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Sara
@jitterbugss.bsky.social
Animal lover 🌱 Peace seeker. Chronic pain sufferer and ptsd survivor.
Still hope we can somehow come together before we destroy ourselves and our planet. No DM's please.
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Good morning. Here is a love song to the filth we left behind.
And the desperate crushing sadness of becoming more sensible iandunt.substack.com/p/a-love-son...
A love song to the filth we left behind
And the desperate crushing sadness of becoming more sensible
iandunt.substack.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Thanks to some promptly submitted FOIs, we now know a bit more about the impact of the recently-announced PIP cuts, where those awarded less than 4 points in all daily living activities will be affected.

As of Jan 2025, almost half (46%) of PIP recipients do not meet the 4 points requirement.
April 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Appalling
🚨 Over 1.3 million people may lose eligibility for PIP's daily living component under proposed benefit changes, says the DWP.

This will affect tens of thousands of claimants with cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, and over 200,000 people with arthritis. Read more. ⬇️
buff.ly/pqwn113
April 17, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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America.
Shameful.
The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account:

Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Honestly.
🚨NEW: Major development.

German newspaper Der Spiegel has found phone numbers and passwords for Hegseth, Waltz & Gabbard in stolen data freely published on the internet.

‼️It includes details of Signal accounts.

“It is conceivable that foreign agents were privy to the Signal chat group.”
March 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Once again - this is not what millions of us voted for.

We wanted better and those most in need NEEDED better and if labour don't understand how bad all of this looks then they're in deep and dire straits
The OBR has not yet been able to forecast any employment gain from the cuts/changes to incapacity & disability benefits

MPs are being asked to support around £6.5bn of cuts & increased conditionality for ill & disabled people without any clear assessment of what it will achieve
March 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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March 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I am so disappointed, and frankly disgusted with this Labour government.
Appalling.
- 800,000 disabled people will lose PIP
- 3m will lose money from changes to the main health element of UC, £500 a year for existing claimants, and £3000 for new claimants
- £500m will come out of the carers benefits bill as 150,000 lose carers allowance or UC care element
🚨 CONFIRMED: Social security for disabled people has been slashed in the Spring Statement.

This is cruel, irresponsible and shameful.

People at food banks are already telling us that they’re terrified about how they will survive.
March 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Extraordinary story just published in @thetimes.com

And one that rather gives the lie to the idea that the Government’s cuts to disability benefits is driven by a moral mission about work. It’s about fiscal rules…

www.thetimes.com/article/f80d...
Rachel Reeves to announce further benefit cuts
Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary, was forced to seek further cuts after the Office for Budget Responsibility rejected her welfare savings estimate
www.thetimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Trump wants to restore gun rights to man who lost them when he was convicted of domestic violence

When a DOJ official said, hell no, Trump had her fired

That's because the man convicted of domestic violence is his pal Mel Gibson

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...
Justice Dept. Official Says She Was Fired After Opposing Restoring Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights
Elizabeth G. Oyer, the former pardon attorney, said that she was not told why she was dismissed, but that as events unfolded she feared they might lead to her firing.
www.nytimes.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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UPDATE

The richest 10 people in the world have now lost $63.4 billion today.

Musk has lost $20.6 billion.
March 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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"Russia’s long-range strikes, by cruise missiles that are among the most costly weapons in its nonnuclear arsenal, are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies"
From Graeme Wood

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
A Suspicious Pattern Alarming the Ukrainian Military
A Ukrainian military source believes that Russia’s long-range strikes are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies.
www.theatlantic.com
March 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Tusk is really rising to the occasion www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...
March 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
After tensions over a failed nuclear missile test last year, experts say the White House withdrawing assistance would cost billions
UK urged to prepare for Donald Trump halting Trident partnership
www.thetimes.com
March 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Standing there proudly in a Union Jack suit, while your leader vigorously defends a foreign politician who has just dismissed Britain as a "random country" that hasn't fought a war in forty years, is quite something
March 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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US Sec of State Marco Rubio has thanked British Foreign Secretary David Lammy “for the UK’s role in encouraging Europe to provide for its own defence and push for peace in Ukraine”.

Rubio also confirmed the US is ready to negotiate to end the war and will continue working with the UK towards peace.
March 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Proud to be British this evening.
Starmer to Zelenskyy: You are very very welcome here in Downing Street. As you heard from the cheers outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom.
March 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
📸 No one follows more etiquette rules than the Royal Family—but notice how King Charles didn’t make any smart-ass or demeaning comments about Zelensky’s attire today.

Why? Because respect isn’t about clothes—it’s about character. And that’s something money can’t buy.
March 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Brutal.
March 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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February 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Feb 28
A member of Russia’s state-owned news agency gained access to the Oval Office for President Trump’s sit-down with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky – even as the AP and Reuters were barred from the high-level meeting.
A Russian state media reporter gained entry to the Oval Office for Trump-Zelensky sit-down | CNN Business
A member of Russia’s state-owned news agency gained access to the Oval Office on Friday to cover President Trump’s sit-down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky – even as the AP and Reuters wer...
www.cnn.com
February 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
Trump has not uttered a critical word about Putin but he and his VP publicly belittled the leader of the nation Putin invaded.
February 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
There aren't enough words in the dictionary to describe how gross this is. 🤬
Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
February 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Has anyone else (UK) just had the emergency alert alarm go off on their phone?
January 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM