David McKendrick
@davemckendrick.bsky.social
Retired UK psychiatric nurse. Now living the life in the Philippines with my beautiful, young Filipino wife. I have never been happier since leaving the UK.
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June 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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We're a decade into this shit and I still cannot get my mind around how America put the single worst human being it has produced in the postwar era in charge not once but twice.
June 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
We're a decade into this shit and I still cannot get my mind around how America put the single worst human being it has produced in the postwar era in charge not once but twice.
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Sweet dreams 😘😴✨🌚💤🌙 have a restful night 💛
June 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Sweet dreams 😘😴✨🌚💤🌙 have a restful night 💛
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The Supreme Court: Gender dysphoria is a discomfort with one's own sex
Also the Supreme Court: This is not sex based discrimination, it's discrimination based on gender dysphoria
Also the Supreme Court: This is not sex based discrimination, it's discrimination based on gender dysphoria
June 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
The Supreme Court: Gender dysphoria is a discomfort with one's own sex
Also the Supreme Court: This is not sex based discrimination, it's discrimination based on gender dysphoria
Also the Supreme Court: This is not sex based discrimination, it's discrimination based on gender dysphoria
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At last it can be told. My novel Blackheart Man shares the shortlist for the Ursula K Le Guin Prize with some other intriguing titles, and I am so pleased! www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25
Ursula K. Le Guin — 2025 Prize for Fiction
www.ursulakleguin.com
June 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
At last it can be told. My novel Blackheart Man shares the shortlist for the Ursula K Le Guin Prize with some other intriguing titles, and I am so pleased! www.ursulakleguin.com/prize25
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This will NEVER get old‼️🤣🤣🤣
May 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This will NEVER get old‼️🤣🤣🤣
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This ruling must not stand. Please join me in supporting Good Law Project's challenge.
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We believe the Supreme Court – which disgracefully refused to hear from trans people before its decision last week – has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act.
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We believe the Supreme Court – which disgracefully refused to hear from trans people before its decision last week – has placed the UK in breach of its obligations under the Human Rights Act.
So we’re readying a challenge – join us:
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April 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This ruling must not stand. Please join me in supporting Good Law Project's challenge.
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A Utah congressman is sharing details about his visit to a prison in El Salvador where a man mistakenly deported from the U.S. is being held.
Utah congressman visits prison in El Salvador where man was mistakenly deported
A Utah congressman is sharing details about his visit to a prison in El Salvador where a man mistakenly deported from the U.S. is being held.
www.ksl.com
April 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
A Utah congressman is sharing details about his visit to a prison in El Salvador where a man mistakenly deported from the U.S. is being held.
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Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take
April 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take
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Seems like this would be a big deal for the Sincere Enemies of Anti-Semitism
They tried to burn a US governor and his family and the president of the United States has said nothing.
April 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Seems like this would be a big deal for the Sincere Enemies of Anti-Semitism
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I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
April 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
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Increased bills for higher earners could fund UK energy upgrade, Ofgem says.
Standing charges to rocket.
Will Ofgem see people's bank accounts, tax records?
Easier to fund upgrades - end profiteering. In the last four years energy industry made £514bn operating profit.
Nationalise energy.
Standing charges to rocket.
Will Ofgem see people's bank accounts, tax records?
Easier to fund upgrades - end profiteering. In the last four years energy industry made £514bn operating profit.
Nationalise energy.
Increased bills for higher earners could fund UK energy upgrade, Ofgem says
Regulator to consult industry on how to recover network costs via standing charge in a ‘more progressive’ way
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Increased bills for higher earners could fund UK energy upgrade, Ofgem says.
Standing charges to rocket.
Will Ofgem see people's bank accounts, tax records?
Easier to fund upgrades - end profiteering. In the last four years energy industry made £514bn operating profit.
Nationalise energy.
Standing charges to rocket.
Will Ofgem see people's bank accounts, tax records?
Easier to fund upgrades - end profiteering. In the last four years energy industry made £514bn operating profit.
Nationalise energy.
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Praful Nargund, "Right now we're trying to strike a trade deal with America"
"How can we trust it's worth the paper that it's written on"
"Because if Trump doesn't respect the rule of law at home, how can he be trusted to respect the rule of law with partners?"
"How can we trust it's worth the paper that it's written on"
"Because if Trump doesn't respect the rule of law at home, how can he be trusted to respect the rule of law with partners?"
April 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Praful Nargund, "Right now we're trying to strike a trade deal with America"
"How can we trust it's worth the paper that it's written on"
"Because if Trump doesn't respect the rule of law at home, how can he be trusted to respect the rule of law with partners?"
"How can we trust it's worth the paper that it's written on"
"Because if Trump doesn't respect the rule of law at home, how can he be trusted to respect the rule of law with partners?"
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As far as I can tell, the first person to ever accuse him of human trafficking is Leavitt herself (I'd love to know if someone else made the claim first).
Certainly, no official has ever made that claim to a court, nor offered any evidence of it whatsoever. It seems the White House made it up.
Certainly, no official has ever made that claim to a court, nor offered any evidence of it whatsoever. It seems the White House made it up.
Leavitt: "Abrego Garcia was a foreign terrorist. He is an MS-13 gang member. He was engaged in human trafficking." (The White House hasn't provided evidence for any of these claims ... )
April 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
As far as I can tell, the first person to ever accuse him of human trafficking is Leavitt herself (I'd love to know if someone else made the claim first).
Certainly, no official has ever made that claim to a court, nor offered any evidence of it whatsoever. It seems the White House made it up.
Certainly, no official has ever made that claim to a court, nor offered any evidence of it whatsoever. It seems the White House made it up.
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We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president
Abrego Garcia's wife: "I will not stop fighting until I see my husband alive. Kilmar, if you can hear me, stay strong. God hasn't forgotten about you. Our children are asking when you will come home ... they miss their dad so much."
April 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president
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This week I've been campaigning & knocking on doors in Lancaster, Haringey, Kenilworth, Doncaster and Lambeth.
Up next - Kettering and Cambridge!
All over the country - @greenparty.org.uk are growing.
Please donate to our local election funds today:
donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/local-electi...
Up next - Kettering and Cambridge!
All over the country - @greenparty.org.uk are growing.
Please donate to our local election funds today:
donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/local-electi...
April 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This week I've been campaigning & knocking on doors in Lancaster, Haringey, Kenilworth, Doncaster and Lambeth.
Up next - Kettering and Cambridge!
All over the country - @greenparty.org.uk are growing.
Please donate to our local election funds today:
donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/local-electi...
Up next - Kettering and Cambridge!
All over the country - @greenparty.org.uk are growing.
Please donate to our local election funds today:
donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/local-electi...
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President Xi Jinping of China kicked off a weeklong tour of Southeast Asia Monday, landing in Hanoi and trying to rally other nations to Beijing’s side as American tariffs threaten manufacturing networks and economic growth.
China’s Xi Courts Vietnam as Trade War With the U.S. Mounts
Xi Jinping is in Southeast Asia to build bonds with countries that also face U.S. tariffs and have come under pressure from Washington to curb the transshipment of Chinese goods.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
President Xi Jinping of China kicked off a weeklong tour of Southeast Asia Monday, landing in Hanoi and trying to rally other nations to Beijing’s side as American tariffs threaten manufacturing networks and economic growth.
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The May elections will shortly be upon us in the UK.
So, a polite request - if you intend to vote Reform would you kindly ‘unfriend’ me as you would certainly not be a friend of mine.
Thank you.
So, a polite request - if you intend to vote Reform would you kindly ‘unfriend’ me as you would certainly not be a friend of mine.
Thank you.
April 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The May elections will shortly be upon us in the UK.
So, a polite request - if you intend to vote Reform would you kindly ‘unfriend’ me as you would certainly not be a friend of mine.
Thank you.
So, a polite request - if you intend to vote Reform would you kindly ‘unfriend’ me as you would certainly not be a friend of mine.
Thank you.
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The Teeswork Freeport corruption in short.
2 businessmen paid £110 for a £100m site.
We paid £462m to clean it up they paid nothing
They made £100m selling scrap metal from clean up, we received nothing.
Michael Gove covers it up.
2 businessmen paid £110 for a £100m site.
We paid £462m to clean it up they paid nothing
They made £100m selling scrap metal from clean up, we received nothing.
Michael Gove covers it up.
April 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The Teeswork Freeport corruption in short.
2 businessmen paid £110 for a £100m site.
We paid £462m to clean it up they paid nothing
They made £100m selling scrap metal from clean up, we received nothing.
Michael Gove covers it up.
2 businessmen paid £110 for a £100m site.
We paid £462m to clean it up they paid nothing
They made £100m selling scrap metal from clean up, we received nothing.
Michael Gove covers it up.
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A federal judge in Maryland wants the government to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's return to the U.S. after the Supreme Court largely upheld her original order.
Maryland judge again asks government to return man wrongly deported to El Salvador
A federal judge in Maryland wants the government to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's return to the U.S. after the Supreme Court largely upheld her original order.
www.npr.org
April 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
A federal judge in Maryland wants the government to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's return to the U.S. after the Supreme Court largely upheld her original order.
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Reminder - Varda Bar-Kar and I are headed to the Bay area tomorrow!
April 8, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Reminder - Varda Bar-Kar and I are headed to the Bay area tomorrow!