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@fearlessknits.bsky.social

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I was born in a water moon…

Since then I've paid an inordinate amount of attention to politics, made Sheffield my home, and made lots of things with yarn. Queer, disabled, democratic communist, one half of Mary James

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Mary James FAcSS retired in January 2014 as Professor and Associate Director of Research at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education. In the same year she completed her four-year term as Vice President and President of the British Education and Research Association. .. more

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Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 2d

After a gap of ages not writing anything, apparently bus routes were the thing that got my fingers tapping! substack.com/profile/1696...

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After a gap of ages not writing anything, apparently bus routes were the thing that got my fingers tapping!

substack.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

Greater Manchester Police are investigating Reform over the potential breaking of electoral law in the Gorton & Denton by-election.

The party sent out election materials without identifying they were the promoter.

If Reform won the election the result could be overturned in court.

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 2d

So proud of my city. And disgusted by the WI.

Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 2d

After operating since 2009, Sheffield’s main WI is set to close because all the volunteers running it are leaving.

Trans exclusion means spaces for all women are being lost.

www.shwi.co.uk/post/2026-me...

Following the recent national Wi ruling on membership eligibility effective April 2026), we need to share some
difficult news about our group's future. Our current officers have decided not to renew their membership with the Wi, and at present, no one has
come forward to fill these essential committee roles. Without officers in place or a committee, Seven Hills
Wi will be suspended from April 2026. If you're interested in helping keep our group running or have questions about what's involved, please get in touch urgently. Wed love to hear from anyone willing
to step forward. Thank you to everyone who has been part of our Seven Hills community. Whatever happens next, the friendships and memories weve created together will always matter, those that are moving away from the Wi, don't wish to lose the social aspect of a group, so
will be looking at alternative options.

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 2d

Yes please. I don't know that we'll end up with anyone better, but we can't allow him to stay. The precedent would be horrific.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

It's time for Keir Starmer to do the right thing and step down.

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Green leader Polanski calls for Starmer to quit over Mandelson scandal

Zack Polanski said the Peter Mandelson scandal had damaged trust in politics.

www.standard.co.uk

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 2d

Hurrah! Everyone wins! 🥳

I'm gonna try to get writing more often. I used to blog regularly, and I miss the rigour of shaping thoughts into paragraphs and letting other people read and comment on them

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 2d

Why yes, I have been watching a lot of @garethdennis.uk's #railnatter, can you tell? 😅

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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 2d

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Skyblaze @blazingskies.bsky.social · 2d

The Hidden Palace is BACK! I'll be returning to @radiosega.net to talk about some strange and unusual peripherals and controllers. Send me your related music requests and tune in at 9pm UK time.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

I always believed the purpose of Brexit was to destroy the ability of nation states to take on spiv capitalism. I never expected to see actual evidence of it.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

It's time for Keir Starmer to do the right thing and step down.

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Green leader Polanski calls for Starmer to quit over Mandelson scandal

Zack Polanski said the Peter Mandelson scandal had damaged trust in politics.

www.standard.co.uk

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 2d

One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.

New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project

A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare

goodlaw.social

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 3d

In these dark days of February, a little something to look forward to.

Times report: Allies of Rayner said they believed that Wes Streeting, the health secretary, would be “ruined” by the mass disclosure of all communications with Mandelson in coming months. Streeting and Mandelson were close allies for years.

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Thérèse @tiggertherese.bsky.social · 3d

Are they discussing whether Lord MacDonald is properly Jewish before they decide to talk to him?

Charlie @fearlessknits.bsky.social · 3d

Can we please try PR now? Please? Just, y'know, give it a go? See what happens?

Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 3d

We've had 6 incompetent PMs in a row. It's surely statistically improbable that this is pure bad luck and has nothing to do with our political culture/system or capitalism. But that's what we're being invited to believe.

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 3d

The very same. Unless there was another Ken Macdonald at Matrix at the time (the chambers organised the apparently standard 20k fee.)

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DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry, being slow here, but surely you're not talking about Ken Macdonald - the man who lobbied hard for Keir to take over from him in the DPP job - are you?

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 3d

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 3d

In 2008, Martine Vik Magnusson was raped and killed and her body dumped in a Gt Portland Street basement. Billionaire's son Farouk Abdulhak, who did it, fled back to Yemen the next morning. Here's Jeffrey Epstein seeking legal advice (from an ex-DPP) on how he could be sheltered from justice.

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Neilly from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 3d

People defending billionaires at this stage are giving "temporarily embarrassed inclusion in the Epstein files"

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Matthew Cortland, Esq (they) @matthewcort.land · 5d

The current CMS Administrator, who controls health coverage for 150 million Americans, emailed Jeffrey Epstein in 2016.

He's 1 of 22 people in medicine, science & public health I look at who maintained relationships with Epstein after his conviction for child rape

www.patreon.com/posts/149885...

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citizens arrests + guillotines now ❤️ @flawlessangel.bsky.social · 5d

the labour party faction in power are going to be shameless enough to try to foist mandleson protégé streeting on the country if starmer is forced to go aren't they. they've rolled him out to spin this has anyone seen a single 'journalist' bring up his close personal relationship with mandelson

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 5d

What's that you say!

It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women.

www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Trans athletes may not have fitness advantage in women’s sport, landmark study finds

Findings suggest physical performance in trans women converges toward that of cis women over time

www.independent.co.uk

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5d

I note that in 2018, both Mandelson and Johnson’s political careers were completely fucked due to their own crookedness, and both were deliberately brought back via extremely dubious media campaigns because they were useful in defeating the left. Should we learn any lessons from these Cane toads?

The New Statesman • @NewSt... 1h X The Mandelson affair: Inside the scandal of a century by @PronouncedAlva
When Keir Starmer first entered Downing Street as Prime Minister, appointing Peter Mandelson ambassador to Washington wasn't part of the plan. Starmer was persuaded that the delicacy of the position would require a politician, rather than a traditional diplomat. But intriguingly, he initially favoured George Osborne over Mandelson, according to a person familiar with the conversations.
"Keir doesn't even like [Mandelson], and never really has," one Labour insider now insists. And yet, five months later, the man Starmer apparently never liked got the job.
How that happened - and what changed in the intervening months - is now a question to which the answer may determine whether
Starmer survives as Prime Minister.
Mandelson's links to the notorious paedophile Jeffrey Epstein have plunged Labour into a fresh crisis it cannot afford. Five months since Starmer sacked his US ambassador, new revelations have placed fresh scrutiny on the very decision to appoint him in the first place. Because, while No 10 says it is shocked and appalled by the latest developments, Mandelson's relationship with Epstein beyond his 2008 conviction was not only in the public domain, but pointed o plainly and directly, to Starmer and his of staff, Morgan McSweeney, before the appointed him. And still they went ahead wit the decision.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 5d

NEW | Journalists who used Peter Mandelson as a resource for years are now pretending to be surprised about his character…

Shock! as 'Prince of Darkness' revealed to be a dodgy, duplicitous wrong 'un

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/shock-as-p...

Shock! as 'Prince of Darkness' revealed to be a dodgy, duplicitous wrong 'un

Journalists who used Peter Mandelson as a resource for years are now pretending to be surprised about his character.

brokenbottleboy.substack.com

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 6d

I put together a list of peer-reviewed critiques of The Cass Review, which itself was not peer-reviewed. The media completely ignores these. I’ve been in academia since 1999 & never seen anything as widely criticized as Cass.

It is a media/propaganda event, not an academic/scientific one.

Peer-reviewed critiques of The Cass Review

(In chronological order of publication) Horton, C (2024) The Cass Review: Cis-supremacy in the UK’s approach to healthcare for trans childre...

uncommon-scents.blogspot.com

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POSIWID 🇵🇸🏴 @posiwidowmaker.bsky.social · 6d

Find the answer by using the @kenwhite.bsky.social principle. Works with most things but it was literally made for this moment.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d

brb gonna hack DNC fundraising emails and ActBlue and send half of every donation to a Food Not Bombs type local set up and check back in a generation or so. for science