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The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 PM
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
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They murdered a nurse who cared for military veterans & then called him a terrorist.
January 25, 2026 at 2:39 PM
They murdered a nurse who cared for military veterans & then called him a terrorist.
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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I'm sorry I accidentally broke the law.
Again.
And again.
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It was an accident.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Again.
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It was an accident.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage apologises for 17 breaches of MPs’ code of conduct
Reform UK leader, who failed to declare £380,000 on time, says he is computer-illiterate ‘oddball’
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:53 PM
I'm sorry I accidentally broke the law.
Again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
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It was an accident.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Again.
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It was an accident.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holding the Nobel Peace Prize awarded him in 1964.
At age 35, he was the youngest person to receive the honor at that time.
MLK earned the prize for his commitment to nonviolent resistance against racial prejudice and his leadership in the American Civil Rights Movement.
At age 35, he was the youngest person to receive the honor at that time.
MLK earned the prize for his commitment to nonviolent resistance against racial prejudice and his leadership in the American Civil Rights Movement.
January 19, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holding the Nobel Peace Prize awarded him in 1964.
At age 35, he was the youngest person to receive the honor at that time.
MLK earned the prize for his commitment to nonviolent resistance against racial prejudice and his leadership in the American Civil Rights Movement.
At age 35, he was the youngest person to receive the honor at that time.
MLK earned the prize for his commitment to nonviolent resistance against racial prejudice and his leadership in the American Civil Rights Movement.
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"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
January 19, 2026 at 7:00 PM
"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
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The decent Tories were culled in 2019.
The indecent ones are defecting to Farage.
I wonder who or what will be left by 2029.
The indecent ones are defecting to Farage.
I wonder who or what will be left by 2029.
January 15, 2026 at 5:58 PM
The decent Tories were culled in 2019.
The indecent ones are defecting to Farage.
I wonder who or what will be left by 2029.
The indecent ones are defecting to Farage.
I wonder who or what will be left by 2029.
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Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey & Old Southwark, didn't mess about in a letter to Farage explaining Parliamentary procedure...
January 14, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey & Old Southwark, didn't mess about in a letter to Farage explaining Parliamentary procedure...
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“What the hell kind of Christian is this guy anyway?”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
January 9, 2026 at 6:11 PM
“What the hell kind of Christian is this guy anyway?”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Trump is probably focused on the money he wrongly thinks he'll make from Venezuelan oil. But he's not a details guy and nobody has thought through the details. Essentially, the US has taken over Venezuela by mistake. Stranger things have happened, but not many.
open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
Stranger Things
The 1980s Nostalgia of Trump's Foreign Policy is probably going to end up, like Stranger Things, as a horror show.
open.substack.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Trump is probably focused on the money he wrongly thinks he'll make from Venezuelan oil. But he's not a details guy and nobody has thought through the details. Essentially, the US has taken over Venezuela by mistake. Stranger things have happened, but not many.
open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
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A scepter snatch’d with an unruly hand
Must be as boisterously maintain’d as gain’d;
And he that stands upon a slipp’ry place
Makes nice of no vild hold to stay him up
Must be as boisterously maintain’d as gain’d;
And he that stands upon a slipp’ry place
Makes nice of no vild hold to stay him up
January 3, 2026 at 5:14 PM
A scepter snatch’d with an unruly hand
Must be as boisterously maintain’d as gain’d;
And he that stands upon a slipp’ry place
Makes nice of no vild hold to stay him up
Must be as boisterously maintain’d as gain’d;
And he that stands upon a slipp’ry place
Makes nice of no vild hold to stay him up
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If you read one thing today, make it The Bear’s withering dismantling of Reform UK’s “budget” with the precision of someone who understands numbers… unlike the people who wrote it. A a masterclass in calm annihilation that's ruthlessly savage. 🔥
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
The truth behind Reform UK’s reckless budget
£25bn of imagined savings, real-world cruelty and mathematics that should come with a trigger warning
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
If you read one thing today, make it The Bear’s withering dismantling of Reform UK’s “budget” with the precision of someone who understands numbers… unlike the people who wrote it. A a masterclass in calm annihilation that's ruthlessly savage. 🔥
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
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Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
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You can’t “efficiency” your way through child protection, cancer wards and collapsing classrooms.
The Bear on why the UK’s been doing “less with less” for 15 years.
The Bear on why the UK’s been doing “less with less” for 15 years.
The ceaseless snip-snip-snip of a dying state
Fifteen years of cuts have left the UK trying to "efficiency" its way out of a collapse – and somehow still expecting growth to show up as well
eastangliabylines.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
You can’t “efficiency” your way through child protection, cancer wards and collapsing classrooms.
The Bear on why the UK’s been doing “less with less” for 15 years.
The Bear on why the UK’s been doing “less with less” for 15 years.
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Is not your father grown incapable
Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid
With age and alt’ring rheums? Can he speak? Hear?
Know man from man?
Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid
With age and alt’ring rheums? Can he speak? Hear?
Know man from man?
September 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Is not your father grown incapable
Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid
With age and alt’ring rheums? Can he speak? Hear?
Know man from man?
Of reasonable affairs? Is he not stupid
With age and alt’ring rheums? Can he speak? Hear?
Know man from man?
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No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy.
Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.
Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.
September 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy.
Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.
Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.
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Today, Parliament debated child sexual abuse. Not a single Reform UK MP turned up. The party that constantly rants about “Pakistani" and immigrant gangs - yet when it comes to an actual Commons statement on child rape, they couldn’t be bothered.
Hypocrisy doesn’t get more blatant than this.
Hypocrisy doesn’t get more blatant than this.
September 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Today, Parliament debated child sexual abuse. Not a single Reform UK MP turned up. The party that constantly rants about “Pakistani" and immigrant gangs - yet when it comes to an actual Commons statement on child rape, they couldn’t be bothered.
Hypocrisy doesn’t get more blatant than this.
Hypocrisy doesn’t get more blatant than this.
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The science of misheard lyrics and the “mondegreen,” a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your head, but is, in fact, entirely incorrect.
Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy
The science of misheard lyrics and the “mondegreen,” a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your head, but is, in fact, entirely incorrect.
www.newyorker.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The science of misheard lyrics and the “mondegreen,” a misheard word or phrase that makes sense in your head, but is, in fact, entirely incorrect.
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We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.
August 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We can't allow ourselves to become numb to mass shootings. What happened today in Minneapolis is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I are praying for the parents who have lost a child or will be sitting at their hospital bedside after yet another act of unspeakable, unnecessary violence.
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Shout out to all the other political prisoners who openly called for the burning of human beings, entered a guilty plea, got released after doing 40% of their sentence, and were immediately free to go on supportive media channels to criticise the government that locked them up.
a woman is covering her mouth while holding a bow and arrow in a green field .
ALT: a woman is covering her mouth while holding a bow and arrow in a green field .
media.tenor.com
August 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Shout out to all the other political prisoners who openly called for the burning of human beings, entered a guilty plea, got released after doing 40% of their sentence, and were immediately free to go on supportive media channels to criticise the government that locked them up.
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People convicted and imprisoned for saying or writing things that stir up racial hatred.
• Abu Hamza
• Abdullah el-Faisal
• Lucy Connolly
Guess which conviction made the right wing suddenly decide writing or saying things that stir up hatred is okay, actually.
• Abu Hamza
• Abdullah el-Faisal
• Lucy Connolly
Guess which conviction made the right wing suddenly decide writing or saying things that stir up hatred is okay, actually.
August 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
People convicted and imprisoned for saying or writing things that stir up racial hatred.
• Abu Hamza
• Abdullah el-Faisal
• Lucy Connolly
Guess which conviction made the right wing suddenly decide writing or saying things that stir up hatred is okay, actually.
• Abu Hamza
• Abdullah el-Faisal
• Lucy Connolly
Guess which conviction made the right wing suddenly decide writing or saying things that stir up hatred is okay, actually.
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We have a Full Time HLTA (Literacy / EAL focus) role available in my department at our lovely inclusive school in Bath. Closing date 1st week of September so we can get someone in place ASAP into term 1.
Please Repost for a wide audience in the West.
www.ralphallenschool.com/1148/job-vac...
Please Repost for a wide audience in the West.
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Job Vacancies - Recruitment - Ralph Allen School
Ralph Allen School in Combe Down, Bath, England, is a co-educational, comprehensive secondary school with academy status. Located on the south-eastern edge of Bath, the school educates 11 to 18-year-o...
www.ralphallenschool.com
August 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
We have a Full Time HLTA (Literacy / EAL focus) role available in my department at our lovely inclusive school in Bath. Closing date 1st week of September so we can get someone in place ASAP into term 1.
Please Repost for a wide audience in the West.
www.ralphallenschool.com/1148/job-vac...
Please Repost for a wide audience in the West.
www.ralphallenschool.com/1148/job-vac...
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For the 14th year running, we've been awarded the @Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice Award, making us one of the top 10% attractions in the world, as well as the No. 1 in Portsmouth! #TravelersChoice
Come and find out why this summer...
MaryRose.org/Visit
Come and find out why this summer...
MaryRose.org/Visit
July 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
For the 14th year running, we've been awarded the @Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice Award, making us one of the top 10% attractions in the world, as well as the No. 1 in Portsmouth! #TravelersChoice
Come and find out why this summer...
MaryRose.org/Visit
Come and find out why this summer...
MaryRose.org/Visit
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#OtD 2 Aug 1939 Walter Altmann and Gunther Mann, two Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, were deported from the UK back to Belgium where they had crossed the Channel in a small dinghy which capsized. Both were likely sent to the concentration camps stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9167...
August 2, 2025 at 8:35 AM
#OtD 2 Aug 1939 Walter Altmann and Gunther Mann, two Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, were deported from the UK back to Belgium where they had crossed the Channel in a small dinghy which capsized. Both were likely sent to the concentration camps stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9167...
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🚨 Our special 10-year anniversary Impact Report has just launched! 🚨
What a decade it's been for #oracy. 10 years ago, we set out to put speaking, listening, and communication where they belong — right at the heart of education.
View it here 👇
voice21.org/publications...
What a decade it's been for #oracy. 10 years ago, we set out to put speaking, listening, and communication where they belong — right at the heart of education.
View it here 👇
voice21.org/publications...
June 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🚨 Our special 10-year anniversary Impact Report has just launched! 🚨
What a decade it's been for #oracy. 10 years ago, we set out to put speaking, listening, and communication where they belong — right at the heart of education.
View it here 👇
voice21.org/publications...
What a decade it's been for #oracy. 10 years ago, we set out to put speaking, listening, and communication where they belong — right at the heart of education.
View it here 👇
voice21.org/publications...