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Allyson
@ada-l.bsky.social
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UK based mum, cat lover, software engineer, egalitarian and massive fan of being nice to each other. Lifelong Labour voter with dual US/UK nationality. Feeling the pain across the pond and came here from the 'other place' for solace.
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November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Interesting that old Dave will work with Corbyn but not Starmer?
Could it be his populism perhaps?
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Progressive Pelosi 💙
www.slowboring.com/p/a-nancy-pe...
For Pelosi’s first 15 years, she was a factional progressive in Congress. When Bill Clinton laid out his health care proposal in 1993, Pelosi was the one who anchored the left flank of the debate with a Medicare for All proposal. When she became the #2 figure in the leadership hierarchy in 2002, she was the progressive voice in the councils of leadership. Prior to assuming that role, she was the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, which made her one of the most prominent congressional Democrats to buck the Bush administration on the invasion of Iraq. By the numbers, most Democrats in Congress voted “no” on the war. But the prominent ones like John Kerry and John Edwards who were running for president, Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Joe Biden, future candidate Hillary Clinton, Senate leader Tom Daschle, and House leader Dick Gephardt all voted for the war. It was Pelosi who said, no, I’m on the committee, I’ve seen the intelligence, and the case doesn’t add up. And she was right. There’s more to politics than being right about stuff, but being right is a major asset — whatever else happened over the course of Clinton’s career, I think it’s clear that she’d have been elected president back in 2008 if she’d been as correct about this as Pelosi was. When Gephardt stepped down to pursue his presidential ambitions and Pelosi stepped up, the main media narrative was that the Democrats were going off the rails to the left. Instead, we had several years of progressives being right about stuff and Pelosi triumphing.
November 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Looked it up - sexist.
November 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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November 1, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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October 31, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Zappa said it best
I mean it won't blow up an' disappear It'll just look ugly for a thousand years... See upcoming rap shows Get tickets for your favorite artists You might also like Jumbo Go Away Frank Zappa Suicide Chump Frank Zappa Please Please Please Sabrina Carpenter You can't run a country by a book of religion Not by a heap or a lump or a smidgen Of foolish rules of ancient date Designed to make you all feel great While you fold, spindle and mutilate Those unbelievers from a neighboring state TO ARMS! TO ARMS! Hooray! That's great Two legs ain't bad unless there's a crate They ship the parts to mama in For souvenirs: two ears – Get Down! Not his, not hers, but what the hey? The Good Book says: "It's gotta be that way!" But their book says: "REVENGE THE CRUSADES!!!!..." With whips an' chains an' hand grenades..." TWO ARMS? TWO ARMS? Have another and another Our God says: "There ain't no other!" Our God says: "It's all okay!" Our God says: "This is the way!" It says in the book: "Burn and destroy....." An' repent, an' redeem, an' revenge, an' deploy An' rumble thee forth to the land of the unbelieving scum on the other side Cause they don't go for what's in the Book An' that makes 'em BAD So verily we must choppeth them up And stompeth them down Or rent a nice French bomb To poof them out of existence While leaving their real estate just where we need it To use again for temples in which to praise OUR GOD "Cause He can really take care of business!" And when His humble TV servant With humble white hair and humble glasses and a nice brown suit And maybe a blond wife who takes phone calls Tells us Our God says it's okay to do this stuff, then we gotta do it Cause if we don't do it, we ain't gwine up to hebbin! (Depending on which book you're using at the time...) Can't use theirs, it don't work, it's all lies...... Gotta use mine... Ain't that right? That's what they say – Every night... Every day... Hey, we can't really be dumb, if we're just following God's Orders Let's get s…
October 31, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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She's MAGA and the recent bombings in Venezuela are likely connected to trying to install her in power.
October 11, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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The woman who won is a MAGA though
October 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Sadly the woman who won the nobel peace prize is a MAGA
October 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Do you know the meaning of the word obtuse? I was being direct and specific. Clue - it doesn't mean that.
October 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Fake image
October 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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He was focusing on housing in this short video, there are 122 mentions of transport here: www.gov.uk/government/p...
Our report is clear that this initiative is not just about building houses but rather the creation of thriving communities, each with a distinct sense of place and tailored to local challenges and opportunities. The creation of new towns where residents can invest their energies and their dreams. Above all our placemaking recommendations focus on the importance of early master-planning for the whole area, as well as careful design for the creation of high quality places, supported by long-term stewardship. We emphasise early investment in social and economic infrastructure, good transport connections, and the environmental resilience needed to create a sustainable community.
October 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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This is just plain wrong. His followers were by a large majority young males.
October 6, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Maybe similar roundness but that's about it
September 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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This weirdo looks like he has had lip fillers
September 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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September 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive...
For abuse survivors and their advocates, Feinberg’s comments cast doubt on whether Dolan’s Independent Reconciliation and Compensation Program was truly designed with either independence or reconciliation in mind. “The statements, if true, place Cardinal Dolan in a compromising light,” prominent sexual abuse attorney Mitchell Garabedian told ABC News, “and are disrespectful to victims or survivors of clergy sexual abuse everywhere.”
September 19, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Mr Ovenden added that the conversation was "outrageous". The messages took place on a private chat in Labour's internal instant messaging system. A No 10 spokesman said: "These messages are appalling and unacceptable. As the first black woman to be elected to Parliament, Diane Abbott is a trailblazer who has faced horrendous abuse throughout her political career. These kinds of comments have no place in our politics."
September 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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The government minister in charge of this part of government responded to the 'protest'
September 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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September 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Don't forget this one
September 3, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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These are common colloquialisms in the UK and predated ant vaxxers. In Scotland we call them jags.
www.oed.com/dictionary/j...
Additional sense (2022) 1949– Chiefly Scottish. A hypodermic injection, esp. a vaccination. Cf. jab n. 1b. 1949 Peron orders jag for all... The action came in the face of a growing smallpox outbreak. Press & Journal (Aberdeen) 8 September 1/2Citation details for Press & Journal (Aberdeen) 1982 If she takes flu, in spite of an annual ‘flu jag’,..a home help attends her domestic needs. A. MacVicar, Bees in my Bonnet ii. 43Citation details for A. MacVicar, Bees in my Bonnet 2021 It was a massive relief that my own parents had their jags in the past week or so. Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 10 February 14Citation details for Evening Times (Glasgow)
August 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Yeah he appears to be trying to start ww3
August 31, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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August 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM