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@vidagoldstein7.bsky.social
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Barrister & Human Rights Lawyer, writer, feminist, filmmaker - political being. Latest books Wage Rage for Equal Pay-Australia's Long Long Struggle, 2024; Beauty Women's Bodies and the Law-Performances in Plastic, 2020; Women Power and Autonomy, 2025

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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/on... @getup.org.au
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One Vote Should Mean One Vote
Melbourne is Victoria’s capital city. Its council elections should be fair, transparent and democratic. But right now, City of Melbourne elections are run under special rules that give some interest...
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pa...
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One Nation - Hands Off Our Rights At Work
One Nation say they are the party of workers, but their actions say differently. Time and time again Pauline Hanson and One Nation have voted against our rights at work. She’s voted against: • Same Jo...
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Seafolly breaches the law re transparency on the pay gap/pay equity, and breaches seriously women's right to equal pay! www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/se...
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Seafolly must release its gender pay gap data!
Gaps like this are not about paying men and women differently for the same job. They're usually about who holds which roles: men concentrated in senior, higher paid positions, women in lower paid, cus...
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I let my daughter, 9, stay up a little late to finish reading her third Nancy Drew mystery, by the lamp at her bed. Is it 1955? 1985? What is happening? Not a phone in sight, literacy thriving; don’t let the world fall apart.
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Janine Rees janinelrees.substack.com?r=2j5a65&utm...
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Janine Rees | Substack
Click to read Janine Rees on Substack. Launched a year ago.
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A fearless, independent ABC that is free for all Australians is worth fighting for. Sign the petition to reject calls to defund the ABC force it onto a subscription model that would price out the Australians who need it most. abcfriends.au/actions/keep...
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Keep the ABC free for all Australians - ABC Friends
Calls to defund the ABC and force it onto a subscription model would destroy what makes the ABC unique: its obligation to serve every Australian, regardless
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
A fearless, independent ABC that is free for all Australians is worth fighting for. Sign the petition to reject calls to defund the ABC force it onto a subscription model that would price out the Australians who need it most. abcfriends.au/actions/keep...
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Keep the ABC free for all Australians - ABC Friends
Calls to defund the ABC and force it onto a subscription model would destroy what makes the ABC unique: its obligation to serve every Australian, regardless
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
When Andrea Dworkin was drug-raped in a hotel room, in the summer of 1999, few believed her. What has changed, 27 years on? open.substack.com/pub/juliebin...
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When Andrea Dworkin was drug-raped in a hotel room, in the summer of 1999, few believed her. What has changed, 27 years on?
A montage painting of Andrea, by Lucy Edkins, that hangs in our home
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ho...
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Hospo venues that tolerate violence against their staff should lose their licence
608 Victorian workers told us what's really happening behind the counter, on the floor and in the kitchen. The picture is clear: this industry is failing in their duty to create safe workplaces and br...
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
archive.md/2026.05.09-0...
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
www.change.org/p/stop-the-b...
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Sign the Petition
Stop the BBC airing Eurovision content that normalises violence against women
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
How Human Rights Watch Killed a Report Calling Israel’s Denial of Palestinians’ Right of Return a Crime Against Humanity open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
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How Human Rights Watch Killed a Report Calling Israel’s Denial of Palestinians’ Right of Return a Crime Against Humanity
The Israel-Palestine director at Human Rights Watch resigned over the decision to spike the report, which had been approved by HRW’s legal team.
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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
My statement regarding my decision to withdraw from this year’s Adelaide Writers Festival.
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Boodjamulla returns to Traditional Owners in state-first arrangement www.indailyqld.com.au/news/just-in...
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Boodjamulla returns to Traditional Owners in state-first arrangement
More than 160,000 further hectares of Boodjamulla (Lawn Hill) National Park has been handed back to the Traditional Owners, the Waanyi People.
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Federal royal commission into Bondi is wrong option www.indailyqld.com.au/news/opinion...
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Why a federal royal commission into the Bondi atrocity isn’t the right option - News | InDaily, Inside Queensland
Former Labor government minister Craig Emerson tells why he thinks a royal commission into the Bondi Beach massacre is taking the wrong path.
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/fr... @getup.org.au
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ADD YOUR NAME ✍️ We will not be divided after Bondi
On Sunday at Bondi we witnessed the appalling consequences of hatred and how it breeds radicalisation and violence. But as the Jewish community and the whole country grieved, some politicians went on ...
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Everyone knew about Walliams open.substack.com/pub/millihil...
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Everyone knew about Walliams
Even so, another rich and powerful man has been protected at women's expense
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Parental child abduction: why extending criminalisation is not the answer theconversation.com/parental-chi...
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Parental child abduction: why extending criminalisation is not the answer
If this amendment proceeds, then mothers who have fled overseas with their children to escape an abusive relationship may refuse to return for fear of prosecution.
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The Democrat Who Split MAGA Over the Epstein Files www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/o...
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Opinion | The Democrat Who Split MAGA Over the Epstein Files
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
It's time for Schumer to step down from his post as minority leader and allow for new leadership to emerge—someone who is willing to consistently fight for the American people. sign.moveon.org/petitions/sc...
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Schumer: Step Down as Minority Leader!
It's time for Schumer to step down from his post as minority leader and allow for new leadership to emerge—someone who is willing to consistently fight for the American people.
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Banks are making record profits while our bills go up! 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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#TaxTheBanks
Years of higher interest rates have sent our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soaring, while banks have raked in huge profits for doing absolutely nothing. The big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Ll...
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Well who takes this House would-be-speaker seriously anymore, either!
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
It’s no accident that Nazis rallied in Sydney. Police waved them through — and now Minns wants to punish us all www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/11/n... Utterly incomprehensible. Shame NSW Premier Minns. Shame NSW Police Commissioner (forgettable character who ought to have resigned immediately).
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It's no accident that Nazis rallied in Sydney. Police waved them through — and now Minns wants to punish us all
The existing law in NSW is more than adequate to have avoided the images of Nazis outside state parliament over the weekend.
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Similar to a former Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives who, when the Liberal (conservative) Party lost, said words to the effect of 'we didn't lose, we just didn't get enough votes' ...
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Scientists thought the Great Barrier Reef was doomed – but a new study finds hope www.indailyqld.com.au/news/just-in... [But why should it have to 'adapt'? Shouldn't we be able to work harder to save it?!]
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Scientists thought the Great Barrier Reef was doomed – but a new study finds hope - News | InDaily, Inside Queensland
The most comprehensive modelling to date paints a troubling portrait of the Great Barrier Reef under climate change, but finds adaptation is still possible.
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
NSW Australia - Labor says no to future privatisation. Sign the petition now. www.nswlabor.org.au/say_no_to_pr...
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Say No to Privatisation
Say no to future privatisation. Sign the petition now.
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Update for Cambridge/Arbury/Nth Cambridge-£80m Proposed Development Drop-in Sessions Monday 17 Nov-Akeman St Community Centre 5pm-6.30pm Saturday 22 Nov-Meadows Community Centre 11am-12.30pm Monday 1 December-Brown's Field Community Centre 5.30pm-7pm Webinar - 27th November from 5.30-7.30pm
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
For up-to-date analysis/insights into women's rights to our own bodies see chapter 8, Women, Power and Autonomy - Rights, Respect and Representation in Law and Society, out 16 November, Palgrave Macmillan, JA Scutt ...
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Male resentment is driving right-wing populism. It will always default to a war on women www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/04/m...
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Male resentment is driving right-wing populism. It will always default to a war on women
The determination of anti-abortion MPs to talk about curtailing access to abortion reflects something fundamental to right-wing populism.
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
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Save NHS dentistry now!
I just signed the 38 Degrees petition calling on the Government to properly fund NHS dentistry. Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable dental care, so now the Government needs to stu...
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Not a word re profit-motive in privatised child 'care'. Get privateers out. Return to publicly run childcare. It won't cost $22b and the harm profiteering creates. Children are too precious for sacrifice to private profit. Get shareholders out. Sue the lot. womensagenda.com.au/latest/we-bu...
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We built a playground for perpetrators. Here’s how to stop them
Child abuse in early learning continues to grow because systemic naivety, secrecy, neglect and ignorance allow perpetrators to thrive.
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Biden Admin Discarded Internal Finding That Israel Killed Journalist on Purpose truthout.org/articles/off...
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Biden Admin Discarded Internal Finding That Israel Killed Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on Purpose
Col. Steve Gabavics says his boss suppressed evidence that Israeli soldiers intentionally killed Shireen Abu Akleh.
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
PM Announces "Presumption of Contact" Scrapped! But Is It Just Window Dressing? open.substack.com/pub/womensco...
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PM Announces "Presumption of Contact" Scrapped!
But Is It Just Window Dressing?
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
www.barcouncil.org.uk/training-eve...
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Pupillage Fair 2025 programme
View our 2025 Pupillage Fair programme - your complete guide to the event
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
@thebarcouncil #PupillageFair2025 Happening Saturday 18 October www.barcouncil.org.uk/training-eve...
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Pupillage Fair 2025 programme
View our 2025 Pupillage Fair programme - your complete guide to the event
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Week beginning 8 October 2025 robrjo6.com/2025/10/08/w...
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Week beginning 8 October 2025
Danielle Leavitt, By the Second Spring Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2025. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for re…
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
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A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🌳Vast areas of our most vital habitat are at risk of being lost forever. Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for Forestry England to restore their Ancient Woodlands lost under timber plantations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
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Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations
Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
SHAME! Yes, shouting ... How the Commonwealth Organization Colluded with Pakistan to Suppress Evidence of a Rigged Election open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
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How the Commonwealth Organization Colluded with Pakistan to Suppress Evidence of a Rigged Election
Commonwealth was dedicated to improving democratic practices. Now it was being wielded to protect a government that had clearly come to power by stealing an election.
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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Prosecutors to consider charges as police end investigation into Kumanjayi White's death
A mandatory coronial investigation into the death in custody of Kumanjayi White remains ongoing.
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Don't ever use @aussiehomeloans.bsky.social - I have been trying to call them from overseas - they do not have WhatsApp and play interminable music (sic)(musak) then automatically cut off after 4 minutes. THEY ARE HOPELESS.
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Privately educated still have ‘vice-like grip’ on most powerful UK jobs
Those in top roles are five times as likely to have been to private school than general population, study finds
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Virgin Airlines Idiocy. But what else could one expect from the naming and origins of this 'transport provider'. womensagenda.com.au/latest/its-2...
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It’s 2025, and breastfeeding in public is still treated like a crime
Dr Elise Turner was recently asked to leave the Virgin Australia business lounge for discreetly pumping breast milk beneath her shirt.
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
So who would pay almost £3k for a 'Women and Leadership "Summit"'. Ridiculous. Betoota’s News Corp prank, and a cursed editor’s note on Charlie Kirk www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/11/c...
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Marles' AUKUS mutterings, Betoota's News Corp prank, and a cursed editor's note on Charlie Kirk
Plus a Women in Leadership summit should have done more research before picking a venue.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Letitia James, New York’s Democratic attorney general, has formally announced her intention to intervene in a Texas attempt to penalize a New York doctor accused of mailing abortion pills across state lines, escalating one of the most consequential fights in the US abortion wars.
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Letitia James will ‘step in to defend’ New York doctor accused of mailing abortion pills to Texas
State attorney general aims to block effort to punish doctor: ‘Texas has no power to impose its cruel abortion ban here’
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Sign the petition calling for a National Firearms Register – a reform first pledged in 1996 that is critical to preventing future tragedies in Australia. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/australia_ne...
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✍️ PETITION: Australia Needs a National Firearms Register
Our research has revealed there are now more licenced firearms in Australia than before the 1996 Port Arthur massacre. ✍️ Add your name to call on the Federal Government to urgently establish a Nation...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Thanking God for sparing you in a natural disaster is a bit like sending a thank you note to a serial killer for murdering the family next door.
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vidagoldstein7.bsky.social @vidagoldstein7.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Reform led Nottinghamshire Council has blacklisted a local paper for asking questions about what councillors were doing. Farage says he welcomes free speech, that should apply to freedom of the press too. Sign the petition to get them to reverse the decision: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
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Reform: Stop hiding from press scrutiny!
Nigel Farage says he welcomes freedom of speech, even if people find it offensive. Surely that should apply to freedom of the press too? So why have Reform's Nottinghamshire councillors - who control ...
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#DankeKloppo @infosecafrica.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The guy who in 2016 championed Brexit: “The vote to take back what we never lost in order to lose everything we currently have” and promised #BrexitDividends - the reality in 2025⬇️
The front page of The New European, Special Edition - Nine years after the referendum, that list of Brexit benefits in full: 
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At the bottom of the page are the words, “INSIDE: The six pages needed to list the main disasters”The Independent front page with the headline, ‘January 2020 - January 2025 Five years on, the true cost of Brexit’ and lists 12 ways Brexit has negatively impacted the 🇬🇧
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philaretey.bsky.social @philaretey.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
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