Moorish Garden
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Moorish Garden
@moorishgarden.bsky.social
Fighting against climate change, mainly by campaigning for fossil fuel divestment by pension funds. RT ≠ endorsement.
Also on Twitter: @moorishgarden
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If a drug was having this societal effect it would be banned within a week. Across the world, politicians are - through their inaction - completely abdicating their responsibilities to civil democratic discourse.
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Onderwijs moet kansen vergroten, niet verkleinen. Brede brugklassen werken, maar dan wel met de juiste investering.

Dit demissionaire kabinet heeft daar flink op bezuinigd. Tijd om dat recht te zetten. Tijd om ongelijk te investeren voor gelijke kansen.
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Een gesprek over de opdracht voor Europa en dus de volgende regering, om van onze digitale afhankelijkheid af te komen. Dat is een noodzaak maar ook een enorme kans ↘️
De EU liep altijd voorop in het reguleren van Big Tech, maar kan Brussel de rug recht houden nu de Amerikaanse druk op Europese wetgeving groeit?

@annettevansoest.bsky.social praat erover met techonderzoeker en oud-Europarlementariër @marietjeschaake.bsky.social.

Luister via 👉🏻 pod.link/1459092639
November 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Stop making stuff up. When harvests failed, grane dispensaries were available to all adult Roman males. Around 100 BC, it was turned this into a permanent food support program for the poor. In the 1st century AD a form of child support was added to it. There wàs a state, and it did provide welfare.
"Responding to Rachel Reeves’s budget, the Conservative Party leader told the Political Thinking podcast that ‘in early Christian times there was no state or welfare’"

I mean there was no Roquefort cheese either; does that mean Roquefort cheese is unchristian? What an absurd argument.
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
November 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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I keep seeing arguments that the Government should have spent the money on services eg Sure Start rather than lifting the two-child benefit cap.

The evidence for cash transfers is very strong. And cash transfers go straight to families.

Their decision is completely evidence backed and valid.
November 28, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Shabana Mahmood said this month that her migration policies are a "moral mission".

Where is the morality in blocking an eight-year-old girl made destitute by a Hurricane from coming to the UK to join her parents?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK rejects visa for girl left destitute in Jamaica by Hurricane Melissa
Lati-Yana Brown’s parents had asked for application to be expedited so she could join them in UK after house ruined
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Budget 2025: This is how you lose the world iandunt.substack.com/p/budget-202...
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Also the Romans literally had a welfare system that included cash transfers for poor children. (And subsidised grain for low income workers...).
There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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This is not just a shocking statistic. It is the lived reality of women across Britain. Each number represents a life lost, a family broken, a community grieving.

When we hear this, our anger should be directed where it belongs - at the systems that fail to keep women safe - not at trans people.
November 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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New to the market, this 10 bed detached Hampstead property would suit a recently deposed Middle-Eastern dictator who is looking to downsize. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
November 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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The reporters abused by the Toddler seem to be mainly women.

His misogyny is well known, but shout out of shame to her brave brothers of truth in the background, looking everywhere apart from at themselves.
Keep asking the important questions.
November 28, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Hungary’s free-riding on EU integration while serving foreign interests, be it Russian or American, has become incompatible with the principle of loyal cooperation and trust required by EU membership #EUCO
November 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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This week, the European People's Party’s Party (EPP) once again chose to side with the far right - not once, but three times.

Check the EU Far-Right Tracker and see the full list: lnkd.in/e3dszCX7 @thegoodlobby.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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A brief reminder that everyone should leave X and let that heil hole rot away as it deserves to
November 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Does anyone know a good lawyer?

I need to sue the Internet.
November 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Hear, hear!👇🏼
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Samen met de @fnv.bsky.social hebben we hard actie gevoerd tegen de hogere belasting voor werkenden met een laag inkomen (buffelboete).

De strijd heeft gewerkt!

De boete is van tafel & een Kamermeerderheid steunt onze motie met @jimmydijk.sp.nl om de buffelboete niet meer terug te laten keren!
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Lezer leert jagers een lesje.
#Wolf
November 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Vandaag in het FD
November 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Column: over het vertrek van de NOS op X en de daaropvolgende reactie van Mona Keijzer. www.volkskrant.nl/tech/de-nos-...
November 28, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Its cringe. But the right kind of cringe. The one that makes you want to believe in it and be part of it.
Hope is here.

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November 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Van de 16 oorspronkelijke BBB-zetels in de Eerste Kamer zijn er nu nog 12 over. Partijen van demissionair kabinet hebben nu nog 21 van de 75 zetels.
November 28, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Ook de @volkskrant.nl is vernietigend in haar kritiek op minister #Wiersma.
Terecht! Die vrouw heeft het in haar eentje gepresteerd om binnen 1,5 jaar tijd het beetje credits dat Nederland mogelijk nog had in Brussel, in een klap weg te gooien. Daarom moet ze z.s.m. wegwezen.
November 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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👇👇

Bereid je voor, hoe dan ook
Veel mensen hebben het boekje van de overheid over #zelfredzaamheid ontvangen. (Niet alleen bij oorlog!)
In 2021 was er bijna een totale #Black-out in Europa.
Dit artikel gaat over een black-out van uur tot uur. Lees het ter bewustwording.Voorbereiding voorkomt paniek.
#BlackFriday
Chaos en paniek: dit gebeurt er van uur tot uur in Nederland bij een totale black-out | Panorama
Wat als heel Nederland wekenlang zonder stroom zit? Of sterker nog, de hele wereld? Uit de editie van 27 oktober 2021: chaos en paniek na een black-out.
panorama.nl
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM