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Cuenta personal. My tweets my own. RTs not necessarily an endorsement...
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I've just signed the Greenpeace petition to protect the Amazon. We must save the rainforest from the tipping point. Will you help? Sign the petition now; it's really quick.
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Protect the Amazon
The Amazon rainforest is being destroyed – but our future depends on its survival! This may be our last chance to save it. Join us in calling on governments to protect the Amazon.
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November 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Beautiful oaks in the hills above Marin, California #Photography #Monochrome #B&W #Flora 📷
November 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Respect to clergy protesting mass deportation
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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these are roe deer by the way
November 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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This historic rose was imported from France for the Lewis and Clark Exposition in 1905, Mme Caroline Testout is a free-blooming Climbing sport of the Hybrid Tea of the same name. She produces large, medium pink, high-centered roses and will bloom in flushes throughout the season. Heirloom roses.
November 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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If the government really intends to seize jewellery and other valuables from refugees,
either
- it is staggeringly ignorant of the historical precedents
or
- it's aware of the precedents, and thinks, yeah, we'll have some of that.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Great that personal bribery has become the default way to get deals with the world's richest and most powerful country. Really positive development.
“Apple set the tone” when Tim Cook gave Trump an engraved, glass disc. This week, the Swiss delegation gave him a “special Rolex desktop clock” and a $130,000 gold bar.

“.. It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it," an administration official told @axios.com

www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
November 15, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Autumn showing the other seasons how it's done 💅

These incredible colours were captured at Bodnant Garden by Ray Fung.
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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When we invest in creativity, we don’t just support artists, we build economies, strengthen communities, and light the way forward for us all. | Julia Handelman-Smith
Investing in the arts: the North East’s engine for economic growth
When we invest in creativity, we don’t just support artists, we build economies, strengthen communities, and light the way forward for us all.
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Roshi Joan's session in Awakened Action is at 11:15 Mountain Time today. www.upaya.org/program/awak... Free online now and in perpetuity just by registering
November 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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⚖️ Eliminar la deuda injusta que impide el desarrollo sostenible de los países del Sur Global. 
➡️ Cancelemos la deuda: oxf.am/caminocop30#Amazonía #belém #COP30
November 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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UK government faces legal challenge over broken promise to rescue family from Gaza
<article data-history-node-id="431522" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-government-faces-legal-challenge-over-broken-promise-rescue-family-0" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/uk-government-faces-legal-challenge-over-broken-promise-rescue-family-0" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">UK government faces legal challenge over broken promise to rescue family from Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a>&nbsp;father has accused the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/uk" target="_blank">British</a>&nbsp;government of putting his family in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Gaza</a>&nbsp;"in constant danger" after it failed to evacuate them, despite promising to do so more than two months ago.&nbsp;</p> <p>Lawyers representing the Palestinian man, who is in the UK and wishes to remain anonymous to protect his family, said his wife, three children and adopted nephew remain stranded in the Zawida area of Gaza after being displaced by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a>&nbsp;bombardment.&nbsp;</p> <p>The family lives in a flimsy tent with little access to food, clean water or medical care as they continue to wait for the British government to evacuate them.&nbsp;</p> <p data-end="1108" data-start="868">"My family are in constant danger, and I worry about them every minute of every day," the man told Middle East Eye. "The UK government promised to help them but has now gone back on that promise for no good reason, while they continue to suffer.</p> <p data-end="1360" data-start="1110">"My children are so scared, they cannot sleep because of the constant hunger and fear that strikes will resume at any minute. I can't bear to be separated from my wife and children - if anything happens to them, my own life will not be worth living."</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a aria-label="UK government faces legal challenge over broken promise to rescue family from Gaza" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-government-faces-legal-challenge-over-broken-promise-rescue-family-gaza">UK government faces legal challenge over broken promise to rescue family from Gaza</a></h3> <p><img alt src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/images-story/palestinians-in-gaza-wait-for-food-mahmoud-issa-november-2025-reuters.jpg.jpg?itok=XBSFnQ2o"></p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
November 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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More water customers than ever are drowning in water debt. My @ccwvoice.bsky.social colleague, Andy White, talks to Felicity Hannah on this week's Moneybox and explains what help is out there.
#water #bills #Radio4
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Money Box - Water Bills and Graduate Jobs - BBC Sounds
More households are now getting social tariffs to help cut their water bills.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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This is the politics of blackmail. The alternative is not a Reform government. The alternative is maintaining our international commitments to being a compassionate nation
November 15, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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With most voter intention polls showing Labour haemorrhaging most votes to Greens, Lib Dems, hard to see why they’d do this

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
No 10 tells Labour MPs it expects support for tough new asylum policies
Some backbenchers already opposing planned immigration crackdown seen as ‘economically and culturally illiterate’
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Reminder that the Refugee Convention was born out of the international community’s shame at failing to provide sanctuary to victims of the Nazis.

Shabana Mahmood seems to think we should’ve failed the survivors as well, by sending them back the second the Nazis were defeated.
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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This is as bad as anything proposed by Reform.

Leaving refugees in permanent limbo and unable to build a new life in the UK would be a complete abdication of our humanitarian responsibilities

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Helpful list of some of the people who, or whose families, Shabana Mahmood thinks should only have been allowed to stay temporarily
Famous Refugees
Famous or not, refugees bring much more than their belongings with them to their new countries. Here's a list of public figures you might not know were
refugeeweek.org.uk
November 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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“The reminders that your life may be temporary are a constant drain on your mental health. The big news announcements from all the parties take their toll. It’s always there in your mind that your way of life can be taken away from you.“
‘Death by a thousand cuts’: the people who could face deportation under Reform
As party’s rise fuels fears over future visa rules, people share how the lives they have built are in jeopardy
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Charity reveal for the full lineup of Celebrity Traitors...
FYI: The BBC has revealed the charities #TheCelebrityTraitors were all competing for, with links so that you can donate.
November 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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I like this definition of politics. There is almost no sense of collective responsibility in public policy these days (or at least, in the bits I pay attention to), just partisan jostling for victory.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Without asylum:

Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist

Queen would have been without a front man

The other queen wouldn't have had a husband

Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea

And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.

Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.

A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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And because of that chance, I’m now a British citizen, an emergency medicine consultant, a husband, and a father of four.

My whole life, my real life, unfolded here. This is home, heart and bone.

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November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Policies like this pretend they’re about “control.” What they actually do is choke off the very stories that make this country stronger. They don’t see the scared kid who might grow into a doctor, a teacher, a neighbour, a parent.

4/8
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM