@gloria24.bsky.social
Newbie. Escaped the madness and hoping for a little sanity.
Now just have to find a picture …..
Now just have to find a picture …..
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Excuse me, what?
Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."
October 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Excuse me, what?
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Melania gives a sudden statement about Ukrainian children. Listen and tell me whether you can understand what this is all about. I can't. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Melania Trump just read a very short speech about Ukrainian children but even though her remarks were entirely prepared it was hard to figure out what the point of it was
October 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Melania gives a sudden statement about Ukrainian children. Listen and tell me whether you can understand what this is all about. I can't. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."
October 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."
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Why is Starmer becoming more confident criticising Brexit? Because quietly, without any great drama, a consensus has been reached. It's a disaster inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...
October 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Why is Starmer becoming more confident criticising Brexit? Because quietly, without any great drama, a consensus has been reached. It's a disaster inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...
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“Bustling crowds wait for overwhelmingly non-white shop staff to serve up their alcohol, never wondering about who would turn up to scrub Westminster station clean of their urine at the end of the day.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...
Tommy Robinson’s march was a drunken, coked-up mess
He claimed the world was watching, but most of London barely noticed - and much of what was on view was appalling
www.thenewworld.co.uk
September 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
“Bustling crowds wait for overwhelmingly non-white shop staff to serve up their alcohol, never wondering about who would turn up to scrub Westminster station clean of their urine at the end of the day.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...
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The whole story in three posts.
If Rayner had set out to minimise her tax bill, she could have waited til her son turned 18 before buying the Hove house. She didn't because she wasn't trying to minimise her tax bill.
September 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The whole story in three posts.
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A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
September 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
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"Am I missing something here?"
"Is this really the scandal they're making out it is?"
@benkentish.bsky.social accuses the Tories of hypocrisy for 'crucifying' Angela Rayner after buying another home.
"Is this really the scandal they're making out it is?"
@benkentish.bsky.social accuses the Tories of hypocrisy for 'crucifying' Angela Rayner after buying another home.
August 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM
"Am I missing something here?"
"Is this really the scandal they're making out it is?"
@benkentish.bsky.social accuses the Tories of hypocrisy for 'crucifying' Angela Rayner after buying another home.
"Is this really the scandal they're making out it is?"
@benkentish.bsky.social accuses the Tories of hypocrisy for 'crucifying' Angela Rayner after buying another home.
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And what number is 8%? The guardian’s headline too - sooo bloody disappointed in you guardian
August 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
And what number is 8%? The guardian’s headline too - sooo bloody disappointed in you guardian
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Call from a producer this morning:
Zoe please help - we thought the panel on our show was balanced, but it turns out they’re both pro-mass detention camps for asylum seekers. Would you come on to be the anti-detention camp voice?
We are in a really bad place, friends, I am telling you.
Zoe please help - we thought the panel on our show was balanced, but it turns out they’re both pro-mass detention camps for asylum seekers. Would you come on to be the anti-detention camp voice?
We are in a really bad place, friends, I am telling you.
August 20, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Call from a producer this morning:
Zoe please help - we thought the panel on our show was balanced, but it turns out they’re both pro-mass detention camps for asylum seekers. Would you come on to be the anti-detention camp voice?
We are in a really bad place, friends, I am telling you.
Zoe please help - we thought the panel on our show was balanced, but it turns out they’re both pro-mass detention camps for asylum seekers. Would you come on to be the anti-detention camp voice?
We are in a really bad place, friends, I am telling you.
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🚨BREAKING: Trump is federalizing the DC police and deploying the National Guard to the capital.
He says it is “a historic action to rescue the nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor - and worse”.
DC crime is down 26%.
This. Is. Insane.
He says it is “a historic action to rescue the nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor - and worse”.
DC crime is down 26%.
This. Is. Insane.
August 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🚨BREAKING: Trump is federalizing the DC police and deploying the National Guard to the capital.
He says it is “a historic action to rescue the nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor - and worse”.
DC crime is down 26%.
This. Is. Insane.
He says it is “a historic action to rescue the nation’s capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor - and worse”.
DC crime is down 26%.
This. Is. Insane.
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Deeply shocked by Israel’s deliberate killing of the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, his colleague Mohammed Qreiqeh and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa. Israel has now killed at least 186 journalists in this war.
August 11, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Deeply shocked by Israel’s deliberate killing of the Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, his colleague Mohammed Qreiqeh and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa. Israel has now killed at least 186 journalists in this war.
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I'm tempted to ask how the government could have got this one so wrong. Then I remember their other ill-judged, badly-advised decisions.
No, they are not as bad as the last government, or Reform, but they sure are giving them both a run for their money.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
No, they are not as bad as the last government, or Reform, but they sure are giving them both a run for their money.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Palestine Action is a ‘violent organisation’, Downing Street says after mass arrests over the weekend – UK politics live
Anyone showing support for Palestine Action ‘will feel full force of the law’, justice minister says as government defends decision to proscribe protest group
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I'm tempted to ask how the government could have got this one so wrong. Then I remember their other ill-judged, badly-advised decisions.
No, they are not as bad as the last government, or Reform, but they sure are giving them both a run for their money.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
No, they are not as bad as the last government, or Reform, but they sure are giving them both a run for their money.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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“We’re caught up in a broken system.” Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha, Nebraska, tried to verify every hire through a federal system. After a workplace immigration raid, the company is wondering how it can keep going.
The Ripple Effects of an ICE Raid on a Nebraska Meatpacking Company
Glenn Valley Foods tried to verify every hire through a federal system. After a raid, the company is wondering how it can keep going.
nyti.ms
July 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“We’re caught up in a broken system.” Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha, Nebraska, tried to verify every hire through a federal system. After a workplace immigration raid, the company is wondering how it can keep going.
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Question - "Who said it would cost £100bn to renationalise the Water Companies?"
Answer - "It was the Social Media Foundation, a Tufton Street 'Think Tank' in 2018.
And here's their top donors from 2021/22.
If you believe these ridiculous lies you will believe anything.
Answer - "It was the Social Media Foundation, a Tufton Street 'Think Tank' in 2018.
And here's their top donors from 2021/22.
If you believe these ridiculous lies you will believe anything.
July 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Question - "Who said it would cost £100bn to renationalise the Water Companies?"
Answer - "It was the Social Media Foundation, a Tufton Street 'Think Tank' in 2018.
And here's their top donors from 2021/22.
If you believe these ridiculous lies you will believe anything.
Answer - "It was the Social Media Foundation, a Tufton Street 'Think Tank' in 2018.
And here's their top donors from 2021/22.
If you believe these ridiculous lies you will believe anything.
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⚡ UPDATE: 2 activists have been arrested and removed by police.
July 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
⚡ UPDATE: 2 activists have been arrested and removed by police.
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Trump pulls US out of Unesco in blow for UN culture and education agency
Trump pulls US out of Unesco in blow for UN culture and education agency
White House cites Unesco’s focus on ‘divisive social and cultural causes’ in latest withdrawal from global bodies
The US will quit the United Nations’ culture and education agency Unesco as Donald Trump continues to pull out of international institutions, the US state department said on Tuesday.
“Unesco works to advance divisive social and cultural causes and maintains an outsized focus on the UN’s sustainable development goals, a globalist, ideological agenda for international development at odds with our America First foreign policy,” a state department spokesperson, Tammy Bruce, said in a statement. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Trump pulls US out of Unesco in blow for UN culture and education agency
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July 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Politicians used to be seen as public servants.
Police used to be seen as keepers of the peace.
Mainstream news journalists used to be seen as independent.
Honestly, they did - it was kind of the main point.
Police used to be seen as keepers of the peace.
Mainstream news journalists used to be seen as independent.
Honestly, they did - it was kind of the main point.
July 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Politicians used to be seen as public servants.
Police used to be seen as keepers of the peace.
Mainstream news journalists used to be seen as independent.
Honestly, they did - it was kind of the main point.
Police used to be seen as keepers of the peace.
Mainstream news journalists used to be seen as independent.
Honestly, they did - it was kind of the main point.
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✍️ Crackdown on Palestine protesters sparks outrage across UK
Protesters face arrest for wearing pro-Palestine badges as UK cracks down on dissent amid growing global outcry over Israel’s actions in Gaza
By Sue Wilson MBE
@suewilson91.bsky.social
Protesters face arrest for wearing pro-Palestine badges as UK cracks down on dissent amid growing global outcry over Israel’s actions in Gaza
By Sue Wilson MBE
@suewilson91.bsky.social
Crackdown on Palestine protesters sparks outrage across UK
Protesters face arrest for wearing pro-Palestine badges as UK cracks down on dissent amid growing global outcry over Israel’s actions in Gaza
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
July 22, 2025 at 6:32 AM
✍️ Crackdown on Palestine protesters sparks outrage across UK
Protesters face arrest for wearing pro-Palestine badges as UK cracks down on dissent amid growing global outcry over Israel’s actions in Gaza
By Sue Wilson MBE
@suewilson91.bsky.social
Protesters face arrest for wearing pro-Palestine badges as UK cracks down on dissent amid growing global outcry over Israel’s actions in Gaza
By Sue Wilson MBE
@suewilson91.bsky.social
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🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London.
We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.
We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.
July 22, 2025 at 7:41 AM
🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London.
We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.
We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.
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I do seem to remember that, yeah.
July 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I do seem to remember that, yeah.
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Campaigners have urged hospital bosses to reverse a decision to close a County Durham urgent treatment centre overnight. 🙏😢
Campaigners urge a rethink on NHS centre closed overnight
A motion, due to be discussed by Durham County Council next week, asks councillors to support the plea to continue overnight access to treatment
northeastbylines.co.uk
July 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Campaigners have urged hospital bosses to reverse a decision to close a County Durham urgent treatment centre overnight. 🙏😢