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Paul Smyth. Charity ED @politicsinaction.bsky.social based in Belfast, FRSA

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Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform.bsky.social · 9h
This is an essential step to rebuilding trust in our politics, which is currently at record lows. buff.ly/mBZRACS
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Andy Burnham to fight next election on pledge to change voting system
The prime minister says he wants other parties to take part in a national commission on electoral reform.
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Raise Your Voice @raiseyourvoiceni.bsky.social · 8h
Consent is FRIES: Freely given Reversible Informed Enthusiastic Specific Content Credit: Planned Parenthood
text next to an illustrated box of fries text - Consent is freely given, reversible, informed, enthusiastic, specific
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Wiseabap @wiseabap.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Closes tomorrow- 5 PM! www.communityni.org/job/campaign...
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Wiseabap @wiseabap.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Come join our team at the most important moment in polo for a generation! Please share @politicsinaction.bsky.social
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026
BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/08/2026
A former director of BBC News speaks:
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 13/08/2026
NEW: A former trainer of the now-banned Nazi terror group National Action has been running self-defence classes for volunteers of a vigilante group in Lancashire. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/08/13/g...
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Guardians of Great Harwood trained by former National Action instructor – HOPE not hate
HOPE not hate can exclusively reveal that The Guardians of Great Harwood (GGH), a local “community crime prevention group” in Lancashire, has been running self-defence...
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Wiseabap @wiseabap.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
We don’t ’outperform’ - we privilege the privileged at the expense of everyone else. We have twice the tail of underachievement of Ireland or England. It is time to create an education system that delivers for all our children.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 13/08/2026
Women continue to bear the brunt of bad tech decisions
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Women continue to bear the brunt of bad tech decisions
Meta’s smart glasses are just the latest example of technology being used in ways developers should have anticipated
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
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Wiseabap @wiseabap.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Yet he stood on a column at City Hall and taunted the anti-racist crowd. In the company of other nazis. Enabled by the PSNI
Glen Kane convicted killer on column at City Hall
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Wiseabap @wiseabap.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Enabled by the PSNI to taunt the crowd
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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Belfast Telegraph @belfasttelegraph.co.uk · 13/06/2026
Knife attack victim Stephen Ogilvie — whose stabbing sparked two days of race-hate rioting — was previously tortured by a UVF-linked gang led by a double killer and overseen by a Shankill Butcher.
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Notorious Shankill Butcher and a UVF double killer headed gang that set fire to Belfast knife attack victim
Paramilitaries branded hypocrites for using gruesome stabbing as excuse for race-hate riots
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Colman O'Sullivan @colmanos.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Thousands have turned out for an Anti-Racism rally in Belfast city centre, organised by United Against Racism and supported by Trade Unions
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Wiseabap @wiseabap.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Ridiculous under-estimation. Where did you get your figures from?
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 13/06/2026
Thousands of people attend anti-racism demonstration in Belfast
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Thousands of people attend anti-racism demonstration in Belfast
PSNI says number of arrests over disorder in Northern Ireland that followed knife attack reaches 23
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Elaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
View from the stage at the biggest anti-racism rally in Belfast yet
View from the stage shows a massive crowdAnother angle on the massive crowd
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Planet Belfast @planetbelfast.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
We are the majority Refugees are welcome in Belfast - Racists are not! #NazisOut www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...
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Large crowds gather for anti-racism rallies in Belfast and Derry: ‘We are the majority’
Live updates below as police confirm number of people charged over period of disorder
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Wiseabap @wiseabap.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Well done #Belfast. We showed the fascists who is in control. While the response of the State has been woeful - the people are ready to drive out hate. @politicsinaction.bsky.social
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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Anaka Collective have set up a crowdfund now for helping support victims of the pogrom. chuffed.org/project/1854...
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Support people and groups impacted by racist attacks
We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.
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Politics in Action @politicsinaction.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
politicsinaction.org/post/stateme... Our statement on the ongoing racist violence in #Belfast
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Statement on Racist Violence
Statement on ongoing racist violence from Politics n Action
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Wiseabap @wiseabap.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
So why do all the groups of toxic men in our society think that the appropriate response to appalling violence is more appalling violence- even when the family of the victim have called for peace? www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...
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High profile dissident says republicans will be ‘mobilising’ to ‘defend’ homes targeted in disorder
Live updates below as some schools and shops close and workers leave offices
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Sheila McKechnie Foundation (SMK) @smkcampaigners.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
And last but not least, Emily Crudden McIlhatton at @politicsinaction.bsky.social smk.org.uk/awards_nomin...
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Emily Crudden McIlhatton < Sheila McKechnie Foundation
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
...We are likely to see a wave of councillors claiming victory on 20 per cent or less. “Is that representative? Does that give them a mandate? One in five, of people who actually bothered to turn out to vote? That’s a difficult sell in democracy.” www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Is it finally time for proportional representation?
With England now a five-party system, first past the post feels less and less democratic
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
You can see how results from the English local elections are ongoing. 68% of results completed. The old order is dying. Reform +950 Green +217 LibDem +88 Labour -777 Tory -452
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Wiseabap @wiseabap.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Ballycastle students in Violence Against Women and Girls and toxic masculinity - delighted that the Executive Committee has asked for this report @politicsinaction.bsky.social politicsinaction.org/post/executi...
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Executive Committee Asks to Hear from Ballycastle Students
Following a powerful presentation from students from two Ballycastle schools on violence against women and girls, the Chair of the committee Paula Bradshaw MLA has asked for more feedback from young p...
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Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This is the moment everyone in the North should know that policing is absolutely screwed. Yesterday a horrific report revealed institutional misogyny in the PSNI that is costing lives. The Policing Board (PSNI's 'independent' oversight board) used this as an opportunity to demand more money. [1/2]
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Wiseabap @wiseabap.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
If you can vote today - please do!
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RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 05/05/2026
"Institutional misogyny" contributed to "clear warnings signs" being missed in the initial police investigation following the murder of showjumper Katie Simpson in Co Derry in 2020, an independent review has found.
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'Systemic failings' by police in Simpson case - review
"Institutional misogyny" contributed to "clear warnings signs" being missed in the initial police investigation following the murder of showjumper Katie Simpson in Co Derry in 2020, an independent rev...
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
University of Oxford : maximising oil and gas extraction here would only save UK households up to £82 (€95) per year. A UK fully powered by renewable energy, would save households up to £441 (€510) a year on energy bills. www.euronews.com/2026/03/27/e...
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UK to give homes ‘free energy’ instead of turning off wind turbines
Europe’s outdated and under-invested energy grid means huge amounts of renewable energy are wasted every year.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
This is what solidarity looks like. #NoKings
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Wiseabap @wiseabap.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
So proud of this project and the work of our team!
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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"In what's looking like a fragmented five-party system, small movements can produce dramatic political consequences." This isn't inevitable. It's the result of a broken voting system that can't cope with more than two choices. We must scrap FPTP before it's too late.
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Small swings, high drama: why UK polls are less volatile than they seem – in charts
In what is beginning to look like a fragmented five-party system, small swings carry outsized political consequences
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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
PR is not only more urgent than ever. It's also never been more winnable. There's now record support for PR, among the public and in Westminster. No party can say for sure that FPTP works in its interest anymore. The country is ready for change. We can win it - and transform UK politics for good.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
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Wiseabap @wiseabap.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Come be my new boss!
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Wiseabap @wiseabap.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
@naomilong.bsky.social there are lessons to be learnt from Sicily where they have an anti-mafia museum and shops have stickers saying they won’t pay ‘Pizzi’ - protection money. Ending extortion requires a whole society approach and civic courage
‘No Mafia’ memorial museum - Palermo, SicilySign in shop window indicates the business doesn’t pay protection money
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
🎯🎯
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Wiseabap @wiseabap.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
European leaders be like… after Davos Instagram.com/wiseabap-photo
Four female figures with bent strained necks supporting a stone sarcophagus- from Florence, Italy
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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
US government rn
A cartoon of a news report. The picture shows a government official doing a press conference flanked by goons.
The headline reads “A man attacked federal bullets with his body”
Underneath the picture is a quote saying “those bullets had families”
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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Wiseabap @wiseabap.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Why is the UK media not reporting this? @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social #Minnesota
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Wiseabap @wiseabap.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Dear politicians - the 13 year olds you ban from social media now will be voting in the 2029 elections. You wan them to make informed decisions? How are they supposed be o inform themselves? #SocialMediaBan
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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Get Rachel running some elections. The way she organised them transfers at the end was incredible #TheTraitors
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Tanya 🧚‍♀️👑 @faeryqueene73.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
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