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Bethan Angharad

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Bethan Angharad @bethanangharadl.bsky.social · Jan 15

"And in the darkness I smile at life, as if I were the possessor of charm which would enable me to transform all that is evil and tragical into serenity and happiness. But when I search my mind for the cause of this joy, I find there is no cause, and can only laugh at myself." - Rosa Luxemburg

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20h

If the administration has such great evidence that these targets are narcoterrorists who pose an imminent threat to the national security of the United States, why are they not being tried in our criminal courts? 🤔

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20h

Breaking news: The United States plans to repatriate two alleged drug traffickers to Colombia and Ecuador after military forces attacked their vessel in the Caribbean on Thursday.

U.S. to repatriate survivors of drug boat strike to Colombia, Ecuador

It is unclear if the two surviving alleged drug smugglers have any links to Venezuelan criminal organizations.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Bethan Angharad @bethanangharadl.bsky.social · 1d

Very many years ago my mum got laser eye surgery to improve her eyesight & was than horrified by how old she suddenly looked. Her eye surgeon said it wasn’t unusual for people to end up getting work done soon after laser eye surgery.

Bethan Angharad @bethanangharadl.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t understand what these people think Christianity is actually about.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 1d

Bet they don’t advertise Duke of York anywhere. It’ll be one of the family that gets it, no interview, nothing. Bloody stitch-up.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d

Reform, everyone must speak English.

Also Reform, we're going to stop people learning English.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Reform's Dame Andrea Jenkyns considers scrapping English lessons

Dame Andrea Jenkyns says a £1m budget to teach foreign nationals "should be spent on everybody".

www.bbc.com

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cymruwanderer.bsky.social @cymruwanderer.bsky.social · 1d

Very good in depth interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social ....... He really does come across very well. Labour need to be very worried

pca.st/podcast/df31...

The News Agents

Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall – three of the UK’s top journalists – host an award-winning daily news podcast: The News Agents. They’re not just here to tell you what's happening, but w...

pca.st

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Bethan Angharad @bethanangharadl.bsky.social · 2d

The bit I’ve heard so far of him hasn’t struck me as anything amazing, though I’ve heard lots of people rave about him. Well, he’s a good geordie lad, so good luck to him.

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Bethan Angharad @bethanangharadl.bsky.social · 2d

No idea if this theory is correct, but it is fascinating.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

'In his new book, Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found, Graham-Dixon puts forward a revolutionary theory about the work of an artist whose genius is rarely disputed. Right or wrong, it is a theory that will change the way people look at that famous pearl earring'.

Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring finally gets a name

Historian Andrew Graham-Dixon has a radical new theory about the life and beliefs of the Dutch master

observer.co.uk

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · Feb 14

Tonight on BBC Makes News👇🏼

Nick Mason - “Rachel Reeves did she pay for 30 minutes but stay 33” at a parking meter in 1999 when at Uni in Oxford❓

Laura Kuenssberg investigates does Keir Starmer always pushes supermarket trollies back or once leave one nearby❓

Guest Nigel Farage gives his thoughts🙄

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John Baldy @johnbaldy.bsky.social · 2d

This is classic Labour Party comms. Rather than trying to inspire us, it's always ' Vote Labour or else'. I'm so done with that. My votes will be FOR policies I endorse from now on. No more voting Labour to keep out Tories or Reform. I joined The Green Party.
join.greenparty.org.uk

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Bethan Angharad @bethanangharadl.bsky.social · 2d

What an excellent response to Jenrick’s deranged vitriol. I’ve always liked this poem, I had it on my wall at work for a while.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

British.

Bethan Angharad @bethanangharadl.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, I needed that. Just awaiting someone coming to collect our foster cat to keep an eye on her while we are away for the weekend. Would love to find a good home for her. She isn’t getting on with our other cats, so it’s tricky.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 2d

Okay. So. Amazing scenes playing out at the vets when i arrived to pick up Napoleon.

Names changed/removed. But get ready for a lost kitty story with a happy ending.

It starts late last year, when the elderly neighbour of a young couple went into a care home /1

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 3d

People in my city desperately need affordable housing, Labour is selling them short and building for the rich instead.

A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty

Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 3d

Fantastic!

Chris Taggart 🏡 ⚡️ 🔌 @christaggart.bsky.social · 4d

We loved what Nesta was doing with this so much, we spun up a Canadian version. Launching soon with more heat pumps. visitaheatpump.ca

VisitAHeatPump.ca

visitaheatpump.ca

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Bethan Angharad @bethanangharadl.bsky.social · 3d

What a great idea!

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 3d

The funniest part of all the billionaires are building bunker stories is the part where they’re sure the class hierarchy will survive the apocalypse.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4d

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.com

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 3d

Ben Gvir personally oversaw the torture of Greta Thunberg, as reported by Aftonbladet.

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 3d

In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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Bethan Angharad @bethanangharadl.bsky.social · 3d

No time for much gadding tomorrow, unfortunately. However I intend to do much gadding in Gateshead & Newcastle at the end of the month.

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Bethan Angharad @bethanangharadl.bsky.social · 3d

I’m delivering training tomorrow at Muriel Matters House, so thought i’d take the opportunity to celebrate Muriel Matters, technically the first woman to make a speech in the British parliament. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_...

Muriel Matters - Wikipedia

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Bethan Angharad @bethanangharadl.bsky.social · 3d

I’m off that way tomorrow.

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Bethan Angharad @bethanangharadl.bsky.social · 3d

You’d think some people might be a bit cross about that (unintentional pun) rather than placing his supplanter’s flag everywhere.

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Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 4d

This isn't about removing safe spaces. It's about recreating historic safe spaces for entitled white boys to be as obnoxious and bigoted as they like with no consequences.

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