Jill Houlbrook
@jilly3.bsky.social
I live with my cats and chickens. I love with my amazing family.
I support disabilities, mental health, LGBTQIA+, Ukraine, Gaza, environmental protection and kindness. I have no political affiliation. I will not tolerate hate or prejudice. 🇺🇦🏳️🌈👨🦽➡️ 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 🍉
I support disabilities, mental health, LGBTQIA+, Ukraine, Gaza, environmental protection and kindness. I have no political affiliation. I will not tolerate hate or prejudice. 🇺🇦🏳️🌈👨🦽➡️ 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 🍉
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“In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy,” Hitler destroyed “a constitutional republic through constitutional means,” Timothy W. Ryback wrote last year. Read about how Hitler overcame democracy in just 53 days:
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
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January 18, 2026 at 12:27 AM
“In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy,” Hitler destroyed “a constitutional republic through constitutional means,” Timothy W. Ryback wrote last year. Read about how Hitler overcame democracy in just 53 days:
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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32 countries are members of NATO: Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Italy, Latvia, Lithuania Luxembourg, Montenegro, the Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia, Slovenia, ...
32 countries are members of NATO: Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Italy, Latvia, Lithuania Luxembourg, Montenegro, the Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia, Slovenia, ...
January 17, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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32 countries are members of NATO: Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Italy, Latvia, Lithuania Luxembourg, Montenegro, the Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia, Slovenia, ...
32 countries are members of NATO: Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Italy, Latvia, Lithuania Luxembourg, Montenegro, the Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia, Slovenia, ...
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Absolutely!🤔✊
If you haven’t yet signed a petition calling for the King’s visit to the US to be cancelled, then please consider it now!😊 I have.
Perhaps the King should visit Greenland instead?🤔🇬🇱🇬🇧✊
If you haven’t yet signed a petition calling for the King’s visit to the US to be cancelled, then please consider it now!😊 I have.
Perhaps the King should visit Greenland instead?🤔🇬🇱🇬🇧✊
The PM needs to stop any thought of the king visiting the US now Mr Chief Secretary!
@darrenpjones.bsky.social
@darrenpjones.bsky.social
The Government is planning to send King Charles to the US to celebrate with Donald Trump. Giving Trump a royal visit sends a terrible message that his behaviour is acceptable. Do you agree? Sign the petition now! 38d.gs/vnb3
January 17, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Absolutely!🤔✊
If you haven’t yet signed a petition calling for the King’s visit to the US to be cancelled, then please consider it now!😊 I have.
Perhaps the King should visit Greenland instead?🤔🇬🇱🇬🇧✊
If you haven’t yet signed a petition calling for the King’s visit to the US to be cancelled, then please consider it now!😊 I have.
Perhaps the King should visit Greenland instead?🤔🇬🇱🇬🇧✊
Trump announces plans to hit the UK, Denmark & other European countries with a 10% tariff on "all or any goods" exported to the US from 1 February
On Truth Social, US president says these will remain in place until "such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland"
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On Truth Social, US president says these will remain in place until "such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland"
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January 17, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Trump announces plans to hit the UK, Denmark & other European countries with a 10% tariff on "all or any goods" exported to the US from 1 February
On Truth Social, US president says these will remain in place until "such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland"
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On Truth Social, US president says these will remain in place until "such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland"
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"You cannot build a riviera on the bones of the dead. And you cannot build an occupation on the aspirations of the living."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Kushner-Blair Gaza plan is a moral atrocity – and a policy catastrophe | Josh Paul
Jared Kushner and Tony Blair’s neocolonial venture would be an incompatible transplant that would be rejected by the body
www.theguardian.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:45 AM
"You cannot build a riviera on the bones of the dead. And you cannot build an occupation on the aspirations of the living."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
So Trump has assembled his board ‘the greatest and most prestigious board ever’ so on his way to controlling Gaza and Venezuela and planning his take over of Greenland. Now 🇺🇸 can you see what is happening? You are being subdued and disenfranchised while he builds his empire.
#StopTrump ⛔️✊🏼
#StopTrump ⛔️✊🏼
January 17, 2026 at 12:11 AM
So Trump has assembled his board ‘the greatest and most prestigious board ever’ so on his way to controlling Gaza and Venezuela and planning his take over of Greenland. Now 🇺🇸 can you see what is happening? You are being subdued and disenfranchised while he builds his empire.
#StopTrump ⛔️✊🏼
#StopTrump ⛔️✊🏼
I believe this says what we always knew. Ashamed of Blair.
January 16, 2026 at 10:28 PM
I believe this says what we always knew. Ashamed of Blair.
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Terribly uncanny how relevant this is to today.
January 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Terribly uncanny how relevant this is to today.
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“Lifeless… foam around his mouth. Nobody wants to see their kids like that.”
ICE attacked a family trying to LEAVE the besieged neighborhood and hospitalized a 6 month old baby that couldn’t breathe.
ICE attacked a family trying to LEAVE the besieged neighborhood and hospitalized a 6 month old baby that couldn’t breathe.
January 16, 2026 at 2:14 PM
“Lifeless… foam around his mouth. Nobody wants to see their kids like that.”
ICE attacked a family trying to LEAVE the besieged neighborhood and hospitalized a 6 month old baby that couldn’t breathe.
ICE attacked a family trying to LEAVE the besieged neighborhood and hospitalized a 6 month old baby that couldn’t breathe.
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Dr LeFevere is an ER physician in MN. He asked that this be shared:
January 16, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Dr LeFevere is an ER physician in MN. He asked that this be shared:
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15th Jan 2026 was highly emotional as Lord Cashman delivered the 1st public reading of The Etherton Lecture: Lifting The ban
An insightful, work of empathy & compassion discussing the legal & human path to justice
The lecture is now available.
lgbt-armed-forces-memorial.uk/lord-etherto...
An insightful, work of empathy & compassion discussing the legal & human path to justice
The lecture is now available.
lgbt-armed-forces-memorial.uk/lord-etherto...
January 16, 2026 at 2:49 PM
15th Jan 2026 was highly emotional as Lord Cashman delivered the 1st public reading of The Etherton Lecture: Lifting The ban
An insightful, work of empathy & compassion discussing the legal & human path to justice
The lecture is now available.
lgbt-armed-forces-memorial.uk/lord-etherto...
An insightful, work of empathy & compassion discussing the legal & human path to justice
The lecture is now available.
lgbt-armed-forces-memorial.uk/lord-etherto...
January 16, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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Mark Carney sums the current situation so brilliantly! I wish he was 🇬🇧 PM right now, I’d have much more confidence about our future!😔 Sir Keir, if you don’t have a Scooby-Doo then listen to Mark Carney! He knows what he’s talking about & Canada are very lucky to have him as their leader!🤔😊🇨🇦🍁
Mark Carney basically explaining that the US under Trump is destabilising the world and that a new world order for trade is being created
Don't Americans understand how much damage Trump is doing to the international world order, and that it'll take years to repair and rebuild relations of trust?
Don't Americans understand how much damage Trump is doing to the international world order, and that it'll take years to repair and rebuild relations of trust?
January 16, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Mark Carney sums the current situation so brilliantly! I wish he was 🇬🇧 PM right now, I’d have much more confidence about our future!😔 Sir Keir, if you don’t have a Scooby-Doo then listen to Mark Carney! He knows what he’s talking about & Canada are very lucky to have him as their leader!🤔😊🇨🇦🍁
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He steals a Peace Prize with his left hand, while threatening his country’s citizens with an Insurrection Act and the military with his right. That Americans allow this insane motherfucking dictator to run their country in beyond belief
January 16, 2026 at 1:17 AM
He steals a Peace Prize with his left hand, while threatening his country’s citizens with an Insurrection Act and the military with his right. That Americans allow this insane motherfucking dictator to run their country in beyond belief
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A Reform UK Party Ltd employee grabs ITV journalist Peter Smith for asking questions their new (ex-Tory) leader for Scotland, Malcolm Offord, didn’t like.
“Free speech is under assault and I am urging the USA to be vigilant.”
— Farage, 3rd Sept. ‘25.
“Free speech is under assault and I am urging the USA to be vigilant.”
— Farage, 3rd Sept. ‘25.
www.itv.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:20 PM
A Reform UK Party Ltd employee grabs ITV journalist Peter Smith for asking questions their new (ex-Tory) leader for Scotland, Malcolm Offord, didn’t like.
“Free speech is under assault and I am urging the USA to be vigilant.”
— Farage, 3rd Sept. ‘25.
“Free speech is under assault and I am urging the USA to be vigilant.”
— Farage, 3rd Sept. ‘25.
May I remind those at the round table that it’s you not yourself and me not myself? #Grammar #TheTraitors
January 15, 2026 at 8:52 PM
May I remind those at the round table that it’s you not yourself and me not myself? #Grammar #TheTraitors
If you want something to cleanse your life right now may I recommend this entrancing film on BBC iPlayer ? Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. Quite adorably different and family viewing.
January 15, 2026 at 7:25 PM
If you want something to cleanse your life right now may I recommend this entrancing film on BBC iPlayer ? Marcel the Shell with Shoes On. Quite adorably different and family viewing.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
This illustrates that career politicians across the board will leave their principles behind if they think it will benefit them to move to another party regardless of whether or not they have lambasted it or the leader it in the past. Just resign and walk away.
This illustrates that career politicians across the board will leave their principles behind if they think it will benefit them to move to another party regardless of whether or not they have lambasted it or the leader it in the past. Just resign and walk away.
Robert Jenrick sacked by Tories for 'plotting to defect' - live updates
A senior Tory says it was
www.bbc.co.uk
January 15, 2026 at 3:51 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
This illustrates that career politicians across the board will leave their principles behind if they think it will benefit them to move to another party regardless of whether or not they have lambasted it or the leader it in the past. Just resign and walk away.
This illustrates that career politicians across the board will leave their principles behind if they think it will benefit them to move to another party regardless of whether or not they have lambasted it or the leader it in the past. Just resign and walk away.
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In Gaza City, three people died, including a 15-year-old girl, when a weakened wall collapsed on their tent. Earlier today, Qatar repeated its calls for Israel to allow more aid into the besieged strip.
January 14, 2026 at 2:14 AM
In Gaza City, three people died, including a 15-year-old girl, when a weakened wall collapsed on their tent. Earlier today, Qatar repeated its calls for Israel to allow more aid into the besieged strip.
🇬🇧 take heed.
“If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.”
– President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969)
– President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969)
January 15, 2026 at 8:13 AM
🇬🇧 take heed.
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‘We will never agree to an annexation by the Americans’, says Danish defence chair
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‘We will never agree to an annexation by the Americans’, says Danish defence chair
We’re joined from Copenhagen by Rasmus Jarlov, the chair of the Danish parliament's Defence Committee.
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January 14, 2026 at 8:32 PM
‘We will never agree to an annexation by the Americans’, says Danish defence chair
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Major rail improvements in England's north "will actually happen", Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said, as she acknowledged the HS2 rail project had become a "byword" for disastrous planning.
So other projects won’t ‘actually’ happen then?
So other projects won’t ‘actually’ happen then?
January 14, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Major rail improvements in England's north "will actually happen", Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said, as she acknowledged the HS2 rail project had become a "byword" for disastrous planning.
So other projects won’t ‘actually’ happen then?
So other projects won’t ‘actually’ happen then?
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“I spoke to a member of the Cabinet and they were saying to me they think in Downing Street they got on the wrong side of the counter cultural vibe.”
Nick Watt reports on the Government dropping mandatory digital ID cards.
#Newsnight
Nick Watt reports on the Government dropping mandatory digital ID cards.
#Newsnight
January 14, 2026 at 11:40 AM
“I spoke to a member of the Cabinet and they were saying to me they think in Downing Street they got on the wrong side of the counter cultural vibe.”
Nick Watt reports on the Government dropping mandatory digital ID cards.
#Newsnight
Nick Watt reports on the Government dropping mandatory digital ID cards.
#Newsnight