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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 17h

Pay attention U.K.

This is what is coming your way if the likes of Farage and his Insurance mates like Arron Banks have their way.

Jason Steele @filmcow.bsky.social · 1d

Me and my partner's "Bronze" health insurance plan with Florida Blue is increasing from $511.22 a month to $1,711.75 a month next year. Not quite sure how to fit "$20,541 a year in health insurance premiums" into the budget.

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Ms Anfield Park @msanfieldpark.bsky.social · 9h

(Deleted my last as the link went wrong
Screenshot instead this time)
Here is another Liverpool MP, @kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social
posting on Facebook, with a clear and concise explanation that her colleagues either can’t understand or don’t want to hear, you decide.

Facebook post by Kim Johnson MP reads:
It’s been interesting to see so many political colleagues and commentators suddenly become football fans almost overnight. West Midlands police have made a professional, evidence based decision about the Aston Villa V Maccabi Tel Aviv match next month. Their priority rightly is the safety of supporters and the public that should be the end of it we and liverpool know the consequences when political interference and media pressure override proper policing judgement. The lessons of our cities history must never be forgotten-football fans deserve respect and protection, not political grandstanding. The government should be backing West Midlands police, not bending to headline chasing pressure. Decisions about safety should be made by professionals, not politicians looking for easy applause

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Janey Salisbury @serendipitysmith.bsky.social · 10h

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Janey Salisbury @serendipitysmith.bsky.social · 12h

"Because I'll be in Mar-a-Lago that weekend"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump on DC: "Mr. Senator, you could walk down, you can have your wife meet you at the restaurant, she's not gonna be accosted, shot, beat up, raped."

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22h

Suggest you jump in on this poll.

—> xd.wayin.com/display/cont...?

And share…

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Janey Salisbury @serendipitysmith.bsky.social · 12h

I hope you will be very happy there. I think this tells us all we need to know about you.

Janey Salisbury @serendipitysmith.bsky.social · 12h

Perhaps the Greens polling well might make Labour chase the lost left wing votes instead of the right wing ones. We can always hope.

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EUMETSAT @eumetsat.int · 21h

Curious how air pollution looks from space? 🌍
The 1st images from Sentinel-4 show us, offering an early glimpse of its capability to monitor Europe’s air quality hourly!

Onboard our new #MTGS1 satellite it will help deliver faster warnings to save lives & boost economies.
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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 16h

Funny innit… if this👇🏼was Starmer’s or Ed Davey’s wife, Zack Polanski’s partner, or even Badenoch’s husband.. it’d be all over the media

But as it’s Farage there’s no furore.. it’s all 🤫🤫.. has anyone seen it on BBC, Sky etc cos I haven’t❓🤷🏼‍♂️

Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 2d

Would it surprise you to learn Farage’s partner is at the centre of a criminal probe in Belgium over alleged fraud involving EU funds at a Eurosceptic think tank she ran❓

The one who “brought” his £885K house in #Clacton without the income to fund it, possibly enabling Farage to avoid £44K in tax
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Image is from X with pic of Farage and partner with details as per my post source is Sunday Times

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 14h

With alt text and a note that it is really really hard to rack up a tab that high in Central New York.

By Mark Weiner | mweiner@syracuse.com

When the New York State Young Republicans Club disbanded Friday
amid an uproar over its racist and antisemitic rhetoric in a group chat, the
club left behind unpaid bills from extravagant social gatherings.

At two of those events, the club ran up bills of more than $23,000 over a
weekend at a Syracuse hotel - spending big on a three-course plated
dinner with filet mignon and open bars - but then didn't pay, according to
records obtained by syracuse.com.

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Janey Salisbury @serendipitysmith.bsky.social · 15h

They sing songs about killing and raping other (left wing) Jewish people. I often feel that Starmer and whoever the bloody idiots are who advise him are very, very poor at research.

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Janey Salisbury @serendipitysmith.bsky.social · 16h

This is why I'm so confused when US people 'don't want to pay more tax' when our NHS is worth so much more to people in the UK than the tax they are saving in the US.

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Petrishriekandgo 🇨🇦 @petrishriekandgo.bsky.social · 1d

In British Columbia, Canada we USED to pay $150.00 a month for my family of 4 for our Provincial health coverage, then it was reduced to $75.00 a month.

Now... we pay 0$ a month for basic health coverage.

US citizens are stuck in an abusive relationship with their country. It's criminal.

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Ain’t Complicit 🇺🇸 @charlene411.bsky.social · 1d

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17h

Notably a state prosecution, not a federal one for threatening to kill a member of Congress.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

"A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries."

Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week

A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill the top House Democrat.

www.cbsnews.com

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Janey Salisbury @serendipitysmith.bsky.social · 16h

I've already reported the account as having a misleading affiliation.

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Janey Salisbury @serendipitysmith.bsky.social · 16h

Exactly. I can see no excuse for any of this at all.

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Janey Salisbury @serendipitysmith.bsky.social · 17h

I think Starmer could have made his worst mistake yet with this Maccabi nonsense. On their fan site there's actually a song about killing and raping not arabs but other Jews who are perceived to be left wing and not right wing. Speaking up for Macabbi fans in any way goes against all decency.

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Janey Salisbury @serendipitysmith.bsky.social · 17h

What if you are just a troll and your questions are disingenuous shit stirring?

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 1d

No mention at all of the fact that Trump doesn't have the legal authority to do this, that plans haven't even been reviewed (because the office is closed for the government shutdown), that the size and cost estimates keep changing, etc., etc.

Part of White House Is Reduced to Rubble. Trump’s Ballroom Will Rise in Its Place.

www.nytimes.com

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Janey Salisbury @serendipitysmith.bsky.social · 19h

We, or in this case I, forget incredibly easily. I literally forgot when I wrote my previous reply that my husband is half, and my daughter a quarter, Chinese. My other 3 children are half Polish, although their father was born here. It never occurs to any of us that they are anything but British.

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Janey Salisbury @serendipitysmith.bsky.social · 19h

A large proportion of people with diluted immigrant genes most of us aren't even aware of, often even themselves. They become part of 'us' incredibly quickly. I only found out today that Marina Wheeler is half Indian. And I still can't 'see' that Stephen Graham is mixed race although I know he is.

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Janey Salisbury @serendipitysmith.bsky.social · 20h

Being clever doesn't necessarily make you a nice person, or a sensible person, or a fair person, or a decent person. There are plenty of clever narcissists and psychopaths.

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Soph0571 @soph0517.bsky.social · 21h

The phycological impact on our friends and neighbours who are the targets of this most base dog whistle politics cannot be underestimated. Can you imagine being a kid of settled ILR parents and worrying you might get home from school and they have been disappeared?

Sickening. Cruel. Toxic

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Suella De-Vil First Female Britain First MP (maybe) -parody @suellade.bsky.social · 21h

Her parents must be so proud…..

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