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Sue W

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#IStandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 Non-religious, married, British-born European female. Centre-left politically and interests include SciFi, Science, History, Law, Environmental/Green/Climate-change issues 🌹

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Sue W @suew.bsky.social · 3d

And there you have ladies and gentlemen from his own mouth. #Trump declares it out loud "We got rid of Freedom of Speech"

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump’s ‘Antifa roundtable’ was so much worse than you’re imagining

Holly Baxter reports on a meeting that, at one point, appeared to position people protesting against Nazis in the Weimar Republic as the bad guys, and at another saw the president declare, ‘We got rid...

www.independent.co.uk

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JohnWest_JAWS @johnwestjaws.bsky.social · 14h

Investigations into Russian intelligence by UK SIS never took place - because the government of the time never instructed them to do so.

I do hope the current government does not make the same error.

Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 18h

“a major figure in the Brexit movement will now go to jail for accepting bribes for acting as an agent of influence for Russian interests.” #ReformRussianBribes national.thelead.uk/p/the-lead-u...

The Lead Untangles: The Reform leader’s Russian influence scandal

Not unreported, but certainly not given much spotlight, what do the Russian bribes taken by a former Reform UK leader tell us?

national.thelead.uk

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Sue W @suew.bsky.social · 11h

Hungary has become a cesspit under Orban.

Sue W @suew.bsky.social · 11h

There is no organisation known as Antifa. Therefore Anifa cannot be declared as terrorists.

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Marlowe_UK @irishdreamer.bsky.social · 14h

Blocked by yet another drooling Corbyn nutjob who’s convinced Starmer spends his Saturdays dressed as a policeman to arrest people “for protesting”.

Absolute simpletons.

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Irritated Llama @irritatedllama.bsky.social · 14h

Most MAGA are so ill informed that they probably won't even see this story. Bad news about the supreme leader isn't allowed in the MAGA press. The others won't care because they're in a cult.
This should sink Trump, but it won't.
The problem is ALWAYS gullible lambs to the slaughter.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump administration is REALLY allowing Qatar to build an air base in the US after they did a $5.5 billion golf resort deal with Trump and gave him a jet.

MAGA can take their ‘America First’ flags and wipe their asses with them. He is Trump First, and you are suckers.

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 13h

And before the far right / racists got involved (mostly from outside the area of course), when it obtained planning permission 2 years ago, there were just 21 objections.

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

Abuse towards Dalton-in-Furness mosque leads to extra police patrols

UKIP leader Nick Tenconi films himself visiting the mosque site and shouting at construction workers.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 13h

'Odd' how far right extremist 'concerned citizen' is never concerned enough to get their facts straight.

It's not a 'super mosque'

It's a couple of doors down from a car breaker yard and a roofing supplies warehouse - and not in the Lake District park.

And it won't have a minaret or loudspeaker.

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 13h

Like I never met John Thaw. 👀

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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 12h

Wouldn't the Refuk (mis)leaders be better off trying to come up some policies of their own rather than imagining policies that Labour don't have and then 'slamming' them...?

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Sue W @suew.bsky.social · 11h

Loved Shoestring. The part of Eddie Shoestring was made for an actor like Trevor Eve. I know quite a few of the locations where filming of Shoestring took place - I used to work in Bristol and used to live roughly about 4 miles from the centre of Bristol.

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Mike Wrigley @mikewrigley.bsky.social · 12h

Excellent!

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Grumpy Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇪🇺 @brian770.bsky.social · 12h

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Sue W @suew.bsky.social · 11h

#Meta once again proving it should NEVER be trusted and is actively doing great harm.

#CarelessPeople

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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Graham Bett @grahambett.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect Labour's plan to #RejoinEU is to
🇪🇺 prepare the electorate for change
🇪🇺 avoid giving Reform the debate it wants
🇪🇺 rebuild relationships with EU Leaders who will ultimately decide
🇪🇺 go for it in a second term Labour Government

All four [and more] are necessary.
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 〓〓 🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer blaming #Brexit for tax rises may be accurate but when only 37% of a now disproportionately dead electorate voted for it almost 10 yrs ago, based on undeliverable lies, the questions are why should the rest of us stomach it & where is Labour’s plan to change that? archive.ph/2025.10.10-2...

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Sue W @suew.bsky.social · 1d

As far as I recall, Yes. Corbyn (Lab leader at the time) imposed a three-line whip on all Labour MPs to vote in favour of triggering Article 50. Those Labour MPs who voted against triggering Article 50 were, I believe, suspended from the party for defying the three-line whip imposed by Corbyn.

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Sue W @suew.bsky.social · 1d

The #BorisFiles. Articles on the self-entitlement, corruption and sleaze of former #ConservativeParty Leader and Prime Minister, #BorisJohnson.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/seri...

The Boris Files | The Guardian

Latest The Boris Files news, comment and analysis from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice

www.theguardian.com

Sue W @suew.bsky.social · 1d

In other words, just like Trump and Farage.

Sue W @suew.bsky.social · 1d

We all knew at the time he was elected as Con Party leader how bad he would be as a Prime Minister and sadly he didn't disappoint. And the same applies to Farage (although one suspects as a PM Farage will even manage to surpass Johnson on levels of sheer self-entitlement, corruption and sleaze).

Sue W @suew.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing surprises me now about how corrupt and sleazy Johnson really is.

Sue W @suew.bsky.social · 1d

That beats my yogurt mixed into cereal and a coffee.

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Irritated Llama @irritatedllama.bsky.social · 1d

They only want YOU to die from treatable illnesses.

www.thepoke.com/2025/10/11/a...

Anti-vaccine Donald Trump just had his winter flu and Covid shots – 16 responses to boost your spirits

Say what you like about Donald Trump – no, please do – but you can never say the man isn’t consistently inconsistent. The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize watcher heads an administration that is virulently anti...

www.thepoke.com

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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 1d

Not so good in Spain (5%). Great in Scandinavia (30%+).

European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 1d

The numbers of electric vehicles sold in Europe in 2024 are in:

⚡ 1.45 million new battery-only EVs registered
📈 +32% growth in the total electric fleet
🔋 13.6% of all new car registrations are electric

Europe is going full throttle to a clean future.

link.europa.eu/cNKjkh

A color-coded map of Europe titled "Share of electric vehicles sold in each EU country in 2024," showing the share of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) as a percentage of total new passenger car registrations. The EU average is 13.5%. Countries with the highest shares (>20%, darkest shade) include Sweden (35%), Netherlands (34.5%), Finland (29.5%), Luxembourg (27.4%), Belgium (28%), and Denmark (51%). Other countries like France (16.5%), Portugal (19.9%), and Austria (17.5%) are also in the <20% range. Several Eastern and Southern European countries (including Italy, Spain, Poland, and Czechia) have shares below 10% (the lightest shades).

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Sue W @suew.bsky.social · 1d

A good article which underlines the fragility of democracy and how fast democracy can be lost (we are currently witnessing this in real time with the behaviour of the Trump Presidency and how quickly he has undermined and done away the guard-rails which underpin and supports a democratic country).

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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 1d

“First, they create an atmosphere of ‘them against us’ then they attack journalists, judges, and the rule of law, then they move directly to arresting their enemies. This is the way to undermine democracies."

María Ramírez @mariaramirez.bsky.social · 1d

“Primero se crea una atmósfera de 'ellos contra nosotros', después se ataca a los periodistas y a los jueces y al Estado de Derecho, para pasar directamente a la detención de los enemigos. Es la forma de socavar las democracias”. 👌entrevista de @urisole.bsky.social www.eldiario.es/catalunya/hi...

El historiador que ha estudiado cómo el nazismo lo corrompió todo: "Hoy es un milagro que las democracias resistan"

El documentalista británico Laurence Rees publica 'En la mente nazi' (Crítica), una obra con 12 advertencias vigentes sobre cómo el totalitarismo de Hitler cercenó las libertades alemanas

www.eldiario.es

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Stewart Macdonald @mrred8691.bsky.social · 1d

So let me get this right.
Last time Trump was in power he put Muslim flight bans in place as they are terrible people and want to do America harm.
Roll on a few years and after gift of a jet the Qataris have now free unfiltered access to American soil to come and go and do as they please.
Traitor.

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