country who must be held accountable for their crimes against humanity!
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Pandemic 𓅃. Index @panaccindex.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
@joho.bsky.social @wendyorent.bsky.social Wearing N95s, getting boosters, etc. makes you a cowardly sheep! I've had my 3rd eye opened listening to this compilation of inspirational quotes by all of those who empowered Emily Oster & Podcast Jay to finally break free of censorship. Give it a listen!
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NPR @npr.org · 23/04/2026
The executive director of World Press Photo said this image shows the inconsolable grief of children losing their father in a place built for justice. It is a stark and necessary record of family separation following the U.S. reform policies. n.pr/4d0E5EA
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World Press Photo announces Photo of the Year 2026
The executive director of World Press Photo said this image shows the inconsolable grief of children losing their father in a place built for justice. It is a stark and necessary record of family separation following the U.S. reform policies.
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rosmitton.bsky.social @rosmitton.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
“The Mar-a-Lago Mafia has taken American corruption to spectacular new heights.” (Ossoff) ‘Hakeem Jeffries said: “Kash Patel is deeply unqualified, deeply unserious, and his behavior is deeply un-American.“‘
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Responsible leaders must be honest with their societies. Russia is already waging a war against Europe by systematically targeting civilian environment - the systems that enable everyday life. These attacks take concrete forms:⤵️
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rosmitton.bsky.social @rosmitton.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
“reopen the strait and back away from its nuclear program.“ “President Barack Obama’s team, along with China, France, Germany, Russia, and the United Kingdom had achieved both of those goals with the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) Trump tore up in 2018.”
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
From Roger Scruton cafes to paying Matt Goodwin $10k a month, Viktor Orban has built a network of populist right think tanks, journalists and activists Today Democracy for Sale delves into Orban’s allies on the British right Well worth a read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
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What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses?
Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right
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rosmitton.bsky.social @rosmitton.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
No Kings in Cincinnati open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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No Kings in Cincinnati
Watch now | Join where you can, tomorrow.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Most of the media reflects neither reality nor public opinion. It reflects the views and demands of those who own it: the Oligarch Class. They employ editors and journalists to channel their demands and sell their fictions. Hence the endless attacks on net zero. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rightwing narrative fuelling false belief UK public oppose net zero, study finds
Reform, Tory and some media rhetoric runs contrary to poll showing far more voters for net zero than against it
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 19/03/2026
ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.
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rosmitton.bsky.social @rosmitton.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
“For every dollar of billionaire money that went to Democrats, they wrote, five dollars went to Republicans.”
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rosmitton.bsky.social @rosmitton.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
“all these issues are so deeply connected to a small group of billionaires and mega corporations protecting themselves from the law and trying to make as much money and consolidate power. Thats what the whole damn thing is about, from the Epstein Files to the Big Beautiful Bill” Rep Frost
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House Armed Services Democrats @democrats-armedservices.house.gov · 08/03/2026
"I have been in a lot of briefings w/govt officials & other experts ... over the last 9 days. It's as if we have learned absolutely nothing. We have to make the right policy choice, pressure the Trump Admin to find an off-ramp & get us out of this war." - HASC Ranking Member @adamsmith.house.gov
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rosmitton.bsky.social @rosmitton.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
This is horrific. “Examples of Gemini in particular prompting self-harm have also surfaced, including one incident where the chatbot told a college student: “You are a stain on the universe. Please die.””
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