@lhur.bsky.social
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🚨🚨 OBAMACARE DAM BREAKS
Four House Republicans rebel against their leadership, teaming up with Democrats to sign a "discharge petition" to force a 3-year extension of enhanced ACA funds to a vote.
Fitzpatrick, Lawler, Bresnahan, Mackenzie.
+ 214 Dems.
It has 218.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Four House Republicans rebel against their leadership, teaming up with Democrats to sign a "discharge petition" to force a 3-year extension of enhanced ACA funds to a vote.
Fitzpatrick, Lawler, Bresnahan, Mackenzie.
+ 214 Dems.
It has 218.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Centrist Republicans revolt, signing a petition to force a vote on Obamacare funding
The Affordable Care Act subsidies are still expected to expire at the end of this year, however, raising insurance premiums for millions of Americans.
www.nbcnews.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
🚨🚨 OBAMACARE DAM BREAKS
Four House Republicans rebel against their leadership, teaming up with Democrats to sign a "discharge petition" to force a 3-year extension of enhanced ACA funds to a vote.
Fitzpatrick, Lawler, Bresnahan, Mackenzie.
+ 214 Dems.
It has 218.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Four House Republicans rebel against their leadership, teaming up with Democrats to sign a "discharge petition" to force a 3-year extension of enhanced ACA funds to a vote.
Fitzpatrick, Lawler, Bresnahan, Mackenzie.
+ 214 Dems.
It has 218.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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The first, direct answer is yes. Trump has said defamatory things about the BBC. He may have committed other wrongs against them.
So: yes the BBC *can* countersue.
But.
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So: yes the BBC *can* countersue.
But.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The first, direct answer is yes. Trump has said defamatory things about the BBC. He may have committed other wrongs against them.
So: yes the BBC *can* countersue.
But.
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So: yes the BBC *can* countersue.
But.
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This is perfectly accurate.
McGovern: "When billionaire CEOs need something, Republicans move at lightning speed. But when it comes to working people needing affordable health care, suddenly the story changes. There's hand wringing and the money is gone. My friends, if you are ok with that, we do not share the same values."
December 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This is perfectly accurate.
Watching UK accounts on social media and YouTube (mostly with numbers in the account profiles) cheering on Trump vs the BBC or our govt is so depressing. Many are likely overseas accounts, but the odd far right types who aren't are the worrying ones. They hate their own country vehemently.
December 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Watching UK accounts on social media and YouTube (mostly with numbers in the account profiles) cheering on Trump vs the BBC or our govt is so depressing. Many are likely overseas accounts, but the odd far right types who aren't are the worrying ones. They hate their own country vehemently.
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it really feels like the end is near for Mike Johnson's speakership after a critical mass of House Republicans this morning forced a vote on ACA subsidies over his resistance
December 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
it really feels like the end is near for Mike Johnson's speakership after a critical mass of House Republicans this morning forced a vote on ACA subsidies over his resistance
Another person who puts money above everything else. Quite sad to see. Left his club in limbo despite everything and off to a regime that kills journalists, executes gay people and subjugates women.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Brendan Rodgers confirmed as head coach of Saudi Pro League club Al-Qadsiah
Al-Qadsiah have hailed a ‘landmark moment’ after appointing Brendan Rodgers as their head coach
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Another person who puts money above everything else. Quite sad to see. Left his club in limbo despite everything and off to a regime that kills journalists, executes gay people and subjugates women.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Keir Starmer needs to stand up for the BBC against Trump's outrageous $5bn lawsuit and protect licence fee payers from being hit in the pocket.
Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.
Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.
December 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Keir Starmer needs to stand up for the BBC against Trump's outrageous $5bn lawsuit and protect licence fee payers from being hit in the pocket.
Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.
Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.
Not a moment too soon. As @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @writesbright.bsky.social and others have warned, this is a threat do our demogracy (as it is across Europe)
BBC News - Minister orders probe into foreign interference in politics
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Minister orders probe into foreign interference in politics
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Minister orders probe into foreign financial interference in UK politics
Communities Secretary Steve Reed says the country
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Not a moment too soon. As @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @writesbright.bsky.social and others have warned, this is a threat do our demogracy (as it is across Europe)
BBC News - Minister orders probe into foreign interference in politics
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Minister orders probe into foreign interference in politics
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Allowing Islington to pull the plug on hire bikes when they have transformed green mobility in London, with requirements that are impossible for bike hire firms to enforce, is madness. Would unwind the excellent work of @willnorman.co.uk and @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Islington Council puts e-bike hire operators on
The council said e-bike hire operators Lime and Forest must tackle dangerous parking and riding.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Allowing Islington to pull the plug on hire bikes when they have transformed green mobility in London, with requirements that are impossible for bike hire firms to enforce, is madness. Would unwind the excellent work of @willnorman.co.uk and @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Legal adviser to Rachel Reeves quits after advising plans to rip up planning laws could jeopardise trade with the EU and lead to widespread habitat destruction
The laws derive from EU Habitats Regulations, and non-regression forms part of the trade deal with EU
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The laws derive from EU Habitats Regulations, and non-regression forms part of the trade deal with EU
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reeves’s planning overhaul stalls as senior adviser quits after four months
Exclusive: Catherine Howard’s exit comes amid disagreements at top of government about how far to push deregulation agenda
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Legal adviser to Rachel Reeves quits after advising plans to rip up planning laws could jeopardise trade with the EU and lead to widespread habitat destruction
The laws derive from EU Habitats Regulations, and non-regression forms part of the trade deal with EU
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The laws derive from EU Habitats Regulations, and non-regression forms part of the trade deal with EU
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Trump is now blocking the US-UK trade deal unless we lower food standards and stop trying to regulate the worst excesses of big tech.
The answer is simple: tell America to go f*ck themselves and rejoin the EU customs union
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The answer is simple: tell America to go f*ck themselves and rejoin the EU customs union
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US puts £31bn tech ‘prosperity deal’ with Britain on ice
Pledge to invest billions in UK paused, with Washington citing lack of progress on trade barriers across pond
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Trump is now blocking the US-UK trade deal unless we lower food standards and stop trying to regulate the worst excesses of big tech.
The answer is simple: tell America to go f*ck themselves and rejoin the EU customs union
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The answer is simple: tell America to go f*ck themselves and rejoin the EU customs union
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Absolutely delighted to join Cllrs Brenda Dacres, Louise Krupski & Will Cooper and the Lewisham Council team to celebrate the opening of the amazing new cycle lanes along Deptford Church Street.
🚲protected lanes
🌱☔️ planting & rain gardens
🚦pedestrian crossings
🚌bus stop bypasses
🚲protected lanes
🌱☔️ planting & rain gardens
🚦pedestrian crossings
🚌bus stop bypasses
December 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Absolutely delighted to join Cllrs Brenda Dacres, Louise Krupski & Will Cooper and the Lewisham Council team to celebrate the opening of the amazing new cycle lanes along Deptford Church Street.
🚲protected lanes
🌱☔️ planting & rain gardens
🚦pedestrian crossings
🚌bus stop bypasses
🚲protected lanes
🌱☔️ planting & rain gardens
🚦pedestrian crossings
🚌bus stop bypasses
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Trump didn't want to waste a thought or prayer.
December 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Trump didn't want to waste a thought or prayer.
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It's actually quite amazing Donald Trump can still astound us with his depravity.
December 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It's actually quite amazing Donald Trump can still astound us with his depravity.
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If the New York Times was waiting for a news hook to write a long-overdue story about how Trump is mentally unfit to be president, Trump has provided one today with his post saying Rob Reiner got murdered because he was mean to Trump.
Write it, NYT. End the normalization. @nytimes.com
Write it, NYT. End the normalization. @nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If the New York Times was waiting for a news hook to write a long-overdue story about how Trump is mentally unfit to be president, Trump has provided one today with his post saying Rob Reiner got murdered because he was mean to Trump.
Write it, NYT. End the normalization. @nytimes.com
Write it, NYT. End the normalization. @nytimes.com
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Trump on the shooting at Brown University: “Things can happen”
December 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Trump on the shooting at Brown University: “Things can happen”
If European governments, including the UK, don't do more to hold social media companies accountable for hosting outright fake news, much designed to boost the extreme far right, then democracy itself will die
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
December 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
If European governments, including the UK, don't do more to hold social media companies accountable for hosting outright fake news, much designed to boost the extreme far right, then democracy itself will die
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Imagine paying £500,000 to be a founder-member of a private members club fronted by Liz Truss.
Robert Tchenguiz hopes Liz Truss-fronted club will help pay off debt to Reubens
Companies linked to financier owe property moguls £130mn for mortgage on Leconfield House
www.ft.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Imagine paying £500,000 to be a founder-member of a private members club fronted by Liz Truss.
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Richest 1/1000th of world’s population controls 3 times more wealth than the poorest 50%. "The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies & democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency..." www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...
Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams
A landmark report on global inequality shows that
the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else
continued to expand this year
www.commondreams.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Richest 1/1000th of world’s population controls 3 times more wealth than the poorest 50%. "The global wealth gap has become so staggering, and its impact on economies & democratic institutions so corrosive, that policymakers should treat it as an emergency..." www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...
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December 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Football fan? Come to the USA. We will charge you the cost of a small car to see a match and might intern you and stop you seeing it if you have criticised Trump on social media in the last five years. F**k that.
December 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Football fan? Come to the USA. We will charge you the cost of a small car to see a match and might intern you and stop you seeing it if you have criticised Trump on social media in the last five years. F**k that.
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Now *that's* how you do it
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Now *that's* how you do it
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This is the same group that seems to have an open invitation to appear on every single BBC political programme going, without ever declaring their funding
🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
This is the same group that seems to have an open invitation to appear on every single BBC political programme going, without ever declaring their funding
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I found this today (from Peter Kellner/YouGov) which answers part of your query.
December 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I found this today (from Peter Kellner/YouGov) which answers part of your query.