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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 2h

I'm not above replying "stop indulging in student politics, you are just helping Farage!" to centrists the moment the Greens are ahead of Labour in the polls. It will be funny EVERY time.

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chrisleeworld.bsky.social @chrisleeworld.bsky.social · 3d

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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 1d

Given the competing self interests of Polanski (make a fairer more sustainable world to live in) and Spectator owner multimillionaire Marshall (avoid paying taxes on hoarded wealth), I’m going to go with Polanski

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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Mark Boylan @markboylan.bsky.social · 1d

The most important levers would be 1. reform of accountability measures. Weight something like P8 by how far a schools GCSE entry cohort reflect the demographics of the community including SEND 2. make it part of funding agreements

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

Yes. We know. That's the point of what's happened over the last decade and you helped us get here.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Trans people at risk of exclusion from many UK public spaces, rights expert says

European Council commissioner voices concerns following April’s supreme court ruling on legal definition of a woman Transgender people risk being excluded from many public spaces as a result of the recent UK supreme court judgment and must be protected from discrimination, a human rights expert has said. Michael O’Flaherty, the European Council commissioner for human rights, said he had concerns about the climate for transgender people in the UK following April’s supreme court ruling that the legal definition of a woman in the Equality Act 2010 refers to biological sex. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Boylan @markboylan.bsky.social · 1d

And the schools that have denied them places directly or indirectly being lauded as outstanding and their execs sitting on DfE regional advisory groups and staffing improvement teams

Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell.bsky.social · 1d

Wow: Helen Hayes, committee chair, says: "All of us, as constituency MPs, see children not being offered places at schools of their choice, because of their additional needs." That's a massive criticism of the schools system.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Quite a bodying, here, for the UK, from the Commissioner for Human Rights, Council of Europe.

🏮 He points out the Supreme Court ignored human rights (which breaches its legal obligations)
🏮 He says, in effect agreeing with Lucy Powell, Parliament should be involved...

rm.coe.int/letter-to-pa...

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Warwick Mansell @warwickmansell.bsky.social · 1d

If you've found these posts interesting and want to support my work, please subscribe to www.educationuncovered.co.uk

Education Uncovered

Education Uncovered is an investigative news website shining light on schools policymaking, including its many impacts at ground level. Written and edited by Warwick Mansell.

www.educationuncovered.co.uk

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Mark Boylan @markboylan.bsky.social · 1d

Capitalism is an ecocidal genocidal cult

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d

This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

www.cnn.com

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

Portland 🔥

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 4d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4d

Most people seem to have missed who retweeted this picture of Farage in Gill’s office a few days after Gill began receiving his first bribes from Oleh Voloshyn (Oleg Voloshin). None other than…

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cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social @cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social · 5d

Zia Yusuf says he started with nothing.

Bro went to a school that costs 30 grand a year.

#bbcqt

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Bruce Henderson @brucehenderson.bsky.social · 5d

The tabloids are right, #Polanski IS dangerous....but for all the right reasons.

Unlike #Farage, who is dangerous for all the wrong reasons.

Polanski has talked about ending poverty amongst other things.

I would like the #Greens to add a #CriminalLaw4Politics too, start to clean up politics.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 5d

The foreign secretary says the UK has been contributing to the peace process.

No. What the UK govt has been contributing to is the extermination of the Palestinian people.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 5d

“Why is it always hard choices for working-class communities — not for multimillionaires and billionaires?”

Zack Polanski calls for a tax on the super-rich on #BBCQT

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 6d

The discourse in the West for the next few days will be e.g. "for all the caveats, let's just be relieved". And no, let's not. That's a feeling for Palestinians, not us.

Palestinians are human beings who deserve much better than the choice we've given them between genocide or colonial subjugation

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 6d

Palestinians will feel understandable relief. The West should feel nothing but shame. Gaza has been obliterated. The territory rendered uninhabitable. Tens of thousands murdered in cold blood. The entire population subjected to starvation tactics. And now, colonial subjugation under Trump and Blair

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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 5d

And water is a natural monopoly, we can't have competition, so we need public ownership - normal in 9/10 countries around the world

Here's why we can afford it, starting with Thames Water dieterhelm.co.uk/publications...

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Mark Boylan @markboylan.bsky.social · 6d

Troll trump by dancing to YMCA