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Martje

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Could the air we breathe influence the risk for Lewy body dementia and Parkinson’s disease dementia? PM2.5 refers to tiny air pollution particles small enough to enter the lungs and possibly even the ...
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 19/05/2026
Bylines Network brings you, People Before Profit. This is your chance to hold rogue organisations to account, and help us investigate those who don’t appear to care about the people they serve. Read all about it here 👇 peoplebeforeprofit.uk/index.php
Meme promoting Bylines Network Bylines Network People Before Profit campaign.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Large Ebola Outbreak Is Declared in Congo Dozens of deaths and hundreds of infections are suspected, an African agency said. Health experts were alarmed that the outbreak hadn’t been announced sooner. Its a plane flight away. And we are not prepared. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/w...
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Large Ebola Outbreak Is Declared in Congo
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Renewable energy is often framed as climate policy. But what if the *more urgent* case is simply national security?
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Renewable energy is no longer just climate policy – it’s national security
Energy policy rarely feels urgent – until global instability exposes how dependent Britain remains on others to keep running
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Martje @starlingde.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
FWIW. Merz be Merzing. Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/ke...
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Keine Mindestlohn-Ausnahmen!
Wusstest Du, dass die CDU Mindestlohn-Ausnahmen für Saisonarbeiter*innen in der Landwirtschafts plant? Das ist unfair. Der Mindestlohn gilt für alle Arbeiter*innen. ✍️ Jetzt unterzeichnen und teilen!
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Vance is clearly at war with Europe and the EU… endangering the continent. We need his interference cleared out - these are hostile actions. #Vance #Orban #Hungary #Elections
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 03/04/2026
We’re proudly independent – no corporate owners or billionaire backers. But it costs us at least £150k a year to run our network. Become a Friend of Bylines Network. For as little as £3.50 a month, you’ll get behind-the-scenes insights, access to special events, merchandise, and more.
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Friends of Bylines Network - Bylines Network
Stand with us – sign up. now to become a Friend of Bylines Network
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Some Tories, after 14 years in power… …are saying nothing now works in the UK. So they’re joining Reform, so they can complain about the Tory record - and you can vote them right back in, in a few years’ time, under new anti-Tory branding. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Absolutely shocking. We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases. We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.
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Martje @starlingde.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
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EU Commission proposes unlimited pesticide approvals: Science abandoned, industry interests above health and environment
A draft Omnibus regulation on Food and Feed reveals that the European Commission’s DG SANTE is attempting to deregulate all chemical pesticides. This comes under the guise of “simplification”, intende...
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
"In the ashes of war... Europe pulled together to create collaborative bodies designed to prevent a repeat of the horrors of Nazi Germany. One such body was the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)."
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Remembrance: 75 years of the ECHR
The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) celebrates its 75th birthday this month – like all elders, it has a lifetime of wisdom to share
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
More than 700,000 homes across the ten English councils now governed by Reform UK are projected to face medium or higher flood risk by the middle of the century, exclusive analysis of national modelling by Byline Times and Bylines Network shows.
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Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years
Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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Martje @starlingde.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Write to your MEP: noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
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EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR
The EU Commission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the GDPR. noybs first overview of the proposed changes.
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Martje @starlingde.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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When power is untouchable: the legal abyss facing Harrods survivors
Survivors of abuse connected to Mohamed Al Fayed’s Harrods empire are discovering what “no one is above the law” really means
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
House cancels votes next week, including vote on Epstein files.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Fired for defending science and speaking the truth. Dr. George Tidmarsh, head of the FDA’s drug division, says he was placed on administrative leave after questioning the legal basis of a new “rapid approval” program for certain drugs. A longtime industry veteran who joined the agency in
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
983 supporters on the Bylines Network crowdfunder! Can we get that over 1,000 please? 🙏🙏 Link --> chuffed.org/project/byli...
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Hitler had a large ball room/ reception hall built at the Old Reich Chancellery in Berlin This was part of a major renovation of the building after he became Chancellor. It was designed by Albert Speer and completed in 1939
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Martje @starlingde.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
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China’s New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten U.S. Defense Supply Chains
China has imposed its most stringent rare earth and magnet export controls yet, restricting products with even trace Chinese content. This bolsters its leverage ahead of the Trump-Xi meeting and heigh...
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Martje @starlingde.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/er...
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Erhalt des Pflegegrads 1 - für alle Angehörigen und Pflegenden!
Mein Name ist Monika Müller-Herrmann, ich bin pflegende Angehörige, mein Ehemann ist dement. Ich war 15 Jahre lang Altenpflegerin und in der ambulanten Pflege tätig. Um jeden Pflegegrad für meinen Man...
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Vicars, grannies, blind people, those in wheelchairs all being physically carried away by police, one at a time after their rights are read… All for holding a placard. …instead of the police being used to stop rape, burglary, domestic violence and theft. This farce has to break, surely.
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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
COVID & Health News, 10/5/25 open.substack.com/pub/drruth/p...
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COVID & Health News, 10/5/25
According to JP Weiland, there are about 510,000 new COVID infections daily with about 1 in 66 people currently infected in the U.S.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Reform’s Russia connections are a danger to our national security. It’s time for a public inquiry.
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Nathan Gill’s treachery puts him in same league as the “Cambridge Five”
Reform’s Russia connections may endanger our security – time for a public inquiry
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
YouTubers are earning up to £20,000 a month by making provocative videos that have targeted a Norfolk hotel used to house asylum seekers. Hotels up and down the country are regularly targeted by content creators known as ‘auditors’.
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Lucrative hate: YouTubers target migrant hotels for clicks
YouTubers are cashing in by harassing asylum seekers at hotels, turning human misery into profitable, divisive entertainment
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country? Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide. It undermines police and the law.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
“Why is Keir Starmer allowing the right wing to set the political agenda with confected crises, rather than engaging with real issues?”
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Smoke and mirrors
Why is Keir Starmer allowing the right wing to set the political agenda with confected crises, rather than engaging with real issues?
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Martje @starlingde.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Regal 👑
A French bulldog sitting on a purple blanket in an adapted old-fashioned pink baby pram on cobblestones.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Disney is no longer associated with magic and innocence in the minds of millions now. There are mistakes - and there is catastrophic cowardice that changes your brand identity. Boycott Disney.
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Martje @starlingde.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/pr...
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Pride und freien Protest schützen! Ausbreitung von biometrischer Massenüberwachung stoppen
Ob die Pride-Parade dieses Jahr in Budapest stattfinden kann, war lange unklar. Die ungarische Regierung wollte mit einer queerfeindlichen Gesetzesänderung die Parade verhindern. Alle, die die Parade ...
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Martje @starlingde.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Mega illegally downloaded 80+ TB from LibGen et al to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Schwartz downloaded only 70 articles from JSTOR, faced a 1 million dollar fine and 35 years in jail. He killed himself in 2013. Picture of Aaron Schwartz.
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Martje @starlingde.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
@ec.europa.eu
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
The cost of helping Ukraine win is far lower than the price of a Russian victory. The EU has the means. What’s missing is the will.
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Military support to Ukraine is more important than enlargement
EU enlargement alone won’t bring peace or security to Ukraine. Without increased military support, Europe risks prolonging the war
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Martje @starlingde.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/ke...
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Kein Genderverbot, Herr Staatsminister Weimer!
Kultur lebt von Offenheit, Kreativität und dem Mut zur Veränderung insbesondere in Hinblick auf eine gerechtere Gesellschaft – doch genau diese Werte werden durch Ihr Gender-Verbot ausgehebelt. Auch i...
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Martje @starlingde.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
All the Epstein and Trump stuff. Have a blast: reddit.com/comments/1me...
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LocalGuy855's comment on "Democrats invoke rare Senate rule to force release of Epstein documents"
Explore this conversation and more from the law community
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Martje @starlingde.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
innn.it/keinmord
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Petition · Ich bin Arzt & meine Hilfe ist keine Sünde: Stoppt die Kriminalisierung von Schwangerschaftsabbrüchen! · innn.it
Jetzt innn.it-Petition unterschreiben & Chefarzt Prof. Dr. Joachim Volz unterstützen!
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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Wishing the world a happy Yorkshire Day. And what better way to do it than with a world famous song originally written and performed by a Sheffield band, and covered by another one here. Blue Sky: meet the Everly Pregnant Brothers.
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Dunt Tha Want Mi
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Democracy on the Brink in Georgia “Democracy can collapse faster than we think”: urgent warnings from Georgia spotlight rising authoritarian threats across Europe and the West.
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Democracy on the Brink in Georgia
“Democracy can collapse faster than we think”: urgent warnings from Georgia spotlight rising authoritarian threats across Europe and the West
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The UK govt is deeply complicit in the Gaza genocide. This article powerfully documents it all. Do read and share. 👇
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In all but name: is Gaza Britain’s undeclared war?
Britain isn’t just watching Gaza burn – it’s helping fuel the fire, with weapons, intelligence, and silence
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
"It’s become the respectable face of the same, tired old bigotry. A linguistic get-out-of-jail-free card. Prejudice pretending to be civic duty, hoping no one notices the smell."
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‘I’m not racist, just concerned’
From Epping to Facebook groups, how fear is being repackaged and pointed downwards and never up
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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
COVID & Health news, 7/13/25 open.substack.com/pub/drruth/p...
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COVID & Health news, 7/13/25
COVID levels in wastewater are now HIGH in many places according to WastewaterSCAN.
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Martje @starlingde.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
@searchliaison.bsky.social Your antisemitic AI needs fixing. I'm checking again tomorrow and if it still does this will go to the media and also report y'all.
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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The Republican budget is a climate horror open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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The Republican budget is a climate horror
Not content to ignore climate change, they decided to make it even worse.
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Martje @starlingde.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
@georgetakei.bsky.social @morgfair.bsky.social
Description of when the items on the Big Beautiful Bill come into effect. Mostly late 2026 so it is after ballots are cast.
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FRANCE 24 @france24.com · 06/07/2025
Texas : au moins 50 morts dans les inondations, des dizaines d'enfants toujours portés disparus
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Texas : au moins 50 morts dans les inondations, des dizaines d'enfants toujours portés disparus
Après les inondations au Texas, au moins 50 morts ont été recensés, selon un bilan actualisé samedi soir. Les recherches continuent pour retrouver plusieurs dizaines d'enfants disparus qui participaient à un camp d'été chrétien pour filles sur les rives du fleuve Guadalupe.
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Martje @starlingde.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
A new kind of evil: smoking on your balcony during the coolest part of the day while everyone tries to air out their flat before the heat of the day hits. Oh yeah, she knows. I told her my apartment stinks when she smokes. She just told me to close my windows and doors.
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Martje @starlingde.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Unterzeichne jetzt die WeAct-Petition, damit die Regenbogenflagge am CSD über dem Bundestag wehen kann! weact.campact.de/petitions/kl...
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Klöckners Amtsmissbrauch stoppen! Die Regenbogenfahne am CSD muss wehen!
Das deutsche Grundgesetz verbietet ausdrücklich die Diskriminierung von Minderheiten (1). Damit ist klar: Neutralität in der Frage der Rechte queerer Menschen besteht nicht daraus, keine Flagge zu zei...
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Martje @starlingde.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
@ec.europa.eu @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @ukparliament.parliament.uk youtu.be/oJW2iES4oPw
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The Bargain of a Lifetime
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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
HAPPENING NOW: Protesters are not backing down in their clash with ICE agents over raid operations in the Los Angeles area 📍Paramount, CA
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