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KD50s @annadickie56.bsky.social · Apr 12

Meanwhile they shut Scotland’s only refinery and pay for a new fifth one to be built in Belgium, having already ensured all Scorlttish offshore wind power makes landfall in Yorkshire.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h

Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 9h

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

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cordeliaappleby.bsky.social @cordeliaappleby.bsky.social · 11h

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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KD50s @annadickie56.bsky.social · 16h

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Moss Playing Keyboard

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

NSW anti-protest laws ruled unconstitutional after Palestine Action Group court challenge

PAG had challenged expanded police powers to restrict protests near places of worship The NSW supreme court has struck down a law that had given police expanded powers to prevent protests near places of worship. Josh Lees, on behalf of Palestine Action Group, had challenged the law on the basis that it was unconstitutional. Continue reading...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 16h

"If you’re a Trump-backing Republican, there is nothing you can say vile enough that the party will cut you loose. If you’re publicly opposed to Trump, it doesn’t matter how peacefully and patriotically you express that opposition."

Today's Morning Shots:

Trump’s Very Own Basket of Deplorables

The president and his movement are dropping the fig leaf and declaring half the country the enemy. How can this go on?

www.thebulwark.com

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Lee-in-Iowa 💙 @lee-in-iowa.bsky.social · 18h

Not just precedent, but the will of the people. Nine justices should not be able to overrule what our ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES have unanimously voted for.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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AB @truth-sky.bsky.social · 1d

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 20h

Caerphilly apparently. I honestly, honestly despise this stuff. They have nothing to offer, nothing to say, nothing to hope for, nothing to aspire to, no solutions, nothing. Just hate and lies.

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KD50s @annadickie56.bsky.social · 17h

Hmm, Zack is sounding like a bit of a young Corbyn, or is he simply trying to be all things to all men? He’s also clearly a Unionist given his silence on Scotland, yet showing yesterday that he’s prepared to talk about Britishness even when his party only represents Eng & Wales. Nuance yet arse…

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 18h

An actual, real life, nuanced discussion about Brexit!!

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 19h

How I feel about Starmer undermining UK police decisions on Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters.

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 17h

I welcome the news that the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has lost her appeal and failed to block the legal challenge to the proscription of Palestine Action:

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 20h

Prem Sikka

500 employers fined £10m for failing to pay the national minimum wage.

42,000 workers repaid more than £6m.

Roll of exploitation includes Holland & Barrett, Centrica, Adecco, Avis, Euro Garages, Genting Casinos, Go Outdoors.

None forgot to pay execs.

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 21h

I have yet to hear an argument for why the Labour British government won't compensate WASPI women.

Labour promised to, before being elected last year. But has now refused to honour that promise and is defending that refusal in court.

www.thenational.scot/news/2554921...

Labour Government 'waiting for Waspi generation to die to avoid compensation payout'

THE UK Labour Government has been accused of “waiting for the Waspi generation to die” to avoid paying out compensation.

www.thenational.scot

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Catriona @catrio.bsky.social · 21h

www.thenational.scot/news/2554879...

Scottish Labour silent on MPs 'disgraceful' asylum seeker comments

SCOTTISH Labour have refused to condemn “disgraceful” comments from an MP who claimed the SNP were “virtue-signalling” with its policy on…

www.thenational.scot

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.

And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 23h

The Greens are enjoying their best polling in their history.

Whilst just 13 months after winning the General Election, Labour is on its worst polling recorded in the post-war period.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 23h

Boris Johnson has been called to give evidence at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry on Tuesday 21st Oct, from 10am

It's the first time the former PM has been called to give evidence at the Inquiry since 2023, for Module 2. The Inquiry has also called Prof Chris Whitty to give evidence on Monday from 10.30am

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KD50s @annadickie56.bsky.social · 21h

Tel Aviv is not in Europe. Let them play their actual neighbours if they are on such good terms with fair play and international law…. And that goes for Eurovision too

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 1d

It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin.

Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2025. A 25,714% markup. That isn’t inflation or supply chain—It’s corporate greed.

Now—California will sell insulin for $11. Make this nationwide!

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Nula Suchet @nulasuchet.bsky.social · 22h

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AuDHDeepdive 😁a n t i f a @audhdeepdive.bsky.social · 22h

Is it LEGO ROME?
its LEGO ROME.
Bring it on. youtu.be/kTbRgQAEpII

The Third Founder of Rome: Forging the Marian Legions | LEGO History Animation

YouTube video by Assembling History

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Patricia A. McGowan @teacherspeaks52.bsky.social · 22h

#FridayMusic🎶
During this shutdown, do not let them take your ... #Joy

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The Georgia Mass Choir - Joy

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

I focused this, far too long, thread primarily on policy and tried, as much as possible, to keep personal views limited. Here's what really pisses me off though, at least Conservatives and Reform are honest about who they target with anti-immigration bs, Labour still pretends to be "progressive" 1/5

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

Very long thread: As with many of Labour's anti-immigration policies, this isn't new. British police have been stationed in other countries for this purpose for a long time
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...

Home Secretary orders police and border 'hit squads' to Albania to stamp out people smugglers | LBC

Shabana Mahmood will send hit squads of police and border force teams to Albania in a fresh drive to stamp out people-smuggling gangs upstream.

www.lbc.co.uk

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

The FDA approved Enovid (AKA “The Pill”) as a contraceptive on May 9, 1960. JFK became president months later. So, of course, pregnancy rates were much higher than now, as birth control pills became more easily available to women.

RFK Jr. is an idiot.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. Today it is 1.6%. The replacement rate -- in other words the amount of fertility you need to keep your population even -- is 2.1%. We are below replacement. That is a national security threat to our country."

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