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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 8h

Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #WomensArt

Photo a sitting Black woman with square blue glasses dressed in and surrounded by vividly coloured patterned fabric in red, blue yellow, purple and white

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 8h

The press lost its shit for weeks at the mere thought of referring to Trump and his political movement as "fascist."

Republicans meanwhile use every -ist epithet they can muster against Democrats of any stripe and the press doesn't say a word.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Ted Cruz: "The heart of the Democratic Party today is communist and jihadist and extremist."

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 7h

Yayoi Kusama, Fish (+ Depth of the sea, silkscreen; 2 works), 1988 #WomensArt

Print featuring a stylised stripey black and yellow fish side view as if swimming in green water to the left

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10h

The Trump administration is now literally *fighting* to deny food to 42 million people, more than a third of them children.

Read that again.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

NYT headline: Judge Orders Trump Administration to Fully Fund Food Stamps This Month

The Justice Department later said it would appeal, leaving the program known as SNAP in limbo.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

The only thing I care about in a president for 2028 is holding every one of these people accountable under the law in the harshest manner possible. Anything short of that is a waste of time.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

At the Fox Patriot Awards tonight, Hegseth tells a story about how Trump makes Truth Social posts after bombings.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you for following WA!
You're all very much appreciated !!
#FridayFeeling 🧡

A grid of nine images of artworks shown on this account including paintings, photographs, ceramics and textile art

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Laura Wooster-Hoare @laura12.bsky.social · 17h

app.thenewworld.co.uk/story/143951...

Age of the charlatans

Conmen don’t win people over with arguments. Instead, they reflect their dreams back at them – and everyone’s a sucker for that

app.thenewworld.co.uk

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Reform UK's 'brilliant' cost-saving strategy? Closing care homes.

One Reform voter says it best: “If there are parents who have paid into the system all their lives, worked hard for this country, if they’re ‘waste’, then we might as well just give up.”

https://bit.ly/4oTaHTI

Lancashire's Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres

Questions about potential conflict of interest as council's cabinet member for social care owns private care company

www.theguardian.com

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 1d

Women think about sex every seven seconds, just not with you.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 1d

That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership

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Winter @kernowshark.bsky.social · 1d

I wear a white poppy. I'm an RAF veteran who was shot in the leg in Afghanistan.

Fuck every single person trying to mandate red poppies in November. They're all flag shagging fascist fucks.

Rosie 🎄(she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 1d

*fart noise*

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon:

People don’t realise what an extreme position they are taking by wearing a white poppy

The Peace Pledge Union can only exist in safety because our Armed Forces stand ready to go to war

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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 1d

We were doing so well with the Christmas TV ads
But then ASDA had to ruin it by casting a Green actor

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 1d

Just added to my Etsy shop:
🌿final small print run of my '26 calendars
🪶my handmade recycled silver jewellery designs (incl intricate casts of real flowers)
🌸limited ed'n mounted art prints of my photos
💐tiny posy mental health kits
Last orders for📮 in time for🌲: 19 Nov
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

My individually handmade recycled silver jewellery including intricate casts of real flowers (snowdrop, bluebell etc), casts of dragonfly Wongs & jay feathers & my tiny wearable sculptures of much-loved British bird species

One of my best-selling mounted art prints of flowers I grew & bought from an honesty florist

Victorian ink bottles that form part of my tiny posy-making mental health kits-they make great gifts

The 12 photos that make up my 2026 botanical calendar-each image is designed to improve mental health

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 1d

A by-the-mile road tax for EVs is a perfectly sensible policy, given fuel duty receipts fall as people swap to electric cars…*if* you keep hiking fuel duty so that EVs are still much cheaper to run.

What’s the odds we do the first bit and not the second, boosting petrol cars all over again?

Louis O'Brien @louobrien19.bsky.social · 1d

Thursday's TELEGRAPH: Pay per mile tax to hit drivers in Budget #TomorrowsPapersToday

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joannes @playthroughline.com · 2d

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

A rain-slick backalley containing two men, both tall and dressed predominantly in black, each walking a cat on a leash

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The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · 1d

"Zohran Mamdani has flood-lit the political scene with raw energy, enthusiasm, and charisma.

"The generational shift that the Democratic Party needs now is profound, because there are a lot of old codgers in politics who need to be put out to pasture"

www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/mamd...

‘Mamdani’s New York win shows there isn’t an ounce of charisma in British politics’ | The News Agents

Zohran Mamdani’s decisive victory in the New York mayoral election appears to have breathed life into the Democrats – but can British politicians learn anything from his win?

www.thenewsagents.co.uk

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 1d

ICE to open call center to help track migrant children for removal

abcnews.go.com/US/ice-open-...

ICE to open call center to help track migrant children for removal

ICE plans to establish a "National Call Center" to help law enforcement track unaccompanied migrant children for potential removal.

abcnews.go.com

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1d

I went a third of a century accepting, on the testimony of a cartoon, that coyotes chase roadrunners before I ever saw the real thing.

Cristian Vlad @cristianvlad.bsky.social · 2d

Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

news.sky.com

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Artist Helen Ahpornsiri creates intricate collage artworks created with real pressed flowers and leaves. #WomensArt #Autumn #Fall

Collage artwork created with leaves and petals to form an image of a heron facing left against a white background

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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 1d

Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d

Brava: “If I don’t file a complaint, then what message does that send to all Mexican women?” Ms. Sheinbaum said at her daily news conference, noting sexual harassment was a crime… “If this can happen to the president, what’s going to happen to all the young women & women across our country?”

Mexico’s President Presses Charges Against Man Who Groped Her on the Street

www.nytimes.com

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

“Trump has terrorised Democratic voters; made them feel extremely threatened and disempowered. If you do that, the moment voters have the power to punish you, they will take the opportunity to do so and in large numbers. That is the real takeaway."

Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 1d

NEW 🗽 Big Apple Won - Big Orange Zero

🗳️ America fights back
💷 Reeves' tax pickle
🔥 The weaponising of fear
🎄 Reform cancels Xmas

PLUS An Announcement! 🐣 Our podcast family is growing!

📣 open.spotify.com/episode/63bM...

🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

Big Apple Won - Big Orange Zero

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 06/11/2025 · 1h 5m

podcasts.apple.com

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 1d

“We are memory machines, the caretakers of stories meant to be smelted, reminted, embellished, and passed on. As long as our stories keep being told, we are immortal.”

Alex Andreou's Podyssey @alexpodyssey.bsky.social · 3d

🏛️ PODYSSEY SEASON 2 - All the details! 📜

What. Where. When.

🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/6Aw1...

🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... @sturdyalex.bsky.social

Podyssey Season 2 - All The Details

Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 04/11/2025 · Bonus · 9m

podcasts.apple.com

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2d

FEEDING BABIES WON!!!!!

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2d

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.

Follow AP for live updates.

Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power

One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Mike Clancy, prospectunion.bsky.social: “Reform’s plan for public-sector pension would set off a ticking timebomb in the public finances that will end up costing taxpayers tens of billions of pounds in the years to come and blow a gaping hole in their tax promises."

https://bit.ly/3WFc7FC

Reform’s public-sector pensions plan could cost billions extra, union warns

Prospect says proposals to make payouts less generous would damage public finances rather than save money

www.theguardian.com

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