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Glyn Bach @llanfrancisco.bsky.social · 22m

The Young Republicans have an endemic problem. This is more than just one or two people

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Glyn Bach @llanfrancisco.bsky.social · 11h

We watched a documentary about The Ramones tonight, and David mentioned that his parents would have liked him to have been more like Joey Ramone, which was unexpected.

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Glyn Bach @llanfrancisco.bsky.social · 20h

Bristol City Labour councillor Fabian Breckels has been suspended from the party after he made a racist comment on Facebook

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bristol Labour councillor suspended over racist comment

Councillor Fabian Breckels is being investigated over a comment he made on Facebook.

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Glyn Bach @llanfrancisco.bsky.social · 22h

"If we don't solve this problem," King Abdullah said, "if we don't find a future for Israelis and Palestinians and a relationship between the Arab and Muslim worlds and Israel, we're doomed"

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Middle East 'doomed' without Palestinian state, King of Jordan says

In an exclusive interview with BBC Panorama, the king says a two-state solution is the only answer.

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Glyn Bach @llanfrancisco.bsky.social · 23h

Kent Reform UK Cllr Robert Ford - member for Maidstone Rural West - has been suspended by the party, following complaints from several women, about sexualised comments www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ne...

Reform councillor suspended amid investigation into ‘lewd remarks’

A Reform UK councillor has been suspended amid an investigation into allegations of misconduct following a complaint by “several women”.

www.kentonline.co.uk

Glyn Bach @llanfrancisco.bsky.social · 23h

18 yr old Palestinian Omar Yahya Al-Qarinawi - who lives with autism - was arrested by the IDF earlier in 2025 after being shot while trying to secure humanitarian aid in Gaza. He was held without charge, but was released last week, separate to the ceasefire agreement tinyurl.com/3njznfr5

Israel releases autistic Gazan teen after reportedly holding him for months without charges

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Glyn Bach @llanfrancisco.bsky.social · 23h

Now that the ceasefire is in place, in Gaza, Hamas are engaging in a 'settling of accounts' with its Palestinian opponents, including armed militias, with a number of public executions

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Hamas deploys fighters as hostages released, in show of strength

Hamas deployed fighters in Gaza on Monday as a release of hostages seized in the October 7 attacks was under way, Reuters footage showed, in an apparent show of strength by the militant group which President Donald Trump says must disarm.

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Glyn Bach @llanfrancisco.bsky.social · 23h

Former Wyoming library director, Terri Lesley, who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes, will be paid $700,000 US after settling a lawsuit against her former employers, Campbell County
www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha... (cc @junodawson.bsky.social )

Librarian fired after refusing to censor 2SLGBTQ+ books wins $700K US settlement | CBC Radio

A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and 2SLGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for young readers will be paid $700,000...

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Glyn Bach @llanfrancisco.bsky.social · 1d

Republican congressman Mike Lawler, representative for New York's 17th congressional district

'“Let me be clear: LGBTQ+ people, and especially our Transgender community members, are not an enemy or a threat"

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Republican Congressman condemns growing anti-trans rhetoric

QNews LGBTIQA+ News

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Glyn Bach @llanfrancisco.bsky.social · 1d

The article below is a classic example of left-wing excusing, and minimising, of state homophobia in the name of anti-imperialism

www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2025/10/10/h...

#LGBT #LGBTQ

How pinkwashing is used to slander anti-colonial revolutions from Palestine to Burkina Faso

Oct. 15 marks the 38th anniversary of the assassination of Thomas Sankara, a Pan-Africanist and Marxist revolutionary, who seized state power in a 1983 popular coup. Sankara was president of Burkin…

www.struggle-la-lucha.org

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Glyn Bach @llanfrancisco.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight's dinner

Poached cod in a wholegrain mustard sauce, served with steamed new potatoes, Brussels sprouts, and carrots

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Glyn Bach @llanfrancisco.bsky.social · 1d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Egypt: "They have very little crime. Because they don't play games. That's why. Like we do in the United States with governors that have no idea what they're doing."

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Woman, 53, becomes UK’s longest survivor of heart and lung transplant

Katie Mitchell had procedure at 15 after being diagnosed with Eisenmenger syndrome, a rare congenital disease At the age of 15, medics feared Katie Mitchell was coming to the end of her life after suffering irreversible lung damage and heart failure from a rare congenital disease. But she defied the odds thanks to a heart and lung transplant, and at the age of 53 she has become the UK’s longest-surviving recipient of such a procedure. Continue reading...

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Glyn Bach @llanfrancisco.bsky.social · 1d

'Inclusive' doing some heavy lifting there.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Appalling and sloppy... but EVEN more so when you consider the show's subject matter...

Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 2d

I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

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Glyn Bach @llanfrancisco.bsky.social · 1d

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Glyn Bach @llanfrancisco.bsky.social · 1d

Such extravagance!

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Glyn Bach @llanfrancisco.bsky.social · 1d

The Conservative government was so keen to show that Brexit was working that it signed bad deals. Michael Gove, and former Environment Secretary George Eustice, have admitted as much, and stated that farmers were one group that felt the consequences of this www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers

Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

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Redbridge Museum & Heritage Centre @redbridgemuseum.bsky.social · 1d

Recently spotted on Ilford High Road – the F. W. Woolworth ‘ghost sign’ still in place beneath the new Superdrug store signage being installed this week.

Woolworths opened in Ilford in 1912. In 1938, the exterior was renovated in the attractive white Art Deco style that still stands today.

Photo of an old ‘ghost’ shop sign made up of red mosaic tiles with the name ‘F. W. WOOLWORTH’ faded but visible, over a shuttered Superdrug store under refurbishment, taken 8 October 2025

Black and white photograph of Ilford High Road showing F. W. Woolworth’s far right beside the Town Hall, taken c.1930

Photo of Ilford High Road showing F. W. Woolworth’s far right in white Art Deco style exterior beside the Town Hall, taken c.1970

Photo of Ilford High Road showing F. W. Woolworth’s storefront with faded sign and painted-over windows, taken January 1983

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1d

They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”

After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”

And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Glyn Bach @llanfrancisco.bsky.social · 1d

He's a man who needs flattering and adulation, and, well, he's going to get it there.

Glyn Bach @llanfrancisco.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who enjoys vacuuming is clearly a dangerous and disturbed individual.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

Cooking, decluttering and tidying up are the chores Britons are most likely to enjoy doing

Cooking: 57% like
Decluttering: 46%
Tidying: 40%
Vacuuming: 34%
Laundry: 32%
Hanging washing: 32%
Cleaning kitchen: 31%
Cleaning living room: 29%
Making bed: 28%
Washing up: 25%

yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

Glyn Bach @llanfrancisco.bsky.social · 1d

A 'fun run' can hardly be described as inclusive if teenage girls, and women are excluded. I don't care if it is Muslim, Jewish or Christian (Muslim in this case).

www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

London mosque faces criticism over 'men and young girls only' charity fun run

East London Mosque sparks criticism over the charity run, open to men and girls under 12 only

www.standard.co.uk

Glyn Bach @llanfrancisco.bsky.social · 1d

The problem is not with France. The problem is international, and the problem is with men. Why do so many men regard women (even those they, ostensibly, 'love' as wives and partners) as objects, to be used and abused as they see fit?

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘These men think they’ve done nothing wrong’: the philosopher who tried to understand Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists

When 50 men went on trial in France, accused of raping a woman who had been drugged by her husband, Manon Garcia was in the courtroom – and in the prosecutors’ closing arguments. How does she make sen...

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Glyn Bach @llanfrancisco.bsky.social · 1d

I am keeping baited breath

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