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@maggie36.bsky.social
We’re all human and have the same rights to life regardless of the country we happen to have been born in. 🕷️
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Folks — this is not a normal government shutdown.

Let me explain the stakes and how we got here.
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Children across London return to school this week - and to another year of free school meals.

I’m delighted that we’re continuing to fund free school meals for all state primary schools so that all children have to worry about is making the most of being back at school.
September 3, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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August 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the crown jewel of knowledge about jobs and the economy.

Trump has destroyed the credibility of this extraordinarily important source of information.

This should alarm everyone. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-destroys-our-source-of-information
Trump destroys our source of information about jobs. This is beyond irresponsible.
He hates facts. He rejects truth. He doesn't want the public to know what's really happening.
robertreich.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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When I was Secretary of Labor, one of my cardinal responsibilities was to guard the independence of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. If politicized, it would no longer be trusted as a source of information. So what does Trump do? With one fell swoop today, he destroyed it.
August 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Penniless and homeless, Raynor and Moth Winn found fame with their story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. The Salt Path became a global bestseller and was adapted into a major film.

But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth.

@chloehadj.bsky.social

Read more:
The real Salt Path: how the couple behind a bestseller le...
Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth
observer.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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I spent months on this investigation and gathered docs from the UK courts, Land Registry and a French local authority, to show that Raynor and Moth Winn's story is not as they claim. @tortoisemedia.bsky.social @observeruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
The real Salt Path: how the couple behind a bestseller le...
Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth
observer.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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“The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.” - Turkish Proverb
July 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Home Secretary's statement on Casey audit of group-based child sexual exploitation
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Baroness Casey's audit of group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse
The Home Secretary updated the House on the National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse ('grooming gangs') carried out by Baroness Casey.
www.gov.uk
June 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Sharp insights from @antonspisak.bsky.social - no doubt that the UK is woefully ill-prepared, and perhaps he, I, and others should be thinking of solutions to this. But not sure the EU has yet fully come to terms with the Swiss model either... antonspisak.substack.com/p/back-to-la...
May 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Genuinely the most tense, gripping sporting contest I've seen all year. Great sportsmanship at the end too 👏🏾
December 25, 2024 at 12:49 PM
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Amanda Zurawski has been named one of TIME magazine’s Women of the Year.

Amanda’s Story:

Citing the state’s abortion laws, Texas doctors denied Amanda Zurawski emergency medical care when her water broke at only 18 weeks of pregnancy.

It was September of 2021, and Amanda was miscarrying. Her…
February 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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#AprilFools

Of course our daffodil isn’t going anywhere, but palliative and end of life care is a prickly subject right now. Services are overstretched, underfunded and overlooked.

Visit: campaigns.mariecurie.org.uk/page/163063/... to see how you can support.
April 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.
March 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Surprising to hear that a government formed exclusively of a country’s most stupid people isn’t really working out.
March 24, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Quebecker tells it like it is. In English. Because that's the only language his intended audience can understand.
March 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Vance was right on just one thing: Europe lacks a clear positive vision of what it wants to defend.

The answer must be "the things Vance rejects": truth, science, liberal democracy, rule of law, resisting dictators, climate action.

It will have to do that without, & sometimes against, the US Govt.
February 15, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Starmer is well aware of what needs to be done. Here is what he said when voting for Johnson's UK-EU deal.

Services "a gaping hole", "lack of ambition", "Imperfect", "thin", "a basis to build on".

Share, to show the PM that you back him going further and faster to improve our deal with the EU. ~AA
February 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid.

On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.
February 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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🏆 Governor Pritzker- Illinois - has signed an order prohibiting all J6 rioters from state employment.
January 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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We did not have a FAA administrator to respond to the tragic crash last night in DC. Why? Because Elon Musk pushed the head appointed under Biden to resign after he fined SpaceX for failing to follow safety license requirements. www.theverge.com/news/603113/...
The FAA is facing a major crisis without a leader because Elon Musk pushed him out
FAA chief Michael Whitaker resigned earlier this month after facing criticism from Musk.
www.theverge.com
January 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM