Deborah
@deborah122.bsky.social
Educator, parent, householder, patron of the Arts.
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Doctors Without Borders report dire humanitarian crisis in Darfur -civilians suffering “indiscriminate and ethnically targeted violence,” incl widespread killings, rape, kidnappings & severe hunger.
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www.doctorswithoutborders.org/sites/defaul...
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
July 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Doctors Without Borders report dire humanitarian crisis in Darfur -civilians suffering “indiscriminate and ethnically targeted violence,” incl widespread killings, rape, kidnappings & severe hunger.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/sites/defaul...
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/sites/defaul...
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The government's plans to increase the minimum wage by at least 6.7% (and by as much as 18% for some age groups) past the final hurdle in the Commons yesterday.
It was unopposed - I guess no one in the Tories or Reform could face going on record to oppose increasing the wages of millions.
It was unopposed - I guess no one in the Tories or Reform could face going on record to oppose increasing the wages of millions.
Terms and Conditions of Employment - Hansard - UK Parliament
Hansard record of the item : ' Terms and Conditions of Employment' on Tuesday 25 March 2025.
hansard.parliament.uk
March 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The government's plans to increase the minimum wage by at least 6.7% (and by as much as 18% for some age groups) past the final hurdle in the Commons yesterday.
It was unopposed - I guess no one in the Tories or Reform could face going on record to oppose increasing the wages of millions.
It was unopposed - I guess no one in the Tories or Reform could face going on record to oppose increasing the wages of millions.
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Interesting to see that inflation has fallen to 2.8% in February, down from 3% in January.
This is perhaps unexpected.
The Bank of England, last month, said they expected inflation to rise to as high as 3.7% across this year, before falling back down to 2%.
So this is good news for the country.
This is perhaps unexpected.
The Bank of England, last month, said they expected inflation to rise to as high as 3.7% across this year, before falling back down to 2%.
So this is good news for the country.
UK inflation falls to 2.8% in boost for Rachel Reeves before spring statement
Bigger-than-forecast decline in annual rate in February is positive news for chancellor in run-up to Commons address
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Interesting to see that inflation has fallen to 2.8% in February, down from 3% in January.
This is perhaps unexpected.
The Bank of England, last month, said they expected inflation to rise to as high as 3.7% across this year, before falling back down to 2%.
So this is good news for the country.
This is perhaps unexpected.
The Bank of England, last month, said they expected inflation to rise to as high as 3.7% across this year, before falling back down to 2%.
So this is good news for the country.
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I suggest the UK will take over Florida. We could give it to the Palestinians.
No, better still let's relocate the Israel there.
The people of Florida can be fitted into some other American state. That would do.
No, better still let's relocate the Israel there.
The people of Florida can be fitted into some other American state. That would do.
February 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I suggest the UK will take over Florida. We could give it to the Palestinians.
No, better still let's relocate the Israel there.
The people of Florida can be fitted into some other American state. That would do.
No, better still let's relocate the Israel there.
The people of Florida can be fitted into some other American state. That would do.
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A bag of sand ? If it's comfortable , I suppose . . . Thank you @suethesoul.bsky.social for sharing #FoxOfTheDay
March 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
A bag of sand ? If it's comfortable , I suppose . . . Thank you @suethesoul.bsky.social for sharing #FoxOfTheDay
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The PM has started important attempts to reset our relationship with Europe. This won’t be simple.
Yesterday, I asked when we can expect tangible changes to our trading relationship with the EU, and for recognition of the impact of Brexit upon our economy’s ability to grow. (5/5)
Yesterday, I asked when we can expect tangible changes to our trading relationship with the EU, and for recognition of the impact of Brexit upon our economy’s ability to grow. (5/5)
March 25, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The PM has started important attempts to reset our relationship with Europe. This won’t be simple.
Yesterday, I asked when we can expect tangible changes to our trading relationship with the EU, and for recognition of the impact of Brexit upon our economy’s ability to grow. (5/5)
Yesterday, I asked when we can expect tangible changes to our trading relationship with the EU, and for recognition of the impact of Brexit upon our economy’s ability to grow. (5/5)
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Ukrainians always stand for peace.
They’ve proven it by joining international peace and security operations in many countries and saving thousands of lives.
🧵 1/8 👇
They’ve proven it by joining international peace and security operations in many countries and saving thousands of lives.
🧵 1/8 👇
March 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Ukrainians always stand for peace.
They’ve proven it by joining international peace and security operations in many countries and saving thousands of lives.
🧵 1/8 👇
They’ve proven it by joining international peace and security operations in many countries and saving thousands of lives.
🧵 1/8 👇
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First off, Pete Hegseth is a disgrace and should be fired.
Second, instead of being an asshole and trash-talking the journalist, he should be thanking him for not posting anything top-secret that’s still to come.
Second, instead of being an asshole and trash-talking the journalist, he should be thanking him for not posting anything top-secret that’s still to come.
March 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
First off, Pete Hegseth is a disgrace and should be fired.
Second, instead of being an asshole and trash-talking the journalist, he should be thanking him for not posting anything top-secret that’s still to come.
Second, instead of being an asshole and trash-talking the journalist, he should be thanking him for not posting anything top-secret that’s still to come.
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Under my leadership, Canada will invest in our security, meet our 2% spending target by 2030 — and pull our full weight in NATO.
March 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Under my leadership, Canada will invest in our security, meet our 2% spending target by 2030 — and pull our full weight in NATO.
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A reminder that the supposedly "tongue in cheek" comments referred to here actually involved Reform UK donor Charlie Mullins demanding that "someone should kill" Sadiq Khan and "dump the Muslim mayor"
March 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
A reminder that the supposedly "tongue in cheek" comments referred to here actually involved Reform UK donor Charlie Mullins demanding that "someone should kill" Sadiq Khan and "dump the Muslim mayor"
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£2 billion new investment to support biggest boost in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation
£2 billion injection of new grant funding to deliver up to 18,000 new social and affordable homes
www.gov.uk/government/n...
£2 billion injection of new grant funding to deliver up to 18,000 new social and affordable homes
www.gov.uk/government/n...
£2 billion new investment to support biggest boost in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation
Hard working families to get safe and secure homes as Chancellor announces £2 billion injection of new grant funding to deliver up to 18,000 new social and affordable homes.
www.gov.uk
March 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
£2 billion new investment to support biggest boost in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation
£2 billion injection of new grant funding to deliver up to 18,000 new social and affordable homes
www.gov.uk/government/n...
£2 billion injection of new grant funding to deliver up to 18,000 new social and affordable homes
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Austerity is political anthrax.
Fortunately for Starmer, there's an alternative.
👉 NEW @yougov.co.uk polling shows 46% of Brits think the best way to grow the economy is with a new trade deal with the EU, vs 28% who think the government should cut benefits.
uk.news.yahoo.com/avoid-politi...
Fortunately for Starmer, there's an alternative.
👉 NEW @yougov.co.uk polling shows 46% of Brits think the best way to grow the economy is with a new trade deal with the EU, vs 28% who think the government should cut benefits.
uk.news.yahoo.com/avoid-politi...
Avoid ‘political anthrax’ of austerity with better EU deal, think tank urges
Best for Britain said improving trading relations with the EU would be more popular than cutting benefits.
uk.news.yahoo.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Austerity is political anthrax.
Fortunately for Starmer, there's an alternative.
👉 NEW @yougov.co.uk polling shows 46% of Brits think the best way to grow the economy is with a new trade deal with the EU, vs 28% who think the government should cut benefits.
uk.news.yahoo.com/avoid-politi...
Fortunately for Starmer, there's an alternative.
👉 NEW @yougov.co.uk polling shows 46% of Brits think the best way to grow the economy is with a new trade deal with the EU, vs 28% who think the government should cut benefits.
uk.news.yahoo.com/avoid-politi...
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Your regular reminder 👇
🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy
🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy
EXCLUSIVE: Poll shows huge support for nationalisation of key industries and utilities
Privatisation has failed.
leftfootforward.org
March 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Your regular reminder 👇
🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy
🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy
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Tory MP James Cartlidge: “We must stand up to Macron”
Healey: “Drop that Brexit rhetoric”
Labour is being way too cautious on the reset with the EU but this kind of put down to the relentlessly adolescent EU-phobic rightwing is very welcome.
Healey: “Drop that Brexit rhetoric”
Labour is being way too cautious on the reset with the EU but this kind of put down to the relentlessly adolescent EU-phobic rightwing is very welcome.
March 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Tory MP James Cartlidge: “We must stand up to Macron”
Healey: “Drop that Brexit rhetoric”
Labour is being way too cautious on the reset with the EU but this kind of put down to the relentlessly adolescent EU-phobic rightwing is very welcome.
Healey: “Drop that Brexit rhetoric”
Labour is being way too cautious on the reset with the EU but this kind of put down to the relentlessly adolescent EU-phobic rightwing is very welcome.
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Are those the Chancellor's words or is it just more #JournoBollox?
Reeves to put £2bn into affordable housing to ‘sweeten the pill’ of cuts www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reeves to put £2bn into affordable housing to ‘sweeten the pill’ of cuts www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reeves to put £2bn into affordable housing to ‘sweeten the pill’ of cuts
Chancellor will announce plans to fund 18,000 social homes before fraught spring statement on Wednesday
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Are those the Chancellor's words or is it just more #JournoBollox?
Reeves to put £2bn into affordable housing to ‘sweeten the pill’ of cuts www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reeves to put £2bn into affordable housing to ‘sweeten the pill’ of cuts www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Electoral Commission estimates that 8 million people who should have the right to vote are missing from the register.
- More than 1/4 of eligible adults U-35 are missing
- So are 1/4 black & Asian citizens, &
- 4 in 10 citizens who live in privately rented housing
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...?
- More than 1/4 of eligible adults U-35 are missing
- So are 1/4 black & Asian citizens, &
- 4 in 10 citizens who live in privately rented housing
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...?
Eight million reasons to end this scandal
Britain's electoral registers are not fit for purpose. It would cost little to put them right.
open.substack.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Electoral Commission estimates that 8 million people who should have the right to vote are missing from the register.
- More than 1/4 of eligible adults U-35 are missing
- So are 1/4 black & Asian citizens, &
- 4 in 10 citizens who live in privately rented housing
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...?
- More than 1/4 of eligible adults U-35 are missing
- So are 1/4 black & Asian citizens, &
- 4 in 10 citizens who live in privately rented housing
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...?
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A nighttime #FoxOfTheDay spotted in Brighton by @naturalcoach.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
A nighttime #FoxOfTheDay spotted in Brighton by @naturalcoach.bsky.social
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Signal is very secure but it’s not govt approved for sharing classified info. Also Waltz set some messages to disappear which violates records laws lol the whole thing is incredible.
Here’s an archived link to pass the paywall: archive.is/2025.03.24-1...
Here’s an archived link to pass the paywall: archive.is/2025.03.24-1...
March 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Signal is very secure but it’s not govt approved for sharing classified info. Also Waltz set some messages to disappear which violates records laws lol the whole thing is incredible.
Here’s an archived link to pass the paywall: archive.is/2025.03.24-1...
Here’s an archived link to pass the paywall: archive.is/2025.03.24-1...
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My favorite part is Hegseth saying we are currently clear on opsec" in a fucking signal text chain that someone had inadvertently added a journalist to. You couldn't write this as a farce
It'll take you a while to work through all the wtf in this story. Once I got past the obvious topline madness, I was struck by a) the obvious effort to circumvent public records disclosure laws and b) the nakedly transactional approach to military operations. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
My favorite part is Hegseth saying we are currently clear on opsec" in a fucking signal text chain that someone had inadvertently added a journalist to. You couldn't write this as a farce
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The US national security clusterfuck is leading the BBC News in the UK.
Anchor Clive Myrie doesn’t know whether to laugh or just stare down the camera lens and scream, “WTF?!”
Vance & Hegseth trash-talking Europe is picked up strongly.
Trump’s US is a global laughing stock.
Anchor Clive Myrie doesn’t know whether to laugh or just stare down the camera lens and scream, “WTF?!”
Vance & Hegseth trash-talking Europe is picked up strongly.
Trump’s US is a global laughing stock.
March 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The US national security clusterfuck is leading the BBC News in the UK.
Anchor Clive Myrie doesn’t know whether to laugh or just stare down the camera lens and scream, “WTF?!”
Vance & Hegseth trash-talking Europe is picked up strongly.
Trump’s US is a global laughing stock.
Anchor Clive Myrie doesn’t know whether to laugh or just stare down the camera lens and scream, “WTF?!”
Vance & Hegseth trash-talking Europe is picked up strongly.
Trump’s US is a global laughing stock.
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⚡️ US senators urge the Trump administration to transfer $300B in seized Russian assets to Ukraine.
US Senators Push for $300 Billion in Seized Russian Assets to Help Ukraine
A bipartisan group of US senators urged President Trump's administration to transfer over $300 billion in frozen Russian assets to Ukraine for military support.
united24media.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
⚡️ US senators urge the Trump administration to transfer $300B in seized Russian assets to Ukraine.
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What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—and when it happens, it might be the worst holiday of all time:
www.wired.com/story/q-day-...
www.wired.com/story/q-day-...
The Quantum Apocalypse Is Coming. Be Very Afraid
What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—the worst holiday maybe ever.
www.wired.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:49 PM
What happens when quantum computers can finally crack encryption and break into the world’s best-kept secrets? It’s called Q-Day—and when it happens, it might be the worst holiday of all time:
www.wired.com/story/q-day-...
www.wired.com/story/q-day-...
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Make sure you’re inviting the right person to your Signal group!
To help confirm someone’s identity and keep track of your contacts, @signal.org offers nicknames and information about the groups you share in common with your contacts.
Learn about Signal’s identifiers:
To help confirm someone’s identity and keep track of your contacts, @signal.org offers nicknames and information about the groups you share in common with your contacts.
Learn about Signal’s identifiers:
Understanding every one of Signal’s identifiers
We’ve heard some questions about the difference between Signal usernames, phone numbers, profile names, profiles, and nicknames. Let’s talk about it.
freedom.press
March 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Make sure you’re inviting the right person to your Signal group!
To help confirm someone’s identity and keep track of your contacts, @signal.org offers nicknames and information about the groups you share in common with your contacts.
Learn about Signal’s identifiers:
To help confirm someone’s identity and keep track of your contacts, @signal.org offers nicknames and information about the groups you share in common with your contacts.
Learn about Signal’s identifiers: