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Alec Burrett
@alecjburrett.bsky.social
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Chronically ill aspiring Equity Analyst
Apprentice Accountant 2019-2022
ReSkeet addict
Lover of Neo-Keyensian economics
Likes Warhammer more than bank account likes
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Alec Burrett @alecjburrett.bsky.social · Jan 29
QSkeeting so I can 📌
gidmk.bsky.social Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · Jan 29
The BMJ journal Archive of Disease in Childhood has just published the epidemiological study done by York university that was commissioned as part of the Cass review into gender clinics in the UK.

It contains some STARTLING (and yet, unsurprising) revelations. 1/n
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supertanskiiii.bsky.social
The Times runs a glossy cover. The redactions remain. The networks stay intact.

This is about media protection, the immunity of the elite and why exposure doesn’t lead to accountability.

Mandelson. The files. Media manipulation.

Watch here 👇🏼

youtu.be/qVzzoNX3HoM?...
Mandelson, The Files & Media Manipulation
YouTube video by Supertanskiii
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February 8, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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politicalsatirical.bsky.social
Reform UK’s ‘Dear Neighbour’ Trick… MKII…

Goodwin just got BUSTED!!!!!!!!!!
February 8, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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lumirue.bsky.social
We hit not just our goal for fundraising for the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund, but OUR STRETCH GOAL! More than $1000 raised. Still live twitch.tv/LumiRue
LumiRue - Twitch
FUNDRAISING FOR MINNESOTAN IMMIGRANTS<3 !donate !tiltify | Peak with @karrokick @mapletakes @xiomaniac
twitch.tv
February 8, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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bylinetimes.bsky.social
🔴The End of Morgan McSweeney: Peter Oborne on Keir Starmer's Departing Chief of Staff

As McSweeney resigns, we re-publish Peter Oborne’s Byline Times reporting on how Keir Starmer's chief strategist drove Labour towards defeat by the far-right

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-end-of...
The End of Morgan McSweeney: Peter Oborne on Keir Starmer's Departing Chief of Staff
As McSweeney resigns, we re-publish Peter Oborne’s Byline Times reporting on how Keir Starmer's chief strategist drove Labour towards defeat by the far-right
www.bylinesupplement.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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ninametz.bsky.social
Being able to see their emails makes something very clear: The "anti-woke" movement was not a genteel intellectual inquiry, made by disinterested parties who cared deeply about free speech. It is a social circle of powerful people who feel threatened by #MeToo. Reading through the emails, it's possible to see that Epstein himself coordinated pushback against #MeToo. Looking back, it seems obvious that sinking #MeToo also led to where we are now: a place where laws simply don't apply if you have enough money and power. The same players are involved.
February 8, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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reformpoliticalads.bsky.social
With Labour looking to restore trust in politics there is an opportunity for them to be bold with their Elections Bill recommendations.

👇 reformpoliticaladvertising.org/reform-polit...

@patmcfaddenmp.bsky.social
@elliereeves.bsky.social
Reform Political Advertising’s recommendations for the Elections Bill - Reform Political Advertising
Reform Political Advertising’s key recommendations for the Elections Bill to ensure factual accuracy and transparency in electoral ads and in order to strengthen trust in UK democracy.
reformpoliticaladvertising.org
February 8, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
Sama'a's baby girl is sick, and Gaza is cold and starving. Please give what you can.

chuffed.org/project/157569
February 8, 2026 at 3:25 PM
alecjburrett.bsky.social
A free press shouldn't mean a free pass to abuse ordinary people.

It’s time for independent regulation that holds power to account.

Sign the petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
Enough is enough. From phone hacking to harassing grieving families, we’ve seen the damage an unregulated press can do. 😡 Right now, the press marks its own homework. We need a new law to ensure fair...
you.38degrees.org.uk
February 8, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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lumirue.bsky.social
Excited to fundraise today on twitch.tv/LumiRue for Minnesotan immigrants with @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social @karrokick.bsky.social @mapletakes.bsky.social @merrickdeville.bsky.social and more♡ Starting in 10m!
February 8, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.
February 8, 2026 at 5:06 AM
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aidthompsin.bsky.social
lol Richard Branson’s lawyers and PR team are going after podcasters/journalists for talking about how he tried to help a convicted kid-fucker sanitise their reputation.

Nobody’s having any of it🤣🤣
February 8, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
Gaza is a wasteland of starvation and destruction, bombs raining from the cold winter sky, hunger dogging every step. Please give what you can to help my friend Sama'a.

chuffed.org/project/157569
February 7, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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alicemydaughter.bsky.social
I've written a blog aimed at cis ppl, on the recent revelations of rising trans suicide rates since NHS England removed gender affirming care for u18s, in particular about my involvement with trying to seek the truth and the trauma the gaslighting by Appleby, Streeting, Cass and the media causes.
Trans youth suicide - the truth we've always known. What it means to me and what I've been doing about it.
Last week Queer AF broke a story that revealed the suicide rate in trans under eighteens is around fourteen times higher than you might expect from census data.As the parent of Alice a trans woman who...
www.carolinelitman.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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goodlawproject.org
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
February 7, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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sophiemolly.co.uk
'If your rights are equal, then they cannot be based upon your sex, by definition. The phrase flatly contradicts the central principles of our equality law'

medium.com/@davidallsop...
“Sex-based rights” are contradictory nonsense
The term is a dog-whistle slogan, coined just to exclude trans people, with multiple meanings — none of which make sense.
medium.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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sophiemolly.co.uk
Please share widely.

www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2583005...
York trans people ‘being let down by NHS’, watchdog finds
Transgender people in York are “being let down by the NHS” when accessing health services, Healthwatch York has found.
www.yorkpress.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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owenwntr.bsky.social
The untold story that is told constantly and isn’t really true
February 7, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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alexvont.bsky.social
I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone
February 7, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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sophiemolly.co.uk
The Scottish Government is actively choosing to legally erase the existence of trans people. Defining "sex" as "sex at birth" in legal statue is extremely dangerous for all women.

It reduces all women to baby making machines and robs them of bodily autonomy. This is anti- feminist!
February 7, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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sophiemolly.co.uk
It enforces a fiction that women are defined by their biology. It enforces an ideal of a woman that's not in any way masculine. It is inheritantly misogynistic (irony).
February 7, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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philippaeast.bsky.social
So proud @nionwomen.bsky.social signed this letter alongside @amnestyfeminist.bsky.social, @asn.org.uk & many more. Read it here: 78af2a6e-4a1c-4f48-9808-387918a50474.filesusr.com/ugd/dc9c25_d...

🙏🙏🙏 for all your amazing work @transsolidarity.bsky.social.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Protect inclusive spaces from gender-critical legal battles, Starmer told
Exclusive: Sir Keir Starmer and Bridget Phillipson have been urged by more than 140 feminist and LGBT+ organisations to protect trans-inclusive spaces
www.independent.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 12:44 PM
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lizwebster.bsky.social
✅ Clarkson is right, people aren’t voting Reform for policies 👉there aren’t any.

It’s a protest vote powered by nostalgia not a plan for future.

Reform use farming as a prop. Their real plan is USA trade deal, hormone-treated imports and they’ve appointed Ben Goldsmith
🔗 archive.ph/2026.01.31-0...
February 1, 2026 at 7:45 AM
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lizwebster.bsky.social
The Express hopes people believe that Brexit reality is punishment by the EU, when it was the Express and other right wing press who pushed for Brexit to punish Britain.

It is pure misdirection.

The EU isn’t “wreaking havoc in revenge”. It’s doing exactly what any economic bloc does:

🧵 👇
January 31, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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sarahowen.org.uk
So as I struggled with miscarriage after miscarriage before having my 🌈 baby, Reform would seriously think I should pay more tax during that agony.

This policy isn’t just a slippery slope to a handmaids tale dystopian future - it’s a deliberate step towards it
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Reform by-election candidate suggested people who don’t have kids should pay more tax
Exclusive: The Reform politician’s suggestion would ‘punish millions of women and strip them of their basic dignity to choose’, Labour’s deputy leader has warned
www.independent.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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graveshambc.bsky.social
Your wellbeing matters 💛

Join us for a relaxed wellbeing session with practical tips, conversation and refreshments.

📍 The Lounge, Longferry Court
🗓 11 Feb
⏰ 10.30 am–12 pm

Free • No booking needed • Open to council tenants
February 7, 2026 at 9:02 AM