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Johanna Saunders @johannasaunders.bsky.social · 12h

Trump has dementia.
Trump is in the Epstein Files.
Trump would be in jail if the election hadn’t been bought for him.
Trump has declared war on his own country to avoid scrutiny and to distract you from the truth coming out.

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🐟 Northern Do Gooder @missfairhurst.bsky.social · 4h

It still begs the question as to why Labour lied about "making Brexit work" for so long. If they are going to have any credibility, they need to accept accountability for their role in the Brexit damage, so that they can draw a line under it and move on towards rejoining the SM and CU.

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Amy @amzomac.bsky.social · 8h

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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@Spookerleggera - evil incarnate, for one month only!🧛🦇⚰️👹 @superleggera.bsky.social · 7h

this makes me so angry. Care workers are doing the jobs most flag-shaggers would think is beneath them, for these workers to face both racist and physical abuse is disgusting. The government are complicit in the choice of language they use when talking about migration.

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 7h

Inflation remains high at 3.8%.
Food and non-alcoholic drink inflation is at 5.1%
Fresh food quality at an all time low (Just my opinion).

Remind me again about the benefits of Brexit and how the past several UK governments have improved our lives?

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🐟 Northern Do Gooder @missfairhurst.bsky.social · 7h

Sounds like the typical far right "patriot" who loves his country so much that he didn't even bother to learn the language.

I'm absolutely certain some education would help these guys integrate better.

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🐟 Northern Do Gooder @missfairhurst.bsky.social · 7h

It's a major coup: he's stitched up Britain's two main parties by selling them absolute snake oil.

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🐟 Northern Do Gooder @missfairhurst.bsky.social · 8h

It's quite the trick Farage pulled: he sold the Tories a right lemon with Brexit and, now that the wheels have come off, he's stepped in to take their place.

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 20h

John O'Connell

"My old friend Nathan Gill, who I've never met, accidentally tripped over a briefcase containing £50,000 and then coincidentally the next day spouted pro Russian propaganda in the EU, as did I. And as far as I'm concerned that's the end of the matter."

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🐟 Northern Do Gooder @missfairhurst.bsky.social · 11h

And a bad faith actor who constantly lies for his grift.

🐟 Northern Do Gooder @missfairhurst.bsky.social · 17h

Justice, hopefully. Let's hope the police and CPS have all their ducks in a row.

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Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · 20h

Excellent from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Wigan Tours @wigantours.bsky.social · 1d

Subtle reminder 🙂
Would love it if anyone could come along ❤ #Corrie #CoronationStreet

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Wigan Tours @wigantours.bsky.social · 11d

Please spread the word ❤ #Corrie #CoronationStreet

Wigan Museum @wiganmuseum.bsky.social · 11d

Sean Jinks looks at the role that Wigan has played in the success of Coronation Street. From the first "wild child", the scriptwriter from Standish, to when the stars came to visit the town.

🗓️ Sat 18 Oct
⌚ 12-1pm
💷 £3.50

Book via link or ring 01942 828128.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wigan-corr...

Wigan & Corrie by Sean Jinks

Come and find out how Wigan is linked to the nations favourite soap.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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🐟 Northern Do Gooder @missfairhurst.bsky.social · 1d

Gove has a rap sheet as long as my arm. It's high time he was held to account for his corruption and lies.

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T-Rexit @t-rexit.bsky.social · 1d

Tremendous 🤣

Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 1d

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 1d

This deserves more attention than it has received.

Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".

Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
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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🐟 Northern Do Gooder @missfairhurst.bsky.social · 1d

Or financial.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 1d

Searing truths about Israel, the West and complicity in genocide from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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🐟 Northern Do Gooder @missfairhurst.bsky.social · 1d

Ah but when is it a cliché and when is it the magical three word slogan, much loved by politicians?

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🐟 Northern Do Gooder @missfairhurst.bsky.social · 1d

I thought that list was calling out Trump. He is Anti-American, Anti-Christian, and an extremist on race, gender and migration. The acts committed by ICE are nothing short of terrorism.

🐟 Northern Do Gooder @missfairhurst.bsky.social · 1d

Except he didn't "get it so wrong" - he deliberately lied about it from the start.

The guy's a fraud, a conman, a charlatan. His incompetence stems from the fact he's selling snake oil instead of credible policies. He knows exactly what he's doing.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

KEVIN MAGUIRE: 'Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong' - The Mirror

No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire

www.mirror.co.uk

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Green Elects @greenelects.world · 1d

🚨| For the first time in its 53-year history, @TheGreenParty passes 100,000 members!

Under a new leader, @zackpolanski.bsky.social has galvanised a Green movement like no other.

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