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Reform UK more Split UK
March 15, 2025 at 9:07 AM
banskydmt.bsky.social
If it looks like fascism, smells like fascism, acts like fascism. Then it is fascism!
March 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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March 6, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Brexit: “that great victory for the sovereign right to cock things up”… give ourselves food poisoning, lose control, swamp ourselves in red tape, pay more for stuff and stubbornly isolate ourselves from our own continent…

A relentless, ruinous stupidity.

(Private Eye)
FOOT-IN- MOUTH ANOTHER Brexit "control of our borders" success story last month, with the entry into the UK of animal food products banned after an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Germany. The cause was the failure of an IT system called "import of products, animals, food and feed system" (IPAFFS) - one of many border controls that had to be created when the UK left the EU and lost the use of existing IT systems (ie the EU's food safety Traces platform). When Germany declared its foot and mouth outbreak on 10 January, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) immediately banned the import of cattle, pig and other animals and associated products. But it took a week for controls to take effect "due to failings in Defra's communications and IT systems, specifically IPAFFS" , according to a letter last week from Commons environment and food committee chair Alistair Carmichael to the Defra minister responsible, Baroness (Sue) Hayman. "As a result" , testimony from port operators showed, "prohibited German goods made it through the UK border" The head of health and public protection at the Dover Port Health Authority explained that the banned imports had gone through due to another feature forced on borders thanks to Brexit: the timing out of checks if they're not completed within a certain number of hours. Oh dear, another unreliable IT system necessitated by that great victory for the sovereign right to cock things up.
February 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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mjerkins.bsky.social
Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors.

I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.
February 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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societyschild.bsky.social
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PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana.

For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5.

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February 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
banskydmt.bsky.social
It is time to end the special relationship with Trump centralbylines.co.uk/opinion/it-i...
It is time to end the special relationship with Trump
Donald Trump in the White House: a relationship with a dishonest sexual predator and convicted criminal isn't a relationship. It's abuse
centralbylines.co.uk
February 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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hayesbrown.bsky.social
i hope someone is keeping a running list of how many "temporary" changes that the administration is making so we can see how many of them are still in effect after six months or a year. (spoilers: it is going to be all of them)
February 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
On Abraham Lincoln's 216th birthday, it's worth listening to this important warning he gave us back in 1838. Does any of this sound familiar to you?

www.youtube.com/shorts/s2WcV...
A Timely Warning From Abraham Lincoln
YouTube video by Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:06 AM
banskydmt.bsky.social
Been saying this for years. Redistribute the wealth.
January 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
banskydmt.bsky.social
Truss and Farage are in the US, Tate is in Romania, Oakeshott is in Dubai, Andrew Neil is in France and Charlie Mullins is in Spain.
Is it time we closed our borders?
January 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
banskydmt.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/PVnnz...
Yanis Varoufakis on the Billionaires Behind the Throne
YouTube video by DiEM25
youtube.com
January 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
banskydmt.bsky.social
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
Has humanity reached a ‘now-or-never’ moment in civilization?
When will human civilization end for 8.2 billion Earthlings? It could be happening right now
www.independent.co.uk
January 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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sundaedivine.lol
There are 3000 counties in US and ~500 of them are blue. They house half the population and generate 72% of American wealth. They are the hubs for innovation and economic activity. If you want to live in a backwater, that’s fine, but drop the piety.
January 12, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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choochoo-bob.bsky.social
Couple billionaires bought the government from 340 million American's
January 12, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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jane.meangirls.online
it actually makes so much sense that a bunch of the most popular protein powders were found to be full of lead
January 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
This is a fascinating turn of events
January 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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debraceravolo.bsky.social
Our photo group did a night hike to reach this special and secretive spot in the salt flats of the Altiplano in Chile. I did a 20 second exposure with a 14mm lens, while a flashlight revealed this incredible blue lagoon. Another otherworldly place on Earth.

#astrophotography #chile #bluelagoon
January 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM