Jo Jones
@jojonesorkney.bsky.social
Retired teacher & musician. Still fulfilling Pulpit Supply around the Orkney Parish as needed. Occasionally, do a spot of Step-On Tourist Guiding in Orkney too, in English or French.
Wife, mother, and grandmother.
Wife, mother, and grandmother.
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Imagine being turned away from a bathroom, hospital, or cinema for “not looking female enough”. The leaked EHRC guidance could do just that. Along with my Lib Dem colleagues, I’ve written to the Minister calling for new, inclusive, practical guidance that protects everyone’s rights.
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Imagine being turned away from a bathroom, hospital, or cinema for “not looking female enough”. The leaked EHRC guidance could do just that. Along with my Lib Dem colleagues, I’ve written to the Minister calling for new, inclusive, practical guidance that protects everyone’s rights.
Fed up with Farage? Me too. I’ve signed the Never Nigel Pledge. Add your name today, and help show that division and hate have no place in our communities.
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Take the Pledge: “I’ll never vote for Nigel Farage”
Join thousands across Britain taking the Never Nigel Pledge. Say no to hate and division and help stop Reform UK from tearing apart our communities. Let's show there is strength in standing together f...
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May 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Fed up with Farage? Me too. I’ve signed the Never Nigel Pledge. Add your name today, and help show that division and hate have no place in our communities.
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@georgetakei.bsky.social wishing you a very happy 88th birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊!
April 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
@georgetakei.bsky.social wishing you a very happy 88th birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊!
BBC News - Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings
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Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings
The footage was reportedly filmed by a Palestinian paramedic killed by Israeli forces along with 14 others in March.
www.bbc.com
April 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
BBC News - Video footage appears to contradict Israeli account of Gaza medic killings
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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April 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
April 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.
—With love,
Your American allies.
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I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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🔥🔥🔥 Check out this scathing letter that Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries just sent to Trump demanding the firing of Pete Hegseth 🔥🔥🔥
March 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
🔥🔥🔥 Check out this scathing letter that Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries just sent to Trump demanding the firing of Pete Hegseth 🔥🔥🔥
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"What we're really looking to hear this afternoon is much more about the Chancellor's plans for growth because that's really what Labour was promising when they came into office last year."
Sarah Olney
Sarah Olney
March 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"What we're really looking to hear this afternoon is much more about the Chancellor's plans for growth because that's really what Labour was promising when they came into office last year."
Sarah Olney
Sarah Olney
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court upholds Biden law requiring serial numbers and background checks for untraceable ghost gun kits by a 7-2 ruling.
The kits allow anyone to build a gun at home with no serial number nor registration.
Biden is keeping America safe.
Trump endangers us all.
The kits allow anyone to build a gun at home with no serial number nor registration.
Biden is keeping America safe.
Trump endangers us all.
March 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court upholds Biden law requiring serial numbers and background checks for untraceable ghost gun kits by a 7-2 ruling.
The kits allow anyone to build a gun at home with no serial number nor registration.
Biden is keeping America safe.
Trump endangers us all.
The kits allow anyone to build a gun at home with no serial number nor registration.
Biden is keeping America safe.
Trump endangers us all.
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The lying liars are back at it...
Journalist Who Was Invited Into 'War Plans' Group Chat Bluntly Calls Out Trump Administration's Lies
The lying liars and the lies they tell.
www.comicsands.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The lying liars are back at it...
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In the face of growing threats to democracies globally it would be the height of madness for any country to play politics over a vital defence pact – we surely all have bigger fish to fry.
www.politico.eu/article/uk-e...
www.politico.eu/article/uk-e...
UK-EU defense pact really does depend on fish, European minister warns
Countries including France are said to want to tie a new post-Brexit security deal to more beneficial access to British waters, potentially holding up military cooperation.
www.politico.eu
March 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
In the face of growing threats to democracies globally it would be the height of madness for any country to play politics over a vital defence pact – we surely all have bigger fish to fry.
www.politico.eu/article/uk-e...
www.politico.eu/article/uk-e...
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Complete nonsense from Mike Waltz who knows better. He likely thought he was inviting someone else with same initials and fucked up. Every 13 year old can grok this idiotic move.
Wow — Mike Waltz on Fox News suggests Jeffrey Goldberg somehow schemed his way into the Signal group instead of just being invited by accident
March 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Complete nonsense from Mike Waltz who knows better. He likely thought he was inviting someone else with same initials and fucked up. Every 13 year old can grok this idiotic move.
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The Spring Statement was a missed opportunity. The government has chosen to continue the pain for small businesses - leaving communities facing the prospect of more closures on the high street - while putting the squeeze on many families.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Spring Statement 2025: Key points at a glance
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has unveiled her plans for the UK economy in the House of Commons.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The Spring Statement was a missed opportunity. The government has chosen to continue the pain for small businesses - leaving communities facing the prospect of more closures on the high street - while putting the squeeze on many families.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Spring Statement was a missed opportunity to deliver the change our communities are crying out for.
The Government had the chance today to kickstart growth by scrapping their jobs tax.
Instead they have chosen to inflict more pain on small businesses, GPs and care homes.
The Government had the chance today to kickstart growth by scrapping their jobs tax.
Instead they have chosen to inflict more pain on small businesses, GPs and care homes.
March 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The Spring Statement was a missed opportunity to deliver the change our communities are crying out for.
The Government had the chance today to kickstart growth by scrapping their jobs tax.
Instead they have chosen to inflict more pain on small businesses, GPs and care homes.
The Government had the chance today to kickstart growth by scrapping their jobs tax.
Instead they have chosen to inflict more pain on small businesses, GPs and care homes.
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Whack-job Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks NPR and @pbs.org as ‘communist,’ calls for funding to ‘end’
My daughter grew up on great educational PBS programming, and NPR reports the highest quality, accurate, non-partisan news in our nation.
Meaning, THE TRUTH.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/m...
My daughter grew up on great educational PBS programming, and NPR reports the highest quality, accurate, non-partisan news in our nation.
Meaning, THE TRUTH.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/m...
Marjorie Taylor-Greene attacks NPR and PBS as ‘communist,’ calls for funding to ‘end’ | CNN Business
For Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other House Republicans, today’s DOGE subcommittee hearing is about tarnishing PBS and NPR with accusations of bias and targeting them for defunding.
www.cnn.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Whack-job Marjorie Taylor Greene attacks NPR and @pbs.org as ‘communist,’ calls for funding to ‘end’
My daughter grew up on great educational PBS programming, and NPR reports the highest quality, accurate, non-partisan news in our nation.
Meaning, THE TRUTH.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/m...
My daughter grew up on great educational PBS programming, and NPR reports the highest quality, accurate, non-partisan news in our nation.
Meaning, THE TRUTH.
www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/m...
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"People can’t see a GP or dentist. Social care is broken.
"The public were promised change. Eight months on, where is the change?"
@libdemdaisy.bsky.social responds to the Government's Spring Statement
"The public were promised change. Eight months on, where is the change?"
@libdemdaisy.bsky.social responds to the Government's Spring Statement
March 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"People can’t see a GP or dentist. Social care is broken.
"The public were promised change. Eight months on, where is the change?"
@libdemdaisy.bsky.social responds to the Government's Spring Statement
"The public were promised change. Eight months on, where is the change?"
@libdemdaisy.bsky.social responds to the Government's Spring Statement
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THIS should terrify everyone. Trump wants to steal the right to vote from all non-white bodied Americans, and further rig our system to help billionaires stay in power, and keep struggling Americans struggling.
Trump Order Could Disenfranchise Millions of Voters democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump Order Could Disenfranchise Millions of Voters democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump Signs Order in Attempt to Vastly Reshape U.S. Elections
Read more here.
democracydocket.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
THIS should terrify everyone. Trump wants to steal the right to vote from all non-white bodied Americans, and further rig our system to help billionaires stay in power, and keep struggling Americans struggling.
Trump Order Could Disenfranchise Millions of Voters democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump Order Could Disenfranchise Millions of Voters democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Reeves accused of balancing books on back of UK’s poorest
Reeves accused of balancing books on back of UK’s poorest
Labour is braced for a backlash from its MPs over welfare cuts called ‘appalling’ by a foodbank charity
Rachel Reeves was accused of balancing the books at the expense of the poor in her spring statement, as official figures showed three million households could lose £1,720 a year in benefits.
The chancellor confirmed welfare cuts of £4.8bn, but insisted the government’s priority was to restore stability to the public finances in the face of rising global borrowing costs. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Reeves accused of balancing books on back of UK’s poorest
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Oh, perfect. Trump has put Musk and his staffers in charge of investigating how Jeffrey Goldberg ended up in the Signal chat. I’m sure we can all expect a thorough, unbiased report any day now (Sarcasm).
March 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Oh, perfect. Trump has put Musk and his staffers in charge of investigating how Jeffrey Goldberg ended up in the Signal chat. I’m sure we can all expect a thorough, unbiased report any day now (Sarcasm).
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"Rachel Reeves inherited a dreadful economy from the Conservatives, but her budgets have hit small businesses and undermined growth.
"Liberal Democrats want to see a new UK-EU customs deal. That would do more for growth than anything this government's put forward."
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
"Liberal Democrats want to see a new UK-EU customs deal. That would do more for growth than anything this government's put forward."
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
March 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"Rachel Reeves inherited a dreadful economy from the Conservatives, but her budgets have hit small businesses and undermined growth.
"Liberal Democrats want to see a new UK-EU customs deal. That would do more for growth than anything this government's put forward."
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
"Liberal Democrats want to see a new UK-EU customs deal. That would do more for growth than anything this government's put forward."
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk
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🚨🚨🚨 READ the NEW group chat texts released as Trump administration grapples with DISASTROUS fallout:
March 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
🚨🚨🚨 READ the NEW group chat texts released as Trump administration grapples with DISASTROUS fallout: