maddsfrench.bsky.social
@maddsfrench.bsky.social
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The United States tried presidents who were smart, decent, and capable of empathy, but decided it wasn’t for them. It just didn’t reflect them.
June 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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May 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Because good information isn’t reaching the vast majority of politically unengaged voters any more.
In Parliament REFORM have voted against:

Ban on fire/rehire of workers on worse working conditions.
Ban on exploitative Zero-hour contracts
Improvements to paternity leave
Allowing workers bereavement leave
Improvements in sick pay

Why are workers supporting a party that will reduce their welfare?
May 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Oh yes. Thank Head for Private eye!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
The new issue of the UK’s Private Eye.
March 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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🚨🚨 Things can always get worse: last hideous move by #Trump admin is a plan to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with #Russia potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Exclusive: Trump plans to revoke legal status of Ukrainians who fled to US, sources say
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation.
www.reuters.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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💥 We’ve just launched European Movement Canada 🇨🇦 🇪🇺

…to rapidly build Canada & Europe closer together on all fronts.

Video on it here —> vm.tiktok.com/ZNdeRmhEa/

Please share!
March 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Please read and repost … so important
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
March 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Oh yeah, I forgot: rich people are too poor to pay tax, whereas poor people are so rich that we can always cut a few of their benefits.

That sounds plausible and rational, which is why it's the basis of our entire tax and benefits system.
February 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Trump to Zelenskyy:

"You’re either going to make a deal or we are out and if we’re out, you’ll fight it out [with Russia]. I don’t think it’s going to be pretty"

Textbook racketeering.
February 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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"Farage couldn’t be more disconnected from the lives of his voters without changing his surname to Antoinette."

My bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social on this week's spatter of omnidirectional bullshit from Nigel Farage, Trump's final friend in Europe

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...
Russell Jones's Week Moment: Nigel Farage Launches His 'Vapid Response Unit' for Donald Trump
The Reform UK leader had a tough time defending the indefensible this week, reports Russell Jones
www.bylinesupplement.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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The leaders of France, Poland, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Norway, Ireland and Spain have all tweeted support for Zelenskyy and Ukraine over Trump.

Putin thought he could divide Europe, and a victory for Trump would weaken the west.

Wrong on both counts.
February 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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The EU's foreign policy chief has just said "the free world needs a new leader" after Trump's behaviour today.

In case you're in the USA and your news outlets aren't making you aware: Trump is turning your country from the Number 1 power on the planet into a complete irrelevance.
February 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Weirdly, I wrote about yesterday's events in the Oval Office ONE WEEK BEFORE THEY HAPPENED.

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...
March 1, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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When Britain alone has a GDP one and a half times the size of Russia.
It’s unacceptable that 500 million Europeans have left themselves exposed and dependent on 340 million Americans to protect them from 140 million Russians, who have been unable to win against 40 million Ukrainians in a three-day war that has lasted for three years.
March 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Ex-Washington Post editor Marty Baron rebukes Bezos: ‘betrayal of free expression’
Ex-Washington Post editor Marty Baron rebukes Bezos: ‘betrayal of free expression’
Lauded former editor ‘appalled’ by billionaire newspaper owner’s overhaul of opinion section to narrow focus * Don’t let a billionaire’s algorithm control what you read. Download our free app to get trusted reporting. Marty Baron, a highly regarded…
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This man is truly terrifying for the entire world.
Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Musk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true.
USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Incredible scoop here from Hope not Hate:
February 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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If Trump had any history of consistency, honesty or keeping his word then you’d have to say that Starmer has played a blinder.
February 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Perhaps we might also give the man some damn credit for a change and stop making out he's some sort of fool. How long is the media going to continue underestimating him? And deliberately aiming to undermine him, in the case of many of our national newspapers.
February 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is so important and indeed why it was originally formed
February 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Just been reminded that neither Thames Water or Southern Water have complete maps of their sewers.
Two UK water companies lack complete maps of sewage networks
Shortage of data raises questions over condition of infrastructure as groups seek sharp increases in bills
on.ft.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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📢While Sky posts shiny videos claiming to be “proud of who we are”, they keep funding anti-LGBTQ+ hate by placing ads on GB News.

Join over 15,000 people and tell Sky: Stop funding hate on GB News 👇
action.goodlawproject.org/sky-stop-fun...
Sky must stop funding hate speech
CW: Homophobia, hate speech Sky launched its programme for Pride 2024 with a ringing declaration the company was “proud to celebrate LGBTQ+ stories”. But while it was posting shiny videos claiming to ...
action.goodlawproject.org
February 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Despite claiming to love his country, Nigel Farage’s silence on Trump, Putin and Ukraine shows where his loyalties really lie
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/agent-farage
Agent Farage
Despite claiming to love his country, Nigel Farage’s silence on Trump, Putin and Ukraine shows where his loyalties really lie
www.adambienkov.co.uk
February 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM