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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 22h

🚨Children’s Hospital Chaplain released after being detained in Cincinnati’s Butler County Jail for 73 days. He shares powerful words with us. 1/2

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 5h

Let’s do this for the Chinook Justice family’s who will be handing a petition to Downing Street TODAY at 3PM🙏

They are only 656 signatures from 50,000. Please sign this important petition and help the families who have fought so hard for justice get to 50K before 3PM

www.change.org/p/justice-fo...

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 5h

Today would be a good one to remind people of this:

Reform’s Kent councillors are ‘all wankers’ who ‘hate each other’, Reform staffer says

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/18/r...

Reform’s Kent councillors are ‘all wankers’ who ‘hate each other’, Reform staffer says – HOPE not hate

HOPE not hate can reveal that Reform’s councillors in Kent are “all wankers” who “hate” and “fight with each other” – according to the party’s...

hopenothate.org.uk

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Gill Ower @gillow.bsky.social · 19h

Good on you for speaking up, Patrick.

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Compassion in World Farming UK @ciwf.org.uk · 5d

NEW ACTION: Sign our open letter calling on the Prime Minister to fix the biggest source of food waste ➡️ bit.ly/4hc5yDO

So far, 20 public figures & experts have signed.

@deborahmeaden.bsky.social @dalevince.com @peteregan46.bsky.social @lindanewbery.bsky.social @shireenkassam.bsky.social

20 public figures and experts call on the UK Prime Minister to feed people not factory farms. Read our open letter and add your name.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 23h

Delicious smackdown of Tory MP by our @pimlicat.bsky.social.

"It's fantasy economics to suggest anything other than leaving the single market has detrimentally impacted our economy... It is finally the political discourse catching up with economic reality."

Plus that little barb at the end... 💅🏽~AA

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Gill Ower @gillow.bsky.social · 1d

Gorgeous bottles, too!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Can’t say I’ve seen too many palm trees here in Illinois.

Maybe in the President’s home state of Florida though.

Trump and White House Busted Using Red State Footage to Show ‘Chaos’ in Chicago

The president posted the deceptive high-octane ICE raid video to his own social media account.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 2d

Listened to James B on @mrjamesob.bsky.social this week and it’s truly astonishing stuff. In related news….

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Gill Ower @gillow.bsky.social · 2d

So good to see millions of Americans protesting peacefully,& to read stories of people showing up in small towns and finding they're no longer alone, that there IS hope. Meanwhile, Donnie Diarrhoea posts AI slop of himself flying a plane, wearing a crown & dropping sh#t all over the protectors.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

Brendan Clarke-Smith - a former government minister and ex-Tory MP for Bassetlaw - regrets that the journalist was asked to apologise for suggesting the British-born Muslim leftwing MP be deported (along with "Zarahs" in general). Says its "faux outrage" to object to deporting minorities/opponents

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

Screenshot of a post on X from Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s verified account. The post reads: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters. Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure. We await explanations from the US government.”

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Gill Ower @gillow.bsky.social · 2d

¡Solidaridad!

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.

So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?

Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share!
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Christopher Edge @christopheredge.bsky.social · 3d

"With a delicious build of spine-tingling tension and interspersed with various ephemera and evidence, this is an atmospheric and oft ominous short read."
Lovely to spot this review of FEAR FILES: HIDE AND SEEK in the Irish Examiner's children's books roundup.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Children's book reviews: Plenty of portals for young readers to escape into magical worlds

Ruth Concannon rounds up the best books that capture the imagination and embrace the mystical mysteries of both our world and the otherworld

www.irishexaminer.com

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Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social · 3d

Apologies for publishing self praise, but when I saw this piece by India Knight in today's @thetimes.com , I thought I might burst with happiness.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 3d

We have three main choices:
1. We can ask the EU if we can rejoin the Single Market.
2. We can ask the EU if we can rejoin the whole EU.
3. We can leave things as they are and continue our decline.

The majority of people have decided on either 1 or 2. It's time now for the politicians to catch up.

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Gill Ower @gillow.bsky.social · 3d

Posters being delivered this weekend for @hopenothate.org.uk. Communities are stronger together!

Me holding poster saying Hold on to Hope.

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Gill Ower @gillow.bsky.social · 4d

This is not a type of book I'm familiar with at all, so will be interested to read the responses.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d

Trump has blown up another small boat in the Caribbean, killing several people. For the first time there were survivors. It isn’t known if the US rescued them, NBC News reports.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4d

Mamdani vs Cuomo. Their debate in 3 minutes. From Zeteo.
zeteo.com/subscribe

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Gill Ower @gillow.bsky.social · 4d

Lashings more of this, please!

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

British.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 6d

This does have international ramifications too, as far-right parties abroad can claim that the term is not “extremist” because the U.S. government also uses it.

Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.bsky.social · 6d

Just the Department of Homeland Security, using a term hijacked and popularised by the extreme-right Identitarian Movement.

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Trinovantian @emceegeegee.bsky.social · 6d

Excellent debunk Emma, as per. Utterly predictable that certain people would misrepresent what happened.

Utterly depressing that around 10 kids will not now have the opportunity to learn about other beliefs and therefore avoid growing up like their ignorant, bigoted parents.

Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 6d

🚨Christian children were told they'd "be Muslim by year 6"!🚨

😱Sounds outrageous?

You know the drill…

If it sounds outrageous and designed to trigger you into being angry with “other” people, then you need to do some 🪏

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 6d

Carole Malone, "Youu can't say what women's rights are because you're not a woman"

Zack Polanski, "You're not trans are you. We can all say you're not that thing so you can't have an opinion" 🔥

"You can still have an opinion from listening to people"

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