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The Life and Legacy of George Arthur Roberts
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I am Samantha Harding, great granddaughter of George Arthur Roberts: WWII fireman, founding chairman of the League of Coloured Peoples, WWI vet etc. I am also an NHS consultant eye surgeon. See our family website at www.georgearthurroberts.com
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The Life and Legacy of George Arthur Roberts @thelifeandlega1.bsky.social · 2d
everydoctor.org.uk/the-everydoc... Stop PFI in the NHS. Stop bleeding the NHS dry! Please sign this NHS Charter from Everydoctor to save the NHS. Thank you.
The EveryDoctor Charter for the NHS – EveryDoctor
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 6h
If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2h
So First Amendment rights can now be snatched away if you [checks notes] celebrate?
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 11h
This is the face of the health care crisis in America. 
 
It’s what I’m fighting to change.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5h
A 15-year-old girl was assaulted while alerting her community about ICE raids. The Department of Homeland Security denies any involvement, ICE misrepresents the footage, and then continuously alters its narrative.
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Kathy Griffin @kathygriffin.bsky.social · 4h
Elections aren’t every 4 years or every 2 years, they’re every year. In California we have a special election for prop 50 and it’s a YES. If Texas can gerrymander then we should be able to. I know my comments will be filled with bots, but I won’t be intimidated. Our democracy is vanishing❤️
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Jay @pescado70.bsky.social · 11h
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 6h
I’d been thinking for a while that it seems like a startling number of rappers have died in their mid-40s to mid-50s from natural causes but it didn’t really feel like an epidemic until I saw this list. 😦
Deaths of Hip-Hop Artists Reveal the Alarming State of Black Men’s Health
Neo-soul singer D'Angelo joins growing list of Gen X Black male performers who are dying relatively young.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 11h
"Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass" by Tom Bowman of NPR. www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g... Recommended.

A thing frequently forgotten or ignored is that journalism is one of the few professions people will die for. [Via @brianstelter.bsky.social ]
Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3h
This isn’t a peace plan. It’s a ceasefire. Why is the media calling it a peace plan?
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Greed Apocalypse @juanmunoz.bsky.social · 1h
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Andrew Ross Sorkin: So many parallels between 1929 and now that I worry about | Flipboard
MSNBC - Andrew Ross Sorkin joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book '1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a …
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h
ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h
Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...
JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 1h
After the incident, Pope Leo ordered emergency purification rites "to restore the holiness of the place and ask forgiveness from God."
Man Drops Pants And Pees On Sacred Altar At St. Peter's Basilica
After the incident, Pope Leo ordered emergency purification rites "to restore the holiness of the place and ask forgiveness from God."
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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4h
this entire speech is fucking bizarre, even by second term trump standards
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
Trump: "You hear those sirens going off? That's good. A good sound. That means they either got the bad guy or they're gonna stop the bad guy. You didn't hear that sound bc nobody wanted to do anything. Listen to the beauty of that sound. That's the real deal sirens, not politically correct sirens"
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 1h
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Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. @admiralstav.bsky.social · 10h
A powerful personal testament from Tom Bowman of NPR about the Pentagon attempt to exert complete control over all information. Protecting classified is of course fine. But when neither Fox News nor NY Times sign up to your policy, you should ask yourself if you are getting something very wrong.
Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...
www.npr.org
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Greed Apocalypse @juanmunoz.bsky.social · 1h
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THE RACIST, CHRISTO-FASCIST, INSTIGATOR & GROOMER WILL NOT BE REMEMBERED WELL IN THE HISTORY BOOKS ONCE THE MAGA CULT SELF IMPLODES.

WHILE MARTIN LUTHER KING WILL FOREVER BE REMEMBERED AS AN UNITER, PEACEFUL ACTIVIST & TRUE AMERICAN HERO.
The Right Wing Desperately Wants to Make Charlie Kirk Its MLK | Flipboard
The Intercept - On Kirk’s “National Day of Remembrance,” white supremacists want to replace a tradition of justice with their own manufactured myth. Alain Stephens is …
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10h
California just banned employers from forcing workers to pay a debt, fee, or penalty to leave their job.

Bosses have increasingly been trapping workers with debts incurred in training and other exploitative fees.

Now that's illegal in the nation's biggest state.
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🌹Weegie 🍀 @onefussyone.bsky.social · 2h
If after viewing this map it seems that conservatism causes poverty, illness, misery and death you would be completely correct.
Social media post: Image of map, color coded by average life expectancy in America showing the deep south has a significantly shorter average life span. @AlpacaAurelius Wow, Americans in the southeast of the US have a 20 year shorter life expectancy than those elsewhere. Wtf is going on? @davidhogg111 Poverty
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 5h
The Trump-Vance Administration getting rid of biodefense personnel is, to state the blindingly obvious, a very bad choice.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 13h
Looking forward to hitting the campaign trail next week with my friend & Virginia’s next governor, @abigailspanberger.com.
Pete Buttigieg to appear with Spanberger in Charlottesville
With the election for governor three weeks away, Democrat Abigail Spanberger is getting some outside help to get out the vote. Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg will appear with t...
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1h
An honor to receive the endorsement of
of nearly a dozen Black clergy leaders in Crown Heights today, including Bishop Orlando Findlayter.

I’m grateful for their support, and this powerful and humbling prayer.
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The Life and Legacy of George Arthur Roberts @thelifeandlega1.bsky.social · 1h
Wow. Thought police.
And why martyrise Kirk? Whose views were thoroughly unpleasant.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2h
The State Department said that it has revoked the visas of foreign nationals who had spoken out against Charlie Kirk. Senior officials within the department said they would move to deny or rescind visas for individuals who had criticized Kirk, this is a direct violations of the First Amendment.
US revokes visas for six foreigners over comments made about Charlie Kirk's death
The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it had revoked the visas of six foreigners over social media comments made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2h
Cartoon by @johnbuss.bsky.social.

The TIME Magazine cover Trump hates.
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